joining me now, andrea saul, press secretary for the romney campaign.nks so much for being with us. we hope we have enough quiet to get through the interview. tell me what your response is to what president obama said in the interview about having an incomplete grade. i think you put out a statement saying that that doesn't cut it. >> yeah. incomplete doesn't cut it. this president said at the beginning of his term that if he didn't have the economy turned around in three years, that he would be facing a one term proposition and here we are with 23 million americans struggling on for work, more people in poverty than ever before and we learned today, more people on food stamps than ever before. this just doesn't cut it. incomplete is not good enough for the american people. >> how are you going to counteract the popularity of michelle obama, her appeal tonight to women as well as the strong latino presence here at the democratic convention, when the president has such a huge advantage among hispanic voters? >> well, we have been blessed in this country

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some rapid response from andrea saul.ght not a single speaker ulterred the words americans are better off than four years ago. instead there was a night full of tributes to government as the solution to every problem. how close is this race? wicked close. a new poll shows mitt romney getting a tiny sliver of a bounce from last week's convention. both romney and president obama are at 48%, that's a gain of one point for mitt romney. it has gone from eye virtual tie to an actual one. at the half hour, we'll talk politics with congresswoman allison schwartz and terri sewell. >> seven minutes past the hour. gunshots stop a canadian politician's victory speech cold. one person is killed and another critically injured. the premiere elect was rushed off stage and not hurt. paw la newton jones joins us from phone. can you break down exactly what happened here. >> well, speaking to police overnight, they believe this man who was wearing -- with a house coat, shot at least once. he was armed and apparently had more than one weapon

the romney campaign responds this morning in a statement from press secretary andrea saul. >> in the time it takes his latest ad to run, our national debt grows by at least another $5 million. team obama is quickly seizing on early voting. it was just as slow in labelg the attack on the u.s. embassy in libya as an act of terrorism. in an exclusive interview wit nbws ann curry, claims were discounted the attack were in response to a video produced in cifornia and available on youtube. >> would you call the attack on the u.s. consulate inenghi ie doubt about that. and it's a preplanned act of terrorism directed against american citizs. >> do you think the movie had anything to do with this attack on the consulate? >> not on this attack not on this at. it nngdoit this attack. >> and yesterday white house press secretary told reporters traveling on air force one, "it's the case that it's our view as an administration, the president's ew, that it was a terrorist tack." it's the first explicit acknowledgement that t taas an act of terror. secretary of state hillary clinton speaking at the

martha: fair & balanced you just heard moments ago from the obama campaign now here to respond andrea saul secretary to the romney campaign. good morning. good to have you. >> thank you. martha: we just watched ben labolt and bill speak being about the revelations that have come out of the situation in libya. we are learning more about an al-qaida connection to the raid on the consulate in benghazi. what is governor romney's take on what looks to be a resurgence of al-qaida in libya and a connection between all of these protests that we are seeing bursting out in the middle east? >> well governor romney has talked about for years the need for american strength and peace through strength. what we've seen with president obama is we don't know why he's leading from behind, we can't really figure out where he's taking a stand on these things, and the american people will judge him on the fact, are we more influential around the world than we were four years ago? and we simply are not. martha: does governor romney believe that we are still in a current war on terror in this country? >> we are.

when andrea saul a.kesperson for romney brought up the romneycare which is much like the affordable care act, you had republicans like ann coulter calling for her to be taken off the campaign. it's interesting to me that romney is not talking about what he did at visa -- vis-a-vis jobs as governor of massachusetts. this notion that we've had since ronald reagan, this trickle down idea that if you make the rich:er the money will trickle down to the poor has never proven to be true. i believe it's trickle up. that's what the president has tried to do by cutting taxes for 95 percent of working families, giving a number of tax breaks to small businesses. trickle up is you put money in the hands of people who are going to spend it, people on the margins, living paycheck to paycheck where $40 extra a week, which is what you get on average with the payroll tax cut, that makes a big difference and they're going to spend it and you spend it, the more people who spend it, the more demand there is, as you create de