WEBVTT 00:00:00.048 --> 00:00:04.834 We turn now to a major eruption of fury at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, 00:00:04.834 --> 00:00:07.982 as the formal nomination process got underway. 00:00:07.982 --> 00:00:11.319 Part of Maine's delegation stormed off the floor in protest 00:00:11.319 --> 00:00:15.443 against a decision to strip away half of the state's Ron Paul delegates. 00:00:15.443 --> 00:00:20.146 *Supportive members of other delegations rose to their feet and hollered their objections,* 00:00:20.146 --> 00:00:27.335 *angered by new rules that they say will make it harder for grassroots candidates to stand a chance in future elections.* 00:00:27.335 --> 00:00:30.875 *His ardent followers used seldom-invoked state party rules* 00:00:30.875 --> 00:00:34.009 *to garner twenty of Maine's twenty-four spots.* 00:00:34.009 --> 00:00:41.146 - The RNC responded by replacing ten of them, enough to prevent Ron Paul from being nominated, from the floor. 00:00:41.146 --> 00:00:44.719 - The question on the motion offered by the delegate from Kentucky, 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:50.472 all those in favour will signify by saying "Aye". 00:00:50.472 --> 00:00:55.242 *[crowd: "Aye", cheers]* 00:00:55.242 --> 00:00:56.869 Those opposed, "No". 00:00:56.869 --> 00:00:59.744 *[crowd: "No", booing]* 00:00:59.744 --> 00:01:05.350 *- The decision caused immediate uproar, but RNC Chair Reince Priebus was in no mood to take a rollcall.* 00:01:05.350 --> 00:01:08.971 - Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. 00:01:10.387 --> 00:01:12.791 We have to proceed with the order of business... 00:01:12.791 --> 00:01:27.331 *[crowd chants: "Seat them now!"]* 00:01:29.453 --> 00:01:33.304 - Mr. Chairman, point of order! Point of order! 00:01:33.304 --> 00:01:37.346 - It's unfair to us, we sat here and objected, he said, "Are there any objections?" 00:01:37.346 --> 00:01:41.822 We objected, and, you know, it's like, why even ask the question at that point? 00:01:41.822 --> 00:01:45.057 *[crowd chants: "Point of order!"]* 00:01:45.057 --> 00:01:47.822 - Maine got screwed of half their delegates, more than half actually. 00:01:47.822 --> 00:01:52.610 That's why their Governor's not here today, because he said he wouldn't come down unless their delegates got seated. 00:01:52.610 --> 00:01:59.292 Half of them got taken away, and they were put in, replaced, by people that the Republican Party, the RNC, picked. 00:01:59.292 --> 00:02:03.488 *[crowd chants: "Point of order!"]* 00:02:03.488 --> 00:02:06.678 *- Several members of the Maine delegation walked off the floor in protest* 00:02:06.678 --> 00:02:11.241 *after the convention decided to replace ten of its twenty-four delegates.* 00:02:11.241 --> 00:02:12.693 [audience member:] This is fraud! 00:02:13.955 --> 00:02:15.678 - This convention is a farce! 00:02:16.663 --> 00:02:19.984 - They snuck in there trying to say we support our soldiers, 00:02:19.984 --> 00:02:22.802 They appointed seven of them on our delegations. 00:02:22.802 --> 00:02:30.215 Two recently served in Afghanistan and Iraq! How dare they? Shame on them! Shame on them! 00:02:31.075 --> 00:02:37.614 - The people in Maine should be respected, those voters that put us here, they should be respected! 00:02:37.614 --> 00:02:39.616 This is a sham! 00:02:40.678 --> 00:02:44.129 I love every one of you guys and I love all those people back home! 00:02:44.129 --> 00:02:47.453 *- Others on the floor were equally outraged.* 00:02:47.453 --> 00:02:50.069 *Kevin Erickson is a delegate from Minnesota.* 00:02:50.069 --> 00:02:55.528 - What this means is that the states will no longer retain the right under the new rules 00:02:55.528 --> 00:02:58.968 to elect their delegates and have them stand. 00:02:58.968 --> 00:03:05.452 A presumptive nominee will be able to unseat an entire state's delegates if they don't like who's on the slate. 00:03:05.452 --> 00:03:09.567 Giving a Presidential candidate veto power over a state's delegation 00:03:09.567 --> 00:03:13.544 means that future conventions will not have a dissenting voice. 00:03:13.544 --> 00:03:17.052 We won't be able to bring motions and amendments to our platform, 00:03:17.052 --> 00:03:20.066 we won't be able to speak for people who believe differently. 00:03:20.066 --> 00:03:24.640 You're taking a broad tent at a grassroots party and you're turning it into a dictatorship 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:27.594 that'll be run by a few people with a lot of money, 00:03:27.594 --> 00:03:31.685 and average ordinary people like myself will be out of luck and out of a voice. 00:03:31.685 --> 00:03:37.043 - The question is on the adoption of the resolution, all those in favour signify by saying "Aye". 00:03:37.043 --> 00:03:39.714 *[crowd: "Aye"]* 00:03:39.714 --> 00:03:41.265 All those opposed, "No". 00:03:41.265 --> 00:03:43.543 *[crowd, loudly: "No"]* 00:03:43.543 --> 00:03:46.407 In the opinion of the chair, the Ayes have it, the resolution is adopted. 00:03:46.407 --> 00:03:47.878 *[crowd boos]* 00:03:47.878 --> 00:03:49.921 - All those in favour say "Aye". 00:03:49.921 --> 00:03:52.066 *[crowd: "Aye"]* 00:03:52.066 --> 00:03:54.148 All those opposed, "No". 00:03:54.148 --> 00:03:57.183 *[crowd: "No"]* 00:03:57.183 --> 00:03:59.075 The Ayes have it... 00:03:59.075 --> 00:04:01.894 *[crowd shouts and boos loudly]* 00:04:01.894 --> 00:04:06.757 - The question is on the motion that the Honourable Paul Ryan be nominated by acclamation. 00:04:06.757 --> 00:04:12.769 All those in favour signify by saying "Aye", those opposed say "No"... 00:04:12.769 --> 00:04:14.928 *[crowd shouts "Aye" and "No"]* 00:04:14.928 --> 00:04:16.895 In the opinion of the chair the Ayes have it. 00:04:16.895 --> 00:04:20.257 - I'm gonna have to explain the cheers we've been hearing, I had to turn around to see what was going on, 00:04:20.257 --> 00:04:25.093 it was Congressman Ron Paul entering the forum, he still has very much a role within this Republican Party. 00:04:25.093 --> 00:04:28.428 *- [reporter:] Yes, he is, I just saw him come through here, and as he went by me* 00:04:28.428 --> 00:04:33.952 *there were a lot of young voters, they're the ones who really loved him, stopping him, taking pictures of him to tweet out,* 00:04:33.952 --> 00:04:40.244 *and he came in with his same smile that he's had, and he's become something of a cult hero in the party...* 00:04:43.351 --> 00:05:07.263 *[crowd chants: "Let him speak!"]* 00:05:07.263 --> 00:05:17.776 *[crowd cheers and applauds]* 00:05:21.806 --> 00:05:28.950 - Madam Secretary, I am honoured to lead the Republican Party in the Ocean State. It's the little state... 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:41.193 - You can't have that sir. 00:05:41.193 --> 00:05:43.897 - [crowd member:] It's my property, I'm sorry, that's my... I'm sorry, what's your name? 00:05:56.925 --> 00:05:58.837 - [cameraman:] You, er, took the sign? 00:06:00.436 --> 00:06:05.712 *- [speaker:] Four votes for Ron Paul, and the overwhelming majority, fifteen votes,* 00:06:05.712 --> 00:06:10.114 *to the next President of the United States, Mitt Romney!* 00:06:13.237 --> 00:06:17.126 - Rhode Island, fifteen, Romney. 00:06:17.126 --> 00:06:20.053 *[crowd shouts: "Four Ron Paul!"]* 00:06:20.053 --> 00:06:28.395 - On behalf of the Georgia Republican voters... proudly give seventy-two of our delegate votes 00:06:28.395 --> 00:06:34.496 to the next President of the United States, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. 00:06:34.496 --> 00:06:38.169 *[crowd cheers]* 00:06:38.169 --> 00:06:40.496 Three votes for Ron... 00:06:40.496 --> 00:06:42.554 *[microphone cuts out]* 00:06:43.778 --> 00:06:45.749 *[anchors:] - I, I... -That's it?* 00:06:45.749 --> 00:06:51.254 *- Well done. Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job. [laughs]* 00:06:51.254 --> 00:06:57.926 - And I am proud to say that we are going to support the President, the next President of the United States, 00:06:57.926 --> 00:07:05.482 by casting sixty-seven votes for Mitt Romney, and five votes for Paul Ryan. 00:07:10.251 --> 00:07:14.493 - Pennsylvania, sixty-seven, Romney. 00:07:14.493 --> 00:07:17.165 *[crowd: Five Ron Paul!]* 00:07:17.165 --> 00:07:22.364 - Iowa casts twenty-two votes for Ron Paul... 00:07:22.364 --> 00:07:30.416 *[crowd cheers, chants "Ron Paul!"]* 00:07:30.416 --> 00:07:33.890 ... and six votes for Mitt Romney. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:37.957 *[crowd cheers]* 00:07:38.652 --> 00:07:42.056 - Iowa, six, Romney. 00:07:42.056 --> 00:07:46.298 - Minnesota, where we are very proud of our state Republican Party, 00:07:46.298 --> 00:07:50.671 which runs a fair convention with integrity. 00:07:50.671 --> 00:07:53.254 *[crowd cheers]* 00:07:53.254 --> 00:07:57.455 casts thirty-three votes for Ron Paul... 00:07:57.455 --> 00:08:00.752 *[crowd cheers]* 00:08:00.752 --> 00:08:08.791 ... one vote for Senator Rick Santorum, and six votes for Governor Romney. 00:08:12.714 --> 00:08:16.871 - Minnesota, six, Romney. 00:08:16.871 --> 00:08:22.897 - We proudly cast seventeen votes for Congressman Ron Paul... 00:08:22.897 --> 00:08:27.977 *[crowd cheers]* 00:08:27.977 --> 00:08:31.715 ... five abstentions, and five for Romney. 00:08:36.254 --> 00:08:40.224 - Nevada, five, Romney. 00:08:40.224 --> 00:08:48.335 [slowed] Nevada, five, Romney. 00:08:48.335 --> 00:08:52.041 - I gotta tell you, I like your dad, you love your dad, but I like him a lot, 00:08:52.041 --> 00:08:57.071 and I was pretty shocked to hear that they wouldn't even read from the podium 00:08:57.071 --> 00:08:59.952 how many votes Congressman Paul got. 00:08:59.952 --> 00:09:04.223 *[Sen. Rand Paul:]* Well one of the interesting things was the crowd was reciting how many he got, 00:09:04.223 --> 00:09:08.053 so when they wouldn't announce it from the podium, you would hear an echo from the crowd 00:09:08.053 --> 00:09:10.784 of the Ron Paul supporters who were announcing his totals. 00:09:10.784 --> 00:09:14.107 - Why didn't they do that? This seems so petty and so ridiculous, 00:09:14.107 --> 00:09:16.638 I mean, your father worked hard in the Republican Party, 00:09:16.638 --> 00:09:22.992 *he went through all the rules, I believe he didn't do anything illegal in getting those votes, he went through the process...* 00:09:22.992 --> 00:09:27.472 This is the last time he's running for President of the United States, I just thought it was inappropriate 00:09:27.472 --> 00:09:31.944 to end his political career, if you will, on a note like this before his own party. 00:09:31.944 --> 00:09:36.737 *[Music: Hans Zimmer, "Time"]* 00:10:16.208 --> 00:10:18.776 *[letter text:] Dear Friend,* 00:10:18.776 --> 00:10:24.580 *I can't tell you how touched I've been by my supporters' generosity from day one of my Presidential campaign.* 00:10:24.580 --> 00:10:29.812 *Your support has made an incredible impact that will continue on well into the future.* 00:10:29.842 --> 00:10:35.852 *In fact, as I look back at the past year, I'm literally amazed at how far we've come.* 00:10:35.852 --> 00:10:41.501 *Today, we can catch a glimpse of our future - and it's a bright one.* 00:10:41.501 --> 00:10:47.300 *Due to our Liberty Movement's youth, energy, and growing numbers, establishment Republicans are recognizing* 00:10:47.300 --> 00:10:52.219 *their days of controlling the national GOP are coming to an end.* 00:10:52.219 --> 00:10:58.794 *Even now, they are being forced to recognize that our issues - like finally auditing the Federal Reserve - are not going away.* 00:10:58.794 --> 00:11:03.963 *My hope is, with your continued support, it will not end until free markets, sound money, Constitutional Principles,* 00:11:03.963 --> 00:11:08.530 *respect for individual liberty, and a common-sense foreign policy are all restored in America.* 00:11:08.530 --> 00:11:11.804 *For your generosity and all that you'll continue to do in the name of liberty, thank you.* 00:11:11.804 --> 00:11:13.100 *For liberty,* 00:11:13.100 --> 00:11:16.000 *Ron Paul*