0 what is planned for him? that s right, milissa. he s going to be doing his own debate camp there, up until a day before the debate. he s spending time with chris van hollen, that s his sparring partner. van hollen has worked with paul ryan, he s a democrat from maryland, who worked with ryan with and against on the house budget committee. so van hollen is someone who s very familiar, not only with his policies. so the two of them will be participating in mock debates. they ve done two to date, and i m sure they ll be doing a lot more up until wednesday, before they head to danville, kentucky, for the big night. what is the biggest concern for mr. biden and his team? well, when they really would like to do is to change the conversation from last week s performance by barack obama, get to change that conversation on thursday, and to really talk specifically about the ryan budget. joe biden told reporters last week that what he s doing is looking at ryan s policies and seeing how
tomorrow, where he is expected to tout the new jobs number, 7.8%, and some big fund-raising numbers out today. president obama and the democrats raised $181 million in september, the highest single-month total so far. more on all these stories throughout the next two hours. the campaign focus shifts a bit next week to the vice presidential nominees. paul ryan and joe biden will face off in their only debate next thursday night. paul ryan has just left his four-day debate camp. he is heading back to wisconsin for a fund-raiser tonight. and as for the vice president, we check in with msnbc news campaign embed carrie dan. she s embedded with vice president joe biden s team. carrie, vice president biden s schedule shows him to be in wilmington, delaware, right now, and for the next few days. what is planned for him? that s right, milissa. he s going to be doing his own debate camp there, up until a day before the debate. he s spending time with chris van hollen, that s his sp
fund-raisers, tag romney was in attendance. now, pawlenty arrived with his wife. he said that he will be keeping his schedule. it s in new hampshire starting at 10:00 a.m. one of those events is going to be a rally for romney here in the state. when he was asked if he was disappointed, he said, i didn t enter this thinking that i was going to be the presidential candidate. so i m not disappointed. i m excited about mitt romney s candidacy. romney is going to make a pick tomorrow and he s excited about it. he wouldn t confirm whether it was paul ryan. he said, you re going to have to wait until tomorrow but confirmed that he s keeping his schedule tomorrow. carrie, you ve been following around tim pawlenty and paul ryan and governor jindal of louisiana. it s a fine line between
yeah, andrea. i think one of the other things about this you know, we re in breaking news. i m going to be completely transparent. we have breaking news and a lot of people talking to us and didn t know if there s a little thing called a key and suddenly i stopped hearing everything. sorry about that. what we do know is that tim pawlenty has come out, i think he just cold one of our reporter that he is keeping his schedule tomorrow. he s not flying to virginia. and we don t know whether he s going to keep his commitment on meet the press on sunday. andrea, let me stop you there. carrie dan, the producer you just mentioned, well, she s been following tim pawlenty around for it feels like months but it s definitely been weeks. carrie, you just spoke to tim pawlenty. tell me about it. at both of thoeps
so there is a lot to work here with mitt romney and the budget name would change how medicare works down the line. he has ideas that are con conservative, things like that. it s a big part of the ryan story. but, chuck, as you know, he can also bring a common touch. i can also tell you that our colleague, carrie dan, is reporting that tim pawlenty, the former governor of minnesota, has confirmed on camera that he s not changing his own schedule, which means that he will not be in virginia. so that s by an implicit yes, another so that s another piece of information. kelly, i want to talk about look, you ve covered