areas. for a while. he does a good job on face the nation. how much time will he spend on libya? will he ask questions in a way y need to be asked to draw information out of the president. bret: that doesn t sound like get out of the way. ask the questions, be aggressive and then get out of the way. here is the thing. let mitt romney and obama interact. romney needs to be better prepared than he was in the last debate. he should not get up until he gets to the bottom of it. that is what i would do if i was him. the reason romney did not win the debate, second debate running away is he whiffed on the hanging curveball on libya. he missed it. lucky he gets a second chance. hammer bam pa bam on the statement he hammer obama that he is offended that he implied he misled. go through catalog of
was a planned attack. there were al-qaeda links. this was not something that arose out of a spontaneous protest because of a video. bret: let me interrupt you. fox reported on septembe septem, intelligence officials telling us that the intelligence community sending up the chain from libya, they were saying terrorist attack and tied to al-qaeda. they were on the hunt for al-qaeda. an there was no protest. this report ads the cable came from station chief. if you were going to find out what happened the first person you contact the c.i.a. station chief in country to give you a read on what happened. third thing, the new york times piece you reported on, qatala a leader in libya, seen at the compound.
a beverage that he was drinking at a hotel in benghazi, libya. it was a strawberry frappe, not mango juice, which is what he had ordered. democrats are hammering mitt romney for asking for binders full of women to hire for females for his staff and cabinet as governor of massachusetts. one of those women whose resume was included one of the binders, elizabeth child is proud of it. she says she was hired of commissioner of mental health as nod to her expertise, not affirmative action. while binders may not have been used, it appears that president obama received something similar from the chicago tribune in march of 2009. in a bid to get more muslim americans working in the obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation s most qualified has been submitted to the white house. finally, brazil s national electricity grid is bracing for possible power outages
huge. we have lost 50,000 manufacturing factories and plants in the last decade. that is 6 million manufacturing jobs. the overheated debate is having an effect on how people in china view the u.s. in 2010, 68% of those surveyed said relationship with america was cooperative. now 39% hold the opinion. all but two states saw exports to china triple in the last decade. bret: you will never guess why brazil is bracing for a massive power outage. that is next in grapevine. the old gray lady changes her tune on liby libya. meet the five-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max says ha. c-max says wheeee. which is what you get, don t you see?
absolutely. this is leading from behind. you overthrow dictator in unstable area and we have zero control, zero influence over anything happening here, which means you get the jihadist, escaping to mahli. half of that is al-qaeda state essentially. you have the al-qaeda camps all over north africa. we now know there are weapons going from syria from libya in to syria to the hands of the worst jihadist. and syria is the real strategic prize here. so it is jeopardizing all of our interest in the area. this is what happens when you don t lead. bret: big jigsaw puzzle. middle east. we ll have a lot of this tonight. 10:00 p.m. eastern time. that special report investigates death and deceit in benghazi. it s worth checking out. next up the friday lightning round. [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i ve bought ragu for years.