used to work in the white house. fox and friends starts right now. steve: hello, everybody. heart of rockefeller center in manhattan. gretch is still on vacation and brian is in the yacht club . we have eric and ainsley with us. with the hat. you heard the big announcement that paul ryan is the vp pick for romney. that happened over the weekend. you probably talked about it with your friends from the barbecue. we had the interview of these two. this was the two in wisconsin. he went home for the home town celebration and got emotional there. saying hey to all of his supporters. my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of miller. i like to hunt here. i like to fish here and i like to snow mobile here . i think ice fishing is interesting. i am a wisconsinite through and through and i have to tell you how this means to be home. yeah, the roads are jammed for miles. thousands of people came to show the local boy suddenly thrust in the nation s consciousne
on this year s summer games. and no men allowed. saudi arabia s ambitious new plan to separate the sexes, a first of its kind city exclusively for women by women and of women. newsroom begins right now. good morning and thanks for joining us, everyone, i m deborah feyerick in for carol ko costello. the wisconsin congressman hits the campaign trail on his n. he is set to visit the iowa state fair today. meanwhile, mitt romney will continue on his bus tour. the gop candidate is in florida making two campaign stops today, the first in st. augustine, romney s first event will soon get under way. interestingly enough romney is joined this morning by florida senator marco rubio, a man who is on the short list in the veep stakes. jim acosta is joining us now from st. augustine and, jim, what s going on there? reporter: well, this romney event is getting started a little later than the romney campaign expected. they got in very late last night. well after midnight. it s been
i begged mitt romney to pick paul ryan as his vice presidential running mate. i never thought he would be dumb enough to take my advice. now, it s official. mitt romney and paul ryan, the team that s going to get rid of social security, get rid of medicare and get rid of medicaid. what a great platform to run on. man. can t wait. so we will get into that from every angle today. but first, we get the latest, today s current news update from lisa ferguson joining us early this monday morning out in los angeles. hi lisa. hi, bill. good morning. happy monday. good morning, everyone. well well, as bill mentioned, obviously the big news of the day, romney has chosen paul ryan as his running mate. here is a quick look at what happened over the weekend. we know the principles that built this country and we are going to reapply those principles and leave our kids a better future. no doubt, we will hear plenty of analysis on ryan s policies over the days and weeks to am could. ryan
visibilities down to a quarter mile in some area. more on that next. fox & friends starts right now. giddy up. that graphic is so nice we played it twice. good morning, everybody. peter johnson jr. in for clayton. we hope he is better. couldn t stay away from the breaking news situation. i couldn t. i was so surprised when i turned on the news yesterday morning when i woke up at 7:30. sleeping in. i turned on the news. i mean, this is the biggest political news that we have had arguably in months. right. it s been a bit of a snooze fest. we need some shaking it up. it feels it s added momentum. all eyes are on this g.o.p. ticket. mitt romney is hitting the trail with the brand number running mate today. hitting the stop north carolina. we find james rosen up early for us. hi, james. good morning, alli, dave, and peter. another day of roll out for the 2012 ticket which today finds mitt romney and paul ryan stumping in the battleground state of north ca
seven hours after the big moment in norfolk. formerren can tenders for the g.o.p. nomination closed ranks around the announcement with rick perry, rick santorum and even newt gingrich who once famously derided the ryan plan as right wing social engineering. lastly to guide ryan through his new found prominence it was announced that house speaker john boehner has detailed his communications director michael steele to the romney ryan campaign. one important shift we saw yesterday, gang. romney yesterday explicitly adopted the language of the obama campaign and started referring to this as a choice election. they are going to campaign later today after north carolina in wisconsin, a kind of homecoming for paul ryan. back to you guys in new york. thanks, james. get yourself some breakfast, thanks for being up early. good friend stephen haze from the weekly standard. a fellow green bay packer fab. he is psyched for other packers fan paul ryan. good to he so you this mornin