mate, congressman paul ryan. i want to congratulate congressman ryan. i know him. i welcome him to the race. congressman ryan is a decent man. he is a family man. he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney s vision. but it s a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. cnn s athena jones is outside the rally. the president said the vision has something of the likes of fairy dust in it. reporter: it was a big 20 minute speech or so. the first public remarks we have seen from the president responding to romney s choice of congressman ryan. we don t know what he told the first fundraiser of the day which was closed to press completely. he says he likes paul ryan. they are trying to link romney to ryan s budget proposals which they say are radical and aren t good for ordinary people talking about slashing spending on programs and making changes to medicare and medicaid. he was trying to rev up the crowd as you mentioned. this was the event geared more towards young p
the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
the town of murfreesboro has roughly 10000, it has 140 churches and one mosque. and the title unwelcome the muslims next door comes what happened when the muslims who wanted to expand their mosque put up a sign. it was vandalized and someone that said not n welcome. what spiralledut of that was contentious fight that nearly tore the town apart that brought everything to a head and also a massive lawsuit. take a look. we as citizens we have families and we have children ii this community and we re trying to look o out for our future. we thank you for your love. reporter: kevin fisher has lived in muir mur borrow for 20 years. he s a corrections officer and single father. last may kevin was stunned to discover local officials had approved plans for a 53,000-square-foot islamic center in his hometown.
rising. i think part of it that time will play a role, but in addiumenon one of the things noticed in our documentary, when you talk to both sides, it s angry, angry fight. you say, have you sat down with the other side? have you sat down and had a conversation about your issues? both sides would say, no, no, we haven t. keep in mind, thiis a city of . 104,000 people. so i think to a large degree if you want to change any numbers, a dialogue is going to be the first step. you certainly gave us a great preview. looking forward to it. soledad, thank yo u. soledad o brien chronicles the dramatic fight over a construction of the mosque in the heart of the bible belt, it s caed unwelcome the muslims next door, sunday, 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. be sure to tune in. let s get caught up with some other top stories. in libya,nn c has confirmed jts rom qatar have joined the mission today. earlier british fighters bombed government tanks inositionjd to target ajdabiya. pro-gadhafi force