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of mr. obama or mr. romney on foreign policy because i think it's important that you know what you're talking about. as a united states senator you need to know when to deep your mouth shut and right now that's the time. everythingrivy to they know. that's an area where i would look forward to having briefings and having the opportunity to learn more about. >> thank you very much, thanks to you for -- thanks to you the candidates for joining us and my colleagues for being here as well for this texas debate. we'll make this program available on texasdebates.org. election day is tuesday, november 6. good night. \[captioning performed by national captioning institute] \[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> the enemy understands this will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. that is why they're fighting. that is why they're fighting.

to deal with the rise in china. with polls showing the president's advantage over romney on foreign policy has narrowed since the summer, mr. obama tried to highlight one of his biggest foreign policy accomplishments at a light-hearted charity dinner in new york. >> monday's debate is a little different because monday's topic is foreign policy. spoil spoiler alert: we got bin laden. >> he also poked fun at his opponent. >> some of you remember, after my foreign trip in 2008, i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas. i have to say i'm impressed with how well governor romney has avoided that problem. >> for his part, romney could try again to bash the president for his administration's messy response to the attack in libya last month and link it to what he says is a failed approach to the region. >> this calls into question the president's whole policy in the middle east. look what's happening in syria, in egypt, now in libya. consider the distance between ourselves and israel when the president said he was going to put daylight between us and israel. >

that. last time romney got away with arguing about 10% of the policy, and he looked good. if we have 100% match tonight, romney cannot possibly walk out of -- >> is there different terra firma for the two candidates? >> the big omission to me so far sim gra is immigration. you have 12 million people watching with bated breath what's happening. and it's one of the issues where mitt romney took not the most substantiative position, but the most rhetorical positions during the primary. and nassau county is the 12th wealthiest county in the country. and one thing i think is interesting to see is the questions coming from this populous. i day dream what a town hall in the bronx, where i grew up, would look like, and the issues that might come up in that setting versus the issues that might come up from the voters in nassau county. >> the second presidential debate is nearly upon us. we've got the obama campaign's robert gibbs standing by. this is msnbc's live coverage of the second presidential debate. stay with us. >>> are you better off than you were four years ago? welcome aboard! [ ch

's name. next is a call, richard, on the republican line. how you doing. i like governor romney's policies. i'm one of the ones that lost my business, my small business, and i have been down for 3 1/2 years, i have been running metal, scrapping metal, just any trash can i can do, i'm the guy that lost a lot -- i lost over $48,000 in my business. and i like governor romney's policies and i believe in him and i think he'll do a good job. i think he'll really do a good job. >> thanks for calling in, richard. john atkins tweets -- we'd like to hear what you thought about the town hall format and the way candy crowley moderated tonight. did that work for you? did you learn more from this than the one-on-one debate style we will see in the next and final debate. here's a comment from facebook -- next is a call from florida, christine is on the air. caller: i think that we need to meet somewhere in the middle. it's not a wonder that we can't have bipartisanship within the house or in washington or anywhere else when everybody is so far apart on every single issue. as far as a cohesive plan and un

're not going back. >> reporter: as biden listed the ways he thinks romney's policies will hurt americans, a baby in the audience started crying. [ laughter ] >> i don't blame that baby for crying. that baby knows what's in store for him or her if romney wins. >> reporter: with biden seeking votes, the president is at camp david cramming for monday's debate where foreign policy will dominate. drew levinson, cbs news. >> you can watch the final presidential debate live on monday right here on cbs 5 starting at 6:00. the topic will be foreign policy. >>> six bank tellers broke out in hives after a customer deposited money wrapped inside a paper towel. it happened at a chase bank in modesto yesterday afternoon. the employees immediately felt itchy and had trouble breathing. they were rinsed down by emergency workers and taken to the hospital. they are expected to be okay. meanwhile, the fact that money has been takena crime lab for testing. police are now questioning the customers but no arrests have been made. >>> fire crews in lake county are gaining ground in their fight against a wildfir

you are getting very upset because romney had said -- he implied, said we politicalize foreign policy. he said, no, we don't do that, and don't you dare say that. >> i think there's an even greater danger. i have worries about this debate coming up monday, because i think the obama team understands that romney really hasn't clarified his foreign policy positions and they'll turn to president specifically on libya, iran, syria or russia, what would you do differently? if he isn't able to do that, at the end of the debate, obama will look presidential. >> look, president obama has a huge ace up his sleeve. that ace is called george w. bush. the american people think of the bush administration as a lengthy period in which america was -- became a kind of global pariah. we weren't popular around the world. we had these wars that seemed to go on without end and without effect. they began on dubious premises. romney is going to have to -- >> we supported all of those things, i have to say. >> i'm telling you, this is the perception that president obama is going play on. unless romney is able

was studying policy. the line of romney, quote, you said in the rose garden that day after the attack it was an act of terror? he said it skeptically and let's play what the president said in the rose garden that day. let's play it. >> world must stand together to unequivocally reject the acts. no act of terror will shake the resolve of this nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of what we stand for. >> despite what conservatives are saying, despite what romney's team is saying today, the reality is it seemed as if governor romney was unaware or not properly briefed by the team own what was said in the rose garden that day. he did not -- you can tell looking to the president, you're kidding me? you said this? look at the transcript. there it is, bam. >> yeah. that's clear that he wasn't properly briefed on the word terror. >> this is not about policy established that day or direction. this is a comment that governor romney doubted existed. >> yeah. i think that the debate degenerated to about the hot button word terrorism rather than a more sophisticated and nuanced debate

face-off between president obama and governor romney will focus entirely on foreign policy. from afghanistan and pakistan to israel, iran, and the changing middle east. >> it's like they said -- >> reporter: the candidates will spar over america's role in the world, the new face of terrorism, and how to deal with a rising china. the polls have narrowed since the summer. mr. obama tried to highlight one of his biggest foreign policy accomplishments as a light-hearted charity din never the new york. >> monday's debate is a little bit different because the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert. we got bin laden. >> reporter: he also used his speech to poke fun at his opponent. >> world affairs. some of you may remember after my foreign trip in 2008 i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas and i have to say i'm impressed with how well governor romney has avoided that problem. >> reporter: for his part, romney could try again to bash the president for his administrati administration's messy response to the attack in libya last month and link it

in the best interest, he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. >> romney has hunkered down at home in massachusetts after a weekend swing in which he claimed what he called a kresh shen doe of enthusiasm for his campaign. >> about a week ago i had a debate and i did enjoy myself. you know, sometimes in debates the moderators are jumping in and asking questions to try and get you off track but this moderator let us speak about issues that people care about. >> tomorrow night will be the first time that romney and the president engage each other over libya, by the way, since state department officials testified last week. the one new member of the president's debate team is deputy national security advicer ben adviser ben rhodes. they are still trying to explain these comments that the vice president made about benghazi. >> we did not know that they wanted more security. >> of course, those comments directly contradicted state department officials and last week biden was speaking only for himself and the president. on sunday, the advisers were still trying to explain that awa

policy and the campaign 2012 later this morning. but first, president obama and mitt romney met in a different setting. were jokes and wit replaced the seriousness of the campaign. here are the numbers to call -- republicans 202-585-3881. democrats -- 202-585-3880. independence -- 202-585-3882. send us a tweet by writing you can send us a tweet @cspanwj. our question for you this morning is -- how important is a sense of humor and a presidential candidate? it is inappropriate time and place? how much does it run true to you? 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 ou

with you. but i want to talk to you about some specifics of romney's policies. but let me first start with you. do you believe mitt romney's succeeding in shedding the extreme positions that he took in the primaries? >> no. i think what we're learning is that etch-a-sketch is too much of a stretch. the disparity between what he's been saying and is now saying is so severe. and let's be clear. if you go back to 1994, this is a man absolutely without any observable political conviction except that he ought to be president. and now we've also gotten a notice in the debate a number of important public policy positions where his viewers, trust me, where is he proposing very substantial change but won't tell people what the nature of that change will be, i guess because he knows it to be unpopular. >> his tax plan still doesn't added a up. if you include his new $25,000 limit on deduction, tax cuts, 250,535, deduction savings, just 77,0 77,570, according to the tax policy center. all of those savings are still not enough to cover his tax cut. the math just doesn't added a up, mr. chairman.

that answer. >> all right. >> let's look at it. this is a romney ad. >> his policies haven't worked. median income's down $4300 a family. and 23 million americans out of work. he said that he'd cut in half the deficit. he just hasn't been able to put in place reforms for medicare and social security to preserve them. that's what this election is about. it's about who can get the middle class in this country a bright and prosperous future and assure our kids the kind of hope and optimism they deserve. >> this is the big mega theme that romney is developing, focused on the economy, nationally based, not regionally based. i thought that was his most effective answer in that debate. >> oh, i did, too. i think it was the megaissue. i think that fellow put his finger right on it. how can we relate my economic life, my daily life, to what's going on in the larger economy? and president obama virtually had nothing to say to him. by the time he was done, he was talking about ending the war in iraq and killing bin laden. >> don't forget, but 100,000 -- >> right. >> the romney critique, the litany of

romney's policies could affect women. they will move on and release this ad to help obama's message. >> i want to talk to you about mitt romney. mitt romney is ending funding to planned parenthood including cancer screenings. >> reporter: mitt romney took time to plan for the debate. he dispatched a women for women rally. >> any of you have a chance to watch that... >> what the obama campaign is saying about the president's last debate performance and we will have more on how they are dealing with mitt romney's rise in the polls. allison burns, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> several are offering free viewing parties and they are hosting a viewing party and in burling game you can watch the debate at 480 primrose road. the debate will be held at the center. >>> it happened monday morning on fremont boulevard. the delivery truck driver called 911 saying he felt nauseous. he said his eyes were irritated. they searched the truck finding a objection to six -- a toxic and flammable substance. he was treated at the hospital. >> steroid shots from the new england compound center are linked to 2

, a baston of free market thinking, how do you view the romney campaign? >> i like romney's policies b better than the current administration's policies, romney is definitely not a free market candidate. the free market has a much more radical set of solutions than proposed by the republicans. >> if you had a nice dinner with him, what would you tell him to persuade you he was more of a free market guy? what would you say to him? >> i would ask him about the seriousness of major regulatory reform? is he really willing to appeal obama-care and really willing to appeal dodd-frank and really willing to reduce employment in government by about 50 to 60%? are we really willing to make serious changes. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. his new book the financial crisis and free market cure, why pure criticism is the world economy's only hope. that is available now, music to my ears. >>> at the end, we have breaking news, secretary of state hillary clinton says she quote takes responsibility for the attack on the benghazi embassy on september 11th. this comes in an interview with cnn. the sec

much get into a policy argument although they did some of that, make this in part about who romney is, so the way they really criticized romney's tax plan was not by talking about studies and experts but by talking about romney's tax rate, and that is going right after those remaining undecided voters that al is talking about. >> rose: katty kay, thank you for joining us. >> thanks, charlie. >> rose: we pretty much have here a number of people who thought obama won and think it might have stopped what slide there might have been certainly among his supporters and programs from other people who were leaning towards romney, what was the high lying -- highlight for you? >> you know,, watching it as inevitably you do nowadays with twitter on one side and facebook on the other, i was really struck by the reaction of women during the course of this debate and my twitter feed went kind of ballistic with women keeping on tweeting in, a saying that they felt that mitt romney in his answers to that question amount equal pay had somehow been con descending to women, old-fashioned, one mentioned

of romney's policies. it's actually about current energy trends and current policies. really, that 3 million is about obama's policies, some of which mitt romney opposes. finally, the 2 million is an estimate of the number of jobs america loses due to china's intellectual property violations. now, absolutely nobody anywhere in the entire world thinks that simply calling china a currency manipulator, which mitt romney says he'll do, is going to make chinese businesses stop stealing american intellectual property. that's ridiculous. whether or not 12 million is more jobs than you'd expect in an obama or romney first term, it may not be if we get into a recovery, the simple fact is whatever you think of the worth of these policies, the studies and numbers the romney campaign has provided for them have nothing to do with -- are simply not credible. >> ezra, there seems to be a mix based on the data you provided. we look at recent months. the economy added an average of 150,000 jobs a month. romney's plan as well as some of the moody's prointersectijectio they'd need 250,000. that's almost curren

-off between president obama and governor romney will focus entirely on foreign policy. from afghanistan and pakistan to israel, iran, and the changing middle east. the candidates will spar over america's role in the world, the new face of terrorism, and how to deal with the rise in china. with polls showing the president's advantage over romney in foreign policy has narrowed since the summer, mr. obama tried to highlight one of his biggest foreign policy accomplishments at a light hearted charity dinner in new york. >> monday's debate is a little different because the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert, we got bin laden. >> reporter: he also used his speech to poke fun at his opponent. >> of course, world affairs are a challenge for every candidate. after some of you guys remember, after my foreign trip in 2008, i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas, and i have to say i'm impressed with how well governor romney has avoided that problem. >> reporter: for his part, romney could try again to bash the president for his administration's messy res

on international policy and arena where both mitt romney lacks experience and the obama administration is under growing criticism, especially when it comes to the situation in the middle east. let's start with cnn's white house correspondent dan loathian. i assume officials in the white house campaign they know the president has questions he's going to answer. >> reporter: that's correct, wolf. and there doesn't appear to be much of a difference between the two candidates when it comes to foreign policy. but the president is getting prepared in study hall this weekend out at camp david. i think when you talk to folks out there, most people believe the president does have an advantage going into this debate. we expect he'll talk about getting osama bin laden but no one here at the white house, no one with the campaign is under estimating governor romney. he won the first debate. he had a strong performance in debate number 2, and that's perhaps why you saw the president out on the campaign trail this week warming up, hitting mitt romney on foreign policy. >> the next debate on monday will be abo

that were pioneers of outsourcing to china. >> then romney tried to define his self-deportation policy on immigration. again, president obama knocked romney off of his game. >> self-deportation says let people make their own choice. what i was saying is, we're not going to round up 12 million people, undocumented, illegals and take them out of the nation. instead, let people make their own choice. and if they find that they can't get the benefits here that they want and they can't find the job they want, then they'll make a decision to go a place where they have better opportunities. >> his top adviser on immigration is the guy who designed the arizona law, the entirety of it. not everify, the entire thing. that's his whole policy. >> romney was on unsure footing for most of the night. he did a good job putting himself in a corner on a major issue and the president didn't have to say a thing. here's romney answering a question on equal pay for women. >> i recognize that if you're going to have women in the workforce, that sometimes you need to be more flexible. my chief of staff, for i

. so, there are differences between governor romney and george bush, but they're not on economic policy. in some ways, he's gone to a more extreme place when it comes to social policy. and i think that's a mistake. >> any further discussion, gentleman? no. from there, they moved on. the george w. bush question, settled. for undecided voters, who very reasonably might be worrying about putting another republican in the white house, since the last guy was george w. bush, this is what was ringing in your years last night if you've ever thought about that problem. and actually, in terms of the day two coverage, or even the late, late night coverage after the debate wrapped up last night, in terms of fact checking that whole exchange, george w. bush did hint at privatizing medicare, which the president referenced there. george w. bush did hint at that, but he did not go as far as mitt romney did, which is to put the guy responsible for the kill medicare budget on the ticket as his vice presidential nominee. think about that as a political point. the fact check just twists the knife further,

of collapse. it's conceivable governor romney could bring down gas prices because with his policy we might be back in that same mess. >> let's get right to our panel now. from washington, dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." david corn, who's an msnbc political analyst. and the man who broke the 47% story in mother jones' magazine. there's his recent e-book. here in new york with me, jonathan alder, also an msnbc political analyst and a man i spend more time with than my wife. david, if i may start with you, david, humiliated for lying about the president's reaction to libya. condescending about cramming women into a binder. and without a single repost after the president described the romney/ryan budget as an $8 trillion sinkhole, i mean, a drunk snooki was nimbler on her foot than he was last night. >> i'm still thinking about all that time you spend with jonathan. there's a lot of things we talked about last night but the one thing that came to me is how did mitt romney start his career? a consultant, walking into the offices of a ceo and saying, i know more abou

-leaning public policy institute giving governor romney the biggest lead in likability. the governor up three percentage points on the president in that, in that poll which is co-sponsored by the service employees international union. talk about objectivity. and the real clear politics electoral college projection now has governor romney ahead of the president for the first time in this election. with north carolina now moving in to the romney column. tonight we have expert election analysis, the latest on the white house benghazi scandal and controversy and an inside look at the national media's role in this presidential campaign. finish -- former governor of arkansas mike huckabee joins us, media research director of analysis tim graham, fox news mid middle east affairs walid phares among our guests, but more bad news for the president as he and governor romney gear up for monday's final presidential debate. governor romney has erased most of the president's lead on foreign policy. mr. obama has lost 15 percentage points' advantage since september, now leading governor romney by a 47% to 43

and final faceoff between president obama and governor romney will focus entirely on foreign policy. from afghanistan and pakistan to israel, iran, and the changing middle east. the candidates will spar over america's role in the world, the new face of terrorism and how to deal with the rise in china. with polls showing the president's advantage over romney on foreign policy has narrowed since the summer, mr. obama tried to highlight one of his biggest foreign policy accomplishments at a life party charity dinner in new york. >> it's a little different because the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert. we got bin laden. >> he also used his speech to poke fun at his opponent. >> of course, world affairs are a challenge for every candidate. after some of you guys remember, after my foreign trip in 2008 i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas. i have to say i'm impressed with how well governor romney has avoided that problem. >> reporter: for his part romney could try again to bash the president for his administration's messy response to the attack in

it comes to foreign policy the gap between mitt romney and the president is closing according to a recent pew poll. giving the president obama a four-point lead the attack in bengahzi on september 11th that killed four americans including ambassador chris stevens. president obama was requested about who was to blame for the attack on the jon stewart on "the daily show" with jon stewart. >> obama: every piece of information that we get as we got it we laid it out for the american people. >> i would say even you would say it was not the optimal response at least to the american people as far as us all of us being on the same page. >> obama: here's what i'm going to say, as far as four americans getting killed, it's not optimal, and we'll fix it. >> all of it. >> obama: all of it. >> eliot: john mccain is it not like either response on the fox news this morning. >> the optimal line was regrettable and makes me sad. for him to say that every piece of information they got they laid out to the american people was one of the most disengenius statements i her heard. >> eliot: reporting within 24

here in america. today, the president said, mitt romney is trying to forget how his economic policies benefit the very rich like the owners of this factory. >> he's forgetting what his own positions are. and he's betting that you will, too. i mean, he's changing up so much and back tracking and sidestepping. we've got to -- we've got to name this condition that he's going through. i think -- i think it's called romnesia. that's what it's called. if you come down with a case of romnesia and you can't seem to remember the policies that are still on your website or the promises you made over the six years you've been running for president, here's the good news. obama care covers pre-existing conditions. we can fix you up. we've got a cure. we can make you well, virginia. >> this disease is contagious. vice president joe biden says paul ryan, oh, he's come down with it. >> ryan's saying his budget doesn't decimate medicare and medicaid and eviscerate education. it's a little like mitt romney standing in an unemployment line in florida and turning to the guy and say, look, i didn't outsour

. mitt romney's policy and his attacks on the obama campaign. later, we will look at the $9 billion provided to states since 2002 by the center for disease control to prepare public health emergencies. "washington journal" with your calls and e-mails live at 7 eastern on c-span. >> monday, retired supreme court justice john paul stevens will talk about the second amendment and gun laws. our live coverage begins at 12:15 eastern time on c-span2. monday, we will look at the future of world broadband telecommunications. the hudson institute will debate whether the subsidies should be provided to companies in exchange for extending broadbent and other services to rural areas. our live broadcast begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on the c- span. >> c-span brings a special perspective into what is happening in washington, particularly your coverage of the house and senate. if something is going on in the house or senate, and something will go on in the next five years, c-span covers this very well, and it is one of the major news sources or news happenings in washington. we are all struggling w

hampshire. >>carl: he recognizes mitt romney has momentum and he needs to catch up. he is pounding on romney's policy positions. >> you have a tax plan that doesn't add up. you have a jobs plan that doesn't create jobs. you have a deficit plan that doesn't reduce the deficit. new hampshire, you have heard of the new deal in you have heard the square deal, the fair deal? mitt romney is trying to sell you a sketchy deal the we don't need a sketchy deal. we know better. >>carl: the romney campaign says the president is misleading about the position of mitt romney in an attempt to stop our distract voters the issues and deal with the poll numbers. it is going to be an amazing close. the state of wisconsin is a toss up and the battle ground states are expanding for the challenger three weeks before the election and he is over 50 percent, historically comfortable territory as a challenger and not good as an incumbent. >>shepard: it is the trend, 52 percent to 45 percent. the washington bureau chief of the "chicago "sun times"" what is the mood in chicago? >> they have to focus more on locking in t

was accurate. romney's policy recommendations were strong or stroppinger than what the president -- stronger than what the president said. yvonne robinson, bill, it was concise and sound. thank you, yvonne. o'reilly, you are too sophmoric and ill informed. you are a harvard graduate with no common sense. i guess that explains it, right? tom mccray, very disappointing, bill, you are saying the word little and the governor can never be used in the same sentence. what say you? >> i say governor kristy has a big personality. arizona state university and you should send the governor a no pin head matt. >> at first i thought the tip of the day was con do sending, but now it is for insight and wisdom. excellent. >> bill, please tell us about the co author. he researched killing kennedy and killing lincoln charles. he lives in california. we write every line in the books together. good guy. puts up with me. gary, where can i get millers killing lincoln logs book? he loon -- at the lunatic shop. when are you guys coming here? possibly in february, jim. first we stop in houston on november 24th, salt

point on the debate was too tim mitt. he established himself equal on policy and he exceeds the president. based on what, carol? the governor has no national record. my statement was accurate. romney's policy recommendations were strong or stroppinger than what the president -- stronger than what the president said. yvonne robinson, bill, it was concise and sound. thank you, yvonne. o'reilly, you are too sophmoric and ill informed. you are a harvard graduate with no common sense. i guess that explains it, right? tom mccray, very disappointing, bill, you are saying the word little and the governor can never be used in the same sentence. what say you? >> i say governor kristy has a big personality. >> good morning everyone. >> i am patti ann browne. >> i am heather childers. it is friday october 19th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> we begin with the benghazi terror attack. >> this as president obama is coming under fire for how he just referred to the four americans tragically killed in the assault. good morning, peter. >> good morning, patti ann.

office. >> top advisor to republican romney vowed with foreign policy on the table tonight, the president will face some heat. >> i think governor romney quite properly will be asking questions, probing and trying to ask the president to man up, accept responsibility. and explain to the american people the failure that result in four american deaths. >> what big question is if he was briefed on intelligence regarding earlier attacks on the consulate in benghazi. andrew card told fox today the state department would have looped in the white house. >> it would have been known in white house situation room and known by national security advisor. the homeland security advisor and chief of staff. i suspect the president. >> in interview with wendell goler, clinton hedged how far up the chain it went. >> i can't speak to who knew what about that. >> meanwhile, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice told the "washington post" there was no attempt to cherry pick explanations for the terror attack. >> while she now claims she does not want to blame the intelligence community she added it was purel

for them right now. he pivoted out. the third debate will be about foreign policy. romney is notching up his criticism and try to not let them get away from those facts. >> i think the drumbeat is going to continue. it was the worst moment of the debate for joe biden. >> in the last few weeks you've seen romney begin the week talking about foreign policy. he gave the big speech, he's given press conferences on this, and i think they very much sense an opening on this particular issue, because they can make the larger argument. >> the issue of intelligence or cover-up? >> i think the issue for them is leadership on the global stage. >> andrew? >> the key difference between these two candidates is that one is going to do all he can to avoid a new war in the middle east and the other one is going to hand over the use policy and launch a new global war. chris: thanks to the rounds table. john hileman, andrew sullivan, henderson henderson and liz

/11. governor romney, what is unfortunate in his foreign policy is its slogans and one liners, and you don't have a sense where his judgment would be in some of these issues. well i'll sanction china the first day. i think russia are our greatest adversary. those two statements they have not produced a winning foreign policy. >> eliot: it's good marketing but not a coherent foreign policy. nicholas burn, so many things for your joining us tonight. >> thank you very much. >> eliot: for more on politics of this past week i'm joined by reuters columnist david rhode and wayne barrett. thank you both for joining me. it's great to have you both here. david, let me start with you afghanistan not as much in the news now as perhaps north africa and syria. are we getting out fast enough? >> i think we are. i think we got to get out. i think in this debate you're going to see romney hammer the president on this. the strategy will be this is president jimmy carter not president barack obama. he'll play on this reaganist theme. the world wants to be led by america--which isn't true--but that's the them

actually makes the economic argument which foreign policy is, it's a global economy, and if mitt romney or president obama makes that as an economic argument, you can also work that into the debate and bob schieffer will most likely as well as the moderator, an experienced moderator at that. let's talk about the women's thing. amuses me when a lot of people talk about what women want and how to reach the woman voter, is it the economy and health care and isn't there a merging of these issues and there is a pocketbook overlap that does affect women when you talk about health care and reproductive health. >> yes. that is i think a lot of -- the less smart political annualysisn our country says that you have to make a choice between social issues and economic issues when you're talking to women and that -- i think the romney campaign just decided early on that they would be able to sort of allow all of these questions about the newfound conservatism of the republican party on issues like contraception and traditional stance they have on choice. they thought they would allow those issues an

, versus mitt romney's policy of self-deportation. >> of 11 million people. >> that's a ludicrous claim he's going to do it. it's an insult. anyway, president obama swamps mitt romney among young voters, 18 to 34 age group but they're less enthusiastic this time around. now 52% of young voters call themselves extremely interested in the electric. back in 2008 that number was 20 points higher. and in an effort to fire up young voters, the president has been on a college tour of u.s. campuses. this last week he was at ohio state. let's listen. >> grab your friends, grab everybody in your dorm, grab your fraternity or sorority, join will i. am right after this event because he's heading to an early vote location and vote in the same place right now. there are buses around the corner that can get you there and back. so, don't wait. >> among latino voters obama beats romney now, believe it or not, by 50 points. but the tricky part maybe their enthusiasm level again. now 59% of latinos call themselves extremely interested in this election, at this point in 2008 that number was 18 points higher.

. but as far as foreign policy is concerned, i think it's safe to say we're going to hear mitt romney take another run at libya and the attack of benghazi. there have been a number of developments since their last clash on this issue which most people believe mitt romney came out on the short end. you can expect them to take another whack on that and hit the president on his china policy. ohio is the big state here one in play heavily industrialized state. that's why you've heard mitt romney talk about fair trade practices and promising to get tough on china. mitt romney behind in ohio by about six points according to our last poll. >> i appreciate that perspective. you're exactly right. mike viqueira, appreciate that. >>> republican candidate mitt romney is getting ready for monday night's debate. he's in florida where he held an ally. he has no events planned today. he's studying up on foreign policy issues. it is speculated that president obama holds an advantage. but foreign policy has attracted renewed attention in the aftermath of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >>> joi

dollar national debt which will be the subject of a romney policy speech later this week. >> the crescent came into office saying he -- the president came into office saying he would cut the deficit in half in his first term. he's given us four years of tripltrillion dollar deficits. he's added more debt than all previous presidents combined. >> he was charged with misleading the public, arguing that romney's plan to decrease military spending and cut taxes across the board is mathematically impossible without adding to the debt. with the polls tied nationally, romney's popularity is surging. the george washington university poll puts romney in positive territory for the first time. 54% favorable,44rs unverifiable. tomorrow's debate will show each candidates' ability to connect with voters. both sides agreed in advance that the audience would drive the discussion. moderatomoderator candy crowleyn said she will ask follo follow p questions and insert herself in the debate. insiders say time will tell. joe biden was scheduled to stomach in nevada today but -- to stump in nevada today but wi

bush and romney's policies from the bush tax cuts. when you compare under that, if we do a bush versus clinton scenario for pete's sake here, what years were your life better? >> that's funny. >> home prices are up. there are indicators we're on the upswing, and i'm not advocating for anyone here. i'm looking at the math here. people were suffering under policies you are ny under the b administration. >> you don't think people are suffering right now? >> of course they are. are you kidding me? >> the two administrations most similar are bush and obama's. obama can complain about the tax cuts. he allowed them. >> you see differences in governor romney and bush? >> i think he's another george w. bush and conservatives agree. >> you don't like anybody. you don't like romney or bush. >> i rode here today with a limo drive who is a black voter who considers himself socially conservative. he started to take me up. he said, listen, i can't believe what obama has done. i think he's a failure, but i can't bring myself to vote for mitt romney because i don't trust him as an individual. that's th

on foreign policy? >> i think this is one of those ones where i actually view mitt romney as having the potential to -- he's coming in, i think, as the underdog but has a really strong hand. i don't expect him to have a sort of complicated -- i don't expect him to miss on the libya issue next time around. people have generally said because the economy and domestic policy is really mitt romney's strong suit, that's where they expect to see him perform well but i think there will be a lot of times where he's able to link, you know, america's place in the world to our economic security. >> but what happens -- what happens, though, if all that mitt romney does -- he come out and says, look, you know, come o mr. president, it's been a disaster and barack obama turns around and says, well, i killed osama bin laden, i helped kill ga dar gadhafi, got mu bab rack out, ended the war in iraq, what else did i do, brought freedom and democracy to middle eastern states. not a bad resume on the ticket in the first term? >> you have to do a lot -- killing bin laden i would hope any president who do

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 not what i do as president, that's not what i do as commander in chief. >> it was a powerful moment. he t

of attack against romney now is in effect that the governor is lying about his policies to make it seem that he is more moderate than in fact he really is. let's watch: >> president barack obama: after running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, mitt romney is trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. >> chris: hasn't romney moved to the center, shifted some of his positions to the center, or at least his emphasis on those positions, in recent weeks? >> no, chris, the fact is, governor romney's positions don't comport with the 30-second attack ads the obama campaign has been running nearly a year now, at least over six months, millions of dollars of these 30-second attack ads distorting the governor's position and what 70 million americans saw last week in the debate and in another, you know, tens of millions more and the vice presidential debate are the real positions of governor romney, which would get or economy moving again, which would reform our tax code, by lowering tax rates by 20% across the board and offsetting those, reform that w

the chart, by the way. this poll that shows romney always had an edge on economic policy and now foreign policy? my insurance rates e probably gonna double. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? >>neil: governor romney nearly erasing the president's lead on foreign policy a month following the benghazi murders coming at the c.i.a. delivers a separate blow to the administration. we are getting word in 24 hours after the benghazi attack a top c.i.a. official told the state department that the attack had terror written all over it so why did the state department blame the attack on online video and stick with that story for days? and weeks in bret baier has been digging into this getting ready for a special. >> why do you think the request was denied? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know why. i cannot imagine why. i cannot fill in that blank. i think this are those that know and that is part of what was trying to c

's the thing, there's a contrast here. we have the fact. romney wants to do george bush's policies. and a little more of that. barack obama has built policies on the same premise that president clinton had investing in america. it's people and economics. >> what you want is more of what we had the last four years. >> no, it's exactly -- first of all, george, when the president walked into the oval office, we were losing on average 800,000 jobs a month, the economy was shrinking about 8%. that was handed off from the bush economy policies. since that time, steady progress. the banking system was near-collapse, people now get car loans, home loans, student loans. you now have on average 150,000 jobs created. we're also doing major research and development both in the medical area, science and technology. we have to keep that edge. we also have to invest in the basic infrastructure of this country to move our products, roads, airports and bridges, if it runs on rails, runways, roads, we have to upgrade that. that's how you move an economy guard. -- forward. the truth is, mitt romney w

the world and i think he's done those things. two words on governor romney's foreign policy record, blunder and bluster. he alienated our closest allies. he said he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get bin laden. he called russia and not al qaeda our greatest foe. the american people see a strong contrast in the debate on monday night. >> that assessment notwithstanding of the governor, there's a new poll that shows mitt romney has closed the gap in many areas of foreign policy. how is the president lost his edge in what was previously assumed to be one of his greatest strengths and then you add to that the president making a remark on "the daily show" that republicans today are seizing on. here's that. >> i would say even you would admit it was not the optimal response to the american people as far as us all being on the same page. >> here's what i'll say. if four americans get killed, it's not optimal. >> right. >> we're going to fix it. >> all of it. >> all of it. >> now, of course you probably don't want to comment on that optimal line because it's clear he was responding to what was b

's policies and governor romney's policies. that became clear in the first debate and will be clear in the second debate and it was clear in the vice presidential debate. this is a big choice election and the fact is what we saw you is even if he changes his style at whatever political tactic the president settles on as being in the best interest for this debate he can't change his record and he can't change his policy. >> chris: i talked to david axelrod about the tightening polls and romney now leads in the national polls and you closed the gap in a lot of other polls. where do you think the race is at now? >> the race is close. the wind is clearly on governor romney's back. the country is lienl evenly divided. david axelrod and i don't agree with much. we couldn't agree on a stopped clock what time it is. we do agree this will be a close race, i believe the momentum s on governor romney's side and he will win in november. >> chris: thank you for coming in today. safe travels on the cam feign trail. >> thank you. >> chris: up next, the sunday panel panel. what to expect when romne

are great. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i called to talk about mitt romney's policies. when it comes to women it seems like if we're not married we don't deserve to have an equal paying job. >> stephanie: right. somebody made that point yesterday -- what if a woman wants to do something else to be with her lesbian partner -- >> caller: anything. >> stephanie: really? only if you are going home to cook dinner for your kids in your heterosexual unit. >> caller: i think it's horrible that we can't be responsible without a man in our life. >> stephanie: and does he give flexibility to a man to go home and cook dinner. >> caller: oh, no. a man is supposed to take out trash in his world. >> well, he has to go home and pay the servants. >> stephanie: mittens on the campaign trail. >> romney: i love these debates, and the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. he has to come up with that over the weekend, because there is only one more debate left. [ mocking laughter ] >> stephanie: republicans try to seize control of the word binder. >> bless their heart

heartburn, his policies. and in the post 57% say romney's policies would favor the wealthy. just a third say they'd favor the middle class. versus 68% saying the same for the president. so will the hofstra town hall be a chance for the president to bring the fight? to prove his case with the middle class? or will mitt romney have his way with yet another slick sales pitch? let's get right to our panel. in washington msnbc political analyst, karen finney. ab na marie cox, and julian epstein. good afternoon to all of you. karen, we're hearing from our own kristin welker is the president is likely to bring up romney's taped comments about the 47% being a bunch of feckless freeloaders, but isn't the problem here that mitt romney will simply claim that he never said such a thing whether it's on tape or not? just as he has on his tax plan that is estimated to leave a $5 trillion hole in revenues. just as he does with everything else. it just didn't happen. >> well, sure, she's going to try to do that. but i think if president obama is well-prepared to deliver the goods, he will remind the audience

there is not what the blunt amendment is. mitt romney really does support a policy that's not just about religious employers, not just about catholic hospitals. it's about any employer anywhere in the country being able to block their employees from getting birth control through their health insurance. sounds awful, right? that's why it keeps coming up. picture your boss. does your boss want you to have the pill? do you not know? do you want to find out? because that is is actually one of the choices you have in this election between your boss deciding whether you get the pill under your health insurance or that not being your boss' business. that really is the choice. because mitt romney really does support the blunt amendment and the blunt amendment really does give your boss the choice about whether or not your contraception is covered by your insurance. and the romney campaign and the romney campaign surrogates, including u.s. senators and the candidate, himself, mitt romney, are just flat-out repeatedly over and over again lying about this bluntly. hoping that people do not understand the tru

of the romney/ryan campaign. senor also sits on the board of directors as something called the foreign policy initiative. they've got four people on their board. one is dan senor. two of the other four people are special advisers to the romney campaign. these guys. and yesterday that group headed by the top staffer to paul ryan and two other romney/ryan advisers called for an american war in syria. you ready for another american war in the middle east? this is a presidential campaign that neither side wants to be about foreign policy. even president obama does not want that because there are hard questions to be asked of him about why we're still in afghanistan and the kill list and drone strikes and all the rest. but the romney/ryan campaign has not been capable of asking those questions. they haven't even bothered to come up with a legible policy on the war we are already in. so anybody who wants hard questions asked of president obama on foreign policy, it just hasn't happened yet. and anybody who was freaked out that romney and ryan are such empty vessels on this subject that they would l

the ambassador and others. romney supporters say this represents a major foreign policy fair and democrats accuse republicans of exploiting the tragedy. ed henry is live in williamsburg, virginia. the white house still taking heat from republicans over the attack in benghazi. >>reporter: that is right. it is relevant tomorrow because this is the first time the president will be in a debate where foreign policy is on the table, both domestic and foreign policy will be at issue in this townhall-style format. the first denver was about the economy and domestic issues. when vice president biden got questions of libya in the v.p. debate on thursday, and suggests that he and the president had not been in the loop on the security questions and requests for more security in libya on the ground that were denied by the state department, it kickoff a new firestorm with republicans suggesting that maybe there is a coverup and democrats say that everyone should calm down. take a listen. >> this is the same administration that leaks every detail of classified operations that are successful. in a week you had t

governor romney and paul ryan there is not a coherent foreign policy as it relates to syria, iran, libya none of these hot spots has governor romney said what he would do differently. >> i don't think there is a huge difference in foreign policy. that's the reason why you don't hear a lot of distinction. i don't think this campaign will turn on forge policy. i think there have been a lot of attention to bengahzi. voters have a tough time making sense of that. romney is right to hammer the president about it because it creates the general impression is he as strong a leader that you need. but i don't think voters are going to vote on that. >> eliot: interestingly, romney, after he failed in that moment. that may be the emotional pivot point of the debate last night when candy crowley came in, after saying to the president you got it wrong. when it's blamed on this youtube video he would have been correct. >> it's unfortunate it seemed for a long time that the president and the white house were we had wedded to the videotape did it, and not to blame terrorism, but by saying the president d

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