0 big storm bearing down just a week before the election. folks, we have our october surprise. its name is sandy. good morning from cincinnati. 11 days till election day, friday, october 26th, 2012. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd and i m still living on the air in cincinnati. so let s get right to my first read. president obama wrapped up a 48-hour, 8-state battleground blitz in cleveland late last night and with a hoarse voice went after a message he s been dealing all week long. romney s trustworthiness. trust matters. you know what, ohio, after all these years, you now know me. you know that i mean what i say. and almost the exactly same moment 150 mys west mitt romney took the starj in one of the great names in battleground politics, defiance, ohio, and he borrowed a page from the president s 2008 page book calling himself the president of change. this is a time when america faces big challenges. we have a big election and we want a president who will actually br
standing outside in the dark for no reason. no, for very good reason. depending on how you look at it. good morning to you. welcome to early start i m zoraida sambolin. people are bracing for protests over a french cartoon that offends the profit muham d muhammad. several embassies are closed. demonstrations intensified from iran to afghanistan to pakistan. in that country, the u.s. is starting to air an ad denouncing the controversial film innocence of muslims. good morning. reporter: good morning, john. we expected to see protests in pakistan today. we didn t expect to see them this early. it s what happened. they started early, violence in the northwest city. protesters mostly teenagers setting afire two cinemas. hospital officials telling us at least two dozen people injured in the fatality. the driver of a news van shot to death. that s the violence we have seen already. there could be more to come. in pakistan, deepening concern for an explosive day of pro
it. good morning to you. welcome to early start i m zoraida sambolin. people are bracing for protests over a french cartoon that offends the profit muham d muhammad. several embassies are closed. demonstrations intensified from iran to afghanistan to pakistan. in that country, the u.s. is starting to air an ad denouncing the controversial film innocence of muslims. good morning. reporter: good morning, john. we expected to see protests in pakistan today. we didn t expect to see them this early. it s what happened. they started early, violence in the northwest city. protesters mostly teenagers setting afire two cinemas. hospital officials telling us at least two dozen people injured in the fatality. the driver of a news van shot to death. that s the violence we have seen already. there could be more to come. in pakistan, deepening concern for an explosive day of protests. for the second friday in a row, hard line religious groups called for anti-western demonstration
nominee-to-be, timmy baldwin in the fall. despite denials like this one the address? i have got nothing like that. it is now official, my colleague, jamie gangel reported a month ago, new jersey governor chris christie will deliver the keynote address at the republican convention in tampa. the new jersey governor told usa today that he plans to make an emphatic argument on behalf of republican approaches and shared sacrifice to face the nation s biggest challenges. apparently already on the fourth draft of his speech, he says, grinding away on it. well with the romney/ryan ticket set, governor of new jersey tapped for the keynote address, republicans are full steam ahead forth big event at month s end. the man in charge of putting it all together is reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee. mr. chairman, good morning. bright and early from colorado, right? hey, chuck.
entertaining a plum role for governor chris christie and senator marco rubio also nabs a key slot. them matically you can the face of a party that romney now wants to sell. and kay bailey hutchison sits down for her exit interview today, part of our week long series with the departing senators. good morning from washington it is tuesday, april 14, 2012 august 14, 2012. my apologize. this is the daily run down. i m chuck todd it is august, april, it is the as. go right to my first reads of the morning, battleground blitz. the race to define paul ryan turns to five swing states today, the president is in iowa, mitt romney, ohio, biden will campaign through virginia while ryan stops in colorado before heading to las vegas, nevada, where he will give a private briefing, by the ways, to republican donors and raise some money at the venetian hotel. republican meg ga donor sheldon adelson will be there as well. the two national tickets seem to share one goal right now which is