sides. two top republicans who know him well. the chairman of the republican party reince priebus. and the governor of ryan s home state of wisconsin, scott walker. plus, the man whose job it is to help president obama defeat the romney/ryan ticket, chief strategist for the obama campaign, david axelrod. and finally, full analysis on what this all means for the remaining 86 days of the campaign. with us, editor of the national review, rich lowry. msnbc s rachel maddow. author and radio talk show host bill bennett. chief washington post correspondent dan balz. and nbc s political director, and chief white house correspondent, chuck todd. and good morning. even though the olympics aren t even over, the presidential campaign has kicked in to a new gear. so, who is paul ryan? let s get to some of the key stats about someone you re going to learn a lot more about. he s 42 years old. fifth generation from janesville, wisconsin. a native there. seventh term in the house. he is t
sides. two top republicans who know him well. the chairman of the republican party reince priebus. and the governor of ryan s home state of wisconsin, scott walker. plus, the man whose job it is to help president obama defeat the romney/ryan ticket, chief strategist for the obama campaign, david axelrod. and finally, full analysis on what this all means for the remaining 86 days of the campaign. with us, editor of the national review, rich lowry. msnbc s rachel maddow. author and radio talk show host bill bennett. chief washington post correspondent dan balz. and nbc s political director, and chief white house correspondent, chuck todd. and good morning. even though the olympics aren t even over, the presidential campaign has kicked in to a new gear. so, who is paul ryan? let s get to some of the key stats about someone you re going to learn a lot more about. he s 42 years old. fifth generation from janesville, wisconsin. a native there. seventh term in the house. he is t
the vp job. and for the obama campaign, adviser david axelrod and our powerhouse roundtable. full debate and analysis of romney s choice begins now. hello, again, mitt romney s surprise pick of paul ryan to be his vp shook up the summer saturday. how much? how long will it last? 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 our 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 she shrouded in pretty extraordinary secrecy. no doubt. and you know n the end, he exte several candidates. he only met one-on-one with paul ryan to discuss the job. that happened at beth myers dining room table about a week ago. romney made the offer. of course, ryan accepted. culminating friday with the press tracking paul ryan s every move and the other candidates every move. what ryan did, he went out his back d
including three golds, and finished one-two in women s beach volleyball. here is the medal count this morning. the u.s. now has 82 medals overall, taking the lead over china. however, the chinese still have the most gold medals. russia is in third place, followed by britain and germany. mark phillips is covering the olympics in london. mark, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, gayle, charlie. well, the stars were aligned in the heavens, and at the starting line here. it was a good day to be an american in the main olympic stadium. not so hot if you re jamaican, about you their time will come again. but let s start somewhere else. spare a thought this morning for borg es. you train for years for the biggest moment of your athletic life, and poof, or rather snap, it s gone. there were other memorable moments here that didn t involve winning, at least not winning medals. there was another kind of victory for sara atar, the first woman ever to run in the olympics for
by somali pirates in october. according to reports u.s. navy seals flew in over the cover of darktons free two aid workers who had been held hostage since october. they were working for a relief organization when they were kidnapped. according to reports, buchanan , who is said to be from bedford, virginia, started working for that danish aid group back in 2010. we are told during the raid there was a shootout that left several of the pirates dead. the two are now at a u.s. military base safe. last night at the state of the union, president obama seemed pleased with the success of the mission. as he entered the house chamber, he pointed to leon panetta and said this. good job tonight. good job tonight. again, a daring rescue mission by navy seals freeing those two hostages in somalia, including one american from right here in virginia. we ll continue to follow this developing story throughout the morning and bring you the latest. we appreciate it. 5:02, another big stor