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General counsel was a huge advocate to come to tampa. we took into consideration the storms and all of that. look, the rnc has a plan. theyre coordinating the plan with the mayors office and the local officials here. theyll execute the plan for this contingency and theyll move on. >> you might have just looked at ft. walters beach, i believe it is, and walton beach on the other side. thats nice. we have people sitting there looking at it with their umbrellas, the sun shining. it would have been ...

Romney. this would be happening no matter who the republican nominee for president was. it was happening before the campaign. beyond romney, while theres nothing about birtherism that is necessarily about race, you can think another politician born in canada. there is at this point an enormous amount of evidence that some of whats going on in the reaction both positive and negative to obamas presidency is in fact about race. and yet, this is the one topic that obama frankly cant talk about anymo...

With our award winning apps that allow you to transfer funds, pay bills or manage your finances anywhere, anytime. so that wherever your duty takes you, usaa bank goes with you. visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. just one day before the official start of the republican convention, rnc chairman reince priebus laid out the partys goals for the convention. >> its incomant upon us to do two things. we have to prosecute the president whether he fulfilled the mission he laid ...

Jose voters, the same number that supported president obama in 08 vote the for measure b. reed got his victory the same day scott walker easily is survived a union led recall challenge. but the san jose democrat bristles at the comparison. >> lots of people tried to draw the parallel with san jose and wisconsin. it is not a good analcy. >> analogy. >> he says he wants to force the union to accept cuts while walker curtailed some of their bargaining rights. >> in san jose we negotiated with the u...

Jose voters, the same number that supported president obama in 08 vote the for measure b. reed got his victory the same day scott walker easily is survived a union led recall challenge. but the san jose democrat bristles at the comparison. >> lots of people tried to draw the parallel with san jose and wisconsin. it is not a good analcy. >> analogy. >> he says he wants to force the union to accept cuts while walker curtailed some of their bargaining rights. >> in san jose we negotiated with the u...

The fact of what he has promised and what we actually got. i cant say a whole lot about whether or not his policies are a failure because i think he missed an opportunity. he had the ability to execute and he spent most of his first year at least, trying to get everybody to agree-- this is more about results for you? >> its 100% about results? >> so, you think... vetting a president, though, on these important issues -- i just think it told us a lot about him. i was widely criticized. the pres...

The fact of what he has promised and what we actually got. i cant say a whole lot about whether or not his policies are a failure because i think he missed an opportunity. he had the ability to execute and he spent most of his first year at least, trying to get everybody to agree-- this is more about results for you? >> its 100% about results? >> so, you think... vetting a president, though, on these important issues -- i just think it told us a lot about him. i was widely criticized. the pres...

Gives his big send-off convention speech on thursday night, and thats, you know, a political figure whos very popular in florida. so democrats are hoping that the convention is such a freak show that it actually alienates the state of florida. i think florida will be close no matter what. >> of course perry the democratic national convention in charlotte, are they hoping that will help the president capture that state like he did in 08? >> they do. they want to use the convention as an organizin...

Here in the present now, no inflation problem, the head of the federal reserve was originally appointed by george w. bush and credited with having headed off a potential great depression in 08. and so what does the republican party want to do? well, according to a draft of the partys platform, they want another gold commission. to study whether or not we should go back to gold. you might dismiss this as meaningless capitulation to the delegates, but thats not what marcia blackburn says. she says...

Unlimited electricity in which wed end up with a ton of inflation. the other weird thing about this is in 1981 the country really was facing an inflation problem. it made sense that people would be looking for radical alternatives to help control inflation. today inflation is about as low as its ever been and weve come through a financial crisis in which the entire global economy might well have collapsed if the federal reserve hadnt stepped in as a lender as a last resort after the credit marke...