when a private enterprise company wants to raise money, it says, this project will work. give us your money. it will work. we ll make profit. when the government goes out to use taxpayers money for a project issues it says, this project will bring in votes. that s the key difference. brian: i vote for watching you at 9:20 today on varney and company. i liked you a lot. brian: i have a lot of pull. steve: thank you. gretchen: have a great weekend. they can t pay their bills, so you re about to pay more? the new fee coming your way thanks to the postal service. brian: we just showed you how independence felt about last night s debate. so did joe biden blow his chance to win them over or did he win them over? joe trippi here and angela is here. they ll disagree but be nice. no face but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn t treat that. huh? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief to all your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny no
troops or pulled people out during the killing season. steve: you know what? that s all the substance, if you were watching on tv, you would be watching paul ryan try to give a measured, responsible, sober answer, and on the split screen, you would see him kind of along crazy. brian: you re right. gretchen: charles krauthammer, this was so on analysis that if you were listening to this on the radio on reading the transcript, you would think that joe biden probably won this thing based on maybe content. but when you saw the optics and that s what it s all about, folks, politicians and optics. when you saw his reaction to paul ryan every time he opened his mouth. and i did think that later on in the debate t got away from martha raddatz a little bit. i thought she asked tough questions at the beginning. i think when she allowed joe biden to continually interrupt paul ryan as he was just about to make a point, and not say, excuse me, vice president, off minute to speak and now paul
the old man pushed and the kid pushed back. brian: she did not mean that complimentary. gretchen: i actually think had is a debate that s going to percolate over a couple of days. when people go back and read and maybe see video and see this reaction, i think it may percolate over time where people will maybe change their opinion of exactly how it went. brian: it was gretchen: i think a lot of people i think it rubbed them the wrong way with the attitude. the headlines now. one month after ambassador chris stevens was murdered, the obama administration has named a new american envoy to libya. lawrence pope will represent our country until the white house nominate has new ambassador. brian: can they give him some security? gretchen: pope, 67, retired 12 years ago. tough job to take. he was an ambassador to chad and the political advisor to anthony vinny. governor mitt romney getting
was mr. biden too aggressive? was he disrespectful? did you think he was delightful? we ll report and you will decide. brian: let s see if i can do this without being interrupted by geraldo. then paul ryan s most threwed advisor revealed this 7-year-old son, this adorable snapshot, little sam did after the debate. everyone is talking about. fox & friends starts now. steve: we had no idea you were on the set. i thought brian queued me. brian: it was like the honeymooners. they would just like roll the cameras and see what happened. gretchen: he actually said, i hope geraldo won t interrupt me. oh, i see. gretchen: you must have heard geraldo. [ laughter ] you learn well. gretchen: could you be more like paul ryan and listen to the
give it to us. gretchen: let s take a look. i think you got one that can come on the screen. this is from bernard tune, formerly biden s chief of staff. it went to the chief executive officer of bright source and he says, calls are in to biden s staff and i will be approaching the political affairs office at the white house tomorrow as well as this project could benefit two senators who are in the cycle process. whose races will be tough next year. that would be senator bob boxer of california, majority leader senator reid. clearly emmitt at that to go pull political strings on behalf of a again energy company trying to get $1.6 billion of taxpayer money. they got it, by the way. steve: i think a lot of us kind of know this kind of thing is going on in washington, d.c. and has for a long time. but never this level. it s precise and obvious, wasn t it? we re going to make the calls, you ll get the money. here is how we ll get the taxpayers money for you. not based on private en