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Anybody a plausible alternative. >> you keep talking about romney. i'd like to talk about the obama record and i want to put some statistics up on the screen. unemployment was 7.8% when the president took office. it's now 8.3%. median household income was almost $55,000. it's now less than 51,000. gas was 1.85 a gallon when he took office. now it's 3.78. almost double. the national debt was $10.6 trillion and it may go past $16 trillion this week. so just looking at the president's record and those statistics, david, is the average american better off than four years ago? >> chris, as i said t...

Reince previn, the chairman of the republican national committee. good to see you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: how do you respond to david axelrod? it was of the brain child of your organization to put that debt clock up at the rnc. >> first of all, i don't think anyone said there isn't plenty of blame to go around. the fact of the matter is, the president put the debt on steroids. he in 3 1/2 years, drew the debt by -- grew the debt by 51%. clearly the republican party and quite frankly, if anyone has a -- paul ryan put, in spite of political peril a budget on the table that tackled the deb...

Into a large wake at high speed. the driver then loses control and gets slammed to the side of the boat. all seven passengers hurt. five of them treated at a local hospital for minor injuries. >> steve: oh, man. look at the sunglasses flying. >> gretchen: those are your headlines this morning. >> steve: democrats now on deck after a rousing rnc convention where mitt romney and pauline chiou laid out their plans for the future. president obama and vice president biden will try to convince voters they deserve four more years. >> brian: wendell goler is in uptown charlotte with a look at what's o...

Here is mr. axelrod. >> we also need to take steps to grow the economy in the long run. the question is, do we do that by cutting tacks for the wealthy or do we pay down our deficit and invest in things like education and training, research and development and innovation, clean energy technology, infrastructure, the things we know we need to grow the economy. the president has a balanced plan for the long-term, as well as a plan for the short-term. governor remain knee has neither. -- romney has neither. >> steve: we'll see if people buy that. as to the result of the rnc, mr. romney wound up w...

Nickelodeon -- in this case at night. he said he didn't hear plans. did he miss something? >> of course he missed something because one of the fundamental plans of mitt romney is to take spending, which is 25 cents on every dollar made in america today, is used to run the federal government. he wants to take the 25 cents down to 20, where it's been for decades and decades. then he said he wanted to do small business tax cuts from 35% down to 25%. he talked about a 20% tax cut across the board for all americans. talked about regulation reform. talking about simplifying the tax code. the problem...