this is "the war room." we will be right back.>"if you ever raise taxes on >>the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! >> jennifer: paul ryan was supposed to be campaigning in florida today, but he canceled his appearance because of hurricane sandy. the latest real clear politics poll average has mitt romney beating president obama in florida 49 to 46.6%. in palm beach county the same county that caused people to accidentally vote for pat buchanan. we have reports that election officials there actually screwed up again. i'm joined by chris lahan who was the spokesman for vice president gore's 2000 campaign. thanks for coming inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me. >> jennifer: so if they are messing up on the ballots, i'm sure it must be so embarrassing. >> yeah. in my view the election was effectively stolen, and now you are 12 years later in the exact same place having questions again. there are a large number of them who are jewish americans. some of them have been survivors of the holocaust, who tried t

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david, welcome back inside "the war room."l 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 killed because essentially, it is lawless. pe

tonight the war room goes operational. ♪ >> shock and yawn gives way to ground and pound. ter one of the most intense aerial bombardments in political history, the war for four more is placed in the hands of the foot soldier. the name of the game? sweat equity. both armies are on the march. the depth for passion, inspiring, and with dedication to purpose and belief in their cause, they call they mail they knock they rock! their mission, the four most important words in the political world, get out the vote. ♪ >> jennifer: the democratic army is on the march. we are fighting for every last county, every last precinct, every last vote. we're going into battle here people suit up and get ready to roll out. president obama is leading the charge, and he will being deployed to four states today. at 0800 he flew from washington, d.c. to davenport iowa then off to denver colorado, and from there on to los angeles to type the tonight show with jay leno. he has still got to head to nevada for another -- for another rally, and this one with a uso-like where indicate katery perry will

so glad to you have back inside "the war room." thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> jennifer: you bet. so salon is reporting that republicans plan to unleash that october offensive attacking the president as weak on national security and that they're going to allege that the obama administration had positive intelligence that there was going to be a terrorist attack in libya. is that attack going to work? >> not at all. in fact, what's interesting is in the last week, when the republicans have been doing trial balloons with this attack, the president's advantage on foreign policy has actually increased. in the battleground poll, it increased by a third. over this period in time. the president's credentials on foreign policy are well-established and what's different about the president and mitt romney is the president has a record and he doesn't play politics with foreign policy. and i think that provides a great deal of security to voters. voters also rank the president as ahead of mitt romney on strong leaders

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we already have a shrine to mitt's flips inside of "the war room."hink we have to build a barrel. so how is ry (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's politically direct. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? endless shrimp is our most popular promotion at red lobster. there's so many choices, the guests love it! [ male announcer ] don't miss endless shrimp, just $14.99! try as much as you like, anyway you like. like new teriyaki grilled shrimp. offer ends soon! my name is angela trapp, and i sea food differently. >> look these guys haven't been big on medicare from the beginning. and

welcome inside "the war room" professor. >> thank you very much. can i call you jennifer the way that sarah palin -- >> only if you wink when you do that. >> right. right. >> jennifer: you absolutely can, let's start with the candidate's weaknesses. you have said that president obama has several weaknesses. he may be overly cautious rusty, out of practice, and testy. any of those fatal flaws? >> not necessarily unless they are magnified in a way that make them a fatal flaw. but related that is this idea that i don't think he is that excited about being in the debate, and i think that's typical for a lot of candidates and yet that is a problem. because when you are happy to be there, that's when you turn in a good performance. it's when you are worried about feel like you are stepping through land mines that things can go wrong for you. >> jennifer: who wants to be in this high-risk, high-profile tense environment? nobody loves that. >> no, but i think certain people rise to the level of the performance. bill clinton you always got the feeling that

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connect with "the war room" jennifer granholm. >>it's a call to arms.ake your voice heard. >> jennifer: as promised we do have new polls. the first one is a blockbuster. the pew research center released its first post debate poll showing mitt romney with a lead over likely voters nationwide. the poll has romney receiving 49% compared to president obama's 45%. just last week the same survey showed the president up by eight points. in colorado where the debate was held, a university of denver poll shows the president leading 47 to 43%. that's right at the poll's four-point margin of error. in virginia the president is leading 50-47%. that's the narrowist lead seen in a ppp poll so far. and the president now has a 2 percentage point lead. romney has gained 5 percentage points in wisconsin. and all eyes will be on that state later this week for the vice presidential debate. joining us now are two of my favorite guests, democratic strategist and syndicated columnist karl frisch and michelle bernard the president and ceo of bernard center for women, politics

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that story is next only on "the war room."om, said... [ voice of dennis ] ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident-free... ...but i'm a woman. maybe it's a misprint. does it look like a misprint? ok. what i was trying... [ voice of dennis ] silence. ♪ ♪ ask an allstate agent about the safe driving bonus check. are you in good hands? >> jennifer: you're back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer granholm, and now to an update on republican operative nathan sproul. you remember him, he's public enemy number one when it comes to disenfranchising democratic voters. remember this video of one his workers saying she could only register republicans? >> who are you registering? all voters? >> i'm actually trying to register people for a particular party. we're out here in support of romney, actually. >> and who is paying you for this? >> let's see, we're working for the county clerk's office. >> all right. you cannot come out here and register one party, lady. >> jennifer: now the karl rove super pac

we already have a shrine to mitt's flips inside of "the war room."nk we have to build a barrel. so how is ryan's malarkey? we'll get our shovels next right here in "the war room." 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's politically direct. >> look these guys haven't been big on medicare from the beginning. and they have always been about social security as little as you can do. look, folks use your common sense. who do you trust on this? a man who introduced a bill that would raise it $6,400 a year knowing it, and passing it and romney saying he would sign it or me and the president? >> jennifer: i just loved that moment. in that was vice president biden taking congressman ryan to task. according to factcheck.org congressman ryan's approach to medicare . . . couldn't have said it better myself. now to look ahead to tuesday's faceoff is katrina vanden h

brian welcome inside "the war room." >> thank you very much.ight i say to you, thank you so much for joining us in the commonwealth and virginia democrats would love to have you return as soon as possible. >> jennifer: well, thank you. when i was there two weekends ago there was a lot of great energy with these polls that have come out since being a bit of a mixed bag. i'm wondering if you can tell our viewers what is the vealing on the ground? >> it continues to be very exciting. just to follow up on your presentation. all along we have felt confident in virginia because of the grown game. we have a superior ground game. it is the largest we have ever seen in virginia history. it actually surpasses that in 2008. so we feel real good. we are located in every region of virginia and almost every community of the commonwealth. we have personnel, volunteers so we are getting the vote out and we'll deliver on november 6th for the president. >> jennifer: all right. we're counting on you, man, as you know. i know virginia does have a phenomenal organi

thanks so much for joining us inside "the war room." big debate lie is so outrageous, it actually makes my eyes twitch when i hear it. so i apologize for that beforehand. >> jennifer: all right tonight we're taking apart mitt's debate lies. here's lie number four, one that really makes my eyes twitch or my blood boil, pick your condition. his comment about clean energy investment. >> romney: i think about half of them -- of the ones that have been invested in have gone to business. a number happen to be owned by people who are contributors to your campaigns. >> jennifer: not true. here's the reality of the 26 winners of the department of energy loan guarantees, three of the companies have failed. three out of 26. not even come close to half and those three companies got less than 2% of the total clean energy investment according to "the new york times" and bloomberg news. much better than a venture capital record would ever find but then of course in typical romney style his campaign admitted only afterward that their candidate had actu

it is tuesday night in "the war room." the fun is jusususususususususususususususususususususususususus build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you've ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display... [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash give it park assist. the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home his work here is done. destroy time machine. win some awards, send in brady. that's how you do it. easy. >> obama: governor romney, i'm glad that you recognize that al-qaeda was a threat. because a few months ago when you were asked what the biggest geopolitical threat facing america was russia. in the 1980s or now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> jennifer: that was one of president obama's sharper barbs from last night's debate wi

great to have you back inside "the war room." >> thanks, jennifer.to be with you. >> jennifer: curious what was your reaction when you heard mitt romney had yet another change of heart. >> i wouldn't characterize it as that, i would characterize it as sometimes you have to explain yourself better, it's always dangerous when you explain yourself -- when you are explaining you are losing but it seems to be a clear differentiation where mr. romney made it very clear, there is a difference in people who don't support you electorally, there are places where i didn't get support -- >> what? >> i know it's shocking. and i dare say during your time as governor there were people who weren't supporting you, but you chose to be governor of all of the people. >> jennifer: i totally hear you. that's what he should have been saying. but there were conservative numbers in the republican party who actually did support mitt romney's 47% remarks when they first came out. some people are saying yeah that's the mitt romney we thought we elected. so how does that play wi

someone is always in our war room. check us out online at current.com/war room.where you can link up to our twitter and facebook page and check out our exclusive web extras. you all, thank you so much for joining us here in "the war room" from new york, and i hope you have a great night. go tigers. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> romney: mr. president, have you looked at your pension? >> i don't look at your pension. it's not as big as yours. it wouldn't take as long. >> cenk: damn, and did mitt romney get frazzled when things didn't go his way? >> romney: how much did you cut licenses and permits on federal lands and federal waters. >> obama: governor romney, this is what we did. >> romney: i asked you a question, how much did you cut that by. >> cenk: guess who is here to

kiki thank you to suchmor joining us inside "the war room."mitt romney's momentum, and i really hate even saying that -- how is that momentum translating in swing states? (vo) what is said here could decide the election. current tv presents coverage of the vice 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. >> so keep on tweeting and maybe you'll have your voice be part of this democracy and see your tweets up on our screen. >>now that's politically direct. cu >> jennifer: you're back inside "the war room," i'm jennifer grandholm. both president obama and governor romney are pulling out all of the stops to win colorado's nine electoral votes. the latest poll from american research group has romney leading 50% to 46%. last month the same survey had obama leading. so here is david sirota who is author of "back to our future," and cohost of a radio show. and he really

michael nutter enters "the war room" to see where republicans are waging a war on cities in america.s it will be a knockdown braggout bare-knuckle brawl, at least i hope it is. we'll get you good and ready for tomorrow night's veep debate. and details on mitt romney's latest flip flop and why i want you to hear about it. and why i think you're going to hear about it hopefully tomorrow night. it's wednesday night in "the war room." we'll be right back. outrage that they're doing this, this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>i think that's an understatement, eliot. u>> i'm not prone tot. understatement, so explain to me why that is. i think the mob learned from wall st., not vice versa. [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. also in minis. you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather

thank you for joining us in "the war room." >> good to see you have. looking good. >> jennifer: well, thank you. >> and we miss you in the midwest. >> jennifer: i miss the great lakes. any way, i would wax on but considering today's arrests pat, how desperate is the situation in freeport? >> i think anybody who is working and raising a family is sympathetic to the people of sensata. i know doth turner started there when she was 17 or 18 years old, she is 61 and they are forced to train the chinese workers who will take their jobs. and i feel the people of freeport, illinois, and america are on the side of these 170 america workers, and to let the tax code of our countries to help move these jobs to other countries is unamerica. >> jennifer: i agree. do you think the president was effective last night. >> yeah i think we should point out bain capital is doing this. in fact freeport is being called bainport now. we should stop this tax subsidies for american companies shipping jobs to china or elsewhere overseas and i thought the president did a very goo

michael nutter enters "the war room" to see where republicans are waging a war on cities in america.s it will be a knockdown braggout bare-knuckle brawl, at least i hope it is. we'll get you good and ready for tomorrow night's veep debate. and details on mitt romney's latest flip flop and why i want you to hear about it. and why i think you're it's go time. what time is it rob? oh, then it's go. go. go. go time. anybody? anybody? what time is it? oh, right. go time! endless shrimp is our most popular promotion at red lobster. there's so many choices, the guests love it! [ male announcer ] don't miss endless shrimp, just $14.99! try as much as you like, anyway you like. like new teriyaki grilled shrimp. offer ends soon! my name is angela trapp, and i sea food differently. i can't stand these spots. those spots are actually leftover food and detergent residue that can redeposit on your dishware during the rinse cycle. gross. jet-dry rinse agent helps wash them away so the only thing left behind is the shine. jet-dry rinses away residues for a sparkling shine. right by those who gave th

thank you both for being inside "the war room" with me tonight.how everything has changed since the first presidential kaili. the women's numbers have changed. i don't know why. they didn't speak about women very much at that debate. >> i think that's exactly it. women want to know that they're more than just some afterthought, some special interest. that you need to do more than "i love women" like ann romney did at the republican national convention. when the president talks to women and talks about women and talks about the things he's done for women, women respond to that positively and when he forgets to talk about that, they don't respond as well. so i think that's why we saw the numbers change after the first debate. >> you know, for getting the response -- forgetting the response for a moment, the idea that this has been the year of the woman voter. more so than we've seen it before, you know, since they actually marched in the streets. since they got the vote. what i -- what puzzles me though is if that was the case then and you had peopl

. >> bob, we're going to play a sound bite from jamie dimon later saying they're preparing a war room the fiscal cliff. i got to think that the ceo of a bank like jpmorgan saying they're preparing a war room can't be positive for the stock market. >> well, i think most traders are betting that somehow the fiscal cliff is going to get resolved. i don't think that's the major issue for the stock market right now. i think ron is absolutely right. short interest comes out every two weeks here. short interest is near multiyear lows right now. it's not because anybody's in love with the stock market. a lot of people hate it. shorting the market has been a disastrous strategy this year. >> bob, lets play that sound bite and see if you're still convinced. here it is. >> we have -- we're forming now a fiscal cliff war room, command center, and all that kind of stuff, going through to make sure we understand all of it. we'll be prepared. i mean, jpmorgan will survive a fiscal cliff. i just think it's terrible policy to allow it to get close. >> ron, when a major bank is preparing a war room for

thanks for joining us here on "the war room." one month until the election. please register to vote. have a great night and we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." a speck for is haunting mitt romney courtesy of the obama campaign. it is 8'2" tall and covered with yellow feather. more on that in a moment. first, the cnn poll showed if the election were held today, likely voters would favor obama over romney by just four points. while ohio has obama ahead by just one point. earlier today romney campaigned in iowa where he tried to appeal to the farm vote. >> romney: i will do everything in my power to strengthen once again the american farm the family farm strengthen our economy. >> eliot: but as romney spoke a plane flu over head that said crack down on wall street not sesame street. they are trying to exploit romney's promise to end government support with public television with that banner and this ad. >> big yellow a menace to our economy, mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to

and host of "the war room," and comedian and political commentator, john fugelsang.e are here covering the debate. you'll see the stage in denver there. you see all of their supporters and friends and the folks who are gathered in the denver area for this debate. milling around waiting for the event to start. here on current, we're going to do something different from what the other networks are doing. we're in a new era now. i'm going to ask cenk uygur to tell you how social media plays into our coverage and the difference it makes in politics in this day and time. >> cenk: absolutely. i'm really looking forward to this debate. you are going to see all of the tweets and get instant fact checking from both sides. in the old school they would spin it right after the debate. all you have to do is stay right here and you will see both sides putting things out there in the middle of the debate. so it will be really interesting to watch it right here on current. and we have michael shure in the war room in san francisco, and he'll break down some of the electoral possibil

>> jennifer: well, thank you all for joining us here on "the war room." 33 days until the election. get out register and vote if you're an early voting state. we'll see you tomorrow night. >> eliot: good evening. i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." the first presidential debate of the 2012 campaign is over. president obama could be forgiven if he wanted to press the reset button. the candidates were all smiles as they came out shook hands in denver last night but when the 90-minute debate was over, mitt romney was the only contender with a reason to keep smiling. according to a cnn poll, 67% of adults thought romney won the debate compared to just 25% who picked the president. 46% of undecided voters in a cbs poll gave the win to romney to just 22% for mr. obama. nearly a third of the undecideds were undecided. romney's positive rating rose above 50% for the first time in this campaign in a reuters poll. the president's ratings stayed unchanged at 56%. romney stayed on the attack even though his positions were to be charitable and flatly untrue. here's some of what he said ab

be much more that you are missing about what goes on behind the curtains deep within the campaign war rooms we often make mention of how dark pools and algorithmic trading have changed the dynamic of market making and financial markets it seems similarly what you could call algorithmic campaigning has changed the dynamics of what it means to campaign and elect a president in the u.s. just like the markets are not of the same scale there is big money at stake the washington post reports between obama romney and the super pacs that support them and they're on track to spend more than two billion dollars by election day what is data mining and behavioral sciences do to enable campaigns to spend this money and what's going on in the presidential candidate al gore wars well joining me now is sasha issenberg journalist and he wrote the book on this he's author of the victory lab which is really interesting and i'm so excited to talk to him all about it so thank you so much for being here on the show great book thanks for having me on but yeah so let's kind of take this from a bigger picture persp

we have a whole bunch more in "the war room" tonight.0 eastern, and we'll hopefully see you there. >> eliot: we'll be watching. more "viewpoint" coming up next. our conversation is with you the viewer because we're independent. >>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." >>questions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >> eliot: mitt romney returns. behind the bellicose language hid narry nearly a meaningful policy suggestion nearly a series of bromides. governor romney repeatedly praised george marshall, a graduate of vim, where romney delivered his speech for the vision wisdom and leadership that gave birth to the marshall plan. we all know the bold series of expenditures by the united states during the period from 1948 to 51 addition to the $13 billion stent by the u.s. in direct aid to europe between the end of the war and the initiation of the marshall plan rebuilt europe's economy. and they soon joined us in nato and became in aggregate the largest economy in the world. w

but right now let's check in with jennifer granholm in "the war room." what have you got for us tonight. >> jennifer: tonight we're going to do some myth busting or better put mitt busting romney claims the president will lie in the debates but we have done some fact checking. if there is anyone who has run fast and loose with the truth it's romney in the campaign. we'll get analysis and pre-debate strategy with alan schroeder, the author of " "presidential debates: 5 years of high-risk tv." that's right here right in "the war room"." >> eliot: that sounds great. we'll be watching. thanks our conversation is with you the viewer because we're independent. >>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." >>questions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. a. >> eliot: the supreme court starts a new term today, beginning a year that will perhaps force it's resolve issues as diverse as the constitutionality of affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and range of fourth amendment issues that have percolated

bigger picture perspective because i don't cover politics i've never covered a campaign i've seen the war room though and i've seen depictions of what campaign headquarters should be like according to my idea of them but is this a little similar to the new york stock exchange floor where trading to the really go on there anymore it's not the full picture well i think that we look at the wrong people if we're looking at the war room or we're following the types of people end up on cable t.v. talking about the campaigns on behalf the candidates every day they serve a whole new rank of geeks who are doing this a data mining what people should generically call micro-targeting which is using individual level data on voters running events at the school models to come up with sort of predictive judgments about how every one of the hundred seventy million potential voters in this country is is likely to behave on election day and the people who are doing that work in campaign and running these basically behavioral science experiments from from within campaigns are thinking about the electorate a much

>> well, we don't call it a war room. what we call it is just good risk management.ots of risk out there in the financial services industry. we've seen a lot of them -- >> but are you stepping it up for this event? possible event. >> no, not at all. not that we're not concerned about it, but it's part of our general risk management practice. >> very good. tim, good to see you again. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you, bill. thank you. >> you bet. tim sloan, cfo of wells fargo. >> so are you better off buying shares of wells fargo or the other big banks reporting earnings today? jpmorgan chase, the other big bank. that trade is next. >>> with so many minutes left to go here, about 40 minutes left, i'm still thinking about the war room on the fiscal cliff. we have the dow up four points. maybe we will finish positive for the first time this week. >> that big, toothy grin from joe biden last night, didn't that steal the show during the vice presidential debate? our political pundits and cable talking heads paying too much attention to the debating sty

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but first let's check in with jennifer granholm in "the war room."u got for us tonight? >> jennifer: thanks, eliot. foreign policy has moved back in the focus of the presidential debate. we'll have that, and then autism is a massive problem in america. we'll exam the immense social consequences. we'll have that and more inside "the war room" at 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> eliot: sounds great. i look forward to if you have an opinion, you better back it up. >>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix. >>now it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. 1cccm01724

joining us inside the war room 13 days until election. employees cast that ballot have a great night, and we'll see you here tomorrow. ♪ iewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. see you tomorrow. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this "viewpoint." what is it that some republicans senate candidates don't understand about abortion and rape? plenty. as in ugly new battlefield on the war on women showed last night, and the time could not be worse for mitt romney. comments when an abortion appropriate came into a debate for indiana candidate for senate richard mourdock against democrat joe donnelly. they both say they're pro-life. richard mourdock said this. >> the i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that god intended to happen. >> eliot: some republicans backed off michigan quickly. mike pens has urged richard mourdock to apologize. and others say quote richard mourdock's comments damage all republicans especially romney as the fight for the women's vote intensifies.

is separated madison said the give the power in a legislator because executives are so prone to war room want to divide that power play and very concerned beginning a new war. going to the last decade i will do whatever possible to make sure there is a debate and the senate and congress if people want to do that again. >> host: did your endorsement cause any familial strife? [laughter] >> some of my dad supporters were not happy. my dad and i always get along. he was well-informed it was coming and we waited until his campaign did not have the delegates. please -- the numbers are done by some supporters and already to admit the numbers are sufficient to seven your father's political costs of the i's will know what percentage do share? >> overall we believe in limited government, original interpretation of the constitution but there are issues coming from this a foundation you will disagree. they still let me come home for thanksgiving. i can sit at the adult table most of the time. >> host: what is your standing with the republican party in washington? >> guest: okay. i try not to insult

everybody thanks for joining us in "the war room." 32 days until the election and we will see you here on monday. >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer, and this is "viewpoint." the september jobs report is in. and the numbers are better than expected. way better. the unemployment rate below 8% for the first time since january 2009. it's good news for president obama, after his underwhelming performance in wednesday' debate. and bad news for mitt romney, and his conspiracy-minded supporters on the republican right. more on that in a moment. according to the bureau of labor statistics, unemployment dropped to 7.8% last month down .3 of a percent since august. employers added 114,000 new jobs. including 104 in the private sector and 10,000 in the public sector which had seen months of steady decline. in july's number revised to 181,000 with an additional 40,000 new jobs. president obama shared the news with a cheering crowd at a campaign appearance in fairfax virginia. >> obama: this morning we found out that the unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest level since i office. but to

those affected but the cdc is working around the clock tracking the infections with their meningitis war room. >> well, i don't think we can say for sure exactly when we'll be out of the woods. the longer we get away from the outbreak and the less cases we see, that will be a positive sign for us. but, again, this is a new phenomenon. we encourage patients to be vigilant for some months following exposure to one of these medications. >> nearly 200 people across the land have contracted the strand. if you need more information, including a list of the symptoms to watch out for and we'll have a map of the locations, just head to abc2news.com and head to the featured story on the home page. >>> a south baltimore man is dead after a police car struck him early sunday. initial reports suggest the car had on its emergency lights and siren. one witness suggests otherwise. jeff hager joins us with more. >> reporter: a shooting during a home ininvestigation robbery sent a wave of police cars to brooklyn in the wee hours of the morning. efforts to save one man's life may have caused the life of another

governor jennifer granholm, the host of war room.nkthank you for being here tonight tonight. >> eliot: we have "viewpoint" up next. from silver screens... to flat screens... twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. >> eliot: coming up, how much will richard mourdock's comments hurt mitt romney among female voters, but first jimmy fallen on monday's debate and a musical tribute to the great swing state of florida. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder viewfinder. >> experts are saying that the election may be decide by one or two key swing states, including as usual, the state of florida ♪ florida ♪ it might be you ♪ can we trust you ♪ to make a stand ♪ you're a state ♪ full of great people ♪ we see you in the news" >> when mitt romney hired a pilot to fly a thermal ship that looks like a blimp the idea was to get publicity but not this kind. >> first the gone doe la struck and then it deflated. ♪ it's up to you ♪ florida ♪ ♪ >> a giant image of mitt romney's face hover

later tonight in "the war room," governor jennifer granholm will find out if last night's debate changedjectory of the swing state and national polls with stat maven and nate silver when he brings his latest analysis into "the war room." that's later tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. more "viewpoint" coming up ahead. the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. >> eliot: tuesday night at the fillmore auditorium in denver, i have the unique experience of debating glenn beck. for me, this was like waiting until the belly -- wading in the belly of the beast and the several hundred people in the audience were devout beck fans, many of them card carrying members of the tea party. what i realized during my exchanges with them and beck was that these folks are in a fact-free zone. its my best to bring facts into the debate and in place of facts, beck came with libertarian rhetoric and some random quotations from the founding fathers that he tried to pass off as historical knowledge. >> i don't think we're getting the truth from our politicians. i don't think we're getting the

i mean, you know, having -- doing the "war room" we are looking all the time at what history bears. particular case, we had six presidential debates befo before -- in the first time that an incumbent president appeared on a debate stage with a challenger, they would lose. five out of six of the time. i knew that that coming in was going to be a problem for him, but also, he's rusty. he hadn't debated on that national stage and, of course, mitt romney is a really good debater. however, i predict that in the second debate, the president's going to win. >> all right. okay. we'll take that one to the bank. meantime, pick unyour phone. could be your boss, al gore. ms. granholm, good to talk to you. >> i got to go answer my phone now, so, i've got to go. >> thanks, jennifer. >>> of course, another look ahead to tonight, catch all the action, the debate live right here on cnn. coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> back after this. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's he

. >>> with the meningitis outbreak spreading, federal health officials are opened a war room to keep track of the cases. the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta opened this emergency operations center. 215 people are sick, and 15 others have died from meningi s meningitis, including a patient in both maryland and virginia. the food and drug administration is investigating whether drugs given to patients after eye or heart surgery could be part of this outbreak. steroids for back pain distributed by a massachusetts pharmacy are already under suspicion. >>> this morning police are trying to figure out who killed a man in prince george's county. officers found the victim yesterday at a home on 25th avenue in temple hills, not far from oxon run drive. investigators are not releasing specifics on how the victim died, only saying that he suffered trauma to the upper body. we're told he died after being taken to an area hospital. >>> the trial continues today for two prince george's county police officers accused in the beating of a former university of maryland student. r

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