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Campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. we're back. were thrilled when mitt romney took their advice and picked u.s. congressman paul ryan as his running mate. which the campaign came under criticism, they begged him to unleash the young conservative star, ryan. today comes news of romney/ryan infusion. the two will be spending more time together on the trail in the coming weeks. will this double act, duo, energize the campaign? michael sheerer writes for "time" magazine. michael, you first, i was impressed when he picked a guy, it showed guts, picked a conserve tifr with a real agenda, a...

We're back. conservatives were thrilled when mitt romney took their advice and picked u.s. congressman paul ryan as his running mate. which the campaign came under criticism, they begged him to unleash the young conservative star, ryan. today comes news of romney/ryan infusion. the two will be spending more time together on the trail in the coming weeks. will this double act, duo, energize the campaign? michael sheerer writes for "time" magazine. michael, you first. i was impressed when he picked a guy that showed guts, picked a conservative with a real agenda, a real word on the budget, trick...

Very top of that campaign. what were they thinking never mind what clint eastwood was thinking? >> go ahead, michael. >> the other thing there is the substance of what eastwood says was off message. he said that lawyers shouldn't be president. mitt romney has a jd from harvard. he sort of hinted that he wanted immediate withdrawal from afghanistan which is not the republican message or the mitt romney message. it wasn't just the style of delivery and the tone of what eastwood was saying was wrong, actually when he talked about substance he was saying the wrong thing. >> when he did talk about ...

Across with the camera. and that's something that's still a work in progress, but he made some progress last night. he's going to have to continue to really work on this on the stump going forward. >> michael, thank you very much. appreciate it. richard, i know you'll be able to stick with us as we wait for mitt romney to arrive in lakeland, florida. we should also say very busy morning here. the president will be leaving shortly for el paso, texas. he'll meet with the troops and their families for an event at fort bliss. stin catar ntlr gh rg [ nn ]errequ [ nn ]errsfu owd gril

>> i did think he was good for him. it may be a low bar to say he's a wooden speaker, but he showed emotion. he introduced his family story, his personal story very well. the clip you just played, the most powerful, most sustained theme of his message, the idea that we wanted obama to succeed, he just didn't. there's just one small problem with that -- is that paul ryan, his vp pick and the entire senior leadership of the republicans on inaugural day were plotting how to make this president a failure. so if his pitch is i can cure this country and heal it and bring an end to the division, you'...