john binder. thanks so much. > > thank you bill. thank you bill. still ahead, it's the scariest time of the year. find out what frieightful features are in store at the box office for halloween weekend. ñçbÑ movie studios attempt to scare up audiences this week with films geared toward making you leap out of your seat. our film critic, erik childress, is here for some tricks and treats at the box office this weekend. good to have you back on the show. let's start with the scary stuff first: "paranormal 4" doing quite well at the box office over the weekend. > > yeah. it didn't do quite as well as the last two entries, but so what? as we talked about last week, these movies cost $1.10 to make- > > it's a low-budget. > > $5 million. this movie was in profit before midnight on friday, and they've already greenlit part 5 for next year, so... > > coming up this weekend, the scary movie would be what? "silent hill?" > > "silent till: revelations," the sequel to a 2006 movie that was based on a video game. it's just kind of this big haunted house, scared

they bought as binders of women. john thing has been discussed, but could he give a free market answer and say, what you mean women are discriminated against? they're paid last because they may differ choices. in a free-market sobody did discriminate they lose out. he says tomorrow, i hired women. >> i must say, i cheered when that happened, especially when liberals were so stupid to find something humorous and of this product, binders of women. this is the way it's supposed to work. you want to break things like the old boys' network and people who are just career politicians. this is the way affirmative action, if that's what you want to call it. john: you women the affirmative-action? here dominating colleges. you dominate much of life. life is fair now. the glass ceiling is gone. >> not only that but we naggy death to live longer, and take all your social security. [applause] john: that's right. the. >> leaving that aside for a moment, the way romney did it was the own more qualified women by expanding the search. tha

binder. senator john kerry got in on the fun. he tweeted out his picture that says, i'm in character. en brought my binder full of women. but while we got a big kick out of romney's awkward line, his record on women's issues is no laughing matter. that story is next. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone's ready with the know how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ is now within your grasp with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticket. everything exactly the way you want it, all on one page. transform your investing with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. > >>> we're back with the story that everyone i

john, romney gave us his binders chokful of women. when he was ceo of bain, he failed to elevate a single woman to partner. and today we discovered four out of 49 of the firm's managing directors in the buyout area are women. yet somehow we're supposed to believe that because he requested binders as a governor, he's the answer to equality for women. >> this was an absolutely critical part of the debate, martin. obama was slipping among women. if that gender gap were to close too much, obama would lose the election. so, this was extraordinarily pivotal. you knew that the president was going to go out there and talk about some women's issues. what we didn't know is he would have the good for ttune to havet teed up by an opponent and played over and over again. certainly when i watched the debate, i didn't expect the line about binders to be a dominating coverage in the days to come. >> but your wife did. >> but my wife noticed it. and i think an awful lot of other women noticed it. what's interesting about these debates is that's just a

." >> bill: karl rove accuses commerce secretary john bryson >> bill: binders binders we've got bindersinders full of women. [ laughter ] >> bill: oh, god what a dufus good morning so good to see you today the morning after that big second presidential debate and what a difference a couple of weeks makes. president obama obviously taking some cues from vice president joe biden. good to see you today. welcome to the full court press here on current tv, here on your local progressive station from our nation's capitol and our studio on capitol hill just down the street from the united states capitol building in the shadow of the capitol dome. i know you want to get right into the debate. we'll do that and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. for me, back from a quick overnight trip to san diego did a little debate with mike murphy in front of the american banker's association. thanks to john fugelsang for coming to fill in yesterday and good to be back with you and with the whole team here, peter hello. >> hey hey! >> dan running the board this morning with phil. >> good morning. >> handling

. >> john: a lot of us didn't mind the binders full of women story.inded it when we found out it was completely made up. emily, what are the church's views on women's issue? the mormon children is evolving from lgbt issues to social issues as well. >> i think it is. the standard response if you go on to the church's web site, you'll see the church's stance on abortion is actually more progressive than what romney is now stating. and so you see that he's not quite influenced by the church there. also with immigration reform. i think the church can be quite progressive in what it has come out to say about immigration. >> john: what do people say when you tell them you're supporting barack obama. because i think there's a nationwide stereotype as the mormon church of being this monolithically conservative institution that keeps women in long skirts and in reality, i think in many ways you guys are doing more to destroy the slurring image of mormonism as a cult than governor romney is. when you go around to your friends and parishioners, what do people sa

binders full of women. even though it was a slip of the tongue, it betrays the lack of understanding, the lack of even a comfort level, john important to women like equality of pay. he didn't even answer the question. and when he talked about i had binders full of women story, the story was even wrong. and i think it's important to underscore that as he was even telling the story that isn't even true, the binders of women actually went looking for him. during his administration in massachusetts, the percentage of women in appointed positions during his administration actually declined. so these are important issues to women. and the obama campaign is going to continue to underscore these. >> i do want to come back to how he got that binder. it is in dispute right now. before we get to that, i want to talk to eric s this a playing field that is dangerous for mitt romney? you heard the candidates talking about women, the women's vote, how important women are in the election. is mitt romney comfortable with these discussions do you think, eric? >> oh, i absolutely think so. the issue is that the democrats want to talk about w

john. what do you got. >> i got linda. just chilling in my trapper my . >> yes. if the whole binder of that debate does one thing, it's brought trapper keeper back a little bit in some of the tweets and jokes and stuff happening online. i had one myself. i believe it was 1986, hu hulkamania was running wild on my school supplies. one more. >> christine, up early getting ready. my brother kevin is a police sergeant here. you guys will love boca. >> kevin, we may need your services, my good man, especially if we bring donny deutsch with us. next monday and tuesday 5:30 a.,

. >> whereupon john kerry tweeted that the president sunk mitt romney's battleship. >> sunken battleships, bindersen, big bird, what a long, strange trip. >>> a republican political operative accused of voter fraud in florida and several other states. nathan is being investigated for phony signatures, fake addresses, and even dead people registered as republicans. all this work earns sproul more than $600,000 last night in payments from the republican national committee and the virginia state gop. republicans say they fired him, cut all ties with him, but the l.a. times recently reported that sproul's new company is hiring workers for voter canvassing operation this fall in as many as 30 states. he's paying $15 per hour seeking the higher grassroots canvases to identify conservative voters. how is this disgraced operative still at work in this election? who's paying him? what is his relationship to officials in the republican party? democrats in congress have repeatedly sent letters to the rnc demanding answers but so far they refuse to come answer about their ties to nathan sproul. just one quest

binders stood exactly what he meant. i can do john. [laughter] i grabbed it back from him and went away and three rodent with extra jump and through gratuities would you think now? he said now it is mine. it was the best most precise and literary criticism i ever had. it was helpful. the secret ingredients right thing for the young adults is a jump. if you have that the rest of it is okay. >> ask j.k. rowling's. [laughter] >> until your favorite story about christopher hichens. >> in this strange for me still to come to washington and have him not here. every time i would come here i would stay with him. it is a big hole in the world. i could tell a story about the silly games. i invented the cleaned once. i am the sanitized version. we have differing games quotation marathons. i weighed tried to reside divisions and christopher had the most lazy -- amazing memory. he won all of those. then there was a game of titles of things. a farewell to weapons. [laughter] mr. chicago. [laughter] today is in the life for whom the bell rings. [laug

john? >> yes, sir. >> does mika get everything this block or do i sit back. >> it's up to mika. >> take him name out of the binder i asked you for. >> this is getting worse. i knew this was where it was going in this country. >> get rid of it. you can redact all of them. we told you at the top of the show that last night marked a momentary truce for president obama and mr mrp -- mitt romney. they were at the al smith dinner. if you want to sound smart tell your friends 1996 and 2004 were the only two election years since 1960 when two major presidential candidates were not invited to speak at the al smith catholic charity dinner. in 1996, the candidates were unable to make firm commitments to attend and in 2004, the foundation thought the issues of the campaign were too divisive to have the candidates speak. >>> we told you earlier about president obama's visit "the daily show." now let's gather around the water cooler to watch some of the president's lighter moments with host jon stewart. >> how many times a week does biden show up in a wet bathing suit to a meeting? just ballpark figure. >> i had to put out a p

. >> senator john kerry who is playing romney in the debate prep has been spotted carrying a massive binder, multicolored tabs. the presidential campaign says that we will find an aggressive president in round two. >> ed gillespie responded so that on fox. >> even if he changes his style, and whatever political tactic the president settles on is being in the best interest, he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. >> romney has hunkered down at home in massachusetts after a weekend swing in which he claimed what he called a kresh shen doe of enthusiasm for his campaign. >> about a week ago i had a debate and i did enjoy myself. you know, sometimes in debates the moderators are jumping in and asking questions to try and get you off track but this moderator let us speak about issues that people care about. >> tomorrow night will be the first time that romney and the president engage each other over libya, by the way, since state department officials testified last week. the one new member of the president's debate team is deputy national security advicer ben adviser ben rho

john sinunu and bill richardson former owe bam paw supporter. i listen to this what are we hearing about? hearing about binders, big bird.ecord of 6 trillion in debt, 25 million employed 22 million americans needing food stamps, 29 million americans on food stamp and 6 americans in poverty in america. what happened to president civility? where did he go? >> look, that moment of using the bs word was kind of a self defining moment for the president. no class. wants to be cool. sacrifices being -- the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his bait. i think it really hurts him. i think when people realize he screwed up the economy and tried to rebuild it he wants to cut defense and now he is clearly not the guy want as a role model for your kids and grand kids. the president is beginning to panic. >> this is beneath the dignity of the office. big bird, roneshia, bsing. isn't that beneath the office of the governor? >> right now look i want to see my friend john get out of this one. colin powell -- >> governor wait a minute. i asked you a question. the president of the united state

john mayer are back on. the new video. >>> and demi at 50. >> how is she coping with ashton dating 29-year-old? >>> hollywood women sound off as mitt's debate comment goes viral. >> brought us whole binders full of women. >> the jokes. the tweets. the fallout today. >>> then -- ♪ >> susan boyle painfully shy after her "dancing with the stars" duet with donny osmond.

>> he said we're a lot funnier than -- [ applause ] >> stephanie: john kerry on fire at the debate. mitt had no binders[ ♪ circus ♪ ] oh, this also with the fun facts about the ship. it will bring navy above 300 ships. navy sha rank under george w. bush to 278 ships. comas up under obama. he has come up under obama. so there's that, mitt. [ applause ] governor, the state isn't proud of you. you can't even compete in massachusetts. mittens talked about how proud he is in massachusetts. the feeling is not mutual. the president kind of having fun with the romnesia on the campaign trail. >> obama: if you talk about how much you love teaches during a debate but just a few weeks go, you said we shouldn't hire more because it wouldn't grow our economy, you might have romnesia. if you say you won't give a big tax cut to the wealthy but you're on a video promising your tax cut would include the top 1%, that sounds like a classic case of romnesia. >> stephanie: ray in texas. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi ray. >> caller: good morning. that was fast. i'm usually on hold for an hour and 18 minutes. i wa

john kerry, thank you for your time. and we started by saying give you my love to your wife ter reece sachlt binders of senators, not binders of women. i just want to give clarity for you. i know how she stands on these things. >> thank you, sir. >> i appreciate it. >> yes, she was one of millions of americans who really had a big question mark after that comment. but moving on -- >> i'm sure. thank you. we'll be talking soon. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll have news on a big victory in the fight against voter suppression. but we'll tell you about some new dirty tricks from the old republican playbook. >>> plus, why the electoral map and the math favor president obama in the home stretch. folks, it looks like we may be able to isolate the spread of romnesia. >> now, the president -- the president has a new term but as you said -- >> romnesia. >> romnesia. and by the way, guess what, it's contagious. >>> and it made a big difference in '08. will general colin powell endorse president obama once again in these last two weeks before the election? you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. humans -- even when we cross our t

i went to women groups and said can you help us find them and they brought home binders full of women. >> all right. john you learn? >> i learned there's a corrilary to that. if you happen to see mike with a rain coat, run in the other direction. there's nothing else under that rain coat. >> andrea mitchell, what did you learn? >> the hardest job was secret service details, keeping those two guys apart. >> mark hall per rin? >> two state election. if romney wins them both, he wins. if he doesn't win them both, he doesn't win. >> i think he will win virginia. >> it's ohio, ohio, ohio. >> what did you learn? >> i'm still trying to process watching the debate with ohio and

i went to women groups and said can you help us find them and they brought home binders full of women. >> all right. johnearn? >> i learned there's a corrilary to that. if you happen to see mike with a rain coat, run in the other direction. there's nothing else under that rain coat. >> andrea mitchell, what did you learn? >> the hardest job was secret service details, keeping those two guys apart. >> mark hall per rin? >> two state election. if romney wins them both, he wins. if he doesn't win them both, he doesn't win. >> i think he will win virginia. >> it's ohio, ohio, ohio. >> what did you learn? >> i'm still trying to process watching the debate with ohio and ari and a giant cockroach. >> and i found out the most popular man in s in mississippi and boston. i was curtis and it was a remarkable place. he's just a remarkable guy. >> how many hands there because he has drinks in both hands. >> he's got two drinks. >> did you have simultaneous translation? >> yes, i did. mike said his job of stopping drinking is -- >> go to red wine. >> curtis, we miss you. hottie tottie. >> right now it's time for chuck

binder full of women. but at the end of the day, you know, i think you're coming back to that very -- the very point that job made which is, these -- john made which is these two guys were spending a lot of time bashing each other and not a whole lot of time taking those arguments and relating them to the average person and that's what, for all the voters that we all meet, what i hear overwhelmingly from -- especially from women is, i want these men to live just a day in my life. i want them to understand what it's like to be me and to have to try to do the 10 or 15 things i'm doing in a day. and this is why this issue about who understands the middle class, who understands those values is going to be very important. and for mitt romney, to be able to shat that are image. gwen: one thing they do get is that they need those voters. if you have any doubt that both campaigns are doubting them, take a look at these new ads that went up in battle ground states instantly the debate ended. both of them about abortion rights. >> banning all abortions. >> i'd be delighted to sign that bill. >> trying to mislead us. that's wrong. but then all abo

john miller thank. now to the race for the white house. governor mitt romney's reference to binders full of well have democrats on athe tack and republicans push back. they are fighting for female voters in the important swing states. jan crawford is in washington this morning. >> reporter: good morning. romney meant to say binders of women resumes but that was a pretty important word that he left out and let me tell you it took off like wildfire yesterday. we heard about it all day on the campaign trail and if at times it seemed romney and the president were only talking to half of their audiences maybe that's because they were. from president obama in iowa -- >> when young women graduate they should get equal pay for equal work. >> reporter: to mitt romney in virginia. >> there's 3.6 million more women in poverty today. >> reporter: they spent wednesday trying to connect with women, reacting to a moment from tuesday's debate that went viral. during a conversation on equal pay romney recalled his search as massachusetts governor for qualified women advisers. >> i went to a number o

the great social binders that move beyond religious differences, the martin luther king's, named john d.'s, they understood that you did you create those bonds, or someone will create the instances to tear those bonds apart. it is a great moneymaker. it is not just the media. the media likes of drama. but the real issue is you can build your political societies on the hatred of another, or you can build on more pragmatic things, like better wages, better health care. and every society in the world is struggling with the question and choice. am i going to build nine nigerian political career on or building a well in the class? everyone faces that choice. the key for civil society, particularly for religious groups, civil society around the world, and all my friends in nigeria, to syria, other places, was how would they utilize their power as civil society people, to create the social contract, the unwritten social contract between groups that makes these kinds of incidents into embarrassing exceptions, not opportunities for unscrupulous politicians or others to use that to build their

this set our country's politics much prefers the frivolity of binders full of women, the president answering innocently it seems to me johne not optimal. wouldn't have been his word choice except in his response to john stewart. we're going to phobing focus on that. less depressingly, i'll take myself less seriously. i learned that the duke simone in conservative gossip at the court of louis the 14th thought his contribution to society was so great that in his memoirs he wrote 3,000 paejz published in 40 volumes. i can't produce that and there's a whole pair docks. >> imagine that dude on twitter. vicky. >> we can't take the gender gap for granted, that preference of democrats by women. you know, we've been seeing so much bounce in the polls in terms of women in 2010. we also saw a preference for republicans by women. in 2012 i don't know what's going to happen. is this going to be an exception or more of the same? >> this is a big thing to keepure eyes on. women do vote differently for men. they have for some time. my thanks to all of you. thank you for getting up, and thank you for joining us today for "up." join us tom

. >> john: mitt romney completely avoided whether he would support the legislation. >> jennifer: bindersf women he brought to his office. that was his answer. he didn't list one single policy that he would sign. i know some women. some are my best friends. i had some in my administration even. >> eliot: in terms of seeing how this plays out electorally does the immigrant vote continue to be rock solid for the president and does the gender gap eremerge in which the gains romney has shown will disappear. and the swing states that are close, ohio, virginia, the pivot point for the election will fall back pretty neatly into the president's camp. that's in terms of the mechanics of this, the critical issue. >> jennifer: i do think the president was very good on hitting back before his complete ridiculous math. the math doesn't work issue. it does not add up. and i'm so glad as your client points out. we'll see a lot of that in the coming days. >> john: when the president did the math from $5 trillion to $7 trillion, you have a thought on that, michael? >> it is not just -- we're talking about

john miller thank you. >>> now to the race for the white house. mitt romney's reference to binders full of women has republicans on the attack and democrats pushing back. jan crawford has this story for us. >> he meant to say binders full of women's resumes. that was an important word left out there. and the vice president is talking about it in nevada later on this morning as these candidates reach out for that all-important women's vote. from president obama in iowa -- >> young women graduate they should get equal pay for equal work. >> reporter: to mitt romney in virginia. >> there are 3.6 million more women in poverty today. >> reporter: the presidential candidates spent wednesday trying to connect with women. reacting in part from a moment on tuesday's debate that went viral. conversation on equal pay, romney recalled his search as massachusetts governor for qualified women advisers. >> i went to a number of women's groups and said can you help us find folks? >> reporter: but then he continued. >> they brought us whole binders full of women. >> reporter: overnight his binders

binders of remorse. we have julian epstein, jonathan capehart, and here with me in new york, msnbc political analyst jonathan alter, a columnist for the bloomberg view. johnart, if i can start with you, in the first debate mr. romney was antagonistic. in the second debate much more friendly to the president. in the third debate he became the president, agreeing with virtually everything that the commander in chief said. that debate, that wasn't a debate. that was political osmosis. >> it was incredible. as i wrote today, what a waste of time. at a certain point i began to feel like i either was listening to them in stereo or sitting in an echo chamber. mitt romney, who has campaigned on a whole lot of issues, foreign policy issues, suddenly -- >> john, i'm sorry to interrupt you -- john, i'm sorry to interrupt you, you said it was a waste of time. how can it possibly be a waste of time when a candidate for president of this country is exposed as utterly ignorant in foreign policy, who looks at an atlas and throws out the country mali it give the impression he knows something about sub-saharan africa? that was the point of last night and that was not worth

binder full of men? who could have forecasted such a thing? wait, i can think of somebody who could have forecasted such a thing. >> why are you showing me this? john is going to move north. the moisture from john left over, the spin, the storm itself will turn into a depression, no nothing really to turn about as far as wind but watch where the precipitation will go. some of it will head towards the west. >> it looks like he's talking about hurricane series. >> that happened. >> oh, my god. speaking of getting up close and personal. jesus. >> is that new or -- >> reader's digest recently did two personal in depth interview was president obama and mitt romney. they covered everything from how they persevere to their favorite words and jokes. obama's favorite joke was so my campaign manager is in some meeting and this couple has brought their 4-year-old son, charming kid, full of energy, and clearly the patients were very proud of him. somewhere in the room is a picture of me and the parents prompting hmm saying who is that? the boy looks and says that's barack obama, and they say what does barack obama do? and he thinks for a second and says, he ap

binders is the big buzz word of this debate. we'll take a look at what else from the debate is trending on the web this morning. welcome back to "early start." i'm johnolin. two presidential debates down, one to go now. with president obama turning in a decidedly stronger performance against mitt romney last night in the town hall. the viewers agree with cnn's post-debate poll showing the president taking the top spot over romney 46% to 39%. compare that with the first presidential debate that put romney over obama a whopping 67% to 25%. >> we'll be bringing you up to the minute analysis all morning and looking ahead to the third and final debate, which is next week. that will be the last chance the candidates have to make their cases to the american electorate. with us now to talk about all of this, cnn contributor ana navarro and cnn contributor roland martin, and senior congressional correspondent dana bash from cnn. the first question, obviously, a much different debate than the first one. president obama, did he do what he had to do? richard? >> i think it was a great night and a great debate. it was obviously a great night for the president who