he was on the short list in recent days with tim pawlenty and marko rubio and others. but in the end paul ryan got the call. why he was selected we go to one man supporting romney wrecking crew. how are you, sir? an drea mitchell invited you back after the last show >> look, a lot of people are saying it was a good choice. it was not a good choice. it was a great choice. this is an solid example of mitt romney recognizing that a problem has to be solve going out and getting exactly the right guy to help him solve it and mitt romney deserves credit for being smart enough to do that. >> governor, i am a registered conservative and all of my conservative friends put an excellent choice. but for me with vice-president cheney. it seems governor romney is saying we are heading off a fiscal cliff and five trillion in debt and here's the truth, do you want to fix it. it is a choice election, isn't it? >> mitt romney is running not because he wants another title but he knows the problem has to be fix he know that he and paul ryan is fixing it. the question we ought to ask are w

he was on the short list in recent days with tim pawlenty and marko rubio and others. but in the end paul ryan got the call. why he was selected we go to one man supporting romney wrecking crew. how are you, sir? an drea mitchell invited you back after the last show >> look, a lot of people are saying it was a good choice. it was not a good choice. it was a great choice. this is an solid example of mitt romney recognizing that a problem has to be solve going out and getting exactly the right guy to help him solve it and mitt romney deserves credit for being smart enough to do that. >> governor, i am a registered conservative and all of my conservative friends put an excellent choice. but for me with vice-president cheney. it seems governor romney is saying we are heading off a fiscal cliff and five trillion in debt and here's the truth, do you want to fix it. it is a choice election, isn't it? >> mitt romney is running not because he wants another title but he knows the problem has to be fix he know that he and paul ryan is fixing it. the question we ought to ask are w

pick paul ryan or marko rubio. what do you think of the choice of ryan. >> i am obviously thrilled about it. and they e-mailed me promptly the moment it got out and they broke the story late last night . then on fox and elsewhere . they e-mailed me quickly and it was made on august 1st. and i take that point. and you made mention the buzz is out and jimmie carter got 10 point and bill clinton. clinton's bounce lasted and one reason why, he picked al gore and the successful bus tour. they were attractive and the george bush administration looked tire they were moderate democrats and not mondale or dukasis and carter. they will get bounce out of this and the republican convention and obama will get bounce out of the democratic convention. can they sustain and a moment where they redefine the campaign from being about the problems with romney's tax returns and questions about bain capital and can they make it a conservative agenda. >> on that point, it goes from mitt romney attacking on the economy and does this come

my bill was not the only one that was dropped that marko rubio is on board and pushing the effort. other colleagues are push people saw the news and story and we are so proud of our female gymanist right we saw the story and wanted to jump on it as quick as we could. we are proud and appreciative that they are showing the best that the united states has to offer. and americans say let's thank them and not tax them. >> have you heard whether the president will sign the bill if it make its through both houses of congress. >> i have not heard that. my ranking member butterfield from north corl carolina. we don't agree on everything. but on this one i have his strong support and i enjoyed work him and i anticipate his relationship with the white house will help in this >> tell apply to the olympics champions or going forward. >> no, it very importantly would be retroactive and this year's olympians would be covered. >> especially michael phelps. >> michael may be one. few guys who will earn enough medals that this could amount to serious pocket change of're for him. i haven't talked to

my bill was not the only one that was dropped that marko rubio is on board and pushing the effort. other colleagues are push people saw the news and story and we are so proud of our female gymanist right we saw the story and wanted to jump on it as quick as we could. we are proud and appreciative that they are showing the best that the united states has to offer. and americans say let's thank them and not tax them. >> have you heard whether the president will sign the bill if it make its through both houses of congress. >> i have not heard that. my ranking member butterfield from north corl we don't agree on everything. but on this one i have his strong support and i enjoyed work him and i anticipate his relationship with the white house will help in this >> tell apply to the olympics champions or going forward. >> no, it very importantly would be retroactive and this year's olympians would be covered. >> especially michael phelps. >> michael may be one. few guys who will earn enough medals that this could amount to serious pocket change of're for him. i haven't talked to a single

. >> i want to hear all and looking forward to hearing ann romney i look forward to hearing marko rubio. >> i think paul ryan will put energy for the youth vote. time now is 55 after the top of the hour and five minutes away. we told you about a veteran who was not receiving benefits because of paperwork, we have major update. is it our good, bad or ugly. you have to stick around to find out. can you figure out the wor of the day. we'll have the answer after the break. >> welcome back, two mondays to the top of the hour the good, the bat and ugoslicks daughter refiled because his paperwork was lost. they received a check of $29,000 in back payments. the bad. the most city in the country. camden, new jersey cutting the police department because the budget was 270 officers getting pink slips. they will be replaced by a police force run by the county. the ugly, this is in hamburg, germany . police in riot gear using water cannon to put out fires. 10 pem were rested. >> te now to get scrambled up and steve doocy is here to help us out. kind of an easy side. give you guys a chance. >> steve:

. >> i want to hear all and looking forward to hearing ann romney i look forward to hearing marko rubio. >> i think paul ryan will put energy for the youth vote. time now is 55 after the top of the hour and five minutes away. we told you about a veteran who was not receiving benefits because of paperwork, we have major update. is it our good, bad or ugly. you have to stick around to find out. can you figure out the wor of the day. we'll have the answer after the break. >> welcome back, two mondays to the top of the hour the good, the bat and ugoslicks daughter refiled because his paperwork was lost. they received a check of $29,000 in back payments. the bad. the most city in the country. camden, new jersey cutting the police department because the budget was 270 officers getting pink slips. they will be replaced by a police force run by the county. the ugly, this is in hamburg, germany . police in riot gear using water cannon to put out fires. 10 pem were rested. >> te now to get scrambled up and steve doocy is here to help us out. kind of an easy side. give

rubio, the most gifted young politician and man who embodies best of what is best about the teparty. do you concur either one of those. >> either one of those is good. so is rob portman and tim pawlenty and a long list of people to pick and they will be good choices. i will trust the romney team who has done the research. it is not speculation. but they don't have the responsibility of picking someone with whom they work in the campaign but then after the election. i am going to trust that the romney team is thoughtfully pursuing this and we'll get behind it and salute it when it happens. >> governor romney is never accused of throwing a hail mary pass. he's deliberative and cautious and some would say risk adverse that might lead to a choice like portman or pawlenty. those guys are not huge television draws. we saw how pawlenty faired in the republican primaries. is there a risk of picking a guy like that? >> not really. personal comfort and they stand on the stage they are comfortable in the chemistry between the twov them. that may be more important than anything that people look

he was on the short list in recent days with tim pawlenty and marko rubio and others. but in the end paul ryan got the call. why he selected we go to one man supporting romney wrecking crew. how are you, sir? an drea mitchell invited you back after the last show >> look, a lot of people are saying it was a good choice. it was not a good choice. it was a great choice. this is an solid example of mitt romney recognizing that a problem has to be solve going out and getting exactly the right guy to help him solve it and mitt romney deserves credit for being smart enough to do that. >> governor, i am a registered conservative and all of my conservative friends put an excellent choice. but for me with vice-president cheney. it seems governor romney is saying we are heading off a fiscal cliff and five trillion in debt and here's the truth, do you want to fix it. it is a choice election, isn't it? >> mitt romney is running not because he wants another title but he knows the problem has to be fix he know that he and paul ryan is fixing it. the question we ought to ask are we be

. >> chris: would you like romney to be hard tea party conservative like marko rubio and paul ryan . >> guest: i think they would be terrific choices. but in the end of the day governor romney will make his choice of vice president. and what is that the country have a clear choice about the economic agenda of barak obama. about government spend more debt and romney agenda more free markets and liberty and getting back to the princele. >> chris: you are a cuban american. and right now, according to the polls, romney is trailing obama badly among hispanics whampt does he need to do to reach out with hispanic light? >> guest: i think hispanic community are faith, family and patriotism. the rate of military enlistment is higher than any demographic. a friend of mine said when the last time you saw a his panic han handler. in my life i never once have seen a hispanic pan handler. they are all conservative. faith, and family and hard work and responsibility. what governor romney nides to do and is doing is defending those values and making the case that the obama agenda is incredibly destr

. >> chris: would you like romney to be hard tea party conservative like marko rubio and paul ryan . >> guest: i think they would be terrific choices. but in the end of the day governor romney will make his choice of vice president. and what is that country have a clear choice about the economic agenda of barak obama. about government spend more debt and romney agenda more free markets and liberty and getting back to the princele. >> chris: you are a cuban american. and right now, according to the polls, romney is trailing obama badly among hispanics whampt does he need to do to reach out with hispanic light? >> guest: i think hispanic community are faith, family and patriotism. the rate of military enlistment is higher than any demographic. a friend of mine said when the last time you saw a his panic han handler. in my life i never once have seen a hispanic pan handler. they are all conservative. faith, and family and hard work and responsibility. what governor romney nides to do and is doing is defending those values and making the cas that the obama agenda is incredibly destructiv

he also did something very important, as did marko rubio. it's okay that you like barack obama. barack obama is a good guy. he's a nice family man. but he's done a bad job. and it's okay to turn the page. >> why is that important to do? >> he's got to make it okay for democrats and independent leaning democrats to vote for mitt romney. >> i know. >> let me say one thing here, hold on. i thought his narrative and biography was pretty good. i want to say that. i think what you saw was a humble man. there was a lot of humility to it. and i think that's going to help him in this likability business, which i still think is a red herring. >> jared, what about that point that larry makes, that he showed some humility, talked about his life in a way we hadn't heard before. >> i liked the aspects of the speech that weren't about economic policy. and i sort of agree with sarah in terms of his comments about obama in terms of their neutralizing effect. but factually, i thought they were way, way off base. this president arrived, when the economy was on fire and his initiatives put that fir

we just learned that florida senator marko rubio who was also considered a possible vp pick will introduce mitt romney at the convention. >>> police are trying to solve a mystery. firefighters found a woman unconscience. the fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a complex in cheverly. it is not clear if the woman died from the fire. homicide investigators are looking into the case and the cause of the fire remains under investigation as well. >>> 6:05. montgomery county police need your help in the search for a ripes e rapist. police say this man is considered a possible suspect in a rape that happened in the green farm conservation park in gaithersburg. that attack happened on july 9th. police say they believe the man is known to visit that area. if you have any information, please contact police or crime sorvelers. >>> a fredericksburg woman still shaken after someone tried of abduct her while she was running. 22-year-old was jogging around 8:00 saturday morning on highland road when a man in a car stopped to ask a question. she told police she couldn't understand what he was saying so s

and tomorrow morning, you had a brilliant, brilliant speech by marko rubio. i think one of the best articulations of a conservative vision, you know, that probably since reagan '64's speech was an incredible speech. mitt romney did a fantastic job in the speech. all of that is going to be cut into tomorrow with the coverage because of the sloppy clint eastwood decision. >> can you explain, as someone who has been in this room, what was the conversation like with -- did clint eastwood say, i'm just going to go out there and wing it, and then everyone said -- >> like, we vetted the rand paul speech but you can go ahead. >> i don't understand how that came about. >> somebody put the empty chair out there. >> right. >> that's the $64,000 question. i suspect we're going to find out before too long. just incredibly irresponsible and it's going to hurt romney because it's going to cut into the coverage of, again, marko rubio's brilliant speech and mitt romney's very effective speech. mitt romney gave the speech of his life and the fact that there's going to be minut

. >> reporter: on later today, mitt romney will also be joined by marko rubio once again down in miami. that's obviously a very important area for the romney campaign in terms of winning this state. and then tomorrow he heads to ohio where he will link up with rob portman who was also on that short list for his running mates on this republican ticket. so you can say, deb, over the weekend it was all about the running mates. this weekend for mitt romney it's about the runner-ups. deb? >> it's interesting. we're listening to the music behind you "when a man loves a woman," very mellow for the kind of energized event that i think that they're trying to portray. i know i read that you have a favorite song on the campaign trail, too, right, right there, jim? >> reporter: that's right. i mean, i sort of like "a little less conversation" by elvis press presley. i did treat that out this morning. it's interesting you noted they that played "when a man loves a woman," they should be playing "stand by your man" this morning. by the way, the romney campaign is sort of pushing back on this notion

we have governor mcdonald there and goes to north carolina and senator marko rubio is thrown out then ohio senator rob portman. >> it will be just mitt in north carolina. i sense these are lejet mate audition and cite their base. >> when you travel with somebody for a period of time they know. >> they start to get on your nerves. >> i think synergy is 10 percent. and the other is can you help the ticket or in the. governor christie, not stopping in new jersey, not a battle ground state. >> steve: as of friday they were led chris christie is not a reasonable contender but we have reason to think he might be. >> could this throw us off . >> steve: it is so important to pick the spot. and dick cheney talked about that with hannity. >> this is a first level decision that romney will make . first time the american people see him make decision that has consequences . it is a real test. governor romney is treating it with that kind of seriousness. >> it is go to time for romney . talks to shawn hannity last night and he had made comments about sarah palin. listen to what he is saying. >> i l

. >> brian: but she didn't go to india asking them what they know about marko rubio. i like to give the other side . >> steve: it is it a volunteer thing. if you ask for dirt, it is no guarantee that the dirt is true. >> brian: and karl came itron -- cameron had a sit down with mitt romney. why do you think it is a misdirection . he could be tricky and say you can speak to the rnc. >> steve: in the sit down with carl cameron used a word. it was obamalonie and a take off on balony and that comes on the hells of the president of the united states in connecticut where he used word romneyhood. listen to both of them recently invented words. >> it is like robin hood in reverse. it is rom no hood. >> we have watched the president say a lot of things about me and my policis and they are not right. if i were to coin a tirm it would be beaumont -- obamalonie. it might be a on a quiz for you. which one do you prefer. send us e-mails or tweets. steve stove we have a better one. let us know. we are looking for fun stuff. >> it is tough to top those. >> they are that good. >> you

governor chris christie and marko rubio given new roles and what they are tapped to do. >> steve: he made the cut but who is paul ryan? a teacher who loves him but will not vote for him. >> brian: another taxpayer funded vehicle up in flames. fox and friends starts right now. ♪ "fox and friends" >> steve: welcome abard. gretch, welcome back. you either been observer weiner snetzel or been in germany. >> gretchen: i was in off the ria. that is buddha pest and prague and met a lot of great fox viewers. >> happy to see you. >> steve: brian is at the montauk club. stealing towels like normal. >> gretchen: police have identified the gunman in the deadly shoot out one block from texas a&m university. his name is thomas castle. he opened fire from in his home killing 41 year old brian. two other people were killed including the gunman . his mother said her son had difficulties with his mental health. george zimmerman doesn't plan to use stand your ground defense. he wasacing in self defense in february. omera will try to prove that zimmerman had no choice to shoot. omara is filing an appe

. >> brian: senator marko rubio and karl rove and joe trippit. >> gretchen: tropical storm ripped through the caribbean. isaac could be a hurricane by wednesday. a 300 mile stretch of the gulf coast is on high alert including new orleans. we have steve brown live for us here in tampa and maria molina is track but we start with nicole in pensacola, florida. >> yeah the winds picked up overnight . waves crashing louder. and the beach warning is yellow. it means a medium threat. we expect two red flags . tropical storm wins on this part of the florida panhandle. we expect hurricane conditions in 36 hours and able to catch up with those living here and they were stocking up on supplies. nonperishable foods. and batteries and gasoline in short supply and some residents having trouble getting tanks filled. a lot of people boarding up their winnows. we are told when hurricane ivan slammed in the coast they rebuild with high impact windows that. is consistent with a category 4 storm which is not happening here. voluntarily evacuation started last night and shelters opened first thing in the morni