evening there s a bit of a game of chicken going on. the romney campaign would like as much coverage of ann romney as possible. if they get broadcast coverage she ll stay monday. if they don t it s possible she would move to tuesday. at this hour in flux while they wait and see what kind of television situation they re going to have on monday night. they have a proechd the broadcast networks and ask them to kofrp monday. an ongoing dialog and expressed unhappiness about it. in the old days gavel-to-gavel coverage on the broadcast networks and easy to program what you wanted and get coverage. there s been a transition. part is the cable networks do pretty well on those nights. no broadcast coverage you ll see a big audience on cable. don t know if it s the number of eyeballs, demographics, more undecided voters watching broadcast than cable or the symbolism of it. kind of an insult and, you know, not the symbolism you want to have ann romney s speech not be on broadcast television.
excellent. the kind that mitt romney thinks looks tacky and cheap, remember when he told those fans that gee, they look kind of awful in those ponchos. i m going to look like that too. seriously, i think the party itself is going to be really interesting at this convention. this is a big tent republican party that has all the sort of currents of thought and people, you know, who the anti-abortion crowd, the social conservatives, the libertarians, the establishment republicans who seem to have lost control of the whole process, it will be interesting to see hows they currents interact and whether the party can successfully keep the focus on the economy, keep the focus on defeating president obama, or do we have another eruption like we had this week on the abortion issue. looks to me yeah, david, go ahead. i want to add to that, i think it s really important what gene is saying because as much
law enforcement from around the state, police chiefs ready. so we re ready if that happens. and we ve got national guard on standby to bring more national guard in. hopefully we won t. hopefully this will be a situation where we can, you know, the convention can tell its message, same thing as we hope in the dnc when they have their convention. governor rick scott of florida, good luck with your preparations there. let s hope this storm isn t a big one for you. thanks for being here. i look forward to seeing you in tampa. see you there. bring in now from washington pulitzer-prize winning columnist, associate editor of the washington post eugene robinson and moderator of meet the press david gregory. good morning? good morning. good morning. let s start with you, david, we re setting the table here this morning for this convention. you ll be there with meet the press on sunday. what are the big themes, what are you looking for as you arrive in tampa? i m focused on
as we look back now a couple weeks in to the paul ryan choice, what s the feeling? was it helpful? we know the numbers, there wasn t a huge bounce. long term, was he the right choice? the romney folks, many of whom as you know were against it, some tried to talk governor romney out of it, but they say if they win, paul ryan will be a part of it. he was part of energizing their candidate, gave him the reagan halo. the point we make in the piece is 19 years ago, paul ryan was getting coffee carrying books for bill bennett at empower america, working on the side, doing jobs as a trainer, at a gym, and as a waiter at tortilla coast. this is every intern, staff assistant s dream and he pursued it very purposefully. two years ago when he became the house budget committee chairman, his goal was to get the party s nominee in 2012 and at the time, it seemed like a far fetched goal to get the nominee to
everything down the pike. what is the mood on wall street an the business community toward mitt romney? we know a lot of people on wall street have drifted from president obama over the last four years. what s the feeling about mitt romney. is it he s one of them? it s mixed. not like they ve flocked aggressively toward romney. it s more they ve moved away from obama. so, you know, times story this week is interesting, makes a great point in private equity you think somebody in business is who you want, right? leader, great analytical skills, all of that, but in private equity it s a different ballpark. not really you get to pick and choose your battles, hyper surgical about what you focus on, pick the least risk and most opportunity, opportunities that are, you know, the best, the lowest hanging fruit really and you don t get to do that in the oval office. it s completely the opposite. mitt romney has a piece we were talking about it in our last hour wrote an op-ed in the wall