love my country but love my country more. reporter: heels a five and four daur four daughters and they didn t want him to run and he said in the end it was simple, animators affecting our family constitution gives a veto to the women s caucus and there is no override provision and he and his wife divorced in the 1980s and she briefly married someone else and later remarried him and, moved back to indiana and his announcement takes a conservative candidate with serious financial chops out of the running, a second term governor also george w. bush s budget director and it is a big announcement and it affecting the g.o.p. race, gregg. gregg: he is outside numbered in his household and i feel his pain, same with my place. what are republican contenders, potential and otherwise, saying about daniels decision? reporter: a flood of public statements, praising him today. and, also, signs of relief, privately, because he would have been such a tough candidate to beat and listen to newt g
good morning. breaking news in the 2012 race for the white house. mitch daniels will not run for president. the indiana governor who many thought would arrive on a white horse to buck up the gop field will not join the fray after all, announcing in a surprise statement overnight that family concerns made the difference. from the statement, he writes about his wife sherry and his four daughters the following what could have been a complicated decision was in the end very simple on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women s caucus and there is no override provision. simply put, i find myself caught between two duties. i love my country. i love my family more. and with that, the field narrows. i want to begin, joined by the chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan. chairman, welcome back to meet the press. hey, good morning, david.