Are literally counting down because in 16 hours barack obama and mitt romney battling in a Foreign Policy faceoff with the race for the white house about as close as it can get. Look at this new nbc wall street journal poll. Theyre locked in an absolute dead heat at 47 each. Editorial boards at newspapers across the country are coming out for their picks. Three endorsing mitt romney. The union leader calling the president president s policy a fantasy. Ago kron beacon journal and the plain dealer and the denver post calling the president the best pick under trying circumstances. Theres a lot to talk about and Paul Steinhauser with a preview of the showdown in the sunshine state. With the polls so close right now, theres even more at stake when president obama and mitt romney face off for the final time on the stage behind me at lynn university. Expect the two candidates to pick up where they left off last week in new york. When we have four americans killed there, when apparently we did
Discussion, of course, to their domestic agenda. Heres the format for you. Its a 90minute debate and can be divided into six segments of 15 minutes each. Each segment starting with a question followed by twominute answers from the candidates and then a bit of a chat and some discussion. This time theyre going to be seated with the moderator, unlike last weeks town hall and the first debate that was standing behind the podiums. Libya, iran, china, just some of the issues that will come up tonight, no doubt. Were going to break down those issues and whats at stake. Heres White House Correspondent diana keiller, and Foreign Affairs correspondent ellise lavin. Lets start with you, briana. We can expect mitt romney to raise, you know, more questions about the terrorist attack in b benghazi tonight. President obama to portrait mitt romney as unprepared to be a world leader on an international stage. What more do we know about the debate strategy . Yeah, thats exactly what were expecting, mic
But growth likely to slow down. And thats what we want to talk to you about for the first 45 minutes of this edition of the washington journal. Good morning. Today is saturday, october 27. We want to talk to you about your optimism or pessimism about the economy. Things Getting Better . Things getting worse . Are you doing all right . Could you be doing better . We want to talk to you about the economy, your optimism, and your pessimism in terms of your personal economy and not necessarily how you feel the candidates will do, what they might do for the economy once they get elected. 2025853881 for republicans. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. And you can also reach out to us via social media. The address on twitter, spanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. And email, journal cspan. Org. More from the article this morning from the wall street journal, economy grows at 2 pace. Josh mitchell and refugee write and jeffrey write host well take a look at more newspaper articles d
In ohio. Later, more like a Campaign Coverage as a Vice President joe biden travels to lynchburg, virginia. This weekend, booktv is will be in austin, texas. From 11 006 00 eastern, you can hear from Douglas Brinkley and others. Sunday from noon6, a book about ulysses s. Grant, infiltrating drug cartels and inside the house of representatives. The texas book festival, live this weekend, on booktv, on c span 2. Next, we will talk about covering president ial campaigns with political journalists who have moderated president ial debates. They talk about the impact of conventions, Television Ads and voters this campaign cycle. This is one hour, 10 minutes. [applause] thank you very much and a warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you joined us, and Judy Woodruff, thank you for serving on our board. [laughter] i would like to ask each of debates that we just went through. We were not sure you would make it through the traffic on time. We decided to start off with one of the clips from
Attorney general, eric holder, will call for the end of minimum sentencing policies that led to the longterm incarceration of nonviolent offenders. The new policy is expected to allow judges to determine the sentencing for low level nonviolent drug offenders. Holder will say too Many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for no good Law Enforcement reason. Widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is ineffective and unsustainable and pose a burden and comes with human and moral cost that is are impossible to calculate. Joining me today, editorial director add the huffington most and msnbc political analyst, howard fineman. Vice president , heather mcgee. I can mess it up, you are my friend. Washington post host matt miller and joining us from montgomery, alabama, brian stevenson. Thank you for joining us today, which is a very big deal in the days of the halls of criminal justice reform. My pleasure. Brian, first your reaction to the proposed chang