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of the last four years. >> this week on "inside washington," the presidential debate. >> governor romney does not have a five-point plan. he has a one-point plan. >> the women's vote. >> governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington making choices for women. >>he preside's stement of my policy is completely and totally wrong. >> the brawl over libya. >> it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> he date, in fact, serve -- >> if you laughs at the al smith dinner. >> i am well rested after the night-long nap at the first debate. so much totime redistribute. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this is a close race. at week's end, the national gallup poll gave romney is largest lead so far. the president is looking good in the battleground states of iowa and wisconsin, however it is on the heels of the second presidential debate. the president showed up for this one and the result was a lively exchange. >> have elected your pension? have elected your pension? mr. president, have you looked at you

the urces, hardest talk >>> >>> the second debate between president obama and governor mitt romney this past tuesday ur drew a tv audience of 65.6 million viewers. the debate was at hofstra university on long island in new york, town hall style. testy, tense and quite rivetting throughout. here's the president, pressing governor romney on romney's tax plan and d how he'll do what he claims he will do. >> if somebody came to you, governor, with a plan that said, here, i want to spend $7 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 wouldn't have taken such a sketchy deal. and neither should you, the american people, because the math doesn't add up. sh >> we're talking . about math - when we're talking about math that doesn't add up, how about $4 trillion of deficits over the last five years, or $5 trillion, that's math that doesn't add up. ma we have a president talking about someone's plan in a way that's completely foreign to what my real plan is. and then we have his own record which is we have fou

at the debate is in any stem the damage that mitt romney inflicted in the first debate, which was to expose that he's not really running publicly with a second term agenda. and that's what independents and a lot of undecided voters are looking at that. in that he sounded like someone who was stumbling, didn't have a plan, and that was a problem. >> let's roll and add that the -- obama campaign is rolling out this week following the debate, which they think is a big plus for them. let's see. >> in what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72% of what their female counterparts earn? >> i had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seem to be men. i said, well, gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified? they brought us binders full of women. >> so binders full of women being the web viral line of the week. it's clearly a strategy on obama's part, aimed at turning out women voters, which they're concerned about where romney is making inroads. what do you think of that strategy? making. >

will hold their second debate. romney grabbed the momentum following a strong performance their first go around and now the pressure is on the president to improve his performance. tara mergener is in washington with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, and to that end the president will be taking a more aggressive tone this time, we understand, while mitt romney tries to top his last performance. president obama took a brief break from his debate prep to visit a campaign field office in virginia. the president has been holed up at a williamsburg virginia resort studying and this time aides say things will be different. prior to the first debate in denver the president held a campaign rally and took a field trip to hoover dam. when asked how his preparations were coming along. >> it's a drag. they are make being me do my homework. >> reporter: he had a different answer when asked the same question on sunday. >> it's going great. >> the obama campaign says president obama knows he has to do better this time. >> nobody is a harsher critic than the president is of himse

romney, thank you for being here tonight. we have come to aen of the town hall debate. we want to thank the people of hofstra university. the next and final debate, monday night in boca raton, florida. don't forget to watch. election day three weeks from today. don't forget to vote. good night. >> we were just pausing to see if they were going to speak to each other, say anything. the two candidates meeting with their wives right now. you saw the president smiling broadly. pretty good reason to smile during the aftermath of this debate. he did today what he avoided doing, what he failed to do during the first debate, namely, going on the offensive, go ahead and respond. came out swinging from the beginning and didn't stop throughout the entire debate. mitt romney had his moments, febttive, very effective, when he referred to promises that the president made before he came into office at the beginning of his tenure, promises he said the president failed to deliver and delivered a litany of various promises that the president had made which have not yet been delivered. both candidates hav

university in washington, d.c. president obama and governor romney clashed in the second of three debates before election kay on november 6th, intense pressure on both candidates but especially the president. his poor showing in the first debate shifted the momentum of the race. the a gallup poll earlier today put governor romney ahead 50 to 46 nationally, the campaigns have been focusing closely on a select few battleground states, including florida, ohio and virginia, tonight the candidates engage in a stir irs of heated exchanges on stage, joining me in new york, jon meacham, the author of the forthcoming book thomas jefferson, and mark halperin of time magazine and john heilemann of time magazine. >> albert hunt, executive editor of bloberg news and david leonhardt the bureau chief of "the new york times", joining us shortly from washington, katty kay of bbc world news of america, and slate magazine, we have a really fascinating group of people here to talk about what was a remarkable debate. i begin first with al hunt. >> charlie, if the barack obama who was on stage at hofstra had

the first debate, mitt romney has had all the momentum in the race. and the impact of that first debate can't be overstated. it's essentially a tie race. the polls now for the first time in the averages have mitt romney in a slight lead. we went from before that first debate, where mitt romney was behind in every one of the swing states. now he's leading in a number of the important swing states within striking distance of the others. so for mitt romney, it's more of the same. it's talking about growing the economy, connecting economic growth to middle class families, and the president has a very difficult challenge tonight. he can't be too hot. he can't be too aggressive. he can't not be presidential with that small sliver of voters, which shrinks every day now, that's making their decisions, that's going to the polls, that's voting in the early voting states. you know, so the president tonight needs to articulate where he wants to lead the country. where does he want to take us? what has been absent from the obama campaign for much of the fall is an articulation of where he wants to lead.

was the president still talking about it? >> at the debate, what happened? >> gov. romney had a good night. i had a bad night. it is not the first time i have had a bad night. >> in the polls are to be believed, it was a bad bad night. and the president was still talking about it a week later. in fact, he has not stopped talking about it. did the shift surprise you? >> what surprised me most of all is that, barely 10 days ago, my good conservative friends were telling about the sinister conspiracy of polls. but they're all -- to give this impression that the liberals were running away -- that they're all rigged to give this impression that the liberals were running away with everything. and now it has been hijacked and it is for them. this did dispirit the liberals. there is a sense of real puzzlement over the president. why didn't he show up? these are people who have been pto to their inaugural outfit. the romney -- have been picking alton their inaugural outfits. the romney people figured it was over and they were going to concentrate on the house and may be winning the senate. so it was trans

debate. we do have two people who've made up their mind. one for obama, one for governor romney. but basically most people thought it was a draw, chris. >> let me ask all four women there to answer a question tonight that romney did not answer. he was asked where he stood on equal pay for women. and he was asked directly by one of the people in the town hall tonight. he refused to answer the question. obama tagged him later saying he wouldn't answer it before when it came up. i want to know if those four women were surprised that one of the candidates refused to support equal pay for equal work and does that effect their vote? >> why don't you take that dawn because you're leading towards romney. >> i don't think he really even thought about it. >> the fact he didn't answer the question? >> i hope the next debate he does. >> sharon, what about you? you said you were impressed by the fact he had women in his cabinet. >> i mean, i'm impressed he made and effort, but he didn't talk about how he felt about having them there. >> and he didn't answer the equal pay question. how do you

concentrating on debate preparations. mitt romney flew in from massachusetts where he's been rehearsing. everything could hinge on the candidates' performance in tonight's debate town hall tile moderated by cnn's own candy crowley. our predebate coverage begins right now with cnn's national political correspondent jim acosta who's been following the romney campaign. jim. >> reporter: wolf, a top campaign advisor tells cnn mitt romney has been working on his town hall debate skills taking on not just a stand-in moderator but also mock questioners and practice session. but it's also worth noetding romney has done countless campaign events in this type of town hall setting, but sometimes with mixed results. looking to put another crucial night in the debate win column, mitt romney is heading into his next face-off with president obama after days of intense preparations to gear for the evening town hall format, a romney advisor says the gop nominee has rehearsed with a roomful. officials are giving president obama the edge but note the republican contender has held over 100 town hall meetin

between michelle obama and ann romney. >> who do you think won the debate between ann romney and michelle obama last night? >> i had have to say michelle obama. she did a lot better. her speech was more drafted in. you know, more finely well cut. >> the last person is going to get tough on china is that guy romney. for god's sakes romney was assembled in beijing. >> they talked about a lot of things but everybody knew that mitt had one ace in the hole. libya gate. romney and his running mate have been hammering the president over this cover-up for weeks. >> that's not what we do. that's not what i do as president. that's not what i do as commander in chief. [ laughter ] >> who do you think won the debate last night between ann romney and michelle obama? >> definitely ann romney. i think she's very classy and a wonderful lady. >> was there anything she said during the debate in particular? >> no. i just like how she looks. >> i hate to say this on fox i hope i will be allowed to leave here alive but i don'

interrupted me. >> tonight, barack obama and mitt romney return to the debate stage. this time, undecided voters will ask questions, along with cnn's candy crowley. >> the purpose of the debate is to get beyond what people already heard. >> reporter: look for candidates to come out swinging. >> governor romney plans to let wall street run wild again but bringing the hammer down on sesame street. >> the president spends the last week talking about saving big bird. >> now, cnn's coverage of barack obama and mitt romney, debating challenges abroad -- >> and we'll remind the world why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> and challenges at home. >> i will keep america strong and our homes and our economy. >> the election is closer. the race is tighter. and america's future is up for debate. >>> this is hofstra university in hempstead, new york, the site of tonight's debate. the second go-round between president barack obama and former governor mitt romney could be more lively and more informative than the first. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states an

. >>> and, who won that debate between the first lady and ann romney? there was no debate. but try telling 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

is of himself. i think he'll make adjustments on tuesday. >> rob portman has been romney's debate partner. >> she is going to come out swinging. he will have to compensate for a poor first debate. >> it could present challenges. neither candidate has held many events like this. >> both candidates have to tread lightly because if they are going on the offense too aggressively with each other, that can spill over into the audience and make them look too combative. >> so getting aggressive could be a tricky balancing act. >> can the question is, can he walk the tightrope and not cross the line. >> reporter: romney needs to reach out the audience and viewers at home. >> conventional wisdom that he is not as good as connecting with voters as the president might be. we'll see how he handles it in this debate. >> terry: that next debate is tuesday. president obama and mitt romney meet at university in new york. this one will be a townhall meeting format. we'll carry it live starting at 6:00 p.m. >> few people have seen the earth from 124,000 feet up. the world's highest jump and he tells us abou

-eight. >>> decision 2012, president obama and mitt romney are getting ready for their second presidential debate. audience members can ask questions, both took today off the campaign trail to get ready. >> reporter: 22 days till the election and the candidates are almost nowhere to be seen. leaving the campaigning to their running mates and wives while they prepare for debate number two. >> great. >> reporter: that was president obama's only public appearance sunday in virginia. most of his work is happening at this resort where president obama is focused on trying to make up loss ground. democrats hope to see the president bring his criticism of mitt romney to the debate hall. >> after running for more than a year, mitt romney is trying trying to convince you he was kidding. >> interesting 10 days or so. i had a debate a week ago, i enjoyed that. >> reporter: mitt romney said that last week. he is preparing in boston. while paul ryan rallies supporters in wisconsin and ohio. >> these debate are giving us the ability to cut through the clutter and give people a clear choice. >> reporter: mitt ro

charging that romney masquerading himself in the debate and adding "he thinks we're dumb." >> bret: ed henry in new york. thank you. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa says the obama administration is trying to buy the election by propping up the medicare advantage program. issa is expected to subpoena documents from the health and human services department friday. issa contends the demonstration project costing more than $8 billion aims to postpone cuts to the program until after the election. h.h.s. says the project is providing incentives to improve care. >>> welfare spending topped $1 trillion last year. that is according to republican senator jeff sessions. he says spending by the federal and state government on more than 80 so-called welfare programs went from $800 billion in 2008 to more than a trillion in 2011. stocks were off today. dow lost eight. the s&p 500 dropped four. nasdaq fell 31. we do some fact checking on the debate argument over pensions. you may be surprised at what we found. later in the grapevine. can the final debate slow down governor romney's mo

forced, aggressive and challenger in mitt romney. we are gong to get to more and more of the debate tape shortly but we take you to the day after on the campaign trail. first, the president about two and a half nours ago in iowa. >> governor romney has been running around talking about his five-point plan for the economy. here's a tip. usually when a politician tells you he's going to wait until after the election to explain a plan to you they don't have a pleasant surprise in store for you. >> now mitt romney in virginia about 90 minutes ago. >> i love these debates. you know? these things are great. i think it's interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. don't you think that it's time for him to finally put together a vision of what he'd do in the next four years if he were elected? >> as i said, for the next hour, we'll review last night and look at how we move forward to monday's final debate in florida which is on foreign policy. and speaking of foreign affairs, near the end of the long island cage match last night that libya came up and the

at the apex of the debate by mr. romney, one called not only by the president but by the moderator, that fact and i think this was probably the best debate as barack obama's career as a politician, means the outcome tonight, even with a sturdy performance by mitt romney, the outcome tonight is, in my opinion, a u-turn from what we saw two weeks ago. chris matthews is at the debate. what's your reaction? >> i've been scoring it. i agree with you. and what i've got is, they really covered, rachel, i think about ten topics, very well moderated by candy crowley by cnn. he's the kind of guy that won't turn off his phone on the airplane because you have to wait for him to take off. i think the economy, he won on the following six. the president won on the economy right up front. he won on taxes, on lily ledbetter, with that african-american guy. he won clearly on immigration and he clearly won with a question at the end where he took the foolish decision, and of course on benghazi and obama punched him hard. he was caught on top tape, he was caught by the president. he tagged him good at the very e

. >> the reason why i think mitt romney won this debate is because americans again, saw a leader with a plan to grow the economy and create jobs. >> i feel confident about my boss, i feel confident about guy. >> eliot: for more on the debate and the presidential campaign i'm joined by frank bruni with "the new york times." sum it up, give us your take away with this battle that range raged for 90 minutes. >> it was hugely an important night for president obama. after his miserable performance in denver. his supporters and independent voters needed to see that spark and fight from him. i think that's why you see in these polls voters saying he won the debate. i don't think it's clear that him winning the debate means that he widened his lead or gained ground over all. often who wins the debate and what people voters have to say have to do with expectations going in. >> eliot: in the first debate that mirrored it, but it may not reset the campaign the same way the first debate hurt him. >> there were interesting numbers on cnn. they asked voters who won the debate. think obama had the advantag

romney in tonight's debate? please tweet me. we'll have your tweets right after the break and i'll try and answer them. next up markets are up triple digits and the shocker on wall street. don't forget folks free market capitalism still the best path to prosperity. i hope we hear some tonight. >>> welcome back to the kudlow report. we pose a question what would you ask president obama or governor romney at tonight's debate? one of our viewers asked how can we bring back confidence for the regular guys? >> we did have a big day on wall street. hello bob. this is the second day in the row that we closed on the highs. there was talk out of europe that spain may be near a deal to have them buy their bonds. margins were on the light side. that hurt them. earnings better than expected but the revenues were on the light side. back to you. let me ask you right at the top. victor pandit out at city. what do you say to on investor that owns city. should they stay with it? >> the company is well positioned. looking at the problems that banks have around the world, this company has fixed it's bala

romney debated foreign and domestic policies, this time in a townhall format with un-decided voters. "we have not made the progress we need to make to people back to work. that's why i put out a 5-point plan that gets americans 12 million new jobs in 4 years and rising take home pay." "gov romney says he has a 5- point plan. gov romney has a 1 point plan and that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules." "any investments i've made have been in a blind trust. and i understand they do include investmnents outside the united states and in chinese companies. mr. president have you looked at your pension? have you looked at your pension? mr. president have you looked at your pension? "you know i don't look at my pension, it's not as big as yours...it doesn't take as long...i don't check it that often." "look at your pension. you also have investments in chinese companies." the next debate happens next monday night in florida. the topic will be foreign policy. money talks in this election. matt nesto of yahoo finance is here via skype. good morning. ple

are now settling too after romney's debate bounce. and ohio is doing better because both the ohio local economy is doing better on the strength of the president's auto bailout and also because they've been so effective at framing the debate and talking about mitt romney and what his career has entailed and what his positions are, that it really has actually moved the needle there in a compelling way. >> steve, a lot of photo ops have a certain amount of phoneyness in them, but paul ryan going to the soup kitchen thing, they don't usually back fire that bad. rush limbaugh could have told them because he doesn't want them to disown that 47% comment. >> there are a lot of people who agreed with him when he made the comments about the 47%. so he's got to be very careful about -- i think -- it seems like the tendency is to just apologize thinking that will get it off the table. and it won't. that's just a brand new door opening. romney admits he was wrong. romney admits, romney admits. what else is romney wrong about? >> what don't they follow his advice on this one? >> rush limbaugh can't l

romney are preparing to head into the arena for their second big debate, and both men are on the ground just outside new york city. they know the power of one night in this race. look at this. you can see it right there. after the first debate, a dramatic change, that surge for mitt romney. now, just 3 weeks remaining, 21 days until americans go to the polls. it is "your voice, your vote," and our team is on the ground at hofstra university in new york, so let's start with abc's jake tapper and what the president is going to bring tonight, jake. >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, campaign sources for both campaigns tell me that romney and obama have rehearsed for this potentially tricky town hall format with aides throwing them random questions, jumping from topic to topic looking for ways to bond with the undecided voters who will be making up the audience in this theater in the round behind me. at a williamsburg, virginia, resort this morning, president obama put on a confident face between a workout and a 45-minute debate prep session. how are you feeling about tonight? >> i fee

in those critical swing states. while mitt romney was off the campaign trail to prepare for monday's debate, an energized president obama campaigned in fairfax, virginia. while he admitted he was no doctor, he offered a new diagnostic term for his rival's flip flopping on the issues. >> he's changing up so much and backtracking and side stepin' we got to--we got to name this condition that he's going through. i think--i think it's called romnesia. >> eliot: nice line but when 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 over romney, down from 15 points a month ago thanks in large part to 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

to be aggressive in making his case for where we should go as a country. >> reporter: mitt romney's debate prep partner, senator rob portman, is optimistic. >> how did it go, senator? >> great. >> it's a different experience when you have citizens asking you questions rather than professional journalists. >> reporter: there was the 2008 debate, where senator john mccain wandered aimlessly around the stage. or in 2000, when al gore walked up to george bush, or in when the first president bush, checked his watch. >> the debate gets under way at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. >>> while some voters might be waiting until tonight's debates to make up her mind, here's someone who has already decided. michelle obama put her absentee ballot in at illinois. and urged supporters to vote early. president obama will vote in person, in chicago on october 25th. >>> the growing political storm over security in libya is almost certain to come up in tonight's debate. overnight, secretary of state hillary clinton says she takes full responsibility for any security lapses that led to the deadly attack on the u.s. co

, tomorrow's town hall debate in new york could be a turning point for romney it's an opportunity to clear what has been his biggest hurdle, the likability problem. understand the problems of regular people. meanwhile, the president badly needs to reverse the momentum which is looking more and more like a coin-flip race. no more agendas. the buts are eroding. and the president is in virginia where he will remain until he arrives in long island tomorrow. a half hour trip sunday to a local campaign oh office he delivered pizzas and made phone calls to volunteers. >> i wanted to call and say thank you. i'm over at the williamburg office and i know you have been working so hard for the campaign. >> senator john kerry who is playing romney in the debate prep has been spotted carrying a massive binder, multicolored tabs. the presidential campaign says that we will find an aggressive president in round two. >> ed gillespie responded so that on fox. >> even if he changes his style, and whatever political tactic the president settles on is being in the best interest, he can't change his record and

shakes the resolve of the united states of america. >> mitt romney's debate blunder exposed him as a lightweight on foreign policy. only one man on stage looked like the president during the libya exchange last 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 som

years! >> when i become president -- >> after that ferocious second debate. >> not true, governor romney. not true. governor, you're the last person to get tough on china. >> the race is close, combative and completely up for grabs. >>> and now as the candidates make closing arguments, their biggest guns out in force. our big questions. did obama's comeback debate put him back in this race? can romtney knock him back down in tomorrow's face-off? >> what will be the final twist that determines this race? our headliners. chicago mayor and former white house chief of staff, rahm emanuel. and top romney ally, senator marco rubio of florida. >>> plus, insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. with matthew dowd, ralph reed, van jones, debbie wasserman schultz and greta van susteren of fox news. >>> and we say farewell to governor mcgovern. >>> hello again. early this morning, we learned that george mcgovern, the first senator to oppose the vietnam war, democratic nominee for president in 1972, has passed away at the age of 90. we'll remember him later in the show. >>> but we begin w

national polls and battleground states. for romney another debate win could give him the momentum to break the president's hold on swing states like ohio and wisconsin and give him the keys to the white house. and that is why with 21 days to go, the president must use this debate to shatter the mythical mitt romney who is chas currenty entranced the voters. case in point, romney's alleged plan to create 12 million jobs through those proven pro-growth policies. guess what? they're not proven at all, none of it is. in fact, "the washington post" fact checker today gives the most essential claim of romney's campaign four pinocchios. its equivalent of a pants on fire lie. calling even the most reliable of the numbers highly conditional. fact checker glen kessler writes simply, this is a case of bait and switch. bait and switch. doesn't that sound familiar? kind of like the guy who pushed through the model for individual mandates and a civilized plan for statewide health care coverage now suggesting that emergency rooms are the answer for the uninsured. >> that's the most expensive way to do it

, sketchy deals and sour faces. sounds like a debate involving mitt romney, all right. we're going to take everything, turn it inside out and tell you what it all means. for reasons god only knows, mitt romney waded again into the auto bailout. the president bloodied his nose with it and i'll keep it there. my favorite moment was actually about character who showed it and who didn't. we'll be right back. that guy, put him in it. what's this? [ male announcer ] tell him he's about to find out. you're about to find out. [ male announcer ] test it. highlight the european chassis 6 speed manual, dual exhaust wide stance, clean lines have him floor it, spin it punch it, drift it put it through its paces is he happy? oh ya, he's happy! [ male announcer ] and that's how you test your car for fun. easy. right by those who gave their lives to for this country nearly 70 years ago. >> jennifer: 65.4million viewers watched last night as debate on television. it was down 2.3% from the first debate. huge volume of viewers. what they saw last night were the sharp contrasts between the pr

. romney at boca raton where the debate will be monday night. it sets the trajectory for the final stages. not that the last two debates moved the needle much, though mitt romney got momentum in the first one. we still see that in the polls. having said that there's been slip age in the midwest and rockies. mr. obama will go to the states and shore up. last night in daytona beach, mitt romney and paul ryan held a joint rally. it happens to come in the middle of the biketoberfest bike week, twice a year in florida. half a million bikers and mr. ryan gave a nod to harley fans, trying to put together what will be his choosing argument for the two weeks remaining after the monday debate. watch. >> i just came in town and saw a lot of milwaukee main harleys running around town. we know thousand build things in america. >> the obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. this is -- this is a big country with big opportunities and great challenges and they keep talking about smaller and smaller things. we have big ideas. bold ideas, a strong agenda. we're going to get america wor

edition of "hannity" in long island, the site of the presidential debate. joining me from the romney campaign is the former new hampshire governor. fact check this tonight. in the rose garden, he was talking ab september 11th, 2001. he doesn't talk about benghazi being an act of terror. we have the tape and then we will show the time line of other things. watch this. >> no act of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation. alter that character and clips in light of the value we stand for. today we mourn for more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waiver. make no mistake. justice will be done. >> the president was asked nine days later, he stated we will continuest to investigate this. and then he wentes on "the view" and if you watch in each case he was asked directly by joy behar on the" the view" if this was an act of terrorism. that was 14 days later. but watch this sequence as the refused totill tell the american people the truth. >> we don't know yet. we will continue to investigate this. >> hillary clinton said it wa

. if romney does not get more precise this evening, he will likely lose the debate. but even if the governor stalemates the president, he wins. barack obama has to dominate the town hall or we may be looking at a new president. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. let's bring in fox news political analyst charles krauthammer who joins us from washington. what did i leave out, charles? >> well, you were right except for one particular. i don't think romney needs to be precise. i don't think he needs to do details. he has given infinitely more details than romney has on anything. in fact on medicare he has proposed what everybody considers a pretty radical plan in great detail with great courage. i think what romney needs to do, detail say i have given all the outlines, all the principles in my tax plan and the president has got the reason we are talking about my plan and my details is because obama offered nothing, no plan on entitlements, no plan on tax reform, no plan on the budget. in fact, not only has he not presented a plan for the future but for the last three years he h

romney tries to build on his first debate and continue his surge in the polls. we will ask senior advisor are ed gillespie how romney hopes to keep the momentum going. axelrod and gillespie only on "fox news sunday." also, more questions about that deadly terror attack on americans in libya. we will ask our sunday panel about warnings the obama administration ignored about the security threat in benghazi. and the candidates learn the heat is on in the kitchen and on the trail. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. with two presidential debates in the next 8 days and the polls getting much tighter, we may be reaching the decisive moment in the long race for the white house. we have questions for both sides today starting with david axelrod who joins us from williamsburg virginia where the president is getting ready for tuesday about's debate. david, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks, chris. good to be with you. >> chris: let's start with the growing controversy over the killing of the four americans in libya. here is what vice

. for the president, david axelrod. and later, ohio republican senator rob portman. romney's debate sparring partner. joining us live from the debate site. >>> plus, our roundtable weighs in. from "the new york times," columnist tom friedman. and white house correspondent helene cooper. and former white house press secretary for president clinton dee dee myers. >>> from nbc news in washington, it's "meet the press" with david gregory. >>> the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll for where this race stands, chuck todd has the numbers. this is significant. >> this is among likely voters, david. 47%, 47%. not all tied races are equal. the president sitting at 47% if this were the sunday before election day there would be a lot of concerns in chicago. they want to be at 48% or 49%. sitting at 47% is good for a challenger, not a good number for an incumbent. let's go inside the numbers a little bit. the gender gap. you brought it up. among men, romney, a 10-point lead. let's go to women. this is interesting. president, an eight-point lead here, this is his smallest lead among women that we've had a

substance. the mitt romney that showed up at the first debate, shown up more often than not at the rallies since the debate is more accessible, more human, and i think harder to disqualify as someone who's out of touch or odd than he was for most of the debates. >> you think he needs to maintain from where he was and not necessarily build on the debate performance? >> this format, given expectations about who will do better, himself, the good man. >> the good romney. >> that's probably enough for his campaign given where they are right now. these town meetings more than the other debates are about moments. the first presidential and the vice presidential, didn't really have any individual moments that people have seized on. town meetings historically have produced moments and i think if governor romney rises to the occasion, i think in some ways it will be easier for him in the sense that the president still hasn't solved the problem of how he defiance romney in this and how he explains his future agenda in this. governor romney simply needs to keep up what he's been doing most of the time

was trying to exploit it. lou: a cover-up on the gaza for romney and a presidenal debate, we have it all covered here tonight. the associated press reported something we reported here a week and a half ago. the white house put special operatations strike forces on standby and has moved drones into place ready to strike in response to the attacks in benghazi. joining us to assess all of this is fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland. let's begin first with a prospect of strikes in libya. in response to attacks of five weeks ago. >> a little late, where were the people trying to rescue the investor, the embassy personnel? after five hours o attack against investor in the conflict at are they gog to do? pound sand as the expression? lou: where were our other assets? presumably could have been brought in support of the defense of our ambassador, three americans killed in other americans safe house. >> where was the investor in the security details? they were back in tripoli. he was in benghazi. i think the whe house response is to say two things. it wasn't us, we didn't know anythin

voters in tonight's chalk talk. president obama prepping a way for tomorrow's debate, governor romney reportedly skipping debate prep to show up at a paul ryan campaign event. is he getting a little cocky? we will talk to stephen hayes next. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, andow that feels. copd includes chroni bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatmenthat does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acng inhalers for sudden sytoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glauca, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medines you take, even eyerops. stop taking spiriva and seek timmediate medical helppiriva. if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision cnges or eye pain, or problems passg urine. other side eects include dry mouth and constition. nothin

of debate. mitt romney is not backing down and president obama is much more demonstrative and perhaps more aggressive. both candidates were asked about the unemployment. >> what you are seeing in this country is that 20 million people are struggling to find a job. many have been out of work for a long, long time. the presidential policies have been exercised for the last several years and not putting people back to work toward when you if your people working and one governor took office fourth- and-1 president took office cured panel that is simply not true. you want to put them into fish cooks without providing them any way to-- you want to push them--right into bankruptcy. without even having to give them jobs. i will tell you that governor romney has a five point plant he does not have verify point plant is a one. planned. >> we want to take you to our kron 4 news room vicki is with michael. >> yes, michael let me take you away from your blocking right now but was popping up on social media. >> what now, from your bloging.. the physically got in each other's face that they lost track of

obama and governor romney hit the trail for the last time before monday's foreign policy debate in boca raton. when the candidates leave florida tuesday there will be just 14 days left in this race, folks. romney, paul, ryan, even ann romney campaigned in the sunshine state. the vice president will stump in florida as well. president obama holds a rally in fairfax, virginia, before leaving for camp david where he's doing his foreign policy debate prep this weekend. florida is to romney what ohio is to the president. it's a state that the campaign believes they are going to win, but also view as a must-win. it's not an accident that for the first time romney is doing his debate prep in a swing state rather than at home. they'll prepare in del ray beach near west palm. on monday night the candidates will clash once again on the administration's handling of the september 11th attack in benghazi. and this morning the associated press has been reporting that will drive that debate. the cia station chief in libya reported to washington, the cia in washington -- probably more accurately mcclai

romney side really thought they cleaned up in the first debate is for a time the only people in the spin room were republicans. they all springed in to tell the story they were very excited to tell. tonight when the debate was supposed to be wrapping up, it was 100% democratic surrogates with no republicans. maybe the obama side did that to get us to talk about it, or maybe they thought they did a great job and wanted to tell their story. one thing we've been discussing is the role of the moderator. the way they were combative and combative with the moderator, with candy crowley of cnn. we have a taste of that. >> he got the first question. so i get the last question. >> actually, in the follow-up it doesn't work like that. but i'm going to give you a chance here. i promise you. i'm going to. and the next question is for you. so if you want to continue on -- but i don't want to leave all these guys sitting here. >> candy, i don't have a policy of stopping wind jobs in iowa. they're not phantom jobs. they're real jobs. i appreciate the wind jobs in iowa and across the country. i'm going t

, there were three status changes all of them benefiting romney. >> who did he blame for his bad debate? oh, blames john kerry. blames bush for the bad economy, kerry for the bad debate. read the trip. you'll see that biden won it. >> i think he was told to get in there, make some commotion, because he had ground to make up for. that's just a fact. i think if you're looking for the vice president to try to save the day, there's a problem. >> if obama has a performance like he had a couple weeks ago, i don't believe it's possible for him to win the election. i don't know how he can possibly have another performance like that and expect to win. how could anybody be so stupid to vote for him if he performs like that again? >> we're moving rapidly to the second and third act to find out how this plays out. the president has to be on his game in the next debat debate ot could slide even more for him. >> even if he changes his style, whatever political tactic the president settles on, he can't change his record and can't change his policies. the wind is at governor romney's back, you can see it o

, president obama and governor romney will take the stage for the second presidential debate. a town hall format. meaning the audience gets to ask direct questions to each candidate. cnn candy crowley is moderating. we're only three weeks away from the election. three weeks from today. after commanding performance by romney in the first debate, both candidates feeling the pressure to perform tonight. stay with fox news from now through primetime when you have megyn kelly and bret baier leading the coverage. let's kick it off with greg who is at half stra. he look -- hofstra and he lookso interested. i'm sure you've talked to a ton of people today. what are they saying? >> greg: i found out that president obama had chicken today. but he was unhappy because they were out of dog. the big issue here is the altitude. they don't want a recurrence of what happened a few weeks ago. the elevation here is 60 feet. it's 60 feet. they have had security and aides here to prep obama and prevent implosion and adjust for the change. they lowered the podium four feet. in industry terms called a perino. >>

a pair of presidential debates, romney's domestic agenda remains be rest of detail and worthy of mistrust. therefore our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds has guided the country through catastrophe set a course that while rocky is pointing toward a brighter day. obama has a 66.9 chance of winning and president obama will win 287 elect oral college votes and mitt romney will within 251. krystal ball, they take the convention to tampa, the local endorsement endorses obama. that very same newspaper comes out and says president obama should be re-elected. and then go to utah. you would presume a stronghold area for mitt romney. surely he's going to carry the state. but there, big local paper says no, president obama has earned re-election. what do newspaper endorsements mean in a 121st century campaign? >> it would be easy to dismiss them to say they don't amount a whole lot, there's so much media out there, but i actually think for a lot of undecided voters, who you might call low information voters, their local paper is still a go-to source for

to defend american values in this debate here. and i think he needs to make mitt romney show he's either out of step or he doesn't seem to have any core principles. one of the two. >> i threw out romney lied throughout the last debate. i think that the vice president went after ryan. didn't use the term lied but he use everything synonymous with it. how far should the president press romney on his lack of being transparent and candid about his record? >> well, i think he -- first of all, he ought to talk about being transparent on his taxes. this guy has a swiss bank account and cayman island account and he wants to be president of the united states? people are suffering where they can't pay their mortgage and their kids' college tuition bill. i wouldn't say the use word. i think he changes his position and tells people whatever they want to hear. that's actually worse than not telling the truth. >> how challenging will it be for the president to connect with voters in a town hall -- in a town hall setting and engage romney at the same time? he has to answer the questions, relate to those in

of a lackluster performance in the first debate. governor romney seeking to build on his campaign's momentum answering questions on domestic and phone policy from an audience of voters on long island who claim to be undecided. this morning, the president told reporters he feeled "fabulous." that is a jonathan hunt work but did not respond when asked if he agrees that secretary of state, hillary clinton is responsible for the dire security situation in libya and the terror attack that killed our ambassador and others. last night, secretary of state, hillary clinton said the buck stops with her and backed up vi requests for more security to protect the consulate. >> i'm responsible for the more than 60,000 people around the world. the decisions about secures assets are made by security professionals but we're going to review everything to make sure that we are doing what needs to be done. >>shepard: senator john mccain claims the secretary of state, hillary clinton is giving political cover to her boss in the wake of the administration's confused message after the the e corporate, ed henry, li

before election day. for mitt romney, another debate win might mean he could break the president's stranglehold on states like ohio and wisconsin, making the foote 270 electoral vote a lot more realistic. for the president, a win could reset the race before the first debate when it looked like the president was becoming the heavy favorite a new pew poll shows a split on who has the upper hand. 41% expect the president will win, 37% pick romney, a stark contrast from before the first debate. both candidates spent monday behind closed doors as they finished up debate prep with their wives instead weighing in. >> mitt's prepared. mitt's confident. mitt has a presence about him and he is running because he believes in america. >> does he look to you for encouragement? >> i can never tell, but i'm primed in case he is. i'm personed, i'm looking at him, smiling, i'm giving a thumb's up if he can see t. >> tonight's town hall format comes with risks and rewards. for the president, a chance to bolster the likability advantage he has had over mitt romney and make up for lost ground after

. >> reporter: president obama took a jab at romney's debate comment that he needed binders full of women to find qualified females for his cabinet position. >> i got to tell you we don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified talented women. >> reporter: the campaigns are having to tailor their messages to reach female voters. that's because a new poll show women have different concerns than men when it comes to winning their support. a new gallup poll shows 39% of women in swing states say abortion is their most important issue. that's why romney has released a new ad highlighting his stance on abortion and contraceptives. >> he thinks abortion should be an option in case of rape or to save a mother's life. >> reporter: the same poll shows mitt romney trailing president obama among swing state female voters. tonight's dinner is mitt romney's only public event today. president obama campaigns in new hampshire. >> tara mergener live in washington this morning. thank you. by the way, the television audience for tuesday's debate was slightly smaller than first. an estimated 6

presidential debate. president obama, former massachusetts governor mitt romney, they will take to the stage and i'll show you a live picture now. lindh university at boca raton, florida, that's where it will take place. this format will be unlike any presidential debate so far this year. what is the format and how important is this, sort of final debate as they try to get the last votes and the last words? >> reporter: martin, we have been saying this week after week, this is the most important night of the election season and this is going to be the most important night of the election season, tomorrow night's debate. it's going to take place right behind me at lindh university in boca raton. mitt romney is surging, barack obama trying to stem a little bit of the political bleeding right now. the format calls for talk about foreign policy. they're going to talk about the changing face of the middle east specifically in regards to terrorism and they're going to talk about china. they're going to be seated at a table, perhaps that might swell a little bit of the fire works. the fact of the m

on to the presidential race and a look at who is talking. the second debate against president obama and mitt romney will take place tomorrow night at long island new york. the president faces criticism after the first debate for what many said was a poor performance. >> following that show down mitt romney saw a surge in the polls as we are seeing right now. the talk show circuit both campaigns are out in full force talking about the strategies ahead of the debate. previewing what will be a more aggressive approach. listen here. >> i think the president nobody is a harsher critic than himself. he viewed the tape. he will make adjustments on tuesday. i am not going to get into detail about strategic changes that he might make. i encourage you to watch and show up. i think it will be an interesting debate. he will be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country in a country that is built around a growing, thriving middle class for t not this top down theory romney has. >>> the debate preparation for mitt romney is talking this morning. he expects the president to take

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