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Writing team is being called into an emergency meeting. did you think it was that powerful? the. >> i did. i had a year 2000 convention feeling. i remember at that time as a younger press secretary on capitol hill. we load george w. bush, my friend and i. i know people dont like that conservative compassionate conservative label but i did feel like it spoke to me. when he gave that speech that night, i thought we are going to win. this is the new republican party. this is who i feel like im a pa...

People carrying what they can. people trying to get out or get to their houses. no deaths but the that the people really suffering without power and air conditioning and stranded in their houses or on the road looking at their houses. back to you. megyn: steve harrigan, wow, that is quite a sight were looking at. stay state. growing complaints and praise over the rnc speech by paul ryan last night. he received applause for his attacks, but up next, we will see whether he connected with his perso...

The storm will move upwards north at a quicker break. much of arkansas the threat for heavy rain and severe weather. a big bulls-eye of 4-8 inches of rain across parts of iowa, illinois and indiana. a lot of this area obviously is under so much drought so the rain is good but they will get so much so quickly well have flooding threats far inland from where isaac came onshore. megyn: rick, thank you. what he says hours from now will influence an election that could affect generations of americans...

Thank you and god bless you all. thank you. megyn: here was a great speech. chris wallace, you are on the press floor last night. describe the crowd and the reaction to paul ryan versus anything else you have seen at the convention. >> there were a couple of magic malkins. and romney speech was. condoleezza rices speech, early last night, and then paul ryan, they were in every word. i thought ryan was a little nervous in the beginning, clearing his throat a little. but about five or 10 minutes i...

Every speech that mitt romney gives flows from his own pen and heart. there are people who make contributions and ideas come in summer excepted and others are discarded. but he had a good text when he arrived on tuesday. he has been practicing and he knows this is a big moment. one thing we know about mitt romney is that he always rises to the occasion. megyn: is there anything special or different about going to see versus the stump speeches that weve seen from him? >> i think youll hear him ta...

1960s to try and defeat barry goldwater. somehow its the require, somehow its business. thats the problem with the world today. we just tax more, have more government. well be able to solve the problems. my father goes on in that speech to say you would think at some point they would give us a scorecard to show how well they are doing. they never give you a scorecard because you wont want to see the scorecard and today we are living it. megyn: your dad is talking about the fatman and the thinman...

>> they certainly did. certainly the individuals who spoke and the two women you just had on were extraordinary speakers and extraordinary achievers in this life. i mean, i have heard condi rice many times and been in many meetings with her. i never heard a more eloquent speech ever than the one she gave last night. susana martinez is a future star of this party and mike huckabee and others who were on before that all have made it. they didnt come from wealth. they worked hard and achieved great...

[laughter] i think condoleezza rice is one of the most compelling figures in american politics today. and i really appreciate the tone and tenor of the speech last night. i think she is clearly an american patriot and i want to say hats off to her for a great effort. i just dont agree with a lot of what mark said. i think if you look at the world today, we are clearly in a much safer place than we were when barack obama took office. we are seeing a transition. a critical and important transition...

Apart. in some ways, we are different. there are the songs on his ipod, which i have heard on the campaign bus. [laughter] >> i have heard it on many hotel elevators. [laughter] [applause] he actually urged me to play some of the songs of the campaign rallies. i said look, i hope its not a dealbreaker, but my list starts with ac/dc and ends with led zeppelin. megyn: that was a funny moment. but it also showed that he could make fun of mitt romney and will we see any of that for mitt romney tonig...

The budget and he got that unemployment rate down 4.7%. we have not seen 4.7% unemployment in massachusetts in january 2007 when mitt romney left. megyn: paul ryan talked about that. about how that happened in the state a the divided party leadership. it wasnt a state in which he had an all republican legislature to deal at. >> he had to govern in a very difficult, political environment but i think what characterizes mitt romneys leadership is that he is willing to work across the aisle to get t...