tour. well, with his support for outsourcing it is going to have to be a foreign trip. reporter: and earlier, a powerfully poignant moment, former congresswoman, gabrielle giffords at center stage leading the emotional crowd in the pledge of allegiance. liberty and justice for all. chee cheers. reporter: today the president, vice president, and their wives will all hit the campaign trail together. just as the august jobs numbers come out. and rob, paula, that is a very critical report. certainly going to make an impression on voters minds. it may be more significant than any speech they heard over the past two weeks. it s about the economy, stupid, the phrase you hear a lot in politics, karen. how did joe biden do? a little bit attack dog mode, a typical role for the veep. reporter: classic joe biden speech. at the same time, it was a more somber joe biden. he slammed the romney/ryan ticket.
characterize as gaffes are specifically designed to achieve certain goals on the trail? i think it s just an effort he s in attack dog mode, so he will ramp up his game bait. but he wants to be portrayed as that real guy, joe from scranton, we ll see more of that on the trail i think. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. thank you. later, we ll hear from someone who knows something about vice presidential choices, megan mccain. why she thinks the president should drop biden. that coming up. wildfires raging across the west. some residents who were forced to flee are being allowed to see if they have a home to return too. kristen dahlgren live in washington just east of seattle. good morning to you what are conditions like right now? reporter: good morning, craig. overnight things tend to die
jason, talk to us a little about how fernstrom, who sounds a little wild, fits into the broader picture that we have, this broader narrative that mitt romney s team is staffed by sort of buttoned-up suit wearing data driven private sector bain employees. i think that he fits in the role in that he s not that way. i think that romney appreciates fernstrom sort of attack dog mode. i think that as a journalist in boston pointed out, in many ways, romney is very much in the corporate world when he was in bain, he was sort of an attack dog, you know, bottom line kind of guy. i think that s where he and fernstrom sort of make that connection, that fernstrom is often his own often romney s voice and i think romney approves whatever fernstrom says and does and they kind of have each other s back in that kind of way. christina, we talked earlier in the program about maybe a lack of discipline or strategy in tackling some of the bigger,
talking about the debate and what we were prepared to do with each other because we both felt the other would come on attack dog mode. i would have not selected joe because of his basic fundamental philosophy. sean: interesting because i went back as i was coming and preparing for the interview and i reread the debait. in many ways you dowd haven t been nicer to each other in that debate but you prepared to say what about joe lieberman? the best lines we used were the ones that were off the cuff, impromptu. that often times is the case and joe left me an open oing. that famous question that ronald reagan asked are you better off today than you were 8 years ago most people would say yes and i m pleased to see, dick, from the newspapers that you are better off than you were 8 years ago, too. and i can tell you, joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with
talking about the debate and what we were prepared to do with each other because we both felt the other would come on attack dog mode. i would have not selected joe because of his basic fundamental philosophy. sean: interesting because i went back as i was coming and preparing for the interview and i reread the debait. in many ways you dowd haven t been nicer to each other in that debate but you prepared to say what about joe lieberman? the best lines we used were the ones that were off the cuff, impromptu. that often times is the case and joe left me an open oing. that famous question that ronald reagan asked are you better off today than you were 8 years ago most people would say yes and i m pleased to see, dick, from the newspapers that you are better off than you were 8 years ago, too. and i can tell you, joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with