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of the mike reagan.com and author of the new reagan revolution. right off the top the reaction to that ad? we only showed 20 seconds of it. what's your reaction, mike? >> and the reaction is dead on with joe biden. the fact you know, this has been the joe biden i knew forever and my dad knew forever also, laughing at the issues like he's the guy. he's the guy who ate the cat or the cat bird or whatever. and the reality is, joe biden is what joe biden is, and i think that paul ryan did a great job in had a debate. serious issues, not laughable issues like joe biden in fact made them and i hope this one really does hit home and people see biden for who he truly is. stuart: frankly i thought it was somewhat troubling and disturbing when the vice-president laughs like that and the man a heartbeat away from the presidency is laughing. i did not like that at all. >> i'm going to tell you. why didn't your father tell anybody when he went know grenade da. joe biden is the reason why, because joe biden use today sit in meetings with my father and threaten

charles: joining us now is mike reagan. obama looks presidential right now.could hurt romney. >> he's supposed to look presidential right now. i mean, the storm that hit the east coast was horrific. you look at what's going on in queens and all that, he's doing what he's supposed to do as president of the united states. i'm sure there are people today who are saying gee i wish he would have acted presidential when our ambassador was killed and three others were killed in benghazi a few weeks ago which he didn't. but he is doing what he should be doing as president of the united states of america. will it help him? it might help him to an extent, but i think most people will see this as well you are doing what you are supposed to do so that's not going above and beyond the call of duty, and i think that mitt romney is doing a great job. charles: speaking of above and beyond, though, do you think chris christie has gone above and beyond the kind of lavish praise that he had to give to the president? by the way, you know, mayor bloomberg in new york city said no

joining us is mike reagan of reagan.com. a gallup poll has mr. carter, a three point lead over your dad, that was two weeks before the election. but your dad reversed it. how did he do that. >> i was in pennsylvania that day. 66 airplane rides and along with my sister and what you saw was in 1980 the independents started to break ronald reagan. what you were talking about is image, like ability. that played a huge part in the campaign of 1980 towards the end and when people broke they broke for ronald reagan. they liked what they saw. he wasn't above warmonger the card read ministration and democrats had put out for the public to see. make felt comfortable, romney is ahead. i hope he hasn't peaked too soon. we peaked in the final weekend. stuart: you peaked, your dad and his campaign. i am surprised to hear you say that. i thought he was gaining momentum all the way through to election day and peaked on election day and won by 10 points. >> absolutely but we were gaining, but you start closing time down and all of a sudden the election coming up

in fact mike reagan is thinking of leaving the state and moving in with stuart. take a listen.laughter] stuart: does president obama win california by 10 points or 15 points? >> 20. [laughter] stuart: there's still room in my house for you in new jersey. okay? >> see you on the 7th. [laughter] charles: does a republican have a chance of winning the formerly golden state? after the break republican california senate candidate is going to make her case. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay alive but feel alive. the new c-class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz, thrgh and through. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. charles: we continue to track hurricane sandy as it makes its way up the east coast. jennifer davis is in norfolk, virginia. jennifer, norfolk officials have closed the floodgates and opened shelters. what's the weather like there? >> you know, i think the big story here right now is the rain. the w

and all tar political line up and author ann coult are and governor mike huckabee and michael reagan. join us for all that and much more coming your way. stay with us. >> grab a coat and your checkbook. it could be a cold and costly winter. new report said fracking and contaminated water. now, johnathon is worried that it will lead to a crack down for fracking for natural gas. >> the reason that oil prices have gone up is because of technology like fracking. it saved american consumers cane billion last year and led to economic boom in north dakota that has a three percent unemployment rate because of the jobs created by that. fracking is safe over decades. if rights are harmed there are army of lawyers that address the grevance. any regulation on fracking hurts mankind and in the wallet. >> say fracking 10 times quickly. wayne, if the epa uses the example to go after natural gas over all is hagoing to hurt utility bills. >> of course it will. johnathon is wrong. you have to have rules and regulation . like a football game you can't let them run bezerk. >> not what i am proposing. >>

mike huckabee. also michael reagan and as if that's not enough donald trump a guy who knows all about florida is goingiends kicks off exactly 9 minutes from now right here on the fox news channel. >> kwuk headlines now. according to a report by the special commissioner of investigations the new york city department of education kept paying employees who stopped showing up for work for as long as 12 months. some of them making more than 100,000 dollars a year. the report says no one has taken responsibility for the house keeping failure as they call it. >>> just for fun what if you could buy the white house? how much do you think it would cost? the realtor analysis says with 6 floors 13 bedrooms 35 bathroomsnd of course the prime dc locations the white house would set you back 1.5 billion with a b dollars. >> and 35 bathrooms. i need 36 for that price. >>> the final presidential debate is of course a focus on foreign policy. what foreign policies would you like to see addressed tonight? here are some of your responses. john from montana says i would like to know if president obama is going to sign the

. >> let's go to mike barnicle, ronald reagan colored his hair for 80 years. >> is that a yes? >> we don't know. >> mike, really quickly i want to touch on what jim has been talking about, the column was talking about, what a lot of middle swing voters in america are concerned about. that is that washington hasn't worked over the past four years. when you have a new guy coming in and doesn't just talk about changing the tenor of washington but can say, i was a republican governor in a state that was 87% democratic in the legislature. i passed a health care reform bill, and i had ted kennedy standing next to me when i did it. that's a lot different from elizabeth warren saying, i can't name a single person that i would work for on the republican side if i were sent to the senate. >> there were many, many days when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts that when he went to his office, the corner office in the statehouse in boston, massachusetts, he was the only republican in the building. seriously. >> seriously. >> seriously. the legislature -- the senate a

now, fox news contributor ed rollins, who worked on several presidential campaigns including reagan-bush, mikeuckabee and michele bachmann's. and michael meehan, former senior advisor for senator john kerry suggesting it is actually a record breaking viewership that watched last night, more than the first debate in 2008. there were huge, huge numbers of people watching last night. today we have seen the obama team come out and first, they tried to say mitt romney was testy. then they tried to say it was just a performance. now they have come out with an ad suggesting that he was rude. and question, ed, whether, a, that is the best we're going to see from the team, and b, does that have an impact on what we saw last night? >> nothing has an impact on the 55 million people who watched it or anybody who picked up a newspaper today other than the fact that the projection is that romney did a very effective job and he won by all determinations, exit polls, any rest of it. he basically came in with a real gameplan. he laid out in a very gentle way, not a harsh way, all the things he thinks is wrong

. >> it has been done before jack kennedy, and ronald reagan -- >> oh now your jack kennedy. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: mikeden did to i guess speak his point across and i -- i -- the way i see this republicans say joe biden was being rude i say -- >> stephanie: on fox news when you hear rude it's charlie sheen speak for, winning. >> caller: yeah, exactly. if he is going to keep low beating ryan, because he doesn't answer the questions. >> stephanie: yeah exactly. hi, greg. >> caller: hey first time caller, really enjoy your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: all morning long on the cable networks the only thing they could talk about is joe biden smiling and smirking. i'm a political junky and if you watch that closely, every time joe biden smiles was only when mr. ryan was lying. >> stephanie: exactly. and every time joe biden smiles an angel gets its wings. >> charlie pierce wrote a piece and he ended it with do you know what the difference is between sarah palin and paul ryan? lipstick. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: it's lipstick. you got it? okay. back by popular demend we will be doing the de

mike deaver, the media adviser to ronald reagan, he once said these television events -- and make no a debate is a television event -- 85% visual, 10% how you sound and 5% of what you actually say. leading up to the importance of, as you've been talking about, likability. i'm taken aback by how much more stiff president obama was than mitt romney. you played moments like that and throughout the debate, mitt romney seemed calm, in command of the facts, comfortable, made eye contact with the president. the president simply just looked uncomfortabl uncomfortable. >> and, roland, one of the boston papers had a headline that it was snore more years for obama. i mean, the reviews of his performance are harsh. >> absolutely. i think that it was lackluster, to some degree. i will disagree with will cain when he said mitt romney had a command of the facts. he had a command of what mitt thought actually were facts. you look at the fact checkers today. and so he's not doing well in that particular area. at the end of the day is what do the folks who were watching -- what do they actually think?

mike, is the president right? >> no, he's absolutely wrong. he showed how clueless he was about our energy policy. blaminghe stronger economy on higher gasoline prices misses the point of the reagan recovery where the economy boomed and gasone prices fell and the clinton recovery where gas prices fell. the president blocked the pipeline from canadahich is cost us a tremendous amount of jobs. he confiscate taxpayer dollars. >> rick unger a lot of nservative critics of romney are concerned we didn't hear aboutolyndra. >> it's interesting because mike de compeing arguments. the problem is absolutely none of them have anything to do with the price of gasoline. look, you can argue if you like that the president's energy policies could have an impact down the road. i would tell you you're wrong but that's an argument we can have. e reality is that we see production up. there's no disputing it. you can give president bush credit if you like. none of that impacts on the current price of gasoline. talk to me in four years. if you don't lke the prices, that would be theime to say if you hadn't focused on green energy, maybe. >> the fact is president obama is taking credited for the fact we

mike pence. mr. john gregg. gregg: ronald reagan said the scariest words in the english language were hello, i am from washington, and i'm here to help. washington politicians like congressman john mike pence have fancy slogans like roadmap and so forth. the one thing all hoosiers can agree on that congress has broken his this. tonight, i ask you passed the party label. i have passed a balanced budget for indiana. when i was speaker of the house, cut taxes, increased spending for education, and did so in a bipartisan way. as governor, i will honor the truce on social issues and focus on creating jobs. together, we will make indiana work. the hoosier way, not the washington weight. >> moderator: thank you, mr. john gregg. now, we will begin with their questions. our question is from robert. he is a life safety codes specialist. mr. rupert boneham coming of the first response. boneham: >> moderator: my question is what we can be due to address the state retirement fund shortage. recent news articles said that the state will have to fu

mike huckabee explains why america's growing debt is a moral issue. >> we haven't had another republican since then. applaud him for what hoo did. >> michael reagan called governor mitt romney's debate best one since abraham lincoln. i will ask michael reagan why he thinks the republicans found the leader they need. >> a legal battle over the cross that honors world war one veterans. now athiests say it has to go. later in the show a fair and balanced debate. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. >> a horrifying accident in new jersey. a commercial bus flipped over traveling from canada. 60 people were on board and amazingly no one was seriously injured. authorities are looking into what caused the crash. i think it is not just an economic issue. i think it is a moral issue. i think it is frankly not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in. >> governor romney t

winds are calm at reagan national on the humidity 78% but those dew points which were near 70 yesterday morning are now in the 50s. so as mike said a lot drier feel to the air and by the time we get to sunday a lot colder feel to the air. we got temperatures this morning i show you this map here because i want to show you the trends of the 30s and 40s up in the north. that's the high today. a foot of snow in northwest minnesota yesterday. but this cool air mass will dive south and east. be to dallas and oklahoma city tomorrow and be into detroit. 55. chicago only 51. be in the 70s on saturday for us but by sunday here comes the chill. 50s in greensboro and 48 in marquette. storm system spinning up here north of the lake superior. this is what brought the snow to northwestern minnesota. frontal boundary here entrying some rain -- bringing some rain into illinois and indiana and detroit. up toward toronto this morning. well, that front will be arriving let's say tomorrow afternoon. ahead of it today and tomorrow morning, still we'll be in the warm sector. that's why we're going to shoot into the 80s today and as the front come

reagan has to say about it. >>> and pearl jam takes on preexisting conditions. >> i have a preexisting condition. i feel like i have some hope. >> tonight pearl jm guitarist mike the country needs to vote to keep obama care. 't spend money on gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. [ male announcer ] and it's not just these owners giving the volt high praise. volt received the j.d. power and associates appeal award two years in a row. ♪ how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. it's been 72 hours and mitt romney remains silent on indiana senate candidate richard mourdock. he said at a debate that pregna

shockingly bad which, again, reminded me, took me back -- and i know mike, you'll remember it, all you guys will remember it -- ronald reagant there in horror how he was going to try to bring this thing in for a landing. >> four years ago i said i'm not a perfect man and i wouldn't be a perfect president, and that's a promise governor romney thinks i've kept. but i'll fight every single day, i've kept that promise, and if you'll vote for me, then i promise i'll fight just as hard in a second term. >> wow, i'm trying. >> you're trying what? >> that's the message, i'm trying. >> i'll fight for the middle class. >> "e" for effort. >> every city council person from here to, you know, seattle, washington. >> he's got a lot to talk about. >> he's got a lot to talk about. >> maybe he had the flu. >> maybe he had the flu. maybe that was it. gene robinson, does he have the flu? >> was it the altitude? mika said maybe he had the flu. >> didn't al gore say it was the altitude? bad night. >> yeah, altitude. >> there's no way to kind of spin it. and as i said, you know, very quickly, the white house administration spin team was spun out

reagan has to say about it. >>> and pearl jam takes on preexisting conditions. >> for myself, i have a preexisting condition. and i feel like i have some hope. >> tonight pearl jam guitarist mike to vote to keep obama care. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. it's been 72 hours and mitt romney remains silent on indiana senate candidate richard mourdock. mourdock said at a debate earlier this week that pregnancies that result from rape are a gift from god. and mitt romney has publically shown he has no intention of cutting ties with the extremist candidate. romney has repeatedly ignored reporters' questions on the campaign trail. instead romney's campaign issued a weak statement of support for mourdock. then there's mitt romney's tv ad endorsing mourdock made one day before mourdock made this offending comment. >> this fall i'm supporting richard mourdock for senate. >> that ad has not been taken down. in fact, today romney's senior adviser eric fehrnstrom would not interfere with mourdock's advertising. that's his decision when asked whether the campaign wants mourdock to remove the ads. he added that romney feels he's addressed the matter and doesn

but we've seen mike mccurry of the clinton administration, and frank farenkoff, head of the republican party during the heydays of the reaganthe father, years, both on the debate commission with a lot invested here. alan simpson as well. lots of debate junkies, lots of real politicos here tonight and of course, all of those people watching tonight at home in the comfort of their living room couch. wolf, back to you. >> tens and tens of millions of people watching in the united states. and many millions more watching around the world. candy, thanks very much. specific rules for tonight's debate. some bigger rules come into play for the presidential election. let's go back to magic wall wit rules that may be broken. >> growing up as a kid in buffalo, some rules were made to be broken. true in politics as well. one rule, sorry, got the wrong one up. we'll make this work. what's the close down, reset for me. we have to reset, let me toss it back to you. got it work right now. the october rule. the race can change directions in october. big first debate, can governor romney change the race? yes, he can. however, however, it does

mike brownstein has an interesting article that he's written recently that basically suggests north for mitt romney to be successful he'll have to win whites by about 29 points about the same margin that ronald reaganrried whites by in 1984. obviously, you know, where the white vote goes is going to determine how close this race is and maybe ultimately who the winner is but barack obama has real advantages among real large constituencies as well. >> would you agree with that analysis, it has to be 29 points for romney, david? >> i don't think it has to be that large. again, i go back to where bush was in terms of 2004, around 17. maybe a little bit higher than that. i mean, one of the things that steve gets at in terms of what ron brownstein has raised and that is one of the things the pollsters are struggling with is the sort of racial composition of the electorate, what will it look like in terms of this election in contrast to 2008 and 2004 and so when people are looking at the polls that's one of the dynamics that pollsters are struggling with. >> david winston, steve mcmahon, thanks so much, guys, good to see you. have a good weekend. >>> also making news this weekend what we've been talking a

reagan national airport. >> the sun is rising over romneyland. >> it's morning in america. mikeeilemann still with us. joining us on set, political columnist for "time" magazine, joe klein, who sits down and says, where was he? where was he? where was he, joe? >> i may have to get a new accountant and obama doesn't say, mitt, you have a terrific accountant. all of america knows that. you know, you have some wonderful tax breaks there. it was astonishing. >> it really was astonishing performance. >> it was as inept as i've ever seen a presidential candidate in one of these debates. and it was time after time after time. and it's almost as if the obama campaign and the president himself hadn't been paying attention to what romney has been saying since the convention. time stopped at the republican convention. in an interview with my editor, rick stengel, a month ago, romney dropped the hint that he might go after the five big new york banks. by the way, it's a real policy failure that obama never did do that. and obama was completely unprepared for a populist mitt romney railing a

reagan called ails coach during those times. you work with jack kemp and huckabee. >> he was an extraordinarily talented guy and one of the great thinkers of our party. mikeuckabee was perfect. he had great experience on radio. he understood that the quote -- he didn't need much help, but he was very substantive. an extraordinarily talent. the debates were his great forum. bill: you managed jack kemp. he had so many great ideas about the economy. it was your job to winnow them down. in a way it strikes knee might be a similar way. am i correct on that? >> i think that's true. to a certain extent getting -- it's awful hard in a debate to give a minute 90 second answer and carry real substance. people have a lot of thoughts in their head and a lot of knowledge, it's getting them to be concise that's important. bill: tonight it's 2 minutes for the answer. so you have to be really good in two minutes and not wander and ramble and lose the audience. >> the temptation will be to wander. bill: i know you love this stuff and so do we. rollins in new york. jamie: as many of us are preparing to head into the voting booth, millions want to do so by mail. the pressur

reagan >> all that weather was brought to you by bounty. i am so excited and you're about to vee why, i'm here with jami gertz. wait a minute, i do need a stick mikem a huge fan. i have to tell america, you're even more handsome in person. i don't know how it happened. even cuter in person. >> let's talk about the sitcom. by the way, i love you. "the neighbors." because this is like, you didn't come here to discuss normal because on this broadcast, we can't. not everyone on your show is normal, so to speak? >> no, they're special. we are a couple that has three kids, married 18 years. i want my husband to take initiative in the marriage. i mean, maybe some flowers, surprise sex in the marriage. spice it up. he takes initiative and puts a down payment on a townhouse on a golf course. >> right. >> and moves the entire family. and we realize quickly there's something a little odd about the neighbors. they have names of professional athletes. even though they're not professional athletes. and it turns out the entire town are aliens who have been stuck on planet earth for ten years and we're their only human contact. >> now, there are some things that

reagan white houses. take that chance because it is the pivotal moment and an opportunity to really get iran by getting assad. >> so, mikemorning from politico that ann romney and tagg romney, great guy, by the way, starting to exert their influence and basically saying, hey, dad. move to the middle. we've seen you move to the middle on taxes saying, okay, i'm not going to cut taxes in a way that's going to raise the deficit. that's my rule. it's a hard, fast rule. he moved to the center on bipartisanship, on israel. i guess the question is, does that make him a more electable? i think it does. or does that make him the etch-a-sketch candidate? what's your read? >> well, i think that in addition to ann romney and his sons, i think there is an extended romney family within the campaign. people who have been with him throughout his career in politics. dating back to when he was governor of massachusetts. and i think they have been clambering for mitt romney to be more mitt romney than this right-wing creation we saw during the primaries, and i think they probably had a family conference at which point they thought, let's s