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Jack kemps think tank and later an aide to senator sam brownback. in 1997, ryan won the congressional election for wisconsins first district and is now serving in his seventh term. scott, we have talked about sort of potential weaknesses as mitt romney and his team go forward in this election season. one of the things that mitt romney has talked ad nauseam about is his executive experience, something paul ryan has nothing of. the other thing of course is mitt romney blasting government as sort o...

>> from now on, were going to look for a brighter fuehrer. were going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris...

Perceived as being president. whether hes got the executive experience. its the case that the presidents greatest sense of confidence in going after mitt romney in the fall. resolves around these changes. of spending. theres no doubt thats where the president is going to go after him. the democrats will have to make those arguments more. but i dont think thats relevant to the question of whether he will or should pick him. >> lets get to the subsequent question. i think we ought to get there eve...

Ran for the house of representatives once and got beat, then ran for senator from illinois, and his opponent withdrew partway through the race because somebody had leaked some information on a divorce proceeding. >> sean: i wonder who. >> i dont know who. it came out of chicago. so there was -- i swore him in as he came in. thats what vice presidents do, swear in new senators. then he disappeared for two years. never heard anything of him while he was a member of the united states senate. then a...

Ran for the house of representatives once and got beat, then ran for senator from illinois, and his opponent withdrew partway through the race because somebody had leaked some information on a divorce proceeding. >> sean: i wonder who. >> i dont know who. it came out of chicago. so there was -- i swore him in as he came in. thats what vice presidents do, swear in new senators. then he disappeared for two years. never heard anything of him while he was a member of the united states senate. then a...

Vote and thats governor jeb bush. hes been a governor. and governor romney said he wants someone who has been a governor. or with that executive experience. but hes married to a hispanic woman, born in mexico. he speaks spanish. what do you think about those two? >> neither of them would be good. jeb bush would be too close to the bush administration. it would then become a reverendoum george w. bush. we lost that in 2008 and there is no point rerunning it. i think in the future, jeb could be a ...

Vote and thats governor jeb bush. hes been a governor. and governor romney said he wants someone who has been a governor. or with that executive experience. but hes married to a hispanic woman, born in mexico. he speaks spanish. what do you think about those two? >> neither of them would be good. jeb bush would be too close to the bush administration. it would then become a reverendoum george w. bush. we lost that in 2008 and there is no point rerunning it. i think in the future, jeb could be a ...

its a trip designed to make him look presidential, but the headlines mitt romney is generating in london would make any white house cringe. his campaign is doing damage control after british news media seized on a remark romney made questioning londons readiness for the olympics. cnn national correspondent jim acosta is in london for us. jim, whats happening now with mitt romney? >> reporter: candy, mitt romney woke up to headlines he did not anticipate when he embarked on this oversea...

Stim tim bills. and this is a presidency that had a lot of trouble because he didnt have the necessary executive experience to understand how it workings. he cant blame the republicans because he cant get it through the democratic congress. he hasnt had a budget that got a vote. >> gretchin: i was surprised by that comment, governor. the whole campaign was hope and change and how he would be a transformational president and do it low than anyone had before quite frankly that is why people voted ...

Obama and im more inclined to vote for gary johnson, but i wanted to ask you, do you think that romney is the real champion of change that this country needs? >> i think he will be a very different president from president obama because hes managed in the public and private sector. my big problem and disappointment with barack obama is not just partisan. you know, i actually celebrated that-- i was glad that i lived to see this country elect a person of color to be president. i said it on this v...