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We are back on "politics nation." you are looking at live pictures of the floor of the democratic convention in charlotte, north carolina. tonight the president is looking forward to hearing a fan favorite speak on that stage. >> whatever i say here today, it is going to be at best a distant second to the speech you will hear tonight from the star of the obama family, michelle obama. >> the first lady speaks after 10:00 p.m. eastern time. part of a night that democrats hope will be a strong pitc...

1,099. no crowds, no campaign. no press. they are just kicking back and practicing for next months debates. mr. portman is playing the role of president obama. this is unheard of in any presidential campaign. four years ago president obama and joe biden launched a four-state bus tour after their convention. george w. bush and john mccain toured the mud west after their convention. and bill clinton and al gore went on a thousand-mile bus tour after their convention. but paul ryan is not hiding ou...

>> has no record to run on. well, lets go through that a minimum. you might not agree now with the policies and you might not agree with the record but he has one. it includes he passed the affordable care act which was 100 years in the making. he rescued the economy from collapse. most sweeping wall street reform since the great depression. and he killed bin laden. rescued the auto industry, signed the led better fair pay act and ended the war in iraq, reformed the stun loan system. no record, ...

Some level. but the calculation there from romney, ryan people, is they -- ultimately want to vote obama out because of where the economy is and how economic anxiety is. they are looking for something they can tell themselves it will make it okay to vote him out. what paul ryan is offering there. again, im not sure that will be enough to win the election on but it is a -- testament to the power of how -- bad economy can hurt a president that that sort of strategy has the -- tie right now heading...

Effort to get back to work. that didnt happen. what they are trying to suggest is that i said that barack obama was responsible for a plant shutdown in jamesville. thats not what i was saying. read the speech. what i was saying is the president ought to be held to account for his broken promises. >> read the speech. we can do that. we also have this little thing called videotape. roll it. >> right there at that plant, candidate obama said i believe that if our government is there to support you,...

Character issue? we are not here just playing gotcha, once your start seeing this pattern, does this become a character issue for ryan in the campaign? >> i think they can use it. they got nominal traction out of it. but i think whats more important, more dangerous the fact there are a lot of americans who saw that speech and took it at face value. just believed it and now it is -- unfortunately for the president, incumbent upon him in house own speech to really go after those troops to talk abo...

A blank etch-a-sketch. the problems facing the country are so big -- the american people -- i think the consideration that they will come to is should we take a chance on someone who is a blank slate. compared to the guy thats in office now. >> i will have to leave it there. thank for your time tonight. be sure to catch steve on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. coming up, there he goes again. the marathon man. paul ryan running to new lengths to strength the truth. >> what the...

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