and it turns out that a killer drink of starbucks says the ingredients. welcome back to our teens election night coverage as we wait for more results let's take a look back at the three presidential debates that were covered by the mainstream media which may have white race way the minds of the undecided out there the first debate obama was well largely asleep in fact it looked like he was on ambien but there was some confrontation at times here are obama and romney arguing over the

governor's so-called tax plan. governor romney's proposal that he's been promoting for eighteen months calls for a five trillion dollar tax cut on top of two trillion dollars of additional spending for our military virtually in the to set about my tax plan is inaccurate so if the tax plan he described were a tax plan i was asked to support i'd say absolutely not i'm not looking for a five trillion dollar tax cut what i've said is i won't put in place a tax cut that adds to the deficit that's part one so there's no economist can say mitt romney's tax plan adds five trillion if i say i will not add to the deficit with my tax plan the fact is that if you are lowering the rates the way you described governor then it is not possible to come up with enough dutchman's loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class it's it's math it's arithmetic.

well a confrontation between the candidates with elevated in the second debate especially when talking about the benghazi attack. the day after the attack governor i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people in the world that we were going to find out exactly what happened that this was an act of terror and i also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime the suggestion that anybody in my team well the secretary of state our u.n. ambassador anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own governor is offensive that's not what we do that's not what i do as president that's not what i do as commander in chief governor if you might just what i think it is i think it's interesting the president just said something which which is that the day after the attack you when

the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror it was not a spontaneous demonstration is that what you're saying please proceed governor. want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president fourteen days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror get the transcript he did in facts or so let me let me call him back because you say that a lot of candid work that. he did call it an act of terror it did as well take it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out that is. and the third debate was well a huge foreign policy love fest mitt romney desperately tried to create any sort of rhetorical differences between president obama himself on our nation's foreign wars

but ultimately we all learned that there are no real differences. as we have to do is a president done i congratulate him on taking out of some of that governor romney i'm glad that you agree that we have been successful in going after al qaeda to the governor's credit you supported us going into libya i believe as the president indicated and said at the time that i supported his his action there i felt the same as the president did first of all. water underscore the the same point the president made what you just heard governor romney said is he doesn't have different ideas. we all learn the both men are pretty much on board with what's going on in afghanistan and what's going on all around the middle east north africa and asia with our drone wars the agreements sparked outrage on both the far left and the far right with those who see the wars as atrocities were even as war crimes and who are fed up with both democrats and republicans when it comes to military misadventure entire debate in that context it was

a disgrace. how we are going to talk more about the debate and how they may have affected the election now with democratic strategist erica community and neil mccabe editor of guns and patriots i want to thank you guys for coming do we have before we start though an update on how we can we have some we have some updated numbers connecticut has gone for obama and. actually chris murphy won the connecticut and arkansas ferrante bringing their electoral numbers to eighty eight for the president and seventy eight for the governor all right and chris murphy has been called by the associated press as winning the connecticut seat over linda mcmahon so she who was the republican putting out the ad saying vote for obama and be identified herself as a republican that was very strangers very interesting something that will rise to d'amato also seems to think clinton and d'amato lost his whole issues potholes but i don't want you to confuse linda mcmahon's policies for anything at all resembling

a democratic state or a barack obama there are one hundred fifty thousand dollars for the romney campaign somehow that got ignored in her embrace of obama very far she she is a great example kind of very similar to mitt romney that the campaign she ran because again she ran for senate two years ago campaign she ran there was much more extreme campaigning started seeing her kind of moderate some of her views later on the closer it got as it looked like maybe so the extreme positions weren't going to be as fruitful as they had been in the past so i think the same thing there i think it may have even been sort of a hurricane sandy sort of tightening because there was a tightening for the president across the country and so whatever momentum republicans would have had i think that that sort of that sort of bump that the president was getting was reflected across the ticket so you're agreeing with what bill rally just sort of few minutes ago on another network taking your word i never watch fox larry king was like it was going to be very foreign aid if that slowed down to go up from david absolutely i think that i mean chris christie was

basically setting himself up one he's got reelection in two thousand and thirteen and he basically he's basically put all the democrats in his state on notice that he was the one standing with obama when the chips were down and he's also setting himself up in two thousand and sixteen he's also chief executive of a state that has more damage with the costs of that small. so the damage is greater than their budget so he's a guy who has to take care of his state and is working with you know the president who does oversee favor on a lot of the emergency disaster relief and feels that they're working well together and that it's been good for his state he should absolutely talk about that so hurricane sandy certainly one of you know one of the major factors that a lot of people tomorrow when the monday morning quarterbacking is happening no matter what will probably point to as having played some sort of role the matter who wins when you know tonight the election but romney off t.v. right well let's also talk about the debates which we were talking about a few minutes ago. and certainly we did see after that first debate the poll

numbers shift pretty dramatically a lot of historians though look at debates and they have a handful of examples when the debate debates were very significant in terms of changing the course of the race but for the most part they say it doesn't what do you guys think i'll start with you these three debates and the role they played in this election i think debates don't really matter as much mean particularly now that campaign starts so early we don't people aren't waiting till october in general to make up their minds i think one of the hallmarks of this race has been the lack of kind of real undecided voters not very many people had to wait until october thirty first to sit down and say ok i don't know what i'm going to do here but i think if you kind of converse i if obama does lose i think people will look back to that first debate as kind of that that real turning point and it may be the first debate that actually does change the election although we usually say that we get the kind of convention bounce romney and the republicans never got the

convention bounce so maybe that first debate was kind of the the modern convention that they were i think romney preloaded his convention because he announced ryan at the u.s.s. wisconsin before the convention and so i think whatever bump that was going to happen but i. don't know if you know what the arms were to the first i was twenty minutes into that. everybody at human events was just sort of we're all sort of watching it together turning. this wrongly really doing us well because it seems like he's doing well but i don't i wasn't sure because you have a tendency to sort of root for your side and it seemed like for the first time a chance without the filter of sort of the obama campaign and his friends in the media it's like for the first time the american people got to see romney with sort of the attack that's constantly been on him well let's not forget too that romney in that first debate seemed very at ease because he was sort of the moderate romney

that everyone said was hiding under that skin came out for the first time really in this campaign i feel like and so that romney would probably perform well because perhaps he was being a little more true to themselves also want to know you know those are the romney that obama was expecting oh surely certainly i'm not the romney that i had seen the majority of the campaign that was really playing. to go against standing at the podium as if it was addressing a shareholders' meeting or something like that you know the other two debates you know it wasn't the same format and i think it that in that format in that way romney had a new vantage i think some people were at that point romney had a number of kind of for lack of a better phrase foot in mouth moments where he kind of just really stepped in it and so i think a lot of people are maybe perhaps even the president were kind of expecting maybe a foot in mouth kind of guy similar to have the kind of with sarah palin and joe biden's debate but the reality is that mitt romney isn't a foot in mouth guy he's

a very smooth very charismatic person i always say that if we all got hit with amnesia and woke up and said who's the president we would all point be like lack i looks like a president i mean he's got the hair so there must be the president right but i think that there was kind of a fundamental misunderstanding that he's not a guy he's out of touch he. doesn't know how to relate to the every day america. and that's what was coming through with another thing i guess with obama is that for the first time i've been the first time in four years really since hillary took it to him in the primaries it was the first time that anybody ever really challenged obama because he you know when he first became president remember how he said he wasn't going to be in the bubble well that guy is in the bubble and like he nobody ever challenges and nobody ever tells him he's wrong way romney was going after him i don't think obama was prouder that we've seen over the last thirty years or so were every time an incumbent is running for reelection they tend to lose that first debate or do poorly in their first debate and i think it's

a consequence of living in the white house for four years of basically being treated like king sure you know you walk out and you give your address and you save for questions and you point to people and you get more questions and then you walk off you know the stage and you get all ages and i did my client knows me but i would think that i think that reagan was even more disastrous in that second debate but everyone remember he told a joke he said a lot of crazy things in that second debate about nicaragua and shooting things from space really alzheimer's which i mean so in a very serious way i think there was something going on there what i think the favorite bhaumik going back to kind of not really kind of expecting this jim lehrer was i think by far the most disappointing moderator and mitt romney was successful in that first debate because he was essentially doing the same tactical kind of strategic model that he ran the campaign he you know kind of shifted the rules pushed back walked outside of the lines wasn't didn't feel particularly beholden to the truth and there wasn't

a moderator guiding that sort of the debate and just like replacement refs we you know it was better football we can you know you want. to extend that metaphor we can monday morning quarterback that forever but we have to wrap up this segment so it erica thank you both very nice and thank you as. well as we approach nine pm on the east coast the electoral numbers remain the same. eighty eight for romney and seventy eight for president obama. many states of course just amount to close their polls artie's coverage of the twenty twelve presidential election will continue after that. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that the americans

call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares you know what. my son. wants to feature a little chris. can you believe the voters. are going to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that.

welcome to the capital account i'm lauren lyster. it is what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made can you trust no one. with the global mission where we had a state controlled capital it's called session when nobody dearest us we do our tea question more. it is election day november sixth eight forty five on the east coast you're

watching our tease live alexion coverage i'm liz wall. well the role of big money in politics goes well beyond the presidential campaign it has trickled down to state ballot initiatives in california where voters are deciding whether or not to require that genetic genetically engineered foods be labeled monsanto and other food giant food producers are spending millions of dollars to defeat the measure our teams are mongol endo shows us the role money is having on this food fight. yes on thirty seven the right to know what's in our food when you're nearly every major newspaper in the state is no one thirty seven children expensive information war is playing out in california and it may have a lasting effect on the future of food in the united states we want that change it's a revolution i want to change happens then everybody will be healthier erin stevens is a major supporter of proposition thirty seven the ballot initiative would require genetically

modified foods to be labeled as such hollywood celebrities are also getting behind the movement for knowing if you're eating or buying genetically engineered food is not your right oh maybe move to europe or japan if you want that right or china early poll showed that g.m.o. labeling measure had overwhelming support from voters saying yes very heavy elaborate but as election day neared monsanto another big food company stepped up their spend you know negative ads for this pizza need a label. but not the no one thirty seven campaign says the proposition is poorly written their ad blitz rapidly reduce support for thirty seven you can do this nutritious because. the three got together. here at the santa monica farmer's market you can buy organic apples like these which are g.m.o. free a growing number of americans are becoming interested in what goes into their food but some big money interests are trying to keep that information from the public

opponents of food labeling have outspent the yes on thirty seven campaign five to one monsanto alone has spent more than eight million dollars almost the same amount of money as the entire u.s. campaign it's all of the pesticide junk food n.g.c. companies on stands on. all of this yes some profit. how much would prompt thirty seven's food labeling scheme cost the no one thirty seven campaign funded a study claiming grocery bills will go up by four hundred dollars. family this is just another you know is this another scare tactic to make people think that every prices are going to go up it's always been a battle you know that the food industry has always been opposed to labeling a back drop thirty seven opponents accuse the other side of similar fear tactics about g.m.o. dangers almost every newspaper in the state is against labeling there is no need for a label i agree completely with the f.d.a. the no set also has the backing of doctors who promote the safety of g.m.o.

foods congressman dennis kucinich has been calling for a national food labeling in trying to fight the influence of big corporate stakeholders there is a chance that monsanto is grip will be broken in california across the nation u.s. consumers regularly buy food produced in california with a population of nearly forty million people last year have a nationwide effect on manufacturers the ballot initiative could determine whether the future of our food supply favors smaller again that food producers like monsanto window shouldn't be able to hide that they are genetically engineering our food or could allow for the continued expansion of large corporate agribusiness science in los angeles ramon bilin though r t. and joining me now to talk more about california's proposition thirty seven is our correspondent. linda hi there i'm on so i want to ask you just how influential monsanto and other

corporations are and this political fight. well in this particular political fight i mean it is really a battle between david and goliath we see that months on to other agriculture in and chemical companies have contributed more than forty five million to the no on thirty seven campaign monsanto themselves eight million dollars the entire u.s. campaign only was only able to raise seven million so it's definitely a very very much a grassroots versus corporate movement here and we have to remember them on center over the years over the more than ten years has spent tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign contributions in washington to both parties and a former monsanto executive is in charge of labeling there at the f.d.a. and in charge of monitoring the labeling so as far as monsanto goes and we heard dennis kucinich there in that sound bite i mean they're definitely interested in washington in their political muscle with all the money that they've been spent on

the no one three seven campaign and really quickly do proponents of getting these labels on food feel like they have a stand a chance against all the money pumped into defeating it. they're very optimistic early poll showed a huge amount of support but in recent weeks that support has really dropped because of this just very aggressive at a campaign so they've been firing back with that celebrity support hoping that they will be able to get that support back. and i want to move on now since where we don't have too much time to a nother ballot initiative over there in california that's proposition thirty four which would of bollix the death penalty with interesting about this is the way inmates feel about this and why do inmates on death row actually oppose proposition for proposition thirty four which would repeal the death penalty that's right it would repeal the death penalty it would make there's sentence is immediately life without prison but the problem with it is in the minds of some of these prisoners

is that. the state will no longer pay for their appeals process while they're on death row part of the reason that they are on death row for so long is that the state pays for attorneys to chose a constitution the constitutionality of an execution so they feel like they're going to lose that legal aid and they're also going to be first forced to work as part of this new laws so in a lot of instances they're free that they're going to lose that legal help right and who are the big names backing their appeal and just how much support does it have right now we're hearing from a ton of hollywood celebrities martin sheen is on a commercial that's playing being played while here in california danny glover has come out in support of prop thirty four and earlier today we talked to mike farrell a long time advocate in support of thirty four he talks about why he supports it right your situation in your state where we are fifteen billion dollars in debt and

we don't know where the money's coming from here's a million bucks we could hire more teachers we could we could put more kids in school we could provide more police officers on the street we want to do that we want the state to be safe and we don't want the state to be in a situation where we see money killing. right now the problem is very close sport and the opposition very close there's a lot of people on the fence so they're hoping that some of the celebrity support helps and the fact that it will bring money into the state they hope that voters will finally say no to the death penalty here in california. and really appreciate you staying on top of this important story and we will check back in with you for the latest on the election results in our that was our to correspond are among the linda. and the to give us the latest update on the u.s. presidential election our to correspondent meghan lopez is in front of sixteen hundred tons of aid you were obama hopes to stay and romney hopes to move then

vegan what is the latest on either man's chances. hi-lo is that as you can see i'm out here in front of the white house in a very chilly november night and it is pretty calm right now everything that is going on and despite all of the chaos that you might see on the main street of stations right here in from the white house it's pretty calm there is one group of about forty people over singing songs is very peaceful no real protest signs so i do want to get to really quickly to the election results that i'm being fed right now right now what we have is president obama is scheduled to win connecticut delaware d.c. illinois massachusetts maryland maybe rhode island illinois vermont and new jersey so that puts him in about sixty five for the electoral count on his end but again this is a pretty close electoral race at this moment from the numbers that we are seeing the projections that we are seeing mitt romney right now is out about sixty seven from all the polls coming out he is projected to win. alabama arkansas.

illinois kentucky west virginia oklahoma south carolina tennessee and georgia so that's what we're seeing unfold right so but it does look like at this point it is too close to call. absolutely is to close to call is and we're still pretty early in the night one of the earliest polls to close was actually virginia that's one of the hotly contested states right now and we're still waiting to see what's going on in virginia how this is all going to play out so right now it's just too close to call as i'd like to give you something else but i looks like it might be a very late night for all of it is indeed going to be a very long day and late night and you are just right there in front of the white house where the two where the president obama the incumbent and his rival mitt romney they're both fighting to have that be their new address want to ask you what the mood is like over there and from the white house. in

the white house you know we're not really hearing very much it's pretty quiet here we do know that president obama has been playing basketball and really taking his time and taking a step away from the campaign he did deliver a pretty sentimental speech last night that was the last campaign speech that he will give but one point that i do want to bring up liz it is almost nine o'clock and there's several other states that the polls are closing so i want to go ahead and read those two really quick hits texas wyoming colorado louisiana montana new york new mexico north dakota so and that's just to name a few of them so obviously we're going to be getting a lot more information in coming up in the coming hours and we're going to have to see how all of this plays out whether mitt romney or barack obama gets to move into this place right behind me. maggie and i really appreciate you staying on top of there giving us the latest on the numbers and we'll be checking back with you throughout the night thanks maggie and that is that was our t. correspondent megan lopez live in front of the white house. and that is

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