we're a young nation. we're a diverse nation. we attract talent from every corner of the globe.other side for political reasons tries to paint things as bleak, don't believe them. there's not another nation on earth that wouldn't trade places with us. our problems can be solved. our challenges can be met. the path i offer is harder but it leads to a better place. i am asking you to choose that future. i am asking you to go forward with me. i am asking you to go forward with me. and let me tell you exactly -- let me repeat for those of you who didn't catch it thursday. we are going to put together a real achievable plan to build this economy on a stronger foundation. it starts with no longer shipping jobs overseas. let's export goods made here in america. after a decade of decline we have now created half a million jobs just in manufacturing. we reinvented a dying auto industry that is back on top. so we can take mr. romney's advice and continue to give even more tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas or we can reward companies that are investing in new jobs and

we are a young nation with the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe. so, no matter what the nay sayers may say for political reasons, no matter how dark they try to make everything look, there's not a country on earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the united states of america. and i am here to tell you our problems can be solved and our challenges can be met. the path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place. and i'm asking you to choose that future. i am asking you to rally not just behind me but around a set of goals for your country, goals in manufacturing and energy, in education and national security, in reducing our deficit. real, achievable goals that will lead to new jobs and more opportunity and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. that's what we can do in the next four years, and that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. that's why i'm asking for four more years. >> four more years! [ chanting ] >> i want you to -- in case you missed it two days ago, i want to repeat in very

but they underestimated our young nation's resolve and after 8 long and very bloody years, the red coatse up and went back home on that september day in paris ben franklin, john adams and john j. signed the treat underat stars and stripes first waved free 229 years ago today.

particularly in newer nations. young men are coming to power. men who are not down by the traditions of the past. men who are not blinded by the old fears and hate and rivalry. young men who can cast off the old slogans and the old illusions. the republican nominee is a young man. but his approach is as old as mckinley. [applause] his party is the party of the past. the party and memory. -- party of memory. his speeches are generalities on the almanac. their platform made up of old left over democratic plans have the courage of our old convictions. their plants -- plan is for the status quo and today there is no status quo. i stand here tonight facing what was once the large frontier. from milan that stretched 3,000 miles behind us, the pioneers david per se, comfort and sometimes their lives to build our new west. they were not the captives of their own doubts were the prisoners of their own [inaudible] they were determined to make the new world strong and free, an example to the world to overcome its hazards. some would say it those troubles a

we are a young nation. we've got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity. people want to come here from every corner of the globe. no matter what the nay sayers tell us, no matter what they -- how dark they try to make things look for election time, there's not another country on earth that wouldn't trade places with so i promise you, our problems can be solved. and our challenges can be met. the path we offer may be harder, but it'll lead to a better place. and i'm asking you to choose that future. to rally around some goals. concrete, achievable goals in manufacturing and energy and education. in reducing our deficit. that will lead to new jobs and more opportunity. and it will rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation. that's what the next four years about. running for president. that's why i need your support. now, just in case some of you missed me on thursday, i want to be -- i want to lay out once again what i'm talking about with this plan. first, i've got a plan to export more products and send fewer jobs overseas. decade of decline, this countr

we are a young nation with a great diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe.ay sayers say for political reasons, no matter how dark they try to make everything look, there's not a country on earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> that is president obama campaigning in st. petersburg, florida. he's on the traditional post-convention battleground campaign swing right there in florida. later this morning vice president biden will be speaking in ohio, another battleground. let's go back to the panel. we really heard the president sort of put out his general means there, right, the tax cut joke. the idea they don't have a real policy, just tax cuts. he's got this whole piece here around i know you just heard 8.1%, he's not going to say that, but i know you just heard 8% 1%, but anybody who tells you it is all doom and gloom is a naysayer, we are moving forward and here are the plans and policies for moving forward. that's going to be the theme for the next 50 days. >> it's the reagan re-elect. we are th

like jesus martinez, almost half of the nation's young people are not in college, a group the romneyamp has in mind when they stress economic uncertainty. earlier this month, josh romney showed up in colorado at a campaign event directed at young voters, to speak for >> we're really focused on not just college educated, but all youth voters, you know anyone who cares about the economy and making sure the economy is strong. >> woodruff: dorothy stoneman, the founder of the non-profit youthbuild usa - says young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more apt to base their vote on their immediate circumstances. >> in 2008 they had this hope, they did believe in hope and change, i think some of them are now disappointed because they got their hopes up so high and they haven't seen the kind of change that they imagined. they're not mad, they're disappointed, they're not sure, so they're confused about what does it take to change, which they know their neighborhoods need. >> woodruff: back in columbus, only miles from ohio state university, shannon follins worries about her neighborhoo

the population of the middle east is very young, particularly in comparison to the population of the developed nations. typically these young people do not have a lot of job prospects, for the levels of youth unemployment across the region are excessive and chronic. the nations that have undergone a change in leadership recently, young people have greater access to information, and in the past that was being carefully guarded by tyrants and dictators. now it is available. they see that good as well as the bad in surrounding societies. they can now organized across mobilizing populations. accumulated by poverty and -- humiliated by poverty and crushed by government frustration, their frustration and anger in such a setting, for americans to change lives, change communities and nations in the middle east, foreign aid must play a role, and the shape that role should play was brought under focus with the life and death of a man of tunisia, the vendor, who sparked the arab spring. he was just 26 years old. he provided for his family since he was a young boy. he worked his small fruit stand selling to passe

philip randolph introduced me, and he said, "and i present to you, young john lewis, national chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee," i looked to my right, i saw many other young people sort of cheering me on; looked to my left, and i saw young people up in the trees trying to get a better view of the crowd; then i looked straight ahead, and i said to myself, "this is it. i must do my best." and that's what i tried to do. when i was working on the speech, i was reading a copy of the new york times, and i saw a group of black women in southern africa carrying signs saying, "one man, one vote." so in my march on washington speech, i said, "'one man, one vote' is the african cry; it is ours, too. it must be ours." and that became the rallying cry for many other young people in the student nonviolent coordinating committee. amy goodman: and yet, you had to change that speech that you gave on that day. rep. john lewis: i was asked to change the speech. some people thought the speech was too radical, too militant. i thought it was a speech for the occasion. it represented

for up-and-coming young players in developing nations, it is coupled with the hope of escaping a life of poverty. >> that might be the case, but many don't realize professional soccer is ultimately a business and there is a very negative side to that. our next story focuses on some and nigerians in the ukraine hoping to sell and professional contracts, with the conditions there living in are far from glamorous. >> what ever brought these young nigerian players to europe, it is not this. far from play professional outfit, they're kicking a ball around a decrepit campsite. their housing is primitive. nothing has gone right since they arrived in ukraine. but they have not given up hope. this man says they are still playing. they be a local 54-mil. all of these players and clubs in nigeria, but the money was poured. football agents promised big contracts to entice them away from home, but only four of the groups, clubs. the others are stuck in limbo. >> they treated the boy is badly. they dumped them here and abandon them. >> the agent -- the agents say they're still looking for clubs for

number of youth and san francisco state to get po*ling, i looker forward to working with young people that on national registration today we encourage younger people to participate, today there's over 250 organization that is are joining us in national voting registration day as well, there's also an important kind of improvement in california, now you could register to vote online and i wanted to encourage people to consider registering to vote online if you're not currently registered, the november 6th election is coming up quickly in a short six weeks, it's a critical national election but also local races are critical as well. >> thank you supervisor mar, supervisor avalos? >> thank you, just a couple of items, just a note related to supervisor mar's last comments, resident of district 11, mike brown has been moving around with a bus registering people to vote in areas where there's very low voter turnout and doing a lot of outreach to people that are ex-felons who are eligible to vote who may not know they're eligible to vote since they passed parole, i think it's important work that's going on i

young. and the national football league player's association is is also getting involved, they say . . . certainly what it looks like by the way as far as fans are concerned. sean spicer tweets out . . . and there are two more fans of the nfl that feel that way. we and ben mankiewicz. ben joining us now. ben, people say i don't know are they getting paid too much too a little? how do i know? >> first of all what do we care what they are getting paid. this is a $9 billion a year industry. the starting salary is $78,000, the average looks close to be $8,000 a week. compare that to the averages of some other sports they all get more money. >> cenk: i know they work a shorter year -- >> yeah less gruelling. >> cenk: no question be for christ's sakes the nfl has paid $110,000. what is their ratings? >> the nfl obviously being the most powerful and significant sports league in the world, a giant marketing tool needs to know that the ref -- we have seen that if you don't have quality referees you diminish the product. so let's make them full-time referees. the nfl is quite capable of making the

nations. with the canal the door provided his last great gift to his young cousin. he said -- he showed french plan how to think like roosevelts. and if anyone has a question, and i hope they do, i am told you have to go up to the microphone over there and ask me. [applause] and never had a good word to say about franklin. i can remember one time, after the 1936 campaign, some cannot. i heard something on the radio. and i ask my mother i said, why did some people pay to president roosevelt so much? there really hate him. and my mother's looking around for some way to ask -- answer a question about politics from a little boy who had never said anything about politics before. and she wanted to make the answer as simple as possible. and she finally said, well, there are people who think his eyes are too close together. and i was six years old. and even at that age a kind of new that it didn't make any sense. then i figured, well, what she was really saying is don't bother the little boy. it's too tough a question here. do you have a question? >> first of all, you have

he is making the case for the national cy young award. tigers hosting orioles. fister struck out nine batters in a row. not all in the same inning. that was an american league record before finally letting somebody ground out the shortstop instead. tigers beat the royals 5-4 behind that dominant outing, they have now got a two-game lead in the a.l. central. >>> 2 1/2 hours from now the first foursome at the ryder cup of golf including roy mcelroy will tee off outside of chicago. if you're planning to try to get a ticket though, bring your checkbook or a credit card with a large credit line. the event is completely sold out. tickets there are being scalped and on the secondary market going for more than $8,000 apiece. tiger woods, by the way, will play in the last foursome of the morning. they're going to tee off at 9:05 a.m. eastern time. he is being paired with steve stricker. all right, coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," they will be live in our nation's capital. a new poll in shows us where the race for the white house stacks up just 39 days f

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neil: are getting results, young man. the nationalident and ceo, getting some results. all right. when we come bac neil: finally, be very careful acting like to are the smartest guy in the class. you will only prove yourself a dope. no sooner had the president remarked that mitt romney prefers to shoot first and think second than he himself polls of you that puts both the same. is buber over egypt not being an ally, but, wait, maybe it is. well, it only proved that those who through diplomatic stones better make sure they're not in a glass house. in this case the president was and is. when it comes to this middies messed his reaction became and becomes the issue, not mitt romney's alleged reaction to his reaction. that is the danger in diplomacy in general. it tends to make notes of those who have more degrees than common sense on the right and left. all i know is the smartest guys in the room that as into vietnam and the most able foreign-policy minded had a devil of a time finding certain weapons of mass destruction. where were they

not even for a young man this nation honors as a hero. our cover story is reported by national security correspondent david martin. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dakota meyer. ( applause ) >> thank you. reporter: for dakota meyer, the medal of honor is a full-time job which keeps him on the road 20 or more days each month. >> we could go out and make a difference >> reporter: here he is at a job fair for veterans in quantico, virginia. >> they told me i would be receiving the medal of honor i told them i didn't want it because i don't feel like a hero. then the president said something to me. he said it's bigger than you. i never really thought about that until afterwards. it is bigger than me. >> thank you all so much reporter: behind that jaunty air lies some of the toughest lessons any young man ever had to learn. first, there was the battle in a remote afghan valley for which he received the medal. >> the worst day of my life reporter: a bloody five-hour fire fight which left four marines and one soldier dead. this pentagon

young people are waking up four years later and realizing they are not better off and our organization the college republican nationalee produced that ad and running it in swing states targeting young voighters. a poll in the new york times and "wall street journal" poll that had mitt romney holding 45% of the youth vote. it is competitive and up for grabs and we think we have a shot at it this year. >> there is a general perception that younger people tend to be more are liberal than older people. shohow do you you counter act t dynamic? that demographic. >> history tells us young people have voted republican in the modern era. republicans have won the youth vote three times since 1970. we came within two points of tying it in 2000. it can be competitive and young people are open to voting for republicans and we have is to reach them with the right message. 71% of their concerns are jobs and the economy. that is what our candidate is talking about and the issue we can win on and we are talking on campuses about just that. >> do you buy that percentage that that is their major concern? >> absolutely. the economy is t

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staggering 70% of nation young people can qualify for military service and a criminal record. that is not good enough. i will look at the back to school bus for and went to topeka, kansas. this is the civil-rights issue of our generation. i am convinced it is not race or class but education and opportunity. if we're serious about closing the achievement gap we have to close the opportunity get. we have had nothing here the sense of urgency and commitment to closing those opportunity gaps that we need to. in brown vs. board five decades ago to look at the staggering inequities, inequality of opportunity by any measure we have to get better faster. all those things compel us to act. the president provided extraordinary leadership and understands what is at stake. congress's current assumption is supportive and we have to look at this together with politics and ideology aside. we have to educate our way to a better economy and vienna different place. how do we get there? a pretty compelling case that that is the best investment we can make. if we put our three and four-year-olds

>> go online to celebratemydrive.com where we have tens of thousands of young teenagers across the nation and here locally at tyson's corner september 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. we'll have young teen drivers celebrate their new driving record. >> their new privileges. >> yes. >> mike williams is agent field executive with state farm. thanks for coming in. >> my pleasure. >>> we have reestablished contact now with d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton in charlotte, north carolina, for the democratic national convention. she joins us by phone. good morning, delegate, once again. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> so we were talking about what i had characterized as a lack of progress that's been made during the last three years or so when it comes to d.c. voting rights and statehood, and you were saying that's not the case. >> it's a fair question. the fact is that four years ago, we had a bill that had been introduced by a republican tom davis. i was a cosponsor because democrats have been in the minority. we were unable to get that bill passed until we got a democratic presiden

young talent out last week. and the democrats this week do the same. it was in 2004 that an unknown state senator delivered that keynote address to the democratic national convention. his name was barack obama. elected president four years later. bob shooefer, what did you think? >> schieffer: well, i'll tell you, what you saw there tonight, scott, was a young, bright, energetic, modern politician who somewhere along the way learned to make an old-fashioned political speech. i'm not sure that i was beginning to wonder if anybody remembered. this young man you're going to hear some more from him. >> pelley: byron pitts is down on the convention floor with the texas delegation. >> reporter: scott, there was great pride during this speech. joining us, an attorney from san anton yo. you knew this mayor before he was born, you knew his family. i watched you watch him speak, almost the proud father listening to him. >> you know, he just knocked it out of the ballpark. and i think today was a very proud moment for all of us in san antonio but all of us in texas. you know, julian embodies so many dreams and so many wishes, good wishes of a lot of people. and to

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