>>moderator: robo.buerkle: he thinks because coal is not in our district it does not affect gas prices. the cost of energy is national, international, we need to develop as a nation, not state-by-state and it -- and energy policy. green energy on the accounts 2% of electricity generated. we have to move forward with compromise. >>moderator: ursula rozum. rozum: her comments may have been correct but no longer now we get 14% of energy from three energy four or electricity. the cost of grenoble's continues to go down but also feels goes up two to the high-risk thomas bills bills, accidents that will happen if we hydro-fracking and continue now and talk removal coal mining. >>moderator: that ends the question and response. we now turn to closing statements turning first to dan maffei. maffei: i want to thank everybody for participating in this debate. it has been rough and tumble campaign. i admire my opponents. the bereday ann marie buerkle and i were addressing constituents. ann marie buerkle told them n

[cheers] [applause] >> moderator: let's move on. heather wilson, you have one minute for closing statement. wilson: over the last four years, we have lost 30,000 jobs. gasoline is up. college education is through the router in roof. a household income has gone $4000. congressmen martin heinrich once you put in a cap and trade system. it will increase the cost of electricity by $1000 per household. it will cost another 11,000 jobs here in new mexico. he wants to raise taxes in the upper income brackets, half of which are small businesses, which will cost us another 4300 jobs. right here in new mexico. he voted for us across the board. it will cost us 4000 new jobs. we need some and will fight for the strong businesses who will struggle with the tough decision to have to make because of the lousy policies put in place and for spending. we need to get back to strong economic growth and job creation. that is what i am going to do in the united states senate. [cheers] [applause] >> moderator: thank you, audience, for holding your closet

>> moderator: martin?nrich: frankly, i think it's important to remember whose seat we're seeking to fill her. senator bingaman says that bill was a huge distortion, and it was. i voted to ensure as a country we didn't default on obligations. it was the tea party who forced us not to pass a clean piece of legislation, and i think what's important is that if we bring a balanced approach to this and don't do a cuts only approach, we can completely erase the impact of sequestering. now, i stood up to my own party and fought for the bases and our national labs. i opposed my own president when he said that we should put off funding the facility at los alamos. i wish heather would have stood up when they were looking to cut plants 17% or 11%. >> moderator: your rebuttal? wilson: i voted against ryan's budget in 2007. standing up to the party on the national labs, you voted for the continuing resolution that zeroed out the funding for the national labs, and you didn't offer a single amendment or lift a finger to t

. >> moderator: mr. baumgartner? baumgartner: this election shouldn't be so much about cementer cantwell's past failures of putting the war on a credit card but how she might vote for the next one. i had the great privilege of going to syria as a scholar on the u.s.-arab relations and high school, one of ten americans sent there. i had a great time there. we absolutely should not intervene. it is not in our national interest unless they start doing things with chemical weapons, and we think those are going to fall into the wrong hands then we should take action. with regards to iran, it is absolutely dangerous thing for iran to get nuclear weapons and would like to lead the rest of the region going nuclear and the would be a tremendous security threat. the last thing we need right now is another poorly planned war and we don't need some interest authorized without clear exit strategies like senator cantwell has done repeatedly. we need to know what will happen the day after and with the hezbollah terrorists would be

martha raddatz is the moderator here. it should be an hour and a half, a couple minutes to close at the end of this, but, neil, for republicans, it's continuing the momentum from mitt romney's debate, explaning positions, their budget, and who better than to explain the budget, part of the reason they chose paul ryan, than to have recall ryan here. democrats want to stop the republicans' momentum, flush out their policy, and basically take the ryan budget and tear it apart. neil? neil: you think about it, rich, four years ago, the sarah palin debate, more people watched that than the other presidential debates. i'm not sure they are expecting the same for this one because there was such a surprising surge in the number of people who watched last week's presidential debate. i think that was around 70 million. any expectations, highballing it, lowballing it tonight? >> you know, i think maybe when you consider the realm of other presidential and vice presidential debates, so many expectations are lotter in vice presidential

>> moderator: you have two minutes. gibson: in have? right? >> moderator: that's right.gibson: this is something very personal for me. my mom is on the program and she is 75. i hope she lives to be 100. maybe more. we want this program to be around. the trustees say it is going to go bankrupt. i support to concept that will get the conversation started. the first one is a premium support model i supported last year. this expands the medicare advantage concept that right now 25% of seniors have where they pick the plan the trustees will then pay the premiums this was federally guaranteed regulated and as i said, 25% of the seniors have it now and the shift to $2,400 it doesn't shift $2,400 to seniors. the other concept that supported with an accountable care framework i supported that this year. we have to work together to get this done. we can't have the kind of campaign that my opponent is running. he keeps saying it ended the conversation when we voted for a concept in a budget proposal. it wasn't even in authorizing language. we have to have a concept and then put it

was on channel 51 he actually made that statement down the line. >> moderator: >> moderator: mr.ld say in 2011 he voted to end medicare for everybody and to raise the cost for seniors over $6,000 a year on average. in 2012 he voted on a plan that would raise the cost of prescription drugs for seniors by $680, i believe. but the votes are there. he can speculate about and try to edit the tape about what my record will be, and i'm not supporting any cuts because i'm not in washington, i've not supported any of the obama proposals you're describing, i'm not in washington. but you don't have to speculate about mr. bilbray's record because he's voted twice on these issues, and you can look it up. >> moderator: okay. listen, we're going to have to go to another break, and when we come back, we will start looking at some social issues in terms of same-sex marriage, the don't ask, don't tell repeal, abortion and equal pay for women. thank you very much, and we'll see you after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> moderator: welcome back to ut san diego and the ut tv studios where we're having a congres

>> moderator: 1:15, sir.ack: thank you very much. and, you know, i'm honored and proud to have tonight with me three women that are very special to me. my wife, mary, who's here; my mother who's here and can star of -- and the star of our new commercials, and my daughter who's also here. and the idea that someone would harm any one of them or anyone is disgusting. and we need to do all we can to protect them. we also need to do all we can to make sure that they have an opportunity. you know, i think about my daughter, and, um, what is it going to be like when she gets older, after she graduates college -- you're going to college -- [laughter] after you graduate college, i want to make sure she has a good job. and you know what? women are worried about in this country is about jobs and security and being secure at home and making sure that their children are taken care of. and that they put, they put food on the table. and like i said -- i did, i answered the question. i did answer the question. >> moderator:

>> moderator: sure. sadler: i walked the border around el paso outside the fence, depending on which way you look, and i asked what surveillance do we have here? we basically use vietnam era surveillance, and at fort bliss, they had a portion where we test and train the most surveillance equipment for the united states military, within a mild of the border. can you train our border patrol with this surveillance? absolutely, we could. we have the training and testing of the modern surveillance from the gulf of mexico. why aren't we doing that? the answer is no one's asked us to. well, i did. it's important. >> moderator: thanks. we're going to move on to another subject, a topic involving immigration, and ross has that question. >> mr. cruz, letting cubans come here illegally, become legal, an opportunity not open to or immigrants from other countries. shamed we extend that to others? should cubans be held differently there? cruz. -- cruz: the situation in that country is different, oppressive, regime tha

step up. >> moderator: but let me go -- biden: that's the only way it works. >> moderator: let me go back to the surge troop that is we put many there, and you brought this up, congressman ryan. i have talked to a lot of troops, i've talked to senior officers who were concerned that the surge troops were pulled out during the fighting season, and some of them saw that as a political, as a political move. so can you tell me, vice president biden, what was the military reason for bringing those surge troops home -- biden: the military reason for -- by the way, when the president announced the surge, you'll remember, martha, he said the surge will be out by the end of the summer. the military said the surge will be out. nothing political about this. before the surge occurred, so you be a little straight with me here too. before the surge occurred, we said they'll be out by the end of the summer. that's what the military said. the reason for that is -- >> moderator: military follows orders. i mean, they're -- trust me, there are people who were concerned about pulling out. biden: sure. t

thank you. >> moderator: mr. president, please respond directly to what the governor just said about trickle down. his trickle-down approach. he said yours is. obama: let me talk specifically about what i think we need to do. first, we've got to improve our education system, and we've made enormous progress drawing on ideas both from democrats and republicans that are already starting to show gains in some of the toughest to deal with schools. we've got a program called race to the top that has prompted reforms in 46 states around the country, raising standards, improving how we train teachers. so now i want to hire another 100,000 new math and science teachers and create two million more slots in our community colleges so people can get trained for the jobs that are out there right now. and i want to make sure we keep tuition low for our young people. when it comes to our tax code, governor romney and i both agree or corporate tax rate is too high, so i want to lower it -- particularly for manufacturing, taking

this shows the sort of moderate bit.he's going out of his way to argue these are really cutting taxes. these are really cutting government. in fact, is not what you're supposed to be doing? in the senate close fundraiser where he taught about getting rid of a department of the government. that would start to save actual money. >> was look at the clip about the question everyone cares about, whose pension is bigger than his. let's take a look. >> mr. president, the literature pension? popular figure pension? mr. president, the literature pension? >> it's not as big as yours. i don't check about often. >> when they give you some advice. look at scheuer pension. you have investments in china, outside the united states. >> were way off topic, mr. romney. >> if i were talking about immigration. >> affected every sit down, governor romney, thank you. >> president bush and i are different people and these are different times and that is why my five-point plan is so different than what he would've done. for instance, we can have

>> moderator: one minute. murphy: part of a mixer congress so great is that it's the people's house. if the voters unhappy with the representation, then they can go people out or in. so it's not the voters come its not up to me. i got into this in large part because i think her country is a tipping point. we see fierce challenges right now. many people serious bug in our country back on track and i'll continue to focus on job creation, protecting the middle class and promise to her seniors. we'll let the voters decide. >> moderator: congressman. west: we talk about the fundamental principles of extremism, but we talk about limited government from the declaration of independence. we talk about fiscal responsibility. you are part of the parties has taken us from 10.6 trillion to over six centrally dollars in debt. we talk about individual freedom and sovereignty. we talk about the free marketplace. when you look of its proposed coming of the democrat party were to just raise taxes on the top two income tax break

>> moderator: senator?kill: i will say congressman akin spend a lot of time talking about stimulus and other things he said is wasteful. if you look at the record, the interesting thing about it is congressman akin is only opposed to stimulus it's f there's a democrat in the white house. many times over the $400 million in stimulus he voted for president bush was president. three different times. december toth, 2001, $150 billion stimulus package. march 7, 2002, $108 billion. february 7, 2008, $145 billion and a lot of deficit spending. during the bush years they blew the clinton surplus. and akin was right there asking for earmarks. >> moderator: thank you, senator. next joan bergman, and representing the clayton chamber will ask her question to senator mccaskill. >> the channel leer rents a large number of small business who had to make difficult decisions like cutting their labor force, holding an reducing their salaries and cutting back on expense during the recent economic crisis. it's clear that most

>> moderator: one minute. west: we all have different views and part of what makes our congress agreed is it is the people's house. it is a two year term and if the voters are not happy with their representation than they can vote people out or in. at the end of the day visit to the voters it isn't up to me. i got into this race in large part because i think our country is a tipping point. we face serious challenges right now and we need people serious about getting the country back in the right track and i'm going to continue to focus on job creation and protecting the middle class and the promise to our seniors and we will let the voters decide. >> when you talk about the fundamental principles of you want to call extremism but you want to talk about limited government that comes from the declaration of independence to talk about fiscal responsibility your part of the party has taken us from 10.6 trillion over $16 trillion. the top of the free marketplace. when you look at what has been proposed on the democ

i'm going to make sure -- >> moderator: >> moderator: okay. thank you, governor. romney: energy resources, we'll bring back manufacturing to america. we're going to get through a very aggressive energy policy, three-and-a-half million more jobs in this country. it's critical to our future. obama: candy, i'm used to being interrupted, you know? >> moderator: we're going to move you both along to taxes and all these folks that have been waiting. governor, this question is from you. it comes from mary palano. sorry. >> governor romney, you have stated that if you're elected president, you would plan to reduce the tax rate for all the tax brackets and that you would work with the congress to eliminate some deductions in order to make up for the loss in revenue. concerning the, these various deductions, the mortgage deduction, the charitable deductions, the child tax credit and also the, oh, what's that other credit? i forgot. obama: you're doing great. >> oh, i remember. the education credits which are important to me because i have children in college. what would be

moderate versus conservative, moderate versus extreme.here's a good choice to make. >> moderator: thank you, senator. conkman, you now have three minutes for your opening statement. aiken: thank you, all, for being here. i'm an engineer, served as an army officer, worked for ibm, meeting my wife for 37 years, blessed with six children, eight grandchildren. three of my children were in the naval academy, became marines, one in the mediterranean serving tonight. i'm particularly blessed, also, tonight, to have my parents here with us. dad is 91, served with pat ton in world war ii, and my mother, we talked her into cooking dinner for us sunday nights. we are here because we want an america with a bright and cheerful hope for the future, but that good future that we want has to come with right choices and wise decisions. unfortunately, claire mccaskill and barack obama have not given up such a future. claire mccaskill was the first to endorse barack obama, and she was his strong right hand passing legislation, voting with him 98% of the time

moderator: mr. mueller. >> in a lot of ways i agree with congressman bartlett. we do need to cut corporate taxes and reduce regulations that are piling up in a way that there are more regulations than anyone knows how to enforce. but i think primarily the way to improve the economy is to cut government spending, and the reason for that is government doesn't have any of its money of its own. there's only three ways the government can get money. it can tax you, which means it's taking the money out of the hands of up a trip knews who create jobs. it can also borrow money and every dollar the government borrows it's one less dollar an up a up a trend knew can borrow, and the last way is printing it. everytime the government prints money it's inflating the dollar and it's losing value some punishing savers and that is the worst way that you can go about improving the question. moderator: report, we mav on to the next question. starts with you, congressman bartlett. what do you want to see the next congr

okay. >> moderator: looks like you're ready to jump in. baldwin: i am. >> moderator: go for it. baldwin: first of all, i have voted for sanctions starting when i first came to the united states congress in iran. you have your facts wrong. but you don't all of them wrong. i indeed on two occasions, i believe -- thompson: four occasions. baldwin: i think you're incorrect. believe there was a prospect in iran from regime change from within. many whom look at the region carefully saw there were hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who took to the streets and stood up to -- [inaudible] and i felt it very important we send a message to those people wementedded them to succeed in regime u change from within. especially when we were stakes about sending wisconsin young men and women in to horme's way ilgd rather see the regime change happen from within. as you know, you probably read the same histories i have, they were brutally beaten back by the iranian government. i didn't think, i think we missed an opportunity for regime change there and so we had to go back to the tac

the moderator. karen finney joins me. stay with us. >>> yeah, does governor romney support the lily ledbetter act? >> sam, we'll get back to you on that. >> yeah, we'll get back to you on that. we have to play that to be fair to the story. that was the romney campaign response on equal pay for women back in april. that would be six months ago. six months later, still don't have any answers. last night, both candidates were asked about pay equity. president obama pointed to the very first bill he signed, the lily ledbetter fair pay act, which gives women the ability to sue over pay inequity. mitt romney ignored the question, and instead discussed appointing women to top jobs while he was governor of massachusetts. >> and i went to my staff, and i said, how come all the people for these jobs are all men? and they said, well, these are the people that have qualifications. and i said, gosh, well, can't we find some women that are also qualified? >> well, in 2002, mitt romney was 55 years old and he had been a leader in the bu

mandy crowly will begin next moderator on tuesday. and bob schieffer is the fourth moderator. watch the debate at 9:00 p.m., get your responses to it after it is done, good to our website and will be able to find out everything and the information for that. i want to let you know that if you wanted to see what town hall debates are like and at the same time to give a bit of a history as far as the past town hall debates the lectern and at 7:00 p.m. tonight, three town hall debates from three different years from 2004 with mccain and obama, from 2000 with al gore and george w. bush. and george h. w. bush, bill clinton and ross perot, from 1992. three different types of debates. three different types of town hall debates. you can see it tonight starting at 7:00 p.m. from georgia on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. jim lehrer's format -- the way he presented the questions to candidates was the preferred way of questioning the candidates. and he also was able to more or less keep it as a debate. i know we have a little bit of problems with both candidates going over

all of a sudden moderate mitt loves pell grants. even though the real romney supports demolishing the pell grant program through paul ryan's budget. which, of course, he says he supports. president obama never let mitt romney define the terms of the debate, especially on romney's economic plan. >> now, governor romney was a very successful investor. if somebody came to you, governor, with a plan that said, here, i want to spend $7 trillion or $8 trillion, and we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it, you haven't have taken such a sketchy deal, and neither should you, the american people. >> president obama also reminded voters of what the real mitt romney says on the campaign trail. not the washington whitewash from moderate mitt. >> when governor romney stands here, after a year of campaigning. when during a republican primary, he stood on stage and said, i'm going to give tax cuts -- he didn't say tax rate cuts, he said tax cuts, to everybody, including the top 1%, yo

romney: thank you, bob, thank you for moderating tonight. thank you to lynn university for having us here. mr. president, great to be with you here again. we were at a a humorous event before, and it would be nice to be funny here tonight, but we'll see what happens. we'll see a complete change in the structure and the environment of the middle east. with the arab spring, came a great deal of hope there would be a change towards more moderation, an opportunity for greater participation on the part of women and public life, and in the economic life in the middle east, but instead we've seen in nation after nation, a number of disturbing events. in syria, 0,000 civilians killed by the military there. we see in libya, an attack, apparently by, i think, we know now by terrorists of some kind against our people there, four people dead. our hearts and mind go to them. the northern part of mali taken over. we have an egypt, a muslim brotherhood president, and so what we are seeing is a dramatic reversal for hopes we had in the region, and the great

moderate versus conservative, moderate versus extreme.hink there's a very big choice for missourians to make. >> moderator: thank you, center. congressman akin come just three minutes trying to thank you all for being here at for making the debate possible. i'm an engineer come served as an army officer, worked for ibm were i met my wife of 37 years. we've been blessed with six children, eight grandchildren. three of my children were at the naval academy and became marines. one is in the mediterranean serving to do. i'm particularly plus also tonight that my parents a way here with us, dad is 91, served with patton in world war ii. and my mother, we talk to into cooking dinner for us sunday night. i think we're all here because we want an america with a bright and cheerful hope for the future. but that could future that we want has to come with right choices and wise decisions. unfortunately claire mccaskill and barack obama have not given us such a future. claire mccaskill was the first to endorse barack obama, and she was his strong rig

moderate. >> moderator: go ahead. latham: congressman boswell voted for what he calls vouchers back in 2003 and this was a house-passed version of the prescription drug plan that he voted for that has the same kind of premium support and that he now claims are vouchers and it went over to the senate, to conference and that was taken out and then he voted against it so it must have been good enough for him to change his vote at that time because he was for the vouchers that he says and now -- >> moderator: what is your response? boswell: are you talking about the pharmaceuticals that created the big doughnut hole that you voted for? i didn't vote for that all-night session when the leaders came to the floor and twisted arms and god changes. latham: you voted for the house version. boswell: i did not. >> moderator: you disagree on that particular point and well we have a point we are going going to take a break. i debate with tom latham and leonard boswell continues. >> our coverage continues through the november 6 elec

>> moderator: martin? heinrich: it's important to remember from seat we are seeking to fill. senator jeff bingaman said that version of what i voted for was a huge distortion and it is. i voted to make sure as the country that we didn't the fall on our obligations. it was the tea party that forced us in the position of not passing the clean piece of legislation. and i think what is incredibly important is that if we bring a balanced approach to this and don't do the cut only approach, we can completely erase the impact of sequestration. i stood up to my own party and fought for the bases and fought for our national labs we should put off funding the facility at los alamos. i wish heather wilson would have stood up and fought for the national labs when the budget was seeking to count was almost 17% or sandia and 11%. i voted against were lovers in the house in 2007 and as for standing up to your party on the national labs, you voted for the continuing resolution that zero of the funding for the national lab

was this moderator interaction or an intervention? >> i'm responsible. >> takes the blames for errors surrounding the deadly terror attack in benghazi. and did it work? >> i'm here today, president obama. >> bruce springsteen becomes an obama group any singing the president's tune. and two candidates take time off the campaign trail for a few laughs. >> in the spirit of says any streets is brought to you by the letter "o" and $16 trillion. >> writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. we have richard grennel. jim pinkerton and ellen ratner. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >>> governor romney doesn't have a five-point plan, he has one point plan. that plan to to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. >> we have a president talking about someone's plan in a way that completely foreign to what my real plan is. then we have his own record. we have four consecutive years where he said when he was running for office. he would cut the deficit in half. instead he has doubled it. >> jon: three weeks

. >> moderator: go ahead. vilsack: congressman king has said this agenda to move this country to the right. i want to represent the 750,000 people in my district and concentrate how we grow the economy in these 39 counties. we lost population and a congress people. >> moderator: let's talk about the economy. >> if you're in congress what could you do to accelerate the economy from the sluggish economy. vilsack: i said i'm very focused on the local and i am. i would start on the local. i said i saw the world and this district through the lens of a teacher. i see my job much the way i would on the first day of school with all the promise that entails tails. and i would like at these counties as 39 separate entities as many different communities. i would want to make sure that i helped each of them maximize their potential by creating jobs. i have spent the last year-and-a-half laying out my plan for layers of economic opportunity and you know i always carry my football with me, one of the things i talk about is

that is a solution. >> moderator: okay, very good. we do separate white house this afternoon on the issue of closing statements in order and it resulted that the coin toss was the first closing statement is going to come from linda mcmahon. mcmahon: thank you again for joining us today. you the voters of connecticut will have a clear choice in november, a clear choice between someone who is creating jobs and his plan to do that for you and someone who has never created a job and has no plan for those people who are out of work in our state, which is the most important issue in this election. you'll have a choice between someone who can't be bought and between someone who's 30 taken special interest money for a loan. my opponent's chief ambition is to hold public office. mine is to make sure that our kids and grandkids have a better opportunity than we did. so i am asking you to make history in november, not send another career politician to washington, december 1st woman from connecticut to serve in the united states senate, a woman w

>> moderator: no. and dr.d that's what john mccain and i would engage in with also. but, again, with some of these dictators who hate america and what we stand for, our freedom, our tolerance, our respect for women's rights, those who would try to destroy what we stand for cannot be met with sitting down on a presidential level as barack obama had said he would be willing to do. that is beyond bad judgment, that is dangerous. no, diplomacy is very important. first and foremost, that is what we would engage in. but diplomacy is hard work by serious people. it's lining out clear objectives and having your friends and your allies ready to back you up there and have sanctions lined up also before any kind of presidential summit would take place. >> moderator: senator? biden: can i clarify this? that's just simply not true about barack obama. he did not say he'd sit down with ahmadinejad. the fact of the matter is it surprises me that senator mccain doesn't realize that ahmadinejad does not control the security app

>> moderator: yes. assemblywoman brownley? brownley: well, i was a co-author of the california dream act, so i am very, very supportive of and do support obama's approach here to allow children who were brought here by their parents or who serve in the military, that they should be able to receive a college education. this is, this is very, very important for, um, our veterans and for our young people who have come here, um, by no fault of their own. i also believe that it is critically important for congress and the president in this next term to begin to work on comprehensive immigration reform. it is critically important to do so, and i believe we should create a pathway to citizenship. but i also think that, um, our young people need to learn english, and we need to do our due diligence around background checks. but we need to have a pathway to citizenship that keeps our families together in the process, and it is so many immigrants in our country are the backbone of our economy whether it's here in

>> moderator: mr. president.bama: jeremy, your future is bright. the fact you make investments in higher education is critical, not just to you, but the entire nation. now, the most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country, but not just jobs, good paying jobs. ones that can support a family. what i want to do is build on the five million jobs created over the last 30 months in the private sector alone, and there's a bunch of things we can do to ensure your future is bright. number one, i want to build manufacturing jobs in the country again. you know, when governor romney said we should let detroit go bankrupt, i said we're going to bet on american workers and american auto industry, and it's come surging back. i want to do that in industries, not just in detroit, but all across the country, and that means we change our tax codes so we give incentives to companies investing here in the united states and creating jobs here, but it also means we help them and small busines

>> moderator: thank you very much. our next question comes from diego santiago who will direct it to congresswoman shelley berkeley. >> congresswoman berkeley, i was intrigued looking through both of your web sites that both the candidates have the country of israel as one of your top issues. now i ask, why is this issue at the top of your agenda, and has enough been done to defend our only true ally in the middle east? berkeley: i pride myself on being a strong supporter of israel. in the united states congress on either side of the aisle, we share a common bond, and it's the only democracy in a very dangerous part of the world and one of our strongest allies in the world. i think we need to do everything we can to work with israel to insure that iran does not acquire nuclear weapons. it's not only an existential threat to israel, but it's a threat to the entire world, and it would unleash a massive arms race in the middle east that would be very destabilizing and dangerous in an already unstable part of the world. th

extremism. >> moderator: mr. president? obama: well, my first job as commander in chief is to keep the american people safe. and that's what we've done over the last four years. we ended the war in iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11. and as a consequence, al-qaeda's core leadership has been decimated. in addition, we're now able to transition out of afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that afghans take responsible for their own security. and that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. now, with respect to libya, as i indicated in the last debate when we received that phone call, i immediately made sure that, number one, we did everything we could to secure those americans who were still in harm's way. number two, that we would investigate exactly what happened, and number three, most importantly, that we would go after those who killed americans, and we would bring them to justice. and that's exactly what we're going to do.

>> moderator: mr. pence? pence: let me say, it's ramon? >> moderator: is renaldo.pence: renaldo, forgive me. thank you for your question let me say it's extremely important we continue to innovate in the delivery of services. is one of the reasons why if i'm elected governor of indiana it is going to meet my hope that we have a new president in the white house and new leadership in the united states senate and we will go to washington d.c. and we will ask for greater control over medicaid. in fact i am very encouraged by the fact the governor romney is calling for block granting medicaid back to the states because one of the things indiana's demonstrated whether it be with their seniors or medicaid recipients is the ability to innovate and now we also have medicare. i know my opponents are -- obamacare. a 700 million-dollar cut in medicare for seniors. >> moderator: thank you very much mr. pence. mr. gregg? gregg: renaldo thank you. i absolutely support home health care. i was in the legislature with former -- from brazil indiana who said and he came up with this p

we have moderate rain showers from dc south. you can see moderate rain into fairfax, eastern county from prince william down. the showers, the rain continues. got a lot of very high streams and creeks and rivers. there's going to be some moderate to major flooding in the frederick area. mayorsville with the heavy showers. north of charleston up that way, showers. out towards i-81 we're seeing the moderate rain showers just become lighter rain. we like that trend. i want to show you these temperatures before i toss it away. the low 40s. fire fax -- fire fax -- fairfax 41. we're miss missing some temperatures. college park 42. you'll need a rain jacket, something that's going to keep you warm. improving conditions start tomorrow. back to the news desk i'm guessing. >> thank you very much. >>> san by -- sandy struck the northeast hard. hundreds of thousands of homes and business red sox still -- and businesses are still without power in new york city. it would be a week before they get their electricity back. >> in our area one pla

>> moderator: a minute, 15, sir.lson: i'm going to answer that in detail, but i'm first going to say not only has it been a cow pasture for 60 years -- [laughter] why don't we ask him why he takes two homestead exemptions which is directly contrary to florida's constitution that says that a husband and wife can only take one homestead exemption? >> moderator: to the critical immigration question. nelson: now, what we need -- and i've voted for comprehensive immigration reform -- what you need is you've got 11 million people here, you've got to get them in a situation that if they're eligible to go to the back of the line, they have to pay a fine, they have to have a clean record, they have to learn english, and then they can apply. now, another one is what about children? children that came here through no fault of their own? the dream act. i have voted and sponsored the dream act. my opponent has voted against it. the dream act, a child that would upon graduation they can go into the military, or they can go into co

these days they increasingly seem to be about the moderators. jim lehrer, and candy crowley. >> we're sort of way off topic here, governor romney. we're completely offer >> we were talking about immigration. >> quickly, mr. president, if i could have you sit down. governor romney, thank you. >> is the criticism of her role in this debate fair or partisan? we'll examine that face-off between barack obama and mitt romney. our journal is still far more fixated on the theatrics of the bee baits and on funny little moments like this one. >> it's phrase that won't die. >> binders full of women. >> binders full of women. >> biernds full of women is something you find in a killer's basement at the end of a "law & order: svu." >>> plus "newsweek" is ending its run. tina brown on moving into the digital world. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "rely" "reliable sources." >>> moderate as presidential debate as we have seen this fall means putting yourself in the cross fire and that's where she found herself during the second face-off this past week. >> governor

the moderator of families still asking the questions. in this election cycle, the first on the moderator herself is prohibited from asking follow-up questions, questions seeking clarification. she essentially is a lady with a microphone and keeping time. >> carol simpson was just on from abc, talking about what the role of women in these debates. you had marked erratics, the questioner of the vice presidential candidates. not the -- she had martha raddatz, the questioner of the vice-presidential candidates. the person called on, i suppose, does that have to ask the question. >> there is something ugly about having the league of women voters losing control of the presidential debates to the commission, cochaired by two men who then reduced all female moderators to kind of sign to those. >> we will take a break and come back to this discussion, talking to george farah. we will be joined by glenn greenwald when we come back. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen

[applause] >> moderator: mrs.are running short on time and went to get all the questions in. what would you do with the death tax? vilsack: one of the things we need to do before the end of this year is make sure that we raise the deduction on the estate tax so that we can save family farms. if at the end of this year we are at rest of that deduction going down to $1 million, it should be at least $5 million because of the price of land where we have the richest farmland in the world, we probably need to raise that a little bit. but while we are talking about taxes but talked about congressman king's fair tax if you make over to under $50,000 a year. he is suggesting that we do with the federal income tax and what we substitute the tax that would make your grocery bill, without bond 23% to everything you buy at the grocery store for prescription drugs, the card you want to buy or the car seat you to bring your baby home from the hospital in. there is nothing about this that is fair to the middle class. we need to

but you don't have moderators in senate debates.n real debates, each side just says what it wants to say, reacts off what the other one has said and no one remembers that there's any moderator involved. >> i think you do need moderators in the sense if you don't have somebody there who is essentially a time keeper. you can just have two guys go on and on and they'll just say they're talking points. but i think one of the other things that's interesting -- >> when has a moderator ever gotten a candidate not to use a talking point in the history of televised debates. >> i would argue that martha raddatz did it. they know bill clinton walking up to that woman and feeling her pain. it's those intangible moments in those debates. >> the other thing too i would just say when the person asks a question, again, the interaction is so important, but also the moderator's role, i know you don't like the moderator, but yes, the candidate may give those canned talking points, but the moderator kind of helps underscore that point. and again, that'

all of the above. >> moderator: mr. casey?asey: vernon, just a quick rebuttal on some of the earlier points, and i'll answer your question. number one is when tom smith was asked about a cut in the payroll tax for middle income families across the country, he called it a gimmick. it wasn't a gimmick. it created a lot of jobs and moved the economy forward. secondly, the budget proposal that vice presidential candidate ryan set forth over the course of two different years, in there is, in there you see tax implications for the whole country. when "the washington post" analyzed the tax proposals in the ryan budget, they said middle class taxes would go up. so if you want a middle class tax increase, i think tom smith is your candidate. on the question of school lunches and food inspections, i voted already for a lot of cuts. when we went through the debate in summer of 2011, we cut over $900 billion in the next ten years in the federal budget. did i agree with every one of those? no. but we should not be cutting programs like sch

>> moderator: ann marie buerkle? buerkle: the affordable care act in its current form cuts medicare for seniors by $700 billion. dan has a cut of medicare by $250 billion and spend $300 billion in the cbo management to be even more. that does not have to cut insurance companies. medicare's a federal program. it will be cut to the services hospitals and physicians provide for our seniors. those will be the cuts and the impact on our seniors will be real. we are already gearing from constituents saying they can't find a physician who will treat medicare patients. israel and the real consequence of the affordable care act. >> moderator: ursula rozum, thirty-second rebuttal. rozum: this agreement of the federal -- the health care that leaves out medicare for all is indicative of the dysfunction we see in washington which is why we need new leadership and progressive leadership. the affordable care act is modeled after romneycare in massachusetts and developed by insurance company executives with the company wellpoint. wh

this is exactly what moderators are not supsed to do. you fear they might do, which is to change the trajectory. this is kind of serious. lou: very serious. >> three weeks and we want to know what these guys are like and she prevented us from learning. >> the romney campaign said he lost that moment in part because of hernterjects. they privately concede that, yes, obama got the better of romney at that moment but it was because of that. >> that's what i believe. he won the first 45 minutes. that is governor romney. after that, he was thrown off his game. the president, i thought won the last 45 minute with the active participation of miss crowley in facilitating it lou: we have some aud here and video too. were so resourceful. i'd like to hear, candy crowley, this is her calling david axelrod, on her own broadcast, "state of the union", on the very issue, terrorists attack on september 12th right after the, the benghazi attacks. if we could play tha please. >> there is a back and forth now billion why didn't this administration why did

the prices have moderated.gh certainly i don't think the epa will change the standard. >> moderator: we have six minutes left. we have touched on the economy but closer is the federal deficit and said that. on the mind of many voters. what three specific cuts would you oppose and support? latham: with my a bill with transportation and head the largest percentage cut of any appropriation bills bills, over $4 billion. more importantly long-term i have a bill called the last government act to apply proven private sector management tools to the federal government for efficiency. we could reduce 25% of the administering the programs be much more efficient, this would be better to cut the deficit and then national debt than the individual programs. there is no incentive for efficiency with the federal government. boswell: for a specific i am a longtime soldier. i believe in a strong defense but we pay more for defense then all the countries of the world. we have to address that. the secretary of defense recommended t