brad blakeman, judith miller, and monica crowley. next >> the one it is good to have you all here. we have monica crowley and brad drake and then blakeman and judith miller. >> he needs one. there is a new poll out today, 70% of that age group said they were definitely voting. this time around, only 58%. lou: this is the latest nbc wall street journal marist poll. the president leading in the state of nevada by 50% to 47% per governor romney. in the state of colorado, they are tied 48% to 48%. what is your expectation on the swing states? we just went through all of us. ohio looks more critical than ever, if that is possible. >> -- but now everything is going to come down to the ground game. we see that it is pretty evenly divided. we still see some undecideds. that is where barack obama should have the advantage. lou: it is a little esoteric, but i think republicans and democrats think that the ground game is set to go for this election. >> you bet. the rnc was putting her grounding together when romney was in the primaries. even wi

the "a-team", monica crowley, jedediah bila, judith miller, heading our way with the answers. the answers. 0t[h7 lou: joining me now is the "a-team", author and radio talkshow hosts, monica crowley. author of the book outnumbered, jedediah bila, and pulitzer prize-winning journalist, judith miller. judy, let's begin with you. yemen in the attack that killed the head of your security and the u.s. embassy there. this is getting worse. >> it is getting worse. this is a veteran employee. he had been the liaison between the yemeni security and the americans for a long time. this is a guy who should have known and would have been careful about security. it means that it is probably al qaeda and the arabian peninsula have. they ambushed him. you never saw it coming. it just means that this evil, islamism, militant islamism is spreading. we are going to be targeted and we have to be ready. lou: obviously we have not been ready for americans. those were murdered americans, not sure why security was denied in benghazi, we have not learned why this administration will not give answers.

analyst, brit hume, congressional candidate mia love and the a-team tonight is brad blakeman, judith millerd james freeman. the obama white house is caught up in a torrent of questions about its response. the last ones about the terrorist attack in benghazi. charges of cover-up and incompetence are raging on capitol hill, and each day seems to bring new evidence of an administration that can barely keep up with new revelations and developments. now, we have learned that a top aide to secretary of state hillary clinton called the attack in benghazi and apparent act of terrorism in a briefing to capitol hill staffers today after ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans were murdered by terrorists. fox news chief washington correspondent with our report. reporter: nearly a month after the murder of ambassador chris stevens, and three other americans, a house committee is set to hear testimony by american security officers who will tell congress their pleas for enhanced safety measures in libya in the days leading up to 9/11, were rebuffed by higher-ups in the state department a

with reaction to that let's bring in judith miller, fox news contributor and fellow at the man and ante and former press secretary for vice president al gore. who has the most to lose tonight? >> joe biden has the most to lose because if he doesn'' improve on the president's performance, this ticket is in big trouble. dagen: is it avoiding gaffes this evening? i would rather see him a little loose with his lips than be a board. >> he is not going to be boring. neither of them are. we have two attack dogs. both have something to prove tonight. you have joe biden who is going to be trying to make up for the president's lackluster performance last week and also paul ryan, the first major appointment on the stage, first big time here and also have to show he can bring something to the ticket because he is the first v.p. candidate in modern memory who did not give romney a bounce out of nominating the ticket. dagen: that was one of the things that the speech by paul ryan. it was a little -- looked like he didn't give very many speeches of that magnitude but does paul ryan need to be carefu

judith miller is a pulitzer prize prize winning investigator and fox news contributor. judith you and i were talking about this in the green room. very often watching congressional hearings for me is like watching paint dry. watching what was taking place -- you know in those what happened in benghazi hearings was absolutely rivetting and your old paper "the new york times" could barely find a way to mention it. >> they managed to mention it, jon, on page 3, a hearing in which it was disclosed for the first time that the regional security officer had repeatedly asked for morey enforcements, better security and had been turned down by two people, neither of whom had ever been to libya. this hearing was filled with revelations about security lapses and yet "the new york times" managed to put it on page 3 with a refer on the front page. this was so outrage us that even the paper's own omsbudsman march get sullivan was forced to write a blog, page 3? how do you explain this? how do you explain the under coverage of this and she was told by thed today toers there werthe edito

judith miller spent 85 days in jail. if anything i think highlights just how tightly doj and the government has found itself in the normal case, setting -- unlikely to yield prosecution because it shows a system that really wants to catch leakers looks like him and it's pretty harsh. >> thank you for that reminder that this conversation started well before the obama administration, and we are so focused the present -- we did a conference at the old center i think for a five years ago on this very topic of secrecy. and i went through the transcript last night, and now that i've listened to did i want to say, we think we're having the same old conversation but we are not. we are not really looking towards solutions and remedies, and where we stand in terms of the interests of these between long and policy actually. so what do you know it or not we have actually come some distance, which is what the next that is going to talk about. so get some coffee, get some cookies and come back. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible conv

you partnered with judith miller to write a piece critical in particular of candy crowley stepping intoispute in favor of the president and you think it swung the debate in a meaningful way and you think mitt romney will come out swinging in the next one. >> absolutely mitt romney will come out swinging. pat and i agree this is the central question facing the two candidates in the next and final foreign policy debate. but bottom line i thought mitt romney was more than holding his own in the first 45, 50 minutes of the debate. i thought when candy crowley became a fact checker and ultimately a fact checker who was on shaky ground if not just plain wrong. it threw the entire tenor of the debate out. obama became renewed and vigorous on an issue on which i think he has extreme vulnerability. he bece indignant and won the issue in the debate. it was taken outrageous question of failure for the administration what happened in libya, and i think they managed to get through the last 20 odd days without a political problem. the issue is can they get through the next 20 days with the foreign po

jon: well, joining us now on our news watch panel, judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning reporter, kirsten, both are fox news contributors. the president really didn't call it an act of terror, but most people have read that transcript or heard the replay of the rose garden sound bite. they can decide for themselves whether he said it or whether he didn't, but, judy, does this effect bob schieffer's performance? i mean, does he jump in with both feet to this debate in the same way that candy crowley does, or does he leave very much alone? >> well, i think that he's going to be very aware the criticism, jon, of both the first moderator who was described, jim lehrer, as a potted plant, and the last moderator, the second moderator -- the third, actually, candy crowley, who was -- she designated herself as the kind of instant fact checker in chief and turned out to be wrong. so he's got to really chart a course in between these two. bob schieffer's one of the most experienced foreign policy experts when it comes to anchors that i know of, and i think he's not only going to be wearing a suit of

joining us in on our news watch panel now, judith miller or, a pulitzer prize-winning author. kirsten, do you think the media got it wrong in their characterizations of this debate? >> actually, for once i don't. [laughter] it was interesting as the debate was going on and it became pretty clear what was happening, that it was undeniable that rommy was winning -- romney was overwhelmingly winning the debate. he wasn't just doing well, the president was doing extraordinarily bad. i started to wonder, you know, if there was any possible way the media could bend this in obama's favor, but really i didn't see anybody even attempting to do that. everybody seemed to have reported it as it happened. jon: you know, i heard ann compton from abc, judy, talking about the debate in the immediate minutes after, and she said i was so surprised, the president did so poorly. there just seemed to be this disbelief among many major media players that president obama didn't win. >> right. well, it was -- when you start out with the assumption that this is a make or break moment for governor romn

judith miller is a fox news contributor. you know her. she's here all the time.ic they need to address? >> the economy and jobs. i think both candidates need to lay out a clear vision for the future with mitt romney, he needs to lay out specifics because he hasn't done that all along. i think he needs to tell the american people face-to-face for the first time to the biggest audience what he's going to do specifically to create jobs and improve the economy. >> steve: you know, mitt romney says he's going to create 12 million jobs if elected president. our president who had four years is still at a net-net deficit for jobs. >> that's not true. a recent report last week released showed he has a net gain in jobs. >> steve: right, but maybe the president as well needs to explain how he's going to create a million jobs. >> yes, i think he has already done that by introducing the american jobs act. we need to get that passed. >> steve: okay. judith? >> i think he's got to make clear what his specifics are. we know a lot about goals for governor romney. but we don't kno