and admitting mistakes, missteps.at a deliberate strategy? >> i don't know if it's a smart strategy. but i know it's a realistic strategy. obviously they're down in the polls. i think he's being humble. i think he's being realistic. he's admitting there's been mistakes maitt romney said he didn't make the best articulation when speaking of the 47%. they do need to eat a little humble pie and admit things are not all rosie. we can't deny what the polls are showing. we may be able to argue with the polls a little bit, but things need to pick up. i think paul ryan admitting that this morning is a good thing and refreshing from a politician. >> effectively what he's doing is he's telling people what they already know. he's saying, look, we've done it. we don't have to talk about it. l.z, let's get to anna's point. mitt romney did speak about the 37% of obama voters who he doesn't think will vote for him. does mitt romney have to be perfect in wednesday's debate, avoid the so-called missteps? we're going to fix your audio.

all of the missteps. as john heilemann said on the show many times, and other shows, too, every day that mitt romney isn't talking about the economy is a wasted day. and you know, the economy's at the core of what this -- what this argument is. yet, it muddies it, too. i think there's a clearer message to make about the economy and job creation and about boosting incomes of middle class americans and more basic positive stuff than being like that guy's communist, he's a seek government lover, we have the tape. it's seems like an indirect and not strong way to go about it. >> hugo has john heilemann for authority. lynn has moses. we're going it see how this plays out after the break. we're going to look at red state blues. there are some new poll up ins that show support is shrinking for governor romney, and key republicans at the same time think his time is running out. >> he's been a mystery for a lot of us. we keep waiting for what we hope is a revealing moment, that

question, what missteps? >> first of all, 47% mitt acknowledges himself. that was an inarticulate way of describing more people have become dependent on government because they have no opportunity. it was an inarticulate way to describe how we are trying to reduce dependency to get people off welfare and back to work. we had some missteps but at the end of the day the choice is cheer and we are giving people a clear choice. progrowth solutions for opportunity and upward mobility and a dynamic economy. you have the president promising basically four more years like the last four years of stag nation and dependency. we have not been able to frame that choice as clearly. i believe by the end of this day people will understand exactly what they have on the choice that they have. >> chris: do you think the mainstream media is carrying water for barack obama? >> goes without saying there is definitely a media bias. i'm a conservative. we expected media bias going into this. that is why when you hear people in washington complain about media bias come out into th

i think that's the most revealing misstep in this whole history of denying him the due process based on the voters' choice and the due process he is guaranteed under the law in your procedures. thank you.t( >> good afternoon, commissionsers. my name is jose morales. i'm a member of many organizations in the city, especially action network, san francisco union and of course this is not justice what is happening to ross. we stand for ross, you know, who i'm standing and i believe that he has been abused just for something that you call it domestic violence, but domestic violence, it was just an altercation, squeezing the arm of his wife in the heat of the argument and caused a little bruise. about why should that be considered domestic violence and battery when you believe that someone has been battered, you hit her with a bat. i would like you to really reconsider what you are saying because i was in the room that you were questioning if this was domestic violence and all those problems. he has been an excellent, wonderful person as a supervisor. he has passed many laws and he has the

you've written a piece that's caused a lot of noise in washington that the romney's campaign's misstepsf recent weeks going through the convention and clint eastwood and the missteps in glaund and all the mix stakes in the lastself months have their roots in what? you explain what seems to be the dysfunction in that campaign. >> right. the piece focuses very much on frustration internally inside the campaign and externally among republicans with stewart stevens, and i think with mitt romney himself about this lack of having a campaign message, the lack of having a plan to use the conventions and then use the time afterwards, this period between the conventions and the debates, to really define romney with specificity, to show how he would govern differently than barack obama. as you've talked about on your show the last week, conservative after conservative starting with "the wall street journal," the weekly standard, trent lot, many others have gone on the record to say, come on, we want specificity. we want a war of ideas and we're not getting it from you. and i think that has had a r

these are all missteps. i want to see a tougher, stronger.victim of a right wing of his own party. a republican can be a credible national candid as long as they put together an economic problem it can cause a fraud. [talking over each other] lou: why is the white house, this president, covering about happened in benghazi and has done so for two weeks? this president refusing to by the way, clearly it is perfectly intellectually correct to say that this president has denied truth and, in fact, we have just learned, they had just arrested the guy who produced that silly and amateurish video which she continues to blame for what happened in benghazi and around the middle east and muslim world >> first and foremost is should not be part of a political debate. there has to be an investigation [talking over each other] >> let me point out first to my kind of all school this way. let's have an investigation, the facts. there is a lot we do know. lou: were running out of time. you're on the record. let me turn to monitor for the last couple of words

>> i think this is another misstep by the nfl they miscalculated here.tuation has been very murky. melissa: right. >> in the spring. you know there were a lot of calls for roger goodell to step up and really step into the situation even before this happened. so, the nfl made a couple missteps along the way with a league as superpowerful and popular it is a black mark. melissa: most importantly who will win the game tonight? >> i think fans will win and players are going to win because we will have real refer east out there deciding. melissa: that is easy out. i will let you go. mark, thanks for coming on. we appreciate your time. we told but the texas gun range hosting children's birthday parties. florida blew that place out of the water. pool parties are all the rage with kids in the sunshine state. what is that in the pool with them in the middle? it is an alligator. you can not have too much money or too many alligators at your kid's birthday party apparently. we'll be right back. melissa: fun with spare change. democratic strategist lena maxwell and

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his book "no apology" so to all the conservative media out there saying that this foreign policy misstep is a fatal blow to the romney campaign, let me offer you a no apology condolence card. romney 2012, i'm not sorry for your loss. (applause) we'll be right back. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you so much. nation, please, nation, yesterday was the beginning of the jewish new year or rosh hashanah-nah. the jewish new year is just like the regular new year only instead of waking up the next morning filled with regret you go to bed filled with it. and i would like to honor my jewish viewers by blowing the traditional shofar. cheerses plaus-- (cheers and applause) dead ram. folks, rosh hashanah-nah is the start of what is known as the days of repentance which ends on the holy day of yom kippur which is when the jewish baby new year is circumcised by that old moyel with the scythe. o children of israel, once again i look forward to your apology to me, to quote your jewish pope moses, revenge is a dish best served kosher. that's why i am once again offering my atone phone hotline

if a campaign is too cautious, too afraid of a misstep, too anxious to retreat when the mainstream mediaowl, too slow to you'll lies the stories of the day and too intent on trimming its sails, the campaign will not succeed. joy, my contention, it may not be yours, is that the reason he's incoherent, the reason he's so scared of offending the right is that he's in bed with the right. he needs those supporters. he's not a real gut right winger, sort of a political opportunist, but his attorney is saying anything that offends grover norquist. he's so scared of offending his keepers that he gets very hesitant generally. >> chris, i call it the endless primary. this guy is constantly trying to appeal to the right to tell them he's one of them. look, and you will relate to this having worked with tip o'neill, the bottom line is i have been campaign staff, been communications staff, you can do a lot for a candidate but you can't give them a core. the staff can't give you a core. you have to come into the campaign with it. and the problem for mitt romney is that the only thing that seems to be

and i think it does bring to mind to some people mccain's missteps in the fall of 2008 when he seemedo be out of his depth in talking about the economy. mitt romney doesn't have a rhetoric. he doesn't have rhetoric or record on foreign policy. in some ways if you look at his approach of foreign policy there's not much daylight of what he says he would do and what obama's doing and what he does is rely on this sort of rhetoric that we saw from that statement last night and that he doubled down on today. >> mentioned the statement, bob sherm sherman. this is romney's initial statement regarding the situation in libya. released last night. it's disgraceful that the obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on the diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. the obama campaign said it was shocking that the romney campaign launching a political attack in the wake of this tragedy. she alluded to this. doesn't mitt romney as the republican nominee who caught flack, of course, for not mentioning afghanistan in the rnc speech, the man who's fac

there more than four hundred inmates alone and in a four square meter cell a misstep throws there are many black people many hispanic people and many people without lawyers they have nothing else to do but wait the more time goes by the more they drown in solitude time is never ending but death comes closer by the minute in the year one thousand nine hundred nine thomas is exhausted from waiting . did you execution date. is going to be up to you do. you get that it wants to give you execution date you. can't go pick a date. and dead court waiting becomes a nightmare. to execution dates. believe me. i just had one to two execution date is enough for anybody to go through my life to a. high security prison. is found in the. edel of the texan country so. this death row has the highest number of executions in the u.s. mimic which for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time french activist sundry no shortage has been alongside thomas miller fighting against the death penalty and the horrors of waiting on death row on the shore of what we are on the road between forei

you see, whatever his missteps are as a candidate barack obama is surging in the polls because the closer we get to the election it is dumber mitt romney appears to be getting. (cheers and applause) here he is touting his economic plan-- settle down. really? is that how you want to win this thing? (laughter) the other guy just tears his a.c.l., is that how you want to win? (laughter) here's romney touting his economic plan at the start of this campaign last year. >> my economic plan lays out how i will ultimately get government to shrink, grow our economy, balance our budget so that investors in new jobs and enterprises will have confidence in america. it's about 150 pages with 59 different policy ideas. >> jon: 59 policy ideas! 150 pages! 11 herbs and spices! 99 bottles of beer on the wall! now here he is touting his economic plan just eight months later. >> if we win on november 6, it will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. we'll see capital come back and we'll see-- without actually doing anything, we'll actually get a boost to the economy. (audience reacts)

. >> each side keeps talking about missteps. missteps that have been made.e to manage how they come off. but let's talk about the leading ladies because both michelle obama and ann romney both out in the past week showing a more, you know, human side to their husbands. just take a quick listen. >> i have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy, what -- you know, the pieces that are missing to get this jump started, so for me i think it would just be the emotional part of it. >> i can make him mad. i'm probably one of the few people who can really make him mad. >> how do you make him mad? >> any number of ways. >> okay. so interesting. are these wives helping or, you know, hurting their husbands in this buildup to the election? >> well, they're definitely helping with their public image because they're the most likable parts of each ticket really, but i feel as though they could be helping a lot more becau

washington air force authority which runs both local airports and building the silver line, had one more misstep to clean up. >> i'm deeply troubled. >> just as they would try to redeem itself by the inspector general and elected leaders, three board members blasted ceo, jackpotter's hiring of riley who recently resigned from the board. >> it was mentioned to me on a few occasions that the governor of virginia did not want riley on the board any longer. >> anybody that would look at this would leave with an impression that she was paid off to get off this board of directors. >> the ceo said though he followed the rules, he would not do it again. >> looking back, i would not. >> riley will leave her job next month with a healthy package. that is per new ethics guidelines. however, a new policy is not in place yet. the executive board rejected the draft proposal. members didn't like the restrictions on recommending friends and relatives for jobs here at the airport. the board did adopt a new travel policy, which contains spendy limits and requires approval before taking trips. >> the bottom line i

. >> we've had some missteps but at the end of the day, the choice is really clear, and we're giving people a very clear choice. >> president obama headed to nevada to polish his performance before the big showdown. >> he's not worried about zingers and lines. he's got time with the american people to explain to him his case for re-election. >> and the first debate will give voters a chance to size up both candidates on the same stage for the first time. brian mooar, wbal-tv 11 news. >> coming up, a villeage treasure up in smoke and now getting ready to reopen. straight ahead, an update as the mount washington tavern is making its big comeback. plus, helping a local teacher who undergoes a triple amputation and the students are determined to get their teacher back in the classroom. >> nearly one year after the huge fire destroyed the mount washington tavern, they're getting ready to reopen. today in an effort to reintroduce themselves to the neighborhood, the owners and staff were out selling oysters and beer and wine at the mount washington village block party. >> we are really exci

when people are willing to say, mitt romney is our guy, but this is a misstep.untry first. that lasted for a little while. that seems to be over as of primetime last night. >> it's the party that doesn't have scruples. people who are standing up and saying what they really believe are maybe saying the right thing, suddenly are just whipped into line, so now it's like the party has to tow the party line not by saying romney made a mistake or romney spoke too quickly or anything along those lines but saying, oh, well, you know, actually somehow he was right. when, in fact, of course, he was not right. but, you know, they're paying a real price for this. i mean, what happens in a presidential election, as opposed to primaries, for example, excuse me, is in addition to looking at the issues, voters look at the candidates, themselves, and they get an impression of the candidates they take into the voting booth in november. and when they've had a chance now to compare president obama and to compare mitt romney. and in that comparison, romney has been failing. obama, w

. >> we have had some missteps. but at the end of the day, the choice is really clear.. we have these pro growth solutions for opportunity and upward mobile and a dynamic economy. you've got the president basically promising four more years like the last four years. and here and there. we have not been able to frame that choice clearly. by the end of the day, people are not going to understand exactly what they have got. >> a voluntary campaign senior advisor is seeking to clarify the president's plan even after the currency of the economy. >> the president's not ga qualifiesed. we have now created 5 million jobs, we're net positive in terms of jobs created. but whole is huge, and we have to create an commit in which the middle class has a chance. we're not going to get back there by getting back to the same policies we have had before. >> the des moines register poll shows a four-point lead in ohio. in ohio the president is currently ahead in -- >>> president obama boarded air force one a short time ago and is now heading to nevada for our campaign event tonight. we'll

closed doors, shoring up support among house republicans, in the middle of campaign fighting and missteps by governor romney's 47% hidden camera video, prompting criticism again today from conservative columnist, peggy nunan, who said the campaign was a rolling calamity >> what do you say to your fellow republicans who are -- >> stop it, this is hard, you want to try it. get in the ring. this is hard. >> reporter: some republican senate hopefuls are distancing themselves, like wisconsin's tommy thompson who warned a troubled presidential campaign could hurt other candidates, thompson's remark drew this response from former new hampshire governor and romney supporter. >> my good friend, tommy thompson, sounds like barack obama, blaming it on somebody else. mr. obama, meanwhile, continued his offensive, speaking by satellite to the aarp members >> i want to emphasize, they're not handouts. >> reporter: later, swiping about the comments. >> i don't see a lot of victims in this crowd today. i see hard-working people in virginia. >> reporter: he also resumed a back and forth with romney over t

there is no doubt -- we have had a bunch of missteps on this. part of the first question you asked me -- what are some of the big mistakes made. but i'm introspective about the last two years, i think the biggest mistake we made the the company is betting too much on html5. it just was not there. it is not that it is that. i am actually in long-term -- really excited about it. we have more people on a daily basis using mobile web facebook been using our ios or android apps combned. we went for this approach. we build this internal framework of a golf face sdb. the idea that we could take infrastructure and translate that into mobile development. we never got the policy we wanted. we made this decision to years ago. it took 608 months to biuld -- 6 to 8 months to build dace web. probably will look back on saying that as one the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistake we have made. but we're coming out of that now. >> news said it was a -- you said it was about two years ago that you decided data with the way to go. >> two years ago

. >>> facebook ceo mark zuckerberg talked about his company's missteps. he used the two-day conference to make his first public comment since facebook ipo back in may. he also tried to are assure investors. >> we zuckerberg says facebook's future will rely on smart phones and tablets. >>> if you are in the market for a job you may find your new employer at a job festival today. it will be at the golden gate holiday inn. it is a free event. >>> a walnut creek police union is speaking out about a lack of dedicated traffic officers in the wake of a deadly accident over the weekend. the walnut creek police association says one of four enforcement officers is retiring at the end of the week. ly be -- now a woman was killed when a pickup truck drove right on to a sidewalk hitting bevel pedestrians. >>> the entire san mateo bridge will be closed for a seismic retro -- cal tran says they hope to have the work completed in one weekend but just in case be prepared. >> we decided to have that second weekend ready. >> the closure is scheduled for the weekend of octob

. >> reporter: today paul ryan admitted to missteps, including the 47% comment.t the end of the day, we're giving people a very clear choice. >> reporter: ryan was asked the specifics of the tax plan, both romney and ryan have yet to detail their tax cut. now romney is preparing for the debates in boston, massachusetts with senator rob portman standing in as president obama. he is working on sharpening his message. meanwhile obama campaign says that obama is working on shorter, crisper answers. before he gets started, he will speak at this campaign event right here in las vegas. >> kristen welker tonight. >>> we're joined by nbc's chief white house correspondent chuck todd, lay it out for us. how important are the debates in this particular election? >> at this point in time in the campaign, the stakes are enormous for mitt romney. he is behind, you can argue by how much he's behind, is it as bad as it looks in some polls in places like ohio or florida, but the bottom line is he's behind. he needs to come out basically not just even in the presidential, but it ne

. >> now, mitt romney tried to capitalize on what many believe was a misstep by the president at the univision moment. we talked, we showed that just now. romney attacked. susan, how important are these kinds of missteps by both candidates at this stage in the campaign some. >> well, we know that they can -- if they go to kind of a preexisting weakness they can have some power. that's what was so damaging i think for governor romney about his comment about the 47%, those aren't people i need to worry about, because it went to a perception that he didn't really care about the problems of people that he didn't understand the lives of the americans who have had less privileged backgrounds than he has. so the -- we saw the romney people seize on this comment yesterday, because it went to president obama disappointing some of his 2008 supporters and not delivering on changes in the way our politics work as some americans had hoped he would do. so it's -- is it a battle of the gaffes at this point? because we've seen more focus on the occasional statement or misstatement than we are in a b

do these missteps for mitt romney, are they going to cause voters to walk away?st? >> well, we can't tell. it's september, and there's always october surprises. things may occur. but what he said is, a president, one of the things you learn is that a president has to be interested in the next stage of good for a majority of all people in the country. and for somebody, even a candidate to say, well, i'm writing off almost half of the people, they will never vote for me, i think he's just -- he's not clear about what he's talking about. because a lot of those people who are on social security and medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly, are republicans. and is so to a certain extent, he is dising some of his own base. >> and how does this stack up to past campaign mistakes? a lot of people have brought up president obama's comment back in 2008 when he talked about people clinging to their guns and religion. he obviously got past that easily. will this be more significant for mitt romney than a speed bump like that? >> you know, we obviously don't kno

and he didn't see that there were any missteps with the review from the dbi perspective. i also noted that 22 special inspections are relating to this scope of work, which include items relating to the structure as well as the geotechnical aspects of the construction. so we will be doing our dbi inspections, as necessary for the construction, when it is underway. and we will also be requiring those special inspections to be submitted to us with letters of certification, final letters at the end of the work and we will not sign off any approvals for the project until we have approved those certification letters and we're happy that everything is being monitored throughout the course of the work. so i believe that dbi also sent out notification to the adjacent building owners, as i understand it, it's a notification of a structural addition to the building owners on the adjacent properties as well as the three properties behind this property at 2865 vallejo. i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, then, sir, aren

think about your own missteps, and if this had happened to you. ross was one of you. if you remove our sheriff, then all officials guilty of any misdemeanor should be removed, all. this is a time to remember camaraderie with ross. the laughter over a cup of coffee, the late night spent finessing ordinance language. you were there for him. he was there for you. now, after years of shared efforts and moments of friendship, are you going to let yourself abandon him? are you going to ruin your career -- his career, because you think that will help yours? that is not moral. the day you leave this room, after your vote, you will be stepping into a new destiny. your decision will follow you for a lifetime, and create your tomorrows. how better your lives will be if you respect the will of the voters and ultimately respect yourselves. this is the time to act with valor, to be the biggest person you have ever been. you can be that person. reinstate ross. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. live turkeys for the holidays and i would like -- graphi