joining us from boston. he is the co-author along with scott hellman, of a newdu biography of mitt romney.chael along with reporters from then, boston globe, four years ofll reporting into this profile ofap the presidential contender. let me ask you, of the big question about mitt romney, what is it that informs his desireisl for public office?s >> well, i great question, andit in the book we reaeslly try to explain a little h bit about the family history and about his relationship with his father who, of course, was governor of michigan, tried to run for president and drop out before the first primary in new his hampshire when he had problems.o and it is really very easy torei see a straight line there wereot he is trying to fill where hisrw father failed, not just there, o but because the shares, of -- some of the same ambitions.ll we he has a calli hng for public fl service as he sees it, but he has been thinking about thisecah from a very early age.so ..ame ambitions. he has a calling for public service

thank you for joining us from boston. will start with a question that media folks and others like to ask every four years. do conventions matter anymore? guest: i think they are like dinosaurs that you can put in a room with a camera with the nominee's speech. these are just overblown infomercials of this point in time. host: why are they still big media events today? guest: inside each party is the feeling this is what brings the race together. it is also good for racking up dollars in terms of getting donor money to the campaign. i think they are viewing it as more of a campaign funding exercise than reaching out to voters nationwide. host: when is the last convention that really mattered? guest: you have to go back to 1976. gerald ford was the incumbent. he was appointed to the vice presidency and succeeded nixon when he resigned. going into that convention, he did not have the needed majority of delegates to win. ronald reagan at the convention said he was going to pick a moderate senator from pennsylvania to be his r

. >>> this comes to us from whdh boston 7, there's proof you can't beat hometown cooking. even when home is more than 1500 miles away. that's why every year a mississippi man drives all the way back to the place where he new up in massachusetts to pick up pizza for his family back in the south. this year he loaded up 250 pies for his relatives and, of course, himself. last year's haul fed his family for the entire year. >>> this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. >> good morning. hope you had a nice weekend. very comfortable. dew points to the low 50's. the temperature is in the mid 60's in most locations. 64 in parkton. mostly sunny skies today. high temperature between 85 and 90. we will check the seven-day forecast going all the way into the weekend. >> 4:56. a look at the memorable moments from the london olympics. >> the man accused of the murder of phylicia barnes is set to go on trial today. >> sarah caldwell checking on your mornin

. >>> this comes to us from whdh boston 7, there's proof you can't beat hometown cooking. even when home is more than 1500 miles away. that's why every year a mississippi man drives all the way back to the place where he new up in massachusetts to pick up pizza for his family back in the south. this year he loaded up 250 pies for his relatives and, of course, himself. last year's haul fed his family for the entire year. >>> this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road, lightning strikes ] where things aren't always what they seem. [ wolves howling ] because thrills hide in the shadows just waiting at every turn. [ coaster whoosh ] brave the black forest on verbolten. the all-new multi-launch coaster. only at busch gardens. you there ! i am looking for someone, hair black as night, skin white as snow ! yeah, yeah, i got that ! she is at the castle. dad ! honey ! but she's on the move. disney mobile magic, on

he's also the new host of "nova science now" and he joins us from boston. >> my pleasure. >> so how didhappen? you said to the world, here, guys, look for my phone or i think it's stonl. what happened in between? >> well, the great thing was that i lost the phone on monday when i was on this train. and apple has a feature called find my iphone. you go to this web site and it shows you on a map either like a street map or satellite photograph of where the thing is right now. and it's available for other phones too, android phones and so on. and it's the greatest feature if you ever lose your phone. but whoever had the phone had turned it off and you can't t doesn't work when the phone is off so for three days i was in missery thinking oh my gosh this shuns of dollars in replacement fees and then thursday morning, i got an e-mail from find my iphone that says your phone has surfaced. here it is in a suburb of maryland. so there i was, you know in connecticut where i live and unable to go to maryland. so i said what do i have to luchlts i went on twitter and said my phone has shown up. can

john dickerson, and joining us from boston, neil ferguson who wrote "newsweek" magazine's cover storyn first of all. neil, let's start with you. you make the case that barack obama needs to go. >> well, yes, bob, i do it more in sorrow than in anger. we, obviously, had high hopes of this man four years ago. but when you think abou back tot he promised in the inaugural address in 2009, he just hasn't delivered and that's really the key issue. if you look at the economy, it is growing at half the speed that he promised in his first budget. if you look at unemployment, it's more than two percentage points higher than we were promised. and the debt has not stabilized. it's on an explosive growth path. so it's hard to admit that your hopes were unfulfilled, but that's i think what americans have to do now. >> schieffer: i think i should point out, while you say we were disappointed in his record, you did work for john mccain. >> i did, bob, and i disclose that in the piece, and i'm happy to disclose it now. but i also, i think, was a good loser. the day the election was decided, i said, le

host: joining us from boston is professor thomas whalen. we will be talking about political conventions, presidential history with professor whalen. thank you for joining us from boston. i will start with a question that media folks and others like to ask every four years. do conventions matter anymore? guest: i think they are like dinosaurs that you can put in a room with a camera with the nominee's speech. these are just overblown infomercials of this point in time. host: why are they still big media events today? guest: inside each party is the feeling this is what brings the race together. it is also good for racking up dollars in terms of getting donor money to the campaign. i think they are viewing it as more of a campaign funding exercise than reaching out to voters nationwide. host: win is the last convention that really matter? -- when is the last convention that really matter? guest: you have to go back to 1976. gerald ford was the incumbent. he was appointed to the vice presidency and succeeded nixon when he resigned. going into t

he joins us tonight from boston. professor stiglitz, good to have you back on this program, sir. >> nice to be here again. tavis: let me start, if i can, with the news of the day, the elections in greece. your sense of what happened there and how what happened there impacts us here? >> well, it looks like they pulled back from the brink for the moment, but it doesn't solve anything within europe. the fundamental problem is the euro is a construct that doesn't work and the remedy to the current problems that europe, germany is pushing on spain, greece and other country's austerity is bringing unemployment. 25% unemployment, 50% youth unemployment, making the problems only worse. unfortunately, there's no light at the end of this particular tunnel. tavis: what's the impact gonna be on us? >> well, a european slowdown inevitably will hurt us. the problem in america today is lack of demand. one of the reasons for that lack of demand is our high level of inequality, one of the ways in which we're paying a high price for t

thanks for joining us from boston as well. so, look. you've surveyed the behaviors of 1 you had millionaire households. it's a fairly in depth study. how are they feeling about life? >> i think they are feeling pretty good in terms of their future outlook. they are still fairly cautious in the short term. but this is our fifth study and by far this is the most positive this group has felt about the future. >> what is trying that slightly better sentiment. >> well, you know, i think it's a couple of things. first step back and look at who these individuals are. 86% of those we surveyed in this millionaire group are self-made millionaires. so they've created their own wealth over time and things such as the stock market have been a major contributor to that wealth creation. so they are feeling positive about the outlook and the opportunity it creates for them. >> yeah. where are they? is that because -- are they more exposed? where they invest, more investing in equities than they are in fixed income? >> they are. which is contrary to wha

jon karl joins us from boston this morning, working the romney headquarters. you get the feeling he has made up his mind? >> reporter: well, those close to romney, some of them believe he has made up his mind. but most people working across the river at romney headquarters still have no idea. in fact, george, they already have a staff in waiting over there. about two dozen people working on the vice presidential candidate's staff. they have computers. they've been issued ipads. they have desks over there. but they have no indication. who the choice is. in fact, they tell me, they haven't been given a short list of possibilities. but as you can imagine, they've been working from the same list we have. >> a real lobbying campaign going on in conservative circles for congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. >> reporter: that's right. paul ryan is the candidate of the moment right now for the right wing. you've seen "the wall street journal's" very influential editorial page, urging romney to pick him. you see the same thing from prominent conservative magazines like "

boston fed president thinks more action is needed right now. he spoke exclusively to our senior economics reporter steve liesman who joins us live from boston. steve, rosengren may not be a voting member but his words carry weight. >> they matter, scott. good afternoon i think markets are paying attention. not just because he advocated a policy but because he started talking specifically about how he might implement it and i want to play you some of the tape from the interview we did this morning. where he lays out the detail of what he's looking for and what kind of quantitative easing that he would favor. >> i think it needs to be substantial enough that it offsets some of the shocks we're getting and some of the concerns that people have about how the world economy has been. we're in a global slowdown. that would argue for a quantitative easing program and one of suggest magnitude tt it has an impact. >> what would be that magnitude? >> exact magnitude, roughly the magnitude that we saw for the first two quantitative easing programs i think would be appropriate. >> combined or in a single -- >> no. >> one program? >> what i would argue fo

david is calling us from boston. good morning david. you're on the "bill press show." i'm johnny. you? >> caller: hey, gentle john, how you doing? >> john: good. >> caller: my name happens to be david hubble as in the telescope and i'm related to the guy. that's not why i called. i also went to wester polly tech institute and todd akin was a fraternity brother of mine. i graduated in '73. he was the class before me. i knew him from a totally different perspective. you can understand it. he really is a gentle man. he's a kind man but he's obviously been subverted by an ideology that is really not his. he's a representative. i actually posted a couple of things on facebook about him and before i even heard his comments, i wrote something about brother todd come back or something. >> john: yeah. >> caller: subsequent to that, i heard his comments. i also have a career of 30 years of an ob/gyn. >> john: david, we have to go to break. interesting todd akin knows someone involved in science. i think he's convinced himself it is good. that's the problem with the g.o.p. we'll be right bac

. >>> and this comes to us from whdh 7 news in boston. there's proof that you just can't beat hometown cooking even when home is more than 1500 miles away. that's why every year a mississippi man drives all the way back to the place where he grew up in massachusetts to pick up pizza for his family back in the south. this year he loaded up 250 pies for his relatives and of course himself. last year's haul fed his family for nearly the entire year. >>> i'm mara compo. this is "early today," your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> forget mountains or streets, cyclists in hungary have taken to the ground. they've raced through an old stone mine in budapest. the race course runs over 1 mile. the dark tunnels make for a tricky race as competitors must navigate slippery floors and narrow corridors. >>> in china one ethnic group doesn't let the summer heat get in the way of their fest tifts. thousands gathered for the annual torch festival when torches and bon fires are lit for a warrior who drove away locusts. they also have bull fig

he joins us from boston. >> guest: good morning. thanks for having me. >> host: why aren't the people saying they're not going to vote? is it too busy or something else? >> guest: it is a combination of reasons. we polled unregistered citizens and we also polled people who were registered and many of whom who voted in 2008 but just said they weren't voting. the unregistered voters used expressions like, i have no time, i'm too busy, 26%. my vote doesn't count or matter, 12%. i'm not interested in politics, 10%. or i just don't want to, 10%. among those who were registered, their preferences were somewhat similar. the top answer was, it is my right to vote or not to vote, 1%. i don't like either candidate, 12%. again my vote doesn't count or matter, 12%. this was an open-ended, so the responses that people gave us in this nationwide poll were their own words. they created their own cat goirrys in this question. >> host: in the "usa today" story there is this sense not voting become as silent statement. >> guest: i think i would agree

only from the postal service. >> right now an emergency situation at jfk airport delta flight 3285 is about to come in on an emergency landing they are telling us. it took off from bostonto kansas city. as it was taking off. it blew a front tire. according to delta, this plane, this jet is out, you know, letting fuel burning off fuel to prevent a possible explosion. an emergency landing at jfk coming updates as we get them. last night's closing ceremonies made the 2012 london olympics the most watched event ever in american television history. 219.4 million tuned. in this year's game had been several million viewers behind the 2008 beijing games. take a bow london. what a job. the feds approving a new vaccine ahead of this flu season. evangelist billy graham could soon leave the hospital after a bought with bronchitis. one dead and dozen others hurt after a transit bus crash in philadelphia. number two, house republics asking the court to force the attorney general eric holder to provide documents related to the fast and furious gun sting. and number one tonight, police have now identified the man they say engaged cops in a deadly gun battle near texas a&m. they tell u

carl cameron getting that news into thus evening and on the phone with us and is now heading from boston to florida. and there iseñuñ7[ many people thinking it could be paul ryan. there are candidates we've been talking about for weeks. and very huge announcement, anticipated and right now we have our fox news contributor. are you there? >>> and okay, i'm not, if we had him, we lost you there. for just a moment. we just joining us now, breaking news. from fox news and there is mitt romney soon to be republican presidential fom knee will be nominated officially in about two weeks in tampa and making his vice presidential pick known tomorrow morning at 8:45 a.m. eastern time z i think now we're joined by steve hays on the phone and steve, are you there? what are you hear something. >> we've reported earlier tonight that there were indications paul yin was going to bel81 romney's pick and among them, republicans had been told to prepare a case for paul ryan as a pick for esÑ and. >> let's talk about preparing the case. >> this is the way described to me they were given talking points if

us. >> as promised, cliff diving from the boston harbor. are these guys in spain? have to be able to do what >>> all right, cliff diving is normally done from mountainous areas around the world. but we take you to the ica building in the boston harbor. it is the red bull, cliff diving world series. nine stories high, and look at this. between 90 and a hundred feet. and you have to be a bit insane to do this. if you land wrong you could rupture your spleen among other damaged body parts. that's why you saw the four guys in the water who immediately go under to see if you are okay. that's incredible. these are obviously highly skilled at leets with a -- athletes with a bit of their santee missing. sanity missing. you don't get a lot of practice from these heights. it is insanely beautiful to watch, and yet the anticipation from both the diver and the spectator is a little unnerving. it is like watching a car crash. look at this guy. i made it. notice they all land on their feet. it would knock them out if they went in head first. wow, just impressive. i have to give

boston gloeb . . . so joining us to discuss ryan's latest flip flop is the author of that "boston globe" article, matt viser. he is coming-to-us fromhington. matt thanks for coming back with us inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. how does ryan defend the flip flop on the china policy? do you think this article bringing this up is why he left it out of today's speech. >> i don't know if that is the reason why -- >> take credit. take credit. [ laughter ] >> he certainly -- you know -- they didn't sort of fully respond to our questions yesterday in terms of why exactly he changed positions. more saying he supports governor romney and thinks he would crack down on china, and do more than president obama has. >> whatever that means. honestly that is the big question. how do you crack down on china. so there are a lot of vice president candidates have had challenge of meshing their precampaign running record with their policies. what are some examples of the policy ideas that separate the two? >> yeah, this is an important question and something i think -- you know we'll get a lot more attention. paul ryan has a l

mitt romney intends to take from his new running mate, congressman paul ryan, especially when it comes to the very, very sensitive issue of medicare. joining us now from boston campaign senior advisor, ed gillespie. ed, thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks for having me, wolf. good to be with you. >> mitt romney is making it clear he's number one on the ticket, he's in charge, his views will stand. listen to what he said on cbs this morning. >> congressman ryan has joined my campaign. and his campaign is my campaign now. and we're on exactly the same page. and my campaign has made it very clear, the president's cuts of $716 billion to medicare, those cuts are going to be restored if i become president and paul ryan becomes vice president. >> all right. so he made it clear that the $716 billion, which the president's budget over ten years wanted to cut, those are increases projected increases in the growth of medicare. that would go away used for something else. but paul ryan as you well know he wanted to use that $716 billion for something else as well. but your boss, mitt romney, is saying paul ryan's views are not being accepted. is there anything els

us. >> as promised, cliff diving from the boston harbor. are these guys in spain? you have to be able to do what >>> all right, cliff diving is normally done from mountainous areas around the world. but we take you to the ica building in the boston harbor. it is the red bull, cliff diving world series. nine stories high, and look at this. between 90 and a hundred feet. and you have to be a bit insane to do this. if you land wrong you could rupture your spleen among other damaged body parts. that's why you saw the four guys in the water who immediately go under to see if you are okay. that's incredible. these are obviously highly skilled at leets with a -- athletes with a bit of their santee missing. sanity missing. you don't get a lot of practice from these heights. it is insanely beautiful to watch, and yet the anticipation from both the diver and the spectator is a little unnerving. it is like watching a car crash. look at this guy. i made it. notice they all land on their feet. it would knock them out if they went in head first. wow, just impressive. i have to g

us from poland. glen johnson is "the boston globe's" politics reporter. with me here in the studio, simon marks, chief correspondent for feature story news. jonathan martin, i know you don't like to get into this but let's talk about the fact that you're on the spot, you have "dateline" integrity and looking good. here's the infamous dustup in war saw. early this morning, reporters covering romney tried to shout questions to the governor as he got into his motorcade. romney had only answered three questions from the press corps during the entire three-country trip. >> right. >> his spokesman made it clear he wasn't going to answer any more than those three. let's watch what happened. >> governor romney! >> governor romney, do you have a statement for the palestinians? >> what about your gaffes? >> governor romney, do you feel that your gaffes have overshadowed your foreign trip? >> this is a holy site for the polish people, show some respect. >> governor romney. >> show some respect. >> we don't have another chance to ask him questions. >> kiss my [ bleep

us from poland. glen johnson is "the boston globe's" politics reporter.in the studio, simon marks, chief correspondent for feature story news. jonathan martin, i know you don't like to get into this but let's talk about the fact that you're on the spot, you have "dateline" integrity and looking good. here's the infamous dustup in war saw. early this morning, reporters covering romney tried to shout questions to the governor as he got into his motorcade. romney had only answered three questions from the press corps during the entire three-country trip. >> right. >> his spokesman made it clear he wasn't going to answer any more than those three. let's watch what hap

boston. fighter jets, following the plane as it landed. abc's jim avila joins us from washington with all of the details. jim? >> reporter: good morning, amy. an extra night stateside for a flight full of passengers off to europe. an alert flight crew noticed something tucked in a seat back, they could not ignore. scrambling a military escort and leading to tense moments over the atlantic. just two hours into united flight 956 from newark to geneva, switzerland, air traffic controllers at boston's logan field got an emergency call. >> i can't delay him. he's got a big problem. >> reporter: the plane, escorted by two f-15 fighter jets, diverted after a flight attendant noticed a camera notice an air sickness bag and stuffed into the pocket on the back of an empty seat. passengers onboard said it wasn't theirs. so, the pilot, out of an abundance of caution, decided to turn around. once on the ground, the 157 passengers onboard were rescreened. >> we've instructed the passengers to leave everything on the plane, including their handbags. >> reporter: the camera, inspected

. >> bill: joining us now from washington margie a democratic pollster and boston marianne march also a stallworth democrat. i think reid is helping mitt romney right now. am i wrong. >> yes, you are and let me tell you why. this is a no win situation for mitt romney. when he responds to harry reid he is keeping his tax issue in the news. is he punching down and when romney says to reid put up or shut up it's reminding voters that he isn't doing the same by releasing his own taxes. on the other hand, romney knows he has to respond because if he doesn't defend himself, voters will look at him and say if you are not sticking up for yourself, you are not going to fight for me. i can't vote for you. he can't get out of this box. >> bill: do you know what the federal law is about releasing tax returns, marianne? >> there isn't one. it's a matter of -- it's been a a matter of tradition. >> bill: all you have to do is release a financial disclosure statement. mitt romney doesn't have to release anything more than he has released. >> but any other candidate has. >> bill: harry reid makes an a

the word he used, chains is a distraction from the larger argument. i think the "bostonagrees with this. we shouldn't deregulate wall street or repeal wall street reform and have them play by a different set of rules than main street. that's the point the vice president was making and the point the president wholeheartedly agrees with. we can't go back to the days where taxpayers end up bailing out people because of their own reckless behavior. that's the point the vice president was making and the point we will continue making. if we want to talk about words on the campaign trail that are poor choices of words, let's talk about mitt romney's. he has been traveling for the last two years, basically calling the president unamerican. saying that he wanted -- the president wanted to make this a less christian nation. those are poor choices of words. that's what we find completely offensive. this faux outrage by mitt romney complaining and whining about the tone of this race is completely hypocritical. his own opponents during the republican primary, santorum said -- rick sa

want to die but also because it's a variation on a martini that uses and absinthe which is a licorice flavored drink. i learned this from bostonon the martini that uses absinthe. it's 2 1/4 -- i'm making two. 2 1/4 ounces of quinn. it's a half an ounce of dry vermouth, which is the white one, and then it is a quarter ounce of absinthe. we're using this great st. george absinthe. and then you essentially just prepare it the way you would with a martini. what did you learn wrong from james bond? in fact it, martinis should be stirred and not shaken. you don't need to -- you don't need to shake anything that doesn't have fruit juice or cream or an egg white that's hard to emulsify in it. if it's just liquor like this one, you can just stir it. you're trying to not make the ice make too much noise which i just did. that's enough to make two obituary