mr. kerry: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: can we have order, please, mr. president? the presiding officer: yes. order, please. take your conversations outside if you want to have them. the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, let me just reiterate. i think senator barrasso here and senator lee and others. we tphraobg -- look forward to working over the course of the next few hours with our colleagues to try to come to some understanding of the amendments here. one of the things that we promised here -- and senator reid altered his approach to this in order to try to accommodate our colleagues -- is to make certain we're not closing people out and there is no effort to limit the debate. but i do think by virtue of the work done in the committee and otherwise, there's a limit to where we need to go to in terms of of amendments. so i'm perfectly happy toget

mr. kerry: mr. president, i suggest -- the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i suggest the absence of a quorum and ask that time be charge against both sides. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: senator from illinois, the assistant leader. mr. durbin: i ask that the quorum call be suspended. officer without objection. mr. durbin: we are in the process of considering the ratification of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. the united states has led the world in creating the legal framework building an infrastructure and designing facilities that ensure inclusion and opportunities for those living with disabilities. this year the senate foreign relations committee under the leadership of chairman john kerry and ranking minority member richard lugar celebrateds the it 22nd anniversary of the act by reporting on the rights of persons with disabilities on a strong bipartisan basis. i want to personally thank senator kerry and senator lugar for moving the trea

megyn: we talked about that in 2004 john kerry was told by one of his top aides may i be the first to say congratulations mr. president, john kerry. he did not win. how did you find out? how did you find out, all right my dad and george w. bush won. was it from tv or a different source? >> in 2000 we were in austin at one -- at the election night party at the hotel in austin when they called florida for gore, and it was really a downer. megyn: yeah. >> and then i remember i saw my dear friend and wonderful person, mary madeline on the air saying everyone hold up. panhandle is not in. this is an inch responsible call. then there was a call for us. that was an incredibleee lacing, but then we had the 37 days that followed. i think there will be a decisive victory for mitt romney tonight. megyn: thanks. can you imagine being told that you've lost only to find out later that you've won. i guess it's better than the alternative. whoever wins the election battle should be ready to roll up their sleeves tomorrow. stu varney is next with a couple of economic concerns. [ male announcer ] when these come together, an

got those first exit polls and some of them literally, some of the top aid started calling john kerry mrt. whoops. we'll see what happens. you'll get an early sense. guys like karl rove are going to be looking at those exit polls and they'll see some things and that will give them a sense, well, you know is this looking like a romney night for a obama night? having said that, martha we're going to have to wait for some actual concerns in key bell weather count inks. fortunately for us the earliest once to report, virginia, florida, pennsylvania, ohio they will be some of the earliest to report. we'll get an early sense of how it's going in the key swing states. martha: it's going to be a if's naturing night. do i have to remind you to tune in tomorrow night for the main event? rile. event. really megyn kelly, bret baier. we'll have analysis from chris wallace and the rest of the fox news teams include includes bill hemmer and martha maccallum. we have it covered for you starting at 6:00pm eastern time right here on the fox news khafpblt it will b channel. it will be a big night. bill: in

mrs. johnson, but president johnson as well. with one exception. kerry tells a great story. he tells a wonderful story about going back to all the people who work for lbj and collecting the great stories that they have of this titanic personality. and it was called the recollections project. they went to one of the aids for lbj and they are about to turn the microphone on. and he said to no one in particular, i just never liked the sop. he was the exception. the preponderance of folks ultimately love him. >> the ones that he insulted and put through the grill, he also then turned around and compensated with things like a brand-new lincoln, after insulting them publicly. so i would like to talk a little bit now about the more difficult years. first to reach back in the early years with mike and some of ladybird earlier recollections after their whirlwind courtship, which involve a great deal of persuasiveness on lbj's part two when he was running his very first federal program, which involved not only giving the youth of america future is in jobs, but involve the creation of

mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that senators hagan, kerry, begich and franken be added to my amendment, numbered 2985. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: mr. president, i believe we are reaching the end of our time designated to debate this amendment. the presiding officer: all the democratic time has expired. mr. udall: i would like to add a couple final remarks to the remarks i made earlier. i think we have heard a compelling reason to remove section 313 from the national defense authorization act, national security, energies security. let's stand with our military leadership, let's stand with our n.c.o.'s, let's stand with our enlisted personnel and ensure the military can continue to invest in this very important area of energy security which will save lives, create economic opportunity and make sure that we can project force abroad and protect the values we hold so dear. i urge my colleagues to vote for this amendment. i think at 2:00 we have a tentative agreement. with that, i would yield the floor. mr. levin: it's not a tentative agreement. there is a

down memory lane and remind americans of why wherejohn kerry is and where he stands in relation to military matters, coming up. well, if it isn't mr. margin. mr. margin? don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you fod a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. marie callender's turkey breast with stuffing is a great reason to slow down. creamy mash potatoes, homestyle gravy and 320 calories. marie callender's. it's time to savor. >> there is no reason that young american soldiers need to go into the homes of iraqis, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women... >> sean: that was senator john kerry, rumored to be a candidate for defense secretary, trash-talking our troops in 2005. but that wasn't the 50 time he has done that. listen to what he said in 1971, testifying before the senate foreign relation

mr. president, there's an easy pick, pick john kerry, the republicans like one of their own, he's a senatorthey also have a political interest in that. if john kerry is elevated to a cabinet position, they eventually has to be a vote in a special election, scott brown just loss. there's a lot of press going on in addition to the president having to make a tough policy choice. >> thank you very much. john king reporting. republicans on capitol hill keep asking the president to show them where he wants to cut not just who he wants to tax. joining us now is the number three man in the senate republican leadership, senator john thune of south dakota. senator, thanks very much for coming in. >> good afternoon, wolf. >> before i get to the fiscal cliff and the taxes, spending cuts, are you ready to make an announcement on how you would vote as far as confirmation of susan rice is concerned if the president nominated her to be secretary of state? >> i'm not ready to make that determination right now. but i do think that her meetings up here have raised lots of questions. and there are more reserva

for them to criticize john kerry as they did tells you a lot. this guy -- mr. mahon was right.e wants to be secretary of state an would do a lot less damage there because that's a hot air position. megyn: secretary of state is what we had been hearing for a while. michael, i want to get your response to all that. >> clearly your guest made a point. the guys that served on the boat john kerry was in charge of stood with him through 2004. they were in harm's way with him and stood beside him. i would agree with the bar your guest is saying. other point is that ad was tang out of context. he was reading a report about what was happening in war, and war is not pretty. it's unfair to rerun that. he was at that testimony in the 70s. he was reading what others were writing about what was happening in war. megyn: can i get your thoughts on the comment we ran in the last hour when trace did his report when he said you go to school and you get a good education and if you don't you wind up serving in iraq. a lot of vets and active duty folks took that as an insult. >> i love john kerry bu

mr. baretto, congressman marsha blackburn, florida attorney- general pam bondy, governor sam brownback, governor phil bryant, secretary elaine chow, ms. barbara, stock, congressman artur davis, senator lindsey gramm, lt. governor jerry he -- kerryck perry, senator marco rubio, senator rick santorum, governor john sununu, senator john thune, senator pat to me -- pat toomey, congressman steve javits. ladies and gentlemen, from the great state of ohio, lt. governor mary taylor. [applause] crowd: four more days! >> alright, you guys. are we ready to do everything we can in ohio to let mitt romney and paul ryan at the next president and vice president of the united states -- to elect mitt romney and paul ryan as the next president and vice president of the united states? this is outstanding. i have been a lot of campaign rallies over the last couple of weeks and i have decided i have boiled down my reasons to supporting mitt romney down to three. the first, president obama comes to ohio and like to take credit for getting our state back on track. but we know that is not true. it is the worst but governor kay sick and i have done with all of the -- it is the work that the governor and i have done with all of you. we cut taxes. here i

kerry assembled that hated george bush. that doesn't lead to a man date for governance. that's a mandate for gridlock which is exactly what we got. >> mrdo you explain karl rove's power within republican circles? are people simply stupid? are they prepared to part with their money because he's a persuasive salesman? >> no, a lot of people that give to karl rove are very smart people, they're entrepreneurs and they do great work. i'm hearing from them now. and karl rove is ver persuasive. when you talk to him, he knows his stuff but he didn't know his stuff here. what it gets down to, martin, you had 14 million people who didn't show up in 2012 -- that turned out in 2008. you have to reduction of 14 million voters. that's very significant. that tells me this was not a national campaign, that it was a tactical campaign. therefore, the battleground states mattered. voter contact mattered. we lost every single one of the battleground states, and it turns out -- and i think it's actually sort of good news. one, you can't buy a presidential election. two, you can't just run ads and you can't just do robocalls. you actually have to have not p

meanwhile bob shrum the great speech writer for senator kerry was congratulating saying may i be the first to you will can a you mr oops. >> megyn: so awful for kerry. >> bret: final thing, do you want one come back, steve? >> no, i agree with you entirely. the exit polls really are not trustworthy. >> bret: at that i think we should move on to martha with some exit polls. don't you think? [ laughter ] what a good intro. >> meaningless. all the exit polls. we do have some tremendous interesting stuff that's coming through here bret and megan. what i can tell you is that it is neck and neck in the state of virginia right now. here is some the reasons why and i should mention that we're also including the constitution party candidate virgil good in the instances where he registers which there are few. let's take a look at virginia independent voters really essential issue tonight, of course, is how they will will go. they narrowly went for president obama who was the first to win virginia in quite a long time back in 2008 for democratic candidate. they are breaking strongly for mitt romney tonight. also there has be

mr. smith, can you talk about the accuracy of the exit polling. it seems they were pretty accurate up until 2004, kerrythank you. i will take my question offline. guest: i'm afraid i did not hear that. host: the history of exit polling. guest: great question. it's relatively recent. i don't know about you, but it would seem to be absolutely infallible. then we had elections where it was decidedly fallible. the most obvious example was in 2004. it during the day, the numbers are coming in and it was very clear that president bush was losing to john kerry. not surprisingly, there was jubilation in the kerry camp and something close to despair in the bush camp. and then the actual votes came in. statisticians are still trying to unravel what it was about that election law, the discrepancy. i think it becomes increasingly problematic when you have so much of the country voting before. by some accounts, between 25%- 33% of the votes have already been cast, somehow the fact that in? there seems to be real difference. the polls suggest that there is a market advantage for obama in the early voters and a marke

mr. smith, can you talk about the accuracy of the exit polling. it seems they were pretty accurate up until 2004, kerry- bush. thank you. i will take my question offline. guest: i'm afraid i did not hear that. host: the history of exit polling. guest: great question. it's relatively recent. i don't know about you, but it would seem to be absolutely infallible. then we had elections where it was decidedly fallible. the most obvious example was in 2004. it during the day, the numbers are coming in and it was very clear that president bush was losing to john kerry. not surprisingly, there was jubilation in the kerry camp and something close to despair in the bush camp. and then the actual votes came in. statisticians are still trying to unravel what it was about that election law, the discrepancy. i think it becomes increasingly problematic when you have so much of the country voting before. by some accounts, between 25%- 33% of the votes have already been cast, somehow the fact that in? there seems to be real difference. the polls suggest that there is a market advantage for obama in the early voters and

kerry. that's pending. is the senator correct? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. i misspoke. the amendment has not yet been modified but it is pending. mr. heaven: mr. levin: it will be modified tomorrow morning. mr. levin: at that point the chair is going to ask whether there's any additional debate on that amendment. if there is no additional debate, then the chair is going to put the question. if there's a request for a roll call, there will be a roll call. if there's not, it will be voice voted. at that point, the floor is open and i intend to then offer the sessions amendment, the first one on this list and then that's going to be open to debate. and if our colleagues want to come here tomorrow and filibuster or prevent a vote on the sessions amendment, they're going to have to come here and debate. but we have tried the best we know how to move this bill forward. we've done everything we know how and we've made great progress but the members of this body being extremely cooperative. we're not giving up. so the technique which is the only one left to us, given these two objections, the only technique we have is the one that i just

kerry served on the senate. i mean -- okay, but let's imagine. i'm just going to go with will and look upon this as glass half full. what if, roland -- what if mrma could find something for romney to do and romney agreed to do it? >> yeah. white house usher. there's a lot of jobs mitt romney could do for the president. look, first of all, if we're going to do this lunch don't do it at the white house. the president should have taken mitt romney to ben's chili bowl, get a half smoked and he could meet the 47%. i have no problems with it but i certainly think for mitt romney it's going to be one heck of a lunch, having to see the president sit there and smile at him and say you know i kicked your behind. you know i did, didn't you? i think there is a role for individuals who run for president of the united states in terms of still operating in the public space. because, again, we need all ideas on the table. so i'm sure the president, he's got a whole bunch of stuff he could ask mitt romney to do. it's not like mitt romney needs the check. >> well, i would only say, will, that some republicans even want mitt romney just to go away. you wonder if

mr. levin: is this the amendment that has been amended after discussions with senator kerry? mr. kyl: that is correct. mr. levin: is it your intent to send a new amendment in to the desk? mr. kyl: the original amendment numbered 3123 would be withdrawn. the modification of that amendment as written by senator kerry and i and i believe cleared by your side would be the pending amendment. modifying it, not withdrawing it. mr. levin: in other words, it would be the same numbered amendment as modified? mr. kyl: yes. mr. levin: what is the intent of my friend from arizona to do with that amendment now? mr. kyl: to make about a 45-second statement. mr. levin: to have it passed? mr. kyl: well, eventually. i presume there are no more votes today. mr. levin: not to have it passed at this time by voice vote? mr. kyl: correct. although i will say i am not going to ask for a roll call vote at the end? mr. levin: at some point you would take a roll call vote on it? mr. kyl: yes. this amendment is also offered by senators lieberman, inhofe, risch, lugar, wicker, ayotte, collins, and vitter. i