paul ryan arrive. two big speakers, chris christie and mitt s wife, ann. i like my speech. i really like ann s speech. our sons are already in tampa and they say it s terrific there, lot of great press. we re looking forward to a great conventi convention. can you give us a little preview? thank you, ladies and gentlemen. two big speeches from ann romney and chris christie represent the two key goals that romney needs to achieve to make this convention a success. call it the soft sell and the hard sell. ann romney, who has been married to mitt romney for 43 years, her job is to humanize her husband a little bit and make him more three dimensional, if you will. i wish everyone could see him how i see him, because as a mother, i ve seen him, how compassionate he has been with me, as a wife and raising these small children. and how he always valued my work as being more important than
inside the arena for most of the day it was quiet. but outside a small group of protestors tried to make some noise. [ chanting ] reporter: mitt romney spent the day in new hampshire working on his thursday night acceptance speech. i like my speech. i really like ann s speech. reporter: that speech from his wife is perhaps the most highly anticipated of the week. the campaign sees it as a chance to reintroduce him to voters, humanize him, show him has a father and husband. and maybe most importantly, empathetic. romney s battling a perception among americans, 58%, that he favors the wealthy over the middle class. this week republicans will hammer home a simple message. the president has failed on the economy, mitt romney can fix it. but in addition to the political jabs, this week is all about the candidate. romney s five sons sat down with abc s diane sawyer. if you ask him about his dad, he will get emotional. if you ask him about my mom, he will get emotional. he gets emotio
white house transition team mike levitt was postponed. romney and wife ann began the day at their lake house with speech preps and storm in mind. my thoughts are with the people in the storm s path and hope they are spared any major disruption. reporter: romney s speech is set for thursday. he gave a vote of confidence for mrs. romney whose speech comes tuesday night as isaac bears down on the gulf coast. i like my speech. i really like ann s speech. the g.o.p. running mate paul ryan held emotional convention sendoff in wisconsin. wow! look at this. president obama has no campaign events scheduled. vice president biden who had planned several campaign days in florida to bracket the g.o.p. convention called them all off last night. late this afternoon, the obama campaign announced it would have campaign rallies in iowa and colorado. the republican national convention meanwhile moments ago held a teleconference call
healthcare alone. but romney is going to have his one shot to let people see this he s human, he s not robotic that he cares, it s about this empathy business. martha: very interesting. glad now to be joined by charles krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and fox news contributor. charles good morning. good to have you with us. a pleasure to be here. martha: you know, it s interesting, i just was reading online moments ago about he and ann romney walking out of an event and the reporters shouted to them, you know, how is the speech coming? how is the speech coming? can you give us a preview? he says, yes, thank you, ladies and gentlemen, that was all he was willing to reveal about what was in that speech. no doubt he feels the power of that moment and how important it will be for him. what does he need to do, charles? i think it starts with ann romney s speech. as i was trying to explain last night in that clip you showed, romney s problem is people think he doesn t care. i was look
speech of his life, the delegates from ohio arguably will have the best seat in the house. yes they shall, and they ll be there with their delegate hats on and balloons and everything else they brought down. 68 delegates coming from ohio, another 63 at delegates will be sitting in those select seats down front. you look at that poll that came out today froms dispatch, even, dead even between obama and romney at 45-45. what did you think of the set up inside there. martha: i think it looks great. it has a certain intimacy to it. the set has 13led screens, you ll see movies projected from those. all designed by the republican party to reach out to people and give them their message throughout all of this. it s going to be quite interesting. looks in in there, yeah. standing firm and firing back, what governor mitt romney is saying to critics who have