shannon bream live in washington with a look at that piece of t the stakes going into the election. reporter: with issues from gay marriage to affirmative action on the court s radar these days, every appointment or nomination has the power to shape the supreme court and the country for decades to come. there are now four justices in their 70s, route bader ginsberg and steven breyer were appointed by president clinton. scalia and kennedy are both 76 appointed by reagan. when asked presidential politics do not impact their decisions about when they will retire but it s highly likely the next president is going to have the opportunity to make multiple nominations. weeks ago governor romney said this about the supreme court, quote i hope to appoint justices for the supreme court that will follow the law and the constitution and it would be my preference that they reverse row
around you take the edge off a little but they necessarily will take the edge off a little but lest you look rude to your opponent. quite. megyn: we ll see tomorrow night. stirewalt always good to see you. right once again. thank you, ma am. megyn: we ll talk about this controversy involving tomorrow night s moderator candy crowley. there are all sorts of controversy that is coming up about her and her role, we ll talk about it in just a bit right here. governor romney is spending his day getting ready for tomorrow night s debate. vice presidental candidate paul ryan is on the campaign trail speaking here at a stop in cincinnati. you can watch his full remarks if you would like streaming live at foxnews.com. president obama is also spending the day preparing for the debate. again we ll have more in a bit on the mod raeurt, she i moderator. she is a cnn anchor. candy crowley.
what the audience posed in order to get to the core what each candidate stands for. her role is to facilitate the debate. not to shade it for either side. if any side will get helped by candy crowley s presence, supposed to be the audience and viewing public. she is a pro. she understands that. she will not be throwing bombs. megyn: moderator rephrase the town hall s questioner, questions. that is disrespectful to the actual questioner or person is misunderstood or obfuscated or deflect always nice to have somebody steer them back to the question. the aspect whether there are enough women moderators in national debate politics you can debate forever. if you were the moderator or i would be moderator would be hard to keep me silent and referee questions from the audience without asking for a follow-up and looking for clarification. their job is to make themselves look good and sometimes clarification doesn t facilitate that. megyn: right. let s talk about governor
the reason we re discussing this is because the romney team has been politicizing it? wouldn t it be a political issue in the press even if romney never said a word about my of it? about any of it? i think this is an issue that needs to be examined, but, you know, as i read more and more about this, you know, initially governor romney said that more security had been requested by senator, by ambassador stevens, and that s what, why he didn t have adequate security with him in benghazi. let s hook look at the facts. there was security requested and some given for tripoli, and that s where all the talk was about. for some reason the ambassador with inadequate security, admittedly, went to benghazi on september 11th. no question about that. we don t know two things. a, how did if this was such a well planned attack how did al-qaeda know he d be there that day, number one, and, number two, why did he feel he
dismissiveness. there will be attempts to do that. stage craft and use of mannerisms that sort of can convey a sense of leadership or in fact intimidation can come out but the media, the public, has gotten pretty sophisticated in all this. people are saturated. we have all the polls suggest that 95% of likely democrats are enthusiastic about voting for the president. 93% of the republicans are enthusiastic about voting for romney. people know this there is lot riding on it and they re not likely to be fooled by too much tap dancing. megyn: this is my personal prediction. personal space. megyn:,000 now you do it to me, the man hug. don t let go. don t let go. don t be the first one to let go. touch the other man s arm. snow your strength. candy will break it up. see you, karl. carl. we re taking your thoughts. carl too. you can see the second presidential debate live. bret baier and i will coast host our special coverage