shifting blame and its time to take responsibility. focusing on freedom. and talking about how do you want to live in a country where everything is free, but us?. the hall was energized throughout this speech. and before that, we heard from former secretary of state couldn t leeza rice who, by the way, did that speech, we confirmed with out a teleprompt ter, but off notes. it did match a previous fund-raiser in utah but she fired thup crowd as well. that moment at the end of her speech, she talked about a little girl who grows up in jim crow birmingham. her parents can t take her to a movie theater or a restaurant but make her believe she can become president and she becomes secretary of state. what a moment in this auditorium. everybody rose to their feet. our viewers at home remember
he gave an extraordinarily good speech and did what he needed to do. it also was filled with the most inaccuracys of any presidential, vice presidential speech i ve heard. it d like to get the facts out. he accused president obama of being cause for closing a g.m. plant. it did close in obama s term. but the decision was made before that. it wasn t george w. bush s fault. the company made the decision. it s not a fair thing to say that about him. when he said this able crony capitalism. paul ryan ranked number one in requesting government funding for congressional district in wisconsin. he talked about the idea that obama cut $716 billion from his care, i grant you romney doesn t do that. but exactly what paul ryan did. more importantly, the senator that romney himself said the best of both the unbiased poll came out and the decision to take paul ryan was 46% negative and 40% positive. i think he helped himself last night. i think he may have come even. the idea that somehow many is
my dad used to say to you son, you have a choice. you can part of the problem or part of the solution. the present administration made its choices and mitt romney and i have made ours. before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all we are going to sol tv nation s economic problems. [ applause ] andrea: that was congressman paul ryan who officially accepted the republican nomination for vice president last night. part of the speech is harsh critique of president obama s first term. everyone who feels stuck in the obama economy is right to focus on the here and the now. i hope you understand this, too. if you are feeling left out and passed by, you have not failed. your leaders have failed you. none of us should have to settle for the best this
hair plugs thinking about the debate. how will he up against guy like that. different debate than four years ago. we re talking about ryan next segment? bob: want to talk about him now or wait. greg: i can talk aboutally all day. eric: here is what paul ryan did. he said it s okay to be successful. bob: romney needed to say that from the beginning. to suggest that romney should hide from being successful is bad idea. emphasize your strengths. they perceive it to be a strength. with expectations, politics is exceeding expectations. it it always has been. dana: one thing he has to do tonight after watching the ryan speech, mitt romney s challenge is i have to convince people that i m rightfully the nominee and not condi or paul ryan. he has a way to do that, i have tried to hire the best. i surround myself with the best people. you can look at the people
info on that speech. he will be introduced by florida senator marco rubio, who is one of the finalists in the vice presidential search. i talked to rubio earlier about the introduction and channels facing the g.o.p. ticket. last night s headliner was vice presidential nominee paul ryan. it caught up with him five minutes ago. we ll have his reaction to his speech and the way ahead. tropical storm isaac is losing strength and downgraded to a tropical depression an hour ago. hundreds of thousands are without power, thousands whatted to be evacuated near new orleans. we ll get a live update. special report from tampa starts 6:00 eastern. now back to the five, 500 yards away. greg: apparently romney will talk religion tonight