for months with a slight edge to thpresidt. will those strengthening nation polls with polls rrowin in battleground states as well and the gornor's favorability ratings so moving that combined make it fair to aswhether it's too early to can ask the question, as the third debates looming this comionday, s america already decided? let's take a look at where these candidates and their campaigns stand tonight. the gallup onal survey of likely voters shows governor romn with asix-point lea over president obama. this poll was tied at 48% as recently as the 9th of this month. a rasmussen reports poll of 11 swing states has governor romney up 49% to 47%. president obama losing his six-point octoberth lead in e process. th favobityty rating showing

a candidate in governor rmney who is now likable to a majority of american voters. the pew research center showing governor romney's favorable rating at 50% to the prident's 49. a stunning turn around from march when the presidt's rating was nearlwi that of governor romney's. brand new fox poll in the important battleground statate f florida has romney outpacing the president 55% to 51% in the favooables. the gallup favorabili poll has the republican nominee on top as well. mr. romney beating the president 52-51%. incredibly, the left-leing publ policy institute giving gogovernor romney the biggest ld in likabil the governor up three percentage points on the president in that, in that poll which is copoored by the service employees international union. talk about objectity. andhe real clear polics

electoral college projectn now has governor roey ahead of the president for e firstime in this election. with north carola now movi in to the romney column. tonight we have expert election analysis, the latest on the white house benghazi scandal and controversy and an inside loo at the national media's role in this presidential cpaign. finish -- rmer governor of kaas mike hkabe joins us, media research director of analysis tim graham, fox news mid middleast affairs walid phes ang our gsts, but more bad news for the p presidet as he and governor romeyr up for monday's final presidential debate. governor romney has ered most of the president's lead on foren policy. mrobama has lost 15 pcentage points' advantage since september, now leadg governor roey by a % to 43% margin. and two brand new fox polls in the swing states tending

governor romnes way. the governor up 48-45 in florida after trailing the president by five points just last month. and the president's seven-point lead in the september ohio poll has been cut to three points, within the margin of error. joining us now for all t late campaign developments, former arkansas governor, 200 republican presidential candidate mike huckabee, also the author of "the new york times" bestseller "a simple government" and host of fox news annel's "huckabee" show. great have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: this is a slight lead to be kind and gerous, but it is a lead. >> yeah. lou: how significant in yo judgment? >> it's a huge turn from what we've seen even a month ago, and there's three things that's gog on. one, take all the polls, ad they g kind of confusing, but when you get down to it, there's w a trending that is very clearly in romney's favor. and you look at the significant and the most crediblble polls, d even if he's not ahead, he is

dramatically up from where he was six weeks ago, four weeks ago. that is positive. seco thing romney'sp with wome ers been a huge turn among women voters toward tt romney. i wrote some numbers down. one of the things in the florida that's very significantthere's been a 19-point moven florida among women. that's huge. mitt romney is going towin florida. and i thk now the third thing is we're seeing a trend develop with jewish vots which is further going to insure his victory in a florida race. lou: and amongst independent voters we' seeing as well, as you know, i mean, governor romney now has a double-digit lead among independents, and that group determined the outcome of the 2008 election >> and they very well term this time. ohio still up for grabs, obama still has a lead thee. lou: right. >> but romneyas put wiscsin inin play. i think romy's going to win north carolina, he's going to

win virni this is, you know, moving romney's way x it's getting s close -- and it's getting so close that there's not a lot that obama can do that people will say, oh, you know, i didn't kn that about rack obama. he's the president. he's in the best position he's going to probably ben. everything now starts breaki away from him. lou: breaking aw from him, and the first debate h historic margin of victory for governor romney. the second debate there wasa strong feeling that the president hawon that debate, but then in quick succession the discussion about the esident actually lying during that debate, that lie being corroborat by a moderator o erred and acknowledged so doing. and now we've got a president who can't even do a safe interview with jon stewart without screwing it up. i mean, this thing is taking on a bidennesque or, if you will,

rath, an obama aur >> well, this is why you're not going to see barack oba over the weekend. both candidates are off the trail, they're sequester to do debate prep,ut i think it's also to keephem fro making some glaring error tat they would have to go in and answer for manyn tat debate. the debate this year have become more important than i've ever remembered them being in moving the voters one way or the other. both candidates go in with a lot on theine, but i think more is on the line for barack obama in this foreign policy debate because, lou, i'd hate to have to walin there and dend benghazi, defind why he has -- defend why he has never answered for fort hood and little rock as a terror act. andn little rock simply a random sta crime. nonsense. thiss a pattern. lou: the process of you canall it stonewalling, of fuse case -- >> it's lying, let's be honest,

it's lying. lou: well, cerinly tuesd night before the amican people the president lied straightforwardly. but the facts the natiol media's not holding him accountable, and it's as if there is n truth if the national liberal mea isn't some w validatinit. and oint of fact, the media research center, bozell's group pointingut, you know,ajor newspapers not even mentioning the most important momnt and question othe night. >> well, even though they are not and there's no pointin having any expectation that u're going to see "the new york times" and the washinon postome forward with that, the erican peopl aren't stupid. yo know what? when it gets dwn to it, they can read through this, and they can see that the president kept telling em for weeks that it was l about a video, and it's clear now and edence that it wa't, and they are able to access enough informion without the filter of "the new york times" and the mainstream, big networks that, frankly, i think that it's going to do more damage to the networks than it will to mitt romney, and it will

do more damage toarack obama's credibility for not coming clean with the american people. lou: we're asking tonigh has america made upits mind on who will be the next esident, what do y think? >> i thi a lot of americans have made up their mind, i think that group of undecided voters is increasingly decided, but is still is not done. it's not all in. there's still some cows outin e field, not all of them are in the barn yet, lou. we've got a few still to bring home. lou: all right. governor, good to have you with us. >> thanks a bunch lou: please take a minute toog on to the lou dobbs tonight facebook page, who do you think will w monday's final debe? go tofacebook.com/lou dobbs tonight. disappointg earnings on wall street today, stocks poing the worst single-day cline since june and adding to the drama of the big selloff, today is the 25th anniversary of black monday back in 1987 when

stocks fellearly 25% in a single session. nothinis shocng today -- as shocking today, i'm pased to tell you, but the dow did lose two-and-a-half points, the s&p down 24, the nasdaq tumbled 67 points, down more than 2% on the day. microsoft, google, apple, all part of a broad selloff in the technology sector. mcdonald's, chipotle, general electric all sharply lower on missed enings targets and disappointing venu total volume 7.2 billion shares, that heavier than the average dail volume recently of 6.4, outpacing byore than 3 to 1 on the big b. 129 stocks that knew 53-week highdespite alof that, 35 hitting new low for the week the dow and the s&p up while the nasdaq was down more than a percent. a much brighter piure year to ae in all of this anxiety, of

-our, surrounding the lloff today. it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the dow jones industris have gained more than 9%, the s&p up about4 the that damage up 15%. 15 of tosstandard & poor's 50companies reporting earnings next week, so get ready. thbiggest week this earnings season coming right at us,nd investors may be in for, well, some excitin times. a little volatility perhaps. wall street expecting companies on the s&p to post the worst earnings since the third quarter of 2009. >> it's been a tough yearor presidential debate derators. >> want to make sure get that frrd becau it tk the president 14 days befo he called the attackin benghazi an act of terror. >> get the tranript. >> he did, in fact -- let mm call it an act of terror -- >> say that a littleouder, candy? [applause] >> he did call it an act of terror.

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lou: newly-ased documents confirm state department personnel including ambassador christopher stevens raised concerns abouthe shortage of security in beeghazi months before the september 11th terrorist attack. ambassador svens himself wrote about security threats ijune, august and the very day that he was murdered. anwhile, military sources telling fox news thathe terrorist attack may have been part of a broader camamign to drive a growing american presence out of eastern libya. yet the administration continues to refe to admit what any fact

at all and threat assessments ignored, ruests for securi therweregnored, and the reality on the ground resulted in the muer of four americans in libya. and as much as t president mmght now wanus to believe that he declared the murders in benghazi to be a trorist attack just the day after they occurred, the public record -- as we have repeatedlyreported and demonstrated -- is contrary to his statement. joining us now for a critical lookt th president's, well, changing positions on the september 11 attacks and the liberal media's inability to, in some cases, even report let alone report well on the event or, for that matte the refusal of the administration to offer any reason forhe attacks, any statement to themerican people about why the choices they''e made are appropriate for this nati interests. we're joined by tim graham, the media research center's director of media aalysis.

tim, at in this point -- at this point why is it that there is a seeming reluctance on major national media outlets whether newspaper or networks to say point-blank this ainistration has lied to the american people? because their statementsare in ntravention of oneanotr. >> that's absolutely right. d even i if you wa to say, as candy crowley tried to do, well on the day after in the rose gaen you said that, you made a vague reference to acts of terror, we can sti go back to obama giving an interview to univision on the 20th of ptember wheree was still talking about the natul protestsutside theonsate in benghazi which was just utterly fictional. so, i mean, it is sad that the news media whic really should be the people that keep the timeline, that try to take -- make some sense of these wildly-cflicting statements

and hold this government accountable has really, instead, beenort of ling around and not doing much on this. we've had 22 stories in the last couple of daysbout binders full of won and networks skipping out on covering libya. that's just ridiculous. lou: and it's fascinatingo me that major news organizations with serious journalists, obviously, working for them and often working very well in their craft, there must be an immense frustration even among the idealogilly pure of the left who rk in those organizations that they cannot report on a story this big, this important. in ft, this historic. >> absolutely. and ere are some that are covering, and it's not like nobody's covering it. and we've been noticing, for example, that jan crawford of cbs is covering it. cnn has consistently covered it, fox news has consistently

covered it, but wee talking about those big three networks with the biggest audiences in the evening and the morning. you're just t getting that. you're getting an earful of binders. lou: it is strange. and this, this president unlike any other has received imnity om the national liberal media. the national liberal media, i mean, you're kind to hold out those exceptions to the rule, but the rule pvails, and that te national liberal media, is frankly, giving this president an easy pass to utr immunity from critical judgment, from examination by a critical national press. which i think certainly puts the enti republic atisk. >> and w could certainly say this as long as, if we're going call somebody out for being terrible on this, for "the new york times" to take thee major house hearing onnthis where we're going to do some fact finding and say, you know what? we're going to put lance

armstrong's troubles on page 1 and this on page 3 and then say to people when we're asked about it by the readers' advocate, there were sixetter stories to put on the front page,hat's absurd and irresponsible. for "the washington post" yesterday toave a story all about how romney's missteps have enabled obamao escape any thinking on the part of "thehful washington post." it's not cle reporting. lou: tim, you'rebeing kind. [laughter] it turns the paper into a campaign document, not a, not a newspaper. tim graham, we thank you very much for being with us. up next, just8 days til election day, the obama administration too busy to deal with the duties of running the govement? we'll show you some of the outrageous shortcuts thathe administration has taken in tonit's chalk talk. governor romney lets loose with a sparkling stand-up routineor a very good cause. some of his best one-liners

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>> what grade would you give yourself? >> well, you know, i'm not gog to ge myself a grade -- >> not even a midterm? >> -- othe than incomplete. because the work we started is not yet done. >> so how do you grade yourself, honestly, in terms of how you've done in terms of economics.

>> i wot give us a letter grade. i think it's still incomplete. >> you've had three-and-a-half years to fix it, what grade would yo give yourself so far for doing that? >> i would say incplete. lou: well, that seems t be what the president want is an incomplete. it's become his standard answer to the question, and this administration is running up a lot of incompletes. we're going to tak a look at that tonight. a lot work just simply isn't getting done. yesterday, for example, the dertment of agriculture, let's talk food stamps. failed to meet a key deadline just to report to congress as it must w it's been partnering with the mexican gvernment to promote fo smps. it's a simple thing. did you know food stamps hit another record high this nth? 46.7illion. 46.7 million. i mean, that's pretty good. it reflects a lot of bad things.

it was just 19 million, by the way, a decade ago. 19 million peoe. not every administration has omoted it quite as heavily as this, i think we can be comfortabl with that statement. the most transparent administration ever is also now four reports -- they'r quarterly reports, by the w -- four of them behind shedu on its mandatory quarterly reports onhe effects of the stimulus package. ththose reports, more than a yer behind, one of the last reports by the way, did find that the stimulus had added or sad about 1.8 million jobs. 1.8 million jobs. not inconsiderable. at'sretty good. you would think that this administrati would be proud of it. itls howev found that those jobs were created at a cost of -- and this is

extraordinary -- $31000 p job. $317,000 a job. why not just send these people a check? interestingly, the cst for job figure has been reviseduprd in each and every report the administration has issued. that may have something to do with the reason that they quit issug those repor. what do you think? well, other reports thathe administration refuses to deliveinclude remember back in may when attorney general eic holder missed a cgressional deadline to hand over documents that had been sbpoenaed about operation fast and furious? the president ioked executive privilege, and there was the maer of congress then having

to cit holder the attorney general becoming the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt of congress. and we'll let you know how tt worksout. but so far a lot of deadlines have been missed, and a lotas been stonewalled, if you wil and the budget, the budget, president obama this year reased his 2013 budget the deadline for a third year in a row. of course, th two tim that congress did vote on the president's budget request both times it was voted down unanimously. so he's, he has a little trouble with that. and, of course, there' dodd-frank. w, this is the one that's got wall street all eited and much of the country because dodd-frank is going to help business and restore sanity -- i'm kidding. it is considered to be a disaster. doddrank, the president loves to tout how he's rning in wall street, but his administration has ssed, a you ready? just 60%.

now, this is one i woul love to hear a debate about, how could miss 60% of the rulemaking deadlines. if you care about regulatns as much as he sayhe does, don't you think that you would do a little better than that? by the way, only a third of dodd-fnk has been written. and by the way, written by regulators, not by cgress, but written by the regulators. two-thir still they're air, nothing. the administration's decision to choose which laws to follow, which to igno is plainly a manifestation of the current that flows fr te white house through the swire executive -- entire executive branch. it's not prettto watch. one debate to go, predent obama and governor 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. ♪

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lou: governor roey tonight in the polls leading on a critical foreign policy isue, 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 pcent handle trade issues wi cha. the u.s. trade deficitith china, by the way,is now $203 billion from january through august of thisear. and, of course, debt was an issue that did come up in this week's debate. >> we lose sales, and manufacturers here in the u.s. making the same products can't compete. china has been a currency manipulator for years and years d years, and the president has a regular opportunity to labe them as aurrencymalar but refuses to do so. lou: governor rney says he will label china a currency manilator his first day in office. re now to discuss u.s. foreign policy and trade policy with china and other challenges, of urse, gord cha, author of the book "the coming collapse of

china." also with us, walid phares, foreign policy senior adviser to governor romney, also a fox news middle east anderrorismm3 expert, author of the book "the ming revolution: struggle for frdom in the middle east. good to haveou with us. walid, let's do this first. do u expect monday that the american people will get any answers from this presiden about what happene and hy in benghazi on seember 11th? >> what i do project, that the debate between president obama and governor romney is going to provide answers for the american public, and that is that the obama administration was going wronon the middle east, wrong on iran, wronon the muslim brotherhood, of course, wrong on libya, and the governor is going to provide evidence, and he's going to propose a different direction than the ones of president obama. lou: and, gordon, ashey move to the issue of china as they must, it is such a massive

trading partner and has the largest trade deficit of any country with which we trade, what do you expect to be the solution? both men, in fairness to bo candidates, they have talked equally, they have taed tough about china, and it's the firs time we've ever had two presidential candidates do so in the same election. >> well, that's a start. but unfortunately, we really haven't had aomprehensive discussi, and we needone because china posesn across-the-board challenge to us. so, yes, is good that they talk about currency manipulation, t we need to hear about china's manufacturing subsidies, itaking of american companies -- its hacking of american compani, and i'm afraid we're not going to hea about any of these things. lou: i aske you both to join us tonight so that folks could get a sense of how we talk about often in ilation benghazi, asia, about the challenges whether they be ade or

potentially military, geopolitical challenges in the pacific and asia regions. the fact is first question has to be what should be our policy, and can we in potf fact sustain such a policy, the fact that we are the world's largest debtor nation and there are so many demands on the united states military, many of them originating internally and not always so clearly in the national intest? wali how would you respond to that? could we posbly meet challenges from both china,rom the war on terror globally and specifically then within the middle eastern region? >> well, let me say that the chinese leadership, and i would have a confirmation from e studio, perceives washington under thobama administratn as weak in the middle east, as weak with regard to iran. as necided with regard to syria, as havi kind of problem in nor africa andeyo.

this isswhy the chinese leadership, the other side of e planet is takg th liberty of expanding, of challenging japan, of challenging the philippines and beyond. now, back to the middle east, the administration so far has demonstrated that it had an opportunity where we didn't need to ha boots on the ground in iran or no-fly zone, it was in june of 2009, lou, you'll remember. lou: right. >> we had e oprtunitto stand with t demmnstrators. this would have collapsed the iranian regime, half ofhe war on terror would have ended,ut we didn't, unfortunately lou: you say half the waron terror would have ended. some argued that only a civil war in certainly a strategic nation, syria, woul have been prevented. but to say that the war on terror would have been cut by half, is that the not an overoptimistic assessment particularly given that we've had so much ptimism emanating from this administration for four years? >> where look, lou, the problem of the administratio is it

can't identify the teat. inhe libya, for example, it sn't able to identify that the salast militia on th ground a connected to al-qda, that's why theyere surprised and tried to do the trailer thing for 14 days. when i say about iran, iran the supporter of hezbollah. iran is s a supporter of the asd regime. d i'm not overshootinghen i say if the iranian regime goes down, four other reges are going to follow. and, of course, wee going to have better alternative and then we'll be left with al-qaeda. lou: but left out of that calculus and i want you both to interject herei don't want to simply go back a fth like a tennis game here, the fact is that china is a princip competitor a challenger not only in the pacif and asia region, but in the middle east specifically with iran in conjunction withheir interests in that region working very

closely, the same is true russia, and the chinese engaging and setting some very large stakes forward in the south china sea. >> yeah. china's been proliferating nuclear weapons technology to iran. it has been an's primary backer in terms of its economy and, of course, beijing supports iran in the u.n. security council and the governing board of the international atomic energy agen. you know, in a sense weave more of a china problem than we have an iran problemecause china is really what makes the atomic ayatollahs dangerous. lou: all right. gentlemen, i'm going to have to cut it sho. i appreciate it. we're running upn time but thank you both. come back soon, both of you, and continue thisconversation. gordon cha, thank you so much. walid phares, thank you, s. d ease taka minute to log on to lou dobbs tonight's facebook page to vote on our ll. the qution is who you think willinin mony night's final debate. go to facebook.com/lou dobbs tonight. cast your vote, we'll have the results here later the

broadcast. up next, two disgraced former new york polician and a favori angry liberal squaring off in a new poll. the winner? oh, we'll have the winner. [laughter] much to his regret, i'm sure. coming up monday, the third an final debate of the presidential campaign and eleion. expert analysis from the best in the business joining u the editor-in-chf of gallup polls, frank newport, ed rollins, joe trippi amo our guests. pleasebe with us. pleasebe with us. ere coming right back.k. lte is the fastest.

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lou: we don't know how much of libel hollood has shifted to governor romney, but at least part of it has. qualified comedy writers. he are some of the funniest moments of last night's aled e. smh charity dinne >> campaign can require a lot o wardrobe canges. we -- blue jeans in the morning, perhaps, suits for a lunch fundraiser, sport coat for dinner, but it's nice to finally relax d to wear w ann and i

wear around the house. [laughter] >> everyone, please, take your seats, otherwise clint eastwood will yell at them. [laughter] >> i never suggt that the press is biased. i recognize they have their job to do, and i have my job to do. my job is to lay out a positive vision for the future of the country, and their job is to ke sure no one el finds out abouit. [laughter] >> i had a lot more energy in ou second debate. [laughte i was really well rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. [laughter] >> but people seem to be very curious as to how werepare for the debates. let me tell you what i do. first, refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate. [laughter] second, find thebiggest available straw man an tn just midwestly attack it. -- mercily attack . big bird didn't see it coming. [laughter] >> earlier today i went spping at some stores in midtown.

i understand governor romney went shopping f some stores in midtown. [laughter] lou: and new poll by new york e finds two-thirds of new yorkers, 66%, do not want to see alec bawin become their mayor. they don't even want him to run. that opposition is even higher than the opposition ainst former congressmanhony weiner. it's also higher than the 57% who don't want former governor eliot spitzer to run. [laughter] up next, new polls show governor romney's favorability eclipsing the presidt's as we head into the final two weeks of the campaign. has america decides? and the a-team next. angela mcglowan joins us, ellis henican, serr ri ya coe bit. all eyes, right here. this is our year. i thoug it was la year... turns out was wrong. none of us would walk in here and settle. that's how we are! i forgot what i was going to say.

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lou: joining me now, the a-teaa. republican strategist, angela mcglowan, fonews contributor ellis hen can, former r spokesperson cheri jacobus. good to have you here. cheri, let's start with you, if we may. >> okay. lou: the president gets a safe interview with jon stewart an screws it up. and then talks about four de americans as, quote-unquote, n optimal. what is going on? >> i think the president is so used to having a media that gives him an adoring media thht not only can heot handle himself when things get tough, but now he's geing a little bit lazy and sloppy when things are going well -- lou: well, jon stewart did everything butive him a hug, are you kidding?

>> exactly. and the remark is indefensible, and is now the mother of one of the young men is very upset. this thing has legs, and they can't blame it on republicans. the presidenneeds to be accountable for what comes out of his mouth. >> and i think this is actually going to help us win, and mitt romney'soing to do vry well on foreign poly onday. and no matter what candy crowley did, i think tha it's actually going to help on monday when he does debate obama. >> yes [laughter] i mean, listen, youre really upset about the stewa thing? he asked him the qstion, is 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 someone gets killed, it's not optimal when bad things happen. this i a, this is a phony piece of outrage. there's so many serious stuff to talk about, why are we focusing on -- >> oh, ellis, youe ming the point. the president does not want to talk about benghazi, he doesn' want to -- lou: you want to get serious,

the president of the united states lied about what he said in the re garden. >> he did. u: he wasorroborated by the debate derator. >> actually -- lou: no, what i'm saying is, actually, my finger is raised higher than yours. [laughter] >> this is the kind of stuff i think, frankl votershis minor gotcha, can we twt this wwrd -- [inaudible conversations] four americans are dead in benghazi. >> go ahead and do i lou: initially referred to as bumps the road, now it's quote-unquote not optim, and now you wa to say that we wnt to talk about serious things. we have bee begging to talk about something serious -- >> okay. lou: which iwhat happened in benghazi. a mmn sitting thisthat audience tuesday night, one of 11 questions, only 11 questions were put forward in from that audience. one of them was, mr. president, who denied the security for that consulate? >> is it, is it -- lou: did you get the answer? i missed it. >> i didn't get it.

>> the answer is the obvious and truthful awer which is this is an unfolding thing. the details have been coming out. they put out as they knew it. yes,here are contradictions -- >> ellis, i'm sorry, that is not true. lou: have you joined the great, the greatonspiracy? >> no. i know, no -- lou: you're talking abt a $4 trillion government, you're talkingbout the only superpower in the world -- >> yes. lou: -- cia assets in that immediate area. there is no explanationfrom this administration why they did not rush to the help of those americans. >> exactly. lou: there is no explanation why they did not take steps, there has been no explanationof any kind. [inaudible conveations] >> excuse me, cheri. as som who has covered many live stories over the yes, we all understand that tse thin dribble t in dribbles and drabs and over time -- [inaudible conversations] >> if it wasn' for fox news, i it wasn't for the journalists at

fox ns, it wouldn't have dribbled out. lou: we've got to give credit as well to cbs. i'm a little biase but -- lou: and theaily beast. >> are you all suggesting that he doesn't care about our diplomatic cre lou: you tell m >> no. >> oh, come on. no. he had a right to be offded at the suggestion that mitt romney made in the debate. it s one of of theproudest moments of the othernight at hofstra university. [inaudible conversations] >> eis, if i may teel you -- lou: do you think anybody really cares who so fended in this?-- is offended in this? >> when a candidate for ppesidt sts upnd suggests that -- lou: oh,ome on. >> -- this presint doesn't care about diploms, i don't believe that. [inaudible conversations] finish. >> he doesn't go to his own security briefings, ellis. he doesn't go to his own --hat do you have to say about that? ellis, he doesn't go to his own security briefings, and his

insensitiveomments, it's starng to look like he desn't understand the impacand the importance of h job and what his responsibility is to our3 ambassadors and people overseas. that is big problem, the fact that he will not answer these questions, t fact that he gave a u.n. speech saying this was l about the video, and now he's backtracking, and the media is lting him getway witht. it's a big, big problem. >> clearly, he's a machiavellian politician who thought he could say whatever he wanted to say. to have his n. ambassador tually go on the air and say this was about a video? to have us spend $70,000 worth of tax dollars to do an apology tour saying itas becau of a video? please. >> it is simply mistaken to suggest thathis president is soe who doesn't care about theiplomati-- lou: whoa, whoa, whoa, wh. [inaudible conversations] excuse me, if i may, if i may, we're out of time. sure. this stuff is wrong, you know that. lou: i do want to just, if i may, set the record raight again with your highly emotional

@%ne. you've perhaps forgotten the fact that inever said he didn't care. i said, does he? and i also said i don't give a damn if he does or he doesn't. [inaudible conversations] thank you. [laughter] >> he es! loo: ellis henican who will be spouting forours, but we've got a room for it. [laughter] and cheri jacobus, thank you very much. >> thank you. lou: up next, who do you think will win monday's -- this is not for ellis henican -- who do you think will win monday's final presidential debate? th's up next. vote in our poll, syou know, i've helped a lot off people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object hitting the ) thgs have been a littl strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? what a strange place.

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