it is not over cash. now huckabee. i stood in the rose gard yen said it was an act of terror . the tale of the tape tells a different store tore. >> it was nolt a preplanned attack. it was an awful internet video. outrage over the video. >> ambassador chris fer stevens worried about al-qaida and asking for more security before the attack that killed him . those thippings that i need for every day living are expensive. what kind of impact will

inflation have on the election. joe at it again. how many do you know who served in iraq or iran. another biden blunder. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] thank you. thank you. we have got a great enthusiastic audience here. so happy to have them and you. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york maybelet most interesting moment in last week's presidential debate when the president claimed he labeled the attack on benghazi in the rose garden comment. mitt romney rightly challenged the thing and whip sawed by moderator candy crowley who rushed to offer asylum to president obama and saying that he had indeed labeled the

benghazi atact as the result of terrorism . he mentioned acts of terror. but he did not attribute the assault in libya to such a thing. no acts of terror will shape the nation or alter character or eclipse the light of the values we stand for. but for another two and half weeks he continued to blame the murder on a cheap youtube video. none on - let's just suppose for a moment he intended and said it if that is what he believed on 12th and then why would he and his administration speak about the video and with authority and certainty. the more thing that is more difficult than predicting the

future and rewriting history. it was a careful chest - orchesterated terrorist attack. the reluctance of the obama administration to recognize terrorism as terrorism is a pattern. only in obama land was fort hood a work place incident despite the shooter shouted jihad slogans. he was part of the islamic terror and targeted violence at a military post was anything but rand only. and until this day the obama administration refused what the soldier himself declared. he carried out that shooting as an act of jihad. governor romney need not to get sucked in a ror tex of a word game.

the question that the president has yet to answer partly because no one bluntly put it. do you think that americans are threatened by an ongoing islamic jihad that is irerational and intentional. the fact is, islamic extremism is not an obcure religion veering off the tract. this is not about snake handle speaking in unknown tongues oir fire walking is it a theology that justifies shooting a 14 year old girl in because shy wanted an education or strapping a bomb to your own's belly to kill innocent people in a cafe is just fine. i don't expect this or any other president to be able to stop the savagerie of the religious perversion. i just want like to have a

president who could for once, at least be honest as to what we are really up against. that's my view and i appreciate getting the opportunity to share with you. [ applause ] for the third and final presidential debate on monday focusing on foreign policy will mitt romney let the president get around dancing around subject o terrorist. joining me is the co-host of the five. dana perino. [ applause ] you understand better than anyone they think we can bring on the show the inner workingings of why a white house crafts the message and comes to the place where it comes out and said what it said. that is your job in the bush administration. do you think that the obama administration crafted a strategy of deliberately

misleading the american public in what happened in benghazi? i don't. i think they stumbled on the problem. i don't think they intentionally went out and lied to the american people. i think that they got caught up in it and continued to use the excuse of the video when you look at at the same times from the dni on the 28th or the susan rice's comments from the white house press secretary and state department press secretary and cia and all of the anonymous source congressional testimony of people in charge. if you take them altogether they tonight add up. i don't think they intentionally lied but someone was not talking to somebody else. and the question of whether or not al-qaida was involved in some way is an important one that you raised in your mon log. al-qaida evomps and changes and we have to keep up with it american taxpayers invested 10s of billions of dollars to

make sure our intelligence gathering was better than 9/11 and we deserve to know what happened here and how are they going to try to fix it going forward. if they did not intentionally mislead. they had to know it was not a radio and congressional worn testimony confirms that. was there a point in which they simply ignored what was the truth and hoped no one would catch on? it appears so. and i think they hoped that the media would stop asking questions about it but the problem is information. say it didn't happen five weeks before the election. take that aside. voters and american citizens, allies who are working with us to prevent terror, we all deserve to know. the press secretary's role is important. when you are in the meeting getting ready to talk about what is coming next. raise your hand and say that

doesn't sound right, and if this ambassador and three other americans were killed, are we really going to blame a video? free speech is what we are founded on. this is an amazing thing, governor, our government has done more for law enforcement against the guy who made the video than they have against the terrorist in libya and who is thumbbing his nose in the new york times and drinking mango juice saying he was part of the attack. we have done more for a video maker who was blamed for the death and it was not the case. i think the entire administration has answering to do on that in particular. if not utterly dishonest it was incompetent response? maybe. and it could be a little bit of the both. it could be a difference of what is known on the ground from intelligence sources and

back here in head quarters in langley. it is an important piece in the weekly standard where he talked about the original talking points and capt capt hill originally written in al-qaida related. when they get to capt capt hill, al-qaida-related is taken out. why? and who took it out? that is a question no one raise answered. talking points are crafted in the administration shared with state and the intelligence community and white behite obviously the white house has to give final authority it was not that susan rice went out and spoke off of the cuff . she was handed. the question is behogave her talking points and who gave hillary clinton the talking points and jay carny his talking point and who told her that to do it of their own volition. who told him to take the fall for it the reason they have a

problem. secretary of state now she is taking problem for it and not answering the key questions. i think american taxpayers because we are paid to improve our system f. we are not getting the return on the investment we need to know now in the bigger election context. this plays in some people's minds unease about the obama administration that might have been on the fence and might push them in the romny camp. ambassador stevens including the day he died, begged for more security and told them, that the security was horribly lacking. doesn't that factor in to the damage? what was he worried about was religious extremist who were intending to kill innocent people including people in the red cross. they were attacked with impugnity in the red cross. not just on the day he died but the days leading up to it,

james rosen with the fox state department correspondant got the cables sent from libya to the state department. i don't know where they went from there and i am not trying to make it political. one, first of all, we have to get justice for what happened to our people there and figure out what went wrong and prevent it from happening again and the american people deserve answers as to why there are so many different store store september 12th and president obama left and you know he went to vegas for a fund raiser, the biggest strategic mistake. as commander in chief he should have stayed and got a handle on it. he might not be the fix he is now. you have been in a place where very few people have been. and virtually none of the reporters are talking about. you give you us a great deal of insight. dana and the tribe will have a special sunday night

show and look ahead to the sunday night debate. up next,let number one issue on voters minds is the economy. more significantly the high cost of living. i will talk about the impact of inflation when we come back. i would like to hear fru. go -- from you. go to mikehuckabee.com. and sign up for my facebook page and follow me on twitter.

presidential debrate one of the members of the audience had a question about the rising cost of living. mr. president i voted for you in 2008 what you have done or accomplished to earn my vote in bey are be. i am not that optmistic as i was in 2012 most of the things

i need for every day living are too expense itch. raising prices are the biggest problem they face. joining me now is the author of the book real crash. good to have you back. great to be back. peter, how did we get to the high gras prices. obama said it is because the economy is doing so well. i wish the president answered that gentlemen's question. he ignored that element of. q. in that poll will twice as many people were worried about inflation as other taxes combined. but the truth is, inflation is a tax. the government is spending a trillion that it collect

necessary taxes and gets that money from the federal reserve. the federal reserve creates money out of thin air and loans it to the government by buying bonds and the government spend itself in the economy and drives up prices. high coast - on cost of the gasoline and food is it another federal tax. when the president is it saying he's not raising taxes on the poor and middle class. he's not telling the truth. inflation hits the poor and middle class the hardest. how much is any president to blame for gasoline and fuel and whatever it may be? i think the federal resterve bears more of the responsibility, but you can't let the president or congress off of the hook, because they are spending all of the money and the reason ther buying the bonds is because the government is running with huge deficits. iflet government paid for all of the spending. they wouldn't have to print

money. and prices respond by going up. he's very much partially to blame and his policy, driving the spend driving the deficits and that's why the fed is cranking up the presses and prices will get higher especially when the dollar starts to fall on foreign exchange markets. we have caught a break because foreign and central bankings have bought up all of the dollars and keep them and bidding up bond prices. that money is coming back and if people think foot and gas prices are high now, wait until a year or twompt they will be higher. cost of the living for senior adults is a huge issue. or just in their investments. first of the all the government is not being

honest. annual inflation is only one and half percent a year. that is not possible. how can 40 percent of the people polled be so concerned about inflation and the government is right and prices are not going up. prices are rising faster than the government admits and so the social security doesn't keep up with inflation. if you have money in the bank, you are not getting anything in the way of return, but your money is losing value because prices are going up. it is it a huge tax on seniors and people living on fixed hurts the poem who rely on the sours of income to buy what they need. basic necessites and food and energy are. rich people don't spend money on food and energy. but poor people and middle class spend more.

it is not just food and energy. but health care. one reason insurance rates are so high insurance companies can't get interest return. they have to raise their premiums that they charge. they charge the people who buy their products. the author of the book, the real crash on the huckabee show. my next guest said the main stream media and moderators make a mess out of the debate and said the whole process should be revamped. ralph naderwill explain coming up next. so anyway, i've been to a lot of places. you know, i've helped a lot of people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep?

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they form and passionately defend. i may not conclude with the next guest but he calls president obama a war criminal and wrote a book 15 solutions for our future. joining me is ralph nader. thank you for being here and nice to see you. [ applause ] i want you to speak to the criticism of the debate. i think it is more like a game show and i found your thoughts most compelling. what is wrong with the debates as we have them? they are controlled by the republican and democrat nominees. the debate commission was created to get rid of the league of women voters. they thought the ladies were too uppity and restrict the

number of debates and decide who will ask the questions and decide the formal of the debate and they are given the topics ahead of time. that's why the debates that we have seen kept off of the table so many of the subject marries that are on the minds of american people. like for example. what are we going to do with the tax system that lets off wall wall speculator and how about minimum up and adjusted for inflation. and help 30 million workerings. overwhelming number of americans believe minimum wage should be adjusted for inflation cracking down on corporate crime. and getting rid of corporate welfare and croiny capitalism and bailouts and give aways that was not discussed. i wrote 17 solutions . we don't focus on the solution.

we have a lot of problems and a lot of solutions on the shelve and not applied to the problems because of the democracy gampt that means we the people are not spending enough time controlling the global cover rautions that are shipping them to communist regimes overseas. it comes down to we the people. we have an informative but debate if you would moder ate them. i will suggest that. do so. i want to speak by the way many things that i being is right. there is it a collusion between washington and wall wall and it is regardless of republicans or democrats in american. and the average american don't understand that the policies don't change because the true players don't change a great deal and that is it an issue

over a cup of coffee we could enjoy. president obama is it being critized by members was his own party. he's done little to help candidates for congress and governor and really campaigned for himself . in an unusual level for a president. speak to that and how different that is for you called him a selfish candidate. yes, in his acceptance in the nomination in charlotte. he people to vote for him. but he didn't speak about the congressional democrats. he doesn't run with when he goes in the back yard. if president obama is the reelected can't get enough

don. there is resentment on the house of representative. he doesn't support their campaigns and without their recovering the house. he's not going to get anything done. i called it politically selfish it is a wrong headed approach for his own interest. >> ralph, you take a stand and in your book 17 solutions you do that. i hope people will get a cop yeread your ideas and i look forward to having you back so we can talk about them. exciting idea supported by a majority of the people. americans killed by terrorist in libya and the president'sy are sponse to the daily show. it is not optimal. my reaction to the president's absurd comment and other quotes coming up next .

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on tonight's show go to fox news.com. and president obama made an appearance in fren leterritory. he was a guest on the jon stewart show . he got away with a comment. we start the notable quotables with the president's response about sacrificing our values to insure national security. there are trade offs. there are times when bad folks somewhere on the other side of the world and you have to make a call and it is not optimal. that was the first time he used the term not optimal. fast forward the discussion changes. it focuses the administration's response to the benghazi attacks. i would say even you admit it was not the optimal reponce to the american people as far as us being on the same page. this is what i will say.

if four americans get killed it is not optimal and we will fix it there were people who different appreciate the commepts. like pat smith. her son shawn was killed in the benghazi attacks and she said and how can you say someone being killed is not very optimal. it is insentencative to say my son is not very optimal. he's always very dead. i have not been optimal since he died and the past few weeks have been pure hell. i can't imagine what pat smith and other members of the fam fams feel like. maybe the president just was not thinking. but the cold and callous way in which those words came from him, i think were words that -- i hope he will regret and recognize, they were not the

spirut and he i hope tomorrow will clear up that saying people were dead and not being optimal and what he should have meant is unacceptable and horrible and not like we are going to fix it like a broken faucet. but we are going to stand for america's right to be free all over the world and not be assassinated by people who think they have the right to kill people. that's what mr. president, pat smith and frankly the rest of us would love to hear. alabama senator jeffs responding to a figures of a government spending a trillion on food stamps had this to say. these astounding figures demonstrate that the united states spens more on federal welfare than any on the federal budget and time to restore and not retreat from the moral principles of the welfare reform . they combined to promote

growth will help the recipient and treasury. i respect him because he said it plainly and accurately and in this case he we reformed welfare in the midnines and i was governor during that time and it was heavy lifting trying to figure out how to make it so people on welfare can come off without hurting them. if you gave people a path way to responsibility, slow low taking benefits away as they achieve their ability not to need them, you are able to help them get to a place where permanently they were no longer dependent on government. policiless are helping people to remain permanently affixed and attached to government defendnessy. it is destroying their soul and spirit and initiative and resilience. we need policiless that help

people get off of government dependence rather than finding way to make it so that they can't find a way out. [ applause ] government dependency is not the motel where you can go in and cane go out. guess who manage tod make a blunder on the campaign trial. how many of you know someone who served in iraq or iran? how many of you know machine who has been in injured or lost in iraq and iran? first of all, did i miss something. are we at war with iran now? i get the hotel thing of knowing someone in iraq or stan stan, that is injured or kill yes, i do know people, from both of those conflicts. the vice president said do you know someone from iraq or iran? did you happen to notice who raised his hands.

look at when he asked the question, here's harry reid. you know, on this show we told you about harry reid's imaginary friend whispering things about mitt romney now harry's imaginary friend was involved in the imaginary war in iran that imaginary americans. since harry is the only one in america that really knows them. as paul ryan said in the debate. sometimes joe's words don't come out right. i always say what i mean. yeah, that's just it, joe, you don't say what you mean and that's why we thought last week when your vice presidenty ends and we are thinking maybe the first of the year, you really set yourself up to do great voice over work maybe in

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hear moy show on radio details at mikehuckabee.com. mitt romney's performance in the debate swung the momentum his way. he is now leading the challenge 51-45 percent x. will monday's final debate change things and will we see swings in the final two weeks. campaign. joining us is kelly ann conway and rex elsass. thank you for being here .

kelly, we saw a big, big change in barak obama in the second debate. he was awake and had a pulse. that was part of the change. but how did he new aggressive i am going to intereverything at all times how did that play with voters. it energized his base. they reported good fupped raising. they were voting for him anyway. i think two things. based on that first spirited debate performance obama had no where to go but up. who cares? are we going to judge a sitting president on 90 minutes or four years of spending money we don't have? [ applause ] i believe that one noint minute performance for an incumbent. it is different for mitt romney. he was able to upend his

character, he was able to show he was in touch. and mitt romney was able to stem the early rote bleeding. all we heard is the race is over. vores going to the polls and absentees say i are have to go with the winner. this is it a tennis match we are at deuce and slate of advantage. mitt romney is looking better in florida. and obama campaign publicly they can lose ohio and win. but that is scott walker and ryan's wisconsin is not walker's wisconsin. you have been involved in scores and governor, and senate and congress presidential candidates. if you were obama's consultant and i know you are not. but if you were, what would you advise him to do in the final debate? i would have to tell you

we work with shared values and so that is a hard mind set, but there are people who believe that the consultant can change the moon and stars. i believe that the truth is relevant. first thing i would tell them to come clean and talk about benghazi. he needs to tell the truth. that i know that is trying to get your teen out of bed in the morning. there is it a big shift in the momentum. mitt romney is up 6 points i realize they are all over the place. are the debates one of the factors that is chacing that? i think certainly among women, is that what made a difference. there is a huge swing. it is it direct from the debates to the voters. not because women don't pay attention to politics but because they are. you can wait for the final evens of the campaign and these debates and there are

scandals that are rereals and misstatements that somebody will make. in this race there is it a huge gender gap mep are headed to full product recall and ther done with him. men have cemented their opposition. and that is a gender gap that is propelling mitt romney forward. i have to ask this question about coat tails. obama is not helping any of the other people. mitt romney has gone out and part of his campaign, he's campaigning for the folks running down ballot from him alllet way down to the state legislature. talk about the difference and how that impacts voters turn out and resultings. you have to have a principle and philosophy that awakens people and makes them optmistic just the notion of change is enough to make a difference. i think you are going to see that continue and as a result mitt romney will continue to

grow his lead because once again, he's reaching the people you talked about state legislators in the counselry at every level. they want to be a part of the great change. they know the impact in the local and they want to say goodbye to barak obama. well, maybe they will [ applause ] up next, is there any realistic hope for bipartisanship in washington. i will ask jason altmire

what if i told you that a member of congress who was present for 4700 votes and

willing to work with the members of the opposite party and used less money to run his office and returned what he done need. what if i told you that congressman was an endangered species. joining us is the blue dog democrat from pennsylvania: you never missed a vote and authored a number of legislative initiative 28 signed by law. i talk about you turning your money back and you lost your primary. what is going on? i thought we had a good record to run on and basically came down to the vote against the health care bim and law now and that came back in the primary redistricting played a role and my own folks supported me and i won 70 percent of moy district and they doubled the turn out in

the other side and that did a difference. you are part of what is blue dog democrats and democrats who are conservative on areas and by republican standard moderate and democrat redickulously conservative. is there no place for a conservative democrat. i hope it is a place on both sides . look at what the republicans did with senate candidates and they easily would have won including maybe nevada and the democrats are in danger of doing that. and if you have a congress made up of extreme. why is there partisanship in congress. it is easy. we elect them. most perns are not thinking politics. they don't live and breathe it it is it the olympics gym nastic's teem and they put it behind them it can't be like

that. you will end up with people drin by the extreme and refuse to work together. i am worried that the country is ungovernable obamacare paced because demwere upon in the house and congress. you voted against and you paid a price. what was it about it you can't go. health care is my professional background. it is the law now and there are good thing necessary the bill. but at the time, and i believe and still believe it doesn't redouse enough health care and i could girlfriend you a long speech about that. i am a representative, i was sent to washington to speak for my constitients and my district was clearly opposed to the bill. that's why i won the support. had i voted for the bill in 2010, i would have been beaten

in 2010. they sent me back to washington and they added redistrict we have a different result. >> will you ever go back and give it a shot? not for a while. i have two children 14 and len. we are going to watch them grow up and i will take a break for a while. this is something that the country needs to be concerned about. people in congress that are not representative of the nation as a whole. most americans want us to get along and get things done and that is not happening in congress. >> does it worry you that it is hard for a person to take a principle stand and not survive politically because of it. it doesn't worry me. i am content with what happened to me. and i can look myself in the mirror and friend fam fam and say i did - family in the eye and said i did the right thing. i am concerned that you don't

get any political benefit for trying to work across the aisle. i can hear from both side work with both sides. most districts don't hear but one point of view. when they go back to washington they are certain they are right. that is not a formula for success. it is easy to get the idea that your opinions are good when all you listen to is a closed circle of frokes. i lament guys like you are not in the congress. i fear we lose the capacity to form good government that involves consensus and compromise and none of us are right all of the time and noven us will get everything we want. we don't get it in marriage and we don't get it in government either. i hope you will keep fighting on both sides. democratic and republican. deletited to have you here. thank you. i want to for watching us tonight. i hope wherever you are.

you are having a great weekend. we'll be back next time next week. this is mike huckabee from new york. good night and god bless.