thank you, s.e., thank you, all of you. >>> it's tuesday, august the 28th.

. >> i'm s.e. cupp. today reality star turned congressman sean duffy is keeping it real in the guest spot. >> all that, plus i'm taking on chris christie. wheels are in motion. this is "the cycle" for wednesday, august 29th. >>> it is day two of the republican national convention and right now, mitt romney is speaking to the veterans at the american legion national convention in indianapolis. we'll let you take a lis. >> and and grant credit for military training. right now, the va has a shortage of mental health care professionals. and anytime a veteran is unable to receive timely health care from the va system, he or she will be allowed to see a tricare provider at the va's expense. i've said before that this must be an american century and to accomplish that, we must have the strongest military and the strongest economy in the world. regrettably, president obama has failed on both counts as his term in office comes to an end, we're now further from making this an american century. our economy's weak.

. >> i'm s.e. cupp. >> i'm toure. it was only a matter of time before i was able to get lady gaga on to the show. >> i can top that. a big confession coming in "the cycle" for this thursday, august 16th. >>> it's thursday, and as all you "cycle" viewers know that means my campaign, all right, as if i knew anything about baseball, with apologies to king felix in seattle, we are now in the top of the fifth inning about the halfway point in the presidential race. we say that because we now know both tickets, but like most games, most campaigns aren't won or lost in the early frames. the real drama is going to come in the later innings. so what we know so far is that the early part of this year's game has been dominated by slash and burn and act and react politics. and an ad war that's sucking up millions and millions of dollars and funneling them into negative messages. while both sides moan and groan about the other guys, both sides appear to be content appealing only to their bases forgetting entirely about trying to c

s.e. cupp. you were one of the people banging the gong saying pick paul ryan, pick paul ryan. >> yeah, i don't want to take credit because i didn't say romney was going to pick him. in fact, i'm surprised that he did. however, i'm glad. i thought paul ryan for weeks if not a month now should be the pick and not just because i'm on board but i think this is the right pick. i think he's a good choice for romney. i think he injects his campaign with some energy. proof of that is romney raise third degree.5 million in 24 hours since announcing ryan. who knows if that will last the duration of the rest of the campaign, but certainly it was a great jolt. >> i just think what's interesting about this is this is one of those unusual cases where it kind of dictated this pick for romney. i don't want to be policy specific, i don't walk to talk about big broad sweeping themes. and not giving them anything that might muck it up. i think we would have had rob portman or tim pawlenty a month or six weeks ago

this is it. >> and i think s.e. hit on something here. a fine line you have to walk.a speech that can jazz up the base but that can play to the broad audience watching across the country. and it sounds cliche to say, because others have said this, but i do think the key piece here is for mitt romney to be able to show that he can connect with the american people. it is easy for him. i think people have the sense that this is a confident guy. a problem solver. i think people understand that. what they need to get is that he actually wants it solve their problems. and that he understands what those problems are. and i think that's the piece he has to show and bear his soul, as they say, during his speech. >> right. krystal, he has to be emotional. >> yes. >> it is not something we are spous u used to seeing. remember talking to the pastor about him. he has to be emotional and talk with people and we will see if that is written under the speech and see if he can deliver that emotion. >> here is the thing i'm thinking though, guys. i'm looking back at the modern conventio

they are not spending the money there. >> have they made a mistake, s.e.?a would be a consideration for romney. he went in for a couple of times in charter schools. he was burned. >> colorado is the democratic fire wall. obama wins colorado, he can afford to lose ohio. it expands the map for the democrats. >> shameless plugs. mr. buzz feed. >> i don't know if this is buzz feed. anna north published "america pacific." it is like what will happen if we go over the fiscal cliff. >> does it involve us living on water? >> it's a bad sin. >> s.e. >> "new york daily news" has a section called the rumble. it is a blog. >> i love buzz feed. check out thecareer.com. i'm interviews joan walsh. we had never met until i was here. >> pay it forward. that is it for this edition of "the daily rundown." we will have the numbers. did romney get a bump? we have pete williams interview with the supreme court justice antonia scalia. coming up next is chris jansing. ♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too.

s.e.round, getting down to the level of the chair there -- >> heart to heart. >> have a heart-to-heart chat. that's a nice, tender moment there. i like krystal's. krystal was channeling michelle obama, got on the couch for -- trying to get into the soul of the chair there, i think. and i think succeeded. >> it was a special moment. >> you're good at that. when it was my turn, it was a little uncomfortable and a little awkward because i got, i think, a really good point across. i was feeling good about myself. and then the chair got really frustrated and it actually jumped up and attacked me. it took a while to fight off. >> did you win the fight with the chair? >> it was a draw. >> lost to an inanimate object. >> i think the chair was on the juice. i don't want to say -- >> nice. >> i don't want to impugn his competitive integrity. so much we could say. s.e., you were down there last night. i assume when you hit the afterparties afterwards, the chair made an appearance or two? >> yeah, unf

the 90's.es in here is the last 24 hours. spinning around, finally moving. all of that moisture will be coming our way as we get late the weekend. meantime, a few clouds out there. tomorrow only about degrees around the washington area. as we go through the day, a bit more to the , humidity increases a bit. look at the temperatures. be close to 95 degrees of sunshine.t it will still feel like summertime. toe of the moister begins but i do not think impact untilany monday.r you have things to do, the i would plancue, saturday and sunday, necessarily monday. when you get up and head out morning, character -- temperatures will be in 70's.w tomorrow. we get late into sunday and monday, we may be seeing some tropical rain showers from tropical rainstorm isaac. i did a blog. so far, i did a rough calculation. about 10 trillion gallons of and it is still coming. be flooding over the weekend in illinois and indiana tropical storm isaac. >> thank you very much. of power, a little redskins. of power. a lot >> i like the transition. final cuts are tomorrow. rg3 is the

coming up, what paul ryan -- he sat down can s.e. cupp before most people knew who he was. s.e.paul ryan, next. they have names like idle time books and smash records and on small business saturday they remind a nation of the benefits of shopping small. on just one day, 100 million of us joined a movement... and main street found its might again. and main street found its fight again. and we, the locals, found delight again. that's the power of all of us. that's the power of all of us. that's the membership effect of american express. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] >>> so, it begins. the fighting over paul ryan's budget plan and entitlement reforms is underway. if you thought throwing granny off the cliff was bad, you haven't seen anything. the obama campaign has already set out to demonize the the romney ticket. the truth is, medicare will end whether romney and ryan are elected are not because these programs will be bankrupt in a decade or two and they're bankrupting us. everybody knows this, including president obama. last year in a joint session of congress, he said we are

certainly there are people in the party i'm sure s.e.an speak to this who disagree entirely and say this is a manufactured, political ploy by the democrats. but if it is the republicans are providing no shortage of fuel to stoke that theory. the problem is that there is a good chunk of the republican female base that has a real issue with this being not necessarily the, you know, the platform, 66% of the republican women in the republican party are in fact pro life. this is not a negotiable issue for them. but they didn't want this to be the talking point this year. they didn't anticipate this would be the talking point this year. they don't like that it's the issue because it is divisive. it's retro. it's straight out of the 1950s and there are a lot of other issues they can win female voters on that have nothing to do with this. so that's what we're hearing from our readers in particular. >> it is kind of interesting you say that two-thirds of republican women are antichoice but they don't want that to be discussed or to be the issue.

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shape and metrorail is a normal service and no disruption around the beltway and we are good through s.e. on the suitland parkway. 66 as a normal volume of traffic and 95 virgt of falmouth and a crash between lorton and millington on the franconia's/springfield parkway. southbound 395 duke street is closed. you can access the exit for eastbound duke street and get around this. >> our top story this morning -- d.c. police are still searching for the motive behind the shooting of a security guard at the stanley research co.. >> police are learning more about the suspect. >> the 28-year-old is from herndon, virginia. police were all over his neighborhood yesterday and his neighbors were shocked to find out that he was involved. fbi investigators searched the family home of the 28-year-old. no one leaving the home would talk to reporters but sources said people living inside the home were interviewed by police. members described the family as retired military with two younger sons. they said they were good neighbors. >> it is very surprising. >> to is unbelievable to me. >> just before 11:00

gains coming through the s.e. t.. samsung stodominating the asian trading day. let's go to singapore for more. >> asian bourses mostly close in the red. investment risk appetite is waning ahead of key economic data. the shanghai composite was the epicenter. it dropped on week corporate earnings. the top official reiterated their stance on policy support but the actions still haven't been delivered yet. brokerages and insurers took the brunt of selling. hang sang dropped lower. china blue chips bore tlagers. industrial and material companies led the losses. the nikkei was the one bright spot, gained 0.2% ahead of key domestic data later this week. olympus shares gained. south korea most sectors were trading to the upside but the benchmark kospi was weighted down by 7.5% plunge by index heavyweight samsung electronics. the market ended lower. but iron ore producers agreed to a take over from china. indian sensex shedding a quarter of a percent. >> still to come on today's show, talks on the debt crisis continues as prime ministers in france and germany continue to

. >> i'm s.e. cupp. i'm back from tampa.ent's speech better pack a punch after romney stands tall in the ring last night. >> i'm steve kornacki.

so, we'll see s.e. back here in new york tomorrow and that does it for us. is all yours. >> krystal, thank you so much and good afternoon to all of you. it's thursday, august the 30th. and here's what's happening. it's mitt's big night. but how can he

>> yeah, thomas, it was a big event, and people from msnbc's own s.e.as you said, to the short-lived spokesman for foreign policy for the romney campaign, who is gay, himself, were all in attentadan at the event held at a gay bar in tampa. >> the ryan/romney ticket is not considered to be, one, particularly lgbt friendly. how do log cabin republicans respond to critics what say they're asking to be recognized by a party that would rather disown them? >> i think that they have moved a step beyond even answering those sorts of questions, thomas, and are sort of working on within the party how do we make it so that this is a party in which the existence of and presence of gay conservatives are just a fundamental and inherent part of what it means to be a part of the republican party? >> is the biggest problem the prominent gop party leaders, the ones that are lesbian and gay, remain in the closet? >> i definitely think that it is always beneficial when you have more people who are out and more people who are willing to discuss those issues. and there is al

. >> i'm s.e. cupp. nfl football is becoming harder to watch even for the devoted fans. can the league save it self from itself. >> we're on top of all that and more still ahead for wednesday, august 22nd. >>> . >> well, it's august. that means it's the height of hurricane season. so we're on the rar tracking two storms. there's tropical storm i cac and then there's hurricane biden. the vice president is crashing the republican convention if isaac doesn't do it first. the storm is headed straight for florida. it could become a hurricane before monday's kickoff. even if it isn't a direct hit, it's heavy rains and winds could cause trouble. they have emergency plans in place and running a mock hurricane drill. bob buck horn, the mayor is prepared to call the hole thing off if necessary. would you believe he's a democrat in the i sincerely doubt. >> we cannot catch a break here. >> as for hurricane biden, his forecasted path is set. he has campaign events in tampa on monday and tuesday, day one and two of the convention. the rnc plans to respond with its own storm at the dn

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