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And those same cuts are in the paul ryan budget because theyre built into the baseline. now, already weve gone two degrees into wonkville and thats not a comfortable place for romney or ryan. it happens to be essentially true and worth pointing out when this debate goes forward. the central difference on medicare is not whether or not you reduce the rate of growth. both seek to do that. its methodology, providers or do you put the power in the hands of medicare recipients who would no longer sim...

Close look at that, because hes running for president of the united states and when youre running for president of the united states, the precedent in modern times is that multiple years of tax returns are released by a candidate for president. now, they have made it clear that the reason theyre not releasing them is that they dont want us to get a close look at it because they dont want to potentially be subject to criticism. i mean, thats something that the campaign said over the last few days...

Thought i did. you pick paul ryan because you are going to run as a campaign that is sort of willing to make the tough choices on medicare, willing to cut medicare. i really dont understand the paul ryan pick in the new context of the romney campaign in which youre the campaign that doesnt want to cut medicare, that you would never cut medicare, because ryans budgets have been pretty -- have had really significant medicare cuts. much, much larger, particularly in the initial ryan budget, the one...

Two parties. all of the violence, the rage, the storming the barricades. the standing outside peoples homes, that all comes from the left. i do not know the details of their medicare plans. i know the basics. the most important basic is the ryan-romney plan does not touch social security for anyone 55 years old or younger. meanwhile the media keeps saying, well, the ryan pick is going to hurt romney in states with old people. unless age 54 is old, and i think -- i think you are probably right th...

Up romney. they have no problem in the way for a while republicans had no problem talking up sarah palin over john mccain. they raised $7 million in a few days from that pick and there was a period of time when she was an incredibly popular figure. they think they have the same thing with ryan. >> david, how would you characterize the choice of ryan compared to previous choices at this point in their respective campaigns? would you say this is similar to sarah palin? would you say theyre looking...

Obama, making this a referendum on president obama, mitt romney now has his own platform, if you will, to run on. i spoke with one republican strategist who said the challenge now moving forward for mitt romney is for paul ryan to humanize the ryan budget, explain why we need to overhaul entitlements, why we need reforms to really get that message across. thats going to be the challenge moving forward in the coming months. richard, president obama is in chicago right now. he has four fund-raiser...

Messaging to be targeted at young people, at women, at seniors. they argue these are some of the groups that will be impacted by the ryan budget, that will care most about those types of issues. one of the top strategists for the obama campaign, david axelrod, really flooded the morning shows, and he gave us an even clearer view of what the obama campaigns playbook is going to look like over the next several months. take a listen. >> when the president walked in the door, he walked into 800,000 ...

Your thought? will conservative voters give him a pass on that? >> oh, theyre already giving him a pass. they had demanded somebody like ryan on the ticket, ryan specifically, a lot of them. youre seeingably whos showing up to these events theyre enraptured by him. some people have lost their careers over these votes but he was always using it while trying to pass some new radical reform. in 2005 he was point man of social security reform. in 2010, when he didnt need to, he redrew the roadmap. y...

hard core fiscal conservative it could dramatically reshape the race. well tell you how and find out why some are calling romneys choice a big gamble. first now the actual moment when mitt romney revealed his vice presidential pick. it happened two hours ago in norfolk, virginia, the starting point of a four-day, four-state bus tour for the new ryan/romney team. the presumptive republican nominee announced his choice on the uss wisconsin a retired battleship thats now a museum. he ca...

Bane ceo, that hes out of touch and along that thought process? >> well, it actually reinforces the argument that house democrats have been using against the republican opponents all cycle, which is that republicans voted for cuts in medicaid. its proven effective in some cases but yet to be effective on a larger level. i talked to the house democrats campaign arm yesterday and he was excited about the pick. he said hes ready to name mitt romney to their internal majority makers program, which i...