neil: that is true.ned from denver with the republican operatives that got out 50 minutes before. great reporting. peter barnes is like our right arm. bain capital manager up next and knows mitt romney. how did he do? >> as well as last time. neil: i agree. but tonight he had an opponent. >> president obama said the expectations so low. neil: now the president will say he did this or that. the president won the debate but on economic issues mitt romney run. >> i think he killed him with the issue of jobs, energy. neil: next week foreign policy if the president wins committees seems to score points. who knows? >> when we see the transcript. neil: what about the pressure next week in florida? >> they are fighting for ohio. will that drive the issue? neil: of course, the president makes it the issue who do trust? about what he knew of. >> i think he is in trouble. how could he have not known? neil: he will do everything to economic policy. mitt romney will say it is national-security. >> that's right. but i

neil: i have. lot of the colleagues, not as honest as you, last year, i said, close the tax loopholes, they said no, no, no, when you do that, people pay more taxes. what if you remove loopholes prevented them from paying any taxes like reagan in 1986. no, no, no, that's a tax increase. mitt romney says, no, it's not. paul ryan said, no, it's not. that was a quiet game changer. >> it might be. i don't know who you talk to in the tea party -- neil: your tea party. >> you say "your tea party" like i know -- neil: i talked to many of the 83 newly collected congressmen in 2010, many of whom were tea party, many of whom nixed the budget deal last year because it included closing tax loopholes and credits because they deemed that a tax increase. you do not. >> first of all, not to say that toes -- say those 80 are tea party -- >> i didn't say that. you're treating me like president obama. >> maybe 20 # of them. neil: okay, a good many saw it as a tax increase, but you don't. >> i don't. those are politic

neil: we'll see. guys, thank you, all. 11 days out, and neil cavuto's team all in, live saturday followed by a live your world sunday november4. we're coming to you at 6:55. i didn't know why it was. networks start movies at 8:05, but we wanted to get in on the action. it's actually before polls close. we're there before they do, there all night long. the staff wants to know how late is late, neil? four in the morning? i don't need beauty sleep. will be a long night. sandy coming, and remember the special interests blasting? the fundraiser for the republicans here to blast back at him. he's taking lots of money from the very vokes he was blasting. a possible billion dollar storm bearing on a lot of swing states and how sandy could pull a doozy election. maybe that's the october surprise. seems they haven't been moving much lately. but things are starting to turn around because of business people like you. and regions is here to help. with the experience and service to keep things rolling. from busines

neil? you say outgunned, peter, were they outgunned or especially after the first debate performance, they didn't want the beating up? >> reporter: yes. neil: or was it just that that was coincidental? >> reporter: first of all, they took their time getting out here because i think as we all saw what was unfolding during the debate, the obama team did have to kind of scramble, and its surrogates in denver took their time, the five official campaign people, david axlerod, jim messina, stephanie

neil: welcome. this is the scene in the room spinally, it is a room, i am neil cavuto it is very good to have you with us, in this room, behind me, you caesa see the ses for both parties and candidates, paul ryan who'll be referred to as mr. rubi mr. ryan already har people in place, they come in reminding reporters, their candicandidate is not up to snu. do not expect much. paul ryan's people have been saying he younger, a lot less experienced, joe biden has been around forest e. and elected to senate whennpaul ryan of all of 3 years old, and biden comes back saying that paul ryan has been right in the heat, well steeped in this give and take. he has the edge over the vice president, then, when all said and done, both guys are considered by their guys to be little bit brilliant. that is amazing, that ascends over the stan standard of find e minutes. a man who knows these debates well, could be, majority leader. of course, mitch mcconnell here in the spin room, not many spinmeisters here. but i gues

>> neil, come on... >> neil: they are 25, we're 24 -- we bet 'em!o ahead. >> the "financial times" reported 1 in 9 checkshat gets written in iran bounces. the forex reserves are drying up, thas to the sanctions. i hope he's not watching the show and getting any good business advice, theoer the economy collapses the better. >> neil: it raises a national security issue, dick cheney when i say had him on and others talked about the idea, when you are in real economic dire straits,t does hurt your credibility around the world, or to charlie's point, as bad as we are, the rest of the world is worse. >> it hurts our credibility and makes people think at some point down the road they will not be able to pay for to enormous defense establishment and we'll wait them out and when the ka no longer afford it we'll go after whatever prize we want. >> the economic thing is really worrying to me. we'll have -- they'llrobably raise taxes toeal with this stuff. and particularly, if president obama is elected. >> i hope so. >> i hope not. >> neil: it is argued that t

neil: under 20%? trillion welfare bill, $1 trillion a year on welfare, food stamps, the whole lot of it. how much of that goes to people? if you take all the poverty programs together, add them up, and rather than giving morn to bureaucracies, write a check. you'd be every to raise every poor person country in the middle class status. cut a check. neil: that doesn't mean the wallets do. it's weird. this was sold initially, and we covered this; right? there's like a laser-like focus to make sure it leaves washington to go directly to the homeowners, and there was a rule who would get it and how. you had to be at least three months over, had to be in an overheated market, and this was a strategy how you could almost guarantee that money would arrive. >> all of these states signed on to it saying, okay, we'll do it, we'll do it. you're not looking at california there, which is not highlighted or new york, but the big state, they are the ones taking the most of it to deal with their irresponsible spending

neil: why? >> you know be people are not politicians, we like to do things behind the scenes and influence government policy in a polite way. you hear this constant demagoguing of 1%, 75% of that 1% of the top taxpayerso are really small businesses that are being categorized as individuals. those people are job creators, we have this fiscal cliff coming, we have tacking raised. we have -- taxes being raised and threats more taxes on top, that is not driving confidence or job creation. and this is the issue in the frustration in the be community. the taxes, regulation, and trade, all of these policies, right now are not going in the favor of job creation. neil: what do you think has turn at least the bluntness tide. in the bob woodward book, he quotes a number of executive on the record off record, many of whom called into the private washington powwows with the president, and left disheartened. and it is as if it is reaching a crescendo on the part of corporate america, not all but a increasing

now neil cavuto with that and more. >>neil: maybe mitt is it. don't take the republican nominee's word for it, or all his spin room surrogates pushing it, post the big debate, liberals speechless. >> president obama wanted a conversation. it takes two people to have a conversation. mitt romney came out with a chain saw. >> after practices more than any candidate he delivered. >> he did not expect romney to hold that heat and romney was able to out obama, obama. >> mitt romney wins preparation and style. >>neil: something here is going on the last 24 hours because don't look now, but this just in: do not resuscitate. the patient is fine. suddenly, out of nowhere, the mormon is stormin'. >> welcome, everyone, i ambassador neil cavuto and this is what a roaring romney sounded like. >> trickle down government is where the president will raise taxes on small business which kills jobs. i want to keep taxes down on small business so we can create jobs. this is about good jobs for the american people. >>neil: he swings, slams, scores, way too early to s

neil cavuto. neil? neil: thank you very much.ng the office here, we had remote issues that blacked us out completely from coming back. thanks to david on that, and the next guest is waiting, and everyone wants a piece of the guy on their shows because he's a good mayor and also very good for their rates. l.a. mayor joining us now. mayor, we talked before, all the technical problems there, you have been leading the charge. you have to do a bipartisan thing. you were one of the early prominent democratic figures saying we have to reign in public union costs, but you don't have to do it by beamingerring them over the -- badgering them over the head. you argue both sides work together. you had progress. >> i am a democrat, chairedded the party convention, and i said i support the simpson-bowles frame work as a template. i think we have to cut the deficit, obviously, and the tune of somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 trillion over the next -- neil: what do you think of democrats and republicans who let simpson and bowles alone at the

neil cavuto is remaining up next. see you tomorrow on the fox report at 7:00 eastern and on later the coverage of the big debate. good to have you this afternoon. neil cavuto is coming up. hang on. >>neil: here we are in hempstead, new york, hofstra university. i was born not too far from here. would need as presidential debate to put that in perspective? things have changed in 20-some odd years since then. it is very good do have you, a big debate, the moment that president obama is going to have to respond. as a guest told me, this may not be the venue to do that. we will explore that with john sununu in a minute. this is spin alley, the biggest spin room i have ever seen. this is bigger, bigger, i think, than denver and bigger than kentucky where you could have held a reunion in a closest. this is big. what will happen, this room will fill up and you know what they do, they come in on both sides to tell you how little they expect of their respective candidates, president obama is tired, mitt romney, it is impossibl

>>neil: you are not on here.uest: either way i'm not on there but i should have been on there because business is not politics. it is not republican. it is not democrat. it is business. we have seen the last 3 1/2 years this administration is not friendly to business so that means it is not friendly to creating jobs. you can read it anyway you want. in speaking to businessmen all over the country, and i do, i speak to a lot of these people, they are terrified about the next four years and they should be, rightfully so. they worried about obamacare. theater filed about that. i use the word "terrify" i mean it. most do not have a clue what they are going to do. they know with dodd-frank many of the community banks are going to be out of business. they will remain with just a big giant on wall street. there are so many issues out there that the small business guy is worried about and that is why we don't have jobs in america. simple as that. you do not have to be a rocket scientist which some of these people obvious

neil: thank you. >> thank you, neil.eet small business guys saying just another reason to vote the incumbent out. >> the proof of whether a strategy is working or not is the price that you pay at the pump, if you payless than a year or two ago, the strategy is working, but you are paying more. neil: indeed so are a lot of businesses, we're all paying more for everything they make. they know first hand we've been checking in with them through out the election season. we talk about mccarther's bakery. and the ceo bush. what did you think of that debate, you were there. >> i thought romney did well. he did not come out as strong as previous debate. but, he pointed out things. neil: difference was because the president showed up for this one. >> president showed up. i thought moderator was biassed in my opinion, she stopped romney a couple times, i thought that was wrong. but what hit home, struck a nerve in high buuiness is the gas price, right away, $ 1.86 to $ 4. my business, if someone could not in 4 years balance a budg

>>neil: we owe. let's go. tell us he we will pay. welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto. i will make a point here. ahead of the big debate the winner will be the guy who makes the best case if getting us out the debt it is true. there is nothing safe about the $16 trillion we owe. it cuts to the core of what as a country can do. if you are the guy who is president or the guy who wants to be president, you owe us a plan. a strategy for digging out by first explaining how choking this debt is. how it strangles our growth and removes our spending options. how it makes a mockery of investing since we have no money for investing. how it makes us a joke to the world and increasingly a ricky bet to investors. how it is a bipartisan mess. you, candidate for president, have a bipartisan solution. i'm telling you, the candidate would acknowledges the debt el fan in the room will win the night. first, by recognizing the elephant in the room and second by risking wrap of the pundits because he acknowledged the elephant in the room the same group that says there are no easy answers to

>>neil: i say that now. this is on the verge of tipping between 1980 and 2004 and if the president did not get what he should have gotten last night, oh no. >>neil: no more tna for the t.s.a. our heroes are coming home. assembly lines are humming again. there are still challenges to meet. children to educate. a middle class to rebuild. but the last thing we should do is turn back now. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi® card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts. more events. more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with a citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>neil: the man called one of the most gifted c.e.o.'s of the c.e.o.-dom, informing the board he will le

ank you very,ery much. >> thank you, neil. neil: like father, notlike son. why rand is going to bat for mitt despite dad. neil: hiad might have doubts about mitt, does not mean rand paul does. prove tea party kentucky repuican sen storm new hampshire. state is popular and big government is not. nator, always a pleasure to have you with us. anks for joining us. >> glad to be with you, neil. if i were mitt romney naturally i wa you there. father certainly popular there. libertaria view of conservative view of limited governme extremely popular there. is that a sign tha mitt romney is worried there? >> well, you know, ion't think soecessarily. i think that they have just asked me to go to different place, ohio, new hampshire, nevada, se of these places have appeal to libertaria libertarian-minded republicans and i think i can helpo get the enthusiasm goi and get our base energized. >> because the reason why i asked, if your father, still been kind of, yo know, not so peachy keen on mitt romney. certainly not peachyeen on barackbama. i wouldn't know who he votes

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>>neil: thank you. he puts this in perspective in his book, and in the meantime coming up on fox business network tonight. >> gluttons of greed and the genius who towered over him, one man has the guts to speak. >> big bird. >>neil: you have heard from big bird. now i want you to hear the subject of this new obama ad that no one is talking about but was dead center, the one serving time, former tyco c.e.o. speaking to me on fox business network. the earning parade begins in seconds, with alcoa releasing earning in a few minutes with the first component to do so with earnings and revenues expected to come in a big better-than-expected. this is the kickoff to what could be a disappointing quarter for earnings, perhaps, the first contraction we have seen year-over-year in the better part of three years. if that happens it could show an earning recession with stocks bracing for that today, contracting at 110 points on the dow. profits for companies that make up the s&p 500 could be dropping 3 percent this q

>>neil: it was demeaning. are hard working honest, ethicalling middle class, talking about saying one tinge and doing another, saying what you have to, and he and the president say they want to help the middle class but they take cheap spots at the middle class and harry reid will say and do anything he has to, to get a vote for president obama. >>neil: but they are the ticket that so far, when it comes to who represents the interests of the middle class it is always the president and the vice president. now, the gap has narrowed the last month, but even though governor romney scored well on the economy, it is the middle class and who is looking out for the middle class, it is the president, harry reid and all these guys. >>guest: i disagree. it is the perception that harry reid and president obama are looking out for the middle class but the reality is, it is governor romney who will look after the middle class but take the proper steps. >>neil: you have been a battered business that is coming back and you we

neil: thank you very much. all right, the mainstream media might be telling you this is not a big problem. even the president and vice president at don't think it's a big problem. but we are talking about it. when it comes to laying it all out, we will. by the way, we have not taken our eye off the campaign. from 8:00 p.m. to midnight next tuesday, and the final one in boca raton. meanwhile, forget the smirks. the txpaying, the thing with the rich, i think joe bidn might have wandered off script. or was that joe sending a signal? this is sending the world a pretty bad signal. these guys just winning the nobel peace prize. not the writers, but the very system ogovernment that has no sponsor these writers. when your wins and we all lose. this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll ner sit. but i bought a dress! a toa

neil: thank you very much. all right, the mainstream media might be telling you this is not a big problem. even the president and vice president at don't think it's a big problem. but we are talking about it. when it comes to laying it all out, we will. by the way, we have not taken our eye off the campaign. from 8:00 p.m. to midnight next tuesday, and the final one in boca raton. meanwhile, forget the mirks. the taxpaying, the thing with the rich, i think joe biden might have wanered off script. or was that joe sending a signal? this is sending the worla pretty bad signal. these guys just winning the nobel peace prize. not the writers, but the very system of government that has no sponsor these writers. when your wins and we all lose. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters. wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive option than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. t

neil: what made this a unique? dennis just about put to bed, but i know these three storms that collided, this arctic air from, failed miserably in school, appreciated, but it seems, everyone said, that the most unusual once a century event. was it just look of the draw? >> well, no. it is a storm that i have been opining on for quite awhile. it sounds pompous, but -- neil: i built a career on it. go. >> but here's the thing. i always have covered this type of storm. pick up put into my head by my father. he called it a short cut storm, the storm that would go out to the east and turn northwest. what he showed me was maps of other storms that were still moving northwestward, except they had further west. now, if you simply superimpose their tracks further east you would see why the storm could do this. all tell you another thing. if you look at the 1933 virginia hurricane which came all the way across for africa you could see a storm like that the comes actually no. the bermuda. take a look at that. try it back aga

neil: okay. congressman, great covering you over the last many months. >> good seeing you always. neil: a republican convention, this guy, you know, he was k like, hey, yao -- you're a republican now. very funny, very good speech. >> thank you. neil: we have dan debolt joining us now, might have a slightly different view than the congressman, the president's campaign national press secretary. ben, i think you heard what the congressman said that your guy lost tonight. >> you know, governor romney came into the debate to prosecute a case against the president. i think what was surprising was how much time mitt romney spent on the defensive tonight over his $5 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. he can't explain the budget math. that tax cut for millionaires and billionaires -- neil: he said it's not $5 trillion by the way. here's my thought. i don't know who's right, by the way, but i have a question for you. how does that register back to average folks at home? is to, is not, is t

good seeing y again. >> thank you, neil. neil: senator rand paul. touched on a couple of things i emphasize before we cut away, very, very quickly. it is easy to blame democrats. it is easy for the democrats to blame republicann. i'm not here to blame anyone. i want to stress here, guys we've got a big ol' pile of problems that have come up over decade of sort of blind side he hadly spending money we didn't have and never telling the people the truth. the direction we're in to the senator's point is a directn can not be sustained not with money we have, and promise from local communities to local businesses. the potential of yelp unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. to a currency market for everyone. the potential of fxcm unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. oh,ey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's alwaygood to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they d photoshop here. hey, good call on those mug

>>neil: gary, thank you. folk, a quick aside, i want to make clear to folks, republicans and democrats equally to blame. if either side budges, no matter who you blame, if neither side budges, it is what it is, folks. we are looking at a train wreck. a train wreck. i don't care whose side you take but if the president doesn't budge, you know how that goes and so does ed henry. what happens? >>reporter: the "washington post" is sailing the president would veto something with no tax increases. not major news. the white house is maneuvering trying to pressure things and the hope is the president wins the close election and he breaks the republicans, and he said this in private fundraisers, i will break their will and they have to give in on tax increases. >>neil: he will have a mandate. >>guest: exactly the problem is, to he does win, this is more likely to fuel the elections that have consequences. he may not win the election according to the recent polls. then what? until until what -- >>neil: then what? >>rep

>>neil: thank you. welcome to october. the chinese have hacked their way all the way to the white house. welcome, everyone. i am neil cavuto. heal ween could be 30 days away, but this is scary today. chinese hackers breaching a white house computer. no harm done the white house says. no classified information compromised. however, we will have more on this from the white house but the very fact the chinese hackers got as far as they did has security experts worried. very worried. for two years, it has been an on secret that china has has been phishing u.s. corporate secrets. this takes it to a whole new level. an expert on all these china says this doesn't only prove how brazen the chinese are, but how unprepared we are. good to see you. hacking a computer isn't rocket science. getting to the level of the white house is noteworthy. >>guest: will, they went into the military office, that is the one responsible for keeping america's nuclear launch codes. they could compromise those, we would be in a real

>> oh, absolutely, neil. paging eva longoria and the rest of the whining pathetic women out there on this war on women brigade, you know, hillary clinton just made the case for every woman in america to vote for mitt romney because guess what? this is america. and your life is all a circumstance based upon your choices. hillary clinton simply she has completely debunked this myth somehow there is war on women when people are out there wanting free choice and wanting women to make their own choices. this is a big win for women and i think it --. neil: she was framiig it in a way that made it kind of odd. she was asked about, a lot of women who juggle career and kids and all of that. she went on to say if you're not happy do something about it. live in time you have endless choices. mon money certainly helps. you don't have to money to go for it but you have to work on yourself. do something. what is so novel about that? is essentially the essence of people who want to succeed in life anyway? male or female. sh

neil: it shows -- . >> desperation? neil: airfield if your lead is slipping. but they say he made the ground up. the use see this debate will have a shift? most organizations are giving the president a victory. >> the last one was the same thing. i am not sure even in a narrow vic -- victory a breaks momentum. i am a strong supporter of mitt romney. i am worried about the future. i wanted him to talk more about libya. did it he not present it clearly zero or shibani say this is what you said and this is what you did? a number of openings. this he feel americans are not into it? >> remember, there was nugget -- negative publicity coming out of the cairo embassy. and then with the second debate he could not get his point* across. they said there is enough publicity and jerks like john mccain out there. neil: john mccain out there. neil: you are passionate and raising good points. >> he came across as a man who is commander in chief. that is the object of a bit romney. i think he achieved ttat. >> the president with the split screen shot. i read too much. he look

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neil: yap. no way now. >> we need him to lead, we don't need them to throw cold water on what could be i think the something where we do get together. the best time to get together is presidential election. i think there will be a bigger appetite for it. neil: an appetite for the more conservative members of your party? closing loopholes. not a tax hike. pan more taxes. there might be an appetite on the part of your democratic colleagues. in other words, after the elections dogmatic bygones are bygones. if you look at that looming debt and deficit, as far as the eye can see, i think we all realize that in negotiated settlement is going to have to be reached. we have a spending problem in washington. we are cutting as much an even more bad, but at some point i think we are going to realize that the revenues are going to need to us match the -- to come up a bid to match -- neil: some revenues and taxes in that equation. >> of eliminating some of the loopholes and special interests were government

neil: thank you very much.ll right, the mainream media might be telling you this is not a big problem. even the president and vice president at don't thinkt's a big problem. but we are talking about it. when it comes to laying it all out, we will. by the way, we have not taken our eye off the campaign. from 8:00 p.m. to midnight next tuesday, and the fil one in boca raton. meanwhile, forget the smirks. the taxpaying, the thing with the rich, i think joe biden might have wandered off script. or was that joe sending a signal? this is sending the world a pretty bad signal. these guys just winning the nobel peace prize. not the writers, but the very system of government that has no sponsor these writers. when your wins and we all lose. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that the old me... ♪ announcer: this song was cre