joining us, the republican senator from south dakota, john thune, a romney campaign surrogate.ood to see you. thank you. >> good evening, shep. how are you? >> shep: i'm great. looking forward to hearing specifics tonight as i think so many americans are. is that what we're going to get from paul ryan tonight? >> i think what you will get from paul ryan is you're going to get a clear contrast. i think paul ryan will be well prepared. he always do his homework and he's very knowledgeable on policy matters. i hope this is a debate that's about policy. i hope it's about differences. i think it will lay out to the american people a very clear choice on november 6 and two very different visions fort future of this country. but i think it will be a very spirited debate. i hope it is. i hope the american people are tuned in because i think you're going to see in paul ryan somebody who represents a different direction for the country that is not what we've been tethered to for the last four years, which is fewer jobs, more spending, higher taxes and lower take home pay. >> shep: before

through the night with heavy hitting, like the former deck commission cochair, we also have senator john thune and los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. meanwhile, while the candidates debate over the direction of the country, companies are being scared right out of the country. then, the guy who stuffed himself in an overhead bin. a 100-dollar be. he is here to make his case. washington is jumping in. the health care takeover could nearly 1 billion people around the world don't have enough food to survive. we can't let this happen. there is something we can do about it. please join christina aguilera and yum! brands in the movement to fight world hunger by supporting the united nations world food programme. for more information, go to fromhungertohope.com. your contribution will feed children and save lives. together, we can stop the dying and start the living. and together, we can move people from hunger to hope. neil: companies are packing up so they don't have to pay up. there is a new cato study showing high corporate taxes are driving businesses out of here. the u.s. rate is nearly twi

through the night with heavy hitting, like the former deck commission cochair, we also have senator john thune and los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. meanwhile, while the candidates debate over the direction of the country, companies are being scared right out of the country. then, the guy who stuffed himself in an overhead bin. a 100-dollar be. he is here to make his case. washington is jumping in. the health care takeover could be making people sick. neil: companies are packing up so they don't have to pay up. there is a new cato study showing high corporate taxes are driving businesses out of here. the u.s. rate is nearly twice the international average. david asman says that is a job killer. >> that is a job killer. they have a corporate rate of 18%, ours is 35%. this is sending businesses out of the country. what is really ridiculous is these high rates. just hang with me for a second. if you look at the chart, you can see that the most income from our taxes come from individual taxes. the third bar is corporate taxes and you can see the 7.9%. now, we have about $200 billion from cor

that's senator john thune if you want to talk to him and hear his opinion. rubio and senator portman. the field was flooded with with those red signs. they were everywhere. >> bill: you walk up to those guys and say i'm from so and so. >> fnc has these guys come to them. they are national they will come to us. these are local media trying to get these guys quick sound bite on camera. >> bill: that's interesting. >> there were maybe two blue signs that's it. in a sea of maybe 15 red. there were no blue. i talked to carl cameron about it you gays know him. that's how you can tell who won and who lost. if the blue team thought that president obama won it too would be flooded with blue signs. this is what happens. they are in the back figuring out what they're going to try to say. >> bill: spinning people say the president won. stefanie cutter. >> they had cutter and axelrod and mow -- mosena. one was saying romney is a great debatedder. one was saying he was testy. they didn't even have their messages straight. they were out there five minutes and disappeared i

he could be in the presidential circle, senator john thune.d to see you, senator. >> good to see you and be with you as always. neil: i covered a few debates. we're going into them, each guy sells their guy to the closest thing as an idiot, and no matter how poorly he did, he's a genius. >> right. neil: what are we to derive from that? >> well, this has become, and i think it's partly fueled by the media -- neil: here we go, sorry. >> the expectations game, neil. i think both sides want to exceed examinations, obviously, and when they go into a debate, it's not so much about beating the other person, but beating expectations. neil: well, do you think the challenge is on the challenger? he already has an edge when he -- he's on the same field. >> right. neil: stage as the president, but that maybe given his phone numbers, it's on him to really put up. >> it is. i think that's why, and to be fair, talking about expectations, the romney campaign is realistic about this, and that is, they are going against the sitting president. it's difficult to

>>john thune of south dakota who was on the list as a runnin mate. paul ryan getting the nod. from our twitter page. next from savannah, georgia. we are getting your reaction to the debate from kentucky. >> this is my first time calling. i am so surprised at how people react about vice president joe biden. mr. romney was a very rude to me the other night during the debate. he talked over the moderator. vice-president joe biden cannot believe that he was sitting there telling lies. >> thank you for the call. one other moment from the debate as it focused on taxes, the economy, and the deficit, and a reference to former president kennedy. >> first of all, i was there when ronald reagan gave specifics to what he was going to cut in terms of tax expenditures. 97% of small-business americans paid -- make less than $250,000. amid tell you who some of the other small businesses are. hedge funds that make a hundred million dollars a year. that is what they call as small business. gov. romney on 60 minutes about 10 days ago was asked, you pay 14% on $20 million. somebody making $50,000

i'm with senator john thune from south dakota.den in the senate and paul ryan in the house that. means you can handicap both of them tonight. >> it will be an interesting debate. joe biden is a very colorful guy. of course, paul ryan always does his homework. when he came to the house of representatives, he immersed himself into the details of policy. he will be very well prepared. what i hope to see tonight is just the clear contrast that exists in terms of the go visions for this country. that will come out clearly tonight, because they will be able to mix it up when it comes to the big policy issues. i know paul ryan and governor romney want this election to be about big things. i hope we have an opportunity to debate some of those, because the country has some large challenges ahead of us. >> senator, joe biden has made it sound as if he's going to get in there and it might be scrappy with joe biden and paul ryan. do you think paul ryan is ready for that? >> i do. paul ryan is a very competitive guy in every aspect of his life

two republican senators chuck grassley from iowa and john thune of south dakota say they want more informationis company, a-123 systems was chosen to receive this stimulus money, whether or not there were signs it was struggling, whether they did due diligence before granting this money. we have a statement from the romney campaign saying that the -- at a town hall debate four years ago, then senator obama promised to easily create 5 million green jobs. a-123's bankruptcy is another failure for the president's disastrous strategy of gambling away billions of taxpayer dollars on a strategy of government led growth that simply does not work. while the president said he would double down in the second term, governor romney will return the federal government's focus to its proper role of supporting research and creating an environment where private sector innovation can thrive. i should mention, brooke, this is not a poster child for these republican critics. after all, this firm, a-123 systems, it started with $100,000 in seed money from the government under bush's -- george w. bush's term and al

representatives speaking on behalf of the candidates, and, again, mitt romney, and we saw mayor juliani and john thune and democrats doing the same for obama. do you recall the procedure those who supported you as well as those who supported joe biden were going to leave the debate early, if not even watch the -- say the last 15 minutes of the debate because a lot of these guys, governor, were in place and talking before the debate was even done. in other words, is that usual? >> you know, i had no idea four years ago what was going on behind the scenes or in headquarters. in fact, we used to have a running joke that the jv squad, those on the vice presidential side of the ticket, we used to talk about where is this mysterious headquarters, and what are they doing to this campaign? i didn't know back then how it worked. i still don't know the inside baseball stuff. i just know as an average american that i am expecting the candidates at this level to be able to explain to the people the true state of our union, what our economy actually looks like, and what we can do to turn things around, and, again,

republican senator john thune, the lead sponsors of the sequestration transparency act, finds the obama the white house's guidance over 1 million americans employed by the defense industry fear that their jobs are now on the line unless president obama, senate democrats engage with congressional republicans on replacing the unbalanced defense cuts with alternative savings. brian? >> brian: all right. thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll see where this goes or if anyone takes notice. besides us. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. that was kelly wright helping us out. >> steve: right. we're going to have a quick clarification. earlier i did an interview with a woman from our dc bureau about the military -- if you're interested in getting military absentee ballot. let us put up on the screen the correct e-mail address. go to -- rather web address is fvap.gov. i said dot org. >> brian: jot that down. all right. so in a few minutes, barry sanders will be here talking about -- okay. >> steve: he's here. >> brian: thanks for blowing my surprise. >> steve: we got other headlines for yo

sinema: at about a 12-point jobs in john thune talks about specific ways that congress can help creater job climate in arizona entered the country when it is time to talk about this choke points, but will mention. first, right now companies get texture words for shipping jobs overseas. which leaves american out of jobs and shortchanged. i want to switch the tax code around and provide taxes for businesses that hire folks right in america. number two, a disparate business and give them tax credit and senator have veterans who served our country when they come home have great skills that we can put to use right here in arizona. a good example is the research and development tax credit. when a circular state legislature, i hope after a research and development credit that brings high tax highway shouts to her. we need to do that federally in the long term to bring those jobs right here to america. parker: at a 16-point plan, so maybe minus four-point better than ms. sinema. the first thing we should do is we should freeze the current tax rate. if we do that, we would put $4000 in the pock

i went to senator john thune in south dakota. we wrote a provision into the farm belt.ed, and it passed the senate back in july. that is the way you do bipartisan bipartisan work. it could be the china currency bill, it can be our bus safety bill. i teamed up with kay bailey hutchison from texas. we don't have time, but i can list 10 or 15 things by mark. >> moderator: senator mandel. mandel: that is washington speak. he is a rubberstamp or political party. when i go to washington, my boss is 11.5 million people in ohio. no one could push me around. >> moderator: senator brown, the senate has not passed over alleged traditional budget in the past three years. senator, your party and democrats have been in charge of the senate during all that time. how much blame for the failure to perform except duties do share for that, and have you ever had a conversation with the majority leader, senator reid about how the senate is not doing its job? brown: i do not agree with that assumption. one quick point on the 95% -- 96% of the time, josh mandel has voted with the republican s