reaction from fox news contributor jim pinkerton.nell: small businesses really turning to an unlikely bank to get loans. how about amazon. amazon capital services part of the company's lending program which allows customers to obtain cash quicker than they would with a traditional bank loan. amazon not disclosing the number of merchants who qualify for this program, according to a company representative. however those who do qualify are characterized as heavy sellers of goods through amazon's websites. dagen: last night's presidential debate lit up social networks setting the record as the most tweeted about event in u.s. political history. exceeding both conventions. in just 90 minutes the debate generated a whopping 10.3 million tweets. sesame street was a twitter sensation last night as well for governor romney's i love big board but i'm going to basically -- [inaudible] -- that comment generated 70,000 tweets per minute that mentioned sesame street. can i add one thing? connell: only one. dagen: what's interesting at twitter thou

jim pinkerton and ellen ratner. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >>> governor romney doesn't have a five-point plan, he has one point plan. that plan to to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. >> we have a president talking about someone's plan in a way that completely foreign to what my real plan is. then we have his own record. we have four consecutive years where he said when he was running for office. he would cut the deficit in half. instead he has doubled it. >> jon: three weeks left. the two candidates faced off for a second time taking questions from supposedly undecided voters and taking a lot of shots at each other. one of big issues in this debate was the role of the moderator. what about the debate itself? tell us how the media handled the debate? >> i think the media were happy to see president obama woke up by his own admission and we're happy to say he won for the most part. however, as i wrote for a conservative magazine and somebody went through the 1980 reagan campaign.

cal thomas, jim pinkerton and alan colmes. thanks liberals for saving america. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> it was six weeks as today that terrorists attacked the benghazi. now, we obtained e-mail alerts that was put out by the state department as the attacks unfolded. >> 13 days to go before america votes, e-mails show that our top leaders were aware terrorists were taking credit for attacking the u.s. mission in libya, videotape day it happened. while the white house is now saying there was still confusion there are new questions what could have been done in the early hours as the attack was still ongoing. >> jon: cbs tuesday and fox news on wednesday. new details about the terror attacks in benghazi libya. every day this past week we seem to have learned something new about who knew what. e-mails detailing what was going on in benghazi and who was to blame. why did it take so long for the media to pay attention to this story and why did the white house seem to spin it differently? charles krauthammer shared his view earlier. >> they might have calculati

jon: jim pinkerton and alan colmes. jenna: you were kind of like jim lehrer. them up and let them go. jenna: sometimes you get the best results. jon: we'll have our viewers submit questions in advance. jenna: it seems all the focus is on the big battleground states like florida and ohio. both campaigns are pushing hard to win smaller swing states that together can really pack a big punch. a look inside that strategy just ahead. the kapt be tin of a doomed italian cruise ship back inside a program today. we'll tell you why. whether the captain will be convicted of manslaughter in the tragedy that killed 32 people. ♪ constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' caplets don't. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation. thanks. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. captain of the shipped wrecked costa condoria back in an it

gregg: alan colmes, jim pinkerton, great to see you both. jenna: a debate that will continue.forever. jenna: from now untilee tern tee. the supreme court is back in session today ready to take on hot topics. shannon bream now reporting the court could even at some point revisit the president's healthcare law. how about that? she joins us live next. [ male announcer ] when these come together, and these come together, one thing you can depend on is that these will come together. delicious and wholesome. some combinations were just meant to be. tomato soup from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. an early morning scuffle apparent lee with a former congressional aid at a new york city hotel. gregg: surprise. jenna: lindsey getting involved in politics here one way or another. patti ann has the latest for us. >> yes, lohan reportedly met 25-year-old christian labella at a pha* manhattan hot spot early sunday morning. they went back to the hotel where lohan was staying. at some point she looked at his cellphone and discovered photos and videos of herself taken earlier in the

ellen ratner, and jim pinkerton, thank you.ave candidates scoring points and giving zingers, but are we getting the big picture how the presidency of either man would look like? what our country would look like over the next four years. we're going to ask that big question just ahead. >>> what's next as well for lance armstrong as he steps down as chairman of his canner charity and a big, big name in sports cuts him loose? ring is on the story next jenna: both candidates last night hoping to win voters in a debate filled with a lot of heated exchanges but are we, the voters, winning? are we really learning enough from either man? a question raised by the editorial boards of two major newspapers in our country today, "the new york times" had this to say about the president. quote, what he did not do was describe how a second term would be more successful than his first has been and in particular show how he would cut through the thicket of republican opposition if reelected. "the wall street journal" with this on governor romney

jim pinkerton, thank you, alan as well.t's a crucial battleground state, one both candidates desperately want to win, and now a new report just how far governor romney may be going to secure it on november 6th. >>> also, counting down to the final presidential debate. we're going to look at how this faceoff will matter in the overall fight for the white house. we are the house when it comes to the big game. yeah. it's his thing. i don't even participate. boom! here it comes! bring it back! bring it home! [ male announcer ] when you combine creamy velveeta with zesty rotel tomatoes and green chilies, you get a bowl of queso that makes even this get-together better. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. jenna: well, we are your election headquarters, 15 days left until the election, and we're taking a closer look at the key battleground states, and it doesn't get much closer than the state of virginia.

jim pinkerton is a contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine.olmes radio show and he has a new book out "thank the liberals for saving america." i'm going to start with you first, alan because i know what you're going to say. you're going to say that the mainstream media are not in the tank for president obama and never have been. >> okay, thank you. jon: no, that's -- >> really don't buy the right-wing pai pair paranoia, because liberals are liberal and are in the tank for president obama. they follow what is in their interest that is going to sell papers or get clicks online or get vires. they do what will get them attention. i don't about it automatic set up that all of a sudden the media has turned against someone they automatically favored up until about four days ago. jon: jim, what is your counter argument? >> well, i mean i think that the media, if they really wanted to sell papers and get clicks and get eyeballs in the nielsens they would have pursued a lot of the obama scandals. >> scandals. >> david plouth getting a hundred million do