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>> it's quite a large crowd. they're going through the preliminary speakers now. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out this way as well and over this way. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan and mitt romney landed just a short time ago. paul ryan said it was great to be home. he said he's been flying into the airport in milwaukee, never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he will be the republican vice presidential nominee. we're in a state as you know, that has been democratic reliablely blue for a long time, but these republicans here think because ...

Our viewers would need to know before this announcement in the morning? >> one of the things i wrote a long piece about paul ryan in a way he's approached these issues he did not always have the republican party at his back but the time his party was fighting him on these ish grews and ryan who is not a particular political person, thinking about ups and downs of politics or spends a lot of time on the phone with his pollsman this someone spending time sort of knee deep in policy papers and think thanks--tanks around washington, d.c. for readings economic poems from austrian economists someone...

Do you go bold or do what the romney campaign so far seems to be trying to do which is just run out the clock on obama. now ryan would be going bold and we're hearing that he is still under serious consideration. we hear that he has bonded with mitt romney on the campaign trail. they both like the sort of heavy policy papers, they have an easy rap port with each other s but it's a big risk. do you give the obama campaign a potentially double-edged blade? you have -- they can go right at his medicare plan and paul ryan is the face of a very unpopular congress. do you want to take that risk? tha...

Sides because they're split within the party on the issue but how late can you go without putting your stake in the ground and saying this is what i'm willing to do with the lives of american service members overseas? >> one of the things i wanted to ask josh, if there's a split within the republican party, about what to do in afghanistan, is there a split within the romney campaign about what should be done in afghanistan and is he -- is anyone in the romney campaign actually discussing with any kind of substance, with any kind of urgency what the nominee's policy proposal is or would be and ...

Increasingly out in the west, a couple people brought up the president's stance on immigration. and they, you know, that seems to be working well for him in some of these areas. it is something that perhaps there is some pressure on governor romney to sort of articulate his feelings on more clearly. >> i think you're hearing from some voters they want to see what governor romney stands for. it is not enough to just, oppose what president obama has done but they want to see him offer some policies on immigration, on some of these other issues that have a bit more detail. to be fair to governor ...