for months with a slight edge to the president. ll those strengthening national polls with polls narrowing in battground states as wl d the govern's favorability ratings alsomoving that combined make it fair to aswhether it's too early to can ask the qution,she third debate is looming this coming monday, has america already decided? let's take a look at where these candides and their campaigns stand tonight. the gallup national survey of likely voters shows governor romney with a six-point lead over president obama. this poll was tied at 48 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 octoberr4th lead in the process. the favobility rating showing

a candidate governor romney who is now likable to a majority of american voters. the w research center showing governor romney's farable ting at 50% to the present's 49. a stunning turn around fr march when the president's ratias nearly twice that of governor romney's. brand new fox pon the important battleground state o florida has romney outpacing the president 55% to 51% in e favooables. the gallup favorability poll has th republan nominee on top as well. mr. romney beating the president 52-51%. incredibly, e left-leaning public policy institute giving governor romney the biggest lead in likability. the gogovernor up three percente points on the president ithat, in that polwhich is co-sponsored by the service employees international union. talk about objectivity. and the real ear politics

electoral college projection now has governor romney ahead the president for the first time in this election. with north carolina now moving in to the romney column. tonight we have expert election analysis, the latest on the white house benghazi scandal and controversy and inside look at theational mia le in this presidential campaign. finish -- former governor of arkansas mike huckabee joins us, media research director of analysis tim graham, fox ns mimiddle east affairs walilid ares among our guests, but more bad news for the predent as he and governor romney gear up for mday's final presidential debate. governor romney has erased most of the president's lead on foreign policy. mr. obama h lost 15 percentage points' advantage since september, now leading governor romney by a 47% to 43% margin. and two brand new fox polls in the swing states trending

governor romney's way. the governor up 48-45 in florida after trailing the president by five points just las month. and the psident's seven-int lead i the september ohio poll has been cut to three points, within the margin of error. joining us now for all the latest campaign developments, former arkansas governor, 2008 republican presidenti candidate mike huckabee, also e author of "the n york times" bestseller "a simple government" and host of fox news channel's "huckabee" show. great to have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: this is a slight lead to be kind a generous, but it is a lead. >> yh. lou: how significa in your judgment? >> it's huge turn from what we've seen even mon ao, and ere's three things that's going on. one, take all the polls, and they get kind of confusing, but wh you get down to it, there's now a trending that is very clearly in romney's favor. and you look at the significant and the most credible polls, and even if he' not ahead, he is

dramatically up from wre he was six weeks ago, fou weeks ago. that is posive. second thing, romney's up wth women. there's been huge turn among womenvoters tard mitt romy. i wre some numbs down. one of the things in the florida that's very significant, there's been 19-pointoven florida among women. that's huge. mitt romney is goingo win florida. and i think now the third thing is we're seng a trend develop withewi voters which is further going to insure his victorin a florida race. lou: and amongst indendent vote we're seeing as wel a you know, i mean, governor romney now has a double-digit lead among indendents,nd at group detmined the tcome of the 2008 election. >> and they very well term this time. ohio still up for grabs, oma still has a le there. lou: right. >> but romney has put wisconsin in play. i inkomy's going to win north carolina, he's ging to

win virginia. this is, you know, movi romney's way x it's getting so close and it's getting so close that there'sot a lot that obama can do thapeople will say, oh, you kw, i didn't know that about barack obama. he's the president. he's in the best position he's ing to probably b in. everything now starts breaki away from him. lou: breaking away from m, and the first debate a historic margin of victory for governor romney. the second debate there was a strong feeling that the president hahad won tt debate, but then in quick succession the discussion about the president actually lying during that debate, that lie being corroborated by a moderator who erred and acknowledged so doi. and w we've got a president who can't even a safe interview with jon stewart without screwi it up. i mean, this thing is taking on a bidennesque or, if you will,

rather, an obama aura. >> well, this is why you're not going to see barack obam over theekend. both candidates are off the trail, they're sequesteredo do debate prep, but i think it's also to keep them from making some gring error that they would have to go in ad answer for ma in that debate. the debates this year have becomeore important than ie everemembered them being in moving the voters one way or the otr. both candidatego in with a l on the line, but thinkore i on the line for barack obama in this foreign policy debate because, lou, i'd hate have to walk in there and defend behazi, defind why he has -- defend why he has never anered for fort hood and little rock a a terror a. and in little rock sily a random state crime. nonsense. this is a pattern. lou: the process of you can call it stonewalling, of on fuse case -- >> it's lying, let's be honest,

lying. u: well, certainly tuesday night before the american people the president lied straightforwardly. but the fact is the national media's not holding him accountable, and it's asf there is no truth if the national liberal media isn't in some w validating it. and in point of fact,he media research center, bozell's group pointi out, younow, major newspapers not even mentiing the most important ment and question of the night. >> well, even thoughhe are not and there's no point in ving anyxpectation that u're going to see "the new york times" and the washgton post come forward with that, the american people aren't stupid. you know what? when it gets down to it, they can read through this, and they can see that the president kept telling them for weeks that it was all abou a video, and it's clear now d evidence that it wasn't, and they are able to access enough informatn without the filter of "the new york times" and the mainstream, big networks that, frankly, i think that it'soing todo more damage to e networks than it will to mitt romney, and it will

do more damage to barackbama's credibility for t coming clean with the american people. lou: we're asking tonight, has americaade up its mind on who will be the next president, what do you ink? >> i think a lot of americans have made up their mind, i think that group o undecided vters is increasingly decided, but this still is not de. it's not allin. there's still some cowsut in the field, not all them are in the barn yet, lou. we've got a few still to bring home. lou: all rit. governor, good to have you with us. >> thanks a bunch. lou: please take a minute t log on t the lou dobbs tonight facebook page, who do you think will win monday's fina debate? go to facebook.com/lou dobbs tonight. disappointing earnings on wall street today, stos posting the worst sine-day deine since june and adding to the drama of the big selloff, today is the 25th anniversary of black monday back in 1987 when

stocks fell nearly 25% in a single session. thing is shking today -- as shocking today, i'm pleas to tell you, but the dow did lose two-and-a-half point the s&p do 24, the nasd tumbled 67 points, down more than 2% on the day. microsoft, ggle, apple, all pa oa broad selloff in the technolo sector. mcdold's, chotle general electric all sharplyower on missed earnings targets and dippointing revenue. total volume 7.2 billion shares, that's heavier than the average daily volume recently of 6.4, outpacing by more than 3 to 1 on the big board. 129 stocks that knew 53-wee highs despite all of that, 35 hitting new lows. fo the week the dow and the s&p up while t nasdaq w down more than aercent a much brighter picture year to daae in all of this anxiety, of

-ourse, surrounding the selloff today. it's easy to lose sght of the fa that the dow jones industrials have gained more than 9%,he s&p up about 14%, e that is damag up 15%. 15155 of the standard & poos 500 companies reporting earngs next wk, so get ready. the biggest week this earnings season cominright at us, and investors mabe infor, well, some exciting times. little volatility, perhaps. wall street expecti companies on the s&p to st the worst earnings since the third quarter of 2009. >> it's been a toughr for presidential debate moderators. >> want to mak se we get that frrd because it tookthe president 14 days before he called the attack in benghi an acof terror. >> get the transcript. >> he did, in fa -- l mm call it an act of terror -- >> say that a little louder, candy? [alause] >> he did ca it an act of terror.

lou: bob schffer of cbs is up next. hang on. president obama promised his would be the most traparent administration innhistory. how's he doing? wel show you in the clk talk.

lou: newly-released documents coirstate department personnenel including ambassador christopher stevens raised concns about the shortage of serity in beeghazi months bere the september 11th terrorist attack. ambassador stevens himself wrote about security threats in june, august and the very day that he was murdered. meanwhile, military sources telling fox news that th terrorist attack may have been part o a broader campaign to drive a growing american presence out of eastern libya. yet the administration continues to refuse to admit what any fact

at all and threat assessments ignored, requests for security there were ignored, and the reality on theround resulted in the murder of four americans in libya. and as much as theresident mmght now want us to believe that he declared the murders in benghazi to be a terrorist attack just the day after they occurred, the public record -- as we ha repeatedly reported and demonstrated -- is contrary to his statement. joining us now for a critical look at theresident's, well, changing positio on the september 11th attacks and th liberal media's inability to, in some cases, even report let al report well on the event or, for tat matter, t refusal of the administration to offer anreason for the attacks,ny statement to the amerineopl about why the choices they' de are appropriate for this nation's interests. we're joined by tim gram, the media research center's director of media analysis. tim, at in this point -- at this

point why is th there is a seeming reluctance on major national media outlets whether newspaper or networks to say point-blank this administration has lied to the american peoe? because theistatementsare in ntravention of one another. >> that's aolutely right. and even if you wa to say, as candycrowley trieto do, well, on the day after in the rose garden you said that, you made a vague reference to acts of rror, we can still go back to obama giving an interview to univision on the 20th of september wre he was still talkin about the natural protests oside the consulate in behazi which was just utterly fictional. so mean, it is sad that the news media which really should be theeople that keep the timeline, that try to take -- make some sense of these wildly-conflicting statements

and hold this government accountable has really, instead, been sort of lazing around and not dog much on this. we've had 22 sries in the last couple of days about binders ll of women and networks skipping out on covering libya. that'sus ridiculous. lou: and it's fascinating to me that major news organizations with serious journalists, obviously, working for them an often working very well in their aft, there must b an immense frustration even among the idealogically pure of the left who work in those organizations that they cannot report on a story is big, this important. in fact, this histoc. >> absolutely. and there are some that are covering, and it's not like nobody's covering it. and we've been noticing, for example, that j crawford of cbs iscovering it. cnn has consistently covered i fox news has consistentl

covered it, but we're talking about those big ree networks with the biggest audiences in the evening and the morning. you're just not getting that. you're getting an earful of binders. lou: it is strange. and this thi president unlike any other has received immunity from the national liberal media. the national liberal media, i mean, you're kind to hold out those exptions to the rule, but the rule prevails, and thate national liberal media, is frankly, givin this president an easy pass to utter immunity from critical judgment, fom examination by crital national press. which i think certainly puts the entire republic at risk. >> and weould certainly say this as long as, if we're going to call somebody out for being terrib on this, for "the new york times" to take the major house hearing onnthis where we're going to do some fact nding and say, you know what? we're going to put lce

armstrong's troubles on page 1 and this on pa 3 and then say to people when we're asked about it by the readers'ocate, there were six bettertories to put on the front page, that's su and irresponsible. for "the washington post" yesterday to have a story all about w romney's missteps ha enabled obama to escape any thinking on the part of "thehful washingtonpost." it's not called reporting. lo t, you're beingind. [laughter] it turns the papernto a campaign document, not a, not a newspaper. tim graham, we tnk you very much for being with us. up next, just 18 days til election day, the obama administration too busy to deal with the duties of running the government? we'll show you some of the outrageous shortcuts that the administration has taken in tonight's chalk talk. governor romney lets loose with a sparkling stand-up routine for a very good cause. some of hibest one-liners

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>> i won't give us a letter grade. i ink it's still incomplete. >> you've hadhree-and-a-half years to fixt, what grade would you give yourself so far for doing that? >> would say incomplete. lou: well, that seems to be what the president wants is an incomplete. 's become his standard answer to the question,nd this administration is g up a lot of incompletes. we're going to take a look at that tonight. a loof work jus simy isn't getting ne. yesterday, for example, the department of agriculture, let's talk food stamps. failed to meet a key deadline just to rert to congress as it must why it' been partnering with the mexican government to promote food stamps. it's a simple thing. did you know foo stamps hit another record high this month? 46.7 million. 46.7 millio i mean, that's pretty good. it refcts a lot of bad things

it was just 19 million, by the way, a decade ago. 19 million people. not everyadministration has promoted it quite as heavily as this, i think we can comfortable with thattatemen the most tranarent administrati ever is also now four reports -- they're quarterly ports, by the way -- four of them behind schedule on its mandatory quarterly reports on the effects of the stimulus ckage. those reports, morthan a year behind, one of the last reports, by the way, did fd that the stimul had aded or sad about 1 million jobs. 1.8 million jobs. notnconsiderable. that's pretty good. you would thk that this administration would be proud of it. it also, however, found that those jobs were created at a st of -- and this is

extraordiny -- $317,000 per job. 17,000 job. why not just send these pop a check? interestingly, the cost for job figure has been revised upward each and every report the admiministration has issued. that may have something to do with the reason that they quit issuing those reports. what do you think? well, other reportshat the administration refuses to deliver include remember back in may when attrney general eric holder missed a congressional deadline to hand over documents that h had been sbpoena about operation fast and furious? the president invoked executitie privilege, and the was the matter of congress th having

to cite holder, the attorney general becoming the fstst attorney general in history to be held in contempt of congress. and we'llet you know how that work out. but so far a lot of deadlines have beenissed, and a lot has been stonewalled, if youill. and the budget, the budget, presiden obama this year released his 2013 budget the deadline for a third year in a row. of course, the two times that congress didote on the prident's budget request both times it was voted down unanimously. so 's, he has a little trouble with that. and, of course, there's dodd-fnk. now, this is the one that's got wall street all excited and much of the couny because dodd-frank is going to help business and restore sity -- i'm kidding. it is considered to b a dister. dodd-frank, the president loves to tout how he's reiningn wall street, but his administration has missed, are you ready? just 6%.

no this is one i would love to hear a debatebout,ow he could miss 60% of the rulemaking deadlines. if you care about regulations much as he says he does, don't you think that you would do a little better than that? by the way, only a thi of dodd-frank has been written. and bthe w,ritten by regulators, not by congress, but written by the regulats. two-thirds still they're air, nothing. the ministration's decision to choose which laws to follow, which to ignore is plainly a manifestation of the current at flows from the white house through the swire executive -- enti executive branch. it's not pretty to wch. one debate to go, president ama and governor romney face ofon foreignolicy. but first, we'll talk wh

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. aughter] >> chris matews, four years ago i gave him a thrill up his leg, this time around i gave him a strok [laughter] lou:hey almost seemed be having fun, didn't they? we'll ve a lile fun next. speaking of having fun, angry liberal alec baldwin wants to be mayor onew york, so theyay. he's leading t latest poll. it's not the kind of poll you want to lead. the a-team i next.

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lou: 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 revolution: struggle for freedom in the middle east. good to have you with us. walid, let's do this first. do you expect monday that the americ people will get any answers from this president about what happened and hy i benghazi on seember 11th? >> what i do project, that the debate between president oba and gornor romney is going to provide answers for the american public, and that is that the obama administratio was going wronon the middle east wrong on iran, wrong on the muslim brotherhood, of course, wrong on libya, and the governor is going to provide evidence, and he's going propo a different direction than the ones of president obama. u: and, gordon, as they move to the issue of china as the must, it is such a massive

tradg partner and has the largest trade deficit of any country with which we trade, what do you expect toe the resolution? both men, in fairness to both candidates, they have talked equally, they have talked tough about china, and it's the first time we've ever hadwo presidential candites do so in the same election. >> well, that's a start. but unfortunately, we really haven't had a comprehensive discussi, and we need one because ina poses an across-the-board challenge to us. so, yes, it's good that they talk about currency manipulation, but we need to hear about china's manufacturing subsidies, itzhaking of american companies -- its hacking of americanompanies, and i'm afraid we're not going to hear about any of these things. lou: i asked you both to join us tonight so that folks could get a sense of how we talk about often in isolation benghazi, asia, about the challenges whether they be trade or

potentiall military, geopolitical challenges in the pacific and asia regions. the fact is first question has be what should be our policy, and can we in point of fact sustain such a policy, theact that we are the world's largest debtor nation and tre a so many demands on the united states military, many of them originating internally and not alwa solearly in the national interest? walid, how wouldou respond to that? could we possibly meet challenges from both china, from the war on terror globally and specifically then within the middle eastern regegio >> well, let me say at the chinese leadership, and iould have a confirmation from e studio, perceives washington under the obama administration as weak in the middle east, as weak with rerd to iran. as notecided with regard to sya, as having kind of problem in north africa and beyond.

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

can't identify the threat. in the libya, for example, it wasn't ae to identify that the salafist militia on the ground a connected to al-qaeda, that's why they were surprised and tried to do the trailer thg for 14 days. when i say about iran iran is the supporter ofezbolla iran is a supporter of the assad regime. and i'm not overshooting when i say if the iranian regime es wn, four other reges are going to follow. and, of course, we're going to have better alternatives, and we'll be left with al-qaeda. lou:ut left out of that calculus and i want you both to interject herei don't want to simply go back and forth like a tennis game here, the fact is that china is a principal competitor and challenger t only in theacific and asia gion, but in the middle east specifically with iran in conjunction with their interests in that region workin very

closely, the same is true of russ, and the chinese engaging and tting some veryarge stakes forward in the south china sea. >> yea china's been prolirating nuclear weapons technology to iran. it has been iran's primary backer in terms of its onomy and, ocourse, beijing supports iran in the u.n. security council and the governing board of the international atomic energy agency. younow, in sense we have more of a china problemem than e have an iran problem because china is really what makes the atom ayollahs dangerous. lou: all right. gentlemen, i'm going to have to cut it short. i appreciate it. we're running up on time but thank you both. come back soo both of you, and continue ts convsation. gordon chang, thank you so much. walid phares, thank you, sir. and please take a minute to log on to lou dobb tonight's facebook page to vote on our poll. the question is who do y thk will win monday night's final debate. go to facebook.com/lou dobbs night. cast yr vote, we'll have t results here later in the broadcast.

up next, two disgraced foer n york politician and a favorite angry liberal squaring off in a n poll. the winner? oh, we'll have theinner. [laughter] much to his regret, i'm sure. coming up monday, the third and final debate of the presidential campaignnd election. expert analysis om the best in the business joining us, the editor-in-chief of gallup polls, frank newport, ed rollins, joe trippi amongur guests. please, be with us. weere coming rightk.

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wear around the house. [laughter] >> everyone, please, te your ses, oherwise clint eastwood wi yell at them. [laughter] >> i never suggest that the press is biased. i cognize they have their job to do, and i have my job to do. my job is lay out a posive vion for the future of the country, and their job is to make sure no one else finds out about it. [laughter] >> i h a lot more energy in our second debate. [laughter] i waseallyell rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. [laughter] >> but people seem to be very curious as to how we prepare for the debates. let me tell you what i do. first, reain from alcohol for 65 years before thedebate. [laughter] second, find the biggest available straw man and then ju midwestly attack it. - mercily attack it. big bird didn' see it coming. [laughter] >> earlier today i went shopping at some stores in mdtown.

i understand governor romney went shopping for some stores in midtown. [laughter] lou: and a new poll by new york one finds twthirds of new yorkers, 66%, do not want to se alec baldwin become their mayor. they don't even want him to run. that opposition is evenhigher than the oppositiongainst former congressman anthony weiner. it's also higher than e 57% who don't want former governor eliot spitzer to run. [laughter] up next, new polls show governor romney's favorability eclipsg the presidens as we head into the final two weeks of t campgn. has america decides? and the a-team next. angela mcglowan joins us, ellis henican, scherr ri ya coe first day at school. what's in there? he's about to fall over. just anything he might ed. there's a box of tissues on the bottom and some ba-aids; tre's a whe first-aid kit, actually. mom, i can handle it from here.

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lou: joing me now, the a-teaa. republican strategt, ange mcglowan, fox news contributor ellis hen can, formernc spokesperson cheri jacobus. good to have you here. cheri, let's start with you, if we may. >> okay. lou: the president gets a safe inteiew th jon stewart and screws it up. and then tas out four dead americans as, quote-unquote, not optimal. what is going on? >> think the esident is so used to having a mea that gives him an adoring media thht not only can he not handle himself when things get tough, bunow he's getting a little bit lazy and sloppy when things are ing well -- lou: well, jon stewa did everything but givhim aug, are you kidding?

>> exactly. and the remark is indefensible, and is now the moth of one of the young men is ve upset. this thing has legs, and they can't blame it on republicans. the presidt needs to be accountable for wh comes out of his mouth. >> and i think this is actually going to help us win, and mitt romney's going to do very well on foreign policy on monday. and no matter what candy crowley did, i think that it's actually going to help us on monday wn he does debate oba. >> yes? [laughter] i mean, listen, you're really upset about the stewart thing? he asked him the question, is optimal -- lou: wait a minute,,i just asked you a question. >> he's asked, i th optimal? he says, well, no, it's not optimal when someone gets killedit's not optimal when bad things happen. this is a, this is a phony pce of outrage. there's so many serious stuff to talk about, why are we focusing on -- >> oh, elli you're missing the point. the president do not want to talk about benghazi, he doesn't want to -- lou: you want to get serious,

the president the united states lied about what sd in the rose garden. >> he did. lou: he was corroboted by the debate moderator. >> 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, frankly, voters this minor gotcha, can we twist this wwrd -- [inaudible conversations] >> four americans are dead in benghazi. >> go ahead and do it. lou: initially referred to as bumps in the road, now it's quote-unquote not optimal, and now you want to say that we want to talk about serious things. we have been begging to talk about something serious -- >> okay. lou: which is what happened in benghazi. a mmn sitting this that audienc tuesday night, one of 11 questions, only 11 questions were put forward in from that auence. 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 awer is the obvious and truthful answer which is this is annfolding thing. thedetails have been coming out. they put out as they knew it. yes, there are contradictions -- >> ellis, i sorry, that is not true. lou: hav you joined the gre, the grt conspiracy? >> no. i know, no -- lou: you're talking about a $4 trillion government, you' talking about the only superpower in the world -- >> yes. lou: -- cia assets in that immediate area. there is no explanation from this ainistration why they did not rush to the help of those americans. >> exactly. u: there is no explanation why they did not take steps, there has been no explanation ofany kind. [inaudible conversatio] >> excuse me, cheri. as someone who has covered many live storiesver the years, we all understand that these things dribble out in dribbles and drabs and over time -- [inaudible conversations] >> if it wasn't for fox ne, if it wasn't for the journalists a

fox new itouldn'thave dribbled out. lou: we've got to gi credit as well to cbs. >> i'm a little biased, but -- lou: and the daily beast. >> are you all suggesting that he doesn't care about our diplomatic crew? lou: you tell me. >> no. >> oh, come on. no. he had a right to be offended at the suggestion that mitt romney made in the debate. it was one of of the proudest moments of the other night at hofstra university. [inaudible conversations] >> ellis, 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 ppesident steps up and suggests that -- lou: oh, comen. >> -- this president doesn't care about diplomats, i don't believe that. [inaible conversations] fish. >> he doesn't go to his own security briefings, ellis. he doe't go to his own -- what do you have to say about that? ellis, he doesn't go to his own security briin, and his

insensitive comments, it starting to look like he doesn't understand the impact and the importance of his job and what his responsibility iso our3 ambassadors anpeople overseas. that is a big problem, the fact that he wi not answe the questions, the fact that he gave a u.n. speech sayi this was all about the video, and now he's backtracking, and the media is letting m get away with it. it's a big, big problem. >> clearly, he's a machiavellian politician who thought he could say whatever he nted t say. to have his u.n. ambassador actually go on the air and say this was about a video? to have us spend $70,000 worth of tax dolls to do an apology tour saying itas because of a video? plea. >> it simply mistaken to suggest that this president someone who doesn't care about the diplomatic -- lou: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. [inaudible conversations] excusee, if i may, if i may, we're t of te. >> sure. this stuff is wrong, you know that lou: i do nt to just if i may, set the record straight again wi your highly emotional

@%ne. you've perhaps forgotten the fact that i never sa he didn't care. i said, es and i also said i n't give a damn if he do or he doesn't. [inaudible conversations] thank you. [laughter] >> he does! loo: ellis henican who will be spouting for hours, but we've got a room for it. [laughter] and chi jacobus, thank you very much. >> tha you. lou: up next, who do you think will win monday's -- this is not for ellis henican -- who do you thinwill winonday's final presidential debate? at's up next. at's up next. vo in our poll, [be] [indistinct chatter]

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lou: time for the results of r online pl. we asked who do you think will win monday's final pridential debate. only 97% of youaid governor romney will win. 3%aid it will be president obama. thanks for bein with us. good night from n york. have areat weekend.eyeyeyeyeyey. begin at ahmadinejad has said we are a joke. it is an issue with global security implications. stay with us. we said we would be on your money. we will continue. gerri willis. tonight swing state florida in the mitt romney coolumn. a new "fox news poll" showing the romney ryan ticket pulling ahead of obama-biden in florida, the biggest bateground state. the "orlando sentil" today, central flori's biggest paper endorsing the gop challenger despite supporting obama in 28. is florida a done deal for mitt? let's ask. byron york, chief political correspondent for the ashiton eaminer". doug holtz-ean,merican on