interested in me. steve: craig? trying to keep the focus on dad and obviously i think part of the reservation coming into this that you mentioned was that we ve seen what happens during a campaign and it s tough to see it happen again, but we re many to do what we can to help them. steve: these have been great answers. you want to stick around for another segment? absolutely. steve: and we re going to ask but your mom. also if you ve got a question, e-mail us right now. gretch, over to you. gretchen: i m right here. thanks so much, steve. now to the rest of your headlines. remember when governor chris christie said this before hurricane irene? get the hell off the beach and get out. you re done. it s 4:30. you ve ma am mazed your tan. get off the beach. gretchen: well, he s fired up for the rnc and joked he was brought there early to help clear florida s beaches before tropical storm isaac.
steve: this week the republican national convention is all about the future of the republican party and telling the story of presidential detainee mitt romney. but what about mitt s family? he and his wife have five sons and countless grandchildren as well. i don t think it s countless, but it s a lot. 18. steve: thank you very much. we re back with their five son, tag, matt, josh, ben and craig romney. all right. i m sure you saw fox news sunday yesterday so that you could see what chris wallace was shooting tape wise up at your vacation place in new hampshire. it s interesting. we ve got a great sound bite talking about the relationship between your mom and dad. listen to this. mrs. romney, your son, tag, says that you are the great mitt stabilizer. mitt can get intense sometimes and maybe people don t recognize that, that there is flames when he s just times when he s my stabilizer, too.
the inspirational man for hope video from president clinton which remains the gold standard of how a candidate presents himself. i think with both of these conventions, with the nastiness of the romney attacks, we will see them try to complement that with ann romney and craig romney and people from governor romney s church and by the way, the same thing will be true next week in charlotte with these ugly racially tinged attacks on the president. that s where they bring out the obama girls, right, the heartwarming, uplifting, positive figures. so john heilemann, we have to cut it here but i want to ask you on a scale of one to ten, how epic is the romney video montage going to be? a scale of one to ten, somewhere between one and ten. i think they will do a very nice job. they have a lot of great hollywood ad men working on that. i m sure it will look fantastic. i think it s going to tug at your heartstrings. you re a sentimental girl. wow. one in ten out of one in ten.
or start. behind the scenes pictures of just how we got here. fox and friends starts just about now. steve: yeah, live from tampa bay where normally would be nice and sunny, 75 degrees and rain and we are indoor as we say in kansas a frog strangler. welcome, live from the rnc from day one. gretchen: start at day zero . tomorrow will be one and we ll have three days of the convention. brian: what they are going to do with the headliners and how the speeches will be shorter and there is talk of extend a day. steve: it might go to friday. coming up. all five of the romney boys live from the tampa bay history center where we are sitting now. brian: senator marko rubio and karl rove and joe trippit. gretchen: tropical storm ripped through the caribbean. isaac could be a hurricane by wednesday. a 300 mile stretch of the gulf coast is on high alert including new orleans. we have steve brown live for us here in tampa and maria molina is track but we start with nicole
governor romney? no one s ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place that we were born and raised. i yam what i yam and that s all what i yam we also know this about mitt romney. quote, i think one of the things i don t do terribly well is to be highly organized, he said, and follow a calendar precisely. i yam what i yam and that s all what i yam and in case you were wondering, this is what mitt romney knows about mitt romney. quote, i m emotional. i don t show it quite as clearly as john boehner but i m an emotional person. there is, i don t know, a societal norm that if you re running for office you can t be emotional and perhaps i bow to that too often. i yam what i yam and that s all what i yam but as mitt romney gives little detail about what he is and isn t, team obama is wasting no time telling the country exactly what they think he is. i can t speak to governor romney s motivations. what i can say is that he has sign