go ahead michael john i'm not suggesting they're going to i'm not going to i'm not suggesting they don't send troops and they will send trainers in to work with the existing with with what they have right now and then incorporate perhaps the taliban into the afghan security forces whether it's a police or a situation that means as volatile and as bad as it is now and if it's even deteriorates in future i don't think that the advisers alone whatever that would be from the united states are from neighboring countries like china or india can can't carry out their mission properly might well it's the same pattern is that the route let's go to beirut go ahead mike so i was just i would actually agree with that there and add another and that pakistan is an internal problems on its own without having to deal with problems in afghanistan as well so i mean i think the scenario of the regional powers stepping in to fill a vacuum in any sense is is really optimistic in many ways you know and we've created a problem here you know we want to solve we probably solve it partly we haven't solved it enti

john q. kelly, thanks to you. >> sure. >> michael isikoff, john yang on scene in pennsylvania.thanks to them as well and we'll continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day here on msnbc. >>> but up next, preparing for the vice presidential debate. we'll be right back. go! here it comes! right in the numbers. boom! get it! spin! oh nice hands! now this is my favorite play! oh! [ male announcer ] share what you love, with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes. they're grrreat! >>> we are just two days out from the one and only vice presidential debate, with both candidates deep in preparation for the face-off that really has taken on new significance after that first presidential debate. joe biden's preps are being led by obama's senior campaign adviser, david axelrod. the vice president has been reviewing ryan's speeches. he's reading "young guns," the book that ryan co-wrote. he's done at least three mock debates. paul ryan has been watching tapes of biden's previous debate appearances and rehearsing for what is likely to be a major offensive. >> i really think tha

quiera seguir a delante con la segunda pregunta, tiene que ver con el mismo tema, quisiera llamar a michael johns, que encontraria a los asesinos del 9/11 y lo hice, ayudariamos a las familias que no tienene seguro médico, también hemos pasado las reformas más estrictas de wall street, hemos creado 5 millones de trabajos ya demás estamos ayudando a salvar a la industria automotriz, por eso el plan que ha implementado para la educación, la manufactura, reducir el déficit, el dinero que ahorramos para poner el fin a la guerra, usando el dinero para invertir en que, tener más control en la energía de estados unidos, todo esto ayuda a la economía, todos esos compromisos los he cumplido y los que no he podido no es porque no he querido, sino por que no me han dejado, gobernador mitt romney también ha hecho sus compromisos, de pronto pienso que va a seguir con esos compromisos, pero no estamos seguro de eso, nosotros queremos reducir el déficit, pero también queremos invertir en la educación, queremos que los jóvenes vayan a la universidad, cuando dijeron que querian cortar los fondos de la familia, se

and we'll hear from conservative columnist john fund and michael gerson of the "washington post." analysis from our own norah o'donnell and john dickerson. then with the baseball post-accept under way and washington's team headed to the play-offs for the first time in 79 years, we'll talk baseball with the dodgers' legendary tony larussa, tony lasorda, manager of last year's world-champion st. louis cardinals. jane leavy, who literally wrote the book on mickey mantle. and peter gammons of the mlb network. it's batter up on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning, again. welcome to peacethe nation. david axelrod, of course, is a senior campaign strategist, the senior campaign strategist for president obama. thank you for coming this morning. and we're joined by "cbs this morning" cohost norah o'donnell, and political director john dickerson. i'm just going to start, mr. axelrod, with the obvious question-- what happened? >> well, what happened was the president showed up with the

joining us, our political panel, michael crowley, bobcu sack john mccormick. be joe -- is that good advice? >> up to a point. there is good joe and bad joe. so joe needs to moderate his joe-ness. his strength is that i think he can come across as a little bit more of an every man than the president and he will go after paul ryan on the ryan plan and the budget that ryan and romney are running on, saying it favors the wealthy and it will cut medicare, a very popular entitlements program. you don't want joe doing his gaffe thing, getting carried away. i think he does that more often in crowd it's. >> and speeches. >> he is pretty goods in the debates and against palin last time around. >> i think there is -- it's a fascinating debate because there is no clear favorite. i could see either man winning. bide pid has the foreign policy experience. but paul ryan is on his home turf, on the big issues of the day, the economy, jobs and entitlement reform. that's what make this is so fascinating. biden has to stop the momentum from romney. romney/ryan has the momentum. i

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a big thanks to john, michael, glenn, my buddy, sam.oth want to wish the executive producer of this show happy birthday, dana howler, the brains and the braun and the heart and the beauty behind the show. that's all for us. i'll see you back in new york tomorrow noon eastern when i'm joined by chris hayes, wes moore, rachel grady. check out traveling updates on facebook.com/nowwithalex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. hello. >> hi, alex across the way. happy birthday, dana. coming up, president obama and mitt romney blitzing the swing states as new polls suggest, romney is closing in on the president's advance with women voters. we'll talk to democratic chair, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. >>> washington democratic senator patty murray concerned that ohio could hold up the vote counting and tracking hurricane sandy next on "andrea mitchell reports." i'm glad we got cdw and cisco to design our data center. yeah, the cisco ucsc series server, with the intel xeon processors, help us scale smoothly, like a perfect golf swing. h

dinner party with 100 supporters followed by a concert for 6,000 more featuring musicians, john legend, and michael franty. it was the president who stole the show as he made his pitch for four more years. >> we are here because we have some work to do. we are here because we have an election to win. we are here because everything we fought for in 2008 is on the line in 2012. i'm going to need your help to finish what we started. >> this is the president's fourth bay area visit since may and like the others, it won't last too long. he leaves for ohio tomorrow morning. >>> and as usual, the president's visit was not without protest. the antiwar group, world can't wait, rallied at un plaza this afternoon before marching to the civic center. protees torse protesters are angry. the animal advocacy group, peta, joined the protection. >> before the president arrived in san francisco, he made a stop for cesar chavez. the ceremony in keen, california, to provide some long overdue recognition. >> the president of the united states of america. >> president barack obama came to the place where cesar chavez li

john. >> reporter: i was going to say, i totally agree with michael.st of all, president obama in several significant areas, like entitlement reform going forward, has also not laid out specifics. but i find it a little puzzling what romney has done. he put out that 17,000 cap on deductions yesterday, which something that a lot of policy experts think is a pretty good idea. i don't quite understand why he walked that back. it was kind of like after he was on "meet the press" with david gregory a couple weeks ago and said i wouldn't repeal everything in obama occasion i would keep popular elements and within 24 hours his aides were saying, not exactly. i find that a little confusing. he has to figure out a way to have a consistent message that is credible and appeals to the swing voters he needs, especially white women. that's his target tonight. >> i think they pull that back -- >> karen, haven't we seen this process throughout this campaign? mr. romney says something, 24 hours later, the campaign goes out and says, he didn't mean that. he meant someth

i'm joined by john heilemann, former rnc chair michael steele, my kind of republican.hat will kill them. and politico's j. mar, jonathan mart martin. biden, first of all for the opposition, you're on defense, michael. >> always on defense. >> what does mr. ryan have to do to fend off the older, perhaps more seasoned veterans tonight? >> i think what he has to do is not get down in the weeds of the numbers but take those numbers and translate them into real people, real stories out there, very much as you saw romney do at the beginning of the delate last time. it really set the tone for where he was going to go and how he was going to frame the discussion. so i think to the extent he can do that, it gets him in some good ground. >> does he have the ability to nail the guy on where the weedy decisions on vouchers, on person 45 hood, on cuts of things like capital gains, and getting rid of estate taxes and lowering the top individual rate. all the wealth going to the top people, can biden nail him on that stuff? >> i did an interview with the vice president back in august

but i found it interesting that michael moore blamed john kerry, the debate prep guy. david axelrod blamed jim lehrer. al gore blamed the altitude. but nobody -- nobody blamed the president for being unprepared and outclassed by mitt romney last night. >> dana, take us deep into the psychology. what was going on? he looked like a man defeated. >> he sort of faded into the background initially. then i thought maybe it will get better. at the one hour mark, i thought wow, this is over. i thought romney was very bold. but he was also something different that he was fresh. and there is a huge gulf between the man that had been painted in the media and by the obama campaign for the last seven or eight months. and then the person they saw last night. that's why i think it was so effective for mitt romney because people were so surprised. wait, like who is this guy? this is not the guy we thought he was. and so he had a great debate. incumbents presidents usually don't do well on the first debate in their election year. so obama will have a couple more chances. no doubt, ther

donors lined up here this afternoon in all 6,000 donors are dropping $100 a piece to hear john legend and michael and to hear the president speak. that's scheduled for about 9:40 this evening. donors say they want to see an energized president talk about the differences between himself and g objectionp challenger mitt romney and they want to see the president capitalize on the latest employment data. >> that's data right there. i mean, romney -- we were talking about this a little bit earlier, but he was -- he was confident up there and he was articulate but he was, you know, speaking lies confidently. >> meanwhile we told you about those protesters gathered here at civic center. they are hoping to air their grievances to the president. the local democratic fundraisers say this will likely be the president's last major visit to the area before the election. in all the president is looking to raise between 5 and a half and $8 million in this brief swing through the bay area. the president is scheduled to leave at 9:30 tomorrow morning. taking a live look you can see at the civic center folks are s

then he will drop in on the fundraising concert event. 6,000 people are attending a john legend and michael conti concert. the president is expected to address that crowd some time after 9:00 tonight, thanking them for the campaign contribution, and urging them to high pressure him get re-elected. so the president has a very busy evening here in san francisco. we'll be monitoring the events and have another update for you tonight at 6:00. reporting live in san francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> thank you so much, jean. >>> and while the president was in the bay area, mitt romney was in virginia, giving a major speech on foreign policy. romney called for a change of course in the middle east and blamed the obama administration for making the region more dangerous. >> i know the president hoped for a safer, freer, and more prosperous middle east allayed with us. i share this hope. but hope is not a strategy. >> today's speech largely repackaged things romney has said before, but included a few specific ways he would change the president's approach. >> president obama fired back in an

even michael alacha and timothy lynch of admill it was a little more than that, scott. >> pelley: johni'm curious, did you ask michael and timothy what happened to their own homes? >> reporter: that's funny, while they were in the heart of midtown manhattan working on this, on the other side of the city, of course tim lynch's home was caught in the blackout. he's got no power at all. and michael alacha, his house is where you are in rockaway, and his house was flooded. so while they were focused on the city's problems, they didn't have time to think about their own. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. the hurricane, of course, has overshadowed the presidential election. but it is coming just the same in just six days. polls show president obama and mitt romney in a virtual tie nationally. in swing states that will tip the balance, a new quinnipiac university cbs news/"new york times" poll finds the president ahead by two points in virginia, 49% to 47%. he leads by five points in ohio, 50% to 45%. and the president is ahead by a single point in florida. 48% to 47%. mitt romney took his c

with me today michael duffy, andrea mitchell, kathleen parker and john harris. what will win the difference? for president obama, here's a short must-do list for the two weeks ahead. number one project what he's done into the positive future. ramp up that positive message. obama backs the middle-class. romney can't wait to help the rich. in monday night's debate especially on the issue of libya. and here's a list for romney, keep asking voters are you better off? present yourself as a strong fixer of voters' economic troubles. and look like a commander in chief. this is a tightened race and romney may be the one on offense right now. >> he has to be because he's still a little bit behind in the key states. his job is fairly simple. 16 days tops. he's got to keep the focus on his economic message of lower taxes for everyone whether that's possible or not the long run. he's got to show on foreign policy that you keep the boat in the channel that's a minimum requirement of doing the job. the third thing is, he's got about $150 million to spend. they have to spend i

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finally an estimated 6,000 people attended tonight's concert with grammy winner john ledge end and michael, bringing in another $1 million. >> for many support here's got a chance to see the president tonight, the moment was priceless, as they say. it was the boost they needed to keep going forward. nbc bay area's kim is live outside. i understand security is very tight. >> reporter: they have been very visible so most people who attended the concert had quite a bit of traveling. those a are at the concert nationally got to see the president. they told us the price of the ticket was well worth it. they said it will likely be their only chance to get that close to the president who spoke briefly to the 6,000 in attendance. they say he was inspiring and motivated them to keep the energy up ahead of the election. >> it was amazing. the crowd was so excited to have him here. i think it was really great to have him come to san francisco to the bay area and he nflt connected with everyone in the auditorium. >> he was extremely enthusiastic. he wowed the crowd up. extremely good eloquent words. i

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