long. as howard fineman said, it looked like the secret service would jump in. what messages standed with voters? back with us, senior instructor, chris olrich. how are you? great. thank you for having me back. sure. we saw lots of clashes, lots of alpha sort of posturing. those sort of moments where they come together. sort of hand up, saying back off, back off. moments where obama sort of turned his back and romney s kind of chasing him. there we see the moment to talk about both sort of hand up, back off. i m talking. what do you see about the moments coming together in the clashes? this is the quintessential endearing moment from the debate an saw it over and over again in the debate. this is a classic gesture. palm down. i disagree with you. you re not right. hold on a second versus open palm of kind of i want to work with you. and it was really a sign that we re in for the clash. this neither side was going to
this kind of thumb of power and a point and a chop at the same time. really shows open powerful body language with romney in his place. flip side, romney startlinged by the idea, an act of terror and it s in the transcript and then goes to try to kind of come back to miss crowly, he finds that the movements all over the place. walking forward and back ward. very rattled, very different than the romney talking about the economy. chris, i think it s fair to say mitt romney was not deferent shl to president obama at all last night. i want to play a clip of interaction and ask you something about it. let s look at that first. you will get your chance in a moment. i m still speaking and the answer is i believe people think that s the case. that wasn t a question. okay. that was a statement. i don t think the american people believe this. it might have got cut off. stop. you will have your turn to speak later. supposedly there s gasps in the audience when mitt romney said that to p
he kept the chin up, the power chin for him and he was able to turn in to and confront mitt romney. mitt romney was really strong in terms of when he came to talking about in the wheelhouse, the economy. the body language open, strong, very comfortable. the power zones. it s all open toward us. he felt very comfortable and we ll see what happens for him moving forward where he struggled was in the foreign policy element of this. libya and really attacking the president on what he s vulnerable on and his body language, nervous, all over the place. so we ll see if that translates and moves forward in to the final debate for him at his weakest on foreign policy. thank you very much. we ll be working on the power thumb. my hand down. disagreement. s.e. tell the rest of them, hey, wait a minute. hey. i disagree. she does that all the time, chris. she doesn t need help.
out of the second debate. well, absolutely. i mean, this was an intense debate. you know, the only real brevity moment is the moment they go back and forth on the pensions and the whole room laughs a little bit to relieve the tension but so seeing the families come up and really kind of seeing that, you know, that intensity. michele obama and barack obama kind of patting each other like a reassurance and, you know, ann romney looking nervous walking up and kind of subdued and we need to ask them what s going on for them. we don t want to mind read and we pick up that perception that it feels awkward for them, especially all on the stage together and then once they separate. i believe the president lingered afterward for 30 minutes and much more relaxed by the end of the debate, obviously, than the beginning. chris, give me a brief wrap up. who made the improvements? who did what right? s.e. we saw the president finally kind of turn it around. everyone is talking about even the po