plan with obamacare repealed. but 2024 under president obama s. is that true? what is the solution to that? no. the same experts also say you can t spend the same dollar twice. you can t take it from medicare and spend it on obamacare and then pretend to deep it in medicare. you can t have it both ways and the president is being hypocritical on this. we re saying to leave medy care intact today. we ll borrow money but we can do that if we put reforms in place for the next generation to guarantee it s sustainable and solvent for them. what w very, very clear. don t change medicare benefit for people in or near retirement. but to guarantee promise of medicare for current retirees and those about to retire we need to reform it for your generation a my generation, bret. bret: democrats are accusing you to redefine rape. you cosponsored legislation to
against the medicare, you kno know, mediscare demagoguery of the democrats. bret: the romney campaign would take what i m going to say is this. that is one hole the democrats will keep up the fight. you might be right if they fight to a draw they win. this is not over yet. there are other polls that show what people perceive as the ryan medicare plan is enormously unpopular. so this is one poll, one sample. it doesn t mean they won the debate on medicare. we re not at the first of november or october 20 yet. that is a battle that is still going to continue to wage. bret: that is fair. steve, asking the question about ron paul. you heard the answer there. the outreach. this rnc tried to reach out with with planks in the platform. even before we got to the convention we had the courtship of ron paul going to the primaries. they have had a personal
ask congressman ryan what his biggest surprise has been so far as vice presidential candidate for him and his wife? it s been a lot less stressful and more fun than i anticipated. people said it would drain me. it actually energizes me. pleasant surprise. bret: congressman ryan, thank you very much for your time. good luck in your journey down here to tampa. we ll see you here at the convention center. all right, bret. see you later. congressman ryan. we ll air more clips from him. you heard what he had to say in that part. get reaction from senior political analyst brit hume. good evening. you sat down with congressman ryan in colorado. your thoughts? wonderful example of what is the ryan effect. look at the things that you an congressman ryan were discussing. you were in details of the tax plan, you were in detail of the medicare. and details of all the issues.
be comfortable with us. he s a friend of mine. i have seen him a long time in congress. bret: congressman paul ryan talking about congressman ron paul who has not endorsed mitt romney. he is here. his son rand paul endorsed him. talking about influence of ron paul and supporters. new poll out today is tracking a lot of other polls. romney up by one point. the romney-ryan ticket, 47/46. look at this. direction of the country, wrong track. 6 67%. this is an interesting one. who do you hand to do better job handling medicare? 45%, governor romney. president obama, 42%. this is a poll that over-samples democrats plus seven. bring in panel. steve hayes for weekly standard. a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer.
krauthammer. and mara liasson, national political correspondent of national public radio. mara you look at the polls and you saw paul ryan s performance. start with the interview. your thoughts? paul ryan is a fresh exciting face. the republican of the future. you can see why the party has been energized since romney put him on the ticket. he is responsible for a small bump. you call it really small, but a bump toward romney in the last few weeks. bret: which candidate do you trust to do a better job handling medicare? the thing that is interesting about that, democrats rejoiced when paul ryan was put on the ticket. they thought they had a juicy target because he wants to partially privatize medicare. they ran and attacked about it a lot. they ran ads. lo and behold it hasn t hurt the romney ticket. to neutralize the traditional historical advantage on the issue is an achievement.