harris, back to you. >> harris: steve centanni tonight. thank you very much. president obama continuing his bus tour there, and spoke a short time ago to a crowd on palm beach as you heard, he hit governor romney on medicare reform, a hot topic in the sunshine state and travelling with the president, ed henry. is this a strategy now, trying to take the focus off of jobs and put it on health care? >> well, no doubt about it, harris. the president is still talking about jobs and realizes it's important to the american people, but the bottom line after friday's weak jobs report. what the president is trying to do about the campaign, less a referendum about him and make it a choice election about the future and medicare fits there in two ways, number one, you have a lot of senior citizens here in florida, obviously. they care a lot about medicare and they want to hear about both sides plan. and the president has a right target here in the ryan budget and suggests it will end medicare as we know it. here is what he had to say today. >> here is what you need to know

in washington, steve centanni, fox news. >>> president obama and mitt romney face off at the university denver a week from wednesday. that debate will focus on domestic issues primarily the economy. the vice-presidential candidates debate in kentucky on october 11th, followed be a town hall-style meeting the presidential nominees on october 16 nw new york. and there will be a final debate with foreign policy as the focus in florida on october 22nd. >>> after sarah palin's advice to go rogue he took more advice today from governor scott walker. >> americans want a fighter, who shows that this guy, mitt romney is going to fight for the american people when he gets into office. he is not going to be on his heels and he is going to move forward. he has a great plan and needs more of an opportunity to get behind these sidebar issues. >> president obama is pooling ahead among likely voters in wisconsin as well as in colorado and iowa. in a poll out today, mr. obama is in a dead heat with romney in florida. >>> the november election already has some wonderrering about who will run for pres pre

back to you. >> jamie: all right, steve centanni, thank you? >> there are new concerns in the campaign trail as the final phase the presidential race kicks off in the wake of the jobs report. both sides have been reacting. the former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and a democratic strategist are here. they go to the history pook books and it turns out fdr was the only president re-elected when unemployment was over 8%, like it is now. do you think president obama can defy that? >> it will be very hard f. it wasn't for bad news, obama wouldn't make news on the economy. he started a convention with bad news. they passed the $16 trillion mark in deficit and ended on friday with a miserable jobs report. the american people know what they feel. and the two most important things they will ask themselves in the voting booth is, am i better off than four years ago? clearly that's no. then they are going to say, is the president to blame? is the country on the right track or the wrong track? sadly, a majority of americans believe that our

and steve centanni, what's the latest in washington. >> the fbi has yet to enter benghazi because ofhe dangerous security climate there. senator corker who sits on the foreign relations committee wants to know why, and he fired off a letter to intel chief james clapper, calling the situation bizarre and demanding answers and says in part, 18 days ago, the administration judged it was appropriate for our consulate to be lightly guarded. and what has changed in libya in such a short time. is that even fbi agents and our personnel entered the city. and the u.n. ambassador susan rice who has said a few days after the attack, that it appeared to be a spontaneous uprising and the long video. >> and we have reports now that intelligence people knew within 24 hours that this was a terrorist attack and yet, they sent her out, to say things that were absolutely false and continued to do so. and then, as mccain says the violence in lib rah clicks, with the story and al-qaeda diminished. >> for its part. the administration claims the situation in benghazi was so complex, they didn't know for sur

>> steve centanni, thank you very much.u heard steve saying, turmoil and the american protests in economies across the mud limb world. now, a dire new warning and stand off with iran and the nuclear program. as we told you at the top of the hour, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that iran may be only six months away to a full-fledged weapon. and john bolton, and also an advisor to governor mitt romney. ambassador, thank you for joining us tonight. >> glad to do it. >> harris: my tirs question has to do with where we are at this point. are we at a continuing point? is it a us against them all over the arab world? are we there. >> i don't particularly believe in tipping points. i think things come and go, but i don't think that anybody should misunderstand what motivated the riots and terrorist attacks against our ambassador to libya, is a religious ideology, that is making political extremes. and it's an easy logical jump from that religious extreme sichl to cases for america, which is a very different kind

steve centanni has more. >> was it a planned attack or not? here is susan rice. >> there is an investigation that has begun and will take some time to complete it. that will hill us can certainty what transpired. our best assessment based on the information we have at present is in fact this began as a spontaneous not a premedicated response to what had transpired in cairo. >> others clearly disagree based on the types of weapons used in the attacks that killed ambassador chris stevens in benghazi. they usually laun don't usually a military style assault. they see the attack differently than ambassador rice. >> the way the perpetrators acted i think we -- they are choosing the specific date for this so-called demonstration, this leaves us with no doubt this was preplanned predetermined. >> the chairman of the house untell against committee made a final investigation at least not yet. they were only moderately confident about this there are huge gaps. >> they are hammering the foreign policy. especially the islamic extremism contributing to the

steve centanni live with details. steve. >> reporter: president obama today hammering away at gop ideas for reforming medicare. appearing in melbourne, florida, the president referenced a new study showing future retirees would have to pay nearly $60,000 more out of pocket to get medicare. >> our opponent's plan would mean as much as 16 to $26 billion in new profits for insurance companies. so basically your costs would rise by the thousands so that their profits could rise by the billions. >> reporter: the study he is talking about is measuring retirees' costs and was conducted by david cutler a harvard professor who serve a is candidate obama's top healthcare advisor during the last campaign. mitt romney at home in boston attending church and preparing for the october debate talked about healthcare as well in about a pretaped interview that appeared on nbc. he said even though he vowed to help repealle obama care there are parts of the plan he would keep. >> i'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform, of course.

steve centanni joins us from washington this morning. good morning, steve.g this question, what is being done to protect our diplomats around the world. >> the marines were sent to benghazi right after the killing. a senior government official telling reuters a platoon of u.s. marines sent to yemen are there on temporary deployment only and their role will be to protect the american embassy after it was stormed by hundreds of demonstrators last week. family members are being sent home from embassies and cons let's around the world in certain trouble zones. here is what susan rice said about that. >> what we have done on a selective basis where we assess that the security conditions necessitate is to temporarily have family members and nonessential alpersonnel depart the country. that is something we do all over the world when security circumstances warrant. it's short term, it's temporary and prudent. >> reporter: rice says there i is no evidence to indicate that the attack on benghazi was prepared. butt interim president disa grows and says it looks exactly

steve centanni is there interesting day for the obama campaign as one of the surrogates saying americans are not better off than they were four years ago. that tipped off quite a day of back and forth with the romney campaign firing out a statement just hours ago how is the obama campaign dealing with it? >> this is a delicate possibly sdang russ question, are you better offer than you were four years ago. this helped turn the race against jimmy carter. republicans trying it again this year. the answer to the question for maryland governor martino maley didn't help democrats any. >> can you say people are better off than four years ago? >> no but that's not the question for this selection. we are not as well off as we were before george bush brought us the bush job losses the bush recession, the bush deficits, the series of desert wars charged for the fooirms the national cr -- first time the national credit card -- >> romney's spokesperson campaign said on the same day obama campaign conceded americans are not better off than four years ago the president offered no solutions to the prob

steve centanni is live with the latest from the campaign trail. >> mitt romney launched a week of intensening in three of the battleground states where the race for the white house could be decided. tonight, colorado for a rally at a denver high school and then a three day bus tour of ohio followed by a stop in virginia. the candidate forging ahead amid calls from some republicans that his campaign needs a turnaround. in an interview to air this evening on cbs romney says h his campaign is moving in the right direction and "it doesn't need a turnaround." while the gop party chairman acknowledged some difficulty over the leaked romney video he also sees a silver lining. >> there probably wasn't the best said moment in the campaign and probably not the best week in the campaign but i will say that i think we can look back at next week as a campaign in a couple of months and say this was the defining week in both campaigns where i think both campaigns are crystallizing around a central theme which is going to be what kind of future do we want for our kids and grandkids. >> meantime, presiden

national correspondent steve centanni live with more.g to win over all those important florida voters? >> he's calling for more space exploration, which is a threatened industry in florida, appealing to older voters, and he's continuing to take aim at president obama in the meantime. ryan's first stop, miami, first today. then he later moved to orlando. polls show president obama leading by five points in florida, but ryan came out swinging. he went after the president over a comment he made recently on spanish language television. >> just the other day on univision the president said that he admitted he can't change washington from the inside. why do we send presidents to washington in the first place? don't we send presidents to washington to change washington, to fix the mess in washington? if president obama admits that he cannot change washington, then we need to change presidents. >> ryan also defending his plan for medicare, saying the president would let it go bankrupt. gregg? >> gregg: steve, what about mitt romney today, what's

steve centanni with the latest on that. >> reporter: yeah. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, emphasized america's strength and influence in the arab world, but did acknowledge one aspect of the u.s. response was lacking. listen. >> what happened in cairo was not sufficiently robust, when president obama picked up the phone and spoke to -- to president morsi, right away, things changed. that's an evidence of our influence and our impact. >> reporter: ambassador rice said the latest intelligence said that the latest intelligence on the uprising in benghazi was spontaneous. but the house intelligence committee chairman mike ronnellers said today, it's too early to tell. president obama has come under intense scrutiny over his handling of the attack. some question whether he should have offered more support in the arab spring and taken a firmer stand against extremist and done more to enhance security in the region. all of these issues very del gaiticate in the campaign for the white house and the president. an official in new york sa

steve centanni has more details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the two candidates and their teams are planning strategy for the final push to election day. president obama has no campaign events today. but he appeared at two stops yesterday in wisconsin and he heads to new york tomorrow and tuesday and then to the key battleground state of ohio later in the week. a top obama campaign adviser continued to attack mitt romney over the leaked comments from a private fund-raiser. >> i thought the most devastating thing about this video, is not just the video itself, but the reaction from candidate romney, which is to say that he was inelegant in what he said. what's the elegant way of saying 47% of the people in this country are moochers who don't care enough about themselves and their place in life to take responsibility? >> mitt romney holds a campaign event in denver tonight, after spending most of the weekend in california. the next big challenge will be the presidential debate, californiaing up in more than a week. but in the meantime, g.o.p. off

our national correspondent steve centanni is live in washington with more details on the political landscapen the presidential campaign. >> that's right. just a few weeks left before the election, about 45 days. paul ryan on the stump in florida, one of the most fiercely contested battle ground states the at all. at a campaign event in orlando the vice-presidential nominee took name at president obama, he appeared with former florida governor jeb bush, florida senator marco rubio and mitt romney's son craig introduced him to the crowd. during, he focused on a statement he made on spanish language television. >> a couple days ago on univision president obama admitted that he can't change washington from the inside. why in the white house in the first place? and we send presidents to change and fix the mess in washington. and if this president has admitted that he can't change washington, then you know what, we need to change presidents. >> mitt romney, meantime, is out west, he was in las vegas, nevada yesterday for a campaign event and traveled to california for a fundraiser in a wealthy sub

. >> steve centanni, strong words on the show this is morning. >> reporter: you bet. >> eric: how will the handling of the attack effect the race for the white house? 43% of likely voters disapprove of the president's handling of the situation so far and 39% approve. will this put new focus on the foreign policy of the administration. >> brad and joe, good to see you here. >> good to be with you, eric. >> eric: brad, how do you think this will play into the campaign? >> i think, eric, it gets stranger and stranger each day. lives are being exposed. coverups are being exposed and frankly, it's clear to me that this didn't fit the political narrative that the white house wanted to have the american people believe. that is that osama bin laden is dead and al qaeda has been destroyed. osama may be dead, errickic, but al qaeda is killing american personnel and destroying american property. there is a heck of a lot of answers that have to be forthcoming, like why hasn't the fbi been able to get in there. how is it that cnn can contaminate a crime scene and take crucial evidence? the fact tha

. >> rick: steve centanni, thank you. >> arthel: possible new advances in the battle against posttraumatic stress disorder, ptsd is commonly known for affecting some of our war veterans. but the disorder also plagues victims of severe trauma or abuse. now one doctor is hoping to keep ptsd at bay with the simple injection. anna kooiman with more. >> more than 500,000 post 9-11 service members suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. many aren't getting the relief they need. but there is a new hope in a little known treatment called sgb. ptsd a is often debilitating, often lead to go depression and substance abuse. sgb is an anesthetic injection. commonly used in labor epidurals. that takes about 15 minutes to administer in the neck. relief from symptoms often happens within 30 minutes. 65 patients have 25 states, including vietnam vet raleigh showens. >> if i hadn't had it done, i was at the ends of my rope, i was ready to commit suicide. the procedure is so simple and the results are so great. >> sgb is not backed by the department of veterans affairs for treating ptsd. but chicago docto

our steve centanni following the story for us tonight in washington. >> and mitt romney is diving into flurry of battle ground, 9 in colorado and three day stop in ohio and then on to virginia. carried by president obama four years ago. the candidates forging ahead even though the republicans say the campaign needs a turn around. and it it does not need a turn ard. and the g.o.p. chairman over the leaked video last week, he sees a silver lining. >> i think we can look back at last week as a campaign in a couple months and say this was the defining week in both campaigns, where i think both campaigns are crystallizing around a central theme, which is going to be what kind of future do we want for our kids and grandkids. >> and meantime, president obama is planning his own trip to ohio later on in the week after visiting the u.n. tomorrow and tuesday. and these campaign stops and swing states come just ten days ahead of the first presidential debate, and today, the president's team playing the expectations game, giving romney the edge in those debates. >> and mitt romney, i think, has an

steve centanni has more from d.c.. >>> mitt romney at his campaign headquarters in boston today. later on today he plans to do some preparations for upcoming debates that are all important. earlier today, let's take a look at these pictures. he did take one trip out to his campaign headquarters and attended church followed by secret service agents. yesterday he was campaigning in swing state of florida. he has promised to try to repeal obamacare if he is elected but today in a pre-taped interview for meet the press on nbc, he explained there are some parts of healthcare program that he would keep. >> i'm not getting rid of all healthcare reform. there are a number of things that i like that i'm going put in place. one is to make sure that the preexisting conditions can get coverage. two, is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies to cover their family to whatever age they might like. >> reporter: paul ryan was appearing on the talk shows also by tape. he was confronted by democratic claims as the romney-ryan is light on foreign affairs experience an

thank you steve centanni. >> gregg: we can tell you that early voting is under way in north carolina, south dakota and idaho. over the next month, 34 states and the district of columbia will allow voters to cast early or absentee ballots. they expect tens of millions of americans, perhaps 40% of voters to turn out. the volume of the pre-election day activity could is your passion 2008 when about 30% the 130 million voters cast in the presidential contest were early. >> heather: some are looking ahead to 2016. hillary clinton's name has been floated around as a potential candidate. on a sunday morning talk show her husband, former president bill clinton put his two cents on a potential run. >> she has worked hard for 20 years. we had eight years in white house and she served in new york for 588 years and she is tired. i think she has done a fabulous job. she wants to take some time off, kind of regroup. she is an extraordinarily able person. i never met anybody that i thought was a better public servant. i have no earthly idea what she will decide to do. >> gregg: really? >> heather: s

steve centanni is live in washington with more on this. >> reporter: one is bob corker a member of the foreign relations committee saying the benghazi incident is more bizarre every day. he wrote a letter to the director of national intelligence. it says 18 days ago the administration judged it was appropriate for our consulate to be lightly guarded. what has changed in libya such a short time that our f.b.i. agents, most elite personnel cannot safely enter the city? meantime, republicans kept up the drum beat on the administration's response and the president's foreign policy. >> the response was slow. it was confused, it was inconsistent. they first said that it was a youtube video and spontaneous mob. we now know it was a planned terrorist attack. in this was one tragic incident, that would be a tragedy in and of itself but the problem is bigger picture of the fact that the obama foreign policy is unraveling literally before our eyes on our tv screens. >> reporter: he said he would let others decide if the president was involved in a cover-up. meantime, obama advisors responded to i

bill: steve centanni is live in d.c. it mean for nato and american forces and whether or not they'll be able to work alongside afghans? >> nato and the pentagon insist they will continue working together. the strategy really does not change. they say this move is only temporary, that large-scale operations will still be conducted on a joint basis and that some smaller operations can also involve teams of afghan and international troops working together. here is the explanation from isef, the international security assistance force. they say they've taken prudent but temporary measures to reduce our profile to civil disturbances to insider attacks. operational tempo has been reduced or forced protection has been increased. they are quick to stress the new policy only temporary, some joint missions can still be carried out. they will be considered on a case-by-case basis and approved at the level of a two-star general or higher. this comes in response to a 40% spike in insider attacks. it followed a weekend that saw four a