Manassas Thing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Obama's budget. his budgets for the next ten years, they're written down too, and they're full of debt and more spending and zero reform on entitlements so -- >> well let me ask you about since you're the expert on it. did ryan sign the pledge that they put out for the members of congress it has sis signature? >> yes, as a congressman he's always signed the pledge and kept the pledge yes. >> let me ask you about this thing we talked about just an hour ago. idea of getting rid of taxes on cap gains, people that make money off money. can you sell that to the middle? you're talking about the cent...

And white house correspondent, of course, host of "the daily rundown." and the great andrea mitchell joins us right now. i want to start with chuck. what do you know about this and "rundown" is expert about this kind of thing. when do you think he made the decision? when was he the runner-up, how did it happen and when did it happen? >> the campaign is putting out their own version of the ticktock, they are putting out that romney made his decision when he landed in the overseas trip and on august 1 phoned beth myers said it's ryan and offered it to ryan in person on august 5th. now, it's inte...

But he is a swell he had it made growing up and now this other guy is somebody you can identify with. i think romney found a biography likes, it ain't his, it's the other guy's. >> he found a biography that he likes but all of america likes. everybody likes somebody who has to pull themselves up from the bootstraps and for better or worse has made it. and, you know, let's take a look at paul ryan. they tell the story about losing his father at a young ainge.ge. they talked about the things high father taught him as a young man before he lost and those are things that america likes to hear. >> ...

Kind of the intellectual center of the republican party today. it is a certain passing of the baton even though mitt romney's not ready to pass it yet despite his gaffe, and i just think it's a striking image. you and i were talking about it earlier, this manassas thing, wow, that's pretty good. look at all the energy he's got and the passion and the commitment he's got. >> let me ask chuck. both sides seem to be happy with it how can it be? >> something's wrong. >> the happiness of the romney campaign that frankly, look they've conceded as we talked about earlier, they conceded that they're n...

>> he sat on the debt commissions and there were compromises offered, he's supposed to be the big budget cutter. he let that thing die and he voted against it. and guys like coburn and durbin voted for it and he didn't. >> i'll take that as a good thing to have against him. but the thing i really have against him actually has to do with how he and governor romney have misused the declaration of independence, i'm irritated that the pursuit of happiness means -- >> money. >> money for the rich and when they say god and nature give us our right, not government. that is a lovely thing to say as a ...