. >> if you had to jovi and katie perry or obama what do you do. >> obama. >> all the way. >> all the way. >> are you really here for the music? be honest. >> yes, no, yes. >> no? yeah? i don't know what i'm supposed to say right now. >> i just start weeping. >> weeping? >> for both. earth, wind and fire. obama is speaking. >> don't cry on me now. >> [crying] >> you don't look so good. >> i'm really here to see -- is he single. >> i am and i'm ready to mingle. [ laughter ] >> would you pay money if there was a romney fundraiser and he had jennifer hudson

at one me to do obama? -- want me to do obama? he gets the most widely respected and almost neutral economic orbiter, the highest approval rating, 69% who is taken and associated with this period of peace. he can talk owls down from the trees. the best spokesman in the history of the world. and to make his case for working-class and middle-class voters. they found it hard reach as a candidate in 2008 and as president. he gets a huge boost toward his reelection. he gets a big boost in what will be a very tight race. tavis: what does it say about our politics that the first african american president, even after one term, still leave the white guy to get him elected to a second term? >> i think bill clinton will set the default is barack obama's. you hear all these things about president clinton, about how he doesn't take care of his daughters and dozen jews enough on capitol hill. he thinks that president obama has failed to go out and sell the policies of the country. to make a clear and convincing educational argument for the obv

obama. you're listening to this? what advice do you have for barack obama? >> he has to be more aggressive. i felt like mitt romney ready to jump in and i thought the moderator is not fair about the whole thing. every time he jumped in, you let him go. >> and there is -- we've done these in 2008 ask other networks in the past. i'll tell you i have not had a group that swung so much. and this is a big deal. >> it's a big deal. thank you very much. we're going to check back in with frank and his focus group of undecided colorado jortz first joining me now with reaction to the first presidential debate is florida senator marco rubio. good to see you. >> good to see you this is the thing that was almost stunning to me in terms of the dominance of the debate. >> there is my take is that the president never faced tough questions. the media sucking up to him, he was not prepared. you know? >> i'm here on behalf of the romney campaign and supposed to tell you he won and barack obama lost. i'm not saying they asked me to. it's true this, is no way you can watch tonig

obama campaign. it will not change, i do not think, in a huge way, the course of events, but there is no question the obama campaign folks, every time biden is out there, they are nervous about what he is going to say, how it comes out. they would prefer to have barack obama cleaning up barack obama this week, rather than joe biden cleaning up barack obama. >> what do you think? the vice presidential debate is coming up. >> it just so happens joe biden and paul ryan respect each other and get along well. those two were the ones that had all the protestants. i think this will be a fun debate, and enjoyable debate. joe biden has a good sense of humor. you are not going to see him paint barack obama in his debate. >> i hope it is more interesting. yes, there were 50 million people calling the first debate, and the question i have is, for how long? i was sitting there thinking, ok, obama did not show up to play, and this is unbelievably boring. if i did not have to do this for a living, i would turn on a show i wanted to watch. >> it depends on your perspective. i was fascinated, i was seized. my attenti

do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> we are following breaking news in waldorf, maryland. a man and woman were shot while walking on a path behind westlake high school. one of them has died and tonight the shooter is still on the run. fox 5's audrey barnes on live on the scene. what happened? >> reporter: i'm at the entrance to that footpath on hampshire circle at gopher court. behind me is where police blocked off the entrance. a couple in their 40s were out walking their dog about 7:15 tonight when they encountered a lone gunman who unloaded his handgun shooting the couple multiple times and as you said, the woman in their 40s has died. police are still -- her 40s has died. police are still on the scene. i want to bring in diane richardson from the charles county sheriff's office to give us more information. at this point do you have any idea what the motive was behind the shooting? >> no. first this is highly unusual in this area and quite frankly very upsetting because this is a very quiet

barack obama is wanting to do away with coal. i want to see mitt romney come back to my area and talk about call. we have a lot of people down here suffering because barack obama has shut down the coal business. i am a christian voters. i like to take the bible and lay it down and look at it and see which president i would like to vote for. i cannot find anything in the bible that i can vote for for barack obama. he does not have anything i can vote for him more. you turn over to romans chapter 1 and it talks about homosexuality and is an abomination of god. the two exodus' chapter 20 it talks about not killing babies. he is proud of it. there is no way a christian voters can vote for barack obama. host: some of the issues you just discussed were not discussed last night, or they? caller: they have been discussed in the past. i know mitt romney says he is against the homosexuality and will not vote for gay marriage. that is another thing he is against -- do not go in debt. when you become a debtor, you are a slave to whoever you b

with the $716 billion, and what the romney -- what paul ryan would do. obama takes the money out of medicare and reduces the payments to doctors and hospitals, which obviously reduces services. 16 of all hospitals will have to shut down or refuse the elderly. he takes the money, the seven and 16 he saves, and places it into a new entitlement called obamacare, which will fund the uninsured. a good cause, but it is taking from to a and giving to be. what ryan does, he takes the original plan, takes the same amount, but he puts it back into the medicare trust fund so as a way to invest in the future. medicare, it is a way to say that we are going to cut a little bit now and we will have it in the out years. under the normal plan, with no changes, you would have nothing in the out years. >> ryan has dropped that to to came on. >> that 716 comes from the beneficiaries. do not take anything away from the beneficiaries from medicare. it does not. >> give me a break. >> give me a break. we have to take a break. more on taxes. >> governor romney possible economic plan

obama is expected to do okay. he has been doing it. ey oddly enough appeared more presidential than the guy who had the job. obama for some reason looked like the challenger. that blew my mind. the other winner this is conservatism in the sense when a liberal runs for president, he starts talking like a security. it's all of a sudden about security, not cutting defense. talking about strengths. conservatism is the go-to stance when you want to win. become one? >> eric: very good. very good. all right, so we each picked our favorite moment from the debate. going to do "the five" style and start with dana. >> dana: sure. well, if you'd like. >> eric: start with dana. >> dana: i believe that this phrase, these six words summed up -- five words if you contract two words to one. sums up the entire campaign from the obama sand point of attacking romney. take a look. >> we're talking about the middle east. and how to help the middle east reject the kind of terrorism we're seeing and the rising tide of tumult and confusion. and attacking me is

do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. . >>> a fallout from super storm sandy. the first day back to class for students in bowie, maryland, was cut short. bob barnard is live in the newsroom with more on the power problems at the high school. bob? >> reporter: the end result was an early dismissal this afternoon. a partial power outage at school will do that but getting to that point today was confusing for some kids try for the school staff and upsetting for some bowie high school parents. the trouble was here inside the school, but don't the let this brightness fool you. >> some clothes have light and most of the school is pitch dark. >> half of the school didn't have power and most in the hallways. >> everybody's just go doing their own thing. >> reporter: bowie high school has a student population of 2900. its principal is dr. bay. >> we have been told it's a transformer issue. and that the reason why we didn't have full power. >> reporter: school administrators decided to start the school day a

you have the unique perspective of having debated both president obama and mitt romney. do you think it's easier this time around for mitt romney since president obama has a record he has to defend this time? >> i do. i do very much so, and in the first debate, i think mitt romney was able to shatter that illusion that they had built up through all the negative ads, of him being a rich guy, didn't care, all that. i think that was shattered in the first debate so it was more than just technical debating points. the president had a record to run on. and that, i think, was significant. but i wouldn't underestimate president obama. he's an excellent debater,'s showed the second tame around, although i think some might say he was a little bit too aggressive, but we'll leave that to history. but he's an excellent debater and i wouldn't underestimate him at all. >> what would you do differently from mitt romney going into tonight's debate? >> i'm not sure i would do much different. i think that mitt is going to tie the economy to foreign policy. i think i might be myself, be a lit

obama. in fact, you do get -- >> laying it on the -- >> i'm just saying the facts are with obama. not with romney. >> i don't think that -- juan, i don't think that president obama thinks so and if -- you can't know the policies and the facts better than obama does if he's going to perform well in these debates. >> he let romney's point sit on the table. >> 'cause somebody acted like they really wanted the job and wanted to earn the job and votes and somebody else nailed it in and looked down. >> i have one more. here you go. >> in my opinion, the government is not effective in bringing down the cost of almost anything. >> so funny. >> those were his poll numbers. >> that was a good one. i liked that. so now i had one as well. which i thought was kind of cute when he was talking about his boys and having the five sons and i thought this was kind of a cute moment and he brought in his family, which i thought worked very well for him. >> look, i got five boys. i'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping i'll believe

now he's out there on the campaign trail doing what obama didn't do last week -- exposing mitt romney's hard right baggage. with us today, "new york" magazine's john hileman, christian science monitor, liz liz, and henderson henderson from "the washington post," and from "the daily beast," andrew sullivan. thursday night's debate was everything the romney and obama presidential debate had not been. >> you can still preserve the important tant things for middle class taxpayers. >> it's not mathematically possible. >> it's not mathematically possible. it's never been done before. >> it's been done a couple of times. >> it has never been done. >> oh, now you're jack kennedy. >> this tuesday night it's back to the main events. barack obama probably will tone it down a bit from biden's intensity. he's going to try to make romney look insincere. here's how bill clinton pulled it off with a gentle dismissal of bob dole in their town hall-style debate back in 1996. >> i think wisdom comes from age, experience and intelligence. and if you have some of each -- and i have some of each age, some ex

do you think that left noplace for obama to go? >> well, i think it certainly was a place for romney to go. what he said and what a lot of people have written about for lang time was to eliminate a lot of the special tax benefits and tax entitlements and special tax treatments across the entire code lower tax rates it seems to me, was a very effective political stand. he articulated extremely well as pat said. it was very sub studentive performance. he said it in a very organized and clear way. i think he was extraordinarily more effective than anybody anticipated, and the president, for whatever reason, was just not in the game. >> why was obama thrown off balance? >> i call it the second-term blahs, john. you've seen this happen with other presidents running for reelection. it's the kind of a job where you're constantly having people, really, you know, yes- men and yes-women surrounding you, and you kind of get out of practice on standing up there and telling someone who is telling you to your face that you're ruining the country

what does obama need to do? >> president obama is leadion in the polls nationally now and leading in the swing states so the question is how do you reaffirm the existing status quo, in a sense the sale has been made. and he is just there not to seeking any short of dramatic moment. he just wants this thing to happen and be history. for mitt romney i think the problem is and i think this came out in your interview, >> gretchen: chris, suddenly you hear the republicans talking about a choice election. bill kristol said look you got to go at obama's record and make it not only about what he has done in the past but what he is likely to do in the future. that is what the prescription will be for the republicans. most people will watch the debate and a lot of people will watch. they think about 50 million people. a huge audience. if those people come together table are going to make up their mind that would be one thing. most of those people have already made up their minds. i think they are watching for the human mom

do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> still a bit of uncertainty about the path of hurricane sandy but are predictions the east coast could get pounded in some way or another, possibly snow out in the appalachian mountains, in western maryland widespread power outages possible as well so utility companies are gearing up. ahead of the storm today, virginia governor bob mcdonald declared a state of emergency and he joins united states live tonight -- joins us live tonight by phone. what's your advantage by declaring a state of emergency so far in advance? >> we always try to be prepared in advance and what this does is allow us to call up various resources, extra state police, the national guard which we have about 70 or 80 soldiers now that have been called up. it allows local governments to make decisions about shelters, about local mandatory evacuations, depending on the flooding potential in their area, curfews and so forth. and basically allows us to stand up the operation centers around the

. >> like what do obama and what do paul ryan think when they see these? are they like yeah! to put this on the web page. or are they like, oh, man, i wish they didn't do that. >> i thought obama girl is silly and this is just equally as silly. >> they were trying to make it a spoof in the snl style, according to walker. it's getting attention, it's going viral. so she'll be known as the paul ryan girl. >>> police dash cam 3:17 in the morning, in ohio. we're at the police department here traveling down i-480. what do you see here? that's a driver going the wrong way. turns out to be 24-year-old ashley stewart. andfá now the chase begins as she's traveling, again, the wrong way down this highway. she ended up getting charged with operating while intoxicated. there's a shocker. and also a failure to comply with police, a third-degree felony. it was a short chase but it wasn't without some very close calls, like rightfá here. narrowly misses this car and then narrowly misses this big truck. you see her going through intersections, going through lights, still in the wrong lane, i

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whether it's romney or obama let me do it my way. if i were obama what would i do?l let me show you. i'd come out with a 2 x 4. no no, say that line about the 5 trillion-dollar again. go ahead say it. >> romney: i'm not in favor of a 5 trillion-dollar tax cut. that's not my man. my plan is not to put in any tax cut that will effect the deficit. i will bring down the deductions and taxes at the same time so the revenue stays in. >> cenk: yeah, yeah, that sounds good. you're going to do a 20% tax cut across the board. then a 2 trillion-dollar increase in the defense budget. then you're going to keep most of the popular deductions. and then you're going to balance the budget. and then you're going to give everybody a free unicorn! that's not how it works mitt! you're lying! there is no 5 trillion-dollar in deductions that you take away from just the rich. that's preposterous. and i'm not going to let you get away with it. one wonders how long i will keep this 2 x 4 that is actually not a 2 x 4 on my shoulder, but we move forward. he says, well, before i go on to the ne

i don't think obama would do that, but where is he now? doesn't have feet of clay. clay has feet of obama. he blows the horn on bin laden and blows off benghazi. >> dana: there is a new ad to gen up the women's vote with 11 days to go. could it cost the president the most? greg has comments on that next on "the five." >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard-earned money. now meet jack. after 40 years, he finally saved enough to enjoy retirement. angie, the waitress at jack's favorite diner, is also enjoying his retirement. with just a little information, she's opened up a credit line, draining the equity in jack's home. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on your life. this is identity theft, and no one helps stop it better than lifelock. see, ordinary credit monitoring services tell you after your identity has been s

he can't. >> eric: you know what else president obama can't do is talk about which entitlement he will to bring the deficit down which he promised four years ago. >> andrea: i don't think president obama has a leg to stand on when it comes to entitlements. in the last four years he created a giant new entitlement that will put the onerous taxes on the middle class. i think he has to keep president obama on defense all night. i've talked to a lot of people and they say the entire debate is about romney. romney needs to play to win. while president obama needs to play not to lose. as long as he can keep him on defense, which he can. the facts are on romney's side. i talked to a senior advisor and just saw the candidate, he is calm and in great spirits ready to go. >> bob: that is what they always say before debates. if you abandon your own vice president medicare proposals? >> dana: they answered that. >> bob: how so? >> andrea: i don't think he will let himself get trapped in the details, bob. he will take it to the president. the facts are on his side. all he has to do is bring up the

obama still has a lot more to do. you cannot judge obama on eight years of failed policy from the bush administration. that left him behind a lot of stuff. a lot of people calling in -- i would say it like -- these people are calling on opinion of the fact that obama is not doing well and all these people are uneducated world people that are prejudiced and racist and could not have something nice to say something about the president. anyone who has some kind of factual understanding as far as the political conundrum in america knows that obama is the right president for us and the right president for the 21st century. host: do you think all mitt romney supporters are racist? caller: not all supporters but most of the people i have heard call in with world backgrounds have no education at all. they are more conservative in their approach. obama it is really attacking the things that we have been talking about that nobody has talked about. when 9/11 hit, i was in the sociology classroom in my second semester at college a

>> i've not heard one word from the obama campaign, no. >> greta: why do you think the obama campaign that they were careless, in their rush to get it out, or do you think they were deliberately trying to make congressman paul ryan back? >> i would agree with the second statement, that they were trying to make him look bad. i've never attended a rally. you know, i asked the question -- i think they thought that they were going to -- you know, maybe thought small town, small community, nobody was pick up on us doing this spin. i really thought that they thought that they could pull one over on the american people, but i was paying attention. i wasn't going to let them get away with it. i'm tired of all the spin. i decided to call them -- i decided to call the obama campaign out. >> greta: and indeed you have. one last question, because i'm from the state of wisconsin. why where you wearing a packer jacket? >> my dad was from wisconsin, and my mom was from chicago. so i've always had, you know, split parents, and i had the green bay packer jacket. i'm, like, if i'm going to a rally, i t

for president obama, here's a short must-do list for the two weeks ahead. number one project what he's done into the positive future. ramp up that positive message. obama backs the middle-class. romney can't wait to help the rich. in monday night's debate especially on the issue of libya. and here's a list for romney, keep asking voters are you better off? present yourself as a strong fixer of voters' economic troubles. and look like a commander in chief. this is a tightened race and romney may be the one on offense right now. >> he has to be because he's still a little bit behind in the key states. his job is fairly simple. 16 days tops. he's got to keep the focus on his economic message of lower taxes for everyone whether that's possible or not the long run. he's got to show on foreign policy that you keep the boat in the channel that's a minimum requirement of doing the job. the third thing is, he's got about $150 million to spend. they have to spend it carefully and weijsly in about eight to nine states. and if they do that he could make it close -- >> w

i don't think obama would do that, but where is he now? . >> greg: he doesn't have feet of clay. clay has feet of obama. he blows the horn on bin laden and blows off benghazi. >> dana: there is a new ad to gen up the women's vote with 11 days to go. could it cost the president the most? greg has comments on that next on "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: so how hard up is the obama campaign? >> the first time shouldn't with anybody. you want to do it with a great guy. >> it should be with a guy that's beautiful. someone really cares about and understands women. >> a guy who cares whether you get health insurance, whether you get birth control. >> my first time was amazing. before i was a girl, now i'm a woman. i pulled back the voting station and i pulled back the curtain and i voted for barack obama. >> greg: the political equivalent of a booty call. this is who he dies. actress lisa dunham describes voting for obama like losing your virginity. the left thinks the right is flipping out over this. please. we flip out over real stuff like benghazi

doing that? >> pay attention to the fact that gas prices have doubled under the administration. >> the obama supportershat you talked to, did they -- who do they hold accountable for the skyrocketing gas prices. opec, congress, rich bankers, the oil companies, ceos. a lot of the other people blame everybody. i think what the guy hit it right on the head. he said a lot of people in congress. they don't drive cars. they get picked up in town cars. they don't have to whip out their credit card and see the sticker shock there hasn't been outcry from either party. the republicans have a tendency to be pro business. they are not going to attack the oil companies. the democrats want wind and green energy. >> right. the one guy had the prius. >> bill: there are actually people who want the gas prices to go to $10 a gallon so we wouldn't use gas. jesse watters, everybody. he didn't get beat up and that's a good thing. gutfeld, mcguirk on president obama's media strategy such as it is donald trump offering 5 million bucks for something. and lance armstrong on the dope. the boys moments away. >> bill: thanks for

what do you expect obama to do tonight? he's going to come at romney. he's a very gifted orator.where do you think he'll start? i want rom anyway ni ney to com aggressive. will obama come out aggressive? >> no, i don't think he'll come out aggressive. i think he's going to be strong but i don't think he's going to come out as aggressive. one of president obama's biggest strength is likability. romney doesn't have that. obviously herman cain depend get the memo about down playing expectations. he just raised mitt romney's expectations quite a bit there in that segment there. >> rick lazio, here's something. there's a lot of tax hikes in obama care and i reckon obama care is going to come up a lot tonight unless mitt romney has completely lost his mind. by some count there's nearly $900 billion in tax hikes for obama care. wouldn't that be the middle class tax hike argument that mitt military needs in order to thrust and really come at obama? so far he has not really done that in that campaign. is it coming? >> i do think it's coming. i think he's going to focus on how obama care p

open heart surgery just a couple of years ago. >> he can still do that. >> why isn't obama out there doing that? a.b. stoddard "the hill." i would start with this. i'm always interested in the sort of campaign narratives, the narratives by the media about the candidates. all year this year obama was basically ahead in the polls, a winner's narrative. romney with a winner's narrative. i sense it's changing with big bird and "sesame street." sort of becoming self fulfilling. i'm wondering if biden is not perceived as the winner of this debate tomorrow night, is that going to make the narrative problem a loss worse for the obama campaign? >> it is if the polls that were taken out in the field in the beginning of this week are the same as the ones we saw that were taken, you know, friday night and in to the weekend and they continue to confirm that mitt romney's really surging in all the right places and that would become a problem. if there's sort of, you know, a draw between biden and ryan, where we say, boy, they both really did pretty well. ryan held his own, biden didn't say somethin

-- what do you think of president obama as they are trying to sway his way. point does he bring up the, well you remember when president george w bush took off with the sur plus and -- surplus. do people even care at this point? they say i don't care. my wallet is at a deficit. >> i don't know that most people are particularly interested with what the economy is like. is like four or eight years ago. it is exactly as you say. how am i doing now, and how am i going to do in the future as opposed to if you got it worse from bush. he is not running against bush. he is running against romney who staked out his own territory. ii think he has to address the economy right now and going forward. and then excuses don't really sell at this point. >> susan, you always break it down with great analysis and perspective. we do appreciate you. want to remind everybody that you can read her syndicated column in newspapers across the country every wednesday and friday. >>> right now hurricane sandy is bearing down on the east coast. the impact from the monster storm is expecte