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Oct 20, 2012

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.

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CNN Newsroom

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Oct 21, 2012

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. >

CNNW - Weekend Early Start

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Weekend Early Start

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Oct 21, 2012

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

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CNN Newsroom

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Oct 21, 2012

-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

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The Situation Room

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Oct 20, 2012

romney. in 2008 foreign policy was the first debate and when you're the chal edger you would rather not debate the commander in chief who has had a great deal of success, particularly killing osama bin laden, as your last debate. so i think there's some head scratching among republicans. because of course romney is at a disadvantage. >> but didn't both campaigns agree to the terms of these presidentials debates. >> yes, i said outside republicans. >> so they knew what they were getting themselves into. >> right. >> ryan, what are the strengths and weaknesses of both of these candidates on these foreign policy issues? >> well, you know the strength of the challenger is you don't have to -- for romney is you don't have to be all that consistent. you don't have to live in the real world. and so it makes it easier to criticize and attack. so for instance on china, watching this debate on china with romney playing the china bashing role and obama trying to be more diplomatic about relations with china, it remind me of '92, it remind me of 2000. they use china as an issue, and they get in

FOXNEWSW - The Journal Editorial Report

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The Journal Editorial Report

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Oct 20, 2012

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

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CNN Saturday Morning

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Oct 21, 2012

president obama and mitt romney will debate each other for the third and last time. the focus, foreign policy, and the recent attack that killed the u.s. ambassador in libya will likely take center stage. cnn's athena jones takes a look at who might have the edge in their final verbal dual. rimplt the third 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 f

CNNW - Piers Morgan Tonight

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Piers Morgan Tonight

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Oct 17, 2012

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

CSPAN - Washington Journal

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Washington Journal

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Oct 19, 2012

and similarities? guest: at the end of the day, if mitt romney is in the white house, his foreign policy will not be that different. where he is different is in a posture and narrative. they have tried to get behind the narrative of peace through strength, lifting from the ronald reagan playbook. there is a ronald reagan advertisement that ran in 1980 against jimmy carter, and if you were to listen to it now, you would think it was the romney camp complaining about obama on willing to stand up for america overseas. what you will see in the debate, though i do not have confidence around the will pull it off, but he will try to make -- that mitt romney will pull it off, but he will try to make the argument that the administration is the first since jimmy carter to abandon peace through strength. host: guy taylor has a piece in "washington times" recently. guy taylor and matthew lee are our guests. let's get to the phones. arkansas. republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i am glad to be on c-span this morning. my question is not so much in regards to the big guys the incident

FOXNEWSW - The Five

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The Five

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Oct 21, 2012

. >> obama and romney foreign policy debate. >> i didn't see that coming. >> you need to wake up. >> coming up a new report says the united states and iran reached an agreement for direct talks 49 hours after the debate. is the timing too good to be true? we have it coming up. are you ready ? share everything by turning your smartphone into a mobile hotspot for up to 8 wifi-enabled devices at no extra charge. like the new droid razr m by motorola only $99.99. >> days before the big debate the obama fan club news letter drops a bombshell claiming u.s. and iran has negotiated on nuke. this is one coincidence the times ran the piece before the d debate. surprise the times says the news can only hurt romney. let's quote the paper. the prospect of one-on-one negotiations can put romney in an awkward spot since he posed iran enriching uranium. it could probably figure in any deal on a nuclear program. that's about as coincidental as fleas at a pet shop. this helps mitt. what did your enemy want in a negotiating scenario. if ahmadinejad wants barack doesn't wasn't mitt? if tuts hem in line with ro

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Oct 19, 2012

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

KTVU - First Business

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First Business

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Oct 17, 2012

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

CURRENT - Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer

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Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer

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Oct 19, 2012

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

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KTVU
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Oct 17, 2012

flat for romney. foreign policy is the sole topic of monday's final debate. >> the president is commander in chief. he has a clear advantage in talking about these issues. >> reporter: if one of the candidates has ground to make up in monday's debate, it may be turnover, considering there will be fewer undecided voters come monday and potentially a smaller audience in that third and final debate. >>> both president obama and mitt romney are getting some backlash from what might be called the "leave me out" movement. from sesame street to hollywood, people are angry over being used as political fodder. television blasted mitt romney for threatening to cut big bird and objected when big bird later appeared in an ad for obama. >>> supporters of big bird are planning a rally in washington, just three days before the election. organizers first called the event the million muppet march. neither the muppets nor public broadcasting are involved with the rally. >>> we are waiting for game of the nlcs to resume, because, bill, there's some pretty nasty weather out there. >> there is. w

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Oct 21, 2012

's not pretty to watch. one debate to go, president obama and governor romney face off on foreign policy. but first, we'll talk with gordon chang and walid phares about the middle east and china. president obama and governor romney took a night off in the name of charity. >> find the biggest available straw man and then just mercilessly attack it. big bird didn't even see it coming. [laughter] >> chris matthews, four years ago i gave him a thrill up his leg, this time around i gave him a stroke. [laughter] lou: they almost seemed to be having fun, didn't they? we'll have a little fun next. speaking ofaving fun, angry liberal alec baldwin wants to be mayor of new york, so they say. he's leading in the latest poll. it's not the kind of poll you want to lead. the a-team is next. lou: governor romney tonight in the polls leading on a critical foreign policy issue, certain to be a focus in monday's final presidential debate. a new pew poll shows governor romney up 49-40% over president obama on who would percent handle trade issues with china. the u.s. trade deficit with china, by the way, is

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Oct 20, 2012

. one debate to go, president obama and governor romney face off on foreign polic but first, we'll talk with gordon chang and walid phares about the middle east a china. president obama and governor romney took a night off in the name of charity. >> find the biggest available straw man and then just mercilessly attack it. big bird didn' even see it coming. [laughte >> chris matthews, four years ago i gave him a thrillp his leg, this time around i gave him a soke. [laughter] lou: they almost seemed to be having fun, didn't they? we'll have a little fun next. speaking of having fun, angry liberal alec baldwin wants to be mayor of new york, so they say. he's leing in the latest poll. it's not the kind of poll you want to lead. the a-team is next. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're not. i know. you know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than a witch in a broom factory. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent more. lo

CURRENT - Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer

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CURRENT
Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer

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Oct 19, 2012

/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

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Oct 21, 2012

own party said he handled it poorly. and the romney record on foreign policy is bluster and blunders. that's all he has been able to demonstrate. doesn't matter whether it's iran, iraq, which the tragedy to bring the troops home, where it's bin laden, which he said he wouldn't move heaven and earth to do anything about. whether it's going on europe-- >>> on benghazi, does the governor -- does the governor have a point, with these questions. 24 hour it's within 24 hour, caa said it was a terror attack. have you chris stevens asking for more security -- >> the republicans voted against the additional security. look, i think there is only the president has been taking this seriously. have you republicans who did a document dump, putting lives at risk. i think the american people are going to watch the debate and say, which candidate has a thoughtful, serious approach to really difficult foreign policy questions, which one is saying whatever he's for, i'm against. i am for this, but not later on. i am going to flip flop on a variety of issues and on some issues, i don't have a difference

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The Rachel Maddow Show

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Oct 17, 2012

. >> we've got to become independent from foreign sources of oil. >> mr. romney also distinguished himself from george w. bush by saying, unlike president bush, he, mitt romney, would expand trade in latin america. he said, unlike president bush, he, mitt romney, could promise more free trade with nations in latin america. >> our goal will be free trade agreements with all the nations of latin america. >> see, that's what mitt romney is promising. which is totally different from george w. bush promising the exact same thing. the kicker, though, and this one really has to sting a little bit for the republicans, is that mitt romney said last night that he would promise to balance the budget. something president bush never did. >> first, we must balance the federal budget. >> see, susan katz of hempstead, new york, doesn't that set your mind at ease about how mitt romney is going nothing like george w. bush? it is -- i realize this is not a question the beltway press has been asking, but do you really think that nobody in the country, nobody at the town hall debate was going to ask this? this

FOXNEWSW - Your World With Neil Cavuto

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Your World With Neil Cavuto

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Oct 19, 2012

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

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This Week With George Stephanopoulos

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Oct 21, 2012

romney has doing is continuing his dukes of hazzard tour around the world in terms of foreign policy. the first thing that he did, before we even knew that our ambassador was killed, he tried to politicize the attack. instead of closing ranks, come together as a country, make sure that we focus like president obama made sure we did, getting to the bottom through an investigation of what happened, making sure we bring the attackers to justice -- as president obama did with bringing osama bin laden to justice. >> let me press you on one issue, what the president didn't answer on tuesday night was, why the request for additional security was rejected. >> it's how he's handled it afterwards. >> well, look, we have a focus on libya right now, which we've got to get to the bottom of that investigation, that's what the investigation is for. you know what was really troubling, george, more politicalization from the republicans in congress, darrell issa released 166 pages of sensitive department of state documents that exposed the libyan officials that we were working with -- >> george. >> le

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Anderson Cooper 360

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Oct 19, 2012

. >>> first, another development. it comes days before president obama and mitt romney debate foreign policy. today, the "new york times," a sharp counterpoint to a promise the president made in the last debate. >> we are going to find out who did this and we are going to hunt them down because one of the things i've said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with americans, we go after them. >> well, today, the "new york times" david kirkpatrick reports on a meeting he had with a key suspect in the attack. he reportedly means the group widely suspected in the benghazi assault. that meeting took place not in a jail cell, not in secret, but on a hotel patio. joining me, david kirkpatrick, bob baer on the phone, fran townsend. fran now serves on the cia external advisory committee and recently visited libya with her employer, mcandrews and forbes. fran, every white house relies on information from the intelligence community, getting the experts to help with what to say publicly. you also say there are times when mistakes happen, but you say you don't think this is a mistake. you think th

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Oct 21, 2012

showdown between president obama and governor mitt romney. tomorrow is final debate on foreign policy could michael or break the election now, only 16 days away. at stake momentum with millions of voters expected to tune in. there is a brand-new "wall street journal" poll showing just how tight this race is. take a look. president obama and governor romney tied at 47% among likely voters. john roberts is live at the site in boca raton, florida. what is the race looking like there? >> vast looking very tight. you mentioned the "wall street journal" poll. that is a battle ground states. this is where things could change. we were talking about how important these debates are. it's difficult to overstate because unlike most election cycles these debates have been moving the numbers. the goal for governor romney is to hang on those solid gains he has made since the first debate three weeks ago. he has been heavily involved in debate prep, hunkered down for last couple of days. took some time out to attend church with his wife. then earlier this afternoon presided over a ceremonial coin toss at a

KNTV - The Chris Matthews Show

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KNTV
The Chris Matthews Show

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Oct 15, 2012

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

CSPAN2 - Tonight From Washington

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Tonight From Washington

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Oct 19, 2012

, romney is inexperienced in foreign policy. he's about where obama is five years ago. and we don't know. we have to wait and see. >> host: muscles and comments governor romney made this past tuesday's debate about a man. let's listen in. >> look at what's happening seriocomic agent, now in libya here consider the distance between israel. the president said he was going to put daylight between us and israel. we have iran for years closer to a nuclear bomb. serious not just 30,000 civilians being killed by military, but also a strategic significant player for america. the president and policies at the middle east began with an apology and pursue a strategy of leaving from behind. the strategy is unraveling before our very eyes. >> host: governor romney speaking about iran. but also syria, matthew lee. >> guest: despite those comments come it is not clear to me, at least make out what exactly mitt romney would do differently in syria, for example. he starts about how it's important for the united states to play a role in deciding who gets the legal assistance, weaponry and ammunition, but

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Oct 20, 2012

to helps win, and mitt romney's going to do very well on foreign policy on monday. and no matter what candy owley did, i think that it'actually going to help us on monday when he does debate obama. >> yes? [laughter] i mean, listen, you're really upset about the stewart thing? he asked him the question, is it optimal -- lou: wait a minute,,i just asked you a question. >> he's asked, is this optimal? he says, well, no, it's not optimal when someonege killed, it's not optimal whe bad things happen. this is a, this is a pho piece of outrage. there's so manserious stuff to talk about,hy are we focusing on -- >> oh, els, you're missing the point. the president does not want to talk about benghazi, he doest want to -- lou: you want to get sious, the president of the united states lied about what he said in the rose garden. >> he did. lou: he was corroborated by the debate moderator. >> actually -- lou: no, what i'm saying is, actually, my finger is raised gher than yours. [laughter] >> this is the kind of stuff i think, frankly, voters this minor gotcha, can we twist this wwrd -- [inaudible coers

FOXNEWSW - The Journal Editorial Report

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The Journal Editorial Report

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Oct 20, 2012

, foreign policy, plays to his experience. is this perilous turf for romney? >> not at all. it has been his strongest area until last month, the attacks in benghazi. since then the white house has been on the defensive, being accused misleading the electoral. a pew poll out this week says romney and obama ever even on who will handle foreign policy better. this speaks to a growing feeling in the american electorate that president obama has politicized foreign policy, that everything he's done in foreign policy, especially last year, is driven by his re-election strategy. >> the president scored in the debate by accusing romney of saying 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 dif

CSPAN - Debate Preview

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Oct 16, 2012

CSPAN
Debate Preview

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Oct 16, 2012

is jacksonville, florida. a republican. caller: what will romney do to strengthen our form insolence -- foreign influence? >> mitt romney on foreign policy and u.s. influence. foreign policy mitt romney has not spent an extensive amount time on. the campaign does not believe people vote on that. polls indicate that is true. generally speaking, the areas where mitt romney has spoken about most recently are israel and the u.s. support of israel. the obama campaign has focused on a number of statements mitt romney has made that have an eyebrow-raising in terms of u.s. allies. it is still problematic to say on foreign soil. romney had a comment on spain. he talked about greece. you can go on. airline about japan. intern -- a line about japan. mitt romney does not have a great deal of foreign background. president obama is selling a failed foreign policy record, largely matched by osama bin laden and having found him and taken him out. how mitt romney performs remains to be seen. it is very hard to say. >> the debate begins at 9:00 eastern time. when do you have to start filing? >> i am doing a live

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ABC7 News 430AM

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Oct 19, 2012

the obama campaign is in their we'll house. mitt romney had a number of foreign policy missteps over the summer. if romney were to land some blows on president obama who has been on the offensive over the u.s. consulate attack in benghazi, it could be devastating for the president. >> thank you. reminder that the third and final presidential debate set for monday in florida. focus on foreign policy i am that debate stars 6 p.m. -- started 6 p.m.. >>> time for the forecast, mike has all the radar information. cool down coming. >> significant. this morning mild with cloud cover, you can see clouds and winds picking up as we speak coming in off the ocean southerly surge came in overnight as we talked about yesterday many now it is jut a matter of time before it knocks down temperatures later this afternoon. live doppler so far no radar returns. i wouldn't be surprised if there's a little drizzle along the coast this morning and possibility that patches of it could linger into the afternoon. temperatures mild all of us in the low to mid 60s. monterey bay also in the low to mid 60s. by th

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Oct 21, 2012

focused on the obama record. mitt romney has no foreign policy record. so it's going to be on the president's decisions in iran and what went on in benghazi and security concerns leading up to what happened in libya. so the president is going to be defending his record and milt romney has not laid out a lot of specifics on foreign policy. so it will be interesting to see if the president will be turning the tables on mitt romney. >> besides foreign policy, the romney campaign is going to keep hammering away -- >> if barack obama is re-elected what will the next four years be like? the debt will grow from $16 trillion to $20 trillion, taxes on the middle class will go up by $4,000. >> is this the line of attack that we're going to be hearing from the romney campaign before the election? >> you're starting to see it in the closing arguments. there's a lot of certainties in that ad that will be interesting to see how the fact checkers for "the washington post" and elsewhere deal with because usually there's caveats, this could happen, this might happen, in this ad they'r

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Oct 19, 2012

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

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Oct 15, 2012

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

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Oct 19, 2012

, but because mr. romney has no experience at all on foreign policy and no apparent deep interest in it, either, his foreign policy advisers have been telling reporters they don't even think he reads their briefing papers on foreign policy. because mr. romney said even the war we are currently fighting was not important enough to him to make it into his convention speech, because the republicans have nominated somebody with no foreign policy chops whatsoever, the republican presidential campaign this year just carried over the george w. bush/kidick cheney foreign policy core wholesale. they have paul ryan an the campaign trail this week with condoleezza rice. dick cheney wasn't available? dick cheney is available, he'll be fund-raising for mitt romney in dallas after the foreign policy debate. they have 24 named foreign policy advisers. 17 of the 24 are from the bush/cheney administration. you know, this guy who was attached by a three-foot-long invisible bungee cord to paul ryan? he is dan seanor, paul ryan's top staffer on the romney/ryan campaign, also the george w. bush administration iraq

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Oct 20, 2012

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

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Oct 21, 2012

't want someone who is reckless and consistently wrong on foreign policy issues as governor romney has. we remember his dukes of hazard tour of international destinations over the summer, where he not only roiled the countries not as friendly, but our best ally, britain. >> governor romney, tomorrow night, will turn to his strong point, the economy, linking it with foreign policy, saying you can't have a strong foreign policy without having a strong economy. president obama, over the last couple of days, has been making fun of governor romney's shift to the middle, saying he has rom ne-sia. here's what senator marco rubeo had to say to president obama about that earlier today. >> what is your plan? where's the president's plan to save medicare? where's the president's plan on taxes? where's the president's plan on energy? why isn't he talking about those things? >> with the exception of governor romney doing a ceremonial stay on the coin tosh campaigns are hunkered down for tomorrow night. and tuesday starts a two-week, all-out push to get out the vote before the election day. >> reporter:

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Oct 18, 2012

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Oct 18, 2012

about foreign policy. >> dana: i disagree. some of the times i've been most impressed with mitt romney going through the primary competition with the other republicans, i thought on foreign policy. he has studied it. prepare for it in 2008 as well. he has kept getting briefed through that time. interestingly, i think that that libya moment, ended up working in romney's favor. because on the intensity side of thing, you look at the debate turn-out. people with catch that who are mad that that happened on the republican side. they are fired up. and defending him. i think that going forward, the advice i would give not for the debate commission, to consider not giving media personalities the debate moderator position. go to somebody like larry sabato on the political science side who is not going to look for -- >> greg: just say your name, dana. >> dana: i would be a media person now. >> eric: what advice do you have? >> greg: schieffer has to appeal to the young voter. a wallet chain or a temporary tattoo. i want to touch on the previous debate. the thing that bugs me what i said before.

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Oct 19, 2012

romney face off on foreign policy. but first, we'll talk with gordon chang ad walid phares about the middle east and china. president obama and goveor romney took a night off i the name of carity. >> find the biggest available straw man and just mercilessly attack it. big bird didn't even see it coming. [laughter] >> chris matthews, four years ago i gave him a thrill up his leg, this time around i g him a stroke. [laughter] lou: they almost seemed to be having fun, dn't th? we'll have a little fun next. speaking of having fun, angry liberal alec baldwin wants to be mayor of new york, so theyay. he's leading in the latest poll. it's not the kind of poll you want to lead. the a-team is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn anntrepreneur'dream... ♪ io a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-techasterpiece? ♪ whavever your business challenge, dell has the technogy a services to help you solve it. vernor of getting it done. you know how to dance. with a deadline. and you...rent from tional. because only national lets you choose

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Oct 21, 2012

romney becoming commander in chief. i told newt when we served in the house together he knew foreign policy and he rose above partisanship on issues like the peso crisis, nafta. we worked together. governor romney just seems to be bluster, blunder, cowboy on foreign policy and i'm troubled at this time when we had the benghazi crisis he is trying to make political gain and i'm troubled in the house of representatives with the house oversight committee releasing information about some libyan nationals that we are exposing to danger. i think the president has a strong record in foreign policy. he went after bin laden. he decimated al qaeda. he's restored our alliances. i think he's going to be hardly an advantage when it comes to foreign policy. >> mr. speaker, you are unusually quiet. >> i respect him. congressman, embassy, secretary of energy. but we obviously have a very different view of this. first of all, governor romney lived overseas several years as a missionary, worked in international business for many years, as the governor of massachusetts dealt with international relation

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Oct 17, 2012

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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Oct 20, 2012

: governor romney tonight in the polls leading on a critical foreign policy ise, certain to be a focusn monday's final presidential debate. a new pew poll shows governor romney up 49-40% over president obama onho would percent handle trade issues with china. the u.s. trade deficit with china, by the way, is now $203 billion from january through august of this year. and, of cose, debt was an issue that did come upn this week debate. >> we lose saleand manufacturers here in the u.s. making theame products t compete. china has been a currency manipulator for years and years and years, and the president has aregular opportunity to label them as a currency manipulator but refuses to do so. lou: governor romney says he will label china a currency manipulator his first day in office. here now to discuss u.s. foreign policy and tra poly with china and other challenges, of course, gordonhang, author of the book "the coming collapse of china." also with us, walid phares, foren policy senior adviser to governor romney,also a fox news middle ea and terrorismm3 expert, author of the book "the coming

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Oct 20, 2012

either the president or governor romney might try to switch off from foreign policy and move to the economy? >> yeah, it is a good question. and the conversations i've had with advisers of the romney campaign is just that. that this focus while primarily on foreign policy is as much about leadership, competence and a vision for the future. so while obviously there will be a series of attacks, including among them lightly the topic of libya, as you guys have been reporting, just yesterday, some state department documents were released by house republicans, including a cable from ambassador chris stevens that was written a month before that deadly attack, where he said, warning prophetically that the attacks and the new violence in that country were not random, but were targeted, and discriminate. it's likely there will be some more litigating on the situation in libya. but particularly, the romney campaign believes it's economic message and its message of bipartisan leadership is one that resonates. they have a new ad out, and one other note, i was asking them specifically abo

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Oct 20, 2012

in the private sector. a big test for mitt romney. after all that happens, whether foreign policy can have a direct effect or not, the polls are tied, tied in the battleground states. there's a surge for mitt romney in virginia and florida, climbed back into a tight race in ohio. out west of the mississippi, polls suggesting things have shifted back to president obama and democrats in iowa, colorado and nevada, and that's why mitt romney plans to go there after the debate next week to do a little bit of firewall back-filling to make sure he gets the key battleground states west of the mississippi right there in toss-up, if not leaning toward romney. jamie? >> campaign carl cameron. carl, good to see you. thank you so much. >>> governor mitt romney's now calling out president obama over what many are calling a string of petty attacks on the campaign trail, truly getting nasty. it's a huge sign, according to governor romney, of just how desperate the obama campaign has become. take a listen. >> they have no agenda for the future. no agenda for america. no agenda for a second term. it's a goo

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Oct 21, 2012

for tomorrow night on that stage, big foreign policy showdown. but romney did take a break today to go out and hud well his campaign team which played a game of football against a-- on the beach. >> reporter: romney did a coin toss, and jokingly coached his team in the huddle. >> figure out which player is best and take him out early. >> and went back to his hotel for more debate prep. last night he held his final fund-raiser as new figures show the two campaigns are on pace to spend a combined $1 billion on the race. through september the obama campaign had raised a total of $558 million, and had spent a total of $462 million. romney's campaign had raised $357 million, and spent $294 million. but outside spending from independent groups favors romney to to -- two-to-one and erases the president's money advantage. the race now a dead heat. expectations are high for the third and final debate. this one on foreign policy and moderated by cbs's bob schieffer. with the candidates off the trail sunday schieffer on face the nation moderated a dust up between two advisors, obama campaign official

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Oct 15, 2012

to the romney and obama campaigns took part in a foreign policy debate. they talked about the u.s. presence in afghanistan. iran's nuclear program, and recent changes in the arab world. the hour and a half discussion was cohosted by the center for new security. american enterprise substitute and new america foundation. >> welcome and thank you for joining us today. my name is richard. i'm the president at the center for new american security. it's a pleasure to welcome you today to the debate. [inaudible] among the american substitute the center for american security and the new america foundation. the event is the sixth in the series that the three constitution have held throughout 2012. each of them ff handgun the national security debate during the presidential campaign. we had dugses on cover's americas overall defense budget, the pacific, the middle east and several weeks ago we held a debate at arizona state university. today we meet at the time when foreign policy is returned to the center of the conversation between the candidates. i am therefore very pleased to introdpiews the camp

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Oct 15, 2012

. one of the things we've seen with romney on foreign policy is that he is much, much better when he's making a competence case against the president than an ideological case. one of the reasons that the benghazi attack worked so well is that raised the question of competence which is a place romney looks credible to voters. obama's challenge in many ways is to -- and you saw this with biden during the vice presidential debate -- is to emphasize those elements of romney romney's attack that are ideological. >> can you imagine if romney hadn't put out that first statement right after the cairo, benghazi attacks? i know there are questions about whether we were talking about cairo or benghazi, but it gave the impression he was knee-jerk partisan. had he not, he would be in such an amazing position than he is right now. >> the competence piece i think is a salient point. hugo, in terms of how obama has to deal with romney tomorrow, e.j. dionne writing in "the washington post," obama doesn't have to look angry or agitated, he simply needs to invite voters to see that romney, the product,

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Oct 19, 2012

it was the mitt romney can complain about the obama administration's weakness on foreign policy. i think what you are going to see in the debate i presume although i do not have full confidence that mitt romney will be able to pull it off but i think he will make that argument no matter what the topic is especially if it is serious in the middle east he will try to say the administration is the first one to have abandoned this idea of peace versus strength. host: let's get to the phones and hear what you have to say. keith is on the republicans line. good morning. caller: good morning. i am glad to be on c-span with you this morning. my question is not so much in regards to a terrorist attack. to me, it was a military attack or the engagement of military action. a terrorist attack is on a civilian target designed to create fear in the civilian population. this was completely not that. this was an attack against the american sovereignty. that is my problem with it. guest: it was inherently a civilian target. it was not a military target that these extremists went after so i have to disagree with t

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Oct 17, 2012

's going to happen in a debate. what romney will do is say the economy is our strongest foreign policy and try to return to the economy. that gives obama one more chance to say, which he didn't do in this debate, hey, you were 47th out of 50th in job creation. we really can't trust turning this over to you. >> mitt romney and that number 47, it's such a problem. jonathan alter, dana milbank and david corn, thank you. >>> romney fumbles on the subject of libya and he needs a life line. candy, candy! please stay with us. >> candy -- candy, candy, candy. candy. candy. jack, you're a little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi® card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts. more events. more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with a citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>> it should come as no surpri

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Oct 20, 2012

. 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

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Oct 21, 2012

deficit on foreign policy, governor romney's task here is to make this all about vision, american exceptionalism and tie it to the economy, and he does that on the campaign trail, saying that in order to have a strong foreign policy, in order to have a strong military, in order to be respected around the world, you have to have a strong economy, and at every turn on the campaign trail, governor romney and his running mate, paul ryan, accuse the president of offering nothing more for a second term than he has done for the past four years. here's paul ryan on the campaign trail in su sioux city, iowa. >> we don't want more joblessness. we don't want to settle for 15% of americans in poverty for 23 million americans struggling for work. we don't want to settle for somebody blaming everybody else for the problems. we want leadership. we want results. we want economic growth. we want america to get back on the right track. we want to elect mitt romney the next president of the united states. >> reporter: this is the last time the two candidates are going to meet face-to-face here tomor

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