they want. but it don t mean you re going to come in here and do this in rutherford county. it s my right as an american citizen, to have a place of worshi worship. murfeesboro is kind of a small-big town. it s a beautiful place where a family can live and grow and be a part of a community. very loving community. we love murfeesboro, and we love it for the most part, the way it is, and the way it has bee been. it doesn t matter what religion you are or what race you are, whatever, the people here are so welcoming. talk to the residents of people of murfeesboro, tennessee and they will tell you the strength of their city lies in its close-knit community and strong religious faith. the city has 104,000 people. more than 140 churches. and one mosque. for decades, muslims have lived and prayed alongside their neighbors. but in june 2010, their place in the community was questioned, exposing a growing fear of islam in america, ten years after the attacks of 9/11. we
i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in cnn newsroom, we are focusing on paul ryan, mitt romney s choice for vice president. i want to get right to it. paul ryan campaigns today as the number two man on the republican ticket and the man with the plan to remake medicare and medicaid and other programs. critics say it is a plan that will make things worse for the poor and the middle-class. we will also tell you about ryan s personal story and his personal experience. we will examine key parts of the budget plan and the proposed changes to medicare and medicaid. president obama comes out swinging against mitt romney running mate, and the obama campaign calling paul ryan s budget proposal radical. the president says it is the wrong vision for the country, and in iowa a couple of minutes ago, he blasts romney team s economic plan. what is holding us back right now is washington politics. you ve got folks on the other side who think that compromise is a dirty word. and whose main
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. happy sunday. i m randi kay. it s 7:00 on the east coast, 4:00 a.m. on the west. thanks for starting your morning with us. off and running, the newly formed republican ticket of mitt romney and paul ryan now on the second day of a bus tour that will take them across key battleground states. after kicking thinks off in virginia the pair is now in north carolina. later they ll make a special appearance in ryan s home state of wisconsin for an evening rally and then they ll head their separate ways for campaign events tomorrow. and we re getting new insights about a pairing that they hope will help republicans take back the white house. they spoke on their plane on the way to north carolina. for us it s a campaign of ideas in a direction for america, what s america going to be, what kind of nation is it going to be, how are we going to help people across this country have a better futuring having two people talk a
party bona fides sent him to washington and ryan is from his home state of wisconsin which leads me to my first question is does this change the mix in wisconsin? can you see republicans picking it up? they are now behind when you look at the polls in wisconsin. can paul ryan pull his own state into the romney column? good morning, candy. listen, i think wisconsin s always been in play. we turned wisconsin red in november 2010 because of president obama s policies, because of obama care, people didn t like that, being jammed through, entirely bart san basis. people also understand in wisconsin, we are pretty fiscally conservative here. people have the common sense notion that government should live within its means and as wisconsinites see this president spend our nation into debt, you know, burden our children, grandchildren with $5.3 trillion worth of added debt during this his administration, that scarce them so, again, we turned the state red in november 2010. i don t
romney s conservative credentials and shows he s serious about economic change. romney will make his announcement in the battleground state of virginia. the military city of norfolk, aboard the uss wisconsin. event kickoff his campaign bus tour with his new running mate, a little more than three weeks before the republican national convention. we have complete coverage leading up to this dramatic announcement. candy crowley is here, gloria borger is here, john king is here, jim acosta is in nor folk. brianna keiler is at the white house. john let me start with you, a lot of us taken by surprise about this bold decision. a lot of us thought it would be somebody less controversial. tim pawlenty or rob portman the ohio senator. he decided to go bold. he decided to go bold. number one you have to give him credit not endorsing his pick, but somebody that will overshadow him. he s at the center of the debate about the budget. it s risky. he s 42 years old. he s a house member. so