he's accompanied there my senators robert menendez, senator frank lautenberg, representative frank labdono, and the brigantine mayor, as well as atlantic county executive, dennis levenson. i want to go back to mike viqueira, are you still there? >> reporter: yes. >> you've observed this opposition to this president. we've had senator mitch mcconnell publicly say that his determination is to deny this man a second term. do you think that what is happening right now, before our eyes, is likely to spill over? should the president win re-election in some way, so that he'll be able to reach to the other side and say, look, the way we've been doing things for the last four years doesn't make any sense to the american people. >> reporter: i think that we can all hope that that's the case. i would seriously doubt it. >> really?! so another four years of gridlock. >> reporter: after we suffered the worst terrorist disaster imaginable, what was unthinkable, that happened on september 11th, members of congress joined on the steps of the congress and sang "god bless america," i was there, it was a ver

chairman of civic foreign pac and a former political adviser to democratic new jersey senator frank lautenberg and a f contributor. >> thanks so much. >> eric: you just heard john roberts say that both sides have attack ads out, calling each other liars. how do the rotors sort this out. >> >> eric: as haley barbour is fond of saying, it is not rocket science, voters want mitt romney to convince them that that he has a plan to make america recover faster than president obama and that his policies will improve the lives of all americans over the next four years. he is effective when he draws contrasts between the president's failed policies and when he would do differently and reinforcing it saying, i am a principled, but practical candidate, i am willing to work across party lines to fix america's most pressing problems. >> eric: julie, what does the president need to do to bounce back? >> what he has been doing all along, you saw him leading in the polls because the president's campaign has been incredibly effective in the swig -- swing state, convincing voters that mitt romney shouldn't be tr

congressional delegation, senator bob men men des, senator frank lautenberg, atlantic county executivenis levinson and brigantine mayor phillip gunther. obviously this is a federal state, and local effort and the first thing i want to do is just to thank everybody who has been involved in the entire rescue and recovery process. at the top of my list i have to say that governor christie throughout this process has been responsive. he's been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm. and i think the people of new jersey recognize that he has put his heart and soul making sure that the people of new jersey bounce back even stronger than before. so i just want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership and partnership. i want to thank the congressional delegation because part of the reason we're going to be able to respond quickly to all this is because they helped to make sure that fema financing was in place. and we're very appreciative of those efforts. and. i want to thank craig fugate. sometimes people just think fema and they don't think of

that's according to senator frank lautenberg. that's the latest from here, you guys. back to you. >> kayla tausche, thank you. stay safe. >>> a growing part of the storm story is that gasoline is getting hard to find in some areas. many gas stations are closed. in some cases the one that are open are seeing lines more than an hour long. with supply dwindling, it is not surprising gas price futures are soaring today. brian schactman is at a gas station on long island where actually they are getting refilled as we speak, brian. what have they told you about the difficulty in getting gas? >> the cavalry has arrived. my man carlos behind me is one of the most popular men in all of long island. owner of this shell station was actually shocked when this truck drove up. had he no idea it was coming. he told his wholesalers that he needed gas. i had a sheet of paper it was his last check before the truck arrived. he was out of 2,000 gallons after having started at 8,500 for the day. he probably had only two hours left of gasoline. originally carlos was working out of queens.

our guest is the wife of new jersey senator frank lautenberg and made it her mission to outline everytography exhibit. with each portrait is an explanation of what each person man or woman sees as their greatest legislative achievement. this is fascinating. blanch lincoln is a former democratic senator from arkansas. let's talk about this. you had a chance. first of all i know because you are very sociable. you know a lot of these senators and spouses and you know them from a different perspective. i want to get the people who know that answer. this is how we're going to do this. tell us what they're really like and you can join in. what is happening is it has gotten really nasty on the hill. >> it has. >> people like olympia snow have left because they can't deal with their party. there are no across-the-aisle friendships like the old days. let's talk about ted kennedy and look at the picture you got of him. the great ted kennedy who is one of the great senators. tell me about ted as a person. why he posed like that ahn what he saw as his greatest accomplishment. >> when i walked int

contributor and julie roginsky ski, fox news contributor and former political advisor to senator frank lautenbergnew jersey. a month ago, julie, president obama enjoyed a lead among women on economic issues 56-40%. now that has flipped. it is now 49-45 romney over obama. what happened? >> you know, some of these polls say that. other poll, "washington post" poll came out on wednesday actually says still 15-point gender gap between men and women. nationally for in warm's favor. what you -- obama's favor. you seen the polls tighten. romney erased gender gap among women. so i think what you're seeing right now a general tightening of polls. what you're seeing now essentially play for not just women but a very specific demographic of women. women noncollege educated white married women. that is really the wages moms. they're called wages moms. that is what both parties will appeal to. jon: as a good democrat are you nervous. >> as a good campaign strategist i'm always nervous. no matter how far ahead your candidate may be or behind i'm sure both sides are nervous as they should be. jon: the obama cam

contributor and radio talk show host and julie roginsky, former advisor to democratic senator frank lautenberg of new jersey. bleeding stopped, julie. >> i think what biden had to do and i think he did it effectively and convinced democratic base and democrats were disheartened by last week's performance of president obama he would stand up and fight and fight to make clear what the american people what the democratic party values were and what these two men, obama and biden would do to make sure they understood where the priorities laid. the democratic base would be to get energyized. jon: you might be very surprised you agree with karl rove and karl rove said he had to appeal to the democratic base to restoke their enthusiasm. paul ryan had to get to undecided voters. >> there lies the rub. biden was tasked last night with trying to re-energize a very dispirited liberal base. julie is right about that. i think he accomplished that to some degree. the question at what cost because his behavior was so surreal and so rude and soit kaf the cost turning off and alienating key swing voters women a

julie ro roginsky is former advr to new mexico senator frank lautenberg, and simon constable, authorreet journal guide to the 50 economic indicators that really matter." with a dietl like that -- title like that, sounds like i should start with you. there's been a general narrative in the media that, yes, we've been through a rough road, but things are looking up. is that not true? >> well, things may be less bad than they were, but they're not recovering anything like as fast as a normal so-called recovery. normally when you come out of a recession, no matter how deep it is, you come out really, really fast initially, and we haven't done that in this recovery. we've come out very slowly. not a lot of people have depth in the economics. some people do, obviously, but in the general media a lot of people really don't understand it. it's rather technical, maybe they haven't been through one cycle before, and they haven't actually seen things come out. yes, things are better, but they're not better by nearly enough to keep pace with population growth. alisyn: julie, is that what's going

fox news contributor julie roginsky, former political advisor to democratic senator frank lautenbergw jersey. mercedes sclapp a former spokeswoman for president george w. bush. let's get a fair and balanced debate underway. julie, are you offended what secretary clinton had to say about women and whining? >> when i first read this i was shocked. this doesn't sound like hillary clinton and she's been the biggest promoter of women. taken on face but i did research. she wasn't talking about women, she was talking about questions about the catcher in the rye, the protagonist, caulfield, who was young boy. "catcher in the rye", he thought he was a big whiner. she says she was not refering to women at all. i hope that is right, because if she was refering to women i was offended by that. it is helpful to have choices a. a lot of women are trapped. they don't have choices. they're single moms. they're trying to make ends meet. if she was refering to women i would find that offensive. she claims she was not she claims she was refering to "catcher in the rye". jon: there was a former director

but we've got julie, fox news contributor, and former political advisor to senator frank lautenberg ofsey. dede, gop strategist and mary walter, radio and talk show host. mary, let's start with you. you were watching that speech. what did you think? >> i think romney is at his best when he's talking about america and about his love for the country. he's kind of like channeling reagan. it's reaganesque. that's what people want to hear. they feel they haven't heard enough of that in the less four years. i think they felt that way. >> patti ann: dede? >> he's fantastic. he hit his stride after the debate. i have think it gave him the confidence he needed. he's running and winning now. the polls have shown he's gotten a bump. so that's fantastic. especially in ohio, he's doing well in ho had now. >> patti ann: julie, the democrat? >> i agree with them. i think romney -- this is the best i've seen him. it's good when he talks about personal history, personal dealings with people. not about the facts. this is somebody who has criticize the sequester process. but his own vice presidential can

julie roginsky, former political advisor to democratic senator frank lautenberg of new jersey and a fox news contributor. ron bonjean, former communications director to former speaker dennis hastert. welcome to both of you. julie, to you first, you said the president's performance was not great. >> right. jon: peggy noonan said not only did governor romney win handily, that it will reverberate throughout the election cycle, do you agree? >> i don't know. it remains to be seen. i will be the first to say the president was abysmal. he was not truly great. he was terrible. one debate does not a presidential campaign make. in factualer mondale in 1984 spanked ronald reagan and reagan came back to win 49 of 50 states. probably would have won the 50th had mondale not won his home state of minnesota. you can't look at one debate training the trajectory. i'm not as confident romney will make up in the swing states what he needs to make up to beat the president in one debate especially with more debates coming. we don't know. at end of the day we have really good jobs report despite republicans

it is massacred i remember frank lautenberg retired, he is since come back from his sabbatical but when he first, the reason why he retired was because he would've had to have raised $12 million. when you look at his schedule for the year, he would spend on the 60% of his professional time outside of the floor of the u.s. senate fund raising at cocktail parties. for him he just got to the point where he just, it was just so remarkably daunting to him, so in his mind inappropriate that he wouldn't do it. so for candidate christy or google talk candidates, it's terrific of a public matched to have that kind of level of engagement with the candidate is out with the voters much more often instead fundraising with just a small subset of people all the time. >> you see that on the presidential bubble now. you see them spending much more time and on target states because there is this ongoing race, you can't fall behind. you've got after 1000 plus points in that market and you have to have the same in dayton and jacksonville. you have to be there. it is this constant pull between to have enoug

. >> senator menendez, your colleague frank lautenberg and senator christy snipe of the time.ou have a chilly relationship with governor christie dating back to 2006 when you are the target an investigation that went nowhere. by contrast one of chris christie's best friends. might this state be better off with instead of two enemies in the u.s. senate, one enemy in one front? kyrillos: i disagree when you say i was enemy of the governor. i would help the governor get one of the best insurance pools under the new law, the affordable care act that new jersey got in the nation. he asked me to help him get a good deal from the department of human services. i did. as the governor's enemy, i would have got the greatest on a transit money working to maximize formulas to achieve greater amounts of money for new jersey transit riders and economic opportunity. if i was the enemy, i would have joined in and advocated with him, with all those disaster declarations that we succeeded in getting so we could convince the president to send money to new jersey to help new jersey residents. .. u