>> john hughes? john was like the sixth member of "the breakfast club." >> was he like a kid?hen he was on set with ugh, he was like one of us. >> that is so cool. >> "when it happens to you." we could talk about it all day. we'll be right back with much more "morning joe." two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> earlier today the medical team received the nobel prize for reviving the mitt romney campaign. brought it back to live. >> good morning, it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 p.m. on the west coast. taking a live look at new york city. back with us on set, we have mike barnicle and richard haass. i want to show you new polls new pew research shows t

i have to say a little more serious than a john hughes film. it's about mystic kids finding a community together. it's about a boy named charlie. he's a freshman in high school. he's had some depression and meantal health issues. he thinks he's going to be a wall flower all year. then he finds his fellow freaks and weirdos and then discovers they are the coolest and most interesting kids in the school. >> sure. >> it was nos tall jik. i think young people will relate to these characters so much. i have a few tiny little kwibls about it. i feel like it's a little self-conscious. at one point charlie says i feel infinite which strikes me as the kind of thing an adult might say looking back on their teenage years. >> how many stars? >> that one gets three big stars. >> so that would be good for teenagers. >> for sure. i really liked it a lot. quickly last week, looper is one heck of a science fiction film with bruce willis and joseph cordon. >> you would give it how many stars? >> 3 1/2 stars. one of the best of the year. >> go o's. hey, what are

. >> we talk about the diaries, ann whitman, howard snyder, but you also look at diaries of john hughes. >> he was a speechwriter. eisenhower did not like him because he wrote a book about the eisenhower administration that was not flattering. hughes had a big ego. he exaggerated in his own biography. but i use the diaries more than i use the memoirs. >> how extensive? >> not every day, but pretty extensive. he leaves after a couple of years but is brought in sporadically. he is useful for the first couple of years of eisenhower's administration. >> jackson? >> a psychological warfare adviser. he had a lot of theories, lots bad, a few good. he was way out there on wanting to do crazy covert action against the soviet union. >> of all of these diaries, which was the best penmanship? >> some were typed. >> who was the best writer? >> hughes was the most writerly, but snyder was the most honest. >> who was bernard shanley? >> he was a confidential appointment secretary, a new jersey lawyer, a hack. he kept copious diaries. he wrote about what it felt to be around ike. he would catch ike's c

>> first it's a great win for the citizens of the state of ohio that john hugh stead here has to have and monday. melissa, as you know, 93,000 people voted in 2008 during that weekend. so that was a tremendous win and so important, so what you're seeing now since that naacp, will be working with the baptist ministers in their conferences in the area getting their buses ready to make sure people get down to the polls on the last three days. the state of ohio will probably break by 50,000 votes one way or the other. so when you're talking about 93,000 people participating in 2008 in those three days, this was a significant decision by the sixth circuit court and i think a very important one. what we're focused on on the ground since that naacp we implemented a program where we've been sleeping out for the last five years, melissa, getting in line, i cast the first vote in hamilton county to make sure that people are aware that it is so important to participate in the political process. and people keep saying that people aren't enthusiastic. people are incredibly enthusiastic in the stat

one molly wing wald away from this being a john hughes movie.had a lifetime of hearing, tagg, you're it, i would probably have anger issues. i'm always it! i don't want to be it! [ applause ] his father, mitt romney, has been very focused on female voters lately. he and president obama are neck and neck in that department. some believe mitt romney's comment of having binders full of women on the debate on tuesday may have hurt him but today he released a slew of new campaign ads that are clearly targeted at the female of our species. >> hi, ladies. mitt romney here. you know, i love women. i love just everything about them. shape of them. the way they talk about their relationships and diets all the time. and they menstruate, which is a miracle. and they're always in the workplace and i have no problem at all with that. we romneys have always loved women. heck, my great grandfather married 12 of them. how do you keep 12 women satisfied? i have no idea. but i believe women are just terrific. my own mother was a women. on the front page of my bind

>> well, where that stands is the secretary of state, john hughes, petitioned the white house, the attorneyeneral, for help, for guidance on this issue, what to do, and never heard back. so he's trying to figure out what to do on his own. >> are there stories of corruption, people breaking the law, voter fraud? >> well, we have three cases right in franklin county, which is where the state capital is, of voters alleged to have voted twice under slightly different names. these are emerging cases of fraud that are being discovered. we don't have any evidence of widespread fraud, but there are isolated cases like these that are beginning to emerge, and we're going to do everything in our power to investigating and make sure that we send a clear message that we want everybody who's legally allowed to vote to vote, but if you break the law we're going to pursue it and we're going to prosecute. >> we're always concerned about potential voter fraud here in the county at the board of elections. we take it very seriously, looking and reviewing all aspects of the election process, to determine that a

hughes psychos. >> your name is john? why did it in you leave oklahoma? there is a lot of oil out there. >> guide joined the military >> thank you for your service. >> technically, no pictures. you can do them while i am assigning. i hear that all lot. by before father's day. happy birthday. nice to meet you, meredith. >> there work at the center for public justice. and a organization promoting social injustice. >> good for you. it was formed in the '70s. >> i have not heard of that before. i will look into it. hello. thank you i am getting these four family. >> ice jams -- i am in sales. i will be honest. it is very nice to meet you. >> you should hang out where they are selling the books. >> and caisse i need dental work. >> do have an accent? thanks for coming. >> [inaudible] >> win is his birthday? >> halloween. thank you last night i saw the romney and paul ryan. >> night before even. [laughter] >> you did it with that? what happened to your wrist? >> q. did a better summary than i could give. >> i read demonic one year-ago. >> i get him on twitter.

>> the secretary of state is john hugh stead. he is a republican, he will have a recount in ohio automatically if the vote tote sl within a half a percent. that will trigger automatically. both of these campaigns have legal teams on the ground. they have confirmed that to me privately. if either one of these campaigns says it's too close and they're not going to succeed i finalt it difficult to believe any network will cause m call the race without ohio. and john kerry thought he was close enough and he ended up losing the state to just over 100,000 votes and yet ohio held things up and both of these campaigns are looking at results closer than that. there are things in place for automatic recounts but things outside of that could hold things up if they believe there are discrep sis or legal reasons why they won't concede the state. >> what we saw in 2,000 in florida is basically the cherry picking by al gore and the democrats on a couple of key doesn't tiss. if a recount were in place in ohio would it be across all of ohio's cou

. >> the seating for today's panel had hugh over here and john over here because of the electric debatebout three-day versus 72-hour. [laughter] >> this is why i sit in the middle. so i want to pick up on points that both of you have made, and i'm going to have a little bit of fun with it. so, you know, i'm hearing a lot about the successes, in some respects i'm hearing about the deficits, but i think it might be useful to sort of reverse the roles a little bit. so where do you see the greatest deficits in terms of what congress needs to do to be more open and transparent? what's the next big thing or the next two big things that they need to do only out of fairness so they can be ready, i'm going to ask similarly, i mean, you can identify deficits if you so desire, but it'd be helpful to identify where in the last two or four years have you seen the greatest positive change as well? so i'll start with -- >> sure. you know, i'm actually going to key off of some to have stuff that, some of the work jim's done over the years. um, you know, what we, what we're doing well right now is we're

john kennedy, he was a friend of mine. the seek convention bwas starte by brett hugh. he went on to become the vice president. and benson went back to texas as a senator. so we ought noto get too caught up in how this will alter the outcome of something. >> chuck todd, back at the venue. there was no "you're no jack kennedy" moment tonight. we did hear jack kennedy, we heard a couple of tip o'neills, big night to be an irish catholic because those separately discussed. >> and don't would get mularkey and stuff. they said that was irish for mularkey. i'm not an irishman, brian, you are, but i didn't know that's what stuff stood for. but i'll leave it at that. i think if you were the debate coaches at a university, probably here at centre college, you'd have to say on points biden did win this debate because he kept ryan on the defensive. he controlled the agenda. he did his best to sort of fire a lot of bullets. i think the stylistic issues of biden, did he come across too hot, was there odd laughter smirking and erupting, and i think you're seeing that's why the republicans are pushing this because on substan

john, thank you. we'll see you again in an hour. >>> up next, we'll turn our focus to the markets and earnings. hughll join us to talk about the just released quarterly results. >>> and then at the bottom of the hour, the ceo of csx, the railroad's always a good economic indicator. . >>> plus, we have reaction to bank of america earnings and changes at citi from banking analyst jeffrey harte. >>> welcome back to "squawk box" this wednesday morning. let's get you caught up on the headlines. a dutch maker of chip making gear is buying u.s.-based cymer, a supplier of light beam technology that's a key part of manufacturing next generation computer chips. the national retail federation says the average u.s. consumer is going to be spending about $750 on holiday season gifts and other items. that's up about 1.2% from a year ago. and would be the smallest increase in four years. >>> and ford is recalling 262,000 fiesta subcompacts for model years 2011 and 2013, 2011 to 2013, the recall is going to be fixing a possible issue with the programming for passenger side air bags. take a look at futures this morn