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 haven t heard from them on at all. but the debate starts right now, the second presidential debate. here now is mode
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. the f.b.i. says it has arrested a young man in a manhattan hotel today as he pushed the buttons to set off what he believed was a massive truck bomb outside the federal reserve bank of new york. what the man didn t know was that his accomplices worked for the f.b.i. the plot unfolded in the heart of lower manhattan, a few blocks from the former world trade center site. the federal reserve bank of new york is vital to the nation s financial system. it is the clearing house for the transactions of the nation s largest banks. and the storage site of vast reserves of gold. senior correspondent john miller has been talking to his source at the foeb, and he has details of the plot and the suspect. reporter: quazi mohammad nafis came to the u.s. from bangledesh on a student visa to study at southeast missouri state university. he caught the f.b.i. s attention allegedly in an extre
good evening and welcome to the pbs election special for the next 30 minutes i will be moderating the debate he trained the democratic and republican candidate running in congressional district number four. the candidates will be making opening and closing statements. they will respond to questions that i will ask of each candidate. and now i would like to introduce the candidates participating in the debate. they are democratic state senate majority leader, steven horsford and republican, danny tarkanian. let s begin. mr. tarkanian declined us determine you are up first with your opening statement. tarkanian: thank you for hosting this debating giving the people an opportunity to hear from their candidates. i feel very strongly that these are important for him so that the public can see the differences and the concepts between each of the candidates. in fact i feel this is so important that i ve offered to debate my opponent in each of the different counties of which is di
some folks already tweeting. why isn t neil running or for president? but i would not be able to do this show. i couldn t govern myself. um, this from pete, he writes i d like to see you moderate a debate, have no doubt you d be an awesome job. having been a questioner at a debate with my colleagues in iowa, it was a pleasure, and it is an honor. but both camps have to write off on whoever participates in these thing, and who moderates or facilitates these things. that s how it s done. so one camp might like it, the other camp might not like you, one camp might be predisposed to liking thinner anchors or italian-american anchors, but that s how it s decided. candy crowley is there, and now things are kicking off for a must-win debate for barack obama. moderator: good evening from hofstra university in hempstead, new york, i m candy crowley from cnn s state of the union. we are here for the second presidential debate sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. the
good day. i m andrea mitchell live in new york. today president obama and governor romney trying to capitalize on their debate performances in three of the most politically valuable battleground states. a lot of the buzz surrounding the two candidates is about that verbal brawl last night. the brawl that broke out at hofstra. joining me now for our daily fix chris cizilla, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and mark halperin senior political analyst for time and msnbc. chris to you as a viewer, not rating the debate, winners or losers, not that, but who answered questions and who was responsive to the people in the room and people at home? my read out on it, andrea, i watched it live and rewatched some of the clips, i have not watched the whole thing again, so let me say that as a caveat, but my read is neither of them really answered that many questions. candy crowley, i think, to her credit, repeatedly kind of said, you answered apples and the