running mate. take a listen. for us, this is a campaign of ideas and a direction for america. what s america going to be, what kind of nation we re going to be, how are we going to help people across this country have a better future, and having two people talk about that i think is a far more compelling dynamic than being out there on my own. i m excited. meanwhile, president obama s campaign is giving paul ryan no time to settle into his new role. cnn adviser david axeod came out swinging on nbc s meet the press this morning attacking the republicans economic plan. we have more to do not just to deal with unemployment but to rebuild the middle class in this country. and the way to do it is not to give trillions of dollars of new tax cuts to the wealthiest americans, raise tes on the middle class, and cut things like college loans and research and technology infrastructure, energy. this is a prescription for economic catastrophe. and what is surprising to me is that
tim pawlenty who was vying for the vp job. and for the obama campaign, senior adviser david axelrod, and our powerhouse roundtable. with howard dean, greg noonan, gavin newsom, paul gigot and cokie roberts. full debate and analysis of romney s choice begins now. hello, again, mitt romney s surprise pick of paul ryan to be his running mate shook up a summer saturday and instantly changed the shape of this presidential race. how much? how long will it last? will romney s bold bet pay off? we ll examine mitt romney s most consequential campaign decision. but we begin on how the decision has made and how it s playing on the trial with abc s jon karl. jon, thanks for joining us this morning. we re learning a lot more overnight about how romney came to this decision and how he shrouded in pretty extraordinary secrecy. no doubt. and you know, in the end, he vetted extensively, his team, several candidates. but he only met one-on-one with paul ryan to discuss the job. none of the
and for the obama campaign, senior adviser david axelrod, and our powerhouse roundtable. with howard dean, greg noonan, gavin newsom, paul gigot and cokie roberts. full debate and analysis of romney s choice begins now. hello, again, mitt romney s surprise pick of paul ryan to be his running mate shook up a summer saturday and instantly changed the shape of this presidential race. how much? how long will it last? will romney s bold bet pay off? we ll examine mitt romney s most consequential campaign decision. but we begin on how the decision has made and how it s playing on the trial with abc s jon karl. jon, thanks for joining us this morning. we re learning a lot more overnight about how romney came to this decision and how he shrouded in pretty extraordinary secrecy. no doubt. and you know, in the end, he vetted extensively, his team, several candidates. but he only met one-on-one with paul ryan to discuss the job. none of the others. that happened at beth myers dinin
and a ball cap. and then on friday, how did they get ryan from wisconsin to virginia for this announcement that nbc news broke in the wee hours? they kept it secret until just hours before the announcement was made. well, paul ryan came home from a memorial service for the victims of the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin. he came home, reporters, including nbc s own embed spotted him there. he exited out the back door, through the woods behind his home in a neighborhood where he grew up, was picked up on a nearby street by a top aide who drove him to a nearby airport where he and his family flew to the virginia area. they had a takeout dinner at a n nondescript hotel before the major announcement was made. he didn t even tell his own mom he had been selected until just after midnight early saturday morning. that is the latest from charlotte. back to you. peter, quite a story there. thank you. now joining us for front-page politics, david weigel, political reporter for sla
it would happen in boston, massachusetts, it was determined, at the home of the senior adviser beth myers. the question was, how do you get paul ryan there without being detected by reporters? ryan, we have now learned from beth myers who is in charge, flew from chicago, not to boston, the direct route, instead went to hartford, connecticut, nearly two hours away, where he was picked up by beth myers 19-year-old son in a rented suv. ryan was not detected, david, because he was wearing jeans, a ball cap, and sunglasses. and then yesterday, or friday, as reporters were staking out his home before the announcement was made, paul ryan came home for memorial service for the victims of the shooting at the sikh temple, went in where reporters saw him and went out a back door in his own neighborhood, going through some densely packed woods where he was picked up by an aide, taken to a nearby airport, flown to the virginia area where he stayed in a nondescript hotel, eating take-out