host: we will talk more about that at 8:30 with bob dean.im, south carolina, what are you waiting to hear about? caller: i am waiting to hear more about what he is planning to cut. i know that he cannot give us all of that, because he wants to make a deal with congress and everything. host: are you talking about one candidate in particular? or both of them? caller: mitt romney. he has changed so many times, i want some signal on where he is going to cut. host: you can join the conversation on safes -- on facebook, that is where this comes from -- host: what information do you need to decide your vote? joshua, good morning. caller: good morning. there are a few issues that are not being discussed in the election. we have got this two-party system that is just sound bites, bickering. the libertarian candidates and his revolutionary ideas, they have to do with ascension, unity, economic reform. and um yeah, i would like more choice. host: we will talk more about third-party candidates this morning. but first, an obituary. arlen specter has pass

also tomorrow, bob deans talks about the federal issue. thank you. we will see tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> c. the second presidential debate tuesday live on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org next. come "newsmakers" would jim jordon. then the debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan. after that we will show you the 2000 a presidential town hall debate between senators barack obama and john mccain. >> this week on "newsmakers" jim jordon, and republican of ohio and chairman of the house republican committee joining us from dayton, ohio. here in washington, at nicole duran and jonathan strong. >> at the first presidential debate, mitt romney went hard to the center in temperament and substance. last night at the vice- presidential debate we saw paul ryan take a position on abortion that is more moderate than the one he had prior to becoming the vp pick. are you worried that this is the sign that the real mitt romney is moderate? what would you do if he embraced a

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bob dole. >> howard dean said that president obama should not make the same mistake al gore did in 2000 againstw. bush. >> that's not the way america's meant to be. >> and there, there's nixon with the flop sweat. george h.w. bush looking at his watch. appearances count, don't they? >> they really do. and a professional knows that. george h.w. bush in that debate, that third one in richmond in 1992, he was looking at his watch because he was trying to make the point that one of the other candidates had run over time. it didn't really compute this was sending the message that he was impatient, just the kind of message he didn't want to send. >> humor can be an effective tool, diffuse a weakness. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> and at that moment, a lot of people said well, there's the ball game. including his opponent. >> including walter mondale. >> what do you think about humor as a tool in this debate tonight? >> you'd better be a very accomplished actor like reagan or else it probably

host: we will talk more about that at 8:30 with bob dean. kim, south carolina, what are you waiting to hear about? caller: i am waiting to hear more about what he is planning to cut. i know that he cannot give us all of that, because he wants to make a deal with congress and everything. host: are you talking about one candidate in particular? or both of them? caller: mitt romney. he has changed so many times, i want some signal on where he is going to cut. host: you can join the conversation on safes -- on facebook, that is where this comes from -- host: what information do you need to decide your vote? joshua, good morning. caller: good morning. there are a few issues that are not being discussed in the election. we have got this two-party system that is just sound bites, bickering. the libertarian candidates and jill stein, they are both offering revolutionary ideas. and um yeah, i would like more choice. host: we will talk more about third-party candidates this morning. but first, an obituary. arlen specter has passed away. a champion of

snipers earlier this month, nbc's chief justice correspondent pete williams spoke to bob myers whose brother dean shot at a gas station in virginia. he says the passage of time does not erase the sense of loss, but he has come to understand a bit more about lee boyd malvo. >> we recognize that he was a tremendously -- under the control of muhammad. and he was, probably a good word would be brainwashed. and since that time he's gotten as we understand it some mentoring, some help, and has had some years to recognize what he did. and our understanding is that e he, given the chance, would not have chosen to take the same course again. but he can't alter that. >> the conversation with malvo lasted some 40 minutes. we're going to make the vast majority of it available online so people can hear for themselves. >> how many lives destroyed. >> absolutely. >>> we want to turn and check the weather. >> sandy, but it is also going to be affected by this front that's making its way through the midsection of the country. ahead of the front, look at these temperatures, buffalo near 80, 76 in chicago, 82 in hu

wearing when he was shot at the sunoco station it stopped at the very second when dean myers hit the ground. so, for bob myers, he says he's trying to get his life back together. but for part of him, ten years ago, time stopped. >> a terrible time for all of us and nobody at the time who lived here at the time will ever forget. you have a full report coming up on "nightly on the weekend." >>> rumbling and shaking in europe's tallest active volcano. mt. etna has seen a slight increase in what they call volcanic shaking. they say they're not predicting an eruption there. the volcano had several small eruptions including one that closed an airport there back in january. >> interesting to watch from a distance. >> exactly. gorgeous. >>> gorgeous weather for us today. >> absolutely. we're about ready to have cold fingertips around here. we will see the biggest change or thing happening in our weather in months. that's a big drop in the mercury coming our way for the weekend. you want to get ready. this is like glove weather we're talking about for sunday night and monday morning. i know. out there right now,

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dean, thanks. >>> the time now is 10 minutes after the top of the hour. bill o'reilly and bob beckel square off on the election. >> here is where you are making a mistake. it's a tragic mistake. >> up next o'reilly tells bob beckel what's really the issue in this year's election. >> while the candidates talk tough about the nation's debt they are not holding back on political ad spending. those numbers will come up and they will shock you. >> 14 after the hour. here's what you missed while you were sleeping. check this out a meteor shower lighting up the night sky over oakland, california. >> looks like a movie. it was so big you literally look like you could see the flames on it. >> it looked like a huge rock or something slideling over. oh my god what's that? >> the souped was so loud it shook their homes making them think it was an earthed quake. astronomers believe the meteor was about the size of a car when it broke off over the bay area. more companies are slamming the brea brakes on lance armstrong. ending sponsorship deals with the disgraced cyclist. stepped down as th

bob, who cares? worst choice since ford and carter. and this from deanthe president always rises to the occasion and has proved he works best under stress. i'm confident he'll get his message across tomorrow night loud and clear. facebook.com/carolcnn if you'd like to continue the conversation. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts right now. happening now in the newsroom, scare in the air. >> the seat is loose and rotate pretty quickly. >> based on american airlines seats coming loose, eight planes grounded and the faa is investigating. >>> counting down to tomorrow's debate, president obama's biggest challenge not mitt romney? >>> legalizing marijuana, it's not just a pipe dream in the state hosting tomorrow's debate. we'll look at an issue for a coveting voting block. >>> and ikea is apologizing, now saying it regrets deleting images of women from the saudi version of its catalog. "newsroom" starts now. good morning, and thank you so much for being with us, i'm carol costello, we begin with the growing problem for american airlines. imagine being on