the program is under way now at vmi. we're looking and waiting for mitt romney to come out to give his major foreign policy address today. governor macdonald of virginia is addressing the cadets there in lexington, virginia, and then mitt romney is going to be giving his address to the crowd there. i want to bring back the political power panel. it's great to have you all stick with me as i thought mitt romney was going to be taking to the podium at 11:20. you're with me. in this together, okay? >> absolutely, thomas. >> we're here for you. >> we are in the foxhole together. >> more coffee. >> exactly. karen, let me talk to you about the fact that the obama team, jen psaki and comparing the fact that mitt romney's the guy that kind of bumbling around through europe and chevy chase did a better job. susan talked about the fact that's way to come out. do you think that language is too salty? >> no, of course not! this is an election! are you kidding me? for the presidency of the united states of america and those are signi

for more than 107 years, vmi has done more than educate students.has guided their transformation into citizens, warriors, and leaders. vmi graduates serve with honor in nation's defense, just as many are doing in afghanistan and other lands. i mourn with you the 15 brave souls who have been lost. i join with you and praying for the many vmi graduates who are right now serving in harm's way. may god bless all who serve and all who have served. of all the vmi graduates, and none is more distinguished, perhaps, then general george marshall, the chief of staff of the army became secretary of state, secretary of defense, helped to vanquish fascism and plant it europe's rescue from despair. general marshall once said, "the only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." those words were true in his time, and they are true in our time. last month, our nation was attacked again. a u.s. ambassador and three fellow americans are dead, murdered in benghazi, libya. among the dead or three veterans, all on a mission of peace and friendship to a nation tha

george marshall is a graduate of vmi. heard the governor mention george marshall, who went on to become the secretary of state and author of the marshal plan. that is what the president both, i'm sorry the governor, in the beginning and at the end of his speech he pointed to the contributions that george marshal made to world affairs. that is part of reason for the setting of this speech. talk about it now with michael oh hanlon, i'm sorry, the coauthor of bending history, barack obama's foreign policy. senior from brookings institution. general bob scale, retired general and fox news military analyst. general scales, to you first, he suggested that a more muscular foreign policy especially with regards to the middle east is needed right now. did you hear it that way? >> boy i sure did, jon. one of the things. this is the first speech i hear him give where he establishes a clear difference from the administration. he focuses exclusively on the middle east and not on china and russia. secondly his tone is more strident and

. >> the obama campaign was quick in its response to romney's speech at vmi. madelieine albright slammed the republican candidate during a conference call with reporters saying romney's foreign policy is full of platitudes but short on specifics. staying with foreign policy, we're learning more about the security situation in libya leading up to the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate. chairman of the house oversight committee is expected to hold hearings tomorrow now after an e-mail from the u.s. embassy in libya to the state department shows that it had requested a special security team stay in libya for another four months. the senior state department official tells the associated press that request was granted but a commander on that security team report eed will testify th chris stevens who was killed during the attack wanted the security time to stay even longer. that request was turned down. the state department says the 16 member security team was based in tripoli and would not have made a difference at the time of the attack in benghazi. the president

for more than 170 years vmi has done more than educate students.has guided their transformation into scitizens, warriors and leaders. since september 11th attacks many of the vmi sons and daughters have defended america and i mourn with you the 15 brave souls who have been lost. i join you in praying for the many vmi graduate who is are right now serving in harm's way. may god bless all who serve and all who have served. of all the vmi graduates none is more distinguished perhaps than general george marshall, the chief of staff of the army that became the secretary of state and secretary of defense, who helped plan europe's rescuer from despair. his commitment to peace was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences of war. general marshall once said, quote, the only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. those words were true in his time, and they are true in our time. last month our nation was attacked again. a u.s. ambassador and three of our fellow americans are dead. murdered in benghazi, libya. among the dead we

and we'll listen in a moment to that speech from mitt romney at vmi. let me ask you this, why a foreign policy speech this late in the election campaign? do you think he sees some sort of opening here? >> yes, i think that the killing of the american ambassador and three other americans in benghazi, libya, the consulate there, and the confusion surrounding the administration's explanation for what happened, the condemnation by some has given him a clear opening. take a look at what is happening throughout north africa and the middle east. he said that today. there is a lot of anti-american attitudes out there. he senses there is a moment now for him to take advantage and as you point out, brooke, he's going to have that foreign policy debate against president obama, that's the last of the three debates strictly focused on national security and foreign policy. so i think he's gearing up for that. and there is no better way to gear up than to prepare a speech outlining your position on a whole host of sensitive issues where there is significant disagreem

for more than 107 years, vmi has done more than educate students. it has guided their transformation into citizens, warriors, and leaders. vmi graduates serve with honor in nation's defense, just as many are doing in afghanistan and other lands. i mourn with you the 15 brave souls who have been lost. i join with you and praying for the many vmi graduates who are right now serving in harm's way. may god bless all who serve and all who have served. of all the vmi graduates, and none is more distinguished, perhaps, then general george marshall, the chief of staff of the army became secretary of state, secretary of defense, helped to vanquish fascism and plant it europe's rescue from despair. general marshall once said, "the only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." those words were true in his time, and they are true in our time. last month, our nation was attacked again. a u.s. ambassador and three fellow americans are dead, murdered in benghazi, libya. among the dead or three veterans, all on a mission of peace and friendship to a nation

i think mitt romney will try to address that at vmi. >> geraldo: has the tea party moment come and gone>> i think this transcends the tea party and we are talking about the safety and security of every american citizen. i couldn't help but agree with what you were saying. what we are seeing whether it is benghazi gate report latest death from fast and furious or what is happening in syria is a very tragic result of the sloppy leadership that we see coming from the white house and we are paying a high human toll for that sloppy leadership and what i mean is he thinks that oops my bad is a good excuse. you know, whether it is the dnc platform debacle, oh, we didn't know they wanted to say israel remove our support for israel. and then the embassy cairo embassy in cairo apology, oh, oops, we didn't know they were saying that and now oh, were there terrorist warnings? there is a very high human toll we are paying for hyssops my bad."nhis "oops my gy can't wait until the adults are in charge. years ago osama bin laden was saying that america is a paper tiger and the threat doesn't mean anyth

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down at vmi today, romney said particularly in the case of the conflict involving the israelis, arabs and iran, that only with a new president would we get the chance he says we need to start over. at virginia military institute -- >> it's time to change the course in the month. >> reporter: mitt romney claimed president obama made a mistake in pulling back overseas. >> our friends and allies across the globe don't want less american leadership, they want more. >> reporter: that goes, said romney, for the muslim world, from libya to syria to iran. he suggested obama policies in libya let al qaeda get strong enough to kill our ambassador. in syria, romney would get the rebels heavy weapons, despite the administration's fear they'll end up in the hands of al qaeda. and romney claimed he'd be tougher on iran about nuclear weapons. >> this is a dangerous situation. >> reporter: romney said president obama's making it more dangerous by resisting israeli prime minister netanyahu, aapparently willingness to attack iranian nuke plants. >> i know the president hopes for a safer, freer, middle

down in vmi today, mitt romney said particularly in the conflict involving the israelis, the arabs and iran, only with a new president would we get the chance romney says we need to start over. at virginia military institute -- >> it's time to change course in the middle east. our friends and allies across the globe don't want less american leadership, they want more. >> reporter: that goes, said romney, for the muslim world, from libya to syria to iran. he suggested obama policies in libya let al qaeda get strong enough to kill our ambassador. in syria, romney would get the rebels heavy weapons, despite the administration's fear they will end up in the hands of al qaeda. and romney claimed he would be tougher on iran about nuclear weapons. >> this is a dangerous situation. >> reporter: romney said president obama's making it more dangerous by resisting israeli prime minister netanyahu's apparent willingness to attack iranian nuke plants. >> i know the president hopes for a safer, freer, and more pros pous middle east, along with us. i share this hope. but hope is not a strategy. >> re

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just can't easily knock that out and romney trying to fail the commander in chief test including the vmi speech and many people saying ridiculous and fanciful and tries to portray him as a latter day george marshall. every day that romney spends on foreign policy i think especially in an economy election is a day lost. >> well, look. i'm not going to politicize this. it has political implications but whether obama is up for re-election or someone else or a year away, this is an issue that will have serious consequences for months to come and it needs a serious look. and the only timeline i think that matters to me is the one that i've been laying out. i'm on state department phone calls. talked to libyan counterterrorism officials, folks in the state department. the timeline is one of negligence, incompetence and duplicity. negligence in failing to secure the assets and nancy pelosi's statement is incompetent. the discussion of seven different agencies saying seven different things about what this was tied to, the state department yesterday saying that it never thought it was about a vid

marshall whose alma mater was vmi, being a defeatist. he wants to create that aura that president obama has not been forceful and has not been in the tradition of kennedy and truman and eisenhower peace through strength, but in terms of actual specifics as tom fitzgerald pointed out, the only really difference was arming the syrian dissidents rebels, but he didn't say who was going to arm them. >> so many questions we have that could stay on romney and obama, but let's turn quickly to local politics. there was a debate tonight between democrat tim kaine and republican george allen. who do you think won? >> i think kaine did just because allen didn't answer some questions about privatizing social security, didn't answer whether he was for the dream act and also painted allen with one statement repeated over and over again that allen said in the senate that i want to ram their soft teeth down their whiney throats. that isn't the bipartisan patina that you want and i think they both have 100% name recognition. this is really very gentile, b

it will be at vmi on monday.t's an opportunity to attack the president again and dominate romney's readiness to lead. this is something they were prepared to talk about at the debate, supposed to be a debate about domestic issues. they thought there was a potential during the final 15 to 20 minutes when the conversation turned to the role of governing for mitt romney to perhaps be able to attack the president's mishandling in their view of foreign policy issues. since that didn't take place they hope to make that point this coming monday. >> peter alexander traveling with the romney camp in virginia. peter, thank you. >>> two days after the first presidential debates and democrats are still having this bit of a hangover as republicans try to continue seizing on wednesday night's momentum. it was a big night for mitt romney, but will that first face-off really affect how undecided americans vote next month? while this cbs poll shows good news for governor romney, it also shows that 69% of undecided voters were una

mitt romney gave a major speech yesterday at vmi.s dropped the ball on libya, iran and israel and went into detail. you know foreign policy like few others in this country. what did you think of the governor's speech? >> i thought it was excellent. i'll tell what you i also thought it was. i thought it was reaganesque. a lot of people, when reagan came to office, was well, he's a cowboy. he was only governor of california. ronald reagan had the right instincts. mitt romney has the right instincts about american leadership. that does not mean he goes and tries to find wars to fight. but it does -- he does understand in sharp contrast to barak obama the role of america and leading from in front. as he said in his speech, if america doesn't lead, who does lead? and of course, barak obama has said time and time again that we lead from behind. and you look across the middle east and there is example after example of that. >> gretchen: it's an interesting time. 28 days until the election. who would have hunk last week we would be looking a

. >> reporter: now romney will speak later this morning here in the hall of valor at vmi. based on the excerpts we've seen his attacks will be sharp. it appears he's continuing what he started in that debate wednesday night focus and enjoying a sharp contrast between the president first on domestic policy and now today on foreign policy. >> this morning president obama ismitting he's not satisfied with his efforts. nancy cordes is here. >> reporter: the president had two fundraisers here in los angeles last night, three more in san francisco today. we learned his campaign raked in $181 million in the month of september alone, the largest one month haul of this presidential campaign. 6,000 obama supporters paid at least $250 each to join the president at a star studded concert in downtown los angeles. the lineup included katy perry, stevie wonder, bone jon jovi and jennifer hudson. president obama praised them all while poking fun at himself. >> everyone here is incredible professionals, such great friends and they just perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always s

. >> i want to start by playing one piece of sound from that speech at vmi yesterday and we'll go from must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might. no friend of america will question our commitment to support them. no enemy that attacks america will question our resolve to defeat them. no one anywhere friend or foe will doubt america's capability to back up our words. martha: ambassador do you agree with charles krauthammer in terms of what mitt romney's goal was yesterday with that speech? >> i think governor romney was trying to convey that his foreign policy will rest on essentially the same views as ronald reagan's, that the way you achieve america's objectives in the world without unnecessary conflict is by dealing from a position of strength. this is a so-called peace through strength doctrine. i think what charles was saying is that obama has a very different view, that for obama it's america's strength that is provocative, that our presence in the world is what causes other people to behave badly to us, and that if we were less in the wor

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major policy speech in the key battleground commonwealth at vmi.ing here against president obama with all that has happened in the middle east over the past few weeks and months, especially in libya. nia, what do you think governor romney reveals tomorrow? does he reveal anything significant? >> well, my guess is he probably won't. we've seen mitt romney give several major foreign policy speeches, one last year down in south carolina. he gave another out in nevada. of course, he had the foreign policy trip. he's obviously trying to make headway around this libya issue, which, in fact, if you read a lot of the reports coming out about the administration's handling of this, he has a real case to press against this administration in terms of the shifting reasons that the libya thing actually happened. so i think he's really going to talk not only about american exceptionalism, but also talk about america being a leader in the world and make the case that obama has not led, not been a strong leader on iran, on the middle east, the arab spring. that's w

we heard mitt romney at vmi talking about how syrian rebels should be armed but no specifics as far asuld then arm them. so again, syria as you point out is tough. it's tough. >> he says they should be armed, not by us, but by others. how do you figure that out in the midst of a civil war. >> all good points. i want to talk about this special, your special coming up sunday, talk to me about green power. what are you looking at? >> what we're looking at is, you know, the candidates both want energy independence. and what is strange is we're sort of going to get it, but almost despite what is going on in the politics, no matter who is president, the united states is on the verge of this huge energy boom which is, you know this new revolution, this technological revolution, we were expecting it in solar and wind. instead we have it in shale and deep water, oil. and it is going to be this enormous boom for the united states. what we argue in the special is that should be the bridge technology to get eventually to the cleaner, greener future that we all have been looking for. we look at a l

host: let's look at what romney said in his speech at the vmi.video clip] >> in afghanistan, i will pursue a real transition to secure eight forces in 2014 by president obama would have you believe that anybody who disagrees with his plans before it afghanistan is going to war. but this would abandon afghanistan to the same extremists who launched the attacks on 9/11. i will weigh the best advice of our military commanders. host: governor romney laying out more of his foreign policy positions. guest: what governor romney said there at vmi is exactly what the obama administration is saying, and that is their policy. if governor romney thinks differently about how to wind down the war in afghanistan, he did not show up in the commons. guest: i think the argument that the romney camp is making his attack-based trade how did the obama administration telegraph the exit strategy so far out from one is going to take place? by doing that, as soon as the white house said we are definitely getting out in 2014, our european allies within 24 hours said, well

weeks ago there's a lengthy piece in "wall street journal" on mideast policy, last monday an address at vmi the need for a strategy, not just targeted killings but accept that we have extremist elements struggling with moderate elements. we should be using our strength and it's not just economic strength and military strength but our values and working with allies and has to be concerted and not been the case. secondly, as someone that served overseas who's been a chief of a mission, who served in some situations that have been of some danger such as darfur and sudan, i find it incredibly upsetting that the administration, the white house, the political operatives throw the intelligence community under the bus, throw the state department, security professionals under the bus. i think it's time to man up. accept some responsibility. >> all right. go ahead, general. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> general clark, go ahead. >> okay. first of all, i don't think the white house is throwing the -- anybody under the bus. i think what they're trying to do is explain exactl

then we got the governor, of course, speaking at vmi about foreign policy, an area for which a littleo take the campaign, at least before the debate. how ground moving is this? >> reporter: i don't think it's very ground moving. it's not what people will vote on. for romney it's an effort to press a leadership advantage which may be one of the things that move the numbers for him after the debate. he looks strong on the stage with president obama. he took the fight to obama. obama was a little bit more passive. but ultimately the economy, i believe, carl, is going to be what drives the result. >> if anyone who watched snl over the weekend knows the president wasn't that passive. thanks, john, we'll see you later, john harwood in washington. netflix is up 10%, 30% on the week, the street getting bullish on this name which has really gone on a tear. should you be a buyer? an analyst over as lasar and an analyst at pacific crest securities. guys good to see you both. >> good morning. >> let's start with you, barton. what explains the moves. we got some calls. today morgan stanley and ama