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but first, we'll talk with gordon chang and walid phares about the middle east and china. presidenobama and governor romney took a night off in the name ofharity. >> fin the biggestavailable straw man an then just mercilessly attack it. big bird didn't ev see it coming. [laughter] chr matthews, four years ago i ge him a thrill up his leg, this time around iave him atroke. [laughter] lou: they almost seemed to be having fun, didn't they? we'll have a little fun next. speaking of having fun, angry liberal alec baldwin wants to be mayor of new york, sohey say. he's leading in the latest poll. it's not the kind of poll you want to lead. the a-team is next. copd makes it hard breathe, but wi advr, i'm breathing better. so now i cane in the scene. advair is clinically proven help gnificantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fastcting inhalers for sudden symptom and should not be used more than twice a d

and gordon chang wrote "the coming collapse of china."he was a lawyer in china and hong kong for 20 years, and now contributes to forbes.com. >> gordon and chang, let's jump into one of the issues. mitt romney says he will brand china a currency manipulator on day one. what does that mean to be a manipulator, and is it a good idea to brand them one? >> it certainly is a good idea to do so because u.s. law requires the treasury to brand a country a currency manipulator if it manipulates its currency to gain an advantage. every day the china central bank intervenes in the business. in september, 2010, in new york city, the premier and china's economic czar said china keeps its currency low in order to give a trade advantage to its manufacturerrers. manufacturers. we should brand it as a currency manipulator. >> you heard the president say the currency has depreciated? >> i think it is a serious problem to brand them a currency manipulator. a lot of countries intervene to affect the value of their currency. japan has many times, and so has m

foreign policy and trade policy with china and other challenges, of course, gordon chang, author of the book "the coming collapse of china." also with us, walid phares, foreign policy senior adviser to governor romney, also a fox news middle east and terrorismm3 expert, author of the book "the coming revolution: struggle for freedom in the middle east. good to have you with us. walid, let's do this first. do you expect monday that the american people will get any answers from this president about wh happened and hy in benghazi on september 11th? >> what i do project, that the debate between preside obama and governor romney is going to provide answers for the american public, and that is that the obama administration was going wrong on the middle east, wrong on iran, wrong on the musli brotherhood, of course, wrong on libya, and the governor is going to provide evidence, and he's going to propose a different direction than the ones of president obama. lou: and, gordon, as they move to the issue of china as they must, it is such a massive trading partner and has t largest trade deficit o

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presidential debate on foreign policy gordon chang joins us. angela mcglowan will be with us. we will be right back. lou: in the view is a different show. look at what happened list into co-host whoopi goldberg questioning ann romney on mormons and the military. >> if you get the job as first lady it will entail a lot of things. one will be talking to the mother's whose children are coming home in bags from the war. i know your religion does not allow you to go fight. >> that is not correct. >> we have many, many members of our faith better serving. lou: you think that would be clear. >> when i read about your husband may be a can correct this the reason he did not serve in vietnam is because it was against his religion and? >> that is not correct. lou: not paying attention or deep research. shocking. he was serving on a religious mission in france for two years. cheerleaders wanted to use bible verses of their banners at football games. the grand -- judge granted an injunction will allow them to continue. the trial is scheduled in june. hotly contested races are running from

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a case of a financial emperor that never had any clothes, gordon chang has been arguing this for years, and spells it outta left field in a -- out in a bestseller. the coming collapse of china, gordon, to your point, alcoa is latest example, but not the last, what do you mean? >> well, first quarter, caterpillar talking about how china was not so important to itstion after sayinimportance t, it is not just alcoa and fedex there will be a number of other companies that the come out with this in following quarters, alcoa is a prime example, they blamed china because of drop off in demand for its products, there is another aspect, that is that despite the decline in demand, beijing is forcing its producers to continue putting out aluminum it wants to keep employment up that will be an overhang on supply we'll see in following quarters, that will drive prices down, that will hurt alcoa next year. neil: you know, lori, argument is that china has been the world economic engine. been buying when everyone else has been doing nothing. let's see it was a house of cards, and it is not doing that

gordon chang, columnist at forbes.com and author as well. interesting stuff.ave you back, i'm sure. thanks a lot. >> thank you. >>> all right. when the candidates take the stage tonight, the kremlin will be paying some attention to the debate as well. we're going to have a live report from moscow. ♪... ♪... choose the perfect hotel a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen, and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular war

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gordon chang tells "outfront" it could be both.hat she is with child and in trouble politically for failing to show sufficient respect. he says the pregnancy would not account for disappearance from public view. that is more likely due to turmoil within the the regime. another thing she did, she often dresses in very pretty, colorful clothes, which is not the standard for the first lady in north korea. it's been 442 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. sales of previously owned homes fell if september. economists we spoke with say the decline makes sense because it was a bigger than expected gain in august. now, our fourth story. the florida sunshine. well today, it looked like it was shining down on mitt romney. a new cnn poll shows the candidate ahead in the sunshine state. it is perhaps the most crucial of the swing states, home to 29 electoral votes. now, the lead is within the margin of error. our last poll in august had the president ahead by four. among women voters, 53% of the electorate in 2008, the president is

mcfarland and former dick be secretary of defense and china expert gordon chang, author of the coming collapse of china. i cannot imagine a better panel. i am going to start with you. reading you some of the results from this report. chinese actors are also the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage. u.s. private sector firms and cyber security specialists reported ongoing onslaught of sophisticated computer network intrusions that originated in china. what is the real risk here? is it all economic damage that we are worried about? is there more? >> there is a lot. think of trojan horses. for more than a decade beijing has been conducting the world's most extensive cyber espionage and attacking campaign. the white house, pentagon, defense contractors, greta operators, democracy groups. china wants to sell the telecom backbone because if they do that it makes the attacking easier. gerri: that makes sense. i get that. i want you to hear something mike rogers had to say about this report. >> i argued this. listen, this is something we should raise to a bila

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gordon chang is here to talk about that. what do you make of that?the economy is part of this flagship -- i am not surprised that they are trying to increase the value of their currency because they do want to take some of the wind out of the sales. after the election, we will see the chinese currency go back down again. they do this all the time. connell: it is very interesting, i think, the policy that romney is taking this time around, romney has been a tough talker on china. earlier this hour, john from forbes was on, he is supportive of many of romney's policies, but does not support how he has talked to china. >> i wish he would move away from some of that stuff about getting tough on china. it does not work. the voters do not believe it. these americans always believed that they are good enough that they did not need help that they do not need to be protected against others. it is a bad message. connell: the voters do not believe it. he thinks they should move away from it. >> i think that regardless of who is elected on november 6, we will se

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today, debate this on china with author gordon chang and former state department donald gross. fan of you on the radio show, i hear you all the time. can we not afford to get tough with china because they own $1.5 trillion of our various assets and treasuries? >> well, china buys our debt because they have to, because they have an economy that's geared to selling things to the u.s.. last year, commie that's merchandise trades surplus against the united states was 195.5% of the overall surplus giving the united states leverage with china because china runs deficits with the rest of the world to run a surplus with us. we don't have to worry about china. dennis: i see. donald gross, the more you tell the chinese what to do, the more recalcitrant they get. >> the question with china and getting tough with china is look at the issue and the overall context of the relationship. right now, primary focuses on strengthening the fragile u.s. economic recovery, the american growth rate at 2%, the chinese growth rate at 8%, and the fact is that u.s. trade with china's highly beneficial. ch

gordon chang is author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world." what do you think of north korea coming out and saying, watch it our missiles can reach your lands. >> they are complaining about the united states increasing the range of south korea missiles. the north korea's are no more than bluster. they'll probably be able to perfect and deploy a missile that will hit the united states within three or four years. a big military parade in china, the chinese sold them missile launchers. and may have sold them the missiles on top of them. we don't really have a north korea problem, we have a china problem. jenna: so much of the news is around the middle east. we've heard from mitt romney with his foreign policy speech yesterday very much focused on the middle east. you say as americans we have to pay attention to two, big main actors in the world today, and that is china and russia, why? >> because, yes, syria, iran, north korea, they do threaten us, what makes them inch seeding lee dangerous is they have the backing of both moscow and beijing. wit

it's the good the bad of a very very big deal asli oddly good australia gordon new reports australia's policies to curb climate change could spur on as much as one hundred three billion dollars in spending over the next four years much of this comes from occurred. tax that that country has established meanwhile here in the united states our politicians still refuse to acknowledge that climate change exists because these politicians are in the pockets of big oil and don't want to invest in anything but oil should the prospects of adding billions of dollars in revenue to our economy be reason enough to embrace new clean energy policies washington family stood up for the environment and gave our economy a boost at the same time. the bad america county arizona there's something fishy going on in america county home to infamous sheriff joe arpaio at least two official documents that were mailed from the county's elections recorders office to spanish speaking residents contain faulty information both documents misinform spanish speaking voters saying that the election day was on november eighth and not on november sixth no

president obama and both going through debate preparation change theping to of polls that increase romney's bump post-first is lasting. cooper has more. gordon, the two candidates debate prep.in is paul ryan and joe biden on the road today. ryan says he will take his 10- daughter on her first after romney winds. says not so fast. the first lady made reference the 47% who had fallen on times. in this america, we extend a get backand while they their feet again. what we believe. i> michelle obama treated " just got my absentee ballot in year -- in e-mail. wait for election day. love you. m.o." >> you can vote early so on election day you can get people to the polls. this election is so important, youred to to talk to relatives. mitt romneyl shows obama in a dead heat man with 47% of nationwide polls. mitt romney has a t doug-point lead -- two-point lead in some of being more competitive states. is that 48% with at 47%.ney right behind there is some controversy by the son ofmade former governor of wisconsin. "it isernor jason said send president barack obama back to chicago or to kenya." he has apologized. thank you, rebecca. able to watch the

chris gordon is live at the plaza, where protesters say their message has not changed. >> reporter: good evening, everyone. occupy d.c. is very different tonight than it was one year ago. this is the anniversary. there are no people living in tents here tonight in freedom plaza, or at mcpherson square. the park just a few blocks away. the number of occupy d.c. participants is much lower this year. and they appear to be less confrontational. but they're still vocal as he took to the streets of d.c. today. they chanted slogans bringing back memories of last year's occupy d.c. their goal, shut down k street, demonstrating against big business, banks and government. occupy d.c. participants entered this building. there was some pushing and shoving, but no violence. they occupied pennsylvania avenue sitting down on the pavement blocking traffic, until police issued this warning. >> if you do not seize and behave, you will be arrested. this is your third and final warning. >> reporter: rather than be arrested, they moved to freedom plaza. like last year, the occupy d.c. movement represents a v

gordon, news4. >>> still ahead on news4 at 5:00, a major parking change in the works for rockville town center. >>'s behind the comeback of those stink bugs >>> a new hotel complex with hundreds of apartments and new shops is coming to rockville. montgomery county officials today announced a $4 million grant from the economic development fund for this project. it's being built at east middle lane and monroe street on the former side of the rockville mall. the new 14-story building will include a cambria suites hotel with 300 apartments above it. it will also include 40 moderately priced housing units. retail space will be available on the street level with a lot of parking for shoppers. developers say it's been a long time coming. >> we are ecstatic to see this happen. we've been looking for a hotel for downtown rockville for decades. literally decades. so this is truly a dream come true. >> the groundbreaking is next month. it's hoped it will be completed in two years. >>> they're back, farmers and scientists say stink bugs have arrived in maryland, and in a big way, folks. the u.s. agriculture d

gordon, news4. >>> we enjoyed another spectacular fall day today. but clouds are moving in now. we could see some changes. chief meteorologist doug kammerer is outside enjoying the last little bits of this day. doug? >> a little bit on the breezy side. the rain is now moving in. some of that rain could be rather heavy as we move into the overnight hours. let's look outside right now, 68 degrees. winds gusting to over 20 miles an hour in parts of the region. we are seeing temperatures that are starting to fall a little. they're not going to fall much. 70 in leesburg, down to the south fredericksburg coming in at 71 degrees. that's where the rain is now. down around stafford county, around the fredericksburg area, fauquier county and warrenton, that's the first batch of rain. there's aot more rain coming back to the west. and down to the south in the carolinas, that also making its way our way up i-95. we'll talk more about that, and when you may need these tomorrow, too. >>> coming up, is it a way to fight crime or a violation of privacy. the controversy over recording conversations on public buses. >>> i

change the election. but i think it does stop the romney slide. it is not just that energizes the base. people who heard millions of dollars worth of ads about romney he's gordonecko of our times there is this guy saying he has ideas and perhaps some are wrong. but he's got concern for the country and he knows his stuff. so i think in hopes to wipe away that advantage that obama had from this huge amount of advertising you've seen and i think we might begin to see a slight narrative. perhaps a point or two but that is all you need with a month to go. >> and charles, quickly. the first answer by president obama is opening statement. he mentioned auto bailout. we didn't hear about the 47% tape for any of that, once throughout the 90 minutes. we thought going into the debate perhaps he would attack on that tape. he didn't. >> he didn't attack on that. i think his thinking is that the worst thing you can do is appear aggressive and beating up on the challenger and losing the image of the cool and composed guy. so in order to not to do that he was excessively different yil and in some sense, weak. that is what you do when you think you're ahead. i suspect in the se

changed. the electoral map was created at nbc in 1976 by john chancellor, an exec be tif named gordon manning.to make it more visual and make it not just about the numbers. when they picked the colors, they wanted to go by the rosettes that the british party used and so they went red for the democrats making it sync up with the labor party and blue for republicans. when the other networks basically imitated the map and did maps of their own, they changed it. >> okay. >> so you were seeing a new consistency across the networks. it was finally made consistent in 1996. red for republicans, blue for democrats. >> okay. got to go. steve, great book. election night, it's called "election night, television history." i don't think you cannot buy this if you're a true junkie like me. we'll be right back. [ horn honks ] [ male announcer ] you start your day... love you, too. ...thinking about what's important to you -- your family... ...the mortgage... the kids' college tuition. [ cellphone ringing ] but life insurance? [ horn honking ] life is unpredictable. that's why at fidelity life we want you to t

changed. the electoral map was created at nbc in 1976 by john chancellor, an exec be tif named gordon manning.to make it more visual and make it not just about the numbers. when they picked the colors, they wanted to go by the rosettes that the british party used and so they went red for the democrats making it sync up with the labor party and blue for republicans. when the other networks basically imitated the map and did maps of their own, they changed it. >> okay. >> so you were seeing a new consistency across the networks. it was finally made consistent in 1996. red for republicans, blue for democrats. >> okay. got to go. steve, great book. election night, it's called "election night, television history." i don't think you cannot buy this if you're a true junkie like me. we'll be right back. >>> let me finish tonight with this. this campaign is starting to smell. you have to wonder why the republicans are dropping stink bombs, all of them. why is palin out there with this shucking and jiving stuff of hers? why is trump out there talking about the student records? could it all be that the r

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