republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan met the nation for the first time at the republican convention. it was his big night. in his national debut, ryan wasted no time playing the blame game over the economy. abc s karen travers is live in tampa. good morning to you, karen. reporter: good morning, rob, good morning, diana. on tuesday night, we heard all about mitt romney. last night it was all about president obama. leading the charge, paul ryan who fired up the crowd with some very feisty attacks. paul ryan s national debut, and he got a rock star welcome. hello, everybody. reporter: nearly a quarter of americans don t have an opinion yet of mitt romney s running mate. the 42-year-old seven-term congressman introduced himself. i live on the same block where i grew up. reporter: and he made a sales pitch. after four years of getting the runaround, america needs a
missouri and isolated tornadoes possible. and tomorrow we re looking at a more widespread severe weather where we will get much of the needed rainfall, southern nebraska down to central portions of texas. once again, large hail, strong wind gusts and isolated tornadoes possible. as it heads eastbound, cooler air from the west move eastward. as we head through sunday, warmer air pushing east with once again another warm day, but cooler air is going to head east. gregg: thanks very much. heather: beautiful day today. gregg: it truly is. heather: at least in new york it is. julian assange may be under arrest but he is setting his sights his future on politics. where he plans for running for office. gregg: politics and the pump. they are playing the blame game
he is a charming person. what are do you think about the blame game over the last 24 hours? the team that blamed the romney team and now everyone seems to be walking back a little bit from some of their blame? remember when this story first broke, and his campaign tried to say it was a vast left wing experience of racist who is were afraid of a strong independent black conservative and we find out that it s either the perry campaign or the romney campaign or some nepharious party trying to do him harm. that makes me wonder what ann coulter has to say since she was about all blacks are better than their blacks and that s why herman is in the mess he is in. it s because of himself. you know that msnbc s blacks
a ton of money. this hour, how he s dealing with the new messes that the country simply can t afford right now. and from the seat of power to an iron cage in a courtroom, the ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. sort of vacation right now, they re on leave while tens of thousands of american workers are going without a paycheck because of their inaction. a lot of new anger and fingerpointing over the partial shut down of the federal aviation administration. senators went on break yesterday without extending the agency s funding. today the president is urging them to get back to work and solve this expensive and very embarrassing problem. let s begin our coverage this hour with cnn s ted rowlands joining us live from chicago s o hare airport. this is an outrage, ted, what is it like out there? well, wolf, people around the country are absolutely disgusted
feinstein, good to see you. coming up next, former defense secretary, donald rumsfeld, playing the blame game over iraq. and later, talking exclusively to california congresswoman jane harmon. power of dawn. right in the eraser. oh-h, look at the bubbles. bottle 1: that s the race car of erasers. bottle 2: it is, it s the erase car . is there a pit stop in this guy s future? this is unbelievable. he helps remove three times more greasy kitchen mess per swipe. well, i think he wins this race. oh man, look at him go. if i had hands, i d throw in the towel. yeah, things aren t what they used to be. mr. clean magic eraser kitchen scrubber. ever wish vegetables didn t taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gives you a full serving of vegetables, plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what s your number? curtis: welcome back to geico gecko: caller steve, go right ahead.