we have david shuster in denver, and he'll tell us about the formatting for tonight.hat do you have. >> the debate is divided in to six essentially what they are calling pods. there is no opening statement. jim lehrer will pose a question the first three pods are about the economy, the next two about governance, and the last about health care. what jim lehrer is going to do is pose a question and each candidate will have two minutes to respond, and then the next ten minutes he can go wherever he wants. he can have that talk with each other, or follow up. and that's up with of the things i have to tell you, the candidates and campaigns i am told are a little bit nervous about. they expect jim lehrer to be mildly aggressive but again, the possibility for mitt romney and barack obama to encourage and engage each other should be one of the more intriguing aspects of this debate. >> cenk: so romney can ask president obama a direct question, and the time will be monitored by jim lehrer in a very lose way; is that right? >> that's right. if mitt romney wants to say president

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and david shuster gets a visit from triumph. the insult comic dog. doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. >> the debates are over. now is not the time to tally points or to keep the score. >> two-one obama. game set match touchdown home run checkmate can we get back to work now! >> the presidential debate in boca raton florida. they call him middle age. >> what if i forget to vote. >> if you forget? >> yeah. >> well, i have a plan for that, jimmy. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ horn ] >> election day, election day up and at 'em. >> he is calling security because he believes this reporter is a muslim. >> this much we know, folks. the elections could be swung by one key voter block. >> women! >> yes. how, it's the ladies. who are they going to vote for? well, according to a new report on cnn.com. people vote based on their ovulation cycle. >> i'm offended as a woman. >> just in case mitt romney needs advice on what not to do. >> he has a stance on china which is a country that just ripping our heart out. we just do nothing to protect ourselves. >> thi

simon and shuster, who i have done all my books with, always wanted me to do, after i wrote a successful book on bodybuilding, they wanted me to do the autobiography. in the '90s i was doing two, three movies a year and i was too busy to do that. i also think my story isn't interesting enough, but after the governorship, i felt like it is an interesting story and this was before the scandal ever came out, we started talking again with simon and shuster and kept going down that road, maybe i should after i'm finished with the governorship, sit down and write this autobiography and it was a difficult time to think back and to go back in my life because i always was a person that was going forward. dreams, vision, go after it, then the next one and the next one and so on. so i did it. i thought that now with the governorship, it's an interesting story, but at the same time, there is the scandal. so there was now a choice that i had to make, do i want to make this a book about the success story of my life or do i want to go and really writaboumy failures, all of therong decisionthat i have m

. >> jennifer: we're once again bringing in our own current correspondent david shuster.ome back inside "the war room." can you tell us, for example david, what are you seeing right now, obviously you're in the studio right now what you saw today on the street. what are the sights and sounds people across the country should be aware of? >> that's a good question. just before i came to the studio tonight, i walked down -- i'm on the east side. power is out from 39th south manhattan and from 31st south on the west side. so i walked down to 39th and it is all black. you don't see any lights in the buildings and beyond that, it is not just sort of the buildings and the apartments and everybody who's out of power and it is cold. it is 50 degrees and there's rain in the forecast but it is also treacherous if you try to walk out of the apartment or building because streetlights, the traffic lights are not working. there are people driving and you're supposed to sort of stop at intersections and what not but it is like the wild west. somebody or several people are going to get ki

david shuster reporting from new york. coming up, it is impossible to ignore the impact of climate change when viewing a storm of this magnitude. that's not to say that politicians won't try to ignore the impact of climate change and after the break former vice president al gore is going to enter "the war room." we'll get his per spiskt on the storm and on the dramatic increase in extreme weather events. plus as far as october surprises go, this storm is going to rank right up there with the biggest of all-time. historian douglas brinkley will put the storm in context and perspective and later, it is just an hour's drive from philadelphia to atlantic city. what a difference an hour makes. philly mayor michael nutter will update us on how pennsylvania is faring the day after. two-hour edition of "the war room." we're just getting started o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o good morning ladies and gentlemen, i'm captain whitaker. >> there's 102 souls on board. >> let's get em' tucked in we're ready to p

david shuster is in new york.shuster will give us the report from lower manhattan. judd legum from think progress will be along as well to talk about the mitt romney ad taking credit for the auto bailout. but first -- >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making news on this tuesday. the entertainment industry took a big hit because of hurricane sandy. every single tv show that's based in new york city airing on nbc, abc and cbs and several cable networks have halted production since sunday including all of the late night comedy shows. over 20 shows in all. all braid way shows have been canceled until further notice. a couple of major movies also stopped because of the storm. >> bill: movie theatres, do they just shut down? >> a lot of movie theatres shut down too. people wouldn't go out. >> that's a good point. i didn't think about that. i didn't even think about trying to go out to a movie theatre yesterday. >> martin sheen an avid obama supporter had harsh words for mitt romney in a n

fighting on the side of the constitutionalists, which has 1909. 1910, 1911, president taft sent morgan shuster and a treasury team to help constitutionalists get control of the budget and get control of the country's finances. because they knew without doubt, they were nothing and they had no chance. that was also frustrating. the u.s. was seen as playing a positive role. in 1953 what that at cost to happen, but basically the u.s. had changed its role from being a friend and supporter of iranian nationalism to being something of the new great britain. >> host: and negotiating with iran, you talk about misjudgments on both sides when it comes to the 1979 hostage crisis. what are some of those misjudgments? >> guest: well, there were several. one perhaps on our side was the idea that the united states and iran could, in fact, after this revolution, they could rebuild them kind of a relationship. on our side, anti-communist and anti-soviet imperatives. iran's traditional dislike of communism and a russian expansion would create a set of interests, allowing for a least a certain degree of cooperat

won this year's nobel peace prize and as alexia shuster reports from madrid to things aren't looking too peaceful right now in europe. the union needs skorgen nudists have over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation democracy on human rights in europe but is this the peace they're talking about tear gas fascist flags and massive furious crowds of the most common sites across the award winning continent lately protests like this will add coal in thirty five countries across the world over the next several weeks the global hands ios terry to voice only in spain alone hundreds of thousands have been voicing their anger ever since the government announced more painful budget cuts for next year everything with spending are is now unemployed and this grim story is pretty much the same for portugal and greece is one of the leaders of the protest movement in madrid he says people have just about had enough behind it the crises and capitalist system right now in spain transfer private debt into public that and these causes huge cuts public spending and health s

eliot spitzer, and david shuster will be along as a friend of bill a little bit later.irst -- >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> headlines making us in back on baseball. no sweeping brooms in the playoffs last night. both teams that were up 2-0 failed to clench their division wins. the giants beat the reds 2-0 thanks to an error in extra innings to stay alive. and the oakland athletics forced a game 4 against the tigers. today the washington nationals play host to the cardinals. and in the alds that sereries is also tied. >> bill: do they play today? >> yeah. >> bill: in new york. >> uh-huh. >> i would like to see one of those bay area teams come out of there. >> bill: i would do. >> there is a new video blasting the war on women, and making a call for a bill of reproductive rights. several celebrities are in the video, they make it painfully obvious what the message is that president obama and the birth control mandate need be supported. >> bill: cool. >> yeah, a lot of big names. and nasa scientists got really excited yesterday, when the mars rover sound

tonight we're going to david shuster who is on the ground and give us a feel for how these people ared who will be in the townhall and how the questions are selected. can you give us a feel for that david? >> sure. we're here in the hall where all of the presidents tonight and the crowd are gathering, the gallop organization, the poll organization, they started calling and trying to decide if there was a pool here in the county. and within the last week or so they went back and identified 80 to 85 undecided voters and informed them, okay, would you like to president in the presidential townhall? each of those people who had been cabbed were invited to show up here earlier this morning, instructed to bring two questions each and then the presidential debate commission officials along with candy crowley and her staff and producers, they went through the 160 questions, so figure out what are the ten or 12 that would make for a really good townhall debate. cnn producers have been involved in doing standard background can checks, to see if any of these people have given money to a campaign

his name was joe shuster he lived in massachusetts and the same town where i grew up. they refused to make repairs they got these buildings from hud. the housing and urban development and the plumbing did not work so they would raise the tiles of the basement floor. pineapple would never let me use the elevator one of her schoolmates died he lived on the fourth floor and the elevator door suddenly open end wide-open and he stepped forward automatically end fell for flights to his death and his body was not found until his blood began to drip on passengers. then the basement cafeteria than been a horror story how could i duplicate this? it smelled like a free the -- feeding trough for cattle. i would have to eat there with her. you have to see and smell will we do to children. i don't know how you feel but aesthetics count a lot in the mentality of children. beautiful settings refined their souls. ugly settings course and their mentalities. this is how they value what we perceived of them. the sharpest way to draw the line across the races of this nation. aesthetics cou

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to discuss this further and to enlighten us even more i invite david shuster here from new york. doesn't mitt romney not go on "the view"? is it a big story? >> because he's a chicken. that's why. i don't get it at all. if you've got any integrity and you say yes i'll go on your show, then you follow through whether it's convenient or not. maybe its easier for them in terms of reaching women. but if you're avoid of whoopi goldberg or joy behar what are you going to do when ahmadinejad has been threatening missiles on your troops. >> that is the quote of the day. let's look at the math of this election. you and i have talked off the air and on the air about this for quite awhile. it's starting to not look as good for barack obama for the moment. tightening in swing states according to these polls. tightening among women. you've been out on the campaign trail. you you've been at both conventions. what is the feeling in these swing states in particular. >> they're doubling down now in the state of ohio. they're buying ads with romney or ryan, you know, in and out over the last six d

and david shuster is in kentucky. what is happening there, david?> first of all the republicans are complaining about debate moderator martha raddatz saying that she was somehow unfair which i think is a good sign that they don't believe that their guy did very well. but body language republicans had the same body language the democrats had last week. david axelrod said you cannot deny that joe biden handily won this debate. this was fact and conviction versus ryan's glib lines and empty promises. axelrod said it was at one point watching a principal discipline a student. one of the republicans we spoke with teaches media training to other republicans about how important style and form is. he only wanted to talk about substance. and when we asked him, this is all about style and to enas you guys said last week. and he said maybe people are going to be put off by mitt romney laughing. and obviously republicans are trying to put up a good face but even they rick nice vice president biden cleaned paul ryan's clock tonight. you can't argue the facts, th

david shuster thank you for joining us.nd there will be a round two here, which is the fact checkers. in the kennedy nixon debates, here if you watched it on tv, you might have thought that mitt romney won, be you check the fact checkers tomorrow you might think president obama won. >> john: i do think a few things are certain. number 1 you are going to see mitt romney boasting a lot for the next two weeks, and number two you'll see a whole different approach from the president to come back. >> cenk: yeah, apparently they were calling it the big bird debate. i thought it was the malaise debate for president obama. but mitt romney came at him from the left on several instances. on the dodd-frank issue, you let the big banks remain too big. like he cares. >> that's the etch-a-sketch-ificatoin. >> eliot: why didn't the president say, how are you going to keep them small? he didn't take him to task. he didn't challenge him. >> al gore: he also blamed obama implicitly for the fact that the dodd-frank regulations have not been pu

simon and shuster announced that the first book randy rhodes, ninja detectives will be out next fall. spencer said she hopes to give kids the same sense of magic that she found reading nancy drew and encyclopedia brown. i remember nancy drew. >>> beyonce will be an empty chair at the next clint eastwood movie. >>> justin bieber becomes the victim of a real crime and a fake crime. it's time for hollywood headlines. and joining us now, cohost with the russ parr morning show. so georgia, justin bieber is the latest victim of a host but he also lost something pretty special to him. >> yeah, he did. he was at a concert in tacoma, washington, performing, someone stole his laptop and computer, and his tour manager's stuff. he tweeted about it. he said, this stuff was really special to me. you should respect other people's things. also he's a victim of swatting. that is the new trend for people in los angeles, fans are swatting. what they did is called a place and said, somebody's waving a gun near justin bieber's los angeles house. of course, a s.w.a.t. team comes out. they find nothing. thi

shuster, matthew morrison. >> no. >> a little like bradley cooper. >> jeff somebody? >> new sitcom? probst. >> i think that's the vice president soon to be. >> reporter: the v.p. candidate spokesman said this about the photos. paul ryan takes his health seriously. clearly, judging by these silly pictures he doesn't take himself too seriously. neher did readers on buzz feed. they put him in with the village people with the cast of "jersey shore," they made him flex and even wink like a certain previous v.p. candidate. some wondered when are the joe biden workout photos coming? the best we could do is drag out that famous photo shop job done by the shirtless joe biden washing his transam, shirtless joe, meet backwards cap ryan. >> jeannie moos, cnn --

what we're going to do first is go to david shuster at hofstra university in spin alley to get his taken what the feel is right now. david, can you give us a feel? >> governor granholm, spokesperson for the obama campaign came out before the campaign end and said barack obama is back. he was back on that stage tonight. jim, you've seen it said you had never seen a debate where mitt romney had been fact checked by a moderator. he called that unprecedented. they're drawing a lot of attention to candy crowley fact checking mr. president obama said the libya attacks were an act of terror. he said he's not providing any specifics and when he does, according to axelrod romney is being outright dishonest. the romney campaign acknowledged that president obama was much more aggressive tonight but jim said romney won on content and in terms of likability with his tone and sununu, the former chief of staff essentially a romney surrogate of sorts he outright went after candy crowley in spin alley. what president obama said about libya was one of the most dishonest things sununu had ever heard and t

do the movies have a future is published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs.n by movies? we know there's new distribution modes coming on. >> i'm a romantic about the theatrical experience. i love going in the dark to sit with strangers you laugh and cry at the same time. people come out of a good movie they are glazed like zombies. they are trying to hold on to that image. my problem with all of these super productions of all the pixels flying around and meaning nothing is it just vanishes. you have no imprint. you wake up the next day an you don't taste the movie any more. it's not imprinted in your head any more. i'm a real world, you know, realist guy. i like men and women together nuclear weapon have a chapter, searching for movie blitz in the digital world. i think it's so true people are thinking i can watch it on my ipod or ipad. you said not the same experience. >> the industry says kids are platform agnostic. think about that phrase for a second. they will look at any screen any time anywhere. i had a terrible time with an ipad because i'm near sight

david shuster had the better tweet.glow on. >> stephanie: i remember one of my parties right after the gubernatorial race, she is like whitman spent $20 million, and i spent $5 on a chalkboard and took her down. >> i thought who is that witch they have on there. it was carly [ inaudible ]. >> oh. you can't keep shows up on shows. >> stephanie: you are trying to think of what she said for an instant replay and now you can't remember. we're all entirely too old and we have been doing this show too long. just substitute an ann romney they are almost all the same. >> ann romney: stop it. this is hard. you want to try it get in the ring. >> did she realize that if somebody else got in the ring, it was be anarchy. >> ann romney: stop it. >> just be quiet enough. >> talking to the help. >> stephanie: yeah, every -- it always looks like a scene from the help doesn't it. >> there's a video, and i don't know why it doesn't get out more. of mitt romney in somebody's backyard or at a fund raiser and he is like aren't the grounds be

it's published busy monday and shuster, a division of cbs. lesley stahl is here this morning. did maria did not see the book, did not know it was coming? >> right. what i didn't know until very recently is that she actually asked to see the book and arnold said no. as you heard him in this clip he was always afraid that if he told her she would tell her brothers or family and it would leak out. >> it did. >> well, in this case, no. >> he said that i thought. >> he said that. i don't know why he didn't give her the book, but i know that she feels blind sided. that's a quote by somebody in the family. she feels blind sided that book came out or leaked out and she hadn't read it. >> why didn't she want to talk to you? >> i tried. >> i know you did. >> well, i can't speak for her. i don't like being in the position of having to either pass moral judgments on anybody. or to say something i don't know for sure. >> do we believe that he tried? is this part of the conversation, hard enough, tried hard enough to save the marriage after the affair became clear? >> that's a good question

he's the author of "the end of illness," published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs.r, is take a multivitamin a good idea? >> eating a great diet is good idea. eating real food is a good idea. i hate to pour cold water on things. if you look closely at this study, 14,000 doctors stew did, 13 of whom had cancer going in. only the ones who previously had cancer. a normal individual, you always have to say to your self, a normal individual will not benefit from take a multivitamin a day. that being said there are a number of studies done showing harm taking higher dose vitamins. vitamin e can cause prostate cancer. vitamin a can increase lung cancer in smokers. eat real food. >> multiwill minutes that you buy over-the-counter do they have the kind of excess you're talking about that would have the consequences that you're suggesting? >> no. slightly less than those. not dramatically less but less. again there's no data that multivitamins will -- >> don't take multivitamins. >> yes. >> don't take multivitamins not to have reduced chances of cancer. >> over 50 randomized s

"the new york times" bestseller is published by simon & shuster and it is being rereleased today in advancerg's film "lincoln." >> on november 15th, doris kearns goodwin will be here with us. before then, though, you have a chance to read excerpts from the book and submit questions and you can take a look at other featured material at cbsthismorning.com. please check in often, because "cbs this morning" reads. your local news is coming up next. i'm excited about this. i think this is a great idea. >> since we read all those books, we can share more information about them online. >> what really makes it fun is to get people involved and have some kind of activity with them. >> and doris kearns goodwin is always a good, good guest. >> the interesting thing about the film, it's about the last 60 days of lincoln's life. >> excited for that as well. that's coming up. your local news is next. >>> good morning. it is 8:00 a.m., and welcome back to "cbs this morning." the presidential candidates are headed to long island for their second debate, and a new poll shows mitt romney is gaining ground in

published by simon and shuster. i have to start with vanity card number ten.o be vein. this is a very big book, chuck lorre. does this mean you're a vein man? >> they are not humility cards. just an opportunity to write some silly things down 15 years ago. >> you say silly things. when we were going through the book they are very poignant. a couple of times i felt i was reading your personal journals. you said there's an apology letter to your dad. if you want to kill someone, if you want to kill someone you hate make them famous. it was cool to write your eulogy. very poignant and touching things bur life. like you were sharing your life with us. was that your intention. >> some therapy is going on. some self-help. at a certain point i realized i could write anything i wanted. i kept waiting for a cbs executive or back in the "dharma and greg" days to say stop we don't like this. at times it got personal, maybe too personal sometimes. i feel i had an opportunity to write whatever i wanted to and sometimes they would say no you can't put that on the show. >> w

it's published busy monday and shuster, a division of cbs. lesley stahl is here this morning. did maria did not see the book, did not know it was coming? >> right. what i didn't know until very recently is that she actually asked to see the book and arnold said no. as you heard him in this clip he was always afraid that if he told her she would tell her brothers or family and it would leak out. >> it did. >> well, in this case, no. >> he said that i thought. >> he said that. i don't know why he didn't give her the book, but i know that she feels blind sided. that's a quote by somebody in the family. she feels blind sided that book came out or leaked out and she hadn't read it. >> why didn't she want to talk to you? >> i tried. >> i know you did. >> well, i can't speak for her. i don't like being in the position of having to either pass moral judgments on anybody. or to say something i don't know for sure. >> do we believe that he tried? is this part of the conversation, hard enough, tried hard enough to save the marriage after the affair became clear? >> that's a good question

>> stephanie: back with the most interesting man in the world, david shuster next on the "stephanie millernd shout, baby i'm -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ take a listen, baby do you like what you hear ♪ ♪ things don't turn you on, say the word and i'm gone you know there ain't nothing wrong with your ears ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to twenty four minutes after the hour. did i mention carol burnett is going to be on the show tomorrow. [ screaming ] >> stephanie: and also jason alexander. mittens in his big foreign policy -- something. >> romney: with iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability, with the conflict in syria threatening the region and with an american ambassador and three others dead, it's clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the president took office -- >> stephanie: well it will be higher if you become president. >> yeah. the world tens to turn into a powder keg when an republican is in office. >> you are welcome. >> stephanie: has anyone ever run for president while putting forth so few ideas

david shuster is in boca raton right now, and he has news from the spin room. what do you have for us? >> both campaigns seemed a little bit nervous as if both campaigns in the spin ally felt like they scored some points but also may have hurt themselves. stephanie cutter claiming that the president's remarks about bayonet remarks were somewhat petty. the obama campaign surrogates one of the talking points is that mitt romney is not ready to be president. as far as the romney campaign, they said that mitt romney has what it takes to sit in the oval office. jim [ inaudible ] perhaps acknowledging that romney didn't have such a great hand on the policy, but he said but look mitt romney has grown as a candidate, and in the two times he has run for president he has learned a lot. the person who had the first night tonight was jim sununu. he started spinning ten minutes before the debate ended. then just moments later triumph the insult dog went up to john sununu on camera and said do you prefer bigger government or bigger cheeseburgers. sununu who was already infur

and david shuster made the remark that if mitt romney can't go on "the view" and face somebody like whoopiy like [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: exactly. exactly. yeah, i mean and that's the thing -- i saw -- i don't know if it is out yet, but somebody there "politico" interviewed me yesterday. mitt romney has had 19 debates in a row how many townhalls, the president has been being president. mitt romney has literally been running for president since 1916, something. we shall see tonight. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ they already agreed. that's not what this is about. scott walker testified to that in congress. it won't do anything for the budget. he just wanted to strip their collective bargaining rights. the whole thing makes me (vo) what is said here could decide the election. current tv presents coverage of the presidential debate. with unrivaled analysis and commentary. >> was this the game-changer? is this going to change the dynamic? (vo) the only network with real-time reaction straight from the campaigns and from viewers like you. >>now that

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strategist dick wadhams and david shuster. thank you for joining us. you are in hostile territory tonight. i appreciate you coming into the crossfire surrounded by current hosts. >> nice to have you here. we always talk over the teleprompter. your guy, mitt romney today, we're going to get to the economy in a minute. what he said about immigration seems once again, to be an etch-a-sketch moment. had he really wanted to woo and appeal to the latino voters which is i think necessary if you would want to stay in the campaign, he should have said this months ago. why wait until now? it looks as though, once again the weather vane flips around. he's erasing the rhetoric in the past and it looks like me-too-ism. i hate to sound skeptical. what is the approach with latino voters. can he win without him? >> i think he was dealing with the reality of what the president did on that issue. i've said all along that republicans' appeal to latino voters has to be on education. here in denver we have one of the highest dropout rates among hispanic kids in the nation.

current tv correspondent david shuster joins me with news on the preparation front from both campaigns. david, thanks for coming back later in the show. >> of course. >> eliot: what do you hear from the campaigns? what are they bracing for? are they ready for the zingers? are they saying hold your own and play defense? >> they both recognize both candidates, they know the issues. there is a lot of content. they're versatile in talking about the content. the thing that both campaigns are worried about and we were just talking about this a second ago. on television, 70% of the impact on the people out there watching is right here. it has nothing to do with what you say even how you say it. there are fears in the obama campaign that because of the personal disdain that he has for mitt romney and how mitt romney has handled about the campaign, they're worried about the president snarling or being angry. they're trying to get him to say look, you know the material. if you're going to attack him do it be a smile and a glimmer in your eye and you'll be fine. >> eliot: then senator obama's tou

david shuster was there for current tv. as the debates were over, there were republicans fuming about martha radatz. let's look back to a week earlier. if, after the first debate, if democrats had gotten some organizational skills and come together and said mitt romney clearly was the more polished debater. he's had 7,000 primary debates up against the likes of perry and gingrich, he's more battle tested, more comfortable but the president won it on substance and facts and the tricky numbers, they would have had a fair case. instead, democrats and republicans flipped out. they said our guy lost. so the media follows that narrative. the media likes to follow the narratives of the right wing generally and we saw that in benghazi but when -- which we'll get to -- when it came to the debate, i think that whoever seems to be having the most fun and back me up on this if you agree. whoever seems to be having the most fun in the debate is considered the winner at the end. >> that's a really good way of putting it actually. i don't