voters about how his plans would genuinely affect their lives. what it would do to help people who don t have a job find a job and what it would do to those that have a job and worry about health care costs and a clear choice, that s the one thing that came out of the debate that we think had helped move voters once they had a choice and saw the contrast between the two candidates on the campaign stage i think what we re hearing is governor romney did very well. this is marine one. right. this is this is marine one. the president is coming for a 1:30 walk through. both candidates as you know very well we re looking at live pictures right now of marine one landing here at hofstra university. that s one of the advantages of incumbency there. that is one of the advantages. let s talk, though, about ross perot. right. you ve rolled out ross perot s endorsement in the des
president obama speaking. he is the most important surrogate and as you know andrea, you want to have a guy with that kind of credibility and a guy that can talk the owls down from the trees. indeed. great piece. new york magazine, john heilemann, thank you so much. no accident that hillary clinton was taking the blame for benghazi on the eve of this debate. up next debate expectations with bob shrum and michael gerson. you re watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. live from hofstra. [ cat 1 ] i am not a vegetarian. look at these teeth! they re made for meat! [ cat 2 ] do i look like i m stalking plants? [ male announcer ] most dry foods add plant protein, like gluten but iams never adds gluten. iams adds 50% more animal protein, [ cat 3 ] look at this body! under this shiny coat is a lean, mean purring machine [ cat 4 ] i am too! hahahaha! [ male announcer ] iams. with 50% more animal protein.
island for tonight s debate as his running mate stumps in virginia today. how are you doing? man. what a beautiful day. the president needs to reverse his slide after denver, mitt romney hopes to maintain the enthusiasm he s built and prove his first debate victory wasn t a fluke. taking responsibility, hillary clinton accepting full responsibility for the security failures in benghazi, but she says it shouldn t be a political issue. i don t think we want to get into any blame game. what we want to do is get to the bottom of what happened. and with the polls showing that romney is now narrowing the gap among women, the wives are front and center. mitt s prepared, mitt s
or deliberate misleading of the american people and these are fair questions to ask. do you expect mitt romney will be trying to bring this issue up if it doesn t get asked by one of the questioners at the town hall tonight. i think that someone at the town hall will likely ask this. i mean this is an important issue. i don t know whether governor romney will bring this up or of course i m sure it will come up in the foreign policy debate on 292nd. i really hope that we get answers from this administration soon because this is deeply troubling with the number of changing stories and, of course, it s horrible what happened in libya. we do need to get to the bottom of it. the american people deserve to have straight, forward the truth and if there s something wrong with our intelligence we better know and certainly why didn t the president receive this information about the prior attacks and did he receive it. question number one did he receive it in his dalingly briefings. if he did
they came all for me. you have supporters of both sides, some louder than others. we ll power through this, chris. just talk about what s at stake tonight because we ve got a number of polls which show a narrowing of the lead in some two battleground states. polls in pennsylvania, two polls now showing that the gap is now about four-point advantage for president obama in a state, pennsylvania, that he s absolutely counting on. there s another poll showing them dead even in new hampshire. a gallup poll that the obama camp is discounting but that also shows a big narrowing among women. yeah. that s been the firewall all along for president obama. what s going on here? well, look andrea, i think we are still in many ways feeling the impact of the debate 13 days ago. while people like you and i are kind of instantly analyzing what happens it takes time for people to kind of seep into the