had to go back. prescription for cheating. they read our x-rays, but a cnn investigation reveals a disturbing question over the certification of many radiologists. isn t it cheating? revealing investigations, fascinating characters, stories with impact. this is cnn presents ith tonight s host randi kaye and drew griffin. tonight, hard hitting investigations involving racism and cheating and injustice. we begin with a murder in mississippi. a brutal killing fueled by race and rage. we broke the shocking story here on cnn of a young, white teenager accused of killing a black man just because of the color of his skin. over our four-month investigation, we found even more disturbing details uncovering how the teenager and some of his friends had a history of violent and racist incidents and raising questions whether authorities turned a blind eye. i ve been following this story from the very beginning. june 26th in mississippi would bring temperatures and humidity into
mate, congressman paul ryan. i want to congratulate congressman ryan. i know him. i welcome him to the race. congressman ryan is a decent man. he is a family man. he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney s vision. but it s a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. cnn s athena jones is outside the rally. the president said the vision has something of the likes of fairy dust in it. reporter: it was a big 20 minute speech or so. the first public remarks we have seen from the president responding to romney s choice of congressman ryan. we don t know what he told the first fundraiser of the day which was closed to press completely. he says he likes paul ryan. they are trying to link romney to ryan s budget proposals which they say are radical and aren t good for ordinary people talking about slashing spending on programs and making changes to medicare and medicaid. he was trying to rev up the crowd as you mentioned. this was the event geared more towards young p
in this special hour, we re taking a close look at the man mitt romney s asked to join him on the republican presidential ticket, congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. fittingly, romney made the big announcement in front of the battle ship, the uss wisconsin. ryan is chairman of the house budget committee, made a name for himself here in washington, by battling deficits and fighting for cuts in government spending. listen to how mitt romney broke the news. it s an honor to announce my running mate and the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan! [ cheers and applause ] his leadership his leadership begins with character and values. paul is a man of tremendous character, shaped in large part by his early life. paul s father died when he was in high school. that forced him to grow up earlier than any young man should, but paul did, with the help of his devoted mother, his brothers and sister, and a supportive community. and as he did, he internalized the virtues
the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi
hit romney and his newly announced running mate aren t wasting time hitting the campaign trail. just a few hours after introducing wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential pick, the presumptive republican ticket is making its case to voters in virginia. romney introduced paul ryan this morning as, quote, an intellecta you will leader of the republican party and a person who will help lead the country to, quote, widespread and shared prosperity and then ryan told his own story and shared his ideals. for the last 14 years i have proudly represented wisconsin in congress. there there i have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, turning ideas into action and action into solutions. i am committed in heart and mind to putting that experience to work in a romney administration. [ applause ] my dad died when with i was young. he was a good and decent man. there are few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. he d say, son, y