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Any chance trump will do what tom eagleton did in '72 as nominee for vice president, throw it back to the republican national committee to pick someone else? >> reporter: i've heard tonight from several top republicans that they themselves are thinking about it. for example, i spoke to spencer zwick, top fundraiser for the speaker, a longtime confidante of mitt romney. that wing of the party tonight between 11:00 p.m. and now, they're on the phone, they're thinking through what are the options, what happens if pence could get the ticket, could he be the presidential nominee. in trump tower, it...

War that we ought to use on building up our own country. >> reporter: the liberal was in fashion, but his can't campaign was a mess. his pick for vice president, tom eagleton, was dropped by mcgovern once it came out eagleton had been hospitalized for mental illness. >> there's not much cause for dancing in the streets of sioux falls, south dakota tonight. >> reporter: on election day he lost every state but massachusetts, and the democratic party lost once loyal voters who would never return. so by the time that kid who met him at the airport who pulled the party back toward the middle, the t...

0 in the neck with a paper towel over her neck, and she was very hurt. >> we saw some woman crawl out of the front door and roll down the hill. >> reporter: police did not say if haughton's wife was among the victim, but three women were killed and four others rushed to the hospital. >> all four patients are expected to survive. unfortunately be are becoming all too familiar with this situation and we treat victims with gun violence every day here at our hospital. >> reporter: president obama and gop vice-presidential candidate paul ryan, who's from wisconsin, both expressed their condolences....

of -- it is time for a change and so on and so on. we'll hear all those things and many more besides but we will hear nothing that we have nch heard before. -- that we have not heard before. [cheers and applause] i am not too much concerned with partisan denunciations with epithets or rebukes because all americans know they are better off than before, and they know that the greatest danger to free enterprise in this country died with the great depression under the hammer blows of the democratic party. nor am i afraid that the precious two-party system is in danger. the republican par...

2016. the numbers on the screen, 202-737-001 for democrats. 202-737-0002 for republicans. 202-628-0205 for independence. if you are calling from outside of the united states, you can get in touch with us via social media, twitter, and the address there # csspan wa. the facebook.com/c-span or journal@c-span.org. this is an editorial, a piece in "the washington post" with the headline -- "after the party is over." he's talking about what he saw in the republican convention. he says conventions can be memorable events. they're known to energize the party faithful. they can convert never...