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>> but if you look at wages, wages have stayed totally flat during that time. >> i understand that. >> that is more the issue because folks making minimum wage are below the poverty level. whereas in the 70s, folks making minimum wage were above the poverty level. >> bill: do you want a guaranteed wage? is that what you want in this country say every family gets a certain amount of money and if they don't earn it the government gives it to them? is that what you want. >> the issue is folks like i met on our recent bus trip in milwaukee i met billy, his wife and two kids. his hours got reduced....

party bona fides sent him to washington and ryan is from his home state of wisconsin which leads me to my first question is does this change the mix in wisconsin? can you see republicans picking it up? they are now behind when you look at the polls in wisconsin. can paul ryan pull his own state into the romney column? >> good morning, candy. listen, i think wisconsin's always been in play. we turned wisconsin red in november 2010 because of president obama's policies, because of obama care, people didn't like that, being jammed through, entirely bart san basis. people also understand...

You can add the biographies up, look at their southern roots. until we left madison square garden day one on that bus trip across america. and, remember, at that point, a candidate didn't take bus trips. they took airplanes. they went from tarmac to tarmac. they saw very tightly controlled groups that were usually organized by the local political parties. the clinton/gore bus trip, the two couples who are that close now, but boy they were close then. they bonded and it was just not fabricated. there was a generational connection there and the fact that we were on the road, stopping and making ...

Bipartisan events. you had people come out of there, i real like charlie, but that paul ryan, he's such a smart guy. that's his ability to connect and he does it on a personal level. so for someone like romney who's had trouble connecting personally with the voters, ryan is a very good selection. >> and obviously ryan needs to get his sales pitch on, because selling medicare and andrea mitchell, we talked about this before, the third state on this bus trip is florida. and it is my understanding that when governor romney was reaching out to various people to sort of get their opinions on the me...

Is speaking in august was not necessarily qualify them for being picked as a nominee. and those accompanying him on the bus trip would not necessarily qualify or disqualify them of the it appears paul ryan in wisconsin we won't know until tomorrow morning but mitt romney will let the nation know as he kicks off this bus tour. a fox tour exclusive, romney will be announcing his running mate tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m. norfolk, virginia. >> carl you're breaking up there just a little bit. i want to stay with you for just a moment. paul ryan is leaving for vacation with his family at this point. >...