reporter: mitt romney went to church but this sunday wasn t a day just for prayers. it s preparation. cramming by the candidates for their big debate. and republican chris christie made a bold prediction on abc s this week. every time mitt romney has been confronted in this campaign with one of these moments, he has come through in the debate and performed extraordinarily well so i have absolute confidence thursday morning you ll shake your head saying it s a brand-new race. reporter: christie is way off the romney campaign script. they re trying to lower expectations. look, president obama is a very he s a very gifted speaker. the man has been on the national stage for many years. this is mitt s first time on this kind of stage. reporter: paul ryan, the vice presidential nominee preparing for his own debate avoided giving details much the tax plan even when pressed. haven t given me the math. i don t have the it would take me too long to go through all of
if we had not been part of that council, again, which many people objected to, we wouldn t have been able to have taken that action. also u.s. in another news report, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. human rights council eileen chamberlain donna who said, took a strong position, and she made the statement, the united states on monday urged the united nations human rights council in geneva to stop its biased treatment of israel. it took particularly issue with agenda item 7 on which and this is something i ve been complaining about. as long as i ve been on this session. every single session the united states council has put an item on it, on their agenda with regard to israel, and, she said, the united states continues to be deeply troubled by the council s bias and disproportionate focus on israel, as exemplified by the standing agenda item. i think it s very important that the united states became part of this council, and i want to applaud the secretary of state and your
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later from the national press foundation we ll hear from eric schmidt of google and chris wallace of fox news. this weekend on the presidency on american history tv think of the fdr memorial. it wasn t just three redesigns. it was three-plus designs before they got to a final plan. and so i think that we shouldn t be afraid of looking at this issue because we are building something for the centuries. and we want to get it right. with the eisenhower memorial designed by frank gehry opposed by the family, a house subcommittee discussed the planned memorial to our 34th president. watch sunday at 7:30 p.m. eastern and pacific. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. epa administrator lisa jackson testifies next on her agency s 2013 budget request. the epa is asking for $8.3 billion. that s a 1.2% decrease from current levels. senator barbara boxer of california chairs this 90-minute environment committee hearing. good morning. i d lik