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The base, satisfy their appetite, get after paul ryan, get after the republicans, be more aggressive, fight back against what the republicans put forward that isnt necessarily true that doesnt jibe with the realities of whats happening around the world and around this country and especially in the economy. the president has said he was too polite. advisers intimate hes going to be more aggressive obviously. but still, joe biden is joe biden. hes the regular guy. joe six-pack from scranton. presi...

Has stopped in -- vice-president biden spent friday meeting voters in wisconsin. president obama does not have any scheduled public events today. the ratings are in. more than 50 million people watched the vice-president debate this week which is nearly 20 million viewers than the debate four years ago between joe biden and sarah palin. but excluding 2008, nielsen said this debate has more viewers than any vice president debate since 1994. meanwhile the fight for bragging rights over the vic...

Middle-clationz tax cut because they say we wont continue the middle-class tax cut unless you give the tax cut to the super wethy. its about time they take responsibility. >> martha: mr. ryan. >> joe and i are from similar towns. hes from scranton, pennsylvania, im from wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate is in scranton? >> i sure do. >> 10%. and when you came in, 8.5%. thats how it is going all around america. >> thats not how its going. it is going down joo. >> martha: this is his t...

With american people. almost uncontrolable. i have a funny feeling that is going to be the story of the debate. but frank luntz thank you to everybody there. we appreciate peoples input and thoughtfulness. tell everybody thank you. the chairman of the republican national committee will join us. right here as continue in the spin room. and our own juan williams goes one on one with jason chafits with us. here in danville kentucky and were glad youre with us. >> joe and i from similar towns. hes f...

With american people. almost uncontrolable. i have a funny feeling that is going to be the story of the debate. but frank luntz thank you to everybody there. we appreciate peoples input and thoughtfulness. tell everybody thank you. the chairman of the republican national committee will join us. right here as continue in the spin room. and our own juan williams goes one on one with jason chafits with us. here in danville kentucky and were glad youre with us. >> joe and i from similar towns. hes f...

Uncomfortable at times. would you have liked to see joe biden smile less? >> have you ever seen joe biden? joe biden is one of kind. bill: i have known joe biden for many, many years, sir. >> right. that is the great thing. joe biden exactly who and what he is. a lot of people in politics are freeze-died and, poll tested. that is not joe biden. joe biden is a guy from scranton who has been a single dad. who raised his kids and, has a huge heart and more important --. bill: i understand that was ...

Middle-clationz tax cut because they say we wont continue the middle-class tax cut unless you give the tax cut to the super wethy. its about time they take responsibility. >> martha: mr. ryan. >> joe and i are from similar towns. hes from scranton, pennsylvania, im from wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate is in scranton? >> i sure do. >> 10%. and when you came in, 8.5%. thats how it is going all around america. >> thats not how its going. it is going down joo. >> martha: this is his t...

And was holding him accountable to a level i did not see her hold biden to. that was only criticism i have of martha raddatz. bill: look forward to your show saturday night. you have newt gingrich on. that will be interesting to watch. thank you, governor. >> thank you, bill. bill: mike huck buy on the fox news channel, saturday and sunday night 8:00 eastern time. jamie: as much as they may be different congressman ryan pointing out similarities between himself and joe biden but at same time ask...

About scranton, joe bidens hometown, and janesville, wisconsin, his hometown. there was an exchange that seemed to be a factual and policy-based exchange on the unemployment numbers. can we play that right here? >> joe and i are from similar towns. hes from scranton, pennsylvania. im from janesville, wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is today? >> i sure do. >> 10%. >> you know what it was when you came in? 8%. >> what was the larger point? >> biden was flatly right there...

>> what was the larger point? >> biden was flatly right there. what ryan said is whats happening all across america is akin to what happened in scranton. since january 2009, the unemployment rate has gone up by 1.5 percentage points. thats not true. in january of 09, unemployment was 7. 8%. it went up and came back down. if you go if february 2009, which is the first full month of barack obamas presidency, it was above 8% already. it was actually lower than when obama entered office. at this mom...