now romney is preparing for the debates in boston, massachusetts with senator rob portman standing inesident obama. he is working on sharpening his message. meanwhile obama campaign says that obama is working on shorter, crisper answers. before he gets started, he will speak at this campaign event right here in las vegas. >> kristen welker tonight. >>> we're joined by nbc's chief white house correspondent chuck todd, lay it out for us. how important are the debates in this particular election? >> at this point in time in the campaign, the stakes are enormous for mitt romney. he is behind, you can argue by how much he's behind, is it as bad as it looks in some polls in places like ohio or florida, but the bottom line is he's behind. he needs to come out basically not just even in the presidential, but it needs to serve as a way to fire up his republican troops, it's going to keep republican candidates from fleeing him, it's going to keep big money people from fleeing him. a decisive win by president obama will only add to the momentum at this crucial time when we have early voting and

. >> mike emanuel has gotten a response from the romney and ryan camp that reads boston, massachusettsll in charlotte. tonight president obama laid out the choices in this election make being the case for more of the same policies that haven't worked for the past four years. he offered more promises, but he hasn't kept the promises he made four years ago. americans will hold president accountable for his record. they know they're not better off and that it's time to change direction. mitt romney and paul ryan will restore america's promise and deliver a better future for our country , fair and balanced. continuing coverage of the democratic national convention now on this station. on your late local news analysis now on fox news channel on cable and satellite and i'll see you each weeknight there 7:00 eastern. i'm shepard smith. good night. n >> this has been a fox news special presentation. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> the crowd cheering on president obama as he made his case for four more years in office on the f

department of health and human services, boston, massachusetts. kathryn, there's approximately 2.3 million active military men and women and about 22 million vets. um, talk to us a little bit about why military families are important to our national security. well, i think that one of the most important reasons that we are paying attention to the military family is because we know that this particular conflict is taking a major toll on military service members and their families. i think it's mrs. obama who uses the statistic, saying that 1 percent of the people are doing 100 percent of the fighting. and i think that statement really resonates with all of us across the united states who really want to understand and help, um, the military family members who have served in the defense of our country to come back into their communities and to really be fully integrated and fully reintegrated into their communities. and i think that we all carry a sense of ownership and a sense of responsibility about that community. and no longer are military famili

the city itself and no better example of that is when we filmed inside suffolk county jail, boston, massachusetts. >> [ bleep ] >> he's boston. get familiar. don't get it twisted. he's boston in this. >> in boston it was almost like we got to learn the lay of the land because people talk so much about the different neighborhoods in the area they were from. everyone in boston was proud of their neighborhood and different represents it once they were inside and kind of stuck to the people that they knew from their neighborhoods inside. >> i'm boston. he's boston. not dorchester, charlestown. east boston. >> do you know -- >> how many movies have they made on east boston? >> listen, you know the movie "the rat." whitey bulger. [ bleep ]. that's the claim to fame. >> no, he ain't! >> yes, sir, that's all he's got. that's all he's got. >> they're from chelsea. >> you live in chelsea? >> see you later. >> i'm out of here. >> the inmates in boston shared more than neighborhood pride. they also knew how to throw a punch. >> every day. we respond to fights every day, sometimes they're one-on-one fights, s

. ♪ >>> beautiful start to the day in boston, massachusetts.come to "cbs this morning" saturday. happy labor day weekend. i am rebecca jarvis. >> i am chip reid. it's great to be here. >> good to see you. >>> let's get to the top story had half hour. the new era at penn state begins today. the nittany lions take the field for the first time since the jerry sandusky sex scandal rocked their campus. they've instituted a slew of changes. but are they enough to rebuild the once formidable legacy. elaine quijano is in pennsylvania. good morning. >> good morning to you chip. later today, some 100,000 fans are expected to pour into beaver stadium behind me here for the kickoff of penn state's football season. now, it comes about ten months after the child sex abuse scandal became public and shattered this community. many are hoping today marks a new beginning. >> at penn state emotions are running high. thousands turned out at this pep rally last night. it's the first football season in nearly half a century to begin without joe paterno as head coach.

at the suffolk county jail in boston, massachusetts, we encountered another program called jail breaket experience what it is to be in jail. they're going to have you empty everything out of your pockets, put into locker. make sure you take everything out of your pockets, all right? hat, you take the hat off. show some respect. take everything out of your pockets. change, quarters, nickels, anything, bus passes. >> when we film in a prison or a jail, we do do our best to be a fly on the wall. in the case of jail break, you know, these kids came in, and yeah, they were definitely aware of the camera. >> you scared? are you scared? how about you? >> no. >> you're not scared right now? >> no. >> there's no reason to be scared, to tell you the truth. >> at the same time, i don't think it was necessarily the camera that affected them in the way that they had an attitude or they had this certain bravado. i think it was more relating to the age. >> everybody stand up. come right over here. right now all you got to do is empty your pockets, take your jackets off. nothing should be around your

we are coming right back from boston, massachusetts. >> continuing coverage of breaking news on fox newsnnel. i'm shepard smith in new york. and we're monitoring developments in libya. one day after attackers in benghazi killed the u.s.s. ambassador and three other americans. u.s. officials tell fox news tonight the pentagon is now moving two warships to the libyan coast for what it calls contingency purposes 50 marines heading to tripoli. u.s. lawmakers say killers may have been planning this for some time. >> it was a coordinated military-styled commando-type raid that had both direct fire and indirect fire. military movement involved in it. this was a well-planned, well-targeted event. >> shepard: the violence in benghazi in libya came as we marked 11 years since the attacks of 9/11. members of the senate intelligence committee are calling for investigations to determine whether there is a link. we'll have another update at the bottom of the hour. shepard smith in new york. the o'reilly factor continues right after this. in america today we're running out of a vital resource we need t

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romney spent the night in boston belmont, massachusetts where he has a home . last night in new hampshire for a big rally. several thousand people and come back team and turn around team . believe in america banners and slogans here in full force and a feisty crowd. and today he will go down to virginia beach and he will take in a nascar race in richmond. it is not the president's proposal for a choice of candidates. he argued that any time a incumbent is up for reelection it is a record of that. >> and we'll hear for the remainder of the week all going after the obama record and the president's inability to turn the economy around. when it comes to who has the best ideas. mitt romney has the edge. but likeability the president has the edge. mr. romney will pick apart those issues. he will be concentrating his campaign efforts. and upon romney isolated eight spectacular states. virginia is key and new hampshire is key and later today, tomorrow and he will go to nevada and on for a big speech that he will give on september 11th and stop in ohio along the way. al

boston. i am from massachusetts. >> he is the real ben afflec. >> he is the real -- she checked the box. she checked the box again. she checked the box. great. >> anna, was her answer good or -- her parents told her, so it had to be true. >> she will believe anything. >> that's true, or she is just trying to blame her parents. >> or maybe she is, maybe she isn't. one thing i notice is that he talked about this for an awful longtime. leave it up to the voters. plant the seed and let them decide what they think about her character. nobody likes a bully. sometimes men can't get away with things that women can get away with. think about the vice presidential debate from 2008. joe biden and sarah palin, and remember when she said, can i call you, joe? and she kept winking at the camera? imagine if he did that. that wouldn't have gone over okay. >> whattal turn high universe where this woman claims to be native american. what if she claimed to be from mars? >> i would vote for her. i don't see that as bullying. you raised your hand in rage. >> she said who likes a bully? i would say all four o

we will start with frank from boston, massachusetts. good morning. caller: good morning. i don't think it will hurt him much. i think it might have put him in a situation where he will after outgun them. it's not going to keep him from getting his electoral votes. hopefully, this man can put it together and get himself a good campaign thing and win this thing. host: thanks for calling. on twitter -- and here is the headline from the baltimore sun this morning -- we will continue to hear from you all morning on this issue from republicans. michael is from the jacksonville, florida. thanks for calling. caller: good morning. i'm calling about the romney comments. it is appalling that the media has blown this out of proportion. what mitt romney said is a fact. 47% of our country is at on entitlements. it does not bother me what he had to say. i agree with him. america needs to wake up. the people who don't comprehend will not understand what he's talked about. host: thanks for calling, michael. he talked about the media blowing this up too much. here is the opinion piece from

in boston and massachusetts, there was a red sox game. why is that significant?nk one of the reasons she's behind is because there's working class, middle class voters in massachusetts who scott brown has forged an emotional and cultural connection with. he's really used his force to do this. he's aired ads in which he talks about the red sox. he just talks about fenway park. he just talks about the celtics. it's voters in places -- i grew up here. i know a lot of these people. they traditionally vote democratic, but they really identify with scott brown. they're the ones that elizabeth warren has to reach. she's not going to win the popularity contest. she needs to reach them with an economic contest. i think she gave a decent speech last night, but i don't know how many of those people were watching. >> steve, i have to agree. i also grew up around there. i feel like her pitch last night was incredibly professorial. outside of harvard square, to the working class voter in massachusetts, or frankly anywhere, i don't think it was a very effective message. it was

host: well, rana from boston, massachusetts, are you sticking with the president in 2012? caller: no. but i still have a statement i want to make, peter. host: we're listening. caller: i have written you e-mails, tweeted you, sent you about 30, 40 e-mails and i know some of my neighbors in the addition where i live have said many -- have sent many, many e-mails, because we've discussed this. we want to know who is this woman that gets on sometimes twice a day and every day, they call from tennessee, she has about 10 different names, she says the name is ann. one day they got her on, it was about 9:15, she said her name was ann, s called right back and somebody called her and she got on again, said her name was marsha. now, i know you all know who it is, so this is what we want to know, why and how can somebody get on, every day, sometimes twice a day, and we've been trying to get on for, oh, some of my neighbors, for years. host: that is irritating, isn't it? i promise nobody is calling her back. we don't want her to call in, either, except every 30 years. but lorania, why

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boston. well known in massachusetts politics. well-connected but not really a national figure.rty in 1972 was incredibly divided. sort of like the republican party now in terms of two separate wings of the establishment and of the party. i do not want to compare the new politics but in a sense, there were -- more right wing and the republican party today. it was a very contentious convention. when it comes down -- out that george mcgovern selects white, the massachusetts delegation will walk out on the convention, feels like he can no longer choose white. host: let's take another call in houston, texas. a libertarian. caller: this is a great discussion. can you elaborate on the all but mcgovern coalition? guest: anyone but mcgovern. he was perceived to be the leftists and it -- candidate. he led the party reforms. 1972 was the first year of the new rules for selecting a presidential nominee. it took the nominating process out of the back rooms and to the people. no walker could it be that -- no longer could it be that some lost the popular vote in the primaries would somehow be

the first plane incidentally was on route from boston, massachusetts, to los angeles. >> here is the video of the second plane striking the tower. >> that's right. we're not sure the origin of that plane is my understanding. the first plane that causesed the right-hand side and the other twin tower was from boston to lax to los angeles, flight 11, american airlines. we confirmed that plane was hijacked. what happened following the hi-jacking, rather, is unclear. we should note that about an hour after the first collision at the pentagon reportedly another plane crashed into the pentagon which is just outside washington, d.c. in northern virginia. all air traffic has been stopped. >> government buildings have been evacuated as have other buildings across the country. the sears tower was evacuated. you can imagine other buildings in major cities and small cities are probably being evacuated as well. >> there is an unconfirmed report of a car explosion at the state department. jim was told an unconfirmed report of another air hi-jacking. we share this with you not in an attempt to exace

boston, massachusetts. more on his remarks tonight, some speculate 2016. >> we are here with the washington correspondent for "the baltimore sun." >> i think he is trying to walk a fine line between elevating his profile and not appearing to. he has been at many events back- to-back. he has also spoken to hispanic voters, jewish voters. he has had a lot of offense here. i think he is trying to be careful not to overdo it. chris christie in tampa, all of these folks being talked about for 2016 are being careful to keep the focus on the nominee as much as possible. [inaudible]o >> i followed him this morning, i followed him late last night. he is all over charlotte. >> are these messages not about his core beliefs? >> there is a bit of both. for the large part, those two are in sync. he is on the sunday talk shows almost every sunday. he is a very practiced message man for the party and the speech they you will see tonight will reflect that. >> virginia and maryland have very different governors. what is the

especially across the eastern shores, boston, massachusetts, excuse me.rt a very nice day. down across areas of the south. few scattered showers into florida and heavier rain across parts of arkansas and texas today. but temps looking pretty nice as well. into the northern plains, a cool day at least across the pictures high plains back to 86 in fargo. out across the west extremely southern california today look at that los angeles hitting 100 degrees. all right, guys. send it back inside. >> thanks so much, rick. >> let's talk about school assignment. el paso, texas. were apparently assigned by their teacher to draw graphic, vivid images of 9/11 after the teacher gave them an assignment on terrorism. >> why? >> i don't know. i don't know why the teacher gave them this assignment but the parents are outraged when their kids came home with these really disturbing illustrations that they had crawn. >> the teacher is in hot water now as a result. >> here is one of the pictures. if your kids are watching this right now. these are disturbing images even though

four other polls showing democrat elizabeth warren leading republican senator scott brown in massachusetts, a bostond poll paints a different picture. they have scott brown with one of his largest leads over her in their polling at 49-45. have to love massachusetts. five polls in five days. finally, look at these pictures. space shuttle "endeavour." it's on its way today to its final destination flying piggyback from houston to california. it will do a neat thing today. it will fly over tucson as a tip of the hat to mark kelly and gabrielle giffords. >>> we're looking back at a speech that helped reshape modern politics and usher in the era of television as the vehicle for political messaging by a man that would one day change the face of presidential politics for good. richard nixon of course. it was this week in 1952, 60 years ago, nixon still a young senator and a new vice presidential candidate, gave what's become known as the checker speech. it was unique, ground breaking and essential to preserving nixon's political career, which was on shaky ground two after being tapped dwight eisenhower's c

we'll start with frank on -- from boston, massachusetts, this morning. good morning, frank. caller: well, good morning. listen here, i don't think it's going to hurt him too much. i think it might put him in a situation where he's going to have to come out and with guns blazing. it's not the point where it's going to keep him from getting his electoral votes in. hopefully he can get it together and get himself a good campaign thing going on and hopefully he'll win this thing. host: frank, thanks for calling in this mother. photodude writes on twitter -- host: and here's the headline from "the baltimore sun" this morning -- host: and we'll continue to hear from you this morning on this from republicans. michael is from jacksonville, florida. thanks for calling in this morning, michael. caller: good morning. i'm calling about the mitt romney comments. i think it's appalling that the media is blown this out of proportion. what mitt romney said is a fact. 45%, 47% of our country is on entitlements. doesn't bother me at all what he had to say. i agree with him 100%. america needs

but the interesting legal issue here is the federal court of appeals in massachusetts in boston has comery different reasoning compared to the federal court of appeals in new york city. and think about this. if we have two different rulings, is it possible that the u.s. supreme court will have to consider the question of tips? oh, my goodness, gracious. >> that would be something if these cases were to brew all the way up there. >> brew! >> okay, so here's a statement coming from starbucks saying, we believe our tipping policy ensures the starbucks partners, employees, who directly serve customers both baristas and shift leads share equally in the tips they receive. we believe our customers should have the option to reward our partners for providing great service. but i guess, gentleman, most people, when they're putting in the tip jar, are most people thinking that they are tipping the baristas, those who they're in direct contact with at that moment? or does it even matter? >> not the managers. >> i don't think they're thinking at all, fred. they're just throwing it in the can there. >

and there is even a black market trade, and i think it was somewhere in new bedford, massachusetts, that's a bostoncan't even do it. kids were bringing in bottles of chocolate syrup and selling squirts. it is like a russian black market based on our upcoming communist government president president -- government. >> they actually do that in russia. they go to mcdonalds and buy food and they buy it for people here in america. i blame you as ?b who only eats -- as somebody who only eats one meal a week. what advice do you have for these kids? >> if you are really going to make a statement you don't bring food to school. you go on a hunger strike. the skinny kids get skin me yes, sir and the fat kids are left diabetesy. that's when the boycott turns into a man cot. >> i had a man cot. i folded it up in my truck. this is socialism, people. one size fits all. it doesn't matter. it is for the greater good. it is neither great nor good. it is awful. >> but they are preparing us for the future under obama. very expensive food and starvation, and you don't learn to read or write. >> actually that's not so b

and today scott brown in massachusetts did get back to boston in time for his first debate.s first debate which he used as an opportunity to run as fast and as far away as he could from the fact he is a republican. see if you can notice a pattern here. >> listen, i'm the second most bipartisan in the united states senate. i was recently named by "washingtonian" magazine as least partisan senator. the key is to do it together truly in a bipartisan manner. we drew a line in the sand collectively and in a bipartisan way. we need to sit down in a room in a bipartisan manner. the only way we're going to get this done is to actually work together in a truly bipartisan manner and i'm the only one in this room right now who's going to be doing that. being the second most bipartisan senator right now, i've been doing it since i got there. >> there isn't even an -- that "r" next to my name, it stands for the "r" that's in bipartisan. i'm no republican, pay no attention to the "r." i abbreviate things from the middle. every senate republican, every republican candidate for the united s

boston. obviously in massachusetts, we covered another 500,000 people.go up by 33%. why? everyone got an insurance card, but didn't have the primary care capacity. they got the insurance card and where did they end up? the emergency room. most costly setting in medicine. the cost of health care went up. not only do you have to cover people, but you have to fix the delivery system. the delivery system both from infrastructure standpoint and how the delivery system works with itself, how the relationship between primary care physicians and the emergency room physician, et cetera, and specialists. >> talk to me how this medicaid cap impacts this. this was part of what it was fascinating to me to learn is -- excuse me, where the medicare -- excuse me, the medicare cap. back in '97 when medicare costs were skyrocketing, congress says the cap which medicare pays for residencies. back it up. my kid will go to college, be a doctor, go to med school what is this 1997 rule about medicare have to do with what kind of doctor they will become? >> we need more doctors

that the change really starts back in new bedford and pittsfield and in boston it starts all over the commonwealth of massachusetts and towns all over this country. and it's about people getting more involved, about putting the wind in our own sales in part what you're asking about it's not just what's happening in washington, it's that people have to be involved we have to make our voices heard. >> ifill: you're hear in this convention to speak on behalf of barack obama. what do you say to americans who voted for him four years ago who are just not that enthusiast thick time? >> well, i tell them i believe the direction this country's going to go for the next half century will be decided in this election. we've really come to it and this is going to be a race about our value, about what kind of a people we are and what what kind of a country we're trying to build if you believe that the way to build this country and the kind of country it is that it's from the top down, more tax cuts, more deregulations for so they have more power and somehow that will trickle down for everyone else then mitt romney is your guy b

and we'll have a full analysis of the debate between massachusetts senator scott brown and challenger, elizabeth warren, with boston city councillor felix arroyo. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." the bad fortunes of mitt romney may be impacting down-ballot senate races. let's start with the big picture. mitt romney is clearly hurting himself. for the first time since his 47% remark, a poll shows voters, they don't like it. 36% say that they are less likely to vote for romney because of his remarks, compared to only 20% who say that they are more likely to vote for him. among independents, the margin is also 2-1 against romney's remarks. as for the senate races, a top election analyst put it this way. "i'm not prone to hyperbole, but a gop senate map is imploding. chance of a takeover now just 21%." now, let's take a look at the state of wisconsin. one of my favorites. the latest poll shows president obama widening his lead over mitt romney to seven points in this vital swing state. senate candidate congresswoman tammy baldwin, our next guess, h

now, a massachusetts senate debate between scott brown and democrat and elizabeth warren. she is a harvard law professor. this hourlong debate is courtesy of wbz-tv in bostond evening, and welcome to the massachusetts senate debate. we are welcoming our listeners onwbz radio -- on wbz radio 1040. welcome to the candidates. they are scott brown, the incumbent elected to the senate in 2010. and the challenger, elizabeth warren, a professor at harvard law school. before we began, a brief bit of information about our format. we will have an open. of rebuttal and debate period -- period of rebuttal and debate. the hard and fast rules, no talking over each other and no interrupting. by prior arrangement, mr. brown, you will take the first question. before we get into the policy issues that will dominate this debate, let's give something out of the way. at times during this race, each of your campaign has appeared to question the character of your opponent. opponentoet's -- your 's character an issue in this debate? >> first, i would like to thank professor warren for coming out. i would like to think the viewers. i have been a center for two and a half years. be

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boston. this is an hour and 45 minutes. >> good evening from the clark athletic center at the university of massachusetts in boston. i'm jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90-minute debates between the democratic candidate for president, vice president al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. bush of texas. the debates are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. we'll have the candidates at podiums. no answer to a question can exceed two minutes. rebuttal is limited to one minute. but as moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another three-and-a-half minutes. even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. the candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. there will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. the questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. i have told no one from the two campaigns, or the commissi