experience. congressman ryan is passionate about mitt romney s story. he believes that the free market system works and mitt romney is a case study in how building businesses, and turning around businesses and success in the private sector can make a difference in the public sector. reporter: all right you re looking live now at the floor and the stage of the rnc convention here in tampa. there is a big media scrum going down as you can see. a few moments ago we did get word that congressman ryan was expected to case the venue a little bit, show up and prowl a bit about on the stage sort of the way that ollie and frazier used to visit madison square garden and test out the ring ropes right before the big fight. it s something speakers do before conventions to get acquainted with the venue. if we see ryan were any time soon we ll be telling you. jenna: maybe he ll lead knew a p90 session. lord knows after all the convention food i ve eaten i
class. classes are canceled until next tuesday at the moment. jon: i guess you don t get to sleep in your dorm rooms because they are classmate on the glass imploding on the students. what are you doing? at around 3:00 o clock in the morning, we slept in the halls. a nice concrete floor for my back. [laughter] jon: nice way to start your college career. exactly. [laughter] jon: at least this one is no hurricane katrina. there must be people that told you what happened at tulane when hurricane katrina went through. yes, definitely everyone was concerned. because it is the anniversary the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. everyone is taking very cautionary measures. the university has done an excellent job of handling it.
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senate minority whip. he joins us now from tampa. senator kyl glad to have you back on the program. thanks, great to be with you. jenna: one of the things you told the hill is quite telling about how you feel about the state of the republican party within your state of arizona. you say, quote, i wish i could tell you we were doing well right now, we re not. ron paul has totally taken our party over. tell us more about that. why do you feel that way? i did not say that, and he has not taken the republican party over. as a matter of fact, we have a very unified delegation here in tampa, and i met with them this morning. we had a good conversation with some of the people who had supported ron paul. everybody is together in support of mitt romney. our party is not in as strong a position as it should be, and i did say that, because we ve not been able to put forth the leadership or raise the funds that we had been able to do in the past. i think we ll rectify that. this primary electio
week to boulder where the university of colorado is. you can see where obama is trying to leverage his voters and romney has gone to some rural areas where he s trying to leverage his. jon: everywhere you see president obama trying to appeal to young voters you see the romney campaign coming right in with full-page ads talking about the unemployment rate among young people and how its even higher than it is for the nation s workforce as a whole. that s right. i think on college campuses that could resonate, right? because these are students who need to get out. they are going to have student loans and debts. they care about jobs as well. i m not saying anything brilliant, but i m saying it is the economy, it is jobs, that s what everybody cares about from the college students all the way up to the suburban moms. jon: so allison you work for the denver post, you re the d.c. correspondent. i imagine you re living in foggy bottom, right. i live in washington. i miss colorado every day