and a spine of steel. vice president joe biden accepting his own nomination and calling his boss the defender of average americans for keeping general motors alive and making that osama bin laden call. good morning to you. welcome to early start. i m live at the midnight diner in charlotte, north carolina. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. would he head back to john in a moment, but first we begin with breaking news. a series of earthquakes hitting southwestern china killing at least 43 people. according to the u.s. geological survey urks the four quakes ranged from a magnitude 4.8 to 5.6. chinese media reports the quakes damaged more than 20,000 homes. we ll continue monitoring that situation for you and also overnight a 3.5 magnitude earthquake rattles west hollywood. it is the second this week that a quake hits southern california there. according to the u.s. geological survey, the epicenter was located two miles from west hollywood. damage has been reported a 3.2 magni
this mans has courage in his soul, compassion in his heart, and a spine of steel. vice president joe biden accepting his own nomination and calling his boss the defender of average americans for keeping general motors alive and making that osama bin laden call. good morning to you. welcome to early start. i m live at the midnight diner in charlotte, north carolina. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. would he head back to john in a moment, but first we begin with breaking news. a series of earthquakes hitting southwestern china killing at least 43 people. according to the u.s. geological survey urks the four quakes ranged from a magnitude 4.8 to 5.6. chinese media reports the quakes damaged more than 20,000 homes. we ll continue monitoring that situation for you and also overnight a 3.5 magnitude earthquake rattles west hollywood. it is the second this week that a quake hits southern california there. according to the u.s. geological survey, the epicenter was located two m
struck to convince laborers that he deserves a second term. it seems some in his own party need convincing on one important question. chief white house correspondent ed henry is travelling with the president in new orleans. [ applause ] reporter: president obama top allies are damned if they say yes and damned if they say no to this fundamental question hanging over the democratic national conventio convention. can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago? no, but that is not the question of this election. the question without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before george bush brought us the bush job losses, the bush recession, the bush deficit. reporter: after republican mitt romney campaign pounced on that, today, governor martin o malley did a 180. we are clearly better off as country because we re now creating jobs rather than losing them. we have not recovered all that we lost. reporter: the problem compounded
president obama stepped up his critique of mitt romney today. the centerpiece of mitt romney s entire economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut. he expects the middle class to pick up the tab to pay for it. one of the greatest ideas, something known as the ryan plan. governor romney wants a culture war. who shares your values? declare war on religion. go against their faith? what was he thinking? i m not exactly what the romney campaign is trying to accomplish. trouble in sherwood forest. why doesn t governor romney have the same kind of hold as the activist wing in his party that barack obama has. if he had been in massachusetts under romney s health care plan they would have had health care. to respond to this plan by citing health care in massachusetts? omg, this might just be the moment mitt romney lost the election. they all go crazy. if she isn t fired and off the campaign tomorrow i like being able to fire people. they saw there s goi
with bain. democrats and the obama campaign are intent on making him pay the full cost of this secrecy. mitt romney s secret tax returns are the subject of a just released tell advice ad from president obama s reelection campaign. did romney pay 10% in taxes? 5%? zero. we don t know. but we do know that romney personally approved $76 million of fictional losses in one of the largest tax avoidance rings in history. as for romney, he s still fighting the last battle, the battle he can never seem to win. the right wing is convinced he doesn t truly love them and want to be with him. ann coulter demanded he fire andrea saul for touting the romney health care law on fox news. they re still not over saul s remarks. we conservatives don t think the republican establishment knows what they re up against. the way to respond to that ad is not accept its premise. it scared me that they may not know what they re up against. mitt romney should fire his staff. remember the guy who