republican presidential candidate is cautious. his choice of paul ryan surprised more than a few. what do you read into mitt romney s choosing of congressmen ryan? have you think it is playing out this week? guest: i think it was a bold choice. i think he deserves some credit for that. not choosing the easy, safe route. i think paul ryan is an intellectual leader of the party. a good family man. a great image. he has become a young leader in the house. a lot of people look up to him. at the same time, he has a very conservative views. not just on taxes, fiscal policy and spending. but on women s rights, abortion rights. and so i think, it is a risky choice and that that when you are talking to the middle of the country, these independent voters, will they be turned off by paul ryan s medicare ideas? are they going to be turned off by his wanting to cut tax rates for people who make the most money? are they going to be turned off by his very conservative record on abortion? i
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election. ifill: we re not alone. with us are syndicated columnist mark shields and david brooks. welcome back we re glad to see you. what do you expect tonight? i expect history being made. i do. ifill: you re excited? i am. i m excited. i think it s a defining moment, the biggest moment of mitt romney s public career. balloons will drop. before that we ll get to know something about the guy. as i said i think they have not done enough biography but we ll get a little autobiography that will be great. woodruff: we talked earlier about paul ryan s speech last night. how much did that sort of get the delegates fired up? paul ryan could have read the while pages of the phone book, they were excited. he delivered. he certainly in the room and i think beyond the room to conservatives in particular, particularly the sort of wall street journal economic conservatives, he it was enormously well received speech. ifill: aside from the nominee we ll hear from marco
live stream coverage of events inside and outside the hall. you can also follow along on twitter, using the hash tag pbs election. ifill: we re not alone. with us are syndicated columnist mark shields and david brooks. welcome back we re glad to see you. what do you expect tonight? i expect history being made. i do. ifill: you re excited? i am. i m excited. i think it s a defining moment, the biggest moment of mitt romney s public career. balloons will drop. before that we ll get to know something about the guy. as i said i think they have not done enough biography but we ll get a little autobiography that will be great. woodruff: we talked earlier about paul ryan s speech last night. how much did that sort of get the delegates fired up? paul ryan could have read the while pages of the phone book, they were excited. he delivered. he certainly in the room and i think beyond the room to conservatives in particular, particularly the sort of wall street journal ec
northeastern liberal state all spotlighted by the campaign and the party tonight. mitt romney, this is your life. with marco rubio and jeb bush and newt gingrich and a whole bunch of videos and a choir and clint eastwood maybe? tonight the culmination of the republican national convention, the grand debut of mitt romney presidential nominee. msnbc s live primetime coverage begins right now. good evening. it is liftoff night for mitt romney. i m rachel maddow at msnbc headquarters in new york city along with my colleagues ed shultz and the reverend al sharpton, chris hayes and steve schmidt. lawrence o donnell will be joining us as well. leading coverage from tampa is the one and only chris matthews. chris, this is the big night. i mean, there has not been much said about mitt romney personally these past couple nights. it s been a good commercial for the republican party, not much on the nominee. but tonight that all changes. is there anything that surprises you about toni
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