misleading. it was a really wrong speech. it s not because you can t make a truthful attack on obama or even that ryan hasn t done it previously. it s just somehow in the architecture they built in the campaign the truthful attack doesn t work. and that s not a good sign in how they ll govern. it s not separate from their message to the people. that is a very eloquent and i think incredibly substantive and important point to make, ezra, and i think to some degree we re all implicated in this. i am, too. it s a good speech, but not true. we can focus on the fact paul ryan did a great job for mitt romney last night but what is actually moving the country forward? putting forward falsities and inaccuracies and prescriptions for the american country? richard, what did you make of paul rye wrap an in terms of th romney/ryan ticket? well, there are lots of ironies about this. you play the clip before, he said the president is extraordinarily silent about his record. well, i haven t h
marco rubio will be andrea mitchell s guest at 1 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. mitt romney is taking his economic message directly to the hispanic community n about an hour, he will address the national association of latino elected and appointed off wases in lake buena vista, florida h romney has struggled to clarify his response to president obama s decision to let younger illegal immigrants stay in the u.s. joining me now anna lopez buck with the national association of hispanic journalists. good morning. good morning. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said that republicans should wait to hear what romney has to say to respond to the obama executive order. today, at this meeting, romney is only expected to touch on immigration. he is mostly going to be talking about the economy. do you think that is a mistake? i don t think that is a mistake. he should be talking about commit, because that is a priority for the latino community. immigration is important. but the economy i
mitt romney just hired john bolton s former spokesman in the u.n. as his spokesman on the campaign for national security issues. and you see a toughening ratcheting up of we need to be tough and president obama is weak by talking about leaving kind of stick. when you talk about that being a flank within the romney campaign, it was point of interest when he first announced who hiss for ren policy advisors would be and so many associated with the george w. bush administration and there were so many. he announced dozens of foreign policy advisors, do you think is there an internal dynamic in th romney campaign in being more hawkish and others doing the opposite. to be fair to romney, the day he gave the announcement of advisors, he gave a speech at the citadel, he laid out his strategic vision i thought was pretty in kuwait.
breaking news. the american embassy in kabul, afghanistan, coming under fire in an intense attack. word out of iran, the two american hikers convicted of espionage could soon be free. let s go ahead and start with the bold attack on america s signature presence in a war-torn country. rockets and machine gun fire aimed directly at the american embassy in kabul. gunfire coming from every corner of the building. take a listen. and we re now being told that it was a well-coordinated attack. i want to bring some more information straight from a man that i m going to talk to now. he s actually taken governor there in the embassy. i have known him for a long time. he works at the embassy and has been in afghanistan about five years now, but for security reasons, we are not going to identify him. can you hear me okay? i sure can, kyra. good morning. good morning. i sure appreciate you calling in. it seems a little quiet behind you now. when i talked to you earlier, i could actu