candidate mccain criticizes senator mccain's own climate change bill.andidate mccain says he would vote against the immigration bill that senator mccain wrote. >> yes! that's the stuff! who is this? who is this fast-talking, concise person? senator kerry. i wonder how senator kerry would fare against 2004 candidate kerry? >> it's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and be wrong. it's another to be certain and be right or be certain and be moving in the right direction, or be certain about a principle and then learn new facts and take those new facts and put them to use in order to change and get your policy right. [laughter] >> i mean, who, if i may -- [applause] >> thank you. who among us does not fail to think that we must be in so far as not to? [laughter] am i right, ladies? back me up. [cheers] >> kerry unveiled another under-utilized weapon. >> known as spring day in 1945, that great uncle helped liberate one of the concentration camps at buchenwald. ladies and gentlemen, barack obama's uncle is here with us tonight. please join me in

i love this country, and so do you, and so does john mccain. the men and women who serve in our battlefields may be democrats and republicans and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. they have not served a red america or a blue america - they have served the united states of america. [cheers and applause] [audience chanting "usa!"] so i've got news for you, john mccain. we all put our country first. america, our work will not be easy. the challenges we face require tough choices, and democrats as well as republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. for part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. what has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. and that's what we have to restore. we may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. [cheers and applause] the reality of gu

obviously. >> i'm up late. >> jon: so obviously, senator john mccain has made an enormous amount overama's lack of experience. which seems curious that the 72-year-old four to five time face-cancer guy would choose a running mate whose resume appears to be more suited for a "northern exposure" reunion show. i don't know why that would be, so let's find out from governor palin. why? >> and, of course, senator hillary clinton, who showed such determination and grace in her presidential campaign. but it turns out the women of america aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all. >> jon: yes. yes, i think something just shattered. whoa. obviously, fox news is a more sophisticated analysis network and understands why governor palin would be ready from day one. >> but the other thing about her, she does know about international relations because she is right up there in alaska right next door to russia. [cheers] >> jon: come on. >> jon: think about it. alaska's also near the north pole, so she must also be friends with santa. now, the pick was a surprise, not

john mccain won in new hampshire.en he rolled out victories in virginia and kansas and on and on and he was back and john mccain won the the nomination after having been declared gone the previous summer. in the 2008 republican primaries, john mccain was a phoenix that rose from the ashes of the campaign he previously burned down. he came back from somewhere much worse than where romney is right now. at least mitt romney still has his donor billionaires, right? mccain was able to win the nomination. now i should also note that 2008 john mccain also provides us the opposite political science case study of how to burn down your campaign in a way you can't recover from. so he got the nomination, but once he had the nomination and was running for president, the burning down again started this week. it was the third week of september, 2008. that was the week that lehman collapsed and the crater of the american economy began. the fundamentals of our economy are strong. it was john mccain who invented the blackberry. then hi

the mccain campaign and the fact that the mccain campaign has been leading forward 1-0.ording to some mccain people a double. in olbermann's defense, he thought his mic was "all the way" up. it is a not just waldorf and sam the eagle and sam the eagle and beaker. >> why are you so mat hateful. why do you want to keep people in iraq longer than they need to be here. do you ever watch this show. i guess you sleep through it because you missed it three timingtimes in a row. >>jon: i guess the weather in scarborough country is rainy with a bit of the arrrr we own have time for one of you i'm going to go with wyatt. >> . >> samantha: whoa i'm ready nowo go with wyatt. >> samantha: i'm like ten times. >>jon: you are great ou you and your husband are great. and i thought we would go with wyatt to get a different perspective. >> samantha: okay.great. if i may. i would like to address all of the people who have supported me on my extraordinary journey of media analysis. like diane johnson an elder whri woma --elderly woman in wichitao held my hand and begged me to keep analyzing.

it's not because john mccain doesn't care, it's because john mccain doesn't get it.r two decades -- [cheers and applause] for over two decades he subscribed to that old discredited philosophy -- give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. in washington they call this the ownership society, but what it really means is that you're on your own. out of work? tough luck, you're on your own. no health care? the market will fix it. you're on your own. born into poverty? pull yourself upyou're on your . [cheers and applause] well it's time for them to own their failure. it's time for us to change america. and that's why i'm running for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] you see, we democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. we measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. we measure progress in the

i spoke to senator mccain earlier. senator mccain, you knew ambassador stevens, you counted him among your friends. earlier today you called him a selfless, dedicated service. one of america's finest and bravest foreign service officers. i wondered if you could just share some of maybe your fondest memories of him or thoughts about him. >> well, i have several, but one of them is when i came to benghazi while the fighting was still going on, chris stevens was living in a hotel room in benghazi in constant danger, threat of his life, representing the united states with what was then the council, the libyan national council and doing it with verve, with joy and with dedication because he knew that he was being a part of a revolution that would bring down eventually one of the most brutal dictators in history. >> there is, you know, no doubt those who see the actions of the last 24 hours and say what is going on in libya, you know, did we support the wrong side, have extremists taken over? how do you see this? >> i see it

it's not because john mccain doesn't care. it's because john mccain doesn't get it. over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. in washington, they call this the ownership society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. out of work? tough luck. you're on your own. no health care? the market will fix it. you're on your own. born into poverty? pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. you're on your own. well it's time for them to own their failure. it's time for us to change america. you see, we democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. we measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. we measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when bill clinton was president - when

i remember republicans saying that should have been the john mccain who ran. it was the same john mccain who took that microphone back and corrected the lady. [ female announcer ] now you don't have to give up. you can give in with dreyer's slow churned light ice cream. we churn it slowly for all the rich and creamy taste with just half the fat. so now you can have your ice cream and it eat it, too. you can give in with dreyer's slow churned light ice cream. we churn it slowly for all the rich and creamy taste with just half the fat. so now you can have your ice cream and it eat it, too. chris: welcome back. the great bob woodward who always does this will now tell us something we didn't know. >> the big chief concern in the white house for the upcoming debates is will obama have a flash of arrogance or kind of communicate, hey, i'm the smartest guy in the room. when i talked to the president a couple of months ago on some tough issues about what was going on with the republicans and the economy, he was totally in control and calm and i suspect the cool obama

i remember republicans saying that should have been the john mccain who ran. it was the same john mccain who took that microphone back and corrected the lady. chris: welcome back. the great bob woodward who always does this will now tell us something we didn't know. >> the big chief concern in the white house for the upcoming debates is will obama have a flash of arrogance or kind of communicate, hey, i'm the smartest guy in the room. when i talked to the president a couple of months ago on some tough issues about what was going on with the republicans and the economy, he was totally in control and calm and i suspect the cool obama -- i mean, there is going to be kind of a message to self in those debates, stay cool, cool. if he is, it's going to be hard to, for romney to come in and say this is not the guy this time again. chris: well said. >> picking up in iraq, it was such a big subject through the early years of this show, kofi anan has a new book out and he describes the scene just after the invasion, the americans think they have found weapons of mass de

we go one on one with senator john mccain. will a deficit deal be bad medicine for america's top hospitals and insurance companies. we'll explain in the bloomburg analysis. she helps people connect. you need to know julianna glover. i'm peter cook welcome to bloomburg governments capitol gain. if your business is washington stay with us the next half hour. for the impact on government action in business and the economy and the people who matter. governments begin with elections. and this election will set the stage for the most important fiscal debate the country has faced. we'll talk about it. in a moment we'll take you inside the congressional race wall street cares about most. but first a quick take on bloomburg governments key findings this week on washington's winners and losers. so big they're known as the primes may have to make room for a 6th. according to an analysis the pentagon is likely to bless the proposed merger of eads and bae. the new competition for business would make the defense department a winner. losers

it's not because john mccain doesn't care. it's because john mccain doesn't get it., he's subscribed to that old, discredited republican philosophy. give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. in washington, they call this the "ownership society," but what it really means is that you're on your own. [laughter] out of work? tough luck, you're on your own. no health care? the market will fix it. you're on your own. born into poverty? pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, even if you don't have boots. you are on your own. [cheers] well, it's time for them to own their failure. it's time for us to change america. and that's why i'm running for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] you see, you see, we democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. we measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. we

i spoke to senator mccain earlier today.enator mccain a source familiar with the ambassador's thinking in the months before his death he talked about the threats he was facing and growing al qaeda presence and mentioned being on an al qaeda hit list. in june he wrote, maybe you should east to check out the situation there which appears to be heating up. given what we are learning about the concerns that he had, does it make sense to you the small level of security that he apparently had with him? >> it doesn't make any sense. and the white house spokesman and the secretary of state, state that go it was not a serristse terrorist attack when it had all the earmarks of one. so why they would want to tell the american people that in the face of the facts i don't know. there are also other report that is there had been other threats made and report that is there is basically an al qaeda extremist outfit ma lilitia there. >> actually med with ambassador stephens in a hotel in tripoli and when he arrived at the hotel he had no sec

and in the united states. >> senator mccain pleasure to see you.r joining us today. >> thank you for having me on. >> shifting gears, this might be a little inside baseball. but the senators got fired up and this may be one of the biggest scandal and cover ups since water gate. >> it is it a fast left-wing conspiracy against one of our great presidents. >>> and senator mccain wants the washington national baseball team to give teddy a fair show. >>> and we'll get to the bottom of the baseball controversy later on in our show. >> a group of 12 riders are biking across the country. >> and it benefited two groups. and it will begin later today in california and hope to reach the world trade center in new york city in a week. they have raised more than 200,000 and fox news will be with the team for their entire journey . middle eastern countries like libya will get two billion in aid and congress okayed the money as part of the resolution to keep the governments from shutting down. up next, fair and balanced debate from experts on both sides of the ais

and yet, this is lieberman's batie, his biggest gold before he retires, and mccain is torpedoing it. they have had lots of discussions and lieberman reportedly exploded at mccain saying, how could you do this? how are you going to feel if a year from now there is an attack and people died and you block to this? and of course, mccain comes back at him and saying, you have no right to question my ability on -- my credibility on national- security issues. that speaks to how seriously people take this. >> gaupham nagesh, you mentioned best practices. don't most corporations already have cyber security in place? what would this legislation add to that? >> you would be very surprised at even sophisticated technology companies that do not necessarily implement best practices' right now. the government does not really implement best practices' right now. the pentagon has had to go through massive upgrade in the past five years because of vulnerability. the state of cyber security right now was very bad. you cannot really overstate that. we are very vulnerable. the question is whether the leg

is torpedoing it, and there were negotiations and leashman -- aides were saying he exploded at mccain, saying, how could you do this? how are you going to feel if a year from now there's an attack and people die? and you blocked this? and of course mccain comes back and says, you have no right to question my credibility on national security issues. so i think that's an interesting storyline that speaks speaks tow seriously people take this. >> you mentioned best practices. don't most corporations already have a cybersecurity system in place? what would this legislation add to it? >> the answer to that question, most of the -- i would hesitate to say that. you would be very surprised even sophisticated technology companies that don't implement what we consider best practices right now. the government really doesn't implement best practices right now. the pentagon has had to go through massive cybersecurity upgrades in the last five or ten years because there were so many vulnerabilities. a laptop stolen from the department of veteran affairs. the state of cybersecurity is very bad. you

i spoke to senator mccain earlier today. senator mccain, a source familiar with the ambassador's thinking toll us in the months before his death he talked about being worried about the never-ending security threats in bengha benghazi, the threats he was facing and growing al qaeda presence and mentioned being on an al qaeda hit list. and he said in june to a journalist, maybe you should head east to benghazi to the situation there which appears the be heating up. given what we are learning about the concerns that he had, does it make sense to you the small level of security that he apparently had with him? >> it doesn't make any sense. and i'll tell you what else doesn't make any sense, the white house spokesman, secretary of state and ambassador to the u.n. stating categorically that it was not a terrorist attack when obviously it had all the earmarks of a terrorist attack, including rocket-propelled grenades, heavy weapons an a well carried out military operation. and why they would want to tell the american people this th

i don't think so. >>> jovrn mccain, thank you, sir. >> john mccain heading out after issuing a statementn the attack itself. ed, you heard what some republicans said not senator mccain but mitt romney the response on the part of the white house you have heard the criminal tentty. not very passionate. how are they taking all of this? >> the obama administration ripped into governor romney and one of the spokesperson it was wrong to in his words politicize the situation which was still unfolding last evening. today the president himself in the rose garden didn't want to get into any of that political stuff. he didn't engage mitt romney directly on the questions he has been pushing over the last 24-hours about whether or not in the initial violence in cairo whether or not the u.s. embassy errored in suggesting this was di tied to an anti muslim movie and somehow there was something to apologize for. that is something mitt romney has jumped all over. what the president was trying to do is talk about how he is vowing there will be justice done in this case. take a listen. >> today we mourn fo

mccain: parliamentary inquiry, mr. president. whose time is being -- the presiding officer: if no one yields time, time will be charged equally to both sides. mr. lee: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president i -- i rise to respond to my friend, my distinguished colleague the senator from massachusetts. in the first place, it is significant. dr. afridi has now been in prison for more than a year. it is significant that this amount of time has elapsed. it is appropriate that we respond in some fashion. i don't know why exactly legislation hasn't emerged from that same committee the foreign relations committee, on which i sit. the fact is, it hasn't. the fact is, i respect my friend the junior senator from kentucky, from having the courage to bring forward this legislation. but regardless the fact is that this legislation is now before us. we can argue about thousand got here about whether it -- how it got here, about whether it should have gone through committee but it is b

that's what my colleague, senator mccain, is saying. that's why i interposed the objection on his behalf. and i really do think that if the parties can get together tonight and tomorrow, potentially work out a way to approach the issue so it can be debated for the appropriate length of time and any alternatives might be presented and then we could -- we could move on with things. but let's do it in the context of the issue before us, not suggesting that it has something to do with the presidential campaign because that would be incorrect. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid reid: the reason that t after that is because my friend, senator mccain, talked about how on little we've accomplished here. huh. i didn't bring that up. i indicated why we've accomplished so little. now, i would also say to my two republican friends who are here on the floor -- there's three actually -- this. the resolution, the piece of legislation that senator allputting forward, i'm not going to -- paul is putting forward

get this through the senate, and lieberman, you know, reportedly aides were saying he exploded at mccain, and he's saying how could you do this, you know, how are you going to feel if a year from now there's an attack and people die, and you blocked this? and, of course, mccain comes back at him and says you have no right to question my credibility on national security issues. i think that speaks to how seriously people take this. >> host: well, gautham nagesh, you mentioned best practices. don't most corporations already have a cybersecurity system in place if be what would in this legislation add to it? >> guest: short answer to that question, i think, most of the difficult -- i would hesitate to say that. you would be very surprised at even sophisticated technology companies that don't necessarily implement what we would consider best practices right now. the government doesn't implement best practices right now. the pentagon has had to go through massive private security upgrades in the last couple of years. the state of cybersecurity is very bad. you can't really overstate that we a

i spoke to senator mccain today. senator mccain, a source told us in the months before ambassador steven's death, he was worried about the never-ending security threats in benghazi and the rise in islamic extremism and growing al qaeda presence and also immensed being on an al qaeda hit list. in june, he wrote in an e-mail to a journalist and i quote, maybe you should head east to benghazi to check out the situation there which appears to be heating up. given all of that, what we are now learning about concerns that he had, does it make any sense to you, the level of -- or the small level of security he apparently had with him? >> it doesn't make any sense, and i'll tell you what doesn't make any sense, is the white house spokesman, secretary of state and ambassador to the u.n., stating categorically, it was not a terrorist attack, it had all of the earmarks of a terrorist attack, rocket-prop rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons and a well carried out military operation. so why they want want to tell the mesh

mccain tries to be -- i believe he is honorable. mitt romney has no honor, and mccain knows it.n was squirming last night, because it was killing him to have to say nice things about a man who he knows is the last thing that america should have in the white house. >> john: i have to agree. the only thing more painful than watching john mccain's campaign is watching him endorse people he doesn't like. where are you in jersey? >> newark. >> john: you must be a huge fan of chris christie. >> he is just a one time thing -- i think he is just a blip, and he is under the thumb of the top -- top people paying his campaign. >> is that blip or blimp. >> john: stop it! >> caller: you be the judge of that, but in the end it has to be a publicly financed campaign but americans have to fought for who they think is best for them. whether it's honor or the middle class, clearly president obama is the person, and mitt romney is just floundering each day and now they are all scurrying like rats, because they know the ship is sinking. >> john: thank you for the call and have a great day. the end

john mccain taking note governor romney has high unfavorables. how much more support like this can governor romney stand? >> the people who lose elections tend to offer some advice to the people in the subsequent cycle. look, here's the deal, fiscal cliff will be dealt with. how is a big question. even if we dealt retroactively have to wonder about the uncertainty. how that affects business and investments between now and january. the other thing is who wins have a great deal of influence on what the resolution will be. senator mccain is certainly right there will be something done, but what? it depends on what happens, it is true in the largest sense but senator mccain is not in an ideal position to offer advice to his follow-on as republican nominee. lou: we might even add unsolicited. as we look at what is happening here though, governor rahn emanuel is not anywhere near closing the deal. he has a president whose policies, a man who is unpopular with his handling of the economy, until recently a relatively low approval rating sitting at 50% in

. >> john and cindy mccain. tough talk on republican todd akin. >> he should no longer be the candidate of the republican party of missouri. >> rick and karen santorum. >> barack obama believes the government should do more and you cannot trust the private sector. >> condoleezza rice. >> what they really wanted was you as vp. >> first of all, nobody wanted that, especially me. >> and the mitt romney you don't know from his sons. >> you say he seems laid back? is that what you said? >> yes, his hair is too perfect. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. i'm here at the cnn grill. the republican convention has been wrapping up. tonight we begin with faith, family and mitt romney. today, they're more likable, more down to earth. with their mother ann, just might be his secret weapons. >> can you do it without the ear piece in? >> no one was giving me information. we're at a crucial stage. your father is within breathing distance of his white house. how are you coping as his sons with all the negativity th

mccain: mr.president, i ask unanimous consent that i be included in the colloquy with the senator from south dakota and the senator from alabama. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: and naturally the senator from new hampshire as well. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: mr. president, i think that the senator from south dakota has laid out the problem here. one of the regrets that i think all of us have is the failure of this message to getting to the american people the loss of a million defense jobs, the trillion dollars taken out of our economy, the devastation to our national security that has been so graphically described by our secretary of defense and our uniformed chiefs, and still i think most americans don't even understand what the word sequestration, how it applies in this particular situation. now, maybe when this report, thanks to the legislation sponsored by the senator from south dakota comes out as to the effects it will give more visibility t

i think we went in a smarter way than mccain would have done.>> a really big difference. >> cenk: see, on this i'm totally with lupe. you think mccain would have done anything worse than killing i. citizens without a fair trial trial. >> on foreign policy i don't think mccain would have used diplomacy the way this president has. >> if you're going to to debate this come at them. don't call them stupid, dumb, silly, or young idiots, because then you're not taking them seriously. >> cenk: that's a good point. you have to engage substantially. in the website we think you should vote no matter what. and rocky anderson and gary johnson is an independent. look through the candidates and find out what you think for yourself. when we come back, we've got a very important story--o chick-fil-a. do you remember how they were going to "kumbaya" and hold hands with gay folks. they might have screwed us. >> what happens if they don't follow through on their policy. once they build a restaurant, is this anything that you can >>i jump out of my skin at people w

. >> reporter: like john mccain's invitation of an ohio plumber who questioned mr. obama's tax plan four years ago. >> in the third debate, john mccain repeatedly alluded to joe the plumber, and the allegation that barack obama #-r would share the wealth. >> reid: jamieson says that gave mccain a boost in the polls, but as mccain later learned, even a memorable debate moment carries a candidate only so far. the live tv audience for the first obama-romney debate is expected to be about 60 million people. that's roughly half the number expected to vote in the election. the combination of shrinking finances and rising crime is forcing drastic change on camden, new jersey, a small city just across the delaware from philadelphia. tony guida has the details of a reorganization plan that would take veteran cops off the beat permanently. >> reporter: if camden had its own postcards, the picture would look look a lot like this-- police responding to the scene of a crime. with just 77,000 residents and 1500 violent crimes and 48 murders this year alone, camden has been called

>> mccain. >> what are you thinking? >> it reminds me of the two- headed monster on sesame street where they are pulling each other at the end, but they get back together by cooperation and collaboration. >> who is the cooperation candidates? >> is that answerable? i would like to think romney is triggered strikes you would like to think rahm -- i would like to think romney is. >> you would like to think romney? >> he would like to do more wheeling and dealing in business. >> romney had your votes from the beginning. you are a mccain voter four years later, why doesn't he have in? it should be locked down. >> it should be locked down, and i cannot tell you what it is in the back of my mind, and part of it has to do with the republican platform and women's health issues, which should not be an issue. >> i want to see some good answers in the debate. i do not want to see a bunch of name calling. i want to see candidates lay on the line what they are going to do and not be diverted by political questions. good i want to hea

john mccain who drew a straight line from george w. policy to today. >> by committing to withdraw from afghanistan before peace can be achieved and sustained, the president has discouraged our friends and emboldened our enemies. >> cutting and running. why stop at 13 years of war when you can just stay indefinitely? senator mccain said we should not end the war in afghanistan. he also called for new american military intervention in syria and iran. because he is john mccain and that's what he does. >> that old -- that old beach boy song, bomb iran. you know, bomb, bomb, bomb. anyway. >> you seeing him there doesn't mean this is their current way of thinking? maybe they just gave the old bomb, bomb, bomb iran guy one more spin around the parking lot, because they were too embarrassed to disinvite him from their convention, maybe. maybe not. when mitt romney, the nominee himself, took the stage, his tone on foreign policy was the same kind of straight line from george w. bush that john mccain took up. the same iran stuff, right? with an