bill: continuing now with our coverage of the democratic convention is charlotte, north carolina, i will be there tomorrow evening. let s bring in fox news political correspondents john roberts, james rosen on the floor. all right, rosen, begin with you. what s the most interesting thing you saw today. well, bill, there were a lot of interesting cameos on the floor from the olympic athletes gaby douglas on the other way of the excitement spectrum michael dukakis, the big event we are all waiting for right now is former president bill clinton and who is going to place the nomination of barack obama formally tonight will be the first time we have ever seen a former president do that for a sitting president. we have some indication of what he is going to say. we know, for example, that is he going to take head on tackle head on this charge that mitt romney has leveled that barack obama somehow gutted welfare reform. and, also, we have gotten a few excerpts from the speech and can i qu
conventions. others that i have just met this week. everybody here has been very courteous, very cordial, very welcoming. bill: i will have the final word on that one when i get down to charlotte. things could change, bill. things could change. bill: sometimes i bring it on myself. i will try not to do that. i have never known you to do that, bill, ever. bill: next, we are going to wrap things up with the aforementioned carl cameron who is up in new england. he interviewed governor romney today. we will play you some of that interview in just a few moments. the economy needs manufacturing. mhines, tools, people making stuff. companies have to invest in making things. infrastructure, construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron s puttg more than $8 billion dollars back in the u.s. economy his year. in pipes, cement, steel, jobs, energy. we need to get the wheels turning. i m proud of that. making real thin. for real. .that make a real difference.
a celebration of failure. joining me from woodstock, vermont, carl cameron. why are you in woodstock. reporter: mitt romney s doing debate prep. he is doing the mock debate rehearsal process. rob portman is playing the role of barack obama and they are sparring. portman did it for mccain in 2008 and folks thought he might have gotten into mccain s head a little bit. why are they doing debate prep, when the debate is a month away? what s that all about? reporter: well, there has been a lot of questions, why so early? why now? they have a block of time, while the democrats are in charlotte. they figure this is an opportunity to get off the trail and spend real time on it. this is being run by beth myers who, is very jealous about her protection of his time. so he is sequestered away in the
ago at the convention. but vice-president biden said in ohio that exact thing. he said, everybody s better off now. you just don t know it you know, that kind of thing. reporter: i think he was trying to get the word of the day from you with temerity. yes. reporter: not only did the senior staff say it before the convention, but there has been a full-throated defense ever since the marlin o malley, the governor 6 massachusetts said, are you better off now and he said, no. he had to reverse himself. so. romney recognizes that that s an opportunity for him to catch the democrats with their own rhetoric and internal divisions. the democrats went down to tampa to try to overshadow the republican convention because biden had planned to go to florida for two of four days the republicans were in tampasm the republicans used that as an open season to send surrogate after surrogate to charlotte to try to make some noise on this.