all right robert rice it is all yours. >> this is relative. don't know what mitt romney to this day represents. at least with president obama we have had four years. there are bills with regard to creating jobs and he has put in a bill to get manufacturing back to the united states. that might actually be sending manufacturing abroad. that is why a president when running for re-election doesn't have to put out 500 pages. mitt romney has told us nothing, there is no budget. >> 140 pages. >> i was one of the people who convinced him during several interviews that he should have four or five points not so many. >> mitt romney forced him to put this thing out. he did this because romney was clobbering him on this subject. >> and he was getting flack. where is your agenda? you have people at the left wing blogs who are saying where is your agenda. they badger mitt romney because although he has a comprehensive corporate tax, he has a number that he wants to lower for di diffdends and capital gains. he has not specified the base bro broadeners. he h

robert rice is a professor of public policy at the university of california berkeley and former laborry, not an official surrogate for the obama campaign. bob, good to see you again. >> hi, ali. >> the president is going to face opposition from congress. just like he has for the last two years. he does not have the power to fix the situation in europe. he doesn't have the power to fix slow growth and all sorts of problems with china. what's the best reason to think that a second term is going to go better than the first for president obama? >> well, there are two possible ways it could go better. number one, if congress were different. this is not just a presidential election, ali. this is also an election with regard to at least a third of the senate and all of congress and the president might have a more cooperative congress. number two, if the president is re-elected, that is normally considered to be a mandate to get done many of the things that a president up for re-election wants to get done. this case, for example, raising taxes on the rich. most of the polls show that a large

rice. john roberts is covering that campaign in virginia this afternoon where the governor is scheduled topeak later this evening. >>reporter: you may wonder how the romney campaign can claim victory when polls give the overall win to president obama but it is because the same polls found voters gave higher marks to governor romney on the economy so he is focusing today on bread and butter issues, jobs and the economy and noting that while president obama has been highly critical of governor romney's plans for the economy he doesn't have much on the table himself. >> it is interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. don't you think it is time for him to put together a vision of what he would do in the next four years? he has to come up with that over the weekend because there is only one debate left. monday. >>reporter: the rnc had an ad that is a mock version of obama's second agenda, an empty binder. >>shepard: and a binder full of women is instantly trending on twitter. have they followed up on the binder full of women comment. >>reporter: the governor

rice and others to make him look like he was a foreign policy expert. >> on one hand you have john bolton who is a neo-conservative, considered very hard line. you have robert zoellick, a more realist. condoleezza rice has been advising kbofr romney and getting advice from george schultz. so that backs up the point that he's got a lot of people advising him on foreign policy and so he can be in either one of those camps if you were to look at his advisers. >> john dickerson, thank you. the former top security official for the u.s. ambassador to libya is testifying to congress this week. sharyl attkisson spoke with him on sunday. she's in washington with an interview you'll see only on cbs "this morning." good morning? >> reporter: good morning. andrew wood is a highly decorated specialist with the green beret. he met daily with u.s. ambassador christopher stevens who was killed along with three colleagues on the assault on the u.s. compound in benghazi. he says the state department initiated an ill-advised draw down security six months before the assault, one month before the attack woods' military team and the last of s.w.a.t. style teams left libya. when

on the other hand you have robert zel ig, considered a realest. condoleezza rice has been adv e advising governor romney. he's getting advice from george schultz, secretary of state under reagan. that backs up david sanger's point. he's got a lot of people advicing him on foreign policy. so he can be in either one of those camps if you were to look at his advisers. >> john dickerson. thank you. >>> the former top security official for the u.s. ambassador to libya is testifying to congress this week. but sharyl at kistkisson spoke him on sunday. >> andrew wood is a highly decorated special forces green beret with counterterrorism expertise who headed a 16-member security team in libya. he met daily with u.s. ambassador christopher stevens who was killed along with three colleagues in the assault on the u.s. compound in benghazi. he says the state department initiated an ill-advised drawdown of security in the six months before the assault. one month before the attack, woods' military team and the last of three s.w.a.t.-style state department teams left libya. when

rice went out and said it wasn't an act of terror. i am not sure either of those are true. >> fox and friends will be joined by robert gibbs at 7:00 a.mning with more reaction for you. now to other highlights. in the debate they were both very aggressive and tins hitting each other hard on the issues. listen. >> think about what the governor just said. he said when i took office the price of gasoline auz 1.80, 1.86. why is that? because the economy was on the verge of collapse. we were about to go through the worst recession since the great depression. as a consequence some of the same policies governor romney is promoting. >> why am i raising taxes on the middle class? under the four years they have been buried. i want to help the middle class. ly not reduce the share that is being paid by the highest income taxpayers. i will not under any circumstances increase taxes on the middle class. >> i will believer what he said behind closed doors that 47 percent of the country considered themselves victims, who refuse personal responsibility. think about who he was talking about. folks on social security who worked all their lives. veterans

also, robert reish, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, economist and professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. secretary rice, let me start with you on the terror front and the obama administration. do you buy david axelrod saying that president obama labeled it terror the next day? >> well, it didn't sound from that context as if he labeled it as terrorism the next day, anderson. but it does seem credible to me that the white house is sharing with the public what it knows when it knows. it's very difficult to get good information immediately and as this issue becomes clearer, i think the white house has made a credible effort to tell the americans what it, in fact, knows about it. >> ari fleischer, what about that? david axelrod is also saying look, an investigation, you have to be prudent, you're president of the united states, you can't jump to conclusions. >> i have a fair amount of sympathy. i stood on that podium at the white house in the case of attacks on our country. you have to wait until you have all the facts to speak. but in this case, i think there was a willful pattern in this administration o

/11 intelligence they gave to susan rice so wrong why aren't people fired in those are questions they need to answer. >> bret: andy card, i brought this up with robert, andy card is throwing grenades out there. >> by any stretch. >> today, for him to say what he said on air, on the record, i thought was presentty significant. for him to say he believed the white house would know and it would go up the chain. the threat, bombing at the consulate, significant threat on ground in libya would make it up the chain. >> if you have any familiarity at all with how the white house handles intelligence or a matter like this, you understand what card is saying is correct. put yourself obwest wing on september 11, 12, 13. you have one job. we need to know what happened. we need to know it now. it is inconceivable to me, we were able to read about intercepts, discussions between al-qaeda terrorists, about the details of operation that showed immediately it was preplanned. premeditated. it wasn't only a spontaneous assault. we were able the read it in newspapers on september 12, 13, 14, the days leading up to sizen rice's appearance. we knew it seems more than th

rice of 1 feet. i think we'll be 11, 12-foot rise 8:00, to 8:30 time frame in battery park. hopefully robertr will engulf him. melissa: he definitely needs to step back a little bit. adam, when i came to the studio i count the 648,000 people in the tri-state area currently without power. is that getting worse? that is nothing? >> yesterday's news. we're almost at a million. we're actually at a million. melissa: wow. >> real quick, i will give you numbers and tell you about something, electrifying. robert keep wearing rubber boots. new jersey electric and power 22,000. atlantic city electric, 104,000. manhattan con-ed, 67,000. long island power authority, 316,000 without electricity. connecticut light and power 185,000. these numbers literally every 10 minutes are growing quite rapidly. i can go to the web sites. they post numbers there. i want to read something not related to electricity but charlie gasparino was reporting all day long, melissa about the nasdaq as well as nyse closing down. we found out this afternoon that the treasury department held a meeting of the financial stability ove

rice university, thank you for joining us. >> great to be here. >> you just heard robert gibb saying that the president was disappointed in himself idea on the debates. >> well, he is an incumbent president, we had some bad ones, ronald reagan lost his first debate, seemed quite listless, george w. bush had a bad first debate, you can say he joined them. the dgood news, the bad news is you don't want to be on the cover of the liberal magazine, with the empty podium. or the president staring down mumbling, so president bush, or reagan, did they do as bad a performance as president obama did? >> mr. gibbs portrayed romney as a chameleon, who takes on different positions when he goes into the debate. has any other challenger thrown that type of a curve ball? >> well, they used to call franklin roosevelt a chameleon, because he would change colors, his other name was the juggler, so politics, that name is pretty common. but barack obama doesn't buy into that style. he tries to always be kind of the ernest candidate. and mitt romney is a candidate of convenience. so it is an unusual pairing of these two. the president is going to have

robert gibbs still didn't answer the question even the day after. we still don't know why the ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, went out five days later onon yet or to this time line where you have these two attacks in benghazi that happened in april and in june and yet, the security was still not ramped up. >> brian: all right. quick thing, i have a lunch that -- >> steve: here is a time line. >> this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values we stand for. today we mourn for four americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. >> best assessment we have today is that, in fact, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. >> what we've seen over the last week, squeak a half is something that we've seen in the past where there is an offensive video or cartoon directed at the prophet mohammed and this is obviously something that then is used as an excuse by some to carry out inexcusable violent acts directed at westerners or americans. >> there are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. there is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. >> there is no doubt that the kind

susan rice was briefed by the intelligence community, and what she was talking about on "meet the press" and on that sunday was exactly what the intelligence community was telling her. >> robertnows the president obviously has a day job. on the campaign side of his life, what are you doing differently to prepare for this debate as opposed to the last time? anything? >> well, look, i think there's a -- you know, part of it, mike, is that i think as we said before the first debate, this has been a while since the president's done this. you can do some prep as is being done, but look, i think nothing really gets you in shape like doing it in the actual event. i think this president's going to bring a much different game to this debate. he understands what's at sftake in this election. vice president biden understands the big choice in front of us as a country. i think you'll see two people that will take a very direct course in this debate and lay out of choice for the american people. >> so robert, let me do -- i will do a service for you and democrats across america as the republican on this set who is supporting mitt romney. i have such a big heart because i'm an alabama guy