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the state fair and at one point protesters tried to climb on stage. they was dragged off by police. president obama is doing everything he can to link romney to paul ryans controversial budget plan. he turned down the lure of face baked d cinnamon roles for pork and a beer. listen. >> i am told that governor romneys new running mate, paul ryan, might be around iowa the next few days. he is one of the leaders of congress standing in the way. if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell h...

we know who the keynote speaker will be later this month at the republican convention. it is chris christie. cnn political director mark preston is joining us live from washington this morning. jo berman and were talking about how similar, we have chris christie and paul ryan, one of the similarities, theyre both tough talkers. is this a surprise pick do you think? >> not at all. this has been long rumored, certainly over the past couple of months. if chris christie was not going toe t...

stage. they was dragged off by police. president obama is doing everything he can to link romney to paul ryans controversial budget plan. he turned down the lure of face baked d cinnamon roles for pork and a beer. listen. >> i am told that governor romneys new running mate, paul ryan, might be around iowa the next few days. he is one of the leaders of congress standing in the way. if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and our rural comm...

republican convention. it is chris christie. cnn political director mark preston is joining us live from washington this morning. john berman and were talking about how similar, we have chris christie and paul ryan, one of the similarities, theyre both tough talkers. is this a surprise pick do you think? >> not at all. this has been long rumored, certainly over the past couple of months. if chris christie was not going to be the vice presidential pick, he was going to get a key speakin...

So the romney campaign has to make a decision. does it want to have essentially a medicare campaign going forward? and i would imagine that might be very perilous for them. >> jennifer, let me show you what eric erickson responded to romneys spokesperson andrea sauls comments this week. he tweeted omg this might just be the moment mitt romney lost the election. wow. i have a question for you. the folks that ive talked about on the right thus far, whether its eric erickson or limbaugh or coulter,...

it will be nip and tuck until november. that election day may turn into a long election night. all that may turn out to be true. over the past few days, three major polls not tracking polls, have shown president obama with a lead of between seven and nine points. and one sure sign the romney campaign believes the polls mean trouble came when an unnamed romney adviser said polls dont matter. thats what you say when youre behind. one way republicans can even things out is making it harde...

not likely. wait until after the conventions to have sustained movement in the polls. >> and governor, the polling data was just released. but it means that those polls were out in the field a couple days ago. if not longer. i cant think of anything thats transpired in the last week to ten days that could account for this sort of a swing, can you? >> well, i think the biggest, most important number is in the cnn poll. 64% of the people polled said that they didnt think -- they thought ...

stepping down. thompson will leave the organization next month. brinker will surrender her ceo title to focus on fundraising, focus on planning, and this is the latest fallout from komens decision earlier this year, a couple months ago, to stop funding planned parenthood, a decision reversed after quite a bit of backlash and in a couple minutes well talk politics behind todays shakeup with laura bassett, the huffington post reporter that broke the story. >> we can soon find out the min...

does anybody believe hes out there looking for someone to share the burden and grander of office? does anybody believe romneys the kind of guy to share the decision making power of the presidency? so what does he want? someone to help win the election, obviously. someone to get him a state hes unlikely to get otherwise. perhaps portman of ohio or rubio of florida. someone to offset his rich guy stiffness and remoteness. then pick a regular middle class guy like pawlenty of minnesota. h...

cancer and presumably everyone else living outside massachusetts could benefit from such a program. he wants people no matter where they live in this country to have a state-driven health care plan. its a rarity in modern politics. a stunning declaration. what we expected to be true and now for the first time in the campaign a candidate openly confesses, romney long ago said he saw his massachusetts health care plan as a model for the country. now his campaign spokesperson is trumpetin...