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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...

But can you explain, can mark explain why he and his campaign still believe that mormonism, a faith that i see as a positive, because there are so many leaders that come out of this faith, who are good, strong, decent people. >> yep. >> good, decent people, why is it that they seem to see mormonism as a third rail for this campaign? >> i think theres personal and political issues in play, joe. i think one is, there are people, you know, in the world who are uncomfortable talking about deeply per...

coverage of the olympic. especially after complaints to twitter led to retaliation against the british newspaper critic. what were these companies thinking? a freelance reporter exposes new yorker writer joan elyra as a serial fabricator who made up quotes from bob dylan. and lara stonewalled him the whole time. >> he lied to me in that conversation, actually. he lied to me in his confession. >> well talk to michael moynihan about how he feels about costing lehrer his job. talk abo...

Words are in print. and the censors decide if the name of the person speaking can be mentioned in the reporters story. this is called attribution and has become the third rail of american reporting. editors who surrendered their independence and given politicians the right to veto news copy. according to the times, this practice is widespread among reporters reporters and editors from the major news agencies, a stealth operation that has coopted the journalistic fraternity, especially westbound ...

The third rail. on the other hand hes a rather younger version of romney. hes business like, hes in many ways strong and admirable. and youth may appeal. >> he can make the argument of substance. much better than mitt romney can. >> yes. yes. >> and that is where i think the romney campaign, if youre thinking just win, baby and i think you might want someone that can help make arguments. >> when we come back, a wealthy businessman targeted for donating to mitt romney. first singled out in the ob...

President win a state? region? and that is the question facing come knee now is this is boing to split republican party since getting tossed out of congress in 2006. the old guys versus new, young generation dealing with the deficit, reform the tax cut, attacking entitlement problem. its going to give them shine and reassure voters youve got big ideas and plans. those are guys like marco rubio or paul ryan, for instance. he needs some of that to rub off on him. >> dorjo think, paul ryan is a fav...

Chris, youre the great political watcher. moment by moment. hour by hour. you know whats going on. this biden attack on the cuts medicaid, medicare, which affect not just poor people, but in the case of middle class people, medicare operation, procedures you wont be able to get, whatever goes on, its going to hurt people at the same time, this fella, paul ryan, who advertised the fact hes a fair budget cutter is protecting the rich while he hurts the poor. obama never endorsed ryan. but the othe...

Erin mcpike. chris, youre the great political watcher. moment by moment. hour by hour. you know whats going on. this biden attack on the cuts medicaid, medicare, which affect not just poor people, but in the case of middle class people, medicare operation, procedures you wont be able to get, whatever goes on, its going to hurt people at the same time, this fella, paul ryan, who advertised the fact hes a fair budget cutter is protecting the rich while he hurts the poor. is this going to be an iss...

Talking about cutting medicare and social security, we refer to it it is a third rail of american politics for a reason. back in 2005, george bush tried to do something with social security. we know how that wound up. thats the danger with paul ryan about fundamentally re-imagining medicare, turning it into a voucher program. we know it, turning it into a voucher program, in 2004 and 2008, 60-plus voters made up about a quarter of the presidential electorate. mccain won them by four. george w. b...

Next year, you borrowed every single dollar of it from somebody else and half of it you borrowed from a foreign country. thats the situation the united states of america is living n. its not sustainable. how does it implode? >> hopefully it doesnt implode. but it does implode because they are going to stop long us money. why will china and europe keep long us money? the rating agencies which downgrade us last year will say queere year will say were taking you down another notch. what happens if ...