but people often wonder why does bruce springstein love obama. essing. >> bob: springstein is great. you think he's boring? >> greg: and horrible. >> bob: i can't believe you'd say that. >> bob: i saw him in 1980 at oakland coliseum, river tour. amazing. >> bob: i saw him in 1958. >> andrea: i don't like when he gets to politics. play the song. >> dana: he is no dierks bently. >> andrea: we have a special show coming up sunday. tune in tomorrow because that's it for us. thank you for watching. see you tomorrow >>> welcome to "red eye." i'm greg gutfeld or as i am known in portugal, the lisban, groper. andy, what is coming up on tonight's show old sport? >> should we screen children's brains to see if they are potential criminals? some say no, but others say the brats are criminals anyway. plus, twitter blocks access to within germany. not really sure why. it is not like they would go for something like that. and finally, what happens when we send andy levy to comic-con? hopeful leahy is trampled by nerds

but people often wonder why does bruce springstein love obama. sing. >> bob: springstein is great. you think he's boring? >> greg: and horrible. >> bob: i can't believe you'd say that. >> bob: i saw him in 1980 at oakland coliseum, river tour. amazing. >> bob: i saw him in 1958. >> andrea: i don't like when he gets to politics. play the song.

but people often wonder why does bruce springstein love obama. ing as his music. and depressing. >> bob: springstein is great. you think he's boring? >> greg: and horrible. >> bob: i can't believe you'd say that. >> bob: i saw him in 1980 at oakland coliseum, river tour. amazing. >> bob: i saw him in 1958. >> andrea: i don't like when he gets to politics. play the song. >> dana: he is no dierks bently. >> andrea: we have a special show coming up sunday. tune in tomorrow because that's it for us. thank you for watching. see you tomorrow. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> neil: president obama gets defensive over confusion and misstatement over the libya terror attack. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> good evening. i'm bret baier. search for answers regarding the terror attack in libya taking twists and turns today. the president is pushing back hard on the perce

their focus was bruce springstein. his focus, inspiring voters to get to the polls on election day. ♪ >> bruce springstein is on a battleground blitz of his own. first ohio, then iowa, now virginia. his we take care of our own has become a theme song played at all the obama rallies. ♪ >> later he explained why he is taking an active role in these final weeks of the campaign. >> i'm here today because i've lived long enough to know that despite those galvanizing moments in history, the future is rarely a tide rushing in. it is more often a slow, slow march. inch by inch. >> reporter: most who came to the rally were already president obama supporters. analysts say with the toss-up right now and recent momentum turning romney's way, these events can make a difference. >> i think maybe it has an impact in material of drawing people into the system and reminding peel to vote even if you have an opinion, get out to the polls. i think it is something that needs to be emphasized. >> reporter: while spring steep was working to

to some country music stars, the president and his folks, they took a little bit more toward bruce springstein. he's been out there for the president. they'll use him again to turn out his side. a little more rock. >> eric: the boss and the commander in chief together. ed, before you go, it will be a different format on tuesday, kind of that town hall. any sense on how they're trying to get the president to step up his game so he avoids what happened the last time? >> i talked to some of the president's senior advisors. they know this is a balancing act. while they want to see the president show more passion, really go after mitt romney on bain capital and other issues which he didn't do the first time around, you're right. he's got to be careful in a town hall format where you don't just have a moderator, but you'll get questions from real voters. some of those will be undecided. and if you look like you're too aggressive, too negative, that could blow up in your face. it's a very delicate balancing act. >> eric: all right, ed. thank you so much. the next presidential debate, three days away.

. >>> out on the campaign trail today, the former president bill clinton is teaming up with bruce springstein. obama will be back in fairfax tomorrow morning holding a rally. mitt romney spent most of his day preparing for monday's third and final debate. both men, they will be at a charity event in new york city tonight raising money for needy kids. >>> right now, two former governors are in their final debate before the election day in the race for the virginia senate seat. you're looking at the live pictures of the democrats tim cain squaring off. and for the, you can watch the whole thing here. it will go on through 8:00 p.m. on our website, wusa9.com. >>> awe man, you've got to love the fantastic fall days, but typical. they don't last out in the weather center with more on that. >> yes, we have a boundary there to the west, producing showers and thunderstorms. but you are right, it looks great. 72 is the high. we'll look at your radar and see the heavier activity still in the mountains as we needed to talk about it yesterday in the evening hours. it'll be an overnight event for most of

heavily focused on ohio, president obama getting an assist from former president clinton, and bruce springstein who will make a joint appearance there at the end of the week. >> we want you to know that our coverage of the second presidential debate begins tuesday night 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> and a voice of moderation and a figure of catastropontrov died. today he lost his final battle with cancer and nbc's kelly o'donnell looks back on his life and legacy. >> reporter: from his days as a scrappy philadelphia prosecutor to decades as that rare washington moderate, arlen specter was often influential and irascible. >> i have been viewed as who has been accurately characterized as independence, perhaps fierce independence. >> reporter: admired for how he kept going. >> i have beaten a lot of tough political opponents. >> reporter: swept into congress under ronald reagan in 1980, but specter's views supporting immigration rights, abortion and gun control made him too liberal for the tea party movement. under assault, he bolted to the democratic party. >> my change in party will enable me to be re-

. >> campaigning with bruce springstein, clinton alleged romney budget math does not add up.gave republicans unexpected ammunition. >> governor romney's argument is we're not fixed. so fire him and put me in. >> it's true, we're not fixed. when president obama looked in the eyes of that man, who said in the debate, i had so much hope four years ago, and i don't now. i thought he was going to cry. because he knows it's not fi fixed. >> former president clinton mostly stayed on message charging that romney masquerading himself in the debate and adding "he thinks we're dumb." >> bret: ed henry in new york. thank you. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa says the obama administration is trying to buy the election by propping up the medicare advantage program. issa is expected to subpoena documents from the health and human services department friday. issa contends the demonstration project costing more than $8 billion aims to postpone cuts to the program until after the election. h.h.s. says the project is providing incentives to improve care. >>> welfare spending topp

bill clinton and bruce springstein who will stump together in parma. joining me is darryl rowland.s for being with us. >> thank you, richard. >> the latest nbc news wall street marist shows the polls tightening. when you look at the numbers is ohio the ultimate test for the obama ground game? >> i think you can say that. i think ohio is the ultimate test for both sides' competing strategy, richard. the obama strategy is to open all of these field offices. they view it as talking neighbor to neighbor, doing lots of door knocking. they have phone apps. you can dial up who's not been contacted in your area, go out and knock on the door. do it on a very personal level. the republicans are targeting their message for each region of ohio. for instance, the southeast ohio they're really hammering the coal issue. also cultural issues because there are a lot of democrats in southeastern ohio but not many liberal democrats. >> you also say that because of regionality of ohio, 96 field offices, three times the number that romney has, does that mean he can be more segmented in his messaging? >

the same day former president bill clinton and bruce springstein will campaign for him in parma, ohio. the president is also weighing in on the big "american idol" feud between nikcki minaj and mariah carry. he told the radio station, you know what, i think they are going to be able to sort it out. i am confident. he says he knows both mariah and nick cannon but has my rye a on his ipod. >> first of all, i want to thank centre college for hosting us this evening. >> oh, boy, here we go. >> four years ago president obama made a promise. >> with all due rerespect, thiss a bunch of malarkey. >> a bunch malarkey? what does that mean? >> it's irish. >> irish is, no, i come over there and smack that dumb look off your face. >>> we've seen mitt romney using a phrase from the tv show friday night life on the campaign trail. >> he exemplified a saying that i've heard since, which is clear is, full heart, can't lose. >> well, the show's creator told the hollywood reporter, it's plagiarism and wrote a letter to the campaign saying, quote, please come up with your own campaign slogan. your politi

springstein and clinton thursday in ohio. we're told also bruceg stein will be performing in iowa on thursday on behalf of the president. something he did for john kerry in 2004. didn't quite work out that time of the he did a little for the president in 2008 as a candidate. they're hoping that two of their biggest surrogate will help turn out the votes. >> patti ann: ed henry, thank you. last hour we spoke to the romney team. we will now hear from the obama campaign. the communications director is here for obama for america. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> patti ann: one of the main rebulletses from the obama camp was romney was misleading in the debate about his policies. if that's the case, why wouldn't the president have been prepared to respond on the spot to whatever response he felt romney was making? >> look, the mitt romney that showed up in denver was a mitt romney that was very different from the man we've seen on the stump. he tried to walk away from a number of key positions, including $5 trillion tax cut fort

form eer president clinton. >> i did not open ever for that man, bruce springstein. >> he's saying he'sthem because somebody complained. yesterday a judge decided they are okay for now. but then they will decide if banning bible verses will violate the freedom of speech for the cheer leaders. >> residents could do nothing for a while but huddle in their apartments or flee while the guy was smashing the doors. some people were able to get the ax away from him. >> me and my kids, we ran and jumped out the bedroom window. >> he started beating our door with the ax. my husband stood there by the door and told me to hurry up and call 911. he said if you get through this door i want you to jump out the window. my husband is in a wheelchair. >> two people were injured including the attacker. police are still considering the charges against the man. i don't know what there is to consider. check out these unusual halloween decorations. he turned scraps of wood and plastic into halloween art. it takes him five months to make it work. his neighbors love it. >> there is a mess. sticks laying out an