business dealings of his son hunter into the spotlight. this morning hunter biden spoke out about it taking a position on the board of a ukranian oil and gas company. you never thought, this might not look right? you know what, i m a human. you know what, did i make a mistake? well, maybe in the grand scheme of things, yeah. but did i make a mistake based upon some unethical lanpse? absolutely not. joining me is mike memoli. you ve spent years with the biden team, with the biden cam p scam pa campaign. how are they feeling about hunter s appearance ahead of the debate? and we should be clear what the biden campaign was hoping that the discussion would be around at tonight s debate is the former vice president s interests in drawing shaner contrasts with the person who is the co-frontrunner, elizabeth warren. we ve seen biden on the campaign
they were trying to show it in cam pa. they had wonderful character witnesses who didn t show up in crucial hour. instead it was the clint eastwood show that monopolized the water cooler discussion for three days. topical error and opportunity to miss. this is a dead heat. the bounce will wear off within a few days. now he has three chances to show a, large idea and that he cares. he is a guy who does. he should be able to show it. bret: a new bob woodward book out. we say that every once in a while. not too flattering for president obama. the first quote, it is a fact that president obama was handed a miserable faltering economy and faced recalcitrant republican opposition. they should work their will on the important matters of national business. obama has not. we go down to the review, of
americans, if we end medicare as we know it, make it avoucher system somehow this is all going to lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody. both sides now are feverishly accusing the other of mediscare tactics. romney will take a few days off the public campaign trail for fundraising and finance meetings leaving ryan to quarry the message for the g.o.p. ticket. he will spend the next two days in ohio. bret? carl cameron traveling with governor romney. carl, thank you. new jersey governor, chris christie will give the keynote address at the republican convention in cam pa. that is two weeks from tonight. he says he will tell direct and hard truths about the trouble the country is in. two nights later, florida senator marco rubio will have the honor of introducing mitt romney to the republican convention. rubio was on romney s vis presidential short list. the man who got the nod talked with our own brit hume today.
communicate to the country what a republican team would do and try senate and house candidates to sign up for a platform so people understand they are voting for real change. we don t just want not obama, we want to move washington back to conservative, limited got, implementing the tenth amendment to return power back home and hold series of steps that matter for america s future. this is something i ve done my whole career and i believe deeply in the importance of the party standing for something real. i will campaign from here to cam pa to see if every delegate, whoever it happens to be for, for president, i hope every republican delegate will agree they want a solid conservative platform, a platform to give us a signal where we take america this fall. sean: i am willing to everything you are saying. you have always been a guy of big ideas. if we don t adopt what you mentioned, put them in writing and give people that positive
communicate to the country what a republican team would do and try senate and house candidates to sign up for a platform so people understand they are voting for real change. we don t just want not obama, we want to move washington back to conservative, limited got, implementing the tenth amendment to return power back home and hold series of steps that matter for america s future. this is something i ve done my whole career and i believe deeply in the importance of the party standing for something real. i will campaign from here to cam pa to see if every delegate, whoever it happens to be for, for president, i hope every republican delegate will agree they want a solid conservative platform, a platform to give us a signal where we take america this fall. sean: i am willing to everything you are saying. you have always been a guy of big ideas. if we don t adopt what you mentioned, put them in writing and give people that positive