young man, this will change your life, put that on and watch what happens. how about one more? we got to go. there are a lot of people excited about the possibility of seeing tim tebow tonight, talking ability the gators. morning joe starts right now. president obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. he said, well, i haven t communicated enough. he said his job is to, quote, tell a story to the american people as if that s the whole problem here. he needs to talk more and we need to be better listeners. ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house. here is our pledge. we will not duck the tough issues. we would lead. we will not spend the next four years blaming others, we will take responsibility. we will not try to replace our founding principles. we will reapply our founding principles. the work ahead will be hard. these tim
shining exception. he doesn t demonize his opponents. he understands that honorable people can have honest differences. and he appeals to the better angels of our nature. that a lot of in the other people who might disagree with paul ryan. i don t know of anyone who doesn t respect his character and judgment. paul ryan was only 28 years old when he was first elected to the united states congress. he served seven terms, almost 14 years. at 42, he s the same age as the eldest of romney s five sons. ryan s catholic with a wife and three young children. i want you to meet my family. that s my wife, jana. our daughter, liza, and our sons charlie and sam. i m surrounded by the people i love. i love you, too. jamesville, wisconsin, is where i was born and raised, and i never really left it. it s our home now. for the last 14 years, i have proudly represented wisconsin in congress. there there i have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, turning ideas into
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
in iowa, the survey shows the stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. he s at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%. michele bachmann, still in single digits, followed by jon huntsm huntsman, who has written off campaigning here in iowa. there s less drama in romney s backyard of new hampshire. he s at 44% there, followed by paul at 17%, gingrich at 16%. the rest of the poll in single digits. joining us now from des moines, candy crowley. candy, i guess the headline here is not necessarily that mitt romney is number one in iowa, although he is even though he really hasn t spent a lot of time here. but all of a sudden, newt gingrich is fourth and rick santorum is t