laughter but given obamas Foreign Policy record, this debate is going to be a bloodbath. I congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden. Drones are being used in drone strikes and i support that entirely. And feel the president was right. I want to underscore the same point the president made. I felt the same as the president did. I supported his action there. Absolutely the right thing to do to have crippling sanctions. cheers and applause jon i think romneys leaning obama laughter apparently romney is one of this years coveted swing voters. Look, how closely did mitt romney align himself with what had, i guess up until last night, been the worst Foreign Policy ever . Listen to these guys duet on syria. I believe that assad must go. Assad has to go. I dont want to have our military involved in syria. For us to get more entangled militarily in syria is a serious step. So the right course for us is working through our partners in consultation with our partners to identify responsible parties within syria. Mobilizing the moderate forces. Organize them. Helping the operation organize. We need to make sure making absolutely certain that they dont have arms arms . The wrong hands. To hurt us down the road. . both together thank you. cheers and applause jon wow, what the hell was that . On Foreign Policy it appears that all thats left for the president ial race is this one model. I mean, at least we still get our choice of color but its the same model laughter what the hells romney up to . The whole debate was a tour of bizarro land. Heres romney on the afghanistan withdrawal. Well, were going to be finished by 2014 and when im president well make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014. Jon 2014 withdrawal date no matter what thats Barack Obamas plan laughter the weird part is, it never used to be romneys. Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The taliban may not have watches but they do have calendars. Jon calendars . I meant colanders. They have colanders. laughter and did i say withdrawal date was wrong . I meant right laughter how about iraq . Governor romney, was the war in iraq a good idea worth the cost in blood and treasure we have spent . It was the right decision to go into iraq. I supported it at the time; i support it now. Jon but do you support it laughter . Now . We dont want another iraq. We dont want another afghanistan. Thats not the right course for us. Well, i guess thats not a flipflop so much as a principled recognition because of the iraq wars current unpopularity. laughter you know what . Iraq and afghanistan those are yesterdays wars. Its tomorrows war that counts and if theres anything governor romney has been vociferous about lo these past 18 months it is his uncompromising belief that its time to rattle our sabers at iran. This is a president who should have instead communicated to iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options, theyre not just on the table, they are in our hands. The president should have built credible threat of military action. When they see our military option in our hand, a possible blockade or aerial strikes they recognize we mean business. Jon we mean business mother bleep laughter blockade aerial strikes. Pew pew were going to get you, iran all right. So heres your chance to contrast obamas appeasement through diplomacy with your freedom through strength. Its also essential for us to understand what our mission is in iran and that is to dissuade iran from having a Nuclear Weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able tone joy their lives and know theyll have a bright and prosperous future and not be at war. I want to see peace. laughter jon get a hair cut, hippy. laughter and applause governor romney appears cheers and applause governor romney appears to have made the calculated decision that his bellicose and hawkish performances in the republican primaries would be less appreciated by the normals. But heres the crazy part. After basically casting off what were months and weeks ago his bedrock principles and beliefs to copy obamas policy position in a transparently cynical appeal to undecided, guess which quality romney chose to highlight as the difference between the two men . Leadership. We should be playing the leadership role. America must lead. We need strong leadership. Real leadership. Id like to be that leader. Follow me ill be right behind the president laughter and applause ive got to say, by the end of last night i was beginning to worry we were in some kind of freaky friday situation where barack obama they somehow peed in the same fountain and switched bodies or just laughter . Remember two weeks ago when romney was the one who was all confident and staring daggers at obama and the president was looking at some rapturous dreamland that only he could see . laughter well, last night it was obama delivering the death stare while romney suddenly found something on his podium incredibly fascinating. laughter and thats not all. Obama who, as we all remember, was bleep ing asleep during the first debate was hitting romney left and right with the zingers. Well, governor romney is right, you are familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because you invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas. Jon boom you mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. cheers and applause . Jon bam the biggest geopolitical threat facing america you said russia. Not al qaeda, you said russia. And the 1980s are calling to ask for their Foreign Policy back. laughter and applause . Jon well, that was a little hackie. I mean that was that was a it will roasty. I wouldnt bleep your Foreign Policy with margaret thatchers bleep , come on Hickory Dickory dock, your geopolitical understanding can suck my laughter sorry. Thats no, please dont because then ill do it again some night. laughter so the president had a good night. Must have felt pretty confident because he was letting his professor or yall side shine through. Especially when it came to one country. Weve created partnerships throughout the region to deal with extremism. In somalia, in yemen, in pakistan. Jon what . Really . laughter pahkeestahn . Really . Suddenly youre a guy whos desperate to prove you once roomed with a Foreign Exchange student . laughter look, this is america, we dont use the pronunciation locally. We dont say mayheeco or frahnce. Mexico, france. Pakistan. laughter all in all last night made a fine conclusion, though, to the trillltrilogy of debates betweee two candidates eager acceptance of remote controlled hellfire drones to achieve that end. We learned mitt romney has basically come around to Barack Obamas position on Foreign Policy and Barack Obamas come around to the bush administrations policy on aggression overseas but dont worry, people. The Foreign Policy debate of the three debates i assume this will be the least watched of the three. So many voters in recent polls have said they dont care anything about Foreign Policy. Yes or no, this debate matter . I dont think so. laughter jon well be right back. cheers and applause cheers and applause . Jon with the third debate out of the way campaign now enters its final phase so we turn to john oliver and aasif mandvi, theyve been following the two campaigns. Time for the end game. Gentlemen, how are you . cheers and applause you two have been on the bus with both campaigns. These campaigns are finally making their closing statements of this election. John oliver, lets start with you. What is obama campaigns closing speech and pitch to the American People . Simply this, john. The obama camp feels the choice is simple. Maybe obama hasnt been the president you wanted him to be. Perhaps he didnt meet the High Expectations he set himself. But the other guy, jon, is a total dick cheers and applause i mean that. Jon, hes a sixfoot shaft with tiny ballses for feet. He may not fire you himself but you know that when hes looking at you hes unemploying you with his eyes. cheers and applause now, if you will excuse me, jon, im going to stare at aasif while hes talking, thereby dominating him visually. laughter . Jon well, all right, seems like a relatively lowbrow Closing Argument from the obama campaign. Aasif, youve been with the romney campaign. Whats their Closing Argument . Well, what do you want it to be . laughter cheers and applause look, jon, um, mitt romney has been running for president for seven years. These are two short weeks left in the campaign. The polls are narrowing in key states. He just needs to pick up a few more votes to lock this thing down. So at this point, he really wants to know what individuals think so he can think it, too. Because, jon, he really, really wants to be president. cheers and applause jon that does seem like if i may say so, and i dont and i see what youre doing there, john. A breath takingly cynical tactic. You think so . laughter jon i do. Well, then mitt romney does, too cheers and applause he always has since day one. Oh, come on, jon, hes just being a dick im telling you, salt and pepper pubic hair. Real dick real dick jon i hate to say this but by calling everyone a dick all the time i think the obama campaigns Closing Argument comes across a little dickish, quite frankly. No, no, no, you cant call them a dick for calling out a dick, jon. You cant call doubledick. laughter you cant do it. Thats ri ridiculous. It is ridiculous, jon. Its not the kind of values governor romney grew up with as a lost jewish kid in central jersey. Jon what . Wait what . Governor romney learned during his days listening to Bruce Springsteen in a jon what . In a haze of pot smoke dreaming of becoming a stand up comedian. Jon oh, my god thats just like my life. I didnt know romney was so relatable jon, you see what hes doing this isnt a question of romneys biography, this is about hard experience. Youve heard the president , hes been everywhere. From pahkeestahn, to braseeo, to southern accent South Carolina and of course southern accent australia. Jon laughs thats how australians say australia . They do if theyre from South Carolina, jon, yes. Jon pronouncing these different regions like youre a sophomore just back from a semester abroad is pretentious. Its a little dickish. Jon, this is no time for name calling and, in fact, governor romney understands john olivers frustration. laughter its a feeling thats been nagging at him since he was a scrappy little street rat selling papers for tuppence in chittany square. Can. laughter cheers and applause jon what . in a cockney accent thats the life wot i lived romney for presisi cheers and applause . Jon welcome back. My guest tonight, his new fame is called chasing mavericks. I want to ride that wave. I want to that i can that drop. Its not gonna happen. Why not . Because untrained boys dont step in the ring with mike tyson, thats why. I can handle it you dont just do it. Buddy, ive been surfing that break for 20 years. Do you have any idea how much strength and know how you need to survive a break like that . Im getting stronger by the day. Ill hold my own. Stronger by the day, huh . Okay, gave me your hand. Now resist me. Okay . No, youre not jon oh, im sorry. laughter please welcome Gerard Butler cheers and applause jon nice to see you. cheers and applause i guess my first thing im going say to you is this grab my hand. laughter resist me, butler those arent hands theyre like bleep ing meat hooks, jesus whats happening . Nothing, man, just i just realized how much i missed my hair. I mean its jon oh, is that true. Yeah, it doesnt really look like it was, my hair. Jon you like it more flowing, a little more bravehearty. As much t as it looked bleached as hell but it was a fun cut. Jon jon let me ask you this. Did you do the things you wanted to do with your hair when it was that long or no . Did you get a convertible and drive like this . laughter i mop it had bathroom floor with it. Jon see, im the opposite. When i get a hair cut now i feel liberated. I feel when i my hair gets too long and i get it cut i feel like oh, now, going attack the day. Maybe its a i have what do you call it osteoporosis so i dont have the bone density that a long hair laughter . Youre a haler figure, perhaps. I dont know, maybe. Jon i can bleep ing talk about this the whole time. Im not going to it will you off the hook at this. Well, youre right, theres something very freeing about getting it shaved off. I was just watching that there going oh, god, i had long hair once. Jon let me ask you a question. Weve got a monitor there. Give me a quick butler single. cheers and applause let me ask you this. Do you think to yourself nice . laughter do you ever think to yourself id hit that. Id hit that. laughter i do frequently. laughter laugh. cheers and applause jon give me my single. Is that skin cancer . What is that . laughter id hit that, too. Jon thank you, i appreciate it, its very unhittable. I know everybodys asking you about. This theyre doing this surfing film. Do we have the footage of him in this crazy all right, so hes out the red board there. Jon watch this. This is insane. Now watch how high the water suddenly comes audience reacts how high is that . Thats over 30 feet. Jon thats a 30foot wave and youre underneath it. And when the camera comes look at that. Its like three miles of coastline and its just everythings wiped out. Jon everythings wiped out. What were you doing out there . laughter it does seem like a logical question. I was asking the same thing when i saw that wave coming and i knew there was no escape i thought how the bleep did i end up out here . Jon were they filming . Was that being we were filming at the time. We were in the middle of filming, wed gone closer into the rocks and were just were getting ready for something and we just saw this huge set of waves coming in and it was like watching a tsunami and they start going jon its 30 feet of water. Thats a three story wave. And when youre underneath it, how long are you under there . Well, i was i had whats called a twoway hole bank. Some people dont make it through. Those waves theres 18, 20 seconds between them. Plus they take you with them. So youre underwater going along with the waves and i didnt make it back up for the next one and i had already been paddling and trying to get out of the way. So i was exhausted by the time that wave hit. Jon who got did you pop up . How did you get out . Did somebody reach down and grab you . Like what do you remember getting out . Were you yeah, no, i came up and i went oh, christ. Then i saw the next wave coming and i was like oh, not again and one t guy who taught me e to surf was there on a jetski and he came over but the look on fear on his face thats when i realized how bleep . laughter and i few he wasnt scared for himself but it was like jon sure, she had a jetski exactly. Yeah. Oh, nice one, you get the jetski so he had to turn around because the wave was coming and he left. laughter and im like all right, here comes the next one. And it took me down again. And then i came up again and then one of the surrers who was maybe over 30 yards away, it was all blurry now and i think hes saying calm down, youll be all right. And im thinking im not all right. So now im at the rocks and the next wave came and took me down again. And finally i came up and grant came in and he grabbed me in. Jon i thought you were going to say and then a giant boot came down and stepped on me. laughter at that point did they say like hey, wheres gerards stunt double . Like, did they get somebody . laughter yeah. The Insurance Company stepped in and did that. Gerard, stay on the shore. Jon unbelievable. Well, it didnt hurt the money maker, youre still rocking the good stuff, baby. applause youve got to see some of this stuff. The wave footage is ridiculous. Chasing mavericks is in the theaters on friday. Gerard butler. cheers and applause jon thats our show, here it is, your moment of zen. What did you think about mitt romney this evening . Go . I think he was assertive, confident and hungry for the job. I found him to be more human and relatable tonig captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing cheers and applause audience chanting Stephen Stephen welcome to the report. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us in here out there. Im sure you can tell by that chanting this crowd has gotten c oshslbmentum. laughter ladies and gentlemen, last night was the third and final president ial debate. It threw muchneed attention to two key domestic issues, monday night football and the National League championship. laughter as you remember, folks, the first debate was a blowout win for romney. The second debate also happened. laughter so lets get the truth of night three in Stephen Colberts debate 2012 coverage