than we just had. thank you, chuck todd. nothing nasty. no poison in the water here. coming up, pants on fire, the writer mary mccarthy once said of her rival, lillian helmand, every world she writes is a lie including "and" and "the." the same could be said of mitt romney about his new ads in ohio. you see the price of desperation here, dishonesty. the campaign crisis to the criticism? they keep running it. did climate change have something to do with hurricane sandy? freak storms happen all the time but this is precisely the kind of event scientists have been predicting to us for years. why would an eisenhower endorse democrat for president? susan eisenhower comes here to talk about. she's endorsing president obama again. does anyone really have a grip on who mitt romney is? this is "hardball," the place for politics. allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy,