november. >> it was one against two for a while and now it's two against two. democrats are poking at ryan's record, specifically on the budget and on medicare. >> congressman ryan is doesn't believe in the medicare program. >> if any person has blood on their hands in regards to medicare, it's barack obama. there is a danger that the running mate may overshadow the actual candidate. >> i had that problem. and there will be no changing of the guard in london. team usa has won back-to-back gold medals. >> this is all about usa. it's not about me. it's about these three letters on our chest. >> the games of the xxx olympiad close, the u.s. earns the right to the gold olympians. >> we did it right. >> the strait of hormuz, the "uss porter" collided. no one was hurt. the miami dolphins release chad johnson after he was arrested in a domestic battery case involving his wife. an alligator handler is recovering after the animal he was showing bit down and pinned his arm. >> oh, my god, i didn't even know. it was the craziest thing to ever see. >> all that -- >> on the track, at the wall, leaps, and he makes the play! >> can i just say something? >> you are not answering. >> can i say something? >> you can answer. >> and all had a matters -- >> the winner of the pga championship, rory mcilroy. >> thanks dad, thanks mom. >> on cbs "this morning." >> who is your favorite spice girl? >> in this context i should say sporty spice, but many people are partial to posh spice, victoria beckham. >> now you're scaring me. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to cbs "this morning." charlie rose and gayle king are off. governor mitt romney's campaign is finding new energy and a new focus after saturday's announcement, but house budget committee chairman paul ryan will be his running mate. >> some officials from both parties are calling the wisconsin congressman a risky choice in part because of his controversial budget plan that includes overhauling medicare. chief washington correspondent bob schieffer asked romney and ryan about that in their first joint interview on sunday's "60 minutes." >> i have to tell you ""the miami herald"" has a banner headline across the front of it this morning that says ryan could hurt in florida because they're talking about medicare and what you were talking about. >> think about that. what paul ryan and i have talked about is saving medicare, is providing people greater choice in medicare, making sure it's there for current seniors. no changes, by the way, for current seniors or those nearing retirement, but looking for young people down the road and saying we're going to give you a bigger choice. >> reporter: you're going to have to do a little selling. >> our point is we need to preserve their benefits because the government promises them that they make sure that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. we think they are good reforms. they started from the clinton commission in the late '90s. and so in order to make that promise for those current seniors like my mom who is a florida senior, we need to reform it for the next generation. >> jan crawford is in st. augustine where governor romney will be campaigning later today. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning anthony and rebecca and to everyone in the west. that new ticket, romney and ryan, hits new swing states, north carolina and wisconsin. but this one, florida, well, this woun could decide it all. it was an emotional homecoming for paul ryan, a wisconsin congressman wiped away tears as thousands cheered the native son, now the republican nominee for vice president. >> my veins runs with cheese, bratwurst, and a little spot of miller. >> reporter: but it wasn't just in wisconsin. at every stop the rommneromney/ team overmroed. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice. [ applause ] yeah, i know i did. >> reporter: ryan's nomination refocused the race on substance and brought out a new energy in romney. >> mr. president, take your campaign out of the gutter. let's talk about the real issues that america faces. >> reporter: for his part the president welcomed ryan to the race and then returned fire. >> my opponent and congressman ryan and their allies in congress, they all believe that if we just get rid of more regulations on big corporations and we give more tax breaks to the wealthiest americans, it will lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody else. >> reporter: the obama campaign made its strategy clear, quickly trying to connect romney to ryan's plans to dramatically cut the budget, rein in spending, and reform medicare. >> it says something about mitt romney that he chose someone who has a budget that really would be the end of medicare as we know it. >>reporter: ryan's plan would replace the current system with a voucher program that critics argue could leave seniors paying more. but republicans were ready for the attacks saying they were trying to save medicare before it goes bust and blaming the president for medicare cuts. >> he stole $700 billion from medicare to fund obama care. if any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to medicare, it's barack obama. he's the one that's destroying medicare. >> reporter: now with a large number of seniors right here in florida, there is no state in this country where medicare will be harder fought. romney, of course, will be here later today but he and ryan have parted ways. they will not be campaigning again really until the republican convention at the end of the month. ryan is in iowa today, and then romney arriving here has an event later tonight down in south florida. >> jan crawford, thanks. as ryan begins campaigning in iowa, president obama is also on his way there. the president is starting a three-day bus tour of that swing state. earlier this morning we spoke with cbs news political director john dickerson who is also in st. augustine, florida, covering the romney campaign. >> reporter: to given with democrats seem excited about the pick as republicans. how tough a job do you think mitt romney has in framing his choice as a positive here? >> reporter: the challenge for romney is that ryan is not well known in these battleground states, and so there's a real race here for romney to define ryan and ryan to help define himself in a positive sense as an eideas man, someone with a mrab for the future. the battle is again for the obama campaign to get specific, to look at what ryan has proposed over the course of his career and argue why that shreds the social safety net. that's their view in the obama campaign and why, as we've been discussing, it harms medicare. >> john, where do you see ryan helping romney the most? >> reporter: well, the immediate help is with the republican base. now people will say but those republicans were going to vote against barack obama anyway, but the enthusiasm that we've seen in the last couple of days, the volunteers now coming out, are the lack of trouble that romney will now have with his base, that is taken care of so that's one thing that's already in the bank. the question going forward is whether ryan helps the romney campaign with catholics. he's a catholic, and that will help in the midwest and the battleground states in the midwest. they are arguing in the romney campaign that ryan with his middle class background is an end road to that group of voters, that crucial group of voters, whether he can help with the voters remains to be seen. >> john, how baying negative do you see him being in the swing states? bob schieffer made this point already in florida that ryan could hurt romney in florida because of this whole question of restructuring medicare. it certainly gives the democrats an opportunity to scare seniors citizens, doesn't it? >> reporter: it gives democrats a number of opportunities. now republicans would say they were going to take those opportunities anyway but it's different to attack republicans in general. now they've got specifics. they have a long record of paul ryan and there's going to be -- once you have a record, you can pick at that record and then you can tray and find distance between ryan and romney, put them on the defensive. in a political campaign talking about the specifics of medicare or any of these difficult policy issues can get ugly very fast for a campaign. the obama campaign hopes to make that a problem for romney. what romney, again, wants to do, though, is make this broader. say, look, we're in trouble. everyone knows we're in trouble. everyone knows and talks about entitlements for years and years but no one does anything. here is someone who does something. i have a plan and that's why we should be voting for. that's the romney argument. >> john dickerson, stay with us. with us is david axelrod, senior adviser to the obama campaign. good morning, mr. axelrod. >> good morning, anthony. >> you said over the weekend this was not a game changer, the announcement of ryan on the ticket. but this weekend huge crowds turned out to watch the team and the republicans have already raised several million dollars since the announcement. it seems like there's a lot of excitement coming out of there. >> well, there's no doubt that i think the appointment as john has said has thrilled the base of the republican party, the tea party republicans, the social conservatives because congressman ryan is a certifiable right wing ideologue so that excited them. that kind of excitement four years ago, anthony, when john mccain appointed sarah palin as well. there were huge crowds. much of the same kind of reaction, and i don't think it worked out very well. i think when the reality catches up with the moment, it's not going to be a plus for governor romney. >> well, a senior campaign dviser, what concerns you the most about mr. ryan? what do you see as his strength? >> well, i'm more concerned about him as an american. by the way, he's a very genial dp guy. i know him. i like him. i just don't like his views. i think they're dangerous views. i don't like the fact he was a rubber stamp in the last decade, the fact that he wants to bevell down on them. it was laughable last night to hear governor rom mi say that's his plan. i have my own plan. those plans are very similar. it's like a choice between for the middle class a choice between a punch in the nose and a knee to to the groin. both plans call for trillions and trillions of dollars of new tax cuts, to the wealthy, $250,000 tax cuts for the wealthy in the case of both of these plans, and higher taxes for the middle class when it all nets out. more burdens on seniors and students and, you know, this is not a prescription for a stronger economy. it's not a prescription for a stronger country. >> i want to bring john dickerson, our political director, back in. john has a question for you. >> reporter: david, you said that paul ryan is a certified right wing ideologue but on this question of medicare, someone he has worked with is wooiden of oregon 0. >> i note that he did not support the ryan budget plan including this medicare plan because he said it was badly skewed. so that's the one guy he trots out. you are talking about a guy who has a 96%, 97% voting record down the republican line. he's a leader of the tea party, the intellectual leader. he was one of the leaders in taking our country to the brink of default last summer because he wouldn't accept one extra dollar of taxes on the wealthy. and then when you go to social issues, he believes we should make abortion illegal even in the cases of rape and incest. he's a very, very much party.wing of the republican - he's a genial fellow but his views are quite harsh. >> mr. axelrod, you've said ryan's budget would end medicare as we know it but at the same time the president has cut $700 billion from medicare to fund his own health care plan. how is this any different? >> you know, anthony, you are repeating what is a misstatement by the republicans. i would call it a lie, the story of little red riding hood and grandma who said what big eyes you have. grandma should say what big lies you have in this case. we took that money and extended the length of medicare by eight years. that was part of the affordable care act. we expanded prescription coverage, seniors now get preventive care under that health care act, and we're going to take additional steps under the budget the president has proposed that would further extend the life of medicare. make no mistake about it, these republicans don't believe in medicare. they want to turn it into a voucher program and slowly all the burden is going to shift to seniors themselves, and that is not an answer to entitlement reform. >> all right. david axelrod and john di pdickerson, thanks. in our next half hour bob schieffer will be here to talk about that interview with governor romney and congressman ryan we'll hear more of the conversation including rye yap's response to a question about why the wealthiest are playing the lowest. the olympics are over after a grand finale in london and two gold medals for the united states. the u.s. won 104 medals in all, more than any other country that includes 46 gold medals, the most americans have ever won in the olympics held outside the united states. china finished second in total medals followed by russia, britain and germany and mark phillips is outside olympics stadium, the scene of last night's closing ceremony and, mark, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca, anthony. well, the closing ceremonies here are always going to have a problem and that was the opening ceremony. it was such a raucous, whacky treatment of british culture but always a hard act to follow. the response was to book just about every pop act in britain going back five decades including bringing back some from the dead. you knew you were in for an evening of mixed emotions when a fleet of glitzed up london taxis arrived and the spice girls got out to perform a medley of their hits. ♪ i'll tell you what i want what i really, really want ♪ >> reporter: the world may have decided about 15 years ago that what it really wanted was for the spice girls to stop, but the girl power they famously marketed was the theme of these games so why not? >> here comes the finish. >> reporter: and speaking of games there was the small matter of the final xe tigs to get through earlier in the day. the marathon was won by the surprising stephen kiprotich of uganda who nobody was set on. >> team usa and spain. >> reporter: and the u.s. men's basketball team who everybody had bet faced its winner showdown with spain. losing was not an option 0 for the u.s. anywnba stars but some forgot to tell the spanish stars. it was a one-point game going down to the wire until the u.s. pulled away. how do you spell relief? j-a-m-e-s. >> this is about the usa. it's not about me. it's about the three letters on our chests. we are happy 0 to represent our country in the right way and bring home the gold. >> reporter: and so the athletes assembled on the union jack flag for the games' conclusions. there were unexpected contributors who hadn't been seen for a while. ♪ >> reporter: john lennon's "imagine" was heard as his image appeared in picture form and then in a sculpture that exploded. resurrecting freddie mercury was stranger still, having the audience do a chant response to him bordered on creepy. e♪ after that the monty python bright side of life seemed like a moment of sanity. ♪ >> reporter: it only remained for the requisite thank yous. >> these were happy and glorious games. >> reporter: and the flag was passed to rio, olympic culture began the transition from british cool kitsch to the samba. whatever happens, they end the same way. the olympic morning after is always a strange and a little bit sad display, the circus leaves town. the great olympics distraction is over. instead of running to get concessions, instead of water polo. it was fun while it lasted. >> a forlorn mark phillips not a spice girls fan. mark, thank you very much. in afghanistan this morning, a policeman opened 0 fire on nato troops and afghan soldiers. nato says none of its soldiers were killed. this is the fifth attack on nato troops by a member of the afghan security forces in the past week. seven americans have died in those attacks. at least 300 people are now confirmed dead from this weekend's twin earthquakes in iran. this morning the search for survivors has been called off. the powerful quakes hit 11 minutes apart on saturday centered in northwest iran. at least 20 villages were totally destroyed and more than 3,000 were injured and some 16,000 people were left homeless. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's "guardian" says egypt's new president has forced out the country's defense minister and another top general. president mohamed morsi canceled the constitutional declaration that limited his powers. it's the latest move in the power struggle between morsi's moslem brotherhood and the egyptian military. "the wall street journal" reports google is cutting 20% of the staff at motorola. roughly 4,000 jobs, that's about two-thirds of the cuts that will be outside of the united states. google bought motorola in may. the asheville north carolina "citizen times" says billy graham is in the hospital for treatment of a bronchitis infecti infection. the 93-year-old evangelist is said to be alert.alert. it's his third hospital stay in a little over a year for respiratory problems. and "the arizona daily star" reports gabrielle giffords and husband mark kelly moved back home to tucson on sunday. for 17 months she had been living in houston to undergo intensive therapy after she was wounded by jared loughner this national weather report sponsored by mcdonald's. i'm lovin it. republican running mate paul ryan tells "60 minutes," president obama has no record to run on. and mitt romney does. >> it's a record of creating businesses and turning around struggling businesses. that's what we want to see happen throughout the country. why would -- bob schieffer talks about that interview and how ryan could affect the race in some key swing states. new trouble for the tsa. now more than 30 agents are accused of rampant racial profiling. john miller takes a look at the screening process that's report >> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by hey's kisses. delightfully delicious, one of a kind kisses. 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