0 really answered that many questions. candy crowley, i think, to her credit, repeatedly kind of said, you answered apples and the question was oranges. they did not answer the questions that were asked of them broadly. at one point there was a question about gas prices and we started talking about china. they kind as you go along in the debate, they each are trying to correct what they view as errors they made before so they use whatever question is asked to go back and say, now let me just make one point here. so i don t think from an undecided voter s viewpoint if you were looking for more information about where the two of them stand, i think you didn t get all that much of it. if you love the theatrics of these debates, if you love the back and forth, if you love the kind of awkward personal space invasion, then you enjoyed this debate quite a bit. i d put myself in that category. i m not sure there was that much deep policy discussion there. i don t think it was totally nonsubs
make an impact after what both sides believed was a lackluster performance in his first debate. even the president said so himself. the challenge will be somewhere between his first performance and vice president biden s performance, finding that sweet spot, wher whether he can do itd for governor romney whetherel capitalize on what was a good run the first time around. megyn: a word about the audience here, the town hall participants. there are some 80 there. they all submitted their questions. candy crowley selected the ones that will be used tonight. right now 80 nervous souls out there, 82 if you count the candidates, because they don t know which ones with have been chosen. they ll learn as we learn who will stand up and question the next president of the united states. candy crowley from cnn. good evening from hofstra university in hempstead, new york. i m candy crowley from cnn state of the union. we re here for the second presidential debate, a town hall sponsor
failed administration and what s going to be different over the next four years. he wants to be the man with the plan, the man who can fix things. the man who can make life better for the average american who s watching. and you will see him tailor comments tonight. he s talking to people in denver. he s talking to people in florida, he s talking to people in ohio, he s talking to people in northern virginia. very small audience out there that s going to decide that election, and that s who mitt romney s talking to tonight. i ll tell you, we are told that the balance, a balance is what they re looking for between domestic policy and foreign policy. tonight, candy crowley choosing questions from these audience members tonight, supposedly with the balance of those two remarks. i am desperate to hear mitt romney s answer on afghanistan. i think a lot of people in the country are desperate to hear both men talk about veterans and some other matters of foreign policy that we hav
make an impact after what both sides believed was a lackluster performance in his first debate. even the president said so himself. the challenge will be somewhere between his first performance and vice president biden s performance, finding that sweet spot, wher whether he can do itd for governor romney whetherel capitalize on what was a good run the first time around. megyn: a word about the audience here, the town hall participants. there are some 80 there. they all submitted their questions. candy crowley selected the ones that will be used tonight. right now 80 nervous souls out there, 82 if you count the candidates, because they don t know which ones with have been chosen. they ll learn as we learn who will stand up and question the next president of the united states. candy crowley from cnn. good evening from hofstra university in hempstead, new york. i m candy cnn state of the union. we re here for the second presidential debate, a town hall sponsored by the com
debated by candy crowley. romney accused the president of waiting too long to call the september 11th attack on the united states consulate in benghazi libya an act of terror. the president said romney simply had his facts wrong. watch this. the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden, and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror, and i also said that we re going to hunt down those who committed this crime. and then a few days later i was there reading the caskets coming into andrews air force base. and grieving with the families. and the suggestion that anybody in my team, the secretary of state, our u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. that s not what we do. that s not what i do as president. that s not what i do as commander in chief. governor, if you want to reply, quickly. i certai