david jones, thank you very much. luck with the rest of the conference. >> thank you. >> i think david makes a point that there is a level of engagement with this generation, the millennial generation they care about the world and believe they can change the world, the gen x generation that felt disconnected and couldn't change the world as opposed to the baby boomers. they don't feel they want to vote or get involved, but other ways they want to change the world. >> here's one way i think they'll change the world maybe indirectly. i look at that poll that they took asking these young people, you know, if you're going to vote, how did you make up your mind? debates, family and friends, news, associate media. way down at the bottom of the list television ads, 5%. think about the viewing habits about young people it's about dvring things and tivo. look at this election. how much money is spend on ads? how dependent they are running ads. if this is the future, imagine campaigns 20 years from now. >> i'm skeptical when yo

our next guest questioned whether the so-called qe3 is really helping ashley: joining us now d david jonesand mark calabria. thank you both for being here. all right, david. look, clearly the money spigot is open, the punchbowl is free and the party is still rolling on and the fed today, this was a non-news statement as far as i'm concerned. no big surprise, 15 days before the election but how long will the fed keep this going? they talk about a recovery. we're seeing some signs of that but obviously do you think this is having an impact, qe3? >> not as much as i think the fed is hoping. remember decision back in september was a full-blown decision. the fed did everything it could with this qe3. open-ended, buying 40 billion in mortgage-backed securities every month. the fed has never gotten into a situation like that. they even extended the period which we'll have essentially zero interest rates on the mid 2015. i can't even forecast the economy for the next we can let alone 2015. so we really do have a situation here where the fed has done all it can and my is the politics in washington

joining me is michele richards now volunteering for the obama campaign, and david jones from mother corn author of "47% ". >> the latest gallup tracking poll shows obama leading romney 50/45, but among likely voters they're tied 48%. net two-point game for obama since yesterday. if romney and republicans are in charge here's a few things for men and women to be aware of. number one, expect a war on planned parenthood, romney in an interview with a local missouri reporter back in march. >> my test is simple. is the program so critical it's worth borrowing money from china to pay for it? on that basis you get rid of obama care. that's the first one. there are others, planned parenthood, we'll get rid of that. >> okay. there he is, romney chose a vp, by the way, paul ryan, who co-sponsored a, quote, personhood bill. with congressman todd akin aboard. that personhood bill basically guarantees if not the criminalization of abortion, something close to it. the republican platform is out of date. it calls for a human life amendment to the constitution to, quote, make clear the 14th amendment's

brent jones, followed by peter cohan. and david schner. >>> supervisors, my name is brent jones. i'm a graphic artist who has lived two blocks away for 28 years. i also work for the giants for the past eight, so i'm a little out of it right now. but i understand that the plot has been sold and i appreciate the efforts of jay and these other people. but when i moved into hayes valley, you couldn't pay to live that neighborhood. you couldn't get cable companies to put cable in because it wasn't densely enough populated. since i've been there, i didn't do a powerpoint, this is all-new residential. there's a lot of new residential coming in. and i know that there was a hearing on this in june. it kind of went into my radar when i read bought new developments going in blocks away from me. about a month ago they cut all these trees down to build the condos, future units at grove and goff. if you've ever gone by the farm area, it in itself is an urban oasis and i understand economic development, you know, i feel affordable housing is an oxymoron in this town. anything is driven p by tha

political director john dickerson, and over on the left, where they're very comfortable, david corn who write for "mother jonesf a new ebook called "47%," uncovering the romney video that rockedly the 2012 election. david, of course, is the one who broke that story. and also with us today, katrina vanden heuvel of "the nation" magazine. i want to talk about this libya thing and see what you all think is the political impact of that in a minute. but frank luntz is here, and you did some very interesting research on the vice presidential debate. bring us up to speed on what that was. >> we have done three sessions and they all concluded the same thing, that joe biden did well on the substance, but they were so angry with his style and want more that you split screen the two of them where they could see biden's interruptions and smiling and the laughing, it's funny i actually wrote down on my note, don't interrupt and don't smile. they didn't want that from the vice president. and he could have gained points. but not a single person in any session switched. there the previous debate, we had about a third our grou

we're joined by david corn sitting with me, washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, this is an odd thing but here we are week before an election. the election will be held. we've been holding them since 1788 every two years we hold elections and this is happening. i'm going to talk later in the show, is this the black swan we always hear about, the strange thing like the dui charge that almost cost bush the election. that cost him his plurality. >> i think we won't know until the end of the week. right now we see the campaign sort of in a state of suspension. the president canceled his campaign events and mitt romney has done the same. the president -- >> but not before coming out against fema. now, this is where i talk about the strange things. it's not just the weather. it's the conjunction of weather and politics. now, not long ago in june we're going to look at a picture now, this is when the republican candidate for president, mitt romney, went on the usual ideological facet people take saying let's get rid of this and let the states handle it. nobody is s

about that, the with vice presidential debate, and the campaign with our political panel, david corn of "mother jones" magazine. katrina vanden heuvel of the can the nation. bay buchanan, pollster frank lutz and our own john dickerson. that's a lot but this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning. senator lindsey graham is one of the senior republicans on the armed services committee. and he has been looking into this attack. senator, welcome to the broadcast. i know you have been investigating this. have you reached an conclusions on why the administration waited so long to acknowledge this was the work of terrorists? >> well, the facts are there was never a riot. the night in question, september 11, ambassador stevens was being visited by the turkish ambassador. and the coordinated attack lasted for hours with al qaeda-associated militia. my belief is that that was known by the administration within 24 hours. and, quite frankly, susan rice, on your show on september 16, the president on the 18th,

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romney's performance at last night's debate today and david corn for mother jones, also an nbc political analyst. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> sure thing. >> david, maybe you can help me out. just who is the real mitt romney? >> well, how much time do we have? i think this was early halloween. it looks like he was hip ma advertised beforehand. it's like he's on the titanic and women, children, and convictions go first. it was quite stellar to watch this and sitting there with a lot of other people from msnbc, we kept waiting for him to say anything, anything that had a tether, a line to what he had said previously and there was nothing. but this is a guy who said, you know, we don't want any more iraq and afghanistans and he's supporting those stands. i love bob schieffer but i wish the president or him would have said, wait a minute, you supported the war on iraq. are you saying that you made a mistake supporting that? there were so many opening. he turned into a bowl of jelly, quite purposefully, so nobody could sort of hang on to him. >> joan, when you look

host: david corn, washington bureau chief of the mother jones.you're out with a new ebook about this. 47% uncovering the romney video. how do people read this? guest: first they have to get it. it's an ebook. host: where do they go? guest: you can go to amazon if you're kindle readers. you can go to ibook. my kids were pleased, it was right next to j.k. rawlings new book. for anybody that read with a tablet or phone or kindle or device like that, they know where to go and available everywhere. it's 99 cents. it's not a full length book. it's a short book and a very long section of a book. it's part of what publishers trying to do experimenting with new forms of books and new forms of dissemination. i was happy to see it shoot up to the top of number one in the elections category and amazon yesterday. it's basically a narrative about how i came to find the video and put into context the campaign and why i think it resonated and how it reinforced a narrative that the obama campaign spent months negotiating and how i think it actually forced romney'

joining me is david corn from mother jones and an msnbc political analyst, who also unveiled this newest. and maria theresa kumar, president and ceo of voter latino and an msnbc contributor. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you, reverend. >> david, what do these latest tapes tell you about governor romney? >> i'm glad you played that second tape. if you listen to it carefully and think about it for a moment, it says that mitt romney wants america to compete with china for having an environment more hospitable for business, but why do businesses go to china? they go because there are low wages and weak labor protections and nonexistent environmental standards. so, is he suggesting that's what he wants for american workers and american consumers? i mean, it's not a well thought out idea. certainly nothing he will talk about in the campaign. and since we're in the closing days, probably nothing he'll be pressed on. but he's saying, hey, guys, we have to be as bad as china in order to get businesses to come here rather than go there. >> and it's also a mischaracterization of his posit

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>> rose: thank you, general jones, thank you, michael, thank you, david and tanks also to zbigniew brzezinski, back in a moment, stay with us. >> rose: dexter filkins is here, a veteran, award winning war correspondent in the current issue of the new yorker he writes about a u.s. marine search for redemption after serving in iraq, i am pleased to have dexter filkins back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: this article is called atonement. it is an extraordinary story. >> i am part of the story, but i was driving around baghdad in a rental car, you know, a week after saddam hussein fell, the whole capital if you remember was in chaos, buildings were on fire, and people were looting i drove past a hospital where i saw a huge crowd trying to, you know, trying to tear the building apart and i went inside, i found an iraqi family, a woman in particular who had at the time i think was about 20 years old and had been shot by these americans in the shoulder pretty badly, her father had been killed, inner two brothers had been killed and it kind of, you know, it was an accident, basically

candate, we ta about the future of foreign policy with zbigniew brzezinski, david ignatius, michael mazarr and general jim jones. >> i quite agree that my judgment is that much of the world wants u.s. leadership, they don't feel comfortable without it, but they no longer react to any dictatorial or any due toarls from us. they want to participate but they also want to be listened to. >> i am not even sure where the word leader hip is a good word to describe the role americ should play in the world. we should be playing the stilizg role. wehoulbe organizing our coalitions, we should be a source of stability, but when we talk about leadership, too many people think of the iraq and 2003, which was a fatally bad exercise of leadership. >> rose: we conclude this evening with dexter filkins of the new yorker magazine who has a remarkable story about death in iraq and reunion in the united states. >> the i interviewed a guy in the peace, a psychiatrist who used the term moral injury and he sa a t of soiers a marines stuff from moral injury, which he described as sort of it happens when you get an order, you do somethi

david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones and the author of "47 percent," and david maranisss a great author, the author of "barack obama, the story." david, we have to start with you, david maraniss, barack obama, is he capable of a two-fisted assault in public on an opponent? i have never seen him go at somebody aggressively. is that something he has in his tool kit or not? >> well, he has to have it in his tool kit tomorrow, but i think that actually the town hall format will help in that regard because it will allow him to come at romney from an angle, from the side. he can be very polite and civil and warm and ingratiating with the person asking the question and then go at romney, and that allows -- it makes it a little easier for someone like president obama who is inherently a little bit reluctant to confront and has a tendency to act too much like a constitutional law professor. i think this format will actually serve to his advantage. >> david corn, respond to that. if obama says i agree with you, i have done the following, i put -- i brought the auto industry back a

i'm joined by new york magazine's john heilemann, joan walsh with salon, and david corn with mother jonesit's an honor to be with you guys tonight. it's an important night. maybe theimportant night of this whole election season and cycle. joan, let me show you some polls to everybody. the new usa today/gallup pop. among likely female voters in swing states, likely female voters in swing states, the president's lead has almost evaporated. it's a virtual dead heat now. he has a one-point technical advantage, 49% to 48%. this is among women in these states. joan, my contention was that he never made the case to women in the first debate. >> he didn't. he didn't make the case to women in the first place. it was campaign malpractice, but biden didn't make the case in the second debate. this is his crucial, maybe his most crucial asset next to african-americans as his base is the women's vote, and he could have taken it to them on lily ledbetter and equal pay. do you not support equal pay for women. he could have taken it to him on obama care. the most important thing about obama care is it mea

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. >> here on the panel after a hellish commute mother jones washington bureau chief david corn authorthe book "47%" uncovering the romney video that rocked the 2012 election. it ain't a over but that video did its share of rocking. >> before big bird hit the scene. >> exactly. david, let's talk about the big bird ad. a good thing for team obama to be using or a bad thing? >> you know, i've always been a fan in politics of what i call strategic derision. and this ad made me laugh. i mean, i'm not sure it's the best pivot point at this point in time. i like the ad based on the 47% video, but i'm biased. this may just be, though, i think a little slap that will come and go very fast. i don't think it's going to be the focus of their advertising for the next week or two. you know, it does highlight the fact that mitt romney keeps talking a big game, you talked earlier about the foreign policy speech with no specifics, just big promises, and the same thing on the deficit and taxes. i'm going to get rid of the deficit, give you tax breaks, without talking about anything specific except, of

scott helmand of the boston glowing and mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. in a move that will surprise exactly no one, nbc news has learned that tonight's president obama will do what everyone expected him to do two weeks ago, bring up mitt romney's 47% comments. that secret video has been romney's biggest gaffe and he spent the week since trying to show he cares about all americans including the poor and working past. this past saturday congressman paul ryan attempted to further that message making a stop at a soup kitchen in ohio, offering to help clean dishes. while ryan logged in a total of 15 minutes at the kitchen he did manage to wash some pans and made sure to note his own had history on kp. >> you know i've [ inaudible ] washing dishes. you get callouss on your fingers it's so hot. >> the photo opt looked like campaign gold to everyone but the people who actually work at the soup kitchen. the president of the charity brine antall told "the washington post" yesterday, quote, they showed up there and they did not have permission. they got one of the

joining me now is former ohio governor ted strickland and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jonesical analyst. he's the author of a new book, "4 "47%," thank you both for joining me. >> thank you. >> governor, why are the republicans ignorant about the economy getting better? >> well, the president is getting credit from it from the american people and that alarms them just a few days, before the election. ohio and other states are seeing improvement in their economies. this is good for america. whatever is good for america should please parties and ail candidates. >> now, david, when you look at the fact that there's clear evidence of the economy getting better when we look at the fact that in -- if we go to better jobs help be the middle class, virginia, wisconsin, colorado, where the president is up, people are beginning to see the improvement. >> they certainly are. and particularly in the battleground states, including governor strickland in ohio and such. people are feeling that -- i also think that there comes a point in time that people start feeling bad about feeling bad.

joining me now is david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones, and an msnbc political analystottle, washington correspondent for "daily beast." thank you both for joining me. michelle, mitt romney doesn't like to give specifics, but when it comes to big bird, no problem. >> well, no problem except it was one of the few memorable moments of the debates and everybody jumped on it and you have all of these big bird jokes making the rounds which can get people thinking. so what else is he going to cut? he's been very, very careful not to get into specifics. and let's face it, you know, firing big bird's not going to close the gaps in the numbers that he's talking about. his budget will call for cuts in lots of other very serious programs and you tonight want people to start thinking about the specifics because while the idea of cutting government always appeals, when you start talking about programs that people like, they start to get really twitchy. >> that may be why he won't get specific, but i will. mr. corn, let's go to you. the federal subsidy for pbs in 2012 doesn't make up