and president obama was caught flat-footed, his campaign was flat-footed. we ll see if the adjustments they end up making as david axelrod promised. what s the early word on the vice presidential debates? you have democrats off the record worried knowing that biden could give a make moment or a break moment. it s most watched tv. it s important to note that paul ryan has never been on this stage before. joe biden, given he s run for president twice, including the 2008 series, has a lot of debate experience. so it s going to be interesting, and the democrats need a little bit of a boost after what happened on wednesday. i hope congressman ryan comes out and says, can i call you joe? for old time s sake to start it off on a humorous note. have a great weekend. you, too. we re talking about governor romney trying to turn around a rough few weeks.
the president took a pass. i think that s part of the fact is he thought, look i m the president of the united states of america, i woo people, people love me, he didn t prepare for this last night. it was obvious that he thought he was the heavyweight coming in, and because he s so charismatic he could just walk in there and have a great anniversary night and go back and have champagne with his wife, and he didn t do well, and i think the part was he was shock at how well informed mitt romney was, and how many things mitt romney was instantly able to challenge him and i don t think he expected him at all. megyn: do you think that barack obama is capable, coming back, being feisty, being sort of like mitt romney was last night? some people are raising doubts about whether he is capable of that since he doesn t have the more recent debate experience that romney has. yes, and i think to be clear i ve talked to a lot of people today. people may have been disappointed with obama s perf
mitt romney had not said whether he was going to keep that order in place or rescind it. he says now, you can keep it in place. one border patrol agent has been killed in a shooting near the mexico/arizona border. we re following that story. we ll get you more updates as we get them. in today s deep dive, president obama and mitt romney will share a stage wednesday night in front of what s likely to be the the largest audience yet in this campaign and may be the best and last chance to change the trajectory of the race. they are both experienced debaters, to a point. the president survived 26 primary debates, three general election debates in 2008. his debate experience for federal office goes back to his only unsuccessful campaign, his 2000 democratic primary challenge to bobby rush. i don t think anybody should have a pass. i don t think congressman rush should have a pass. i don t think the mayor should have a pass. i don t get a pass for my state
bill: politico writes on that debate today about a do or decision for governor romney. how do you see it? well, look, these debates are important, there will be three of them in the month of october. but, look, we know what we are up against. the president is an experienced speaker,er has substantial debate experience. this will be his 8th one-on-one presidential debate. it will be mitt romney s first. apparently the president is going to be in nevada for three days undergoing intensive debate preparation. what we expect he ll do at those debates, even though we have the facts and a strong pro jobs message on our side i think you ll see the president to use the opportunity to turn it into a 90-minute attack ad. mitt romney will talk about the choices that face america, that is sput terg and a real recovery
before he was against roe versus wade. reporter: his problems may be explained by a lack of debate experience. tuesday it will be his fourth presidential debate. the same number he participated in over ten years as governor. this is black and white different. as a governor and even when he ran for lieutenant governor, he was not a bad debater. reporter: perry debated one of his toughest opponents in the 1998 contest against state comptroller john sharpe. he came out strong. let me tell you. people of the state of texas are smart enough to figure out who the real conservative is in this race. reporter: he held his own in this exchange over a loan program perry oversaw as commissioner. the bottom line is that program has created over 4,300 jobs in the state of texas. it s created almost $500,000