[ laughter ] second, find the biggest available straw man and mercilessly attack it. big bird didn t even see it coming. [ laughter ] and by the way, in the spirit of sesame street, the president s remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. that s pretty good. joining me now a man who was part of the team writing jokes for mitt romney, will ritter and david lynn, a former speech writer for president obama now head writer at funny or die d.c. nice to have both of you on. david, first of all do you think donald trump or hillary clinton has a sense of humor? everybody i know who knows hillary clinton personally says she is really funny in person. i don t know whether she is quite as comfortable telling jokes on stage as president obama but i think particularly tonight it s got to be a
we ve got lots to talk about. all right. senator, we thank you so much for joining us. i m going to have a plate of shaqaroni. [ laughter ] brian: it s soup! you can have a bowl, senator. thanks so much for joining us this morning. coming up on this show, they re putting politics before cancer. thousands of people boycotting the world s largest and best funded breast cancer foundation because an executive didn t want to donate to planned parenthood. that executive is here next. steve: first, on this day in history back in 1985, the number one song was take me on by aha. i remember this. i love the cartoon part [ male announcer ] how do you make america s favorite recipes? just begin with america s favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo.
unleashing a terror attack which was one of the streams of information they were receiving. the president actually mentioned terror on two successive days after september 11th. megyn: they were getting information that there was a militant terror attack underway that didn t have anything to do with the video. i don t think you rush to judgment like mitt romney does until you have all your duck nasa row. mitt romney immediately even before we knew about the death of the ambassador said we were siding with people who wanted to do us and meant us harm. he should be embarrassed by this and the people on the right are trying to use this for political purposes in the middle of an election season rather than gather together to do what is best for the security of the country. it s great spin, alan. no spin. i would argue that you pretending. i m not pretending. that this is in fact a political mood all listen to your own words, it s devine intervention for romney. megyn: let
was instigated by a video. what do you make of that? is that a bad game of telephone? of the message not being communicated directly, too much bureaucracy, what? no i think the intelligence was relayed directly. the think about the cia it can be a very simple organization. you collect the intelligence in the field. it gets reported through the channel. there is not a lot of wash put into the mix until it hits washington. once that raw streets intelligence gets into the mix in washington that s when all the editing and all the various agendas take place and you don t know what comes out the other side. frankly what came out of the other side i think, i believe, was a choice made by the white house to ignore or, basically just set aside the intelligence pointing to a planned, coordinated terrorist attack because it did not fit their agenda, didn t fit their agenda they went out with immediately it was spontaneous generation resulting from outrage over a video. jenna: you know the reaso
second, find the biggest available straw man and merselmercilessly attack him. big bird didn t even see it coming. by the way, in the spirit of sesame street the president s remarks brought to you by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. a lot more energy in the second debate. i felt well rested after the long nap in the first debate. the needle hasn t moved much from the vice presidential debate or the presidential debate so that makes the one monday in florida important. after the debate on foreign policy, they will wake up tuesday morningks from election day. bret: please tell me you re not wearing chaps. not tonight. thank you. both sides consider the female vote essential and target rich