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taxes. quite c-span has aired every minute of every party convention since 1984. what of the conventions live on c-span starting monday august 27. >> mitt romney appeared yesterday in wisconsin with his running mate paul ryan. they will be splitting up the campaigning separately for the next two weeks. rnc chair gov. scott walker speaks first at this event. >> are you glad to be here today? i do not know about you. are you ready to fire barack obama n save america? are you ready to win? are you ready to win? how about electing a paul ryan as the next vice president? i know just like ...

because i have such important things to say, we're going to keep them an extra 15 minutes. do not rush out to your committee sessions. they will all be starting 15 minutes later. peter hart is one of the leading analysts in the u.s. since 1971, he has been chairman at research associates. the national journal added him to their list of national leaders who helped shape government policy, and characterizing him as probably the foremost washington pollster of the democratic party and the centrist candidate. neil newhouse is a co-founder of public opinion strategies. he is the leading r...

people believe opponents of a voter i.d. laws are trying to steal elections. it is hard to steal an election with 13 votes over 10 years, but that is what people believe is going on. there is a massive incredibly successful misinformation campaign that has been perpetrated by these groups. by true the vote, by a number of other groups. right now it has worked. that is why i think you have seen since 2011 what president jealous was talking about. 17 states moved to restrict voting rights including some of the biggest and most important swing states. let me stop the negative talk and t...

lauren. that's good. but they're made in china! can you believe that? you tell me they couldn't find an american manufacturing to make the uniforms? it is outrageous. one more reason to boycott the olympics. we'll get into that and a whole lot more. first we get the latest from los angeles with today's current news update. here's lisa ferguson. hi lisa. >> hey bill, good morning. mitt romney is saying he would make things better for the african-american community but he got a less than enthusiastic welcome at yesterday's naacp convention. in case you missed if, here's what happened. ...

now to another breaking news story this morning. the health of former d.c. barry are councilman is hospitalized in las vegas right now. news4's tom sherwood spoke with barry this morning and joins us on the set with the latest his condition. how is he doing? >> short story is he had a blood clot in his leg when he was going out to las vegas. i talked to him this morning. he wanted us to know -- i want to read this quote from him. the blood clot had no impact on my physical feeling or my mental ability. i thank god for that. >> maybe you can tell us why was he in las vegas to begin wi...