sales of calvin klein already. we know what needed to be done. second darly -- i think it will really solidify the brand's position, allow us to really cohesively bring the calvin klein brand to our consumers in a way that we can't do now with a license or a licensee relationship with warnaco. >> were you shocked that your stock looked like it was acquired today, that it was up 20% on this news? >> yeah, i guess i was somewhat surprised. i expected a positive balance. you talked about it about six, eight weeks ago. it's a deal that everyone i think understands the industrial logic of the transaction, so it's hopeful that it will be a positive bounce. but the 20% bounce really was pretty astounding. >> that's a testament to what you did with tommy. there's a couple things that stand out to me. i've been waiting for you to go big in asia and latin. this sit, right? >> this is one of the advantages that they have. they have an operating platform in latin america and in asia where they're over 750 to $800 million in bu

at the 10. >> how about collin klein?ast two weeks he's 549 yards, four touchdown passes and six rushing touchdowns. >> charles: it's almost not fair. i mean, we keep talking about heisman front runner. he has really become that guy and has expanded his game along the way. before i think people were saying it because of sheer force of he's winning, his rushing numbers, and now he's expanded and hits you in every direction. >> gus: eliminating contenders as well. last week geno smith. this week, if they hold on, doe doege. this one coming right at you. >> charles: and that's a touchdown pass. shuffle pass, shuffle pass, shuffle pass, whatever you want to call it behind the line of scrimmage was first made famous at the university of utah with lee grostop led by his head coach. >> gus: that's a 54-point game for kansas state. they beat two pretty good football teams in west virginia, and it looks like that's going to happen today with the red raiders. >> charles: numbers 3, 4 and 5. take a look at oklahoma state, tcu with t

coverage continues now with abc's senior washington editor, rick klein. >> rick, pundits on both sides of the aisle, giving this to romney. we were expecting zingers, style, not substance. did it work? >> this was mitt romney's night. he was sharp. he was specific. he had a plan of attack. and he went after barack obama every way he could, and holding him accountable for the obama record. we haven't seen that too much in this campaign. there's been so many personal attacks. so many back and forth. he was able to say, look, this is what you promised four years ago. where is the gap here? most importantly, he's able to say, this is the choice i'm offering. and he was able to control this debate. >> did you think that romney will see a bounce coming out of this, the way that obama had a bounce coming out of the convention, in charlotte, with bill clinton's famous speech? >> he is looking for a comeback moment. what happens next is going to be important. he's going to be giving a speech on foreign policy. he'll be asked about this in interviews in the coming days. if he can build on this,

klein. it's his system, his team. >> brent: they had to develop collin. he's not a natural quarterback. >> kirk: you and i had him a couple times last year. this guy was doing a lot of great things last year for kansas state. >> brent: stechb was in deep trouble that time. good pressure, lawrence stample was in on him for the 'noles. >> brent: this >> kirk: this is where the depth of florida state and asking about the guys they can rotate in despite injuries, they are rotating seven, eight, nine different guys con staptly in and out of the game to try to maintain how farther able to play and how fresh they're able to play. same thing with the linebackers and just doing a really good job of rotating different bodies in there. >> brent: the 'canes will go foirt. penalty flag and false start. >> referee: false start, offense, number 65, five-yard penalty, fourth down. >> brent: that's a fine guard by the name of brandon linder. all of the offensive linemen for al golden this year, he's probably

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senior washington editor rick klein will have political observations here coming up later in this half-hour. >>> president obama hoped to put osama bin laden on trial, that is a cording to a new book out later this month. the book quoting the president saying, mr. obama thought he would be in a strong enough political position after bin laden's capture to put bin laden on trial in the u.s. if bin laden survived the navy seal takedown. the president expecting bin laden going down fighting the book "the finish" on sale in 12 days. >>> the administration says there is evidence that stiff economic sanctions against iran are working. iranians protested in the streets of tehran yesterday, voicing anger about iran's plummeting currency and lost more than a third of its value in just a week. so that means it is costing citizens, a lot more to purchase imported goods. >>> american airlines is sweetening its offer as contract talks continue pilots. the carrier offering to put off

klein on the phone? i think we've lost him. >> if sandusky wanted to give a press interview and tell his side of the story after sentencing, believe me, everybody's looking to talk to him. so why wouldn't you wait. do this in a dignified way. hope for the lowest possible sentence and then take your case to the public. instead, we get a college radio station broadcasting the first news of his sentencing statement. i've never seen anything like this. >> once again, just to wrap up what's transpired, jerry sandusky recording a statement from his jail cell on the eve of a sentence that could be as high as 422 years tomorrow, blaming the the system. blaming the trial judge. blaming the victims. at one point, calling a victim a aming everody bumself, asseininnocee and before we even knew about this tape, we knew he would not apologize, not ask for mercy, not suggest he was anything but innocent of the dozens and dozens of charges against him. 45 convictions in this case. that's the news, folks and it continues

lou: ed klein thank you other of "the amateur." the box office showing some signs of life, animated comedy "hotehotel transylvania at num one. and "looper," and "end of watc watch." up next, no state bailouts. senator jim demint draws a line after the governor of illinois, they say he was floating the idea, he was desperate, and still is and begging for federal help. that means your money and mine to bailout the state of illinois. >> and the united states and mexican government in secret high level meetings, they are just talking. not to conduct a war on drugs, but 30 meetings, you will love what they were talking about. jack, you'ra little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i wento the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts, more events, more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announ

and joe klein is a veteran like me, a columnist for "time" magazine. joe was active, exciting, overexcited perhaps, laughed a lot, perhaps laughed to ridicule and maybe the ridicule was appropriate. putting it all together, do you agree with me he won? >> oh, yeah, i think he won. i think he gave the other side some talking points with all of his smirking and laughing and so on, although i imagine if you're in the reality-based world, it's kind of tough to just sit there and pout while the guy is, you know -- >> well said. >> -- quoting whoppers. >> what are you supposed to do in this crazy split screen world? what are you supposed to do with your face when the guy three feet from you is saying thins you think are dead wrong? are you supposed to look down like the president did? or do you look up with a jolly face? >> or seriously take notes and shake your head in a disparaging way, but it should be smaller whatever it is than what joe was doing. joe was doing last night. although as he would say, god bless him, i love the guy. >> let me ask you, chris

lou: ed klein thank you other of "the amateur." the box office showing some signs of life, animated comedy "hotehotel transylvania at num one. and "looper," and "end of watc watch." up next, no state bailouts. senator jim demint draws a line after the governor of illinois, they say he was floating the idea, he was desperate, and still is and begging for federal help. that means your money and minee to bailout the state o illinois. >> and the united states and mexican government in secret high level meetings, they are just talking. not to conduct a war on drugs, but 30 meetings, you will love what they were talking about. >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard-earned money. now meet jack. after 40 years, he finally saved enough to enjoy retirement. angie, the waitress at jack's favorite diner, is also enjoying his retirement. with just a little information, she's opened up a credit line, drain

ben klein joins us now, an old friend of the show. thank you very much.is off the daily caller is where i see it if it may be elsewhere it may be elsewhere. hillary is in a heap of trouble because stuff is coming out now that she knew this baurpt a video spontaneous administration. she had to know that security calls were being made by the local consulate and inside the state department and yet she went along with the party line. you're saying her husband is trying to find a way to extricate her. how is he going to do that? >> bill is concerned and this is from my sources in the clinton camp that hillary will be thrown under the bus by barack obama and the chicago gang running his campaign and he has reached out to friends in the legal profession to figure out if she's number one, subpoenaed and in her memos and her documents are subpoenaed. should she appear or say this is executive privilege and not appear. >> she's in a pretty tough spot andy she had that video going into pakistan and stood by the presidents literally when the caskets of the bodies wer

come back, former mccain strategist steve schmidt and political columnist for "time" magazine, joe klein, are here to help us handicap tonight's big debate. >>> tomorrow, looking at the man playing the roam of mitt romney for obama's debate prep, senator john kerry, but first the forecast with bim karens. >>> this tuesday, we are watching a hurricane this one heading for new york america and about to make landfall. it's in mexico, the baja of

new senior washington editor, rick klein.o much for being here. >> thank you, guys. >>> now we turn to breaking news overnight as the search for a missing new jersey girl comes to a tragic end. the body of 12-year-old autumn pasqual has been found in a recycling container not far from where she was seen saturday. some 200 law enforcement personnel have been searching for the girl since her disappearance. an autopsy expected to be performed later this morning. >>> new and disturbing details in that deadly shooting at a milwaukee area day spa. we have learned that the man who killed his wife and two others had terrorized his wife for years. he threatened to throw acid in her face, slashed her tires and poured tomato juice on her car. the couple was in the process of divorcing. a high-risk time for violence according to experts. >> about 1 million people a year have a domestic violence restraining order. women tend to take those out at a time when they're trying to end the relationship. haunting word from the victim who wrote in

rick klein, thank you so much for joining us in studio this morning.ll be right back. >> thank you. >>> celebrity cat fights are nothing new. a new one involving a well-known tv actor and famous rock 'n' roller. >> abc's nick watt reports the fight is over a fallen tree. ♪ despite all my rage >> reporter: living next to smashing pumpkins billy corrigan, noise would have to be your parently not, trees smashi into your house. eric dane, mcsteamy is suing his neighbor, trespass, nuisance, neglect and emotional distress. here are the indisputable facts of the story. that is billy corrigan's house, dark, stormy night. one of the trees got blown over, smash right into eric dane's house. according to the lawsuit, this falling tree smashed the sprinkler system, the power lines, home alone, eric's pregnant wife, says she and her 20-month-old daughter were forced to flee, a quickly flooding home surrounded by live, high voltage wires without the ben president efit of light survived. >> they have been dispossessed from their home and that the house is not safe un

joe klein says not important, forget about it. >> look, i have got to tell you about that joe klein observationet that. i mean, libya is is a major story in every big newspaper in the country. it's finally made network news. i have a funny feeling that if four americans were killed in libya after they had asked for more security and george w. bush were president, joe klein would think it was an important story. i mean, this is just a liberal journalist who is rooting for barack obama, dismissing, dismissing libya as an issue. and i'm wondering since we heard it from him and we heard it from the general tonight, i'm just wondering if this is the new talking point. >> bill: it is, definitely. but president obama can't do that. see, he he can't just say hey, this isn't important. i mean, that would be the end of him. but bob schieffer has to make a decision, and this will be well worth watching everyone. whether to make this a central issue issue of the policy debate and say listen, mr. president, i don't understand what happened there. do you want to tell us tonight? you have got an opportunity r

no one better for that than rick klein. he jones us this morning, via skype as always.ick, thank you for joining us. we certainly appreciate it. as we know everyone is crunching the numbers, 8,000 polls out every day. what's the latest in terms of the national numbers and in the state of ohio which is looking more and more like it will decide this election. >> it's the tale of two different polling directions right now. we have national polls that have mitt romney pulling ahead a little bit including our own abc news/washington post poll. cracking 50% for the first time. then when you look in the critical battleground, particularly in ohio. you are seeing president obama maintain a lead. so there seems to be a firewall built around the state of ohio where the national trends, even things that are going on in other battleground. don't seem to be hitting home in ohio at least just yet. so that means we have the possibility of an electoral college winner who is different than the popular vote winner. it is becoming a more probability by the days. polls show romney getting

karen klein is with us now exclusively. good to see you.ning. >> good morning. >> you have to watch that and it's got to be very difficult to see that tape again. >> i never did see the whole thing. i didn't want to. i just saw what i just saw now pretty much. i didn't want -- i just couldn't. >> people looking at it with my reaction in part was why didn't you as a bus monitor take these kids to task right away? isn't that part of what an adult should be doing in those situations? you must have thought about that a lot. >> oh, yes, i did. i thought about that. i didn't do it. >> why? do you have any -- >> i'm glad i didn't. now that this has happened. >> right. >> now maybe we can get the bullying thing known. >> you're saying you're glad you didn't do -- >> that i didn't do something. >> it did make it on youtube. you were pleased ultimately with that. >> yeah. i mean, i still don't understand if it was a boy that took the video which i didn't even know he was doing. if he put it on or if somebody saw it and they put it on. i don't know. >

. >> we'll be talking to ezra klein, our policy analyst about mitt romney's assertion that he doesn't think employers should tell people if they have contraceptives or not. immigration, which we'll be talking about in a moment. mitt romney's overseas investments. he had a ready de rejoinder to that. it got mitt romney's 47% remarks came up at the very end of the debate in a way judged to be very effective for president obama. gun control came up, although both candidates took that as an opportunity to go off into lots of ideas totally unrelated to guns. this was a strong performance by president obama at a time when democrats said he desperately needed a strong performance. the question now is how strong? how strong does he need to be with 21 days left to go? we just got a cbs news flash poll of uncommitted voters. 37% watching tonight's debate say that president obama won. 30% say mitt romney won. 33% scored it a tie. those are uncommitted voters in a flash poll put together by cbs tonight. let's go back to chris matthews at the debate site tonight. >> rachel, we are joined by phone

still to come we'll sit down what our senior washington editor rick klein to see what he thought of last night's debate. stay tuned for that. >>> it now appears the government is building a criminal case against that massachusetts pharmacy that's at the center of the meningitis outbreak. criminal investigators from the fda were at the facility yesterday and the u.s. attorney confirmed that it was part of an ongoing investigation. officials believe tainted steroids produced at that pharmacy have led to at least 16 deaths from meningitis. >>> a federal appeals court has done an about-face on the conviction of osama bin laden's former driver. the court in washington voted 3-0 to throw out the conviction of saleem ahmed hamdan served for material support of terrorism. the judges said that was not considered a war crime at the time hamdan engaged in the activity. he is now back in yemen and actually believed to be driving a cab. >>> and cuba is instituting some travel reforms for its own citizens for the first time since the height of the cold war. raul castro's government is giving cubans th

even ezra klein -- not even ezra klein -- even ezra klein. ezra klein wrote a piece in bloomberg view like a week ago suggesting that the problem here is there's not a lot of vision as far as what the next four years mean for the president. and in terms of the competence argument, the president's got to say it's not just about mitt romney being a severe conservative cloaked in sheep's fur or whatever the old adage is, but here's what i'm going to do for you. i know what he's going to do, and this is what i'm going to propose. >> i think also those numbers -- those don't look as sunny to me for obama as they do to you. we would expect that most voters by this point have a fixed opinion of barack obama. but if 37% of people are changing their opinion about mitt romney based on, you know, a half hour of debate that they watched, i mean, that suggests that there's still extraordinary room for romney to remake himself. >> benjamin glass half empty, 8% of voters thought obama -- they had a better impression of the president after that. >> i'd like

cupp and joe klein. the new jobs report gives the obama campaign a much-needed assist after the debacle wednesday night in denver. the debate's closing statements told the tale. the president was down and mitt romney was up. >> you know, four years ago we were going through a major crisis, and yet my faith and confidence in the american future is undiminished. >> it's an important election and i'm concerned about america. i'm concerned about the direction america has been taking over the last four years. what kind of america do you want to have for yourself and your children? chris: and the impact wednesday night can be seen at least four ways. first the media consensus, from the left, center and right. the media called the president's performance a failure and say mitt romney may get a second look now. second, the g.o.p. got a lift. the entire party from fundraising got a pick me up. third, first impressions. voters just tuning into this contest got a view of mitt romney better than anything he's done b

joe klein is "time's" political economist.mity shlaes is director for the 4% project at the george w. bush institute and author of the forthcoming "coolidge: a biography of america's 30th president." ken rogoff, whom i mentioned, is a professor of economics at harvard university, and chrystia freeland is the editor of thompson reuters digital and author of "plutocrats." become back to both of you. ken, the piece i mentioned, you and carmen rinehart wrote almost a political piece about how the u.s. was doing. you said, look, compared with other big financial crises that meet the recessions, we're doing pretty well. fair? >> yeah. that's a fair characterization of what they said and what we said. i mean, it's fair game to say we can do better. we have a plan where the economy's going to grow better. but it you're going to evaluate what happened, was it a bad recovery, was it a good recovery, i think you have to compare it to deep financial crisis. this was not a plain vanilla recession. you have to compare it to deep financial c

kate obenshane, and erin klein, weekly columnist of wmd and author of fool me twice.me just go to you, mitt romney is governor of massachusetts, so they put together binders, they go out and recruit the best talented women they can find, put them in the administration, half of the senior staff or more were women. what exactly is wrong with it? >> there's nothing wrong with it, in fact it was pretty admirable. in fact mitt romney had more women in his office than any other governor in the country. really they're trying to scare women yet again because the 15-point lead -- they have got to try to villagize mitt romney and try to make him a woman hater. and romney's out there talking about the issues. >> you know what your real problem, karen? men. romney is running way ahead with men. >> white men. >> white men, white voters in general, he's running massively ahead. >> larry, in case you hadn't noticed we're actually a majority-minority country these days so there might not be enough white men for romney to win this election. this is part of the problem that romney has.

>> joe: collin klein has been impressing the heisman voters.y have been giving him great support. in recent years we've seen the last 12 quarterbacks winning the heisman. heisman voters love guys contending for the bcs title. you see matt scott, what a day he's had but the medical staff having a conversation with him. you saw the backup quarterback, b.j. denker, warming up. scott took a hit to the head, he stayed in and they scored and now matt barkley has to answer, trailing by 11 with 5:21 to play. woods in the slot. barkley with time, and he looked for aguilar and that was incomplete. >> matt: in this second half, it's been a slower day here for matt barkley. he was on fire through that first half and then this defense kind of just slowed him down a little bit. now is when he's got to be that heisman candidate we're talking about. >> joe: this defense has been playing well above expectations. this is an undersize -- guys playing out of position and learning a new scheme this year with a new coordinator. lee down at the bottom of your screen.

with us today, "time" magazine's joe klein. the bbc's katty kay. cnbc's kelly evans. and "the washington post's" david ignatius. first up, we're staring down at the wind tunnel now but historic perfect political storm in the coming nine days of this campaign. and these closing days when we played out in mind games on both sides. the president saying he jist wants to hold on -- he just wants to hold on. >> what we have is a lead that we've maintained throughout this campaign. and we are going to just continue to drive home the message that there are two fundamentally different choices in this election. about where we take the country. chris: and he's on the air with a fear factor ad. >> 537. the number of votes that changed the course of american history. >> florida is too close to call. >> so this year, if you're thinking that your vote doesn't count, that it won't matter. well, back then, there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. make your voice heard. vote. chris: mitt romney's mind game is to call heavily the new change agent. and inviting vote

thank you for joining us from studio klein out there in washington right?ac theater" is coming up next. keep it right here on "world next. keep it right here on "world news now." action i love telng big stories about big heroes. but, at the end of thehe day, rl life is better than y story. our service men and wowomen are the real heroes. every day they make the sacrifices for their country; for my country; for my son's country. the uso gives us real ways to support our real heroroes. there is a way we can n say thanks. you can go to uso.org and make a real difference in their lives today. do it. >>> welcome back. tgif, time for "insomniac theater." talk about the new horror flick, "silent hill." in a moment. first the new movie "cloud atlas" if you don't know what it is about. i don't know either. let me read you the description. it explores how action and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future. action, mystery, romance, weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a heroe

thank you for joining us from studio klein out there in washington right?ac theater" is coming up next. keep it right here on "world news now." >>> welcome back. tgif, time for "insomniac theater." talk about the new horror flick, "silent hill." in a moment. first the new movie "cloud atlas" if you don't know what it is about. i don't know either. let me read you the description. it explores how action and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future. action, mystery, romance, weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a heroen a single act of kindness, ripples across isn't chur centuries to inspire an event in the future. everybody good. let me get to the reviews here. 59% on rotten tomatoes, ap critic summarized, maybe if you are 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friend, platitudes might seem profound. any one else in his or right mind should recognize it as a bloated pseudo intellectual self-indulgent slog. not looking good. folks don't get it. >> something

your suits are polo, right, not calvin klein? >> polo. >> ralph lauren. >> do you know why i asked him this? >> it's lauren. >> it's lauren. >> sometimes you say ralph lauren. >> well, you look at them and you wonder -- >> well, there you go. >> i do. the eye of hurricane sandy hit the jersey shore very hard. these pictures that were now -- see we didn't have newspapers yesterday and -- >> if you don't have tv at home, you've not been seeing some of these pictures either. >> the boardwalk is gone. >> boardwalks, businesses, homes, millions without power, president obama's going to survey the damage with governor christie today and kayla tausche spent two days in cape may and moved north on the parkway to atlantic city where the damage is extensive. and she joins us again this morning. hi, kayla. >> reporter: hi, joe. there's definitely evidence of flooding on the buildings. the big question for business here in atlantic city is how to get the casinos rolling again. the casinos in atlantic city, lost about $5 million in collective

abc news senior washington editor, rick klein. thank you for being here. >> thank you, guys. >> we'll have fresh reaction coming up on "good morning america" today. we'll talk with vice president joe biden and also romney running mate, paul ryan. >>> chicago area congressman jesse jackson jr. is apparently on his way back to the mayo clinic for more treatment. jackson quietly went on medical leave in june. and his office released little information until confirming he was being treated at the clinic for bipolar disorder. he was released in september and returned to his washington home. >>> disturbing details about the shooting in a wisconsin day spa. the man who killed his wife and two other women had been terrorizing the women for years. the wife took out a restraining order days before the shooting, saying he threatened to kill her. that should have prevented her husband by getting a gun. but he went around the law by buying one in a private sale. >>> tropical storm sandy is barreling through the caribbean, poised to unleash hea