simpson, democratic governor of montana brian shwhite shweitzer. you can watch the debate on fbn, gauge market reaction, vote on what you're seeing. we'll give you the votes, follow up on the tweets. not just part of the picture, the whole picture. fbn. be there. this is a fox news alert. the associated press is reporting that the obama administration is considering retaliatory strikes for the terror attack on 9/11 in benghazi. we will go do other things first but we'll stay on this for a little bit. according to the ap, it says the administration officials say the white house has put special operations strike force on notice and on stand by. >> there are two unusual things about this. it's been a month and they're considering. i mean, that's a deliberate, deliberate strategy. we're thinking about it. also, if you're thinking about

it, why are you telling people? why are you telling people? you just go and do it. it's like that guy that always spoils the ending of every movie or the person that can't keep a secret for a surprise party. you ruin the surprise by telling the person there's a party the same way you're ryaning the opportunity -- ruining the opportunity to get these guys if you tell them you're going to bomb them. >> it says they moved drones into the skies above africa ready to hit militant targets from libya if the u.s. finds an al-qaeda linked group responsible for death of the ambassador. don't we already know they're the culprits? >> this is an article stating the obvious. on the front page of the "new york times" about two and a half weeks ago as the story unfolded, the story said okay, the administration is looking into try to find out who did this and we're going to eliminate them. okay, again, the very least we could do. here's something they haven't done at all i which is why havet they gone to the un and asked

for the world to say that this was wrong and they condemn it? in 1998 we did that after the bombing in africa at one of our embassies. everybody has gone silent except for the politics of it and then leaks to say how tough we are which takes away the element of surprise. a strike force is supposed to strike, not supposed to give warning so that people can scurry and hide. >> i want to get to the sources in a second, bob. you take issue with these things when they're unnamed white house sources. in a second. kimberly, what about the timing of this? >> look. i think this is a completely inept foreign policy. the fact they're doing this shows which why they should be shown the door and put out of office. this is not the right way to handle this at all. now they're telegraphing to our enemies which shows to me they're not sincere about it because they're worried about the political ramification of areas and countries in that region. what will they think if we go do this? they also missed an opportunity. if you were going to act, everybody knew this was an act of terrorism against the united states. there was ample warning, multiple requests for security, and instead, they have people

there with handcuffs and tasers which is totally inadequate, especially given the high level of threat assessment that they already knew existed. the fact that they're going to commit assets a month later like greg says is too little far too late because we have four americans dead. >> can i make a point that the fact that you have people saying it's extremely political and exploitative to talk about libya. you can argue this is politically motivate by doing it the day before the date. >> this is quoting the ap story. details provided by three current and one former administration official as well as an analyst. i mean, isn't that -- the "new york times" article you said doesn't count. what about this? >> clearly whoever leaked that takes to your first point, that we should do it by surprise, obviously made that impossible. two things strike me. one, it means that they've identified who these people are.

that's number one. number two. they must have the agreement of the libyan government to move forward to do this. they would not be saying something like this or playing something like this without the libyans okaying it. my guess is the libyans probably identified them. the libyans don't have a military capability to get to them, and the united states does. so i think they agreed to let them go forward and do it. >> do you think they are bombing the film maker's house? >> one more second on this. >> the three current and one former administration officials as well as an analyst. the next line in the article, the white house will not confirm the report. >> what bothers me about that, who is the former administration official who has security clearance to talk about drone strikes? who is that? if this had happened in a previous administration, that would have been an out rage. whoever those reporters are ought to press the white house because there's something really fishy going on. >> the only person i can think of. that's a very good question. the only people with those kind of security clearances are

former cia directors. that may be a possibility. who was the cia director before panetta? >> well, not him. it could have been panetta, yes. >> so they have official leaks. they're official leaks but the white house won't confirm them. >> they're not official leaks. >> you just said that. >> no, no, no. what i'm saying is some people leaked something they shouldn't have been leaking which is a terrible thing to do. official leaks means that youed. >> of course it has to be. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, in addition to that, what they're talking about doing now, i'm all for it. if they can find the guys and go after them and eliminate them, that's fine. however, we need to get to the bottom of why didn't we attack -- why didn't we take these guys out before hand. what was our intel failure before hand. why did we spend a month blaming a guy for a video that wasn't the case? >> how about that guy, dana, the guy in the photos? they identified him right away.

>> you've got 30, 50, 100,000 terrorists in the eastern parted of that country. i'm not sure who you would bomb. >> regardless of who you would bomb, they've spent the better part of a month trying to figure out if the white house knew it was a terror attack, if the intel told a sit, i if state tod the white house. they told everyone except barack obama and joe biden. listen to david ax david axelro. this is a fantastic interchange, watch. >> there's no doubt that he's working hard to exploit this issue, and i would point to the fact that this morning in bloomberg news, chris stephens' dad said that he regretted that people weren't tryin were tryint this issue. i think we ought to follow the lead of the ambassador's family and allow this investigation to run and get to the bottom of it and make the adjustments that are necessary. >> wait, wait, wait. wait a minute. wait a minute. >> david, wait a minute. >> this is the first u.s. ambassador that has been killed since 1979, susan rice came on

this show and five others and gave the american people a story that turned out not to be true. you're saying that we shouldn't discuss this? that we should wait for the investigation to be completed? >> no, no. >> that's what you just said. >> that's obviously -- chris, calm down. that's obviously not what i'm saying. >> so what i just said is obviously not what i'm saying, chris. don't you get it? >> it raises the question what are we allowed to talk about? we're talking about a terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11. is being upset about that exploitation? there seems to be another message here. what is the appropriate response if you believe that your president can't handle criticism? in a weird way they're saying president obama is a wimp. he's a wimp because he can't handle this. >> think about this for a second. according to david axelrod, mitt romney's politicizing the death of four american ambassadors but tomorrow, this is yesterday, tomorrow we're going to send drones over and fix this. >> yeah. yeah. makes no sense. >> i also think that the campaign, the romney campaign

has been relatively quiet about this, but who has pressed on it finally? jumperrists that cover this, and as every little story gets taken out there, and the civil servants of the state department are furious because they've been made to look foolish. the intel community is mad because they were thrown under the bus, and the reporters will give them more lee way to speak on background as they try to get more information out. i think that will continue. >> you know, the fact is that in 2020 hindsight it's great. requests for things like additional security at embassies come in every day to the state department. i worked there and i can tell you. there's absolutely no reason that gets handed off to the president of the united states. none. it would not make its way into the white house. it should have made its way the day after he was killed, but before that, the idea of the president of the united states sees every request for security at abz embassyings is crazy.

>> that's silly. >> they don't know that our ebbs have requested security. >> this has been proved to be, i think, pretty convincingly a coverup. they've been stonewalling from the beginning. the fact of the mart is they knew right from the outset. they weren't surprised this happened because they were getting the intelligence and the information most certainly in the state department, bob. hillary clinton was, that this, in fact, was a problem, that this area was problematic because other countries like britain pulled people out because of the lack of security for their people. americans aren't good enough to protect? >> the state department, i'm sure, did get all these requests, but the question is whether the secretary of state thinks it's at that level to take it to the president of the united states. i think the answer is no. >> i think the point is it's all going to go back to hillary clinton. it's going to be in her lap. >> it already is. >> between obama and her husband, can you imagine her opinion of men and male presidents? i mean, she has seen the juntd underside of more buses than a

graihound mechanic. >> i think if they want to claim that it shoopt be politicized, they could have done something to protect themselves at the beginning which is to say the campaign officials are not going to be speaking about this official government investigation and they could have -- all of these spokes people could have pushed this back to the state department and the bhows. >> mitt romney asked for action. he asked president obama to do something. then the campaign called that politicizing and then a day later, they get action, so clearly there's no politics. >> he used this example as a total indictment of the entire foreign policy of the president of the united states. he was politicizing it from day one. >> turns out he was right. >> wrong. >> the main stream media claims to be unbiased, fair, objective. listen to law ra ingram and how she assesses this whole benghazi gate. >> we have a dead ambassador, two navy seals dead, and the president answers this the next

morning by flying to vegas for a fundraiser. i submit if this were a republican president and this went down this way, you'd have reporterreporters camped outsidf hillary's house, rice's house and dpe manning a full-blown press conference on what happened. this is ridiculous. i think the press is partly culpable here. >> is there a reason we take a right wing analyst and put their cut on the show? did anybody else have something to say besides her. >> i heard what she said. >> she said what is the investigation. >> what else would you expect her to say. >> he has a point. >> take a look at this. here's the "new york times" cover. you know they're talking about hem lines in korea, north korea, and the wheat harvest. meanwhile, every talk show, every one of the sunday talk shows was talking about benghazi. >> the "new york times" ombudsman did something that the "washington post" had done a week before which is to say the "new york times" had fallen down on the job. they've had some stories and i think they're probably following

up, but it's not just right wingers. >> it's not the right wing new york post. its pas front page has sports. >> this is serious. there should have been a full-blown investigation from the beginning. they told multiple lies, mistruths to the american people and they sent their own people out to do it. why is rice saying it? why is hillary clinton saying it? hillary clinton was watching this real-time in the state department as this was happening. she saw there was no protest going on before hand because that was a made up excuse so they couldn't take responsibility for it. >> if it's not the truth, it's a lie. >> i think that actually the media is now coming around to this. it took them forever to get there. if they had their way, they would have put out an anti-bullying commercial for president obama. >> it isn't his fault. now they've got to deal with it. they have to deal with it. it's real, and it's not something that you can sweep under a libya-sized rug. >> especially because of the blaming of the video. >> we've gotta go. for those of you keeping score

at home, we've done the wil liba story every single day. >> yes, you have. >> not once, but twice. >> the second debate is tomorrow. he's weighing in on matters of national importance, i. e, the feud between "american idol" judges nicki minag and mariah carey. >> i think they'll be able to sort it out. i'm confident. >> and the debate moderator is under scrutiny by everyone already. [ music ]

[ music ] >> love deep purple. so tomorrow's round two. once again, it's salt lake versus chicago. deep convictions versus repeat convictions. mormonism versus croneyism. lds versus pure bs. in will be dog eat dog or in obama's case, man eat dog. he'll definitely neat the protein. mitt must forget the first

debate and beat the opposition like an oriental rug. sorry, democrats, the vp debate didn't count. i saw better toast get a better bounce. what are the dems counting on, that americans don't care about stuff like the libyan attack, they're counting on side shows like birth control and big bird to play to the scichish attention spans of a preoccupyied middle class. >> can you repair the relationship between nicki minaj and mariah carey. i think they'll be able to sort it out. i'm all about bringing people together and working for the same cause. i think both outstanding artists will make sure they're moving forward and not going backwards. >> come on. >> that's a priority. so what if obama's right that we

really don't care about the big stuff, we're just idiots which is, of course, what the media will tell us if obama loses. i guess we should be grateful we have a president who knows the difference between mariah and minaj but not real terror and mob violence caused by a video no one saw. no wonder he likes the muppets. our president keeps giving our country the bird. >> that's pretty salty for a monday, but i like it. >> i'm very tired. i had a late flight. i'm ornery, i guess. >> you're always ornery. >> no, i'm not. >> yes, you are. >> bob, why did he do that radio show? >> for a simple reason. it's the de demographics. look at everything they do. in that demographic they're trying to get younger voters in larger shows. what are they going to do, shawn andy show? >> country music? >> yeah. >> if you want to talk about the issues and answer some tough questions on the minds of suffering americans out there,

do a real show and not the yo show. >> that's right. you were a good lawyer. not necessarily a political consultant. >> okay. well, i -- >> i like the way he won't pick the winner. >> when we were at the white house, i remember they were scheduling a prime time press conference and they were looking at the dates and president say okay, that date will be fine. i said oh, actually, that is the finale of dancing with the stars, and that won't go over very well. he had never seen the show. sure, he watches now, but not then. >> he thought it was like a pbs astronomy show. >> dancing with the stars. >> who is minaj? when you hear that, bob, you think of something completely different that costs money. i want to bring eric into the actual debate. candy crowley. >> i did a little investigation. it turns out it's candy crowley. >> i like anybody named candy. >> i bet you do. >> you're going to be there, greg. you might not like the way she

asks questions. i remember she did a state of the union on cnn, and it was like isn't the at a party racist. she had asked mitch mcconnell is the tea party racist. he didn't know what to say. she went back two and three times. she asked it four different times. he finally got out of the segment and she backed it up with steny hoyer, is the tee party racist? she has a tendency to ask and ask and ask in her way so that she can actually muddy the waters. no matter what the answer is, you're still hearing what her question is. >> i know that nobody wants to hear my opinion on this after last week, but i'm a huge candy fan as well. >> are you? >> i am. i think she'll be great. >> a moderator should be like a ball boy during a tennis match, right? just not really there but there. >> moving the ball around. >> that's what they do. >> i think candy is an slenlt journalist -- excellent

journalist. i think she will do a good job. i'm hoping and pray for the best. >> tomorrow night she'll be even better. >> tomorrow night, yeah. >> after paul ryan was picked, didn't she say it was the death wish candidate? >> she wasn't alone. some people like myself still hold that view, but i would give her a break. give her a break. we don't know what she's going to do. the other thing is these guys already have the answers. the questions and the answers in their mind. it doesn't matter what's asked. they've got it worked out. they'll do the first sentence some reference to what the question is and then they'll go into their. >> but she didn't agree to the debate so she can do a follow up or a modification. >> otherwise it's so boring. it's like watching state television. >> there's two things. the thing i hate about town halls is they act spontaneous and they're about as spontaneous as a moon landing. everything is controlled. the politician has to be nice to the person that is asking the question, and then they've got to turn and be mean to the other candidate. >> the person is not asking the question in this case. it wasn't like that debate with

george h.w. bush and clinton and that idiot from dallas. perot. >> he's going to call. >> before we go. >> he'll probably sue. >> before we go. >> i'm not going to apologize. >> two words for you, velma hart she said president obama, i voted for you. i'm trying to like you. i just can't do it any more. >> i'm going to be there tomorrow. i should do some research. are the questions being given to dacandy? she picks the question she wants. >> that takes away a lot of the fun. >> i don't like this format, i have to say. i wish it was just her moderating. >> me, too. oh, well. >> good luck tomorrow. i'll be thinking about you. >> oh >> i'm going to hempstead, new york. >> there's a wonderful place to go. >> i'm psyched. more on the debate tomorrow and our hollywood millionaire movie star is too out of touch with the average woman. doubt that. the obama campaign, moveon.org,

don't think so. we'll be back in a few. if you have time, make me a sandwich. i'm a little hungry. no mustard. smiewz. [ music ] [ music ]

[ music ] >> i love heart. welcome back to the five. one of the things we didn't get to in the previous segment when we were talking about the debate is something that tom brokaw said this weekend. take a listen. >> i looked at that debate that we talked about a moment ago. it was playing last night on c-span, and governor, now president obama was saying look, we've got a deficit of a half a trillion dollars. i'm going to get that under control. well, this week that deficit is

1.1 trillion dollars and it happened on his watch. he's going to have to answer to that. >> so tomorrow night is the second of three debates with the president and mitt romney and bob, the deficit and government spending, a big topic across the country, but when president obama has to defend his record tomorrow night and also try to talk about the next four years, what do you think is president obama's biggest challenge in tomorrow's debate? >> i think his -- by the way, the budget deficit in polls we looked at, and our research is only 10%, but the economy is overwhelmingly a big number. i think what he needs to do is figure out how to be aggressive because he has to be aggressive but do it in a way that doesn't make it sound obnoxious because i think mitt romney's people are going to bring him into that debate with smiles, kind, nice, and try to be as -- well, my word would be patrician but polite as possible. obama has a tough line to

thread. he has to take romney on and take him on hard in a way that does not appear to be mean. >> i think he has a big challenge because instead of being aggressive, they try a new line today, energetic. maybe that's the five-hour energy they take before hand. he needs t to look presidential and reassuring. eric. he had the hope and change message in 2008. not a lot of hope he's been pushing in the last year leading into his agenda for the next four years. >> that's the scary part. that's what most people are on the right are saying. if he doesn't have to run for reelection, what's the second term going to be like. if he went after cap and trade in his first term, the second term could be really, really scary. i can't imagine a town hall format where president obama could be aggressive. i think he's going to have to be prepared. >> in a normal town hall format, you wouldn't be because you have to talk to an individual voter. in this case, it's no different than the last debate in the sense that the questions come from the audience, but candy

crowley is going to sit there and ask the questions. >> no, no, no, no. the people are going to ask them. she has a copy of the question. she's going to say can so and so stand up and read their question so the candidates -- >> you presented that entirely differently. >> all 80 people in the audience submit a question. there's two copies. the person who submitted it keeps one copy and candy crowley gets the other. she takes whatever question she wants and she or the person reads it the candidate and the president have to answer to the person who wrote the question. >> have you sure about that? >> i'm pretty sure. >> you know, this is what one more thing was made for. we'll check an ask you at the end of the show to confirm. >> if you're right, that will change things. >> i want to ask greg the same questions but about romney. what is his biggest challenge tomorrow night. >> he tha has to pretend, like i said, the first debate never happened. he has to kick butt the way he did. for obama, it's going to be about bain. for romney, it's going t to be about pain. obama will try to paint romney

as a fat cat, and romney is going to say you're destroying the country, and romney should be joking. he should be joking about what a villain he is for earning money. then he should ask president obama how he became a millionaire as a community organizer because he's never heard that before. he's got to use common sense and be level headed. he has to be the quiet that walks into the office and says nothing personal, we really like you, but you gotta go. you'll do well in hollywood. become mayor of hollywood. you'll do fine, but you gotta go. >> but he should say i'll tell you i didn't get it from my father. >> kimberly, you were in kentucky last week for the vice-presidential debate. how soon into that ce bait did you have a feeling for who was winning or losing? >> like in the first six to seven minutes. i believe it is my turn to answer, bob. you have your opinion, but with this, i think for romney, he should just do the same thing he did last time. be prepared, be a gentleman, be cordial. have the answers and the specifics, and he'll do well.

the one under pressure is obama to do something that is going to be changing for him, to get back the momentum and everyone's going to bed at night dreaming about ohio. >> it's funny how obama has to take i guess his advice from how biden did it. that's pretty hilarious. is he going to get hair plugs? >> this weekend when i was out and about and traveled to bedford, pennsylvania, several people brought up the vice-presidential debate and most people were talking about joe biden and his demeanor. all right. coming up, some hollywood starlets supporting president obama appear in a new ad trying to help him pick up some women, but the ad doesn't even mention one key issue for women. will it help? we're going to play it next. [ music ]

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the key swing counties in this election. the big story here today is the presidential campaign, and what voters are saying just 22 days out. we talked to a lot of folks here about it. tonight on special report, we will look at the all-important and changing electoral college map with karl rove and joe. mitt romney has been gaining in the polls. the question is how does that translate in key battleground states. president obama is in williamsburg, virginia hold up with his advisors, working on debate preparations, something he admittedly did not do enough of prior to the first debate. mitt romney has taken the day off to prepare for tomorrow night's event on long island. the campaigns are asking if the moderator, cnn's candy crowley, will stick to the plan. one of the anticipated topics, the libya scandal. brit hume has some thoughts on that. special report from new hampshire starts at 6 eastern. we'll send it back to new york and my colleagues with the five. [ music ]

>> actress scarlet johansen, eva longoria are in a new ad attacking mitt romney's positions on women's health issues. take a look. >> i want to talk to you about women,. >> and about mitt romney. >> mitt romney is for ending funding to planned patient pland including cancer screenings. >> he said he would overturn row v. wade. >> we have republicans trying to redefine rape. >> trying to force women to undergo invasive ultrasounds. >> if you think this election won't affect you and your life, think again. >> okay. the ad makes no mention of jobs, the economy, or taxes and misstates everything that mitt romney has said. we'll get to that in a moment. also, a quinn pack university poll said women view the economy as actually the most important issue, not free bitter control,

followed by -- birth control followed by the deficit. the problem is the ads don't seem to be resonating. it seems to be polarizing. when you look at the new policy out with gallup amongst the swing states, 46% say they support president obama. 51%, this is among likely voters, so the advantage seems to be swinging, shall we say, robert, to romney. >> let me please make a point about these ads. these ads are put together, directed at a particular demographic. they're not directed at all women or taking into account all women's issues. they're directed at a demographic of women who they think will vote for obama if they can get them out to vote. in this case, women's rights and choice is something that they think is important. that's the reason they do it. >> don't you run the risk of alienating women when you have celebrities misstating the

facts? >> i'll guarantee you they're running those ads some place that does not have a whole lot of those kind of women you're talking about watching. >> can i point something out? >> all of them are concerned about jobs. >> there was a "usa today" poll that came out today, really, really telling because all voters inclusive, women, skewed to president obama, but very, very importantly, likely female voters, it's now 48-48 obama and romney, and that, that is the difference because likely male voters, it's clear. 54 romney, 42 obama. so the focus on women is smart on obama's part, but it's just not working in the swing states. >> okay. go ahead. >> i just don't think that america is nearly as enamored with hollywood as the white house seems to be because of the things that eric is talking about. if you look at lot of the ads that are most effective, it's using president obama and his own words if you're romney or finding somebody that actually identifies with real people, and that's why have the mom going down the supermarket aisle

talking about gas prices. i mean, that's the kind of person that is persuasive. now, i do agree with bob that this is about turnout. obama won by about 10 million more votes than mccain. they've got to try to match that. they're not anywhere near that, so what they're trying to do is turn out as many of these young women that they can by telling them falsehoods. they're actresses. they sound fake. >> sounds like they're reading a script because mitt romney didn't say he was going to overturn row v. wade. >> yes, he did. >> no, he did not say that. >> he said he would overturn row v. wade. >> he didn't say he was not going to approve cancer screenings. that is also a scare tactic, greg. >> these people spend an average person's salary per year on pedicures. they don't represent anybody in america. i want to make a very, very, very point here. >> those are parrafin pedicures. >> this is important. not just about female

celebrities but celebrities in general. they spend an average of 15 years to get to the point where they make 10 to 20 million dollars a year. the people in america spend probably, i don't know, 30 to 40 years to the point where they're age 60 to make $300,000 a year. so the people that averaged 15 years to get to the 20 million mark are throwing people under the bus, i hate that cliche, who spent all their lives to reach a certain point to make a comfortable living. it's the tyranny of the vac with us celebrity that are rich beyond their deems who cannot understand that most of america worked very hard to give where they are and they don't give a dam. >> can you understand these are not directed at those women you're talking about? >> they're talking about women's rights. >> everybody is seeing them, bob. >> no, not everybody is seeing them. >> it's not rights. it's the women's beliefs. >> by the way, he did say he planned to cut planned parenthood funding. >> who cares? that we agree on. >> it's like big bird.

he can handle himself. >> no, bob. that's not saying he's against all cancer screenings. planned parenthood can stand on their own with all the private donations and the money. >> do you contribute to it? >> she doesn't have to. >> they have the cash, bob. i contribute to other organizations that need it like children's groups and cancer organizations. thank you. coming up. >> you contribute to the casinos. >> that's correct. >> that's correct. >> in large numbers. >> would one of the five do this? take a look. super sonic sky dive from 24 miles above the earth, and the almost what, four and a half minute free fall record set. it's almost indedescribable. the unbelievable details, plus we're going to reveal which one of us would take the plunge. i hope no one. that's scary. stay with us. [ music ] [ male announcer ] how do you help doctors

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>> dare devil felix baumgartner is the first person to break the sound barrier without a plane. sky diving from a skate board size shelf carried in a balloon hovering 24 miles over the earth. he was going 884 miles an hour, are you kidding me? for 35 seconds he was spinning out of control and his team worried he would lose consciousness but he managed to regain control, deploy his pair parachute and land on his feet in the new mexico desert. the super sonic dare devil had this to say after the jump. >> let me tell you. when i was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. you cannot think about breaking records any more. you do not think about gaining g scientific data. the only thing you want is you want to come back alive. >> i don't know about thinking about humility. i would think about fear. that would be my first reaction. that is an unbelievable -- 24 miles in a free fall. would you do that?

>> you know, i watched that thing live, and it was so nerve wracking. it was one of the coolest things i've ever seen. when he jumped off and he goes down, it's like can you imagine that? would i do that? i love heights. i adore heights. i would definitely do it. if i debit have a son and a wife, i would do it. he's single. i would definitely do it. it's pretty cool. pretty cool. great tv, by the way. >> dana, how about you? >> shark week, no. okay. i didn't care before, and then i started seeing everybody talking about it so i went and looked ot it and i read an article who was thanking the scientist before that made it possible. i saw him and he's quite cute. i think it's neat. i wouldn't have done it. >> you would have done it from 35 miles up. >> greg would have had to take a change of clothes. >> i did this last year, and i didn't brag about it, folks. how 1970s is this? you've got iran making trouble. you've got huge gas prices.

now we have evel knievel. all we need is jimmy carter in the white house. >> never mind. i want to apologize to bob for saying shut up. i'm cranky today. >> you always are cranky and have a hangover after you fly. >> i did not drink on the flight. >> not from drinking but taking your pills because you're nervous about flying. you do this every time. >> would you have jumped off that platform. >> absolutely not. i capture stand roller -- can't stand roller coasters, none of those things. i used to get stressed out on the pirates of the caribbean when you get splashed in the face with the water. i don'i don't like that kind of situation at all. i think he's really cool and his girlfriend is probably thinking that, too. >> i saw on tv because i did my prep and i watched the whole thing. >> i'm curious about whether when he broke the sound barrier which is 700 and some odd miles per hour if it made a sound. >> you couldn't hear it. you could hear him breathing. >> when he was out of control,

they were worried that he couldn't read his instruments, so he didn't know how high he was. >> he had to pull out of a spin and his eyeballs could have popped. did you nona? >> he couldn't see his instruments to know when to pull the chute. >> i think that was predetermined for him. i'm pretty sure it was. >> can i just point something out? he belt it. red bull and this guy built it. they didn't rely on government support to do that. you all should support red bull. >> those balloons were built by the government, that type of helium. >> that helium was crated by the government? >> it was created by nasa. >> all right. >> and you were created by the devil. >> red bull does this. can't they figure out how to not give you red bull after-breath? >> oh, my god. i was so relaxed and happy and you destroyed it. [ music ]

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>> time for one more thing. by the way, before i go further, rock star also by rock star, right? >> you love rock star. >> we'll explain later. go ahead. >> so i've got a fantastic one more thing involving brad pitt, although bob is trying to shatter my world right now. i won't allow it. he's super hot in this new chanel no. 5 ad. there's controversy because a woman has always been the face.

listen to him speak. >> the world turns and we turn with it. >> this is the worst ever. >> i think it's terrible. >> it's embarrassing. >> what has happened to men. >> he must have gotten paid a lot of money for this. i have the perfume, i like it, but it's usually like nicole kidman or charlize theron. >> i'm throwing mine away when i get home. >> that was disgusting. >> greg is going to do an investigation on red eye. >> can you ban kg's one more thing. >> that's how bad it was? >> i'm devoting a whole hour to it. [ laughter ] >> move the needle. every hack media hack says did he move the needle? did he move the needle? basically that means did he improve? did he gain any ground. just say that. the only people who should be moving needles are little old ladies making sweaters. >> in my past life moving the needle meant moving it from your

arm to another place on your leg. >> oh, my goodness. >> i'm going quickly for my one more thing. we got a report. sources tell fox that senator lindsey graham accept a letter to the white house asking the white house for answers to this question. after the june 6th bombing in benghazi in the consulate, what exactly did you do, sir, administration, white house? they're asking for answers. >> it gets more deeper and complicated. >> we report. we ask the questions. you decide. >> you're up. >> earlier we were talking about the debate and there was a question and how the format is. this is what i was told, okay. the attendees have written in questions. those questions have been given to candy crowley so she knows in advance what they are. she calls i on the people in the audience. the question was can she ask a follow up to that. i think she said yes, i can. >> that was clear, dana. >> the candidates don't like that. otherwise, what is the point? >> i'm going to try to be as ultimately serious here which is unusual for me.

i'll show you a t-shirt that appeared at a mitt romney concert or excuse me, a rally. >> a concert. >> it says put the white back in the white house. let me say one thing. i do not believe for an instant, for an instant that there are any people who have racist tendencies for mitt romney or a very small percentage. any more than people believe there are communists that support barack obama. >> why are you showing it? >> these people debase our political system. if not strung up, they ought to be moved to an island place. >> called gitmo. >> right. >> that kind of thing is just horrible and we shouldn't do it, and he shouldn't have done that. i'll tell you one thing. if your i.q. is about a 60, i'd be amazed. >> did you hear over the weekend the story about the kid who took the hammer to some obama headquarters offices, and it turns out he was a liberal, he's a very progressive liberal an the space station is he