what is intmpta is who i in the corner with the rockie romney. past few days, en inbelmont, massachusetts. and the key strategy is this. romney is boeing to do point by point go right at the president. he will go right at the president's record. with numbers and facts and figures the way he did in the lastebates that right? >> that is right. remember in the first debate the president was overwhelmed by how romney brought the data. he is going to try to stick to the facts and go right at the president. and make his case. >> i don't know that president is not going to come with his own facts? i'm sure he will be full of data and ready to attack him. >> but romney larry, isn't obama under so much pressure tonight? president the president had such a flat debate. he is going to have to show so much aggression. >> i was going to ask ab about the joe biden disease. >> it is not like him his problem is being too cool and too calm. if he gets too aggressive and he looks like he is snarling. it could come off as ugly and be a mistake. that is what romney di

he said he cut an ad for mitt romney because he thought did he a good job there. give us that perspective rocky with mitt romney because my dealings with him through the olympics he was a good, moderate, reasonable person very detail-oriented and he was really great for me to work with on the olympics. but you know, he shared a lot of his positions with me as he did with the massachusetts voters who is pro-choice, pro-gay and lesbian rights. i thought wow as a republican he could bring that party that was really becoming right wing, nutty, extreme back to the middle. but look what he has done. he has taken it further to the right than i think it ever has been before. i hate to say this about an old friend, but he has become a real flim-flam man in this campaign. >> cenk: shocking. now look, what we're talking about here is a perfect example rocky. is there something wrong with taking federal money to to run an olympics? i don't think so. we won the bid for the owe limp picks. but now he's saying federal money, that's not acceptable. except when it was his advantage he loved it. >> that's exactl

jill stein of the green party and rocky anderson of the justice the party. we air the obama-romney debate, pausing the tape after each question to give dr. stein and rocky anderson a chance to respond the same questions put to the major party candidates. we also invited libertarian candidate gary johnson, but he declined to join us. we recorded the show in front of a live audience here of the kosher marin jewish community center in san raphael california. today we bring you highlights from our expanding the debate special. we begin with debate moderator bob schieffer of cbs news. >> the first segment is the challenge of the changing middle east and the new face of terrorism. i will put this into two segment so you'll have two topic questions within this one segment on that subject. the first question, and it concerns libya, the controversy over what happened there continues. for americans are dead, including an american ambassador. questions remain. what happens? what caused it? was a spontaneous? was it an intelligence failure? was it a policy failure? was there an attempt to misl

last night we aired the romney, obama debate, pausing for two presidential contenders who were shut out of the official debate, dr. jill stein of the green party and rockyerson of the justice the party. during the official debate, moderator jim lehrer as president obama and mitt romney if there's a fundamental debate it -- difference of how they view the federal government. >> idfa think there are differences. the first role of the federal government is to keep the american people safe, its most basic function. as commander in chief, that is something that's i have worked on and thought about every single day i've been in the oval office. but also believe that government has the capacity -- the federal government -- has the capacity to help open up opportunity and create ladders of opportunity and to create frameworks where the american people can succeed. look, the genius of america is the free enterprise system and freedom and the fact that people can go out there and start a business, work on an idea, make their own decisions. but as abraham lincoln understood, there also things we do better together. in the middle of the civil war, abraham lincoln s

romney a day late. trying to regain his footing after a rocky debate performance, the president today at an outdoor rally seemed everything he was not last night. >> the man on stage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he's been saying for the last year. >> mitt romney was greeted with thunderous applause this morning. at a speech to conservatives. >> last night, i thought was a great opportunity for the american people to see very different visions for the county >> the morning after, even supporters said the president seemed tentative, defensive, frequently looking down at his notes perhaps like some of his predecessors in debate, ford, carter, bush and bush. almost too accustomed to the oval office. not used to being challenged. most surprising, the president did not use some of his most potent attack lines. mitt romney's comments to we will thee contributors that 47% of the country don't pay federal income taxes or are dependent on the federal government. or romney's position on women's health issues. the president's surrogates tried to sh

mitt romney debate at fstra university on long island, we are going to include the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of last night's debate. dr. jill stein of the green party, rockynderson of the justice party, and virgil goode of the constitution party. we begin at hofstra university with the debate moderator candy crowley of cnn. >> governor romney, you won the coin toss of the first question will go to you. i want to turn to a first-time voter, jeremy epstein, who has a question for you. >> mr. president, governor romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all i hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when i graduate, i will have little chance to get employment. what can you say to reassure me, and my parents, that i will be able to sufficiently support myself after i graduate? >> i appreciate your question and thank you for being here and all of those from nassau county that have come, thank you for your time reid thank you to hofstra university in candy crowley for organizing and leading this event. thank you, mr. president, for being part of this debate. your question is one that is being asked by college kids all over this country. as in pennsylv

but we have a new poll from rocky mountain, a rocky mountain poll showing obama 42%, romney, 42% among all voters. that is surprising, because just a few weeks ago romney was ahead. we rate arizona as leaning romney, and this poll was taken after the presidential debate that most people thought, even president obama thought that he didn't bring his a-game. so it is a little bit surprising that this poll shows obama slightly ahead of romney. >> yeah, at least it makes the contest more interesting and not predictable. so let's talk about tuesday's debate format. our candy crowley, she is going to be great, make that raddatz, we knew was going to be great. how is this going to be different? >> well, it is a town hall format, different than just the usual area, the candidates are speaking directly to the voters themselves. they're having to gauge or maybe you know, modify their answers based on the reaction, right? it is a lot tougher, it presents a lot more opportunities for mistakes. you remember, don, in 1992, president george h.w. bush looking down at his watch in a town hall format de

rocky, i want to ask you about progressives and the debate, but first i want to start with mitt romneyney back during the olympics of salt lake city. is that the same mitt romney that we see today? >> not at all. he's unrecognizable to my. not only inme.not only in terms of radical changes on so many circumstance, but he comes off as so out of touch and a little bit clueless, not the kind of charisma. when we knew him during the olympics he was a good reasonable moderate guy who was pro-choice pro gay and lesbian rights? how else would he have won the governorship of massachusetts. the things he has done to change himself, he's very uncomfortable in the skin that his handlers have had him crawl into. >> cenk: now rocky i understand that he does not actually hold those positions that would be my guess as you're indicating here. but the guy's core seems to be do whatever i got to do to win. wouldn't that have been the same guy who says i'll do whatever i need to do in massachusetts i'll be pro-choice, pro gay rights etc. >> may have been, but in my personal interactions together, we beca

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rockies. aides to president obama said he's focusing on looking calm. romney's team says it is loading up the candidate with zingers, one-liners aim the at the president. the campaign told "the new york times" last week, quote, mr. romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he's memorized and has been practicing on aides since august. the zinger strategy apparently includes luring president obama into appearing smug or evasive in his responses, especially on questions of the economy. this is where jimmy fallon comes in. >> tomorrow is the first of three debates between myself and president obama. i'm looking forward to having a serious conversation with my opponent about the issues. i've always prepared a few zingers for the occasion. for example, when we greet each other on stage before the debate, i'll put my finger on obama's tie and say, there's something on your tie. when he looks down, i'll slide my finger from his sternum to his nostrils and say, boop. for instance, when obama is

this rocky mountain poll shoes president obama with a two-point lead over mitt romney. the key here may be the latino vote which is heavily in obama's favor. what's interesting is only one democrat has won arizona in the past 60 years and that, you may recall, was bill clinton, 1996. both candidates are off the campaign trail today working on debate prep. president obama came under a lot of criticism for his performance in the first debate. well, he's get a second chance on tuesday. cnn's athena jones has a preview for us. >> good morning, randi. the second debate is on its way. why? because it will be undecided voters asking the questions. round 2, president obama and governor mitt romney face off in their second debate tuesday. a town hall moderated by cnn's cannily crowley which says the format presents unique challenges for the candidates. >> the challenge is that they've got to connect not just with the people that are looking into the television and watching them but to the people that are on the stage with them, some 80 or so undecided voters as chosen by gal up.

rocky anderson will appear on democracy now!'s expanding the debate exclusive tonight. we will air the obama-romney debate, pausing after questions to include equal time responses from dr. stein and rocky anderson. we invited gary johnson, but his campaign said he had other plans for the night. our special begins at 8:30 p.m. eastern time. you can also go to our website, democracynow.org. to talk more about the debates, we are joined by the founder and executive director of open debates, the author of "no debate: how the republican and democratic parties secretly control the presidential debates." george, welcome. you are in new york, near our studios, and we are in denver for the debate tonight. george, how did it come to be that the commission of presidential debates came to be? what is this commission? >> the commission on presidential debates sounds like a government agency, like a nonpartisan entity, which is by design, is intended to deceive the american people. in reality, it is a private corporation financed by anheuser-busch and others, created by the republican and democratic parties to s

november majority of americans will choose between republican mitt romney and democrat barack obama and may never even hear about rocky anderson joel stein gary johnson virgil goode or pedal lindsey these are all completely legitimate and viable third party candidates most of whom will be listed on the ballot to vote for in almost every state but unfortunately amidst the twenty four seven media fervor of election coverage these candidates are completely ignored and their ideologies which are shared by a large percentage of american citizens are completely absent from the dialogue and talk about just that and more i'm joined now by russell baker editor of who what why dot com and author of family of secrets the bush dynasty reza thank you so much for coming in studio my pleasure so ross you just wrote a great article called in stacking the deck the status quo third parties and you you know in light of all the debates happening we saw the v.p. debate two of the presidential debates what do you take away from them and what do you think about the exclusion of the third party candidates in the conversation both to me the m

you're not going to go over into the rockies and up into the snows with a person that you don't really know and trust. >> you'll end up -- >> romney'sumbers are unequivocal on a personal level. more people dislike him than like him on a personal level. people will say, okay, we'll go if you show us the map. i think romney's been hurt the last several of months by his lack of specificity about what he's going to do on taxes and spending. >> his big numbers is i'm going to cut taxes and stimulate the economy. but hes i'll pay for it by getting rid of huge deductions, homeowner deduction, charitable contribution, state and local tax, that's where all the money is. if he doesn't tell us that tonight, will the press attack him for not giving us the map? >> one of the things we've seen is voters are skeptical. he says, i'll cut tax rates by 20% across the board. it's revenue neutral. we can't tell you how it's revenue neutral, because as paul ryan said, it will take too long. >> will obama go after him, like kennedy did in '94? he'll say, mr. governor, that's what people want. >> we can't talk about the president's strategy. he has to sta

supporters following their first steamy to date polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but rocky under certain presidential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties ultimately dominating u.s. politics is unhealthy for america i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do up believe they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interests we have a salute crecy not a democracy in the united states where our government is up for sell to the highest bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with shields tax cuts for the wealthy and normal stuff so it's low employment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of unemployment of over eight percent that absolutely can be changed who we know that that's what the american p

so what will mitt romney have to do tonight there with rumble in the rockies? mr. he had this to say about tonight's festivities. >> he has to make the public start blaming barak obama for the bad economic conditions. >> how do you do that? how do you swing the public over to blaming the president? how? >> that's the thing that they haven't done effectively -- as effectively as they need t. they've convinced the american people that the economy is bad. what they haven't convinced the american people is that the president's policies that have caused the economy. >> you do that by facts? >> absolutely. >> okay. so you just keep -- >> he's got to go policy by policy, policy i about policy and say, your stimulus bill created these economic conditions, which caused unemployment to be above 8% for 40 months and go through each policy he's done that caused the economy to go down. >> steve: by the way, that guy, brett o'donnel, will be on "fox & friends" tomorrow to analyze the debate. also interesting because the president has run a whole bunch of ads in the swing states

romney missed out on the n.d.a. drug legalization and want to give you a round up from the justice party presidential candidate rocky anderson. and a new report details the obama administration's efforts to create the next generation targeted kill list it's called the disposition matrix will dive into what the report says that moves into what role the drones play in u.s. security. and what some are calling a tip for a time political move a tribunal is forcing aqua door to pay the largest investor state penalty in history one point eight billion dollars for allegedly violating a trade agreement is this a retaliatory move against the country for granting political asylum to wiki leaks co-founder julian assange. questions more. well good evening it is wednesday october twenty fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out you're watching our t.v. . last night we aired the presidential debate for third party candidates live from chicago the debate was moderated by larry king sponsored by the free and equal elections foundation and well neither mitt romney nor president obama showed up it was attended by form

romney got momentum in the first one. we still see that in the polls. having said that there's been slip age in the midwest and rockies. mr. obama will go to the states and shore up. last night in daytona beach, mitt romney and paul ryan held a joint rally. it happens to come in the middle of the biketoberfest bike week, twice a year in florida. half a million bikers and mr. ryan gave a nod to harley fans, trying to put together what will be his choosing argument for the two weeks remaining after the monday debate. watch. >> i just came in town and saw a lot of milwaukee main harleys running around town. we know thousand build things in america. >> the obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. this is -- this is a big country with big opportunities and great challenges and they keep talking about smaller and smaller things. we have big ideas. bold ideas, a strong agenda. we're going to get america working again. >> that's mitt romney's indirect reference for the president hounding him about big bird and binders with women in them, reference to portfolio of resumes. international chaos with the likes o

convention this year when john kerry gave the bang-up speech about mitt romney learning everything he knew about russia by watching rocky 4, and his overseas trip actually being a blooper reel and all that stuff? this this great barn burner of a very funny speech by john kerry. everybody said, afterwards, where was that john kerry when he was the guy running for president in 2004? well, that john kerry actually did show up in 2004 when he was running for president. at least he showed up for the first debate against the incumbent president that year, and in that first debate against the incumbent president, challenger john kerry cleaned the president's clock. >> i made a mistake in how i talk about the war, but the president made a mistake in invading iraq. which is worse? >> president bush and senator kerry were hard at it again today, campaigning across battleground states, continuing the spirited debate they had last night on terrorism in iraq, but this time they were not on a common stage and kerry had the kind of confidence that comes with polls and pundits agreeing that he won last night's showdown. >> did you watc

rocky mountain poll. president obama, 42%. mitt romney, 40%, among all voters. an amazing turn around from just a few weeks ago in this same poll that was showing romney ahead, again, arizona has only voted for one democrat in the past 60 years, senator mccain obviously won his home state in 2008. so this is a bit surprising. not only is it surprising to arizona, fred, but besides what we have seen in other polls and states, host the first presidential debate. let's take a look at a few other numbers from a recent survey from the american research group. for florida, among likely voters, romney, 49%. obama, 46%. same group, arg, in new hampshire, romney, 50%. obama, 46%. again, among likely voters. both of those polls obviously well within the sampling error. a statistical dead heat, but both of the polls showing romney having momentum in the states after the first debate. we have seen that across a few polls, so the arizona poll, interesting and definitely defies the trend we have seen in other polls in other states. >> florida, remarkable numbers there. arizon

expanded presidential debate, pausing after the questions to obama and romney, to include equal time responses from dale stein and rocky anderson. that will be wednesday night. in the financial giant bank of america has announced a $2.43 billion settlement in connection with its misleading of investors while acquiring merrill lynch. executives allegedly concealed heavy losses at merrill lynch when it purchased the company for $50 billion in 2008. while shareholders had promising estimates, the bank actually require a bailout. it stands to likely undermine a case brought to light buying in new york attorney general's offices, as prosecutors cannot recover losses for shareholders once they settle. and abortion rights group has announced plans to reopen the wichita, kan. women's health clinic of the slain doctor and women's advocate george tiller. tiller was shot dead by anti- choice extremists as he attended church services in 2009. his clinic remained closed since then. since then, and women's trust has purchased the clinic and will reopen the clinic offering abortion and other services. the new clinic will operate unde

colorado since that first debate performance that shifted the course of this race, mitt romney enjoyed a political rocky mountain high tuesday night. >> we're on the home stretch now, and i think the people of colorado are going to get us all the way there. what do you think? >> reporter: and again, accused his opponent of unloading an arsenal of attacks but no solutions. >> day in and day out there's one attack after the other. attacks on us, that does not make an agenda for the future. >> reporter: in the must-win state of ohio president obama tried to fortify his support and questioned whether voters can trust mr. romney. >> ohio, you know me. you know i mean what i say. you know that i do what i say i'm gonna do. >> reporter: each stump speech punctuated by this now familiar phrase, accusing his rival of conveniently forgetting past positions. >> it's called romnesia. sounds like a classic case of romnesia. you've got to vote to make sure the medicine is there for romney's romnesia. >> reporter: the president also unveiled a 20-page booklet promoting his second-term agenda. >> unlike mitt romney i'm

according to a rocky mountain high likely voters obama has a 44% edge over mitt romney.has won arizona in the past 60 years. bill clinton in 1996. the romney campaign has a new ad out today featuring joe biden lafrg as his republican challenger congressman paul ryan talks about the struggling economy. the contrasting foot amg was from thursday's vice-presidential debate. a cnn/orc poll shows us. >>> a dangerous and daring effort to break the sky. today felix bottom guarder? is making an attempt to jump from the edge of space. brian todd is here with details. >> right now they're going through to process of inflating felix baumgartner's balloon. it could take as much as an hour. the launch of the balloon and capsule may not occur for at least another hour. from that point it will take two and half hours to three hours for him to ascend 120 feet above the surface of the earth. if it happened today, it may not happen until mid afternoon or early afternoon eastern time. so he's on the ground waiting for all this to get ready and the launch could come soon, candy. >> an incre

rocky anderson. >> if there had been a candidate included in the obama-romney debate that challenged our plutocracy, our government that has run by and for the benefit of monstrous corporations rather than in the interest of the people of this country. we know the republican democrats have some differences but both of them have morphed into an anti-democratic force that has betrayed basic human and civil rights. we know both of these major candidates have been bought and paid for. that is why neither of them stands for health care for all. that is why neither of them ever talk about breaking the stranglehold the military- industrial complex has on our government. that is why neither of them talk about providing the essential leadership on the climate crisis, the greatest tragedy facing births in habitants. [applause] obama and romney have refused to discuss -- discuss the corrupting influence of money flowing from wall street banks from the insurance companies, a pharmaceutical industry, the fossil fuel industry or military contractors because they are the recipients of that corrupting money. neith

now when we come back, mitt romney on another topic said oh, i was brilliant in recess stating the olympics. we've got rockyparty candidate out here to straighten him out. he was in utah at the time, we also have the numbers. turns out shockingly he was full of it. >> america's winter flip olympics were mired in scandal and deficit. in come mitt romney. >> he turned that around to a 100 million surplus. only time you can get to a polling place. make sure that voting is your highest priority on election day. besides, you can always dvr my show. you really cant' dvr the future of the country. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv. so vote and vote smart. uh, i'm in a timeout because apparently riding the dog like it's a small horse is frowned upon in this establishment! luckily though, ya know, i conceal this bad boy underneath my blanket just so i can get on e-trade. check my investment portfolio, research stocks... wait, why are you taking... oh, i see...solitary. just a man and his thoughts. and a smartphone... with an e-trade app. ♪ nobody kn

president obama, gave him two minutes, then to mitt romney with 2 minutes, we would stop the tape and ask dr. jill stein and put the same question to rockynderson. i want to play an excerpt of jill stein's response to moderator jim lehrer's questioned about so-called entitlement programs and social security. >> it is very important to point out that while we hear a very different narrative from barack obama and the democrats than we do from mitt romney, with mitt romney's narrative being, usually harsh, scary, selfishness on steroids, and the democratic narrative being warm and fuzzy and we're all in this together let's just wait for things to get better, it is really important to look beyond the talk, to look at the walk, to look at what is being proposed. geoffrey sax at the university of columbia has pointed out in his analysis of the budget proposal to both obama and romney-ryan, points out they are both aiming for essentially the same targets. they're both aiming for social security to be about 5% of gdp some years down the line whether it is four or eight years. and on medicare, there are both aiming for medicare to be reduced to a

. >> reporter: but jill stein and rocky anderson argued tt thet real problem is that the obama and romney prescriptions for higher education don't go far enough. >> i think it's time to make public higher education free, as it should be. >> we cannot afford not to provide a great educaon and an equality of opportunity for all onof our young people in this country.o >> reporter: gary johnson, however, said the loans and grants are to blame for the rising cost of higher education. >> that is another one of government's unintended consequences that have college tuition at such a high rate. >> reporter: recent history suggests the independent standard bearers can have an effect. in 2000, green party candidate ralph ader took votes from democrat al gore in florida and other key states. and in 1992, ross perot captured nearly 19% of the total vote in his race with the first president george bush and bill clinton. 20 years later, he's endorsed mitt romney. >> ifill: you can watch the rest of the third party candidates' debate online. that's in the rundown. >> brown: now, a question you might not