on the best of the moments. >> and best selling author said bill clinton could steal obama's thunder. ladies and gentlemenn, governor mike huckabee. hello, everybody. thank you, thank you very much. great crowd here today in new york. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studio in new york city. having returned from the republican national convention in tampa. i have thoughts. for one thing. that magic moment with clintt eastwood. pretty spectacular really. we have tried to get president obama on this show for years and he's turned us down every time. now it is easy. we just bring the chair out. [applause] maybe if i have the chair he will magically appear just like harry reid's imaginary friends appear from time to time. we didn't miss losing that first night of the convention which was cancelled because of the possibility of bad weather. it was a tough but appropriate call given the weather forecast. by the way, the three networks were covering only one hour anyway. if there was a session viewers on cable would have been stuck watching hawaii 50 reruns. going forward. the parties ought to have a two night convention and two hours to put on their shows and they are shows. gone are the days of yesteryear when a political convention determined the nominee and gave viewers suspense and drama. in the highly scripted role of television driven political convention, several days of expensive lodging and meals and gullag like security and moments, might not be necessary. let's just be honest and call it what it is. it is a tv show and since that is what it is. why don't we condense it to two hours a night and in the end bring on bands for an hour's worth of big-time entertainment for the delegatings. it would save time, and money and results would be the same. there was an element of surprise in the gop convention. was positive over all with no real personal attackots president and was that plannned? i am not sure. i think it was just a matter believe thag it was not necessary to denigate president obama all we have to do is remind voters we wasted three and half years hoping for change and getting played at chumps. i had fun at the expense of debby wasser-man shultwhere. >> only hitch in the perfect week was the awful noise coming from hotel room next door to mine. it was debby wasserman-shult practicing her speech for the democratic national convention next week, bless her heart. [applause] i don't think she has much of a sense of humor. you know, i think mike huckabee's comment was an example of how he is innocent familiar with the voice of a strong woman. >> really? can i let you know a secret. it is obviously true she has never met janet huckabee, my wife of 38 years. but you know, i thought it was a tame joke and a show after all. even chris christy disappointed some people because he spoke from the podium instead of throwing it at the office. >> we are demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down and work together to take action on the big things facing america. >> and marco rubio who delivered one of the most powerful speeches at this or any other conscrention pulled his punches on the president in a personal way. >> let me clearr so no one understands. our problem is not that president obama is a bad person. he is a good husband and father and thanks to a lot of practice, a good golfer. our problem is not that he's a bad person. our person is that he's a bad president. [applause] >> and even gop nominee mitt romney made clear his sharp differences with the president could have been described by michael. >> it is not personal. it is strikeoutlyy business. >> i wish president obama had succeeded because i want america to succeed. [applause] >> that's right. it was not personal all week longg. it was just business. now were the republicans being artificially nice? i doubt that. republicans can be just as mean as democrats at times, but it would not have accomplished a thing in the convention. the building are true believers and the ones watching at home are probably living the realities of a obama presidency. they don't have to be reminded of broken promise and oversold dreams and promiseless that are opposite to common sense. next week the democrats will be in charlotte and we'll will be anxious to see if they will try to convince us if we had four great years with obama or tell us if mitt romney is elected we'll all get cancer. [applause] joining me from charlotte with a look back in the rnc and dnc. a serious look with "fox news sunday"'s chris wallace. thank you for joining me. >> delight to be here and having met janet huckabee you are right. debby wasserman-shult doesn't know. >> i will let janice go to huckabee and she will convince debby what a strong woman looks like. what about the tone of the rnc. people were surprised it was not skin the bark off of the tree of the speeches. they generally were tame and sedate. there was certainly sharp contrast. did you feel like there was an intentional effort to tone down personal effort to the president. >> yes, i do. i don't think it is because suddenly the republicans are kindler or gentler. it was a political calculation. their target audience and the people who will win the election for them are the people who voted for obama in 2008, but are now on the bubble. they even had focus groups of specifically that group of voters going on in the convention. they feel that attacking president obama who is personally very popular personally, a counter productive way to go. a much more effective way was in sorrow than anger. if you had to describe it disappointment. we understand that you were excite felt good when you voted for barack obama in be you andd had all of these hopes for the country and like him personally, but you are disappointed. that was their calculated tactic going in and throughout the convention. >> almost like clint eastwood said sometimes you just have to let them go. >> he had harsher comments of the entire week. debby wasser-man shult and sanda fluke showed up making the rowns - rounds to talk show hosts and next week, the republicans will show up in the dnc and they will be available to give instant analysis. does this matter? does it have an impact for either of the parties when they show up at each other's convention and try to muscle in on it. >> it is interesting. you and i have been around to know that the tradition used to be one party held the convention and the other party stood down in particular, the nominee for president and vice-president would take a week off. in the new, new's of 24-7 internet, tweets and facebook, you can't do that. you know, it is not a 24-hour news cycle it is a news cycle every 30 seconds and we just found out that paul ryan will not be in charlotte but in north carolina in depreenville on monday and a lot of the top people like marco rubio and susana martinez will be here in charlotte and responding. yeah, look, it is not going to get the millions of people watching the convention . they will not get the same big audience. but you will get a counter argument. >> we haven't seen the speeches yet that the democrats will roll out. what will be the message that they bring. anti-mitt romney message or trying to sell that the president had a much better four years than those of us republicans are giving him credit? >> i think both. i think obviously they are trying to sell. is not a easy sell. there is a lot of arguments about the pumbum record. but they will try to sell it more successful and one of the lines that bin laden is alive and gm is alive. high points that they saw . i think they will go after romney and try to counter the arguments that were made in the convention and i don't think they see romney as a personally popular person. they will be sharper in their criticism of romney than the republicans were of obama >> a quote that president obama is giving to time magazine. i want a reaction it is an interesting point of rhetoric and a point that republicans hit him on. >> so my expectation is there will be popping of the blister after the election because it would be a stark choice. where republicans refuse to cooperate on things that i know are good for the american people i will continue to look for ways to do it administratively and work around congress. it appears that the president has an attitude if i can't work with congress, i will ignore them and the constitutional balance of three equal branches was government and do it anyway. iment you to respond to that tactic of saying it is their fault and how does he make that. i continue is it a long question. i am asking the kind you ask me, chris when i am on your show. but the other part of that. how does he convince it is congress's fault when democrats are running the senate who will not let anything through anyway? >> in answer to rour little barb. stipes the questions are more interesting than the questions. i thank your point. i could have done without the blister popping metaphor here. he's got to sort of answer the question which is you came in promising hope and change and it would be unite bipartisan. he's making two arguments. one if i win and a get a man date that the republicans will listen this time. that's the republican's fault and then if they won't, i can't say it will be grid lock and i will do it administratively. he's got to find a way of giving democrats something to hang their hat on but it is a different version of hope and change than we heard four years ago. goch gov, i think that is the hardest task that the president has. the last convention whether you are four or against him was magical and when he gave his acceptance speech in the arena with the greek columes four years ago. it a magical and exciting moment. his hardest standard for president obama this week in charlotte is not measuring up to tampa last week. but measuring up to obama four years ago. >> that is a great observation. i agree with you. you look at it as a new's person and i looked at it as a partisan political operative and last time four years ago after seeing that denver oh, we may be in trouble. turned out we were. usually cand dates get a bump in the polls mentwe'll ask chris wallace if mitt romney will get a bump in the polls and will it last? 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[applause] you know there is something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> that is called buyer's remorse. you buy something and get it home and realize it is not what i wanted or thought it was going to be or paid too much. in this case it was not what we want thought it was going to be. and as taxes going up as they will under barack obama and obama care, we know we paid, way, way too much. florida senator marco rubio spoke eloquently about being the son of immigrants who came to the country chasing the american dream. >> i noticed a bartender behind the portable bar in back of the ball room and i remember my father who worked many years as a banquet bartender. he was grateful for the work he h. that was not the life he wanted for us. he stood behind the bar in the back of the room all of those years so one day i could stand behind the podium in front of the room. [applause] >> it was a powerful speech by marco rubio who is my very favorite rising stars of the republican party and i said for a number of years, keep your eyeos this guy. what he said what so many of us live feel. we grew up in a time when our parents who didn't have much wished and dreamed and hope prayed their kids would have a better life. our parents lived here and dreamed we would live here and most of us have done that. for the first time in american history parents are living here and fearful that their kids are going to live here. that is the real danger that we face in this country if we don't get some leadership . it is the super -- center piece of the message. young scrorts voted for president obama in 2008 why they ought to vote for the gop ticket this time around. >> college graduates shouldn't have to live out their 20 in the childhood bedrooms, staring up in fading obama posters and wonder they can move out and get going with life. [applause] >> again, a great, great line from paul ryan . i think the only thing that probably should have been said other end of that. it wasn't they are staring up. but the parents are staring at the you dirty laundry saying my gosh. can't he get a job and move out of the house. two greatest day in parents lives. day he is born and gets out of the college and off of your pay roll and on somebody else's. we need new leadership. >> new mexico governor susana martinez used to be a democrat. in her speech, she described the moment she really wasn't. >> before i rain for district attorney two republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. we talked about many issues like welfare. is it a way of life or hand up? and talked about size of government. how much should it tax family and small businesses? and when we left that lunch, we got in the car and i looked over at chuck. i'll be damned, we're republicans >> it was one of my favorite lines of the week. and i can relate to that. i grew nup the household where every know was a democrat. i am not sure my own family voted for me for heaven's sake. there were only 7 republicans in the entire county. they had all moved in from up north. and i worked for a republican. haskle jones, manager of the local radio station who gave me a job at age 14. i became a republican because what he believed rubbed off on me. individual liberty and individual responsibility and no, i couldn't fix what was behind me but i could look forward and dream the dreams and live them if i wanted to. i couldn't blame everybody else for my future and i had to accept the responsibility. i saw a level of him patriotism and pride in american that i believed in. if that is what it means to be a republican count me among them. it not a popular decision. but as a teenager, i became a republican. finally, i can't show my favorite speech without including one from my own speech. >> once rivals can be united, it's quite simple, we have barack obama to thank. it was barack obama who said, you didn't build it. trancalation. it doesn't belong to you. >> i want you to think carefully about that idea. if you didn't build it, it doesn't belong to you. think about that. the essence was american freedom is, you did build it and it does belong to you. you built it because america is built by the individual liberties was each ofulse. we of use. >> we can own things and we can own our homes and we can own property and businesses and by the way, comes with that we can own our speech and worship and own our time. we can own our hopes and dreams, the government can't tell us where to live and how big or small of a house we have to have. the government can't control those things because the government doesn't own it. they simply make sure it is all carefully protected so that we can have freedom. if the government owns it, the government takes the ownership and the freedom behind it, and that's why if we build it, we own it. if we didn't build it, we don't own it. and we do own it because we did build it. that's the way it is. those are the headlines from the republican national convention. who will make headlines in the democratic national convention. ed kline will give us a preview when we >> live from america's news headquarters i am marianne rafferty. much of hard hit plaquemines parish remains under water. thousands of evacuees are in emergency shelters or staying with friends and family. no idea when they will be able to ret