role at the republican national convention? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with mitt romney s preparations for what may be the most crucial week of his presidential campaign. with several new polls out including our own showing him losing ground to president obama, romney begins a bus tour on saturday through four swing states he absolutely needs to win. but he s still traveling without a running mate. dana bash is here in the situation room taking a closer look. these are going to be huge days the next week. look, the day is young traveling without a running mate as we speak. you never know what s going to happen. regardless, mitt romney is going to have several vp-buzz generating news with him. but the campaign knows it first has to do some refining about the man on the top of the ticket, romney himself. oh beautiful, for spacious skies. reporter: if you turned on your television last month, there s a good chance you saw this brutal att
i don t want a plunger anywhere near my coffee. not in my house. with maxwell house french roast, you let gravity do the work. [ male announcer ] maxwell house french roast. always good to the last drop. dnc chairman weber wasserman schultz says that mitt romney s religion is off-limits. this is what she told chris jansing when asked about senator orrin hatch s prediction that the obama campaign would throw the mormon church at romney like you can t believe. that is just preposterous. for them to suggest that religion will be injected by president obama and the democratic party, i mean, they need to take a look inward at the accusations that their party and supporters have hurled. she said that republicans are
let s do it. and i think the momentum the republicans then would have a choice, rachel, do it and get the country moving again or explain why not. and i think jobs, explaining why you re not for a jobs bill is going to be harder than debt limit and deficit reduction. i ll tell you, the more people i talk to about what s economically feasible right now, the more people are zeroing in on what you re saying which is getting granular, get specific, talk about specific programs here. makes them harder to say no to. think about that, 60,000 high school students, the biggest unemployed demographic we have in the country put to work doing good things for the country. ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor, former dnc chairman, former msnbc contributor, thanks for joining us tonight, sir, appreciate it. fan of aliens. fan of aliens, see, he s on their side. prepare for the mail, sir, it s going to be overwhelming, trust me. all right, thank you. the billionaire coke brothers hav
including zuckerberg. president obama will meet with facebook founder mark zuckerberg. i think it s great that the most important person in the world is going to meet president obama. [ applause ] because president obama apparently is having trouble defriending joe biden. well, the chairman of the democratic national committee moves closer to deciding on whether or not he is going to run. our own ed henry, part of the best political team on television, live from the white house. tell us what s happening. reporter: tim kaine, as you mentioned, the dnc chairman, former popular governor of virginia. president obama now lobbying him to run for senate because democrat jik webb has announced he is going to be retiring and
frustrating to a lot of democrats. americans are not moving to republicans, we just lost them. and we have to be really honest about why. so david corn s question was where did august go, and my question is the big thing is supposed to be the chairman tim kaine s speech, dnc chairman s tim kaine who s supposed to draw a stark contrast, is that enough? are people being held back from firing on all cylinders and firing all weapons at hand here. it s a step forward, you have about two months before the election, give or take, and you re talking about realistical realistically, maybe about 20% of the electorate could change their minds so having chairman kaine go out there and do that is a step forward but the reality is it s much bigger than that. and the reality is that this goes from the white house all the way down. we have to paint a very stark contrast, not necessarily a contrast and bush and going