larger frozen zone. it is the area on lock down, it was gigantic around the tampa bay times forum. it is less restricted here. gretchen: it is indeed . i have seen the protestors get nose to nose, but that didn t happen in tampa chris: it happened a block from here. i watch today and we didn t allow this to happen. it was better. brian: mr. mayor, i thought about you. people say we got to help everybody. you are the one, mayors and governors saying where is the money for the programs? you can have a great objective if we tax too high people leave f. we discontinue and can t run in deficit. what are your thoughts when people talk about giving back? there is no give and waste. we can t kick the can down the road and push debt out.
to. here s everything you need to know about the last five days in tampa in the next five minutes. it all started on monday, except then it immediately stopped. hurricane isaac showed up at the convention, and all the hot air blowing around inside the tampa bay times forum was no match for the storm s 80-mile-per-hour winds. so after officially opening the convention, republicans declare it had adjourned until tuesday. and that s when the party really started. the heavy hitters took to the stage tuesday evening when we heard from rick santorum, scott walker and kelly ayotte, among others. and if you were a republican of color and speaking on tuesday, you were most likely crammed into one big hour of republican diversity that included former representative and former democrat davis, south carolina governor nikki hailey and texas senate candidate ted cruz. but ann romney s speech tuesday night pushed pause on policy and politics for a moment. her speech exposed the soft and
campaign malpractice. it was crazy. it was a bad move. i wrote a piece earlier this afternoon that said what would have been so much better was to have was to get rid of clint eastwood altogether. have marco rubio give his fine speech and have the end set up the video. then have the video played which i agree with you was incredibly effective. i thought it was powerful and really did show you aspects of mitt romney that you ve never seen before. could you imagine mitt romney coming on to the stage at the end of that video? the roof would have been blown off the tampa bay times forum if that had happened. and they didn t do that. they squandered a major opportunity. and by the time he gave his speech and the balloons fell, really, the enthusiasm in the convention hall was just not there. it felt like the kind of, you know, a party you would go to for a coworker that you kind of
former governor of arkansas, mike huckabee delivering a speech on the floor. he says, now he wallows in the mud of the media. he happens to be our colleague here at fox newschannel. he meant you. is that right. well, you are watching live coverage of the republican national convention. here at the tampa bay times forum. i m bret baier. i m megyn kelley. coming up, former secretary of state, condoleezza rice, also new mexico governor, suzanna martinez and the headliner of the night, vice-presidential candidate, paul ryan. let s get the perspective from the floor, chris wallace is at the podium position, near the floor with more. hi, chris. reporter: interesting night. let me give you a preview of the two big speakers. condoleezza rice, as you mentioned, secretary of state under president george w. bush. we will go after obama s foreign policy, saying that this country
martha: that is the tampa bay times forum, folks, and that is where it will all happen tonight. governor romney will accept his party s nomination. it has been a long road for him to this moment and it happens this evening at the republican national convention. welcome, everybody. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning yet again as we roll onto a second day here in tampa. it s our final day here and we pick up coverage on sunday in charlotte, south carolina. safe to say paul ryan had them at hello yesterday, don t you think. martha: absolutely. you were talking about the tears in the eyes of the women in the front row of the wisconsin delegation. bill: all the conventions i ve covered i didn t see anything like that before. he moved them, he had them right where he wanted them last evening, here. martha: it was a schoo solid