vote thursday afternoon, its shortest question in 50 years. when they skipped town they left a bunch of proposals on the table, actions that will create middle class jobs and strengthen security. these ideas have been around for months. the american people want to see them passed. apparently some members of congress are more worried about their jobs and paychecks this season than they are about yours. let s bring ingest ca taylor. ana marie cox, correspondent for the guardian and jonathan, opinion writer for the washington post. hi, craig. before the adjournment, six house democrats wrote a letter to house speaker jon boehner saying in part democrats do not believe the house should recess this week or at all until we have met our responsibilities to the american people. our nation can ill afford
0 many policyls against the presit and the national debt clock behind me, $16 trillion and counting and president obama is responsible for almost a third of that number. a lot of spinning and out of control and the country needs a leader at this time to try to reverse the trend of those numbers and we expect paul ryan to try to reverse those numbers and paulpaul they were introducing a nasa astronaut and there have been changes and i think they need to reverse the course. we showed the clip of an event earlier in florida. my understanding that craig romney and jeb bush were on hand there and they even spoke a fair amount of spanish to that crowd. how is the outreach effort going there in florida for the romney ryan campaign, specifically with hispanic voters? reporter: they have an uphill climb. the latest nbc wall poll puts them down 40% and they re making an effort to try to win over favor with hispanics in this state, a lot of hispanics in florida and they think the base is o
what, we need to change presidents! meanwhile, vice president joe biden pushing back on the question who s best to bring change to washington, arguing it s not mitt romney and paul ryan. the facts are they re doubling down on everything that caused the economic crisis in the first place. they want to shred regulations for wall street and the big banks again, want to double down on the tax cut. meanwhile, president obama travels to the battleground state of wisconsin, his first campaign trip there. he will be visiting milwaukee for two campaign events. the big story we track, the reaction to the release of mitt romney s tax returns and show he paid a 14.1% effective rate in 2011. more on these stories and a whole lot more in the next two hours on msnbc. right now, some live pictures from orlando, florida, where we do expect paul ryan to take the stage, the vice-presidential nominee to take the stage in central, florida. we will bring it to you live. ron motte travels wit
democratic national convention. he begins where he says it all started, more than four years ago. that would be in iowa, and the republican running mate, the gop running mate keeps up running mates keep up their attack on president obama s economic policies, but mitt romney admits his own party let people down when it comes to the deficit. and as visitors start moving into charlotte, some people are forced to move out. we re taking a closer look at a little-known downside to the democratic convention. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, reporting live from charlotte, the site of the democratic national convention and you re in the situation room. and we re here in charlotte where the democrats are already gathering for their party s national convention. it starts on tuesday, but this is now becoming the campaign s command center, as democrats work to take back moment from the gop after the republicans grabbed the s
toward the site of this democratic national convention. he begins wheree says it all started, more than four years ago. that would be in iowa, and the republican running mate, the gop running mate keeps up running mates keep up their attack on president obama s economic policies, but mitt romney admits his own party let people down when it comes to the deficit. and as visitors start moving into charlotte, some people are forced to move out. we re taking a closer look at a little-known downside to the democratic convention. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, reporting live from charlotte, the site of the democratic national convention and you re in the situation room. and we re here in charlotte where the democrats are already gathering for their party s national convention. it starts on tuesday, but this is now becoming the campaign s command center, as democrats work to take back moment from the gop after the rep