steve? >> steve: i bet she wants to get back together with him real fast. maybe.ploying half of the private sector work force. so it's not surprising that both candidates made a play for these job creators during the last debate. >> i want to help small businesses grow and thrive. i know how to make that happen. >> i said i would cut taxes for small businesses who are the drivers and engines of growth and we've cut them 18 times. >> that's why everything i'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. >> steve: but despite the rhetoric, disowners are bummed about what the future holds as 77% believe their taxes will increase next year and because of that, 67% say they don't plan on hiring anybody next year. that doesn't help unemployment. so which candidate can restore their confidence? back with our political panel today, wayne rogers, you're in the business world. why are so many people bummed out? >> i don't think it's just that. the administration talks about helping small business. they not only have 50% of the employment, they create 80% of t

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: i'm your host steve higgins. of you have to give a one-word clue, one word only -- >> got it. >> jimmy: -- to your partner to guess the password. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> this game is 1,000 years old. [ laughter ] >> steve: -- each time you pass it, take away one point. remember, no part of the word can be used. and blah, blah, blah. and if it's illegal -- judges, you're gonna hear this -- [ buzzer ] >> what if you just sort of make up a word? >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: you can make up a word. live it up. >> all right. >> steve: live large and prosper. >> here we go. i'm younger than betty white. that's the only thing. >> steve: there you go. >> jimmy: much younger. >> steve: all right, any questions? >> jimmy: yeah, i was just wondering -- >> steve: anyway -- the first clue -- >> where'd you get that tie? >> steve: yeah, it's a beautiful tie. [ laughter ] >> the password is -- >> jimmy: okay, here we go. ready? >> no, i'm not. >> steve: penny, you're going to go first. >> jimmy: okay. >> okay. >> steve: got

>> steve: probably not. head, like this one. ♪ going to give you up ♪ never gonna let you down ♪ never gonna run around ♪ . >> steve: can you hear what's in my head now? >> brian: no, just you. >> steve: the song stuck in your head means you're a little nutty? we're calling in a doctor to find out. >> martha: we're all nuts if it does. >> steve: "fox & friends" hour two for wednesday starts now. >> steve: yeah, that was not probably the song that would stick in my head. >> brian: you played along well. we don't know what's stick as soon as there. >> steve: with martha it's probably by one of the carpenters. >> martha: the one where we're never going to ever, ever get back together. >> brian: i hope this is a breakout hit because she's been struggling, taylor swift. can she -- everything she does becomes number one. america is drunk with taylor swift. >> steve: isn't she dating that 18-year-old kennedy kid now? >> brian: right. >> martha: she bought a $5 million house next to him. >> martha: what's when you b

steve doocy is here. >> good morning. i think that is the venue. >> just a guess. >> that was a easy one. >> i even got that. hoftstra. >> see you later. "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ >> gretchen: "fox and friends", here we are off to the start of our new show. good morning, everyone. i am gretchen carlson, the big debate day. could it be a debate do over. the second presidential showdown and one side might have a slight advantage. we'll explain what is changing. >> steve: meanwhile hillary clinton said she will take the fall for the security debacle. >> i am responsible for the state department and 60,000 people around the world. >> steve: is the former first lady protecting president obama. a growing group of lawmakers saying her comments are not good enough. navy seals who finally killed osama bin laden. that was not the boldest option. wait enemy you hear about the other idea. "fox and friends" is getting started now. ♪ ♪ "fox and friends". >> steve: welcome aboard. that is hofstrauniversity out in long island

but steve does. >> steve: we are wheeling the camera over. >> brian: you have nothing to say. >> stevee a look radar and satellite and we have smashed them today and we have rain moving throughh portions of the this area right there. i was going to dash out and come back n you know what, right now, they are starting the big tour in new york city. our buddies who are with us in the summer love and -- eric and steven barker. good to have you perform on our show. >> oh, no. >> steve: you did a good jobb. if you missed this segment, interestingly enough. not only recently had the first number one hit. congratulations. >> thank you. >> steve: they are both the sons of preachher and your moms were born on the same day. >> same year. >> steve: congratulations. >> thank you. >> steve: since you are traveling all over the map help us out with the weather. >> there say nice storm system moving in the upper midwest. memphis, nothing going on there. >> been there and got foodifiesoning. >> they have good barbecuing. >> fish all day. >> wonderful storm system moving up here. >> wonderful, wonderful

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steve, gretchen? >> steve: thanks. new book, dozens of terrorist training compounds have been scattered across the united states for more than three decades. >> gretchen: joining us now is the author of "twilight in america" and founder of president of the christian action network. how did you become interested in trying to see how many of these camps exist under our noses? >> we had been riding -- writing issues with radical islam and a f.b.i. act said do you understand you have a terrorist compound of islamic muslim training about 30 miles from your office, so you better be careful with what you're doing. that's how we became interested. >> steve: i understand a guy who was recruited out of prison to -- and wound up living with the people at the terror training camps who was working with the nypd, came up to you and he goes, look, i got to tell you the story because if people knew what was going on here, they'd be horrified. >> yeah. most people have never heard of it in the united states, a very foreign name. but al

. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: it does smell.r up and stone walling. >> when you talk to people there. mr. nordstrom and lieutenant colonel wood. he jogged with the ambassador and he's saying it was inevitable. we were the last flag flying . they were saying, we need to be here. colonel was in charge of the ss team . he was told you are not only listening for the stars and moon and you are asking for the sun. you got to wonder. if the people were so concerned about the security of our ambassador and diplomat people on the ground. why was the turning a blind eye and deaf year. it doesn't make sense. >> gretchen: are there two parallel investigations going on. the lack of security and alleged cover up. is that the way you see it >> what did we learn from benghazi. if we haven't learned anything from it. unfortunately there is time to stop running for reelection. and you turn away from the most important responsibility we have. and that the state department. they are directly responsible for the diplomatic corp over seas y. would th

steve? >> steve: i come out and how did the car get there?er the commencement of the 2nd vatican counsel. pope john mikely to be canonized. what legacy did pope john pal leave? greg? ! good morning to you . >> steve: we'll talk about this particular guy and he became hope in 1958. they done have high expectations for him. >> he was one of the younger cardinals at 76 years old and expected him to rapefor a few years until a perhaps younger person could issue elected for a longer pontificate. >> steve: but they had vatican 2 and people who are noncatholics, it was basically what? >> a council and meeting of all of the bishops summoned to and discuss issues affecting the church and hadn't been one for 90 years and 400 years before that. >> steve: it modernized the catholic church. >>ed the church's position . it was inward and defensive if you will for centuries he opened the doors and windows and invited the world in the church and church to engage with the world. >> steve: that took a mighty broadleap. generally popes want to keep it the way t

>> steve: i know. you know what?nday shows the sunday before the debate and he said mark my words, come thursday morning, everybody is going to be talking about how this whole race is upside down. chris christie was absolutely accurate and there were 12,000 people at that particular rally yesterday either to support mitt romney or to protest barak obama. >> gretchen: chris christie was the only surrogate who really went out on a limb and said that before the debate and some people were speculating, maybe he was chastised afterward for predicting that. turns out he was the solo guy. >> steve: why is it that mitt romney has a whole bunch of different surrogates who show up on the chat shows and yet the president of the united states just generally has axelrod or gibbs? is it because they've got a message that they want to make sure nobody else botches or they're so practiced in their -- >> brian: very few people in the dugout. think about it, their mvp is bill clinton. the president has a tough decision. he's closing i

>> steve: glad you asked.presented a boat and went out on a little island. >> brian: and then? >> steve: and had lunch and they did that. >> brian: that sounds like fun. >> steve: until it turned out to be low tide and the boat got stuck and she's kind of in the middle there of our control room and then he hadn't planned on doing it right then -- >> brian: what are you talking about? >> steve: he asked her to marry him. he popped the question! congratulations, lauren and jarrett. >> gretchen: i thought i saw an amazing sparkling thing coming off that hand on top of his shoulder. put up the hand, lauren. >> steve: talk to the hand. there she is. >> brian: so she said yes is what you're saying? >> gretchen: even though she was stranded on a boat, i guess. she still said yes. many more moments. >> brian: i remember in "happy days" when they wanted a romantic moment, they would go to another area. >> steve: lauren areas mother is absolutely delighted. one other thing i left out, right after she said yes, i'll marr

>> steve: he had an awful debate.cided we've got a new strategy. rather than painting mitt romney as an extremist, we're going to call him a liar. here is the head of the dnc communications department. listen. >> there has been plenty of people pointed out what a liar mitt romney is and was last night. i mean, testifies talking -- if he was speaking last night, he was lying. look, mitt romney had a good night. but, you know, even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. >> steve: so that's the best they can do? >> it's not very good. you know, when he came out, when the president came out and he came out with that classic strut that he uses sometimes and my wife busted. she said, i don't like when you do it and i don't like when he does it. that kind of dashing walk. >> brian: why? >> because it's like i'm macho and i'm posturing, absolutely fake. i thought the telling moment happened almost immediately because it was his 20th anniversary with michelle. he has been in this presidential bubble where adoring crow

steve, gretchen, brian, back to you in new york. >> steve: that is so true.ime to bring in geraldo who has been patiently sitting. >> good morning. >> gretchen: what did you think of the interruptus fest? >> you know, steve brown just said that generally speaking, vice presidential debates don't move the needle very much. i only disagree to this extent. i think what joe biden did last night was stop the needle from plummeting any further on the democratic side because it was in free fall following the president's woeful performance last week. >> steve: you know what? he seemed to have gone from joe biden gaffe machine to joe biden laugh machine. when paul ryan was talk being very serious things like libya and poor people being murdered over there, the vice president of the us husband a great big goofy grin on his face and it was so unsettling and people at home are going, wait a minute. he's our current vice president? >> you know, i used the baseball game that was on, the yankee-orioles game was on of the first of all, i thought that in terms of analogizing

>> steve: maybe pauly shore?ut that has nothing to do with -- nothing to do with dogs, though. >> steve: well, neither does -- i guess they poop. [ laughter ] forget it. >> jimmy: this next one is from @dunkinlauren. she wrote, "this is my uncle. my aunt made his halloween costume this year." that's sweet. [ light laughter ] >> steve: gumball machine. >> jimmy: how do you get the gumball out of his -- [ laughter ] >> steve: i think we all know. >> jimmy: let's just go to the next one. i can't -- [ laughter ] >> steve: don't want to even. >> jimmy: i can't look at that guy. >> steve: a lot of balls there. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you mean guts. >> steve: yes, guts. yes. >> jimmy: got a lot of guts. this next one from @briaadele. look at their costume -- french kiss. [ audience ohs ] >> steve: that's nice. >> jimmy: get it? i like that. >> steve: that's great. >> jimmy: this next one's from @kenzieetyler. her and her friends went as slutty ghosts. [ laughter and applause ] very real. very real. >> steve: i thought it

>> steve: over.to change them or put a different color housing. >> brian: i'm going to look into that because that's the only thing i can do at my house is change bulbs. i would have been eligible to help them. i'm a good bulb guy. me and uncle fester. lockheed martin caving to pressure. agreeing to not issue required layoffs. but critics say the obama administration is more concerned with the election than thousands of workers. kelly wright live in washington. make heads or tails of this. >> here is one of the reasons why they're saying it's all dealing with the election. if lockheed martin issued its layoff notices, employees would have received those on november 2, just days before the general election. and in battle ground states like virginia where millions of people are employed who are working for defense contractors, a wave of job cuts there could have actually spelled trouble for president obama's hopes for a second term. lockheed's announcement that it will not issue job layoffs come as a w

my life is empty. >> steve: kind of looks like the dog car from dumb and dumber. >> brian: yes. >> steveama seemed off his game during last night's debate. will independent voters see it as a sign of weakness. franklin sat down with independents in the swing state of colorado. >> what is the key moment of the campaign so far didn't just happen on the debate stage. it happened in the suburb of dep ver. we had 24 undecided vores reacting to every moment of the debate. let's do a show of hands. how many of you think barack obama won the debate. raise your hands. how many of you voted for him in 2008, raise your hands . okay. something happened and something went wrong. give he a word to describe pumbum's. >> change was lost tonight. >> flat, arrogant. defensive. >> more factual. >> weak. >> reflective. >> defensive. >> unorganized. >> no confidence. >> slow. >> lacked specificings. >> defensive. >> flat. >> off his game. >> hon evaporate. >> careful. >> resigned. >> anti-free market. >> he is a good orrator. >> lacked passion and clarity. >> tired. defensive. that's the number one answer. y

steve? >> steve: all right. thank you very much.annot get its act together soon, that's how much money could be tacked on to your tax bill. $3,500 for the average american family. >> gretchen: the question is, why do we keep getting to this point with politicians holding your paycheck hostage? joining us is the host of varney and company, stuart varney, who i just learned, his two least favorite words, fiscal cliff. >> yes, your eyes glaze overment fiscal cliff? are you kidding me? look, the fiscal cliff is this: massive tax increases and huge spending cuts. that's the fiscal cliff. you go over that cliff and our economy heads south rapidly. do we go over that cliff? that's the question. i'll give you an opinion. no, we do not go over that cliff. i can't imagine politicians of either stripe willingly putting america into a recession. i don't think it's going to happen of the but the real answer for the question is this i think it all depends on the election. the election results dictates whether or not our economy slows down, we go

let's go to steve with three other people. >> steve: thank you very much. some cases, the debate got heated and even personal between the two of these. but which candidate handled their emotion the best? joining us right now, he's not two dimensional, peter johnson, jr. you were there last night? >> i went and i watched it when i got home at 1:30 in the morning, so i saw two aspects of it. in the hall and at home and i believe mitt romney won this debate. >> steve: why? >> he won this debate because he had a clearer vision of the future and at the same time, i think he had a more dignified persuasive approach. we talked yesterday about the back-off rule, about not getting in somebody's face. the president trying to be aggressive, trying to be energized, trying to get off the some next that i was on the first debate, stepped into this area, called wwwf, world wrestling federation and he came out swinging. he came out punching. i thought it was an unseemly display, but i predicted it based on joe biden's performance. i said joe biden is trying to bring it dow

>> steve: yeah. thought it was humorous. >> jimmy: you shouldn't prod anyone. we have music from a great band, you guys. sun kil moon is on. he's going to kill it tonight. he's a talented guy. guys, i love music. it's a huge part of my life. and i listen to everything. i listen to rock, rap, country, top 40, reggae. [ laughter ] you name it, i got it on my ipod. but one thing i try to keep off my ipod is bad music. you know, songs and bands that are so awful, they make you want to jam a dull knife into your ear. [ light laughter ] so, as a service to you guys, i'm about to play some real songs from real bands that i think you should avoid in a new segment i call "my do not play list." here we go. ♪ do not play do not play do not play these songs ♪ ♪ songs >> jimmy: before we start, i want you all to know every artist and song that i'm about to play for you is 100% real. [ laughter ] these are actual bands and actual songs. you can download them on itunes or amazon or see if your local music store has

let's go to steve. >> steve: thanks.partisan way. that's what they tell us. one problem, the group campaigned in favor of obamacare when most seniors said no. the fallout so bad, it's atracking some celebrity attention, game show host chuck woolery is the spokesperson for generation america, which is the largest conservative alternative to aarp. he joins us this morning from austin, texas. good morning to you. >> thank you, steve. it's nice to be with you this morning. how are you? >> steve: doing fine, thank you very much. a lot of people, they've seen the commercials and think aarp is nonpartisan. and you say absolutely not. and in fact, when health care was being passed in the congress, they were -- there was a connection between aarp and the white house. trying to get it passed, right? >> yeah. the rand and nancy la manned or barry rand ceo of aarp and deputy chief of staff of the white house, and nancy laman, all coordinated everything. we have 70 e-mails to prove it on our -- if you go to generationamerica.org, we

groans ] >> steve: ew. >> jimmy: gross, man. >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: ew! how dare you make fun of hamburger helper. no one finds a finger in their hamburger helper. [ light laughter ] ♪ thank you, pumpkin carving, or as serial killers call it, practice. there you go. [ laughter ] [ eerie music ] { county accent ] you want some hamburger helper? just made it. [ laughter ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, clearance sales, for turning the sentence "who wld buy this crap?" into "i only paid 20 bucks for this crap." [ laughter and applause ] i don't need that. it's only 20 bucks. >> steve: oh, well, get it then. >> jimmy: pretty decent, man. >> steve: this will sit in my closet. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, drink shakers, for being maracas for alcoholics. [ laughter ] [ cheers ] ♪ [ tropical music ] ♪ from sea to shining yeah, yeaaah! ♪ [ as mitt romney ] all right, all right, man. all right. two out of three ain't bad. >> steve: "bat out of hell" -- >> jimmy: -- zero to three for that one. okay, all right. security, get the limousine. all right. thank you very much for doing

. >> steve: was it hoda? have no idea. >> steve: oh, my god. a wine glass in the shower. you can't stop drinking long enough to bathe. >> jimmy: she has a problem, okay? >> steve: at least i understand -- >> jimmy: [ slurring words ] "put me in something sexy." [ laughter ] >> steve: i understand a bath. you're laying there. you put a wine glass on the bath -- >> jimmy: next one is from @erin1237. she says, "she left weird notes all over the apartment. i found one in the fridge that said, 'i came, i saw, i ate the rest of your chicken.'" [ laughter ] >> steve: no. come on. come on. >> jimmy: at least she admitted it. >> steve: yeah. veni, vidi, chicki. >> jimmy: -- ate the rest of your chicken. >> steve: thank you. >> jimmy: this one's from @gloryland89. he says, "my roommate boils water he plans on drinking to neutralize chemicals the government uses to spread obesity." [ laughter ] o -- kay. sure. absolutely. amen. >> steve: well, good for you! >> jimmy: well, good for you! i am requesting a different roomm

steve? >> steve: that's something.. with only six days left, what will it take to hold this key battle ground state? make sure it turns red, florida congressman connie mac is currently running his own race for u.s. senate. let's talk to him. he joins us now from tampa. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning. it's great to be with you. >> steve: great to have you. so after a couple of days that mr. romney has for the most part taken off due to the circumstances of the big storm here in the northeast, it's game on again today. he's going to be traveling with you and also former governor bush and marco rubio and what is his message to florida? >> i think his message is the same one he's been talking about for a long time. that's jobs and the economy and how to get this country moving again. there are a lot of people down here in florida who are hurting. their homes are upside down and their loans, they can't find work. there is 820,000 floridans out of work, more who have stopped looking for work. so it's about

>> steve: i kn. you know what?as on the sunday shows the sunday before the debate and he sa mark my words, come thsday mngevery in balbo h islees ueow rihre was absolutely accurate and there were 12,000 people at that particular rally yesterday either to support mitt romney or to protest barak obama. >> gretc c cistiwas weuta lsaha reebe ae oper speculating, maybe he was chastised afterward for predicting that. turns out he was the solo guy. >> steve: why is it that mitt romney has a whole bunch of different surrogates who show up gis?aslrnist aethe is it because they've got a message that they want to make sure nobody else botches or they're so practiced in their -- >> brian: very few people in the dugout. thestouboutt, the m ci. closing in on pen opinion, but he might need some resources to go to ohio. does he have a shot at michigan? he's within three in michigan. so i know he's got a lot of ne but if h nhio sarent g m ohtnoi bodies and dollars, do i pull it out of those two places and pour it into the vital sta

>> steve: yes.: and then a bunch of others. >> jimmy: i've just never seen a movie like "casino royale." the first five minutes was just unbelievable. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. it was just -- the most action thing ever. so, "skyfall"'s going to be -- >> steve: i can't wait. have you seen it? >> jimmy: no. >> steve: oh, i cannot wait. [ light laughter ] let's go together. >> jimmy: we should go. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, we'll go in the future, when it comes out. >> steve: yeah, we'll go -- [ light laughter ] i'll bring red vines. >> jimmy: did you watch the debate last night? i didn't hear from you. >> steve: yes, i did. >> jimmy: what did you think? >> steve: i thought it was -- you know -- great. >> jimmy: yeah. i thought romney did a pretty good job. >> steve: oh, i think -- yeah, i think it was -- >> jimmy: i think the thing everyone's talking about is jim lehrer. he just like -- he's the moderator. i think, like, he had no control over the debate at all. like, he's the moderator. he

steve?ering, we knew how bad the storm was before the president left for orlando. nothing really changed that much, maybe where it hits landfall in different areas. does it show a sign of disarray or discontent within the obama reelection campaign that he comes down here, doesn't do anything, he flies back? >> well, first of all, we were just talking about that, how much did it cost to fly air force one down and back when the president didn't even appear at that event. i think what happens, you folks know so much about hurricanes having covered them over the years, i've covered a lot over the years, the weather can be very unpredictable. a lot of i think the reason why they brought the president back was they didn't know how bad the weather was going to be in washington at the time when he got back. it was scheduled -- he was when he was scheduled to come back 1:00 in the afternoon. if it had degraded by that time, there might be risk getting the president back to the white the president bac