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elect romney, you'll see more of them again. this came up last night in what i thought was a brilliant question from one of the audience members at that debate at hofstra, and it got right at the central problem that the republicans have been dealing, since the support for romney creatored during the george w. bush second term. the greatest show on earth has been the republican party figuring out who it is after bush and cheney. the republican party figuring out if they are like bush and cheney or if there's something they learned from those years they don't want to do anymore. are they any different from bush and cheney? who's the new leadership of the party and what do they stand for that's different than the bush and cheney years? it's a really vexing political quandary for the republicans. it's been amazing to watch them try to work it out. they still haven't totally worked it out, but that all made for a very good pointed question at last night's debate. >> i want to move us along to susan katz, who has a question, and governor, it's for you. >> governor romney, i am an undecided

? if romney land is feeling bruised the tale of the tape last night was a t.k.o. the president won painting romney as an out of touch plutocrat, calling romney out for paying 14% in taxes, letting detroit go bankrupt and pushing a sketchy budget on the american public. he saved his blow for the most powerful of the night. >> i think the president's campaign has tried to characterize me as someone who's different than who i am. i care about 100% of the american people. >> when he said behind closed doors that 47% of the country considered themselves victims, who refused personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about. and i want to fight for them. that's what i've been doing for the last four years because if they succeed, i believe the country succeeds. >> refs on both sides agree that last night was a bruiser but the strongest most concise assessment came courtesy of the new york daily news. bam boom. round three, the last and time bought, is monday. sam stein, of "the huffington post," we have seen a lot of back and forth this morning from republicans who are trying to say t

attacks on mitt romney. >> so let's recap what we learned last night. his tax plan doesn't add up. his jobs plan doesn't create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. we've been there. we've tried that. we're not going back. we're moving forward. that's why i need your vote. we've got to finish what we started in 2008. >> the president feels good and so does his base. he turned around a lot of dejected supporters with his energetic performance last night, no doubt. mitt romney was trying to keep spirits high at a campaign rally in virginia, but his stump speech, well, it was a little bit different. for instance, there was not one word about the administration's response to libya. interesting. a week ago, romney was giving lengthy speeches to military cadets about the libya response. he tried to use the benghazi attack to his advantage in last night's debate. >> on the day following the assassination of the united states ambassador, the first time that's happened since 1979, when we have four americans killed there, when apparently we didn't know what happened, that the p

night. it was a lot different than the mitt romney who looked is so confident as he told lie after lie during the debate in denver two weeks ago. back in colorado, we saw a guy named moderate mitt. last night romney tried to fool everyone with moderate mitt once again. watch his very first answer of the night, in response to a question from a college student. >> i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we're also going to have our loan program, so that people are able to afford school. >> holy smokes! all of a sudden moderate mitt loves pell grants. even though the real romney supports demolishing the pell grant program through paul ryan's budget. which, of course, he says he supports. president obama never let mitt romney define the terms of the debate, especially on romney's economic plan. >> now, governor romney was a very successful investor. if somebody came to you, governor, with a plan that said, here, i want to spend $7 trillion or $8 trillion, and we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it, you ha

offer the details. >> well, there was one deficit the president had last night. mitt romney scored well saying the deficit went up and we added trillions to it. that was an opportunity for the president to say we had a bunch of unemployed people not contributing to the treasury. it wasn't all spending. yes there was a stimulus package that the country wanted and it was both conservative and liberals went along with. we had to dig ourselves out of the worst hole. the reason we had those numbers was we didn't have enough people contributing into the treasury. i think the president could have taken a moment to explain that. he was left flat footed on that issue. if there was anywhere that romney scored, it was there. >> that was an opportunity. >> it was. but i think the president hit all the right notes as far as where we were and where we've come. but explaining the big number in something that was left out. and the other was foreign policy last night. mitt romney is inept on foreign policy. he proved he has no experience. the next debate is going to be a hard lift for him. the fact is l

. he also needs to say where the other guy would. i love what he said about romney last night having a one-point plan, that being to give big tax breaks, even more tax breaks to the people at the top. to dump on the 47% he said he's not going to bother with. we've got to finish what we started in 2008. you don't want to invest in that sketchy deal. >> we're back now. howard and john, let's try to do this straight up right now without any part tinship. someone who let's you know the truth, where does this campaign stand right now? where does it stand not just in terms of numbers but in direction. howard first. >> well, chris, it's a very close race. the popular vote totals, if you look at various compilations of all the polls has it dead even. 47%, approximately, for both candidates. significantly. nobody close under that statistic of 50%. electoral college is closer than it was a few weeks ago. the battleground states look the same. i think a couple more than there were. i think it hangs in the balance. i think that the president dug himself out of the hole he was in last night, but

guy would. i love what he said about romney last night having a one-point plan, that being to give big tax breaks, even more tax breaks to the people at the top. to dump on the 47% he said he's not going to bother with. we've got to finish what we started in 2008. you don't want to invest in that sketchy deal. >> so let's recap what we learned last night. his tax plan doesn't add up. his jobs plan doesn't create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. we've been there. we've tried that. we're not going back. we're moving forward. that's why i need your vote. we've got to finish what we started in 2008. electoral college is closer than it was a few weeks ago. the battleground states look the same. i think a couple more than there were. i think it hangs in the balance. i think that the president dug himself out of the hole he was in last night, but he is hardly home free. neither for that matter is mitt romney. i think what the candidates say, directed especially at women, undecided women voters who were the focus last night, chris, is going to make all the difference in th

us. last night, he came prepared to play, president obama crushing mitt romney, starting right off the bat when he said hey dude, you don't have a five-point plan, you have a one point plan, which is all about regarding the rich, the rich people like you and screwing the middle class. great performance by president obama. let's talk about it, but first we'll take a little timeout to get the latest update. lisa ferguson standing by. good morning. >> good morning everyone. president obama does have a slight edge right now in who voters think won the debate. the new poll has him at 46% compared to mitt romney's 39. it was a much sharper and more aggressive president obama that we heard coming from him last night. we'll have a lot of fact-checking and explaining for you. i want to start off with libya. this is an area romney had a chance to come out on top and should have come out on top but this turned out to be one of the president's strongest moments of the night. >> the suggestion that anybody on my team or the secretary of state, our u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play

: romney is taking his lumps on the issue of equal pay for women. last night the former massachusetts governor said he wanted women hired for top positions before he took office. >> romney: we could a took a concerted effort to find women who had the backgrounds to be qualified to be members of our cabinet. i went to a number women's groups can you help us find folks, and they brought us binders full of women. >> eliot: but according to the coalition groups at a fill those binders romney told the story backyards. she told the "huffington post" that hiving top-level women was an initiative of women's organizations to make it be something that he had to follow through on. he didn't go out looking for these binders. romney also bled a bit when he dualed with the president over their personal investments. >> romney: mr. president, have you looked at your pension? mr. president, have you looked at your pension. >> obama: i don't look at my pension. it's not big as yours, it doesn't take me long. >> eliot: and romney struggled over the strike that killed four americans in ben gas did i. >>

-fisted debate between president obama and governor mitt romney last night. we know more than 65 million americans watched, almost as many as the first debate. so, who won? 20 days to go before americans get to the polls, it's your voice, your vote. and abc's jake tapper was out with the president today. >> reporter: beaming and obviously feeling triumphant, president obama came out this morning in iowa with his fists still flying. >> you've heard of the fair deal? you've heard of the square deal? mitt romney's trying to sell you a sketchy deal. >> reporter: polls suggest the public gives obama the edge of over romney in last night's debate and on the campus of ohio university in athens, obama's supporters were delighted. angie madden liked it when the president asserted himself on libya. >> and the suggestion that anybody in my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. >> i thought he put romney in his place. i thought he did a fantastic job. >> reporter: student frances liked the president's feistine s feistiness. >> i liked when they

romney said last night at the debate. >> i just note that i don't believe that bureaucrats in washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not or employers whether they can have contraceptive care or not. every women in america should have access to contraceptives and the president's statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong. >> however, governor romney last february repeatedly asked did his staff, that he did support the blunt amendment. the blunt amendment -- after initially saying he didn't. he said he did. that was his final word on it. the blunt amendment as written would have given employers the right to declare a moral or religious waiver, an opt out if you will, of providing employer provided contraceptive care in their insurance. so, wasn't had he misstating his own position last night? >> not in any way. governor romney is both a strong supporter of religious freedom and also believes in access to contraception for american women. so there was no -- >> where is the access -- where is the access? if you are a women of not great means you can

him, what he saw last night was mitt romney answering those questions, but also you saw a guy coming with the full force of his anger and mitt romney never bow to him. megyn: 36% said voting for mitt romney and 29% said undecided. the rest are for barack obama. thank you, chris stirewalt. the big topic today is candy crowley. trying to qualify for correction of mitt romney.k the president s before he called the attack in benghazi. >> he did, in fact, sir. megyn: candy crowley went on tv after the debate and offered an explanation of what happened there. >> he was right in the main point. i just think that he picked the wrong word. >> there has been a lot of pushback on her. while the president did use the word act of terror, there is the question of contacts and whether he or anyone else was on the record as describing it as a terrorist attack in the wake of public statements. that was about a spontaneous protest and whether the matter should have been weighed in by a moderator on such an dicey issue. coming up, we will speak to political experts on whether candy crowley change the d

? let us look at coverage of the dinner last night. obama and romney go for laughs. switching from -- switching to jokes. they set aside an evening to make fun of themselves and each other. let us take a look at one of the clips. president obama at last night's dinner. [video clip] >> i have heard some people say, barack, you are not as young as you used to be. where's the peck and your stop? and i say, settle down. i am trying to run a cabinet meeting. he doesn't smile when he says it though. tomorrow, it is back to campaigning. two cities and towns across our great country. under the same thing everywhere i go. -- i hear the same thing everywhere i go. and i admit sometimes it can be a grind. sometimes it feels like this race has dragged on forever. but paul ryan assured me we had only been running for two hours and 50 something minutes. [applause] of course, the economy is on everybody's minds. the unemployment rate is at the slowest of all since it took office. i do not have a joke here. i just thought it would use all to remind everybody. we will take a look with governor romn

. there he is. >> the viral phrase from last night came from mitt romney. >> the folder or whatever, binder of woman. >> they brought us binders. >> binders. >> binders. >> binders full of women. >> the president talked about women as bread winners. >> we don't have to collect a bin much of binders to find qualified, talented young women. >> and governor romney talked about them as resumes in binders. >> both candidates and their wing men. >> in three of the most politically value battle ground states. >> we've got 20 days go to. >> i think it hangs in the balance. >> mr. romney shooting himself in the foot that was frequently in his mouth\. >> he can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. >>> with just 20 days until election, president obama is now feeling better about the debates. >> we had our second presidential debate last night, and you know, i'm still trying to get the hang of this thing. but as bee saw last night, the five-point plan really boils down to one point. folks at the very top get to play by a different set of rules than you do. the we cannot grow this eco

these folks. >> who do you think won the debate last night between ann romney and michelle obama? >> you won't believe their answers. >>> good evening on this sunday night from boca raton, florida, where the presidential candidates will hold their final debate, right here tomorrow night. and a new poll tonight shows just how high takes this final debate will be. we'll get to that in a moment. but we're going to begin here with that mass shooting in wisconsin. that left three people dead and four more injured. this is the scene tonight, outside that spa near a crowded shopping ball. police and first responders flooding the area, putting them all on lockdown, searching for the gunman who slipped away for a time, but the ap reporting tonight that the gunman's body has been found inside that spa. abc's alex perez is there in brookfield, wisconsin, tonight with the latest. >> reporter: what started out like any other quiet sunday morning in suburban milwaukee, within minutes, turned deadly. 11:00 a.m., the azana spa had just opened for the day. customers already filing in, for peticures and manic

. what they saw last night were the sharp contrasts between the president and mitt romney on so many levels from their temperaments to their demeanor, vision and policies. immigration reform was one such policy difference. >> romney: we're going to have to stop illegal immigration. there are 4 million people who are waiting in line to get here legally. those who come here illegally take their place. i will not grant amnesty to those who come here illegally. >> jennifer: this time in this debate president obama did not let romney's stop just fly by. >> obama: his plain strategy during the republican political was to say we'll knowledge self deportation making life so miserable for people that they leave. >> jennifer: it made good tv and prompted the most twitter activity during the debate. there were 7.2 million tweets during last night's debate over all. that is a lot but still 3.1 million fewer tweets than the first debate, which is odd. maybe big bird sat this won out. joining us is a man who never sits one out mark memlman. he advises democrats candidates cross the county. welcome

obama and mitt romney picked up today where they left off during their contentious debate last night. >> mitt romney is trying to sell you a sketchy deal, we are not buying it. we know better. >> when it comes to his policies and his answers and his agenda, he is pretty much running on fumes. >> reporter: the only thing missing today, the finger pointing and glares dominated last. >> i am happy to answer the question. >> the oil prediction is down -- >> have you looked at your pension? mr. president, have you looked at your pension? >> you know, i don't look at it, it is not as big as yours. >> you will get your chance in a moment, i'm still speaking. >> reporter: and at times, the moderator, candy crowley, struggled to keep them in line. >> once -- >> because this is important. >> reporter: but the candidates engaged so intensely that the questioners appeared to take a back seat. mr. obama struggled when a questioner asked if he deserved re-election. >> there is no doubt about it, we've gone through four tough years, so the point is, the commitments i've made, i've kept. and the oth

of the night, the 47% came up and michael steele was on earlier saying that was an error on romney's part to go in and give the president this big moment. let's play what went down, the very last moment of the debate. >> i care about 100% of the american people. >> when he said behind closed doors that 47% of the country considered themselves victims, who refuse personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about. >> so you gene, i help hashtagging duh, duh, duh. that was the last impression and very different than last two weeks ago. >> i don't know why romney went there. i can understand him coming in to the debate figuring that the 47% thing would be raised and therefore he would be prepared to answer it as he's answered it in the nondebate setting. but to bring it up himself at the end where he doesn't get to respond, he opened the door and so president obama went right through it. >> michael, what if the president had forgotten? 47% slipped the mind. guess who was there to remind him. mitt romney. i think oprah calls it the a-ha moments. >> i think what you are saying is what if

little of what governor romney just said is true. it was the theme we heard all night on issue after issue. the 47%, the phony romney economic policy, the romney tax giveaway to the rich, on women's rights, on immigration, on the auto bailout. but the most striking response of the whole night came on the suggestion that he played politics over the death of the libyan ambassador. president obama showed presidential leadership and made the governor look small. >> the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we were going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror, and i also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime. and then a few days later i was there greeting the caskets, coming into andrew's air force base and grieving with the families. and the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. that's not what we do. that's

a break. advisors say expect a more aggressive president to challenge mitt romney tomorrow night. >> he's got to be more energetic. i think you'll see somebody who's very passionate about the choice that our country faces. >> we saw governor romney sort of serially walk away from his own proposals and certainly the president's going to be willing to challenge him on it. >> the president can change his style, he can change his tactics. he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. >> reporter: mitt romney's doing debate prep on the road. saturday he was in ohio. >> i need you to get other people who voted for barack obama to come join our team. we need ohio. >> reporter: maybe not. >> he can probably win the presidency without ohio, but i wouldn't want to take the risk. no republican has. >> reporter: romney's done 34 events in ohio since the republican convention, 11 since his last debate, his campaign says they've signed up thousands of volunteers there. polls show president obama's lead in ohio narrowed to just over one point on average, but reuters reports the presiden

: that was governor romney defending his record last night to female voters, but while the obama campaign attempts to accuse the governor of waging this phony war on women, we must not forget it was one of the president's former aides who once called the white house, quote, hostile to female employees. ironically that person served as the moderator during obama's debate prep in recent days, former white house communications director, anita dunn. in "confidence men," she was quoted as saying "this place would be in court for a hostile workplace because it fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women. joining me, the author of "culture of corruption," michelle malkin. michelle, first of all, there was a story that came out from the free beacon in april of 2011 that women in the white house were paid 18% less than their male counterparts. since obama's been president, we have a half a million fewer women working, .5% increase in unemployment for women. the poverty rate for women in this country, 16.3%. 25 million american women live in poverty, an increase of 3

%. governor romney went after the president last night on the subject of the terror attack on the u.s. consulate in libya that killed the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. jan crawford is with the romney campaign tonight. jan. >> reporter: well, scott, for weeks, republicans have said the president's reluctant to call the attacks terrorism is a sign his administration doesn't have a competent national security policy. last night, the president said he did call it an act of terror within 24 hours of the attacks. that is a new explanation and it triggered a clash between the president, romney, and the debate moderator. re i think it's interesting the president just said something which-- which is that on the day after the attack he went in the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror. you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? it was not a spontaneous demonstration is that what yiu're saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> i-- i-- i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he calle

that on the economy romney on the economy was the clear winner last night. so, where do we stand? we'll just throw it around the table here first and trying to figure out where the race will go after last night. we saw a movement in the last two weeks toward romney. my question is, what was the source of that noouchlt? were these people who all year looking for an excuse to re-elect obama? they liked him personally and thought he came in under tough circumstances and wanted to give him more time and just so disheartened by the performance in denver? i think they got reassurance and they'll like obama. were they looking for an excuse to vote out obama and mitt romney wasn't giving them that excuse. they just didn't feel comfortable enough? if that's the kiss and romney gave them a comfort level in the first debate, i don't think he won last night and probably competent enough a performance to keep the vote earls in the fold for him. >> interesting to see how the polls shift based on this debate. what i thought looking at that clip from libya, you're the president's best line of the night, please pr

the blatant dishonesty and distortions of mr. romney and his campaign to mr. romney tomorrow night in front of, i'm sure, what is going to be a record breaking crowd of viewers for the second debate? >> yes. i think he has to. and they are trying to put all kinds of restrictions on candy crowley. they don't want her to ask follow ups and be the fact checker. i think in a charming, polite way, when things come up, if we hear with the six studies again, if he's brazen enough to tell uses thus that six studies back up the tax plan, even chris wallace doesn't believe you and there's no truth to what you're saying, i think he's got to be a fact checker and say what he needs to say to win. >> joan walsh and bob shrum, thank you for your time this evening to both of you. >> thank you, rev. >>> coming up, a man who knows all about getting to the truth. he blew the lid off of watergate. how can republicans get the facts on jobs? carl bernstein joins us live. you'll want to hear what he has to say. >>> plus, how did this t-shirt saying, quote, "put the white back in the white house" make it into a romne

economy and it is improving. mitt romney talked about his view about how the president formed last night. i think it isn't anything that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. he has to come up with that over this weekend. there is only one debate left on monday. >> i think it isn't anything that the president still doesn't have an agenda for the second term. >> the problem i had for you last night was that although president obama argued his own case far better than the first >>> argued his own case far better than the first debate he was a totally different president obama last night. i thought that mitt romney got stuck into president obama's record in an effective way too. let's face it. you know this. you are a presidential historian no one has been re-elected other than fdr himself where you had these numbers. these are huge sticks to beat you guys with. let me say a few things about this first. no other president other than roosevelt has come to office with the economic calamity that the president faced and the american people know that. let's look at what h

of this debate it is this one. tell america, shout i at out who won this debate. >> romney. >> big night tonight for governort romney. i believe in the days ahead with all of the fact checking that will take place on benghazi and on drilling and on federal lands, it will be probably bigger as people get more informed. we will have a special fact checking edition at 9:00 eastern. coming up tonight as we continue from the spin room, reaction from the left. we will check in with williams and powers. they will join me from here. when we come back, the louisiana dworcher is here -- governor is here as the debate continues. >> we are going to bring the pipeline in from canada. how in the erld president said no to that pipeline i will never know. this is about bringing good jobs back for the middle class of america. that's what i'm going to do. >>> i think you no know these last four years were not good as the president described, and yound don't feel you are confident the next four years will be much better either. i can tell you that if you were to elect president obama you know what you will get. y

mitt romney last night. one topic he thought he could score was immigration. >> called arizona law a model of the nation. part of the law said law enforcement could stop folks because they expected maybe they looked like they might be undocumented workers.. >> that is wrong. romney did not call arizona law a model for the nation. he said that about an earlier arizona law requiring employers to check on the immigration status of employees. when financing education he seemed to contradict. >> i want to keep our pell grant program growing and our loan program so people are able to afford school. >> romney apparently changed his position on pell grants. brief qusly both he and his running mate said they would limit eligibility the president accused romney of dismissing alternative energy. >> governor romney says these are imagery jobs. >> he didn't say that. he actually spoke of an image mary world where windmills and solar panels could power the economy. romney did admit saying troubled u.s. auto makers should go bankrupt. >> you say i wanted to take the auto industry bankrupt, you di

last night. on the question of who would better handle the economy, the answer, mitt romney, by an 18-point advantage. who would better handle the deficit? mitt romney by 23 points. an better taxes, advantage romney. this time by seven points. the group of undecided voters in ohio seemed to agree. here was mitt romney's high point of the night. >> i want to bring the rates down. i want to simplify the tax code and i want to get middle income taxpayers to have lower taxes and the reason i want middle income taxpayers to have lower taxes is because middle income taxpayers have been buried over the past four years. >> now, when the president talks about the tax plan, was not the the high point for undecided voters. so, could the president's form on the key issues cost him? i spoke with larry summers, former director of the -- and former treasury secretary. i asked him why the president is polling so poorly. on these crucial economic issues. >> the facts, the president's got to do much better. look, i can say that i want to eat a lot of dessert and lose 40 pounds. while those are great to

, this is their last chance to make their case to millions of voters in a single night. governor romney is spending the night in florida to prepare while president obama is doing his debate prep at camp david. >> tomorrow is the final round. you guessed it. you'll not see them on the campaign trail today. mitt romney is in florida prepping and president obama is at camp david. it's their last full day to get ready for the big foreign policy debate. that didn't stop others from getting out there. comedian name jeff fox worthy took his coddy act to. rahm emanuel went to florida to campaign for the president. >> it's not like a lot of gray area here. both president obama and governor romney have different visions of what it takes to move this economy forward. >> about a dozen people were lucky now if to ask the president and governor romney questions at the town hall debate this week, but were they happy with the answers they got. i'll ask one of them next. who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. the giants don't have a mascot! ohhh! eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice

have to say last night i'm surprised that mitt romney did not come back and say, that conflict was attacked twice before that day. when are you talking about when you responded. there were two attacks before the attack on helping on 9/11, why not do that in the spring and a month before when a hole was blown through the wall of the embassy? four americans have died and you contradicted yourself and are blocking the american people from getting answers. >> senators john mccain and senator graham have written letters asking for answers. also, last night, this line, that the president was being especially careful dealing with the middle east, it is important not to go too far. >> showing self restraint. back to the federal bomb plot, the guy, and can want to jump to conclusion, he could be muslim. actually, he is a lutheran. obama has come out, already about this plot and playing the movie "wall street." he may arrest oliver stone. president obama is like a guy you cannot play trivial pursuit with. if the answer is "star wars," and he says star trek he will say that is what he sai

the other way around. inaddition, mr. romney last night credited the recruiting effort that followed with helping him bring so many qualified women on board. and today the campaign put out this from the former lieutenant governor kerry healey. as we took office, our administration actively sought to recruit the best and brightest women the commonwealth had to offer. and governor romney wasn't just checking a box. mass gap said female recruitment dropped off, when to 27.6%. running mate paul ryan rose to his boss' defense saying he has an exceptional record of hiring women in very prominent positions in his administration and that's the point he was making last night. as for the obama campaign, they certainly see an opening. >> you heard the debate last night. when governor romney's asked a direct question about equal pay. he started talking about binders. oh, the idea that he had to go and ask where qualified women was, he just should have come to my house. he didn't need a binder. >> so from debate claim to internet sensation to political free for all, before checking into the campa

states felt that the president won compared to 34% said that romney did. maybe last night brought the women back. on the campaign trail both candidates seemed to be angling for the female vote. the president stood in front of a virtual wall of women and made his pitch. >> we should make sure all of our young people our daughters as well as our sons to thriving in these fields. we don't have to find a bunch of binders to make sure women can complete in these fields right now. and when women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work! [ cheers and applause ] >> jennifer: i love it! the romney campaign brought out its big gun, condoleezza rice. >> we can't afford to continue to be a country in which so many men, and especially so many women in these hard economic times don't know if they will ever work again. >> jennifer: no mention of the fact that it was her former boss's policies that got us into this mess in the first place. joining me now is my panel. thank to you both for coming inside "the war room." >> it's good to be here. >> it's chicks at the tabl

a woot-woot. please, governor romney, proceed. it was that kind of night for romney. the evidence of obama's victory and resurgence was everywhere post debate, msnbc no longer seemed suicidal. cnn, of course, looked to be shooting a virtual dick in a box video, and... [applause] of course, fox news, well... >> and the questions, there were 11 of them. six were clear pro-obama. >> they were softballs. >> topics we haven't heard much about. >> three extra minutes for obama. >> moderators in these debates should be part of the furniture. >> did she assist the president? >> mid-sentence to fact check him. >> the that's the worst debate moderation. >> what the heck is that about. >> jon: no, no, no, don't help them. just let them cry themselves to sleep. [laughter] the only way they'll learn. we'll be right back. +t=metet,xx/w!#ky",x jon jon welcome back. now obviously the debates are utterly overable id by the media. each network spending countless post-debate hours with pundits and body language experts and scientists using whatever the hell that is on that guy's face. it made us thi

tomorrow night, there are those who say this isn't mitt romney's strong point, the town hall style. we haven't really seen him in a town hall style. what are you expecting tomorrow? on the campaign trail now for five years, since before the last election, and he was doing ask mitt anythings town halls even then. i have seen him in this campaign, anderson, get so much better. this process we have for these candidates is brutal. they really, it takes a lot out of them but it's brilliant because they meet so many americans, they hear so many stories. you are hearing mitt romney talk on the trail now about how many people he's met that under barack obama have lost their jobs, lost their hope. i think we've seen mitt romney connect in a lot of ways. barack obama is actually very good at this town hall format, too. maybe if both these guys are good, we can actually make a judgment on substance. >> bill, the pressure is on for the president. what do you expect tomorrow night? obviously i assume you think he'll be more aggressive than he was the first time around. >> well, there's no doubt tha

. that is the way forward. [applause] last night, governor romney finally admitted that the governor did not support the bill. you don't have to wait for an answer. the late ledbetter fair pay act was the first bill i signed into law. [applause] that was the first bill. governor romney did not want to talk too much last night about how he wants to end funding for planned parenthood, how he supports legislation that would turn decisions about women's health care to her employers. he did not want to talk about it because he cannot sell it. i don't think your boss should control the health care you get. [applause] i don't think insurers should control the health care you get. i certainly don't think politicians should control the [applause] health care that you get. [applause] we passed obama care -- i like the term -- we passed it. because i do care and i want to put these choices in your hands where they belong. the fourth part of a plan to create jobs right here is to use the money we are saving from ending the wars in iraq and winding down or in afghanistan to pick up our deficit and put our people

. jim acosta is traveling with the romney campaign, also with us tomorrow night's moderator, candy crowley. jessica, the president is obviously going to be under an enormous amount of pressure to stage a comeback, a better performance. should we expect him to be as aggressive as vice president biden was last week? certainly stylistically i can't image them being the same. >> you're right, anderson. he simply can't be as aggressive as the vice president because the town hall format doesn't allow for it. there's nothing that the president's aides would like more than for him to just go after mitt romney and go after him especially on the economy. that is their number one goal is to make his case on the economy and th keep describing it as romney's evasions. you could say it's inconsistencies on his positions, and to have the president really go at those issues, but in a town hall format, the president's number one goal has to be to connect with the voters in the room, because those people stand in as proxies for the voters watching and he has to be able to connect and emote with thos

, the other certainly most talked about moment last night came when are m romney started answering a question about equal pay for women. he pivoted how he tried to hire women for his cabinet when he was governor for massachusetts. >> it took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds to find women who were qualified to be members of our cabinets. they brought us whole binders full of women. >> everywhere you look, binders full of women. it was being tweeted. was that awkward? >> mitt romney does have awkward answers here and there. and the democrats are very good at exploiting them and manufacturing a big movement like they have with this binders of women comment. >> it's the big bird of this debate. >> sure. the larger answer he offered was actually very good in that he realized women were not applying to work in his administration and he wanted to see more of them. by and large i thought that was fine for him. but no, he doesn't answer questions in some cases very eloquently. >> let me bring in senator kay bailey hutchison. welcome back. >> thank you. >> mitt romney did

was mitt romney's high point of the night. >> i want to bring the rates down. i want to simplify the tax code and i want to get middle income taxpayers to have lower taxes and the reason i want middle income taxpayers to have lower taxes is because middle income taxpayers have been buried over the past four years. >> now, when the president talks about the tax plan, was not the the high point for undecided voters. so, could the president's form on the key issues cost him? i spoke with larry summers, former director of the -- and former treasury secretary. i asked him why the president is polling so poorly. >> the facts, the president's got to do much better. look, i can say that i want to eat a lot of dessert and lose 40 pounds. while those are great to have -- governor romney says he's going to cut middle people's taxes, cut high income people's tacks. he's going to preserve the program and the problem is, it just doesn't add up. it will get rid of half the government, or end up on middle class families. just doesn't work. >> let me ask you about another question. when the president tal

talking and standing up and articulating his views. as romney joked thursday night they are doing the best to obscure what he is saying. the reality is punching through and the gatekeepers can't deal with it. >> jon: so what about it? does it suggest the debates are more about style than substance? >> it's television, yes. of course that is through. i was struck by to the extent that people tended to stick to the vie they brought in to the debate. that includes the reporters. the washington and "new york times" said more obama comes back as the lead editorial. the "wall street journal" said, president without a plan. so what you heard is what you wanted to hear from that debate. >> jon: you like president obama. the fact that he did better in this debate. did it cheer you up? >> it certainly cheered me up. i was a little dismayed at some of the press, particularly one that said people clapped in the press room. it did not happen. i was there. i also thought there was a lack of really talking about, although the daily mail did it, talking about some of the other groups. for instance, the fa

governor romney said last night talking about dividends. let's play that. >> every middle income taxpayer no longer will pay any tax on interest, dividends, or capital gains. no tax on your savings. that makes life a lot easier. if you're getting interest from a bank, if you're getting a statement from a mutual fund, or any kind of investments you have, you don't have to worry about filing taxes on that, because there will be no taxes for anybody making $200,000 a year and less on your interest, dividends and capital gains. >> again, there was not a lot of specifics last night about exact deductions that could potentially be compromised. but in the particular thing that he said, you no longer have to pay any tax on interest, dividends or capital gains, no tax on your savings, do you think that that really helps the middle class? do you think middle class people are raking in a lot of money and paying a lot of money in tax on capital gains and tax on their savings? >> a lot of elderly who are retired fall in that middle class, and that helps them tremendously. they are part of the middle c

the president said and we heard some of what governor romney and the president sparred over last night. how much was actually accurate? doug mckelway live in washington with a fact check for us. >> reporter: good morning, jon. there was a lot of loose play with the facts. let's start with questioner candy crowley permitted. >> in what ways you do intend to correct in the workplace, females making 72% what they earned. >> reporter: that 72% figure is a myth endured for years. the census bureau admitted as much last month. >> we don't have a way to measure equal pay for equal work. we compare full-time earnings for year-round work between men and women. >> reporter: in fact census data are a rough measure of women's wages versus all men wages without kind of jobs they choose to accommodate needs for families. a fact challenge that came up regarding taxes. >> he was on "60 minutes" just two weeks ago and he was asked, is it fair for somebody like you, making $20 million a year to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse or a bus driver, somebody making $50,000 a year? and he said yes, i think that's fair.

on the stump after coming face-to- face with mitt romney at an event last night. hear how the rivals traded barbs. ís >>> we are learning more today about the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya, the associated press is reporting the cia station chief in libya sent a cable to washington within 24 hours of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, and said it was carried out by militants. it is unclear whether anyone outside the cia saw the cable. initial media reports connected to the protests across the muslim world because of that anti-islam movie. >>> in lebanon a top official was among people killed when the bomb went off there and injured others there. it is not clear if the violence is tied to the ongoing civil war that is happening in syria. >>> british doctors treating the 14 year old pakistani girl shot by the taliban says she is able to stand with help and to write. doctors say she is communicating freely in writing. she is not speaking yet because she still has a tube in her throat. meantime in pakistan security forces have detained relatives of the man accused in t

for him to hone in on romney's weaknesses for some reason. romney was kind of weak last night, especially on libya. mark halperin, what do you think? >> i think the president won for two reasons mostly. one is libya. an issue the republicans thought they'd have an advantage on and instead romney gave an incredibly weak answer and the president gave a strong one. i think potentially taking the issue off the table the rest of the way including the national security debate. and romney loses as a politician when his opponents get inside his head on being rich and supporting policies which would seem to favor the rich. i thought the president did it all night. and romney showed it. the guy from denver was largely not there. >> joe, what stood out to you? >> well, the first 20 minutes of the poll, what stood out to me was the fact that this was a format, like we said yesterday, that really didn't play to mitt romney's strength. >> yeah. >> he came on way too strong. one thing that all challengers should be aware of, if you're going to be running for president of the united states, there are two

time. well if you found it hard to believe what mitt romney was saying in tuesday night's debate, now you know why. think progress has documented 31 lies. in 41 minutes. a new record for liar, liar, pants on fire. so now you know how to know when mitt romney is not telling the truth. yeah. when his lips are moving! we'll talk about those lies for you but first let's take a little time out to get the latest, start off with today's current news update. here she is, lisa ferguson out in los angeles. hi lisa, good morning. >> hey bill. good morning everyone. president obama and mitt romney are both capitalizing on the debate spin this week. particularly in going after women voters. and can you guess what the number one search term on google was yesterday? binders full of women. not only is that one not playing well for romney, it is not even true. those binders came from a group called the massachusetts government appointments project which put the list together before romney was even elected. so for h

something that romney said during last night's confrontation. cnn's national political correspondent jim acosta is with the romney campaign. >> reporter: wolf, after what sounded like a war between two men trying to assume the role of debate alpha dog, both campaigns are still barking. not surprisingly mitt romney is sounding like a candidate who believes he's gone two-for-two, but at his first post debate event it's worth noting what did and did not come out. >> i love these debates. you know, these things are great. >> reporter: in virginia mitt romney was still in a new york state of mind still talking about his debate rematch with president obama. >> i think it's interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. he can't even explain what he's done in the last four years. >> reporter: but at his first event after the debate, romney did not touch on the night's flash point that got as fiery as the body language between the candidates. just as his campaign signalled he would do during the debate, romney seized on the deaths at the u.s. consulate in libya. b

and low points for each candidate last night? >> well, certainly a high point for governor romney was his enumeration of all the promises that president obama had made and had not been able to keep. and, of course, touting the fact that the economy is still in the doldrums. on the other hand president obama was able to flip some of romney's points. for example, when romney said the price of gasoline was almost three times as great as it was when president obama took office, president obama came back and pointed out that the reason the price of gas was so low four years ago was because the economy was in freefall that the nation was on the brink of recession and that governor romney he claimed was going to reinstate policies that would put the nation at economic risk again. >> both candidates certainly turned up the volume in this debate. one more to go. bob schieffer will moderate that one in florida on monday what can we expect in that one? >> well, that's going to be all about foreign policy. and that is an issue that president obama will probably feel quite comfortable with discussing

to scare women away from romney. that night romney showed up and women said wait, he's not an evil guy. wow! he is smart. respectful and nice. that follows with joe biden arrogant off the jerk marhchisom attitude and now we are seeing what they call the waitress moms. this election depends on the waitress moms. who are waitress moms. i grew up in the diner with the same women. they are concerned about the economy and swing voters. >> dana: what else they care about is welfare reform and whether or not there are changes in the welfare reform requirements. we have a treat that we have you on "the five" and tomorrow morning you will be on "fox & friends." in the debate, how long in the debate before you know, have a sense of what tomorrow morning will look like? >> brian: i'm cheating because i'm watching twitter. i'm cheating and i will admit. that we'll know in an hour in if the president came to play. it's tough for the final half hour. does the president have something in the first half hour that scores big? if he is smart he would look to santorum's last debate with romney. he did well an

debate. missed many of them. and he did last night, carol. >> back to you, dana. romney's biggest stumble, just one. >> reporter: >> well, you heard jesky talk abo jessica talk about the president being forceful on libya. republicans are cringing about today, they were witting for two weeks for romney to be able to get after the president because of legitimate criticism about their changing stories, problemat problemat problematic security but it all got buried under his back and forth about whether the president in the rose garden said it was an act of terror or not. and so that was problematic. one other quick thing i have to say, though, particularly three women here talking, the whole question about equal pay, he turned it into that bumper sticker twitter line, binders full of women. which i still don't really understand. and lastly, this is something that i got tweets about, texts about from republican strategists, carol. the fact that he kept battling with candy, that that is just not a strategy that tends to work well and tends to go over well with voters and viewers, when you batt

. ♪ guts. glory. ram. >> sean: at last night's second presidential debate, governor romney held president obama for every single one. his failures overs last five-on-four years, by far the single best indictment president obama has faced yet. the media should learn from this. here some of the highlights. >> we just can't afford four more years like the last four years. he said that by now we'd have unemployment at 5.4%. the difference between where it is and 5.4% is 9 million americans without work. i wasn't the one that said 5.4%. this was the president's plan. didn't get there. he said he would have by now put forward a plan to reform medicare and social security, because he pointed out they're on the road to bankruptcy. he would reform them, get that done. he hasn't even made a proposal on either one. he said in his first year he'd immigration income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. it's gone by up by $2,500 a year. 5 million jobs. jobs. the entire record is such that the unemployment has not been reduced in this country. the unemploy

gained the most from last night's exposition. here is how it went down. mitt romney's best moment was this. >> this is a president who has not been able to do what he said he would do. he said that he would cut in half the deficit. he hasn't done that either. in fact, he doubled it. he said that by now middle income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. it's gone up by $2,500 a year. the unemployment, the number of people who are still looking for work is still 23 million americans. there are more people in poverty, one out of six people in poverty. how about food stamps? when he took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. today 47 million people are on food stamps. how about the growth of the economy? it's growing more slowly this year than last year. and more slowly last year than the year before. >> bill: well, romney delivered that message very well. even though some of his stats can be debated. the president's best moment came at the end of the debate when he finally brought up the governor's 47% comment where he implied

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