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jenna: well, noon eastern time, and we re just hours away from the first vice presidential debate, first and only, by the way. the running mates are ready to rumble, and welcome to happening now. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. all eyes on tonight s high stakes debate as vice president joe biden faces paul ryan, the republican who wants to take his job. it promises to be one of the closest presidential elections in recent history. biden and ryan square off for their first, their only debate. it takes place tonight on the campus of center college in danville, kentucky. mr. biden is hoping to put the brakes on the campaign after governor romney s strong showing in the first presidential debate. president obama saying yesterday that joe just needs to be joe. for mr. ryan, this will be his first nationally-televised debate. the up and comer knows biden is a veteran politician with more experience at these events, but he says biden cannot run from president obama s record. a fox news p
mitt romney if you have four years, what will you do. jon: this is a first presidential campaign where twitter is a big phenomenon. is it partly because liar fits better in 140 character tweet than, this is a guy who is a prevaricator? neither side should use liar. if someone is not telling the truth, call them on it. and biden should call romney on it or paul ryan on it tonight. you should be specific about that, i grant you that. sometimes liar is the best way to explain it. a lie is better way to explain. not calling him a liar. jon: angela, you say that there is an advantage here in that you believe it sort of encourages people to do some digging and look for their own answers. you re exactly right. if you call mitt romney a liar, if you call obama a liar, we have internet today so people can research and go to either one s website, type the word in, dealing with policy pull it up much. by doing this we can turn lemons into lemonade. i agree with that. jon: landing on the p
believe this was prompted by protest against the video. senior official number two answers: that s a question you d have to ask others. that was not our conclusion. initial assessments in the immediate aftermath of the attack in benghazi were made, and there was a government-wide assessment that was the foundation of what ambassador rice said, what i said and what others said. reporter: so this question then remains, jenna and jon, how was there this government-wide assessment that this was the outburst over a video where from the first moments of the attack washington had been notified of the, quote, attack, attack, he was witnessing. we ll get to the bottom of this over the next couple of months in hearings and other forums. jenna: we ll continue to watch for those developments, james, thank you very much. we re going to move on to an update from overseas. do you remember this incredible video that came out of egypt during the uprising? that uprising ultimately led to hosni mubar
president by, you know, a lot of other liberals threw him under the bus but al sharpton said he is flip-flopping. we ll do commercials and obama looking presidential. head of dnc, david plouffe, pundits saying that mitt romney was a liar. jon: to be fair alexis, the charge has come from the republican side as well. take a listen. well, i mean first of all what we re doing here is just using barack obama s words of four years ago when he promised the american people that he was going to be a president of big ideas and big things and it turns out that he is same player of small ball and distraction and, yeah, lying as well. so we have a few more rounds to go in this fight. what we saw in the first one was a very energized performance. it was big bird meets the big lies. but to say that the president is surrounded by liars, is a pretty accurate, is a pretty accurate charge