federal level they don t pay any taxes. i m not sure where you end up with a fair share, half the people don t pay anything and 5% pay almost 60%. maybe we need to talk about a fair share, somebody ain t getting to fair share out of that. i want you to hear the message played at a video at dnc convention in charlotte. we are committed to all people. you believe you can use government in a good way? government s the only thing that we all belong to. and government is the only thing we all belong to. i think government has a wonderful purpose. our founders did, they were right. but let me challenge that idea that government is the only thing we all belong to. that we all belong to government. you see, i think the founding fathers, maybe they have a little different take, they thought that government belonged to us, that we only are governed by the consent of the governed.
[ .] megyn: back here live in charlotte, north carolina with the news of a big court win for the obama campaign friday, raising questions about how the courts could impact this november election. john, welcome back. i have been chronicling the past 7 election cycles the increasingly litigious issue. you said we could literally wind up at the point where the politicians can cut out the middleman and the courts could decide the elections. since 2000 we have had
creating jobs rather than losing them. but you said we have not recovered all that we lost in the bush recession. that s why we need to continue to move forward. megyn: don t you love politicians? brad blakeman is here, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush, and dick harpootlian is here in charlotte, chairman of south carolina s democratic party. it s not north carolina, but it s south carolina. and welcome back to the program, both of you. so let me start with you on that, dick. don t you love politicians? it s like they don t care that there s videotape and that we have the tape from 24 hours earlier. are you better off than four years ago? no. twenty-four hours later, of course we are. i think we know happened in the interim, do we not? i think it s the silly season. megyn, it s important to understand, i think what all of them said is accurate, and that is that the country is better off now than it was four years ago. we re moving in the right direction.
so when you take a look at what we are going to hear in charlotte today, the president can say a lot of things and he will. but he can t tell you that you are better off. simply put, the jimmy carter years look like the good old days compared to where we are right now. and so that s why we have a very crystal clear choice. we can either choose to stay on the path we are on, a path of debt, a path of doubt and decline, a path of joblessness or we can get things turned around. we can elect mitt romney the next president of the united states and we can get america back on track. that s what we ll do. [cheers and applause] megyn: paul ryan here in north carolina attending a campaign event. you heard that phrase from him every times.
center because nothing s happened and it s labor day. people are out with their families. i was at a restaurant, the local wild wing cafe. there was considerable excitement with people wearing their i love obama-care buttons. megyn: thank you both so much. a fast-moving wild fire sparks evacuations in a place that attracted thousands of visitors every labor day weekend. crews racing to contain it flames. we are live with that story. republicans had their fun. now it s the democrats turn. we have more from the democratic convention in north carolina as folks in charlotte get ready for the crowds. they will come. we are back in three minutes. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing