you came here to hear dr. biden. i came here to hear dr. biden. i will turn it over to carol. >> i am glad. one reason i am supporting president obama is that i have the feeling he is grounded in the real world and as i said in researching dr. biden, i found out that she has children and we have a lot in common. got married in the 1970's, had children in the 1980's. we both have been educators. i started teaching in minneapolis in 1970 and taught mostly in the inner city. in 2004 i retired. she began as a high school english teacher and in her time she taught as a psychiatric hospital for adolescents which had to be a challenging assignment. later she moved on to teach at community colleges and still works as a professor at a community college. i found a blog entry from 2008. apparently she sat in on a conference call and one of the participants said i can't remember when i have interviewed a public figure who sounded so much like the people i work with every day, and of course that's probably because i am a teacher. some of that made me feel that

obama says mitt romney has a bad case of romnesia and dr. biden says romnesia is contagious. >> just 18 days. >> three days until the third and final presidential debate. >> backtracking, side stepping. >> every time he opened his mouth on foreign policy, he does make a misstep. >> so much to redistribute. >> we're not in a position to start to call who has the most definite edge here. >> maybe many days after the polls close. >> remove funding for planned parenthood. >> if you really want to make a choice, those choices are about reproductive rights, that's your choice. >> you don't want someone who needs to ask for binders of women. >> women are not binders. i just got shelved like a binder. >> he's forgoting what his own positions are. >> i think it's called romnesia. >> romnesia. >> if you say you'll protect a woman's right to choose. >> i will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, he'll be delighted to sign that bill. >> man, you definitely got romnesia. want to give a tax cut to the top 1%. >> i don't know anything about giving tax

you came here to hear dr. biden. i came here to hear dr. biden. i will turn it over to carol. >> i am glad. one reason i am supporting president obama is that i have the feeling he is grounded in the real world and as i said in researching dr. biden, i found out that she has children and we have a lot in common. got married in the 1970's, had children in the 1980's. we both have been educators. i started teaching in minneapolis in 1970 and taught mostly in the inner city. in 2004 i retired. she began as a high school english teacher and in her time she taught as a psychiatric hospital for adolescents which had to be a challenging assignment. later she moved on to teach at community colleges and still works as a professor at a community college. i found a blog entry from 2008. apparently she sat in on a conference call and one of the participants said i can't remember when i have interviewed a public figure who sounded so much like the people i work with every day, and of course that's probably because i am a teacher. some of that made me feel that

obama listed the symptoms of romnesia in virginia today, dr. biden warned a florida audience about just how contagious romnesia can be. >> because it's romnesia. boy, i'll tell you what. i hope you all don't get romnesia. it's contagious. because all of a sudden, paul ryan, the budget hawk, the guy who introduced a whole budget plan that actually already passed, it already passed the house of representatives. all of a sudden he doesn't remember it. he doesn't remember it. ryan is saying his budget doesn't decimate medicare and medicaid and advice rate education. it's a little like mitt romney standing in an unemployment line in florida and turning to the guy and saying look, i didn't outsource your job, i offshored it. >> the vice president was welcomed to florida today by this editorial. obama has been tested by harsh circumstance and proven himself worthy for a second term for president of the united states. the tampa bay times recommends barack obama. "the denver post" editorial board writes today mitt romney's comments on the 47% were a telling i

dr. jill biden, the wife of the vice president, expected to be here with his three children, as well here tonight. and one member, of course, of our family we keep talking about, martha raddatz, we all had lunch with her today, she said she's ready for the task. >> all right. david, great to see you there in the hall tonight. we'll be joining you soon. i want to bring in co-an or the of "good morning america," an or the of "this week," george stephanopoulos. so, george, can a vice president ever turn the course of a campaign in a debate? >> reporter: it's never happened before, diane, but tonight could be the night because of the timing. coming obvious that big win by romney in the debate last week, paul ryan, if he can get a second clear win for the republicans, could transform this race. it's been tightened so far, hasn't been completely transformed. a big win tonight could do that. >> so, tell us what to watch for. what's the a-game? >> reporter: the a-game for paul ryan is two things. he's got to make a human connection tonight. the other big thing he wants to do is try to force a mis

but joe biden's wife, dr. orks to that end, teaching english at a community college in northern virginia, encouraging young people to develop their talents instead of falling into temptation. paul ryan wants to privatize social security, voucherize medicare and vaporize the kind of support and assistance that make life bearable for millions of americans. joe biden does not. because he believes that a faith that has so little regard for the poor and the marginalized is no faith at all. script tour teaches us nobody is perfect, neither paul ryan nor the vice president. but in mathews gospel christ warns us about being deceived. and the test is not what you say, it's what you do. watch out for false prophets, they come to you in sheep's clothing. but inwardly they are ferocious

i came here to hear dr. biden. >> one reason i am supporting president obama is that i have a feeling he is grounded in the real world. as i started researching dr. b iden, i found that she is, too. i also found that we had a lot in common. we had both got married in the 1970's and had children in the 1980's. i started at the -- teaching in the -- minneapolis and 1970, and taught until 2004 when i retire. she began as a high-school english teacher, and for a time taught at a college for adolescents. she later moved on to community colleges. i saw a blog entry from 2008. she sat in on a conference call, one of the participants said, i cannot remember when i last heard from a public figure who sounded so much like the people i work with every day. that is probably because i'm a teacher. she knows what it's like to be in a classroom. jill biden believes in community colleges. both of my children have attended community colleges. my daughter went dakota county tech and now does designed. my son went to a technical sch

vice president joe biden hosted a reception for breast cancer survivors and advocates at the naval center. his wife dr. joe biden has been involved in breast cancer awareness activities for nearly 20 years. the vice president told his audience that sharing their stories would help -- [ inaudible ] >>> we brought the short version of his story earlier this week. 93-year-old frank knabi died yesterday. >> he became an internet sensation in his final days when relatives posted photos of him voting on his death bed. he had an impactful end to a remarkable life. >> reporter: the photograph shows frank gravely ill and in a hospital bed exercising a privilege many healthy americans choose to ignore. >> i think he wanted to make sure that we all understand that voting is a fundamental right and responsibility of americans. and he wanted to be sure that he did that even when he was very, very ill. >> reporter: during world war ii as a young japanese american held at an internment camp, he joined the u.s. army. his military intelligence service unit was awarded a congressional gold medal. >> i wanted to do my p

vice president biden was set to appear in virginia beach right along the coastline with his wife dr. jill biden and son beau biden. that event has been canceled. meanwhile michelle obama, the first lady, was due in new hampshire on tuesday. out of again abundance of caution they have canceled, postponed that event. mitt romney was due in virginia beach where joe biden was supposed to be today. they postponed that event. they've altered their schedules. they're going to be appearing elsewhere. you mention the fact that president obama, he's going forward with his trip to new hampshire today. he's also got a big trip set for monday appearing with bill clinton in youngstown, ohio. orlando, florida. and then lastly, northern virginia right here in river city. we'll see how that goes on monday what the weather looks like. we're expected to get the brunt of it as you just heard between monday and tuesday. meanwhile the president, as you mentioned, has been giving interviews, talking about that fiscal cliff. the quote of the day yesterday you had it on the super, he promises to wash john boe

he did that a few times during the hour and a half last night and also about jill biden, dr. ifferent for paul ryan. paul ryan shirtless, paul ryan workout. these are search terms that paul ryan cannot shake. as son as he was mentioned for the running mate, shirtless has been one of the leading related searches. >> during the debate, people are saying paul ryan shirtless. >> talking about afghanistan, iran, the ayatollahs and people are searching what does he look like without his shirt on. >> such a big deal everybody is talking about it. i must admit that i also googled it because everybody -- this was early on though. anyway, how do these terms compare to last week? >> well, they were -- there's been a lot of interest, and i think it's just building and building. i think one thing that was interesting about last night taking a step back and not just looking at the debate but searches in general around the country, how they compared to pop culture and entertainment, the vice presidential debate last night was more search than things like miley cyrus and baseball, so people a

vice president joe biden and dr. jill biden will speak at a campaign rally at the university of wisconsin in lacrosse. we'll be live at 2:45 p.m. eastern ear on c-span. then at 5:40 eastern, mitt romney and paul ryan hold a campaign rally in lancaster, ohio. our live coverage from the lancaster town center on c-span. >> i watch on c-span the airing of congressional hearings and congressional deliberation on public policy and also information that is put out by the various think tanks here many washington d.c. i like to watch the main interview by brian lamb that are on sundays at 8:00 where he hosts different authors, and he has discussions, in-depth discussions about the books that they have written. and so it's just an easy way to get information that are in those books without having to read the books. >> wesley romans watches c-span on comcast. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public af

biden is up there, dr. jill biden is up there, as well, and the families are joining them on stage. >> diane, you said it was extraordinary. that was a debate that lived up to the hype. real exchanges right from the start. there was just no question about -- you have to say, a lot of the credit is going to have to go to martha raddatz, she asked pointed questions, she kept control. he really forced the exchanges. as for the candidates, joe biden came in and gave the game that a lot of democrats wanted from barack obama last week but did not get. >> are you saying there was a clear winner? >> i'm saying exact will what i said. he gave the game the democrats wanted on things, the middle class, on the 47%. on abortion. he also opened up issues democrats wanted to talk about. paul ripe heyan held his own. humanized himself when he had to hue thmanize himself. but over the course of the debate, more of issues fell in biden's corner. he was able to take control of more of the debate. >> tell you what all of you ar

dr. jill biden and mrs. janet ryan. [applause] one additional housekeeping footnote to the don't breathe, don't tweet, don't even think about it, and that is, as you probably figured out, no photos, please. all of this is very distracting, not only to what's going on in the hall but to the home viewing audience. so, thank you for really abiding by these rules. there are a lot of special people at home who are watching this part of the program and again i'd like to repeat our thanks to c-span for letting people be a part of what goes on before the debate and that features so many of the people that made this possible. i'd like to introduce our moderator for this evening, we are honored to have the senior foreign affairs correspondent for abc news, martha radditz. [applause] >> a little stagecraft there. hello, everyone, it is great to be here. centre college has been so fantastic, has done everything for us. the most fun i had though is the last few days with students. we had stand-ins of course for vice president biden

dr. jill stein? first, joe biden soothes a crying baby, president obama responds to a crying baby named trump and bill o'reilly provides a timetable for mitt romney turning this economy arounund all by himself. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, the spitzer crew puts it in the viewfinder. >> i guess donald trump made his bombshell announcement. remember he's been saying -- this is going to change the whole course of everything. >> everyone was tuned in wanting to hear what donald trump had to say. turned out to be nothing but a silly little publicity stunt and i said to myself, hey that's not the donald trump i know. >> i believe we have the footage of the announcement of making it -- yeah, wait a second. you know what? i'm sorry. i'm sorry. [ laughter ] that wasn't donald trump essentially trying to publicly extort the president of the united states. that was a gorilla eating its own [ bleep ] >> what's this thing with trump and you? it is like me and letterman. what does he have against you? >> president obama is t

dr. evil on one side. now joe biden is not dr. evil.n you look at this kind of unhinged unbridled, unfettered that michael laughing and looking up at the sky and throwing your eyes back and throwing your head back and looking and interrupting 80 different times, you say, you know, has he he become a movie character? are the gaffes intentional? or are the gaffes not intentional? can he control himself or can he not control himself? can he he control himself when he takes about benghazi and blows out the state department and comes up with a new narrative about what the president and vice president knew and when they knew it? >> extrapolate from that, from the technique that you say was planned and do me what you think will happen tuesday night in this town hall. >> here is the real plan. they needed to raise the level of intensity in terms of these debates. the president showed up asleep last time. and got bounced big time in the back of the vehicle. i mean, he got trashed. big time frantically. the president is going to come back really

dr. evil and that's vice president biden. there is nothing evil about vice president biden.hen mr. ryan is talking about certain issues, including the death of four americans in libya, i found it to be very unsettling and very offputting. >> steve: you're an expert at debating, you were a debater in high school, but also -- >> i was a panel on the death bait. >> steve: in law school and beyond. is that a tactic perhaps what joe biden did? because the first five, ten minutes were really tough on libya and what does he do? vice president has a kind of joker grin the whole time. >> it's an outdated, outmoded tactic. it's a tactic of ward bosses and old political bosses in chicago in boston and new york and maybe wilmington, delaware. that's not the standard that we're look for. it's not what independent voters are look for. they're looking for someone that can forge consensus. how do you forge consensus when you're laughing at the other guy? >> steve: that's a good point. you keep calling them my friend. your premise yesterday was about how he was going to use scare tactics. yo

dr. mccaskill calling for her mead reinstatement. >> fewer than 24 hours now before the vice presidential debate at center college in kentucky. unlike the presidential debate last week, joe biden and paul ryan will be seated during their 90 minute show down. >> mitt romney is campaigning in ohio tonight where he will spend three days focusing on the must-win state. 9,000 people attended his rally in sydney. he repeated the claim that he will not raise taxes if he becomes president. they attended a town hall meeting with employees of a company that makes natural gas compressors. >> michelle obama is now on a two-day campaign swing in colorado. she told a school that mer husband took office during a financial crisis and has made big strides in turning things around. mrs. obama also promoted the president's work in making college more affordable. there will be no jail time for vincent gray. howard brook received 200 hours of community service. back in may, he confessed to paying a third party candidate to stay in the race so he could publicly attack the mayor. brooks said he was truly sorry for breaking if law. >> more trouble for jerry sandusky. the state of pennsylvania is revo

biden. >> i think joe just has to be joe. >> we're delighted to welcome dr. peterson, a contributor to the griow.com and in kentucky, site of the debate itself, tamron hall, host of "news nation." we're just hours away from the debate. you just heard the president there, should joe just be joe? because sometimes that works, and other times there are unintended consequences. >> well, you know what, martin? both of us love music and i know you are a hip-hop artist in your own mind. the bottom line is eminem says i am whatever you say i am. joe biden should always be joe biden. no one can ever beat you at your own game. my mother, a southern mama, used to tell me all the time it's only when you try to be someone else that you fail. and that is the accusation against governor romney. that is perhaps why friends of mine who are conservatives don't totally buy into mitt romney. you may make mistakes being yourself, but that you a then tisity that is needed, that is palpable, that can be felt through a television screen, it has to come from you being you. so i marve

dr. rob ludwig, a psychologist, adjunct political professor, osteopathic medicine. thank you for being here. a lovely debate that we had. and bidentions. what was that? >> it was strategic. it was definitely strategic. he was upstaging ryan, and when you look at the way the camera angles were, right next to each other, he knew he was being a distraction. what was uncomfortable to watch was out devaluing he was. that was just a bit uncalled for, and i think ryan handled it with dignity. suddenly biden knew what he was doing and wasquite effective call you think about it. >> he channeled all democratic party. he knew what happens to is boss. it was like with romney and the president got to mombasa's go at one another. one says to you have to go like the other guy. teach him a lesson, and you have said give us back to where we were, and that is al that joe was looking for, and -- lou: working to his basse. >> absolutely. he had to make up for president obama, and he knew he could get away with it because he has this persona of being battled crazy. lou: he is 27 years the senior, and there is this something about being in the game fo

biden at a separate rally, he picked up on it as well. >> what is this condition, mike? >> reporter: i heard you and dr.discussing it earlier in the hour. i think you put your finger on it. essentially what they're doing is they are going back to where they started. during the primary season what they said about mitt romney was he was a flip-flopper. they said, quote, unquote, he had no core. then at the end of the primary season when he had to beat back those challengers to the right, they tried to tie that tea party millstone around his neck saying he was, in fact, a severe conservative, that he himself in his own construction would have it. after that last debate when he said some things about taxes and social issues, a whole myriad of issues actually, they're going back to this flip-flopping but they have that new phrase which is undoubtedly going to get a lot of play. it obviously did on twitter today, romnesia. >> i can't remember what the phrase was, mike. what was it again? that's right, romnesia. mike, thank you so much. and a programming note, we will broadcast live from boca raton on friday.

dr. keith ablow. >> dave: you didn't interrupt him. >> alisyn: and i thought joe biden-- >> if you're watching it on camera and as a doctor, what does that say about his personality? >> so, let's start with the part that you might have called someone else in for. first, he could be completely doing this for stage presence, to show the other man, inexperienced not worthy of his time, to own the conversation. >> to own it and ridicule the other man, diminish him, but here is the other reality. joe biden has shown tremendous disregard of perspectives of others, such isn't it worse for instance to say you have three undergraduate degrees when you have one, which he's done. saying you graduated at the top of the law school class, when you graduated at the bottom. don't interrupt me with the facts. that's the same kind of rap. what do i need to say, and say it fast to own the minds of people listening, he has no record for letting them process, that's one part of this. there's more and this is the part i'll hear about, right? i did not evaluate joe biden, but if someone said to me listen we want you

dr. price, thank you for coming and talking to us. >> vice president joe biden just wrapped up a rally in the battleground state of florida and he wept after mitt romney's economic plans. cnn's political reporter shannon travis was at that event, and that was in st. augustine, and joins us now live. are the rallies getting more intense as the election draws closer. is the crowd more rapped up in them? >> the crowd is getting a lot more raucous in terms of chantish four more years for president obama and vice president biden. the enthusiasm level is high. the crowd count has been cent over the past few weeks i have been following vice president biden. you can probably see him behind me. if you can't see him, you can see his supporters. he's still here. this is the third rally over the last two days here in florida. obvio obviously, a critical battleground state. the president has been here alone nine times in 2012. a few things he's mentioned in his speemp, similar thing s he mentioned in the last few days. romney in terms of describing him as a flip-flopper. he went after him for the whol

dr. jared bernstein. from 2009 until 2011, he was the chief economic adviser to vice president joe biden, the executive director of the white house task force on the middle class, and a member of president obama's's economic team. dr. bernstein area of expertise include federal, state, economic and fiscal policies, income inequality, employment, earnings, international comparison and analysis of financial and housing markets and i'm also sure, manufacturing. prior to joining the obama administration, dr. bernstein was a senior economist and director of living standards at the economic policy institute in washington, d.c. we're happy to have as our moderator, hedrick smith, who was one of the great commentators and authors in the u.s. on policies and other issues and he is a pulitzer prize-winning author. for 26 years, he served as a correspondent for the "new york times" in washington. in 1971, he was a member of the pulitzer prize-winning team that produced the pentagon papers series. he won the international prize for international reporting and he was the chief correspondent. the most exciting is that he has

dr. jarred been e bernstein. currently on leave from the center on budget and policy priorities, where he was a senior fellow, from 2009 to 2011. bernstein was the chief economic advisor to vice president joe biden, executive director of the white house task force on the middle class, and a member of president obama's economic team. dr. bernstein's areas of expertise include federal and state, economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, center national comparison and the analysis of housing markets and i'm also sure manufacturing. prior to joining the obama administration, dr. bernstein was a senior economy and the director of living standards at the economic policy institute in washington, dc. finally, we are very happy to have as our mold rate -- moderator, hedrick smith who is one of the great commentators in the it's on policy and manufacturing and other issues. a pulitzer prize winning- -- winner and for 26 years he was a correspondent for "the new york times" in washington, moscow, cairo, saigon, paris, and the american south. i guess that's another foreign country to any of us listed here. [laughter] >> in 1971, as chief diplomatic corr

dr. paper. i promise you, the president has a big stick. (bleep). >> steve: vice president joe bideneter johnson, jr. >> good morning, steve. some of those gaffes are not gaffes. we didn't see one where he talked about sending people back into chains. that was an obvious ploy to attract the african-american votes to the obama. >> steve: that was not a gaffe? >> that was part of a class war thing. let's go to the tail of the tape. let's look at them side by side. joe biden, first of all, in terms of his exercise, mostly lifts weights. we know paul ryan loves that p-90 x workout. they have secret service handles. celtic for joe biden. bow hunter for joe biden. they're both irish american by heritage. first gig for both, life guard for joe biden. and we know, i've heard you talk about it, paul ryan drove the oscar wiener mobile. what they're selling, joe biden is selling his experience. paul ryan will be selling his energy. what they're hiding? joe biden will be hiding his age at 69, i believe. what paul ryan may be hiding is his youth. now, joe biden's assignment, being romney's -- bei

dr. jared bernstein. he's currently on leave from the center on budget and policy priorities where he was a senior fellow. from 2009 to 2011, he was the chief economic adviser to vice president joe biden's executive director of the white house task force on the middle class and a member of president obama's economic team. dr. speed -- bernstein and what economic policies, income inequality and mobility, trends and employment and earnings, international comparison and the analysis of the financial housing market. and i'm also sure manufacturing. prior to joining the obama administration, dr. bernstein was a senior economist and the director of living standards at the economic policy institute in washington, d.c.. finally, we are very happy to have as our moderator, hedrick smith, who was one of the great commentators and authors in the united states on policy and manufacturing and other issues. he is a pulitzer prize-winning former "new york times" reporter and editor and any award winning producer and correspondent. for 26 years mr. smith served as a correspondent for "the new york times" and washington, cairo, saigon, paris and the american south more foreign countries than any of us.

biden got them off the ledge and got them back into the room and to safety. so you know republicans were obviously worried that medicare or social security or education dr it would right here also on the aisle with the glasses. go ahead. >> i have kind of a long question but i'm going to make it short. the first one is going back to the debates in general and substance versus style versus the shaping by the media. i talked to some people and i've heard even on interviews that people when they heard obama's rhett oric they felt more specifics versus governor romney's statement. so that's one. the other one is the issue of term limits. wouldn't it be better to have a six-year president so they could just have one short campaign? >> jimmy carter had that idea years ago. how did that work out for him? six-year term limit was the quefment and the other question was about the debates about who was more specific, who was more particular? >> if you ask democrats they'll say president obama was more and if you ask republicans they'll say mitt romney was more specific and if you ask independents they probably didn't make it through most of the debates. >> right. and first