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Pink riding helmet flying along above a racehorse. the young woman beneath its brim grew up with her heart set on this. a shot as a professional jockey in the death-defying, adrenaline-pumping sport of racing a thoroughbred up to 40 miles an hour. >> i just love horses. love riding. love going fast. >> reporter: here in lexington, kentucky where horses and hooves are plenty. 22-year-old vanessa is a few strides away from graduation at the only jockey school in the u.s., north american racing academy. only 16% of licensed jockeys are female. right now the top 100. only two are women. one of the...

A driver and she can't stop getting behind the wheel. >> you dated lohan when she was going through her lesbian phase. what do you make of this whole thing? can you update us on the story? >> i dated michael lohan. it is like i talk to you and you are not listening. the update is, she was fighting with the girl because they were both -- they both had their heart set on an irish boy band fnlt. >> a good looking dude. >> she found out where he was after the concert. she was in with him and then he shun her because shooy was too drunk. and then he started flirting with another girl and she decked...

Barehanded catfish fishing. >> he might not be working for governor romney as a running mate, huh? '98 when first ran for congress powers to be wanted him to run for state senate. scott fitzgerald was then a freshman sent down to talk ryan into running for senate. fitzgerald failed. >> after about a 15 minute conversation i could see that he had his heart set on running for congress and. >> why didn't you talk him out of it. in. >> i kind of shrugged it off and said good luck, i don't think he will make it but kind of underestimated him at that point. >> very few people underestimate paul ryan...

>> bret: the country will get to know paul ryan much better in the next 87 days. but we can give you a pretty good idea of who he is and where he came from right now. correspondent steve brown is in ryan's hometown of jaynesville, wisconsin. >> we need new leadership to become part of the solution, new leadership to restore prosperity, economic growth and jobs. [ cheers and applause ] >> paul ryan is young for national politics, but that's not to say he's new to it. in the '90s, he worked for two republican u.s. senators, wisconsin bob casten and sam brownback of kansas. in '96, he wrote speec...

If you ask americans about an assault weapons ban, about limits on the number of guns you can purchase, there is some support for those positions. but the problem is the nra takes all of those things and bundles them up and send out these neat little postcards right before election day saying, this candidate is supporting the second amendment and this one is not. and it's not broken down into the individual components. so someone like my dad, who is a huge second amendment supporter and really takes what the nra has to say seriously, even he would be supportive of some of these gun control mea...