does the tough talk add up? why all the talk about paul ryan as a possible vp for mitt romney. it shows huge interest and tell you why it s not going to happen. a developin story in louisiana where the earth is devouring trees stories tall and sending residents running for solid ground. let s go out front. . out front tonight, american loophole. today we got this e-mail. i printed it out. it s from the u.s. state department and it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. we thought hey, this is proof for how tough sanctions are. they are going after everybody. here s the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranians. the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. when we took a second look, buried deep in the
olympics. i don t know what to expect, frankly, but as i said, we re dying for ryan. romney s problem is bigger than any vice presidential nominee is going to be able to solve. whether it s paul ryan or tim pawlen pawlenty, he s going to pick someone safe and boring, i assume. if he picks paul ryan, maybe it shows courage in his part, but the reality is the republican party is beholding to the conservatives, the tea party group, the people who want to move the country in this radical right-wing direction. at some point, romney husbaas t suck up to the group and give them something. whether it s the convention, before the convention, he s beholding to the right wing. you have a lefty selling you on this. why can t you buy it? i just can t. the fact is, someone argued romney moved to the right and did all that to win the nomination, and he s supposed to tack back like democrats did in 2008. they had to go left to win the nomination and tack back to the center to win the election.
for the first time we ll see him in the potential short listers. fueling this speculation is a photo i believe you have there. mitt romney yesterday afternoon meeting with some of his very top advisers on the back deck of his home here. included in that meeting is his former chief of stab and the woman who s been deputized to lead the vice presidential search. romney says the only folks who knows who he s considering are himself and beth myers. the fact she traveled up from boston for this meeting with mitt romney has fueled the fires of speculation. if you look at the vp short list speculation, we have senator rob portman from ohio, who s also expected in the state, although not with mitt romney late they are week, for a fund raiser down in concord. and kristen mentioned two of the other sort of hot names on that short list, bobby jindal and tim pawlenty are doing romney s work, bracketing the president
on his bus tour. garrett haake, thank you so much, my friend. you bet. joined by ben wyche. thank you for being here today. thank you. let s jump off what was said by garrett. what s your thought as he sits down and has that heart to heart on perhaps who will be his running partner? are we expecting some sort of decision soon? i doubt it. you don t want to give the big pop before the convention. it will be closer than that. he ll go rob portman or tim pawlen pawlenty. he doesn t want to make a mistake there. he ll go with a safe, well-known name. tim pawlenty is high on the list. everybody likes him. they don t want a sarah palin, anybody who s going to freak anybody out. maybe bobby jindal. there s also marco rubio. david, to you on this, it s been said you can t win this election
let s talk about what kristen was mentioning to us, the president kicking off his bus tour tomorrow. pawlenty and jindal will bracketing with him and rob portman as well, traveling to new hampshire this weekend. no word if he ll be meeting with romney. where do we stand in terms of the what s the messaging we re looking for going forward as the president goes out there and tries to make the message, put the message out there, that romney is a jobs expovertier? of course, the message that the obama campaign has been pushing hard from the very beginning is attacking mitt romney s record at bain capital. and as controversial as that tactic has been from both republicans and democrats, most notably corey booker and bill clinton, that s really the lane that the obama campaign is staying in.