boy were they amazing. welcome to early start, i m zoraida sambolin. and i m john berman. 5:00 a.m. in the east. what we re all talking about is morning is politics. after 36 hours joined at the hip, mitt romney and his new running mate are going their separate ways today. the former massachusetts governor says he s happy with his new teammate. at one point, ryan teared up with emotion during a stop in wisconsin. on 60 minutes, romney praised his vp pick for being a lot like him. of course, the president is weighing in, too. this is a man who s dedicated the last 14 years working in washington in ways that are not highly partisan. this is a man who s also analytical. he s a policy guy. people know him as a policy guy. that s one of the reasons he has such respect on both sides of the aisle. i m a policy guy, believe it or not. i love policy. i love solving tough problems. congressman ryan is a decent man. he is a family man. he s an articulate spokesman for gove
this is how stupid this is. the dumb reasons they have in here. when i did speak up for him, it was placed on me. well, since you re speaking up for him, then you ll deal with it. and i dealt with it because that s what it was about. the older inmate survived the stabbing. and his assailant quit the gang. finally i made my stance and went against it. now i m a christian and i go for that. i wrote him a letter and i apologized and told him i was sorry that i had to do that, that i was so weak. and i didn t protect him. i should have. i was in a position to protect him and i didn t. next on lockup: raw it s a bunch of betrayals and lies. there s no loyalty, there s no honor. one gangbanger smashes the code. and another unleashes contempt for those who do. i don t know how can they wake up in the morning and see themselves in the mirror, you know. three, six, nine the goose drank wine the monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
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it s quite a large crowd. they re going through the preliminary speakers now. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out this way as well and over this way. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan and mitt romney landed just a short time ago. paul ryan said it was great to be home. he said he s been flying into the airport in milwaukee, never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he will be the republican vice presidential nominee. we re in a state as you know, that has been democratic reliablely blue for a long time, but these republicans here think because of the romney pick of paul ryan, because of the election buzz, the republican governor recently survived that bruising recall election. they think it s possible they can put them back. these people know him quite well. the american people are just getting to know the congressman, sometimes controversial chairman that mitt romney has asked to join the ticket. the republican ticket traveled here from
i m glad you re with us. i m randi kaye. some reaction after republican presidential hopeful mitt romney picked paul ryan to be his running mate. our political analyst acosta takes us on the road for a view of what they re calling amera s comeback team. reporter: mitt romney descended from the battle ship uss wisconsin to call for a campaign of republican arms. we take another step in helping to restore the promise of america. reporter: and there s no bigger gun in the conservative movement than the gop s vice-presidential candidate congressman paul ryan. wow. hey! and right in front of the uss wisconsin, huh? reporter: his persona is fiscal nice delivered a message right out of train gospel. we won t duck the issues, we will lead. we won t blame others. we will take responsibility. reporter: romney campaign officials say the gop contender made his decision and called ryan on august 1st, one day after he returned from his overseas trip. the two men then met