candidates are after women. >> gretchen: oh, my gosh. >> brian: you can relate >> chris: brian you areed. >> gretchen: you know what ted? ted. >> brian: it is his own camera man. >> steve: he's out writing his phone number on a baseball. >> brian: that story is unbelievable. and they are trying to get back to the question that was brought up on the debate and that was the stump speech yesterday. one in iowa and virginia . >> steve: now the obama camp is trying to blow up a comment about binders of women's names. >> brian: social media went crazy. i didn't think it was funny. >> steve: i didn't get it. >> gretchen: let's tell you what is coming up on "fox and friends". helicopter shot straight out of the sky. a video and the shocking aftermath. we have that coming up. >> steve: then with candy crowley trying to help the president during the debate. something in the past may help to make that case. walking past our passive of paintings. ♪ ♪ overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou co

kilmeade, over to you and the brian bunch. >> brian: right.nsulate in libya which killed four americans including ambassador stevens. today a house committee will finally attempt to uncover who knew what and when they knew about the attack and what was the impetus for the attack. will they expose a possible cover-up by the obama administration? why does the state department seem to be running away from the white house's conclusion? let's ask senator d'amato. rick newman also here. and yahoo green is here -- jehmu green is here. senator, the state department making it clear their conclusion was a terrorist attack under secretary -- made a clear they thought it was a terrorist attack. never mentioned the movie in a private briefing. >> well, it's obvious that it was a terrorist attack and we didn't have to wait this long to figure it out. if you look at that time and saw the scope, the magnitude, what took place, and then if you look at the state department warnings, warnings from its top security official, eric nordstrom, he said, we need beefe

>> brian: i think pot roast. >> steve: brian is right. >> brian is right.'re like part of the family. >> brian: i am. i have to find a place to have that cake. >> ali: mary, great to hear from you. >> brian: mary, this is a great call for you because law school is not cheap. if you keep making those calls, those checks keep coming in. >> steve: all right, honey. thank you very much for calling. now go study torts. okay? >> happy birthday. going to go study now. >> steve: thank you. >> ali: that was nice. >> steve: that was nice. i got nice kids. >> ali: let's get to your headlines. tell you what else is happening. a race that could decide who controls the senate that could decide the election. the race for ohio senate seat turning personal in a no holds barred debate. >> senator, you are a liar. you were lying to the people of the state of ohio. you're falsely attacking me and i won't stand for it. you might want to try to push people around in washington, but you're not going to push me around. >> it's a p pretty remarkable thing for a young man to say or

thank you, brian.nosis of obama care. >> so let me get it straight. this is a long segment. we are gifted with a healthcare plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't which covering 10 million more people without a single new doctor to provide for 16,000 new irs agents and written by a committee whose chairman doesn't understand it and pass said by congress who didn't read it and exempted themselves from it and signed by a president who smokes. whose funding is administered by a treasurey chief who didn't pay his taxes which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits takes affect by a government that bankrupted social security and medicare all by a surgeon general who is obese and financed by a counselry that is broke. [laughing] [applause] so what the blankk could possibly go wrongg in >> steve: what the blank could go wrong. that doctor is our guest this morn running for state senate in illinois 18th district. good morning, doctor. >> it is a fabulous friday with "fox and friends".

>> brian: you promise?we're about to bring you there. in a few hours, between 40 and 60 million will be watching as president obama and mitt romney make their case to america to be the next president for the next four years. earlier, these stand-ins tested the stage out and then stood down. alicia is in denver with more on what we can expect tonight. >> good morning, brian, martha and steve. early voting has already begun, so there could be an immediate effect where some folks see the debate and thee receipticcally could vote tomorrow. let's look inside the debate hall. we won't have access to this all day because there will come a time later on this afternoon where each candidate will have a chance to do their walk through, give themselves a chance to get some familiarity with where they will be addressing not only each other and the moderator, but the american people. the commission on presidential debates says the format of tonight's domestic policy debate will have fewer questions than what we've seen i

brian? >> brian: we're getting along better and better as a nation.voters think of the vice president's performance and the chairman's performance? let's listen. >> what did you think of joe biden? a word or phrase. >> energized. >> disrespectful and arrogant. >> to me, he kept interrupting a lot more. he wouldn't let the congressman finish his thought like he was trying to throw him off track. >> brian: wow. those voters were part of a group that sat down with frank luntz in ohio. joining us with their reaction, former manager for howard dean, john edwards campaign, joe trippi, and fox news political analyst, angela mclowen, good morning. joe, do you think the vice president resonated well? because he was conversant on so many issues with undecideds? , i think he did that, but he clearly, i think, overdid the smirking and the laughing thing in a way that i think hurt his performance. to whatever extent, i think most of the instant polls show it being actually kind of a toss-up with a leaning towards ripe or slightly towards biden depending on which p

brian, you're up. >> brian: here it is.s happen. is pete rose going to get in the hall of fame and will jennifer aniston find true love? one has come to end. 12 years after breaking up brat pitt left her for a hotter woman she found true love with a guy that bob worships. justin thrashgh. they're engaged and put it to bed. guys can stop thinking to themselves i have a shot at her. it's over and done. >> dana: she has been engaged for a while. >> brian: this is just hitting me. she is single so we could relate to her. she is searching for love. now people rose is left with the only question left. >> andrea: left her for a hotter woman? most men in the country are split. >> dana: quickly, the cheerleader from texas, miranda ferguson, set a record. we have it here. she did 35 backflips. this is what the republicans were doing after the debate last week. >> eric: is that gutfeld? >> dana: no. bob, isn't that cool? >> bob: unbelievable. >> dana: all right. congrats to her. miranda ferguson. >> bob: second debate at hofstra unive

era of brian song. >> brian: a lot of sadness going on. and old yellar. >> steve: we will get the headlines. >> brian: steve looks to me. name on the prompter. counter the hesbollah drones. israel deployed u.s. patriot missiles this after israel shot down an unmanned zone. israel pounding the gaza strip after hamas and gasa hit shells. >> steve: abandoning on recordd. wall street donated a million in 2008. but this election they didn't even donate $150,000. employees felt betrayed by the president after he was elected. so far goldman employees gave $900,000 to mitt romney's campaign which has not called them fat cats. >> gretchen: you have never seen a bull fight like this one. [applause] >> gretchen: yeah, the guys are tossed around like rag dolls. it lets them jump in the ring. see what kind of insurance cover: two of them were injured seriously. >> brian: jack and rose on the titantic floating on the icy waters of atlantic. what if there was a way jack could have been kept alive. ♪ >> i don't want you to go jack. i will never let go. >>

. >> brian: chris, you are the brains of the operation. wo save this tape no one said that to chris. >> have a great show. "fox and friends" starts right ♪ ren:d mng ihedl the week. it is wednesday october 10th, i am gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing part of your day today. a stunning rift between t white house andla cln'atep e sllro we never believed that the libya attacks was part of a protest. >> steve: that's new. actress stacey dash that had s ckor supportingpho. mitt romney. you think president obama will do the same thing for sandra fluck. >> brian: forget halloween and politics it is all about the pp e yrina whil be in 2012? if i knew i wouldn't ruin it for you. "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ "fox and friends" te yw wto ben october surprise is if big bird comes out and said he is for mitt romn. >> gretchen: the people at sesame street said they are t fny ca dde a'dttioun and they are asking for it to come down. >> brian: obama people are thinking about it >> maybe that is because it was panned by both sides of the ai

brian? >> brian: all right.crease colorado gave us their reaction to president obama's performance in last night's debate. frank luntz is back with them to see how mitt romney faired. can you hear me? >> early in the show, you heard from our denver undecided voters, what they thought of barak obama. show of hands. how many of you voted for john mccain in 2008? okay. minority of you. how many thought mitt romney won this debate in 2012, raise your hands? almost all of you. so give me a word or phrase to describe romney's performance today. >> showmanship, stage craft. >> noncommittal. >> principled. >> articulate and command of the facts. >> clearly passionate and definitive. >> mostly shallow. >> determined. >> articulate and energetic. >> passion and vibrant. >> demonstrated experience. >> in control. >> determined and optimistic. >> prepared and passionate. >> i thought insincere. >> well coached and prepared. >> vague and as usual. >> leadership. >> direct. >> knowledgeable, yet defensive. >> confident. >> po

. >> brian: yep.they're both up to and gearing up for. >> hey, good morning to you. they both have been engaging in a lot of heavy debate prep in preparation for the rumble here in hempstead. don't let anybody tell you that this is not an important debate because after the way the numbers moved after the first presidential debate, this one really could be a game changer, one way or the other. for president obama, the challenge for him is to get back into the game, to do that, according to his campaign, and unlike the first presidential debate, he's going to lay out an actual plan for the next four years. he's going to aggressively go after governor romney on his evolving positions during this campaign. the obama campaign set the table for that this morning with the new web ad that looks at governor romney's past positions at other town halls. >> i would like to see roe v wade overturned. cut off fund to go planned parenthood. if congress would pass the dream act, would i veto it? >> the obama campaign

. >> brian: less than four hours. singing like sinatra. ♪ when irish eyes are smiling. ♪ sure they'll steal your heart. >> brian: well done. that's how he celebrates columbus week. america really does have talent. "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ "fox and friends". >> steve: when you said sinstra, i thought it would be my way. >> brian: i apology. i should have referenced the clampsey brothers. >> gretchen: what was he doing? >> brian: the chairman joint chiefs of staff. vice-presidential debate is tonight in kentucky. >> gretchen: and they are setting it up right now. we'll get to that in a moment. moments ago, we learned that the chief of security in yemen shot dead. casim hacani shot dead on the way to work. he had been working for the u.s. embassy for 20 years. that's the only information that we have at this time. we'll keep you updated as we learn more. in the meantime all eyes will be on kentucky tonight. joe biden and paul ryan, facing off in kentucky. good morning, steve. >> you are right. the vice-pre

over to brian. >> brian: thanks.nt's performance last night. so how did the mitt romney camp feel he did? let's ask republican governor bobby jindal who, i went to bed while you were being interviewed last night on cnn and with sean hannity. first off, you want to talk about what robert gibbs was just talking about. the president weighing in on his stance with libya. >> i think y'all were exactly right. the president never answered the question. the voter asked the president was it true they asked for additional security resources and denied? the president got it wrong. listen to this administration three different stories. first, they said it was a protest against the video. for several days you had ambassador rice, jay carney and others say it was not a premeditated terrorist attack. then later they changed their story and said it was the video and spontaneous terrorist attack. then finally the third story that came out was it was a premeditated terrorist attack, no protest on the video. here is what's really galli

brian? >> brian: all right. thank you very much. appreciate it.nyone takes notice. besides us. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. that was kelly wright helping us out. >> steve: right. we're going to have a quick clarification. earlier i did an interview with a woman from our dc bureau about the military -- if you're interested in getting military absentee ballot. let us put up on the screen the correct e-mail address. go to -- rather web address is fvap.gov. i said dot org. >> brian: jot that down. all right. so in a few minutes, barry sanders will be here talking about -- okay. >> steve: he's here. >> brian: thanks for blowing my surprise. >> steve: we got other headlines for you. a terrorist sprung from prison being linked to the u.s. consulate bombing in benghazi. reports say fighters trained by him took part in the libya attack that left four americans, including ambassador dead. amad reportedly escaped from prison during protests in the middle east. former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld saying the obama administration is not helpin

brian. our folks are seeing in the scramble. >> can i deal you ladies n >> you are from this part of long island. and no one will be hempstead, new york . the president is gone. great show and recap of last night'santics. see you soon. >> see it right now. "fox and friends" starts right now. >> gretchen: good morning, it is wednesday october 15th, 2012 and i am gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your post debate morning with us. president obama gets help from the moderator? >> it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi. >> get the transscript. >> he did in fact. let me -- he did call an act of terror. >> >> gretchen: did he. it is not true and so we'll play you the transscript and the interviews after that. >> steve: more women turning to the side of the ticket and so who won the ladies vote last night. we have a panel of undecided voters weighing in on that. >> brian: debate time constrants which cand date got cut short. we'll actually answer. "fox and friends"

brian?e rare breeds of dogs that you could check out at the american kennel club show in new york coming up this weekend. now we have smart puppies. we captain get enough of it. coming up, dana perino, who loves puppies and dogs and she's going to be joining us in a few moments. >> brian: she will train your dog for free. if off dog -- >> steve: she only works one hour a day. she's got plenty of time. >> brian: she can hear you. she's nodding, i'm going to get him. kind of the way geraldo nods. >> steve: those dogs in particular have extreme scents. they're able to -- they got good sniffers. just saying. >> brian: okay. meanwhile, dana will be on shortly. >> gretchen: in one hour, the self proclaimed 9-11 morgan masd and his four co-conspirators are going back to guantanamo bay. >> obama four years ago said that he would close guantanamo bay and here we are four years later and 166 detainees remain. this week we're about to embark on a series of pretrial hearings that will set the legal fram

we have didn't run my favorite, though. >> brian: which is? that is something we get into. i want to talk angela, martha raddatz. >> dana: andrea. >> brian: we're not as close as we used to be. >> andrea: can we talk about it after the show? >> brian: yes. martha was, she had a greater presence. but also due to her location. she was right next to both guys, as opposed to jim lehrer further away. do you think it mattered? >> andrea: i don't. it looked awkward when she kept pressing ripe and wasn't pressing biden and he was laughing. there was one -- we have sound. there was one instance when she was talked to inappropriately by joe biden. can we take a look at that? >> brian: i'm getting rejected. >> andrea: oh. well, they were talking about the surge. he put his finger in her face. >> brian: a little rude. >> andrea: rude. she said you shoot straight with me. then she wasn't, she was factually inaccurate. i thought god, you think you know everything. she is a foreign policy expert. >> brian: she has a better follow township joe biden than paul

hi, brian.e definitely seeing the weather whipping up, throwing everything around. we have video, i believe, of the helen tunnel flooding last night, all the bridges and items into obviously out of manhattan were closed off last night. we've had the lincoln tunnel reopen this morning. but cars submerged in the water, flooding here in the streets of manhattan. we should also note still no power to much of the island, to the southern part. other parts of the region as well. in new jersey just across the way behind me across the hudson, conspicuous by its absence, lights and power as well. here in manhattan as well, 17 and state street, you're not seeing any lights on there. a couple in the other buildings. normally you would see many of the lights on. but not much there. you see the sandbags here left over from last night. they were moved from other areas where actually right at the southern tip of manhattan. battery park. standing here with new york harbor. not only is the wind kicking the waves

gretch, brian?o-called perfect storm of 1991. >> brian: the story is from that storm have become legendary from a hit movie. a man that lived through it. that dove through hundred foot waves because his helicopter was going down. john spillane. welcome. first, repaint that 1991, that storm. you were out to save somebody. next thing you know your chopper was going down because you were running out of gas? >> we were trying to get home. the mission required us to fly 500 miles of open water. we were were unsuccessful for the last refueling. >> gretchen: so you had to jump out of the helicopter, seconds notice? at when the aircraft commander determined we would ditch, that we could not take on fuel, we couldn't make contact because of the severe turbulence, that gave us 20 minutes to descend to 5,000 feet, which we needed every minute of that because we were zero visibility. we were -- we broke out of the clouds at 200 feet above the water level and we were in a hover for perhaps two minutes and during

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swing state specifically. >> brian: the pro-life. you know obama wants the women back so he will try to get romney in an attack on pro-life. >> dana: big mistake. >> brian: are you going to put two supreme court justices to overturn roe v. wade? >> andrea: i think if he keeps them on the road with the social issues they'll lose. people say president obama will be more aggressive. women don't want more aggressive. he has to do what bill clinton did, feel your pain. bill clinton was a classic expert retail politician. obama and romney are not classic politicians so how can president obama be the man to feel the pain when he is the one to blame? very hard to go negative. >> brian: i will be nice to you, you asked the question. i'm mean to you because you're the opponent. >> bob: one thing we forget from the poll, romney is not getting as many men as republicans do. he needs more men. >> eric: doesn't matter. doesn't matter. you know it doesn't now in states decided now. what matters is the swing state. if you look at swing state polling

. >> brian: we'll show up at your door. >> you, too, brian. live close to the coast. >> brian: one anchor ahead. >> steve: can't yell at both of us. >> steve: a lot of people are taking the advice here in the new york city area serious my wife and i went to costco. they had 10erators when we walked in and one end by the 15 minutes . a lot of people know. we last year we were without electricity for a week. >> gretchen: oh, yeah. 92 if janice is talking about one of the worst storms in a generation, you need a generator. >> brian: and if candles. i bought a generator and it came in handy. but it took up my entire shed and i stare at it and oner what life would be like if i didn't have it. i rake a lot. >> gretchen: i need video of that. you will be thanking your lucky stars next weekend. >> brian: you can evacuate to my shed. >> gretchen: let's talk about the election . early voting could be affected by the storm. up and down the east coast you can vote early . some people may not be able to get there and not in the top of mind . the polls are

>> brian: just happened to be on 9/11.ere is ambassador bolton with greta. >> the e-mails show beyond any doubt, the state department was fully possessed of the information in real-time. it leads to the question why the administration even bothered to ask for cia assess ams. all they had to do is talked to the state department. what could the motivation be? one alternative we have considered is the cover up. e-mails say to me. if anybody in the white house thought they could cover it up by referring to the mohamud video with this documentary evidence in real time, it was not just a cover up but an incredibly cover up. >> gretchen: why did mitt romney go after him in the debate. if he said it is not about the video. the president could say the uprisings were care cairo was happening before acc -- september 11th. you can't win on the debate stage. time passes here it turns out mitt romney made the smart not to talk about this? >> brian: only way you would attack this not to say it happened here or here. all i can tell you. t

brian quinn is on the move. thank you so much. >> if you are evacuated, you can be down their. >> my journalistic curiosity will drive me downtown. all right, let's go to a representative with connecticut light and power. >> hello, sir be met with the latest number of people without power in your state? >> i can tell you about a couple of state in massachusetts, we have 11,272 out. much carier story down in connecticut where we are at 493,000 without power. >> while. >> i guess you definitely have to wait until tomorrow morning to we start fixing things. >> yes, this is a 36 hour storm. even though the stars have come out, the moon is out, it starts to have a little bit of a better feel. the rain coming out around midnight or so. this is aarestoration that could begin in earnest tomorrow. but we will be able to do so with a full complement of about 1000 [inaudible] 1001 workers and we didn't have last time. >> are you estimating at his point how long you'll think it will take to get everybody back? >> what happe

and this is about a block to block and a half from the beach, brian. i'm afraid this is obviously going to be one that goes down in the annals in the weather. certainly on the beaches of new jersey, not only here but on the beaches, as we showed you earlier, al roker, they showed you earlier how the 25-yard dune was decimated, when i saw that earlier, brian, boy i thought it was just like the tsunami in japan, and here comes another wave of water. this is salt water, since it is late october the water temperature is in the 60s, so it is not icy cold, but nonetheless, we're getting wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour. and by the way, that gauge at sandy hook has set an all-time record, now it is approaching 13 feet, almost three feet higher than the water level was with irene, august a year ago. we're staying hunkered down and bringing pictures the best we can. >> we appreciate that, mike, i don't have to tell you the real estate there is hugely valuable for the state of new jersey. it is a recreational playground all summer for millions of american famil

let throw it out now to brian sullivan covering this event for us today. brian?>> all right, mandy, thanks very much. we are joined by our own jon fortt, as well as gene munster from piper jaffray making a trip west here. we talked about the so-called bernanke put in this market. do we have the tim cook call? why are apple shares down 16 bucks? >> i think the bad news today it looks like they were a little soft on their ipad number for the september quarter, probably somewhere between 15 and 16 million. the street was somewhere between 17 and 18 million. so i think that's small related to the more important news today, the announcement, probably why the stock is a little soft today. >> gene, i'm wondering, is it possible they just sort of rounded here, 100 is a nice number, instead of saying 103104, 105? could we be reading too much into that? >> could be. did say they crossed that 100 million number two weeks ago. put you around october 7th, something like that i think that probably the math seems pretty solid in this case. >> you and i talked before we went in

brian? >> andrea mitchell, who by the way will be our fact checker during our live coverage of the debate wednesday night here on nbc. andrea, thanks. >>> more american deaths today in afghanistan. and the rising death toll numbers will bring more question about the mission in a very unsteady region. tonight we have special coverage of that region, many believe is at the brink, with americans there in harm's way. we have three reports this evening from ann curry, richard engel, and lester holt. we'll begin with lester in kabul in afghanistan. lester, good evening. >> brian, good evening to you. three americans, nearly a dozen others, killed in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern province of khost. for some time now military officials have been saying the taliban have been weakened and are avoiding direct conflict. still they are finding new and effective ways to strike. the three u.s. military police officers were on foot patrol in a market with afghan police when the suicide bomber struck.