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steven colbert yesterday on "meet the press" briefly stepping out of character with david gregory. >>tcome of this presidential election change anything significantly? >> sure. sure. i'm not ralph nader. you know what i mean? i don't think there's no difference. there is a difference. i don't know what the difference is, though. because i think -- i think there is a possibility that obama would be, say, more aggressive -- a more aggressive or reformer in the second act of his presidency. and i don't really know how -- i also don't know how mitt romney would govern. he might govern as a technocrat. like the guy from pepsi who comes in to run gm. he can't tell us what he'll do because he hasn't seen the books yet. we don't know, because he seems absolutely sincere as a moderate and pretty sincere as a severe conservative. so that's not a dig. it's honest confusion. he's got a good shot of winning. if he does, i hope he's a good president. if obama wins, i hope he keeps some of the promises he didn't keep the first time. but i have no idea how it changes for us. by but i knows there got

>> steven colbert had his back. >> let's listen to what he said. >> wow, that was a great opening. that was fantastic. >> you just lost, jon. never compliment your opponent. always be attacking. >> think somebody listened to that advice. >> absolutely. >> the thing is between o'reilly and stewart, they are both smart. they have great points to make. it's going to be a great show. on top of great pundits, they great showmen. >> always be attacking. >> you can pay to stream it online. i'm going to do that. >> dune where that money goes? >> to charity. >> let's move to the "american idol" drama. what's going on? >> they are trying to get people to watch. >> is that what it's about? >> i think so. >> tell us about the drama. >> a video surfaced on tmz of those two freaking out. if you have been in an audition situation, they strip everybody of every device. there's talks it might have been a little bit staged. "voice" judge cee lo green said it looked staged. they are trying to create controversy. one showed something to something. >> someone said something about someone's something. i

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but jimmy kimmel, jon stewart and steven colbert ended up cancelling their monday taping. >> kind of like us. we don't have a live studio audience. >>> 4:55. the space shuttle "endeavour" ready for one last mission as a tourist attraction. starting this morning visitors will be able to get a closer look at its new home there in the california science center in los angeles. people will not be allowed "endeavour" but will get to walk underneath it. governor jerry brown will attend this morning's grand opening. >>> it is 4:55. let's check back in on mike inouye to see what's happening on our roads. it looks like it's tough to see out there. >> yeah, we're going to show you what we can't see. these are the headlights coming toward us. i've moved the camera we have in emeryville. normally we look at the approach to the bay bridge. i moved it pointing straight down just to show from the rooftops to the roadway there's some low clouds that keep drifting through. visibility may be an issue in patches. the roadway is okay, it's just the low clouds continue to hover. the maps you see, it looks

. >> steven colbert called him the most boring man on evening news. that is something what we saw.gree with rick and with ellen. i think he understood that the two men wanted to engage and he stepped out of the way. that was a good thing. >> the lincoln-douglas debates were between lincoln and douglas. there were no moderator. everybody would like to say, that would be a better model. they tried it that th time. now, the media are blaming leher. one wrote last week that the media is part of team. romney is playing against the democratic team and media team and the fact that leher wasn't a tackler he is now getting beat up for it. >> jon: the ratings were huge, 67 million people. they have a way of measuring people how people stay with the program. they stayed with it. leher must have been doing something right. >> again the media was removed from the equation. we got to see the candidates talking. i'm a big twitterer. it was very exciting to be twitter during the debate and watched as people xhen at a time. public has a role now. >> ten million tweets, that is lot of tweets. >> one

she's one of several celebrities including oprah winfrey and steven colbert who are filling in for robin roberts. abc is in talks with first lady michelle obama for a similar guest appearance to happen before next month's election. >> of a chaotic scene caught on tape, a raging apartment fire in northwest d.c. firefighters rushed to save people trapped inside. four people were taken to a hospital. brianne carter joins us from k street. >> this was a fast-moving fire according to residents. there is boarded up by firefighters after all this happened. residents say it was very scary. shooting straight up smoke and flames quickly covered the apartment building while residents were still inside. >> we ran inside to get people out. >> zack erin peterson and several others tried to help their neighbors, but the fire was too much. firefighters used a ladder truck to get them down. >> if it had been three minutes later, we would have had to jump. >> this boy's stepfather try to get out on his own from his third story window, but he fell. >> on the ground. >> been performed cpr before the man was

. >> we will talk about this in our own debate setting and one on one interview with steven colbert in character and out of character as he talks about the political race and system he tries to expose. >> sounds like a good show. we will be watching. david, thanks. >> ai thanks, lester. >> you can catch the next presidential debate news night at 9:00 eastern, 6 awning pacific here on nbc. >> tom is over at the news desk. hey, good morning. >> good morning jenna and lester. good morning, everyone. another person died from the outbreak of a rare form of meningitis. 15 people have died and 198 people have been infected in more than a dozen states. >>> overseas where the shooting of a girl while on hes her way home from school horrified people in pakistan and internationally. the girl was shot for promoting girl's administration. >> a navy submarine off the east coast saturday evening is under investigation bit military. the pentagon says no one was hurt and both vessels are now under their own power. the submarine, uss mont pillier and uss were in operations when they collided. >>> space

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. >> and ready to rumble, steven colbert helps train jon stewart for his weekend showdown with bill o'reilly, that is if he doesn't chicken out first. >> jon, you're in worst shape than i thought. i'm going to have to take this to another level. full immersion. guenther, fetch me chucker carlson. thank you. >> so, after i use the chicken to wash your car. >> yes. >> am i ready? >> no. not even close, because to defeat bill o'reilly you must first catch the bird, wax my car with the bird and absorb its soul, the bird to defeat bill o'reilly you must make the bird into a chick-fil-a fillet sandwich. >> no. that is completely absurd! do you want to win? >> i do want to win. >> let the training begin. >> all right! ah -- >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in denver where mitt romney took the fight to president obama in wednesday's debate. last night it was the president who often seemed remote and disengaged. joining me now on the phone from the president's speech that he's just had in denver is chuck todd, of course, traveling with the president. chuck, what's the explanation from team obama

on the other side of things, talk show hosts jimmy kimmel, jon stewart and steven colbert all ended upmonday taping. >>> the u.s. stock markets will be closed for the second day in a row. scott mcgrew, people working frantically to make sure it doesn't extend into a third day. >> if the markets were closed again tomorrow that would be a huge problem because tomorrow is the last day of the month. the day when books are closed are stock contracts and portfolios. the nyse tells us they will run tests on the secondary system just in case the closure lasts through a third day. it's really not a computer issue as much as it is a people issue. you can't get in or out of lower manhattan this morning. streets are closed and mass transit is shut down. ubs based in switzerland says it will cut thousands of jobs. imagine you're in the midst of the hurricane, you get through to the home office on your phone only to find out you've been laid off. paypal indicates it will cut about 300 jobs in san jose. >>> the u.s. department of labor has updated us saying it will release the october jobs numbers as

. >> caller: we were there with steven colbert and herman cain. >> that's right. >> bill: larry is inwe're talking about pbs, what do you say, larry? >> caller: i think the whole thing is ridiculous. my grandchildren watch pbs and big bird. and i had some new neighbors move in, and when they first moved in they could talk no english, they watch sesame street all the time and their english has now become excellent. you can understand them with no problem. >> bill: you can say that about millions and millions of american kids, not just immigrants, right in they learn their numbers, letters, learn concepts, right? and it's -- it's fun to watch, but it's an educational program. right? >> caller: yeah, the mother's english is very poor, even she is learning from the kids by watching pbs. >> bill: there you go. i think the bottom line is, larry that is this just something that mitt romney is not interested in. he never met a tax cut he didn't like, and never met a piece of military hardware that the didn't like he never met a subsidy for the big oil companies that he didn't like. but anythi

then my favorite thing, you say later the dancing master meaning david gregory stat down with steven colbertt talk about me anymore. >> stephanie: he can't talk about tom brokaw or -- >> travis see if we can get him back. >> stephanie: but he is taking about the senate raise. elizabeth warren's rise remains steady. senator mcdreamy has developed a technique to guild his own lilly. charlie says brown referred to as having served in afghanistan as the "boston globe" points out, he was there for two weeks of national guard duty. really it was more like a visit. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: he was in the very rear of the guard apparently. there he is again. >> i was insufficiently unaware of the gap. >> stephanie: oh, okay. i was reading your point on senator mcdreamy and the building of his lilly. >> yeah, he keeps saying -- you know this kind of weird stuff, or grandizing stuff and that turns out not to be true yeah i would say the two weeks is more of a visit. >> yeah, he is a, quote unquote ranking member of the armed services committee. yeah, he sixth ranking committee member. if five guys die

. >> you're going to have steven colbert on your show today and he should have an interesting take onhe does. we talked to him in character and out of character. he's a very astute analyst of the political scene and the campaign and money and politics and other things and his show really makes that point as a satirist so interesting to talk to him. >> david gregory, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks a lot. >> and don't forget, you can press" att the 10:00 a.m. on wbal-tv 11 following 11 news at 9:00 a.m. lisa? >> funeral arrangements are in place for former state senator clarence mitchell iii who served more than 20 years in the state house, who died thursday following a long battle with cancer at the age of 72. the funeral will be sunday october 21 at the sharp street memorial united church on fol -- dolphin and ed d'ing streets. survivors of a deadly fire will hold services for the grandmother and children who perished in that blaze. a wake will take place at 10:00 a.m. thursday at mount pleasant church and ministries on radeky avenue. a funeral service will follow at 11:00.

. >> bill: seen steven colbert said it was a statement about benghazi, the morning after benghazi.could speak to what had happened the day before. there was no doubt about it. that's why we were there. i watched the secret service pull the vans up after that little statement he went back in the oval office with the secretary of state and they were leaving to go to the state department so he could address the state department employees the same day. to say that he was talking about oklahoma city, or september 11, 2001 is just ridiculous. >> why do you think the administration has said different things on this? was it that one part of the government wasn't talking to another, putting susan rice out on the sunday show? >> bill: fog of war. as has been reported, people on the ground in libya at the embassy told reporters who shoulder up that they were there because of anger over this video. >> yes that was reported in the new york times. >> bill: and intelligence, the original intelligence that the administration got right? i remember right after osama bin laden was killed when john br

that had steven colbert reaching for the near etch e sketch. things spiked about 1,000%. catch phrases get etched on t-shirts, get turned into viral videos. ♪ >> didn't build that. >> even an empty chair? and become a catch phrase. in this case, aimed at president obama when he blew the the first debate. the good news is that a year or so after the first election, we're all going to have obama romnesia, a condition which erases all 2012 catch phrases. >> and mom, you did build that! >> man, you've definitely got romnesia. >>> i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> this the time to unleash our one liners? that answer was about as clear as boston harbor. now -- >> we're in the grip of a failed economic theory and this decision better be about what kind of economic theory you want. >> i got to answer this. tell tony blair we're

as the attorney of steven colbert, will he use that money to try to win the emmy from jon stewart? my real question is -- it is difficult to change. this is a time when things are so polarized. with new technology where everybody has their own axe to grind, address that as a dissuading factor. if i go home tonight, i can do whatever i want to as many people as i can reach. that is different from the time of jefferson. ben franklin are someone only needed to set that in print and now all you need to is to press a button. how does that fit into a campaign? >> obama cannot raise the money without technology. the net is different from a newspaper. you can say whatever you want an infinite number of people can read that. no one will know you wrote that unless you put money behind it or have a way of promoting it. there are similar barriers. you cannot say you're printing press is as important as someone else's printing press. it is more complicated. >> question surprised me. going to say we took a simple subject and made it murky. >> the person who will not read that article is the swin

. >> reporter: that had steven colbert looking for an etch a sketch.who the etch a sketch comment was good for? the makers of etch a sketch. sales of these things spiked about 1,000%. catch phrases get etched on t shirts and turned into viral videos. >> you didn't build that. >> reporter: even an empty chair. >> what do you mean shutup? >> reporter: can become a catch phrase in this case president obama when he blew the first debate. a year or so after the election we are all going to have obama romnesia which erases all 2012 catch phrases. >> mom, you did build that. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> an entire army battalion got a huge welcome home from afghanistan. the 115th signal battalion is based in huntsville, alabama. they have been supporting the security forces in kandahar. >>> one of the judges took a spill on "dancing with the stars" last night. >> let the baby making begin. that was ridiculous. >> wow. >> she said she was okay after falling off the judge's chair knocked out by the sexy dance. >>> doctors had to clear reality star