contributor, ed and julie. the republicans are saying, ed, it appears, that the democrats cannot stand on their record. you hear joe biden talking yesterday or today, and he thinks they can. it looks like they are going to be touting what they have done the past 3 1/2 years. whatever our impressions they will run their campaign. their impression will be to brag about what they can do. what they cannot do, they cannot put up leadership that is working because, obviously, most people don t think it is. what they have to do, then, it will be harder after the convention, you have to try and make mitt romney unacceptable alternative. people good a good impression of him as a significant leader, as a person would, basically, has great compassion for his fellow man, a great father, a great person who has had great success with whatever he has done. it is harder to knock that identity after you have seen him two or three days and watch all the testimony people have said about him. trace: an
obviously, that is what the campaign will be about. trace: ed and julie, thank you both for joining us. iran has seriously stepped up efforts to build nuclear weapons using on underground laboratory that is safe from most aerial attacks. that report is from the u.n. wax watchdog. they find iran has doubled the number of nuclear facilities and they covered up another nuclear site to hide it from spy satellites. iran leaders deny that saying the u.n. reports makes no technical sense. they deny building nuclear weapons a claim western nations simply do not boy. the new report could help fuel israel s calls for military strikes against iran, something u.s. officials have said they oppose, preferring harsh economic punishment, instead. we will bring in former state department official.
promise. we cannot forget that, the fact that he promised to remove u.s. troops from iraq, as you noted two years ago he was here noting the end of combat operations. that did not stop mitt romney from hitting the president hard on national security. take a listen. i will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. president obama starts with a tour apology. he offered braise to the president for bin laden raid. trace: the president is pushing back hard a what governor romney left out of last night s speech. the obama campaign stunned that mitt romney did not mention the war in afghanistan which, obviously, is still a hot war going on right new.
it takes a month or a month and a half to present with symptoms. this is one of the things where who knows who you got it from and you do not present for a month and a half, it is frightening. guest: it is frightening. if people leave the national parks, particularly yellowstone and become sick, they should tell their doctor they have been had and they could have been supposed to hantavirus. trace: now we are reading there are 1,600 cases of west mile and 66 people have died. it surprises me but you are saying the numbers do not surprise you. why? guest: well, west nile is always a surprise because it is a new virus in this hemisphere. it is complex ecosystem. the virus is in the birds, it gets in the mosquitoes and the mosquitoes boat us. the interaction of the birds and mosquitoes determine how much west nile we are going do have and in what parts of the country. the drought may have made it
reporter: it is interesting at the time warner cable arena crews had seven weeks to put this together from an nba arena to a state-of-the-art convention facility so they released this video showing the crews hard at work. there is fine tuning going on both the crews setting up the convention and the technical crews who are going to be broadcasting it live, including some of our finest people, and the bottom line, when the convention is over, they got three weeks to put things back the way they were so the charlotte bobcats can start the season. the recent polling suggests that presid biden have work to do here in the state of north carolina. polling here suggests that this state is a battleground neck an neck. trace: and the bobcats have their own work to do. we now have campaign