taking what critics call cheap shot against governor romney, posted -- look at this, this ima with goverr romneyvern front of a surprised schoolgirl, initial caption did not explain her reaction, but they have updated it, girl was thrild at romney was posing for a photo in front of her. again, it is just abouts well, dumbest stunt by ap since, well, since just about a week ago. it is lesshan a month in which criticsuestioned the ap's editorial choices, this one, two weeks ago, ap and reuters with a picture of netanyahu, that was reminiscent of a nazi salute, this week, ap pushlished an article suggestions quote, if mitt romney becomes president, he might need a crash course in diplomacy 101. can you believe that nonsense, reason thatomney offended spain by saying he did not want to go down their path of reckless spending in last week's debate? and he need the lesson? unbelieveable. >> the murder capital of this country is chigo, it wants to become the dumb capital as well, cook county president proposes a so-called violent tax on guns and ammunition to help plug a $115 million budget gap next ye

i thought we had a second debate where, you know, goverr romney wouldn't even commit to tell us anything about the details of the budget. that ought to tell people all they need to know. >>> dropped like a rock. lance armstrong was sacked by almost every company he represented. a devastating day for the once represented. a devastating day for the once heralded athlete. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. i'm lynn berry. well, a 21-year-old man from bangladesh is being held this morning on charges of plotting to blow up the new york city headquarters of the federal reserve. prosecutors say he was inspired by osama bin laden and that he tried to recruit others from across the country not realizing those were undercover agents. >> reporter: this is the face of suspected bomber quazi muhammad nafis. this was his target, the federal reserve bank. he parked a van packed with what he thought was a thousand pounds of explosives trying to kill hundreds of thousands of new yorkers during the morning rush. >> he had the intent of creating mayhem here. >> it was a sting o

but with exchanges like these between goverr romney and the commander-in-chief the third and final debate could crash the pastime and the nfl at the same time. >> the 1980 s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back. the cold war has been over 20 years. coming tforeign policy 12 the policies of the 1980. >> is the middle east to reject the terrorism lear seeing with the rising tide of tumult and attacking me is not an agenda. >> bt to execute foreign policy every time you offer an opinion you arewrong. >> russa is a geopolitical foe. excuse me. geopolitical. in the same paragraph i said i ran is the greatest national security threat we face. >> mr. romney needsto look at how the military works. you mentioned the navy, fewer ships and 1916. we also have fewer horses and bayonets. the nature has chaed. we have aircraft carers where planes land on them. ships to wonder water. nuclear submarines. it is not kadima of baleship. >> the navy said they needed 313 ships. we are at 285. many be requested more. >> the sequester is something congress has proposed. it will not happen. lou: the p

goverr romney wants to cut taxes across the board for everyone.he author of who is the fairest of them all, steven more common joins me to talk about joins me to talk about prosperity and t [heartfelt country music] ♪ - ♪ she stands in ♪ the face of evil ♪ and will not ♪ lose hope or faith ♪merica ♪ the land of freedom ♪ is still the home ♪ of the brave ♪ so raise the banner - ♪ rse the banner - ♪ called ol' glory - ♪ called ol' glory - ♪ let us join ♪ our fellow man - ♪ our fellow man - ♪ history ♪ will write the story ♪ america - ♪ america - ♪ will always stand ♪ history ♪ will write the story ♪ america ♪ will always stand ♪ ♪ lou: new accusations today from vice-president j biden hitting governor romney and republicans on taxes in a campaign event in wisconsin. >> you canno erase what you have already done. they voted to extend tax cuts for the wealthy giving $500 trillion tax cut so 120,000 families. lou: that's a lot of money. 500 trillion. you have to love the vice-president, his view on things and, his expression. for a little perspective,

the president and goverr romney. lou: they talk about the big issues in their debate last night, in illinois it is about the little things, like the state going bankrupt, and chicago boming the murr capital of america. we'll talk about the little things. >> and violent crime on the rise across the country, in esident's hometown, chicago. the murder capital ofmerica. the wn hall debate on long island. not much talk aut who won it. more about the moderator, forma and whether or not there was a winner at all, the a-team is here with their take on the ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. whatever your business challenge, one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already savg us money, producing cleaner electric

and i suspect goverr romney and his focus groups and polling is hearing from families that they're concerned about paying for conege, helping their kids go to college, and he's responding to that. >> woodruff: a final word from the two of you. what do you see as the correct approach going forward? neal? >> it's got to be to reduce thec aid. you start with loans that are not focusing on low-income people, that anybody can get regardless of income. we have to start looking at some sorthe of idence that a student who gets the loans or this aid can succeed in college. t that's what has to happen because the evidence is really quite clear: aid enables colleges to raise prices. >> woodruff: what go do you think? that itei've indicated think neal is fundamentally wrong in his assertion. if you reduce student aid, fewer people go to college, we ha fewer individuals with post-secondary education credentials and in an erain which we're increasingly concerned about our ability to compete globally we ought to be looking for ways to get more americans into mod out ofd college not looking to cut student a

this comes a week after goverr romney faced a similarttack pprsamnans an sgale romney a liar for how he laid out his positions in first presidentl debate. >> are you saying governor romney lied or was dishonest? >> i think he was dishonest, py pentut aiatt ry was t. e aklast night he was lying. >> i think that we expected an aggressive debater to show up last night on the debate stage with barack obama. we didn't expect an aggssiv dieseb tho u meoarua iit they saw was a governor romney they had known all along and what's the problem in the past is they haven't seen that person and he finally emerged during the debates. >> you mean h lied through his teinth rli taxea people? he many the etch-a-sketch guy who transformed himself and we sales have to wonder which mitt is going some show u if you just lay out lie after lie after lie about yourwn ans wes idha b tng t,ce uoo go alisyn: let's go to two truth tellers. monica crowley and kirsten powers. th are foxews ctribor nile s w ihahe best -- supposedly best political minds in washington hav come up with to explain the president's underw