how much to cut licenses. governor mitt romney this is what we did. there was a bunch of oil companies . i had a question was how much. you want me to answer the question. i am happy to answer the question. worry it production on government oil is down 14 percent. and production on gas is nine percent. it is not true. candy hold on a. mr. president, i am still speaking. mr. president let me finish. i am going to continue. steve: you know, folks all predictions that that town hall would be dull they were gone. it was like an ice hockey game. gretchen: if only they could have checked each other. they probably thought about it. what did you think about the debate. the big thing that you are talking about this morning is the libya situation. we waited sometime for the question to come about foreign policy and the only question about 48. it was a 48 hour oil question. that answered question was answered by hillary clinton about the security of benghazi. b
chris clooey, pro football player and political activist. to me that s flat out discrimination, the same as segregation or suffrage. on same sex marriage and paying more taxes and why he s so darn political. newsroom starts now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you very much for joining us. 12 hours before the big debate tonight and hillary clinton throws the president a lifeline. secretary of state taking full responsibility for the death of the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans. i take responsibility. i m in charge of the state department, 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts. the president and the vice president certainly wouldn t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. they re the ones who weigh all the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision. clinton made it very clear to cnn s elise labott she does not want to play the blame game, something that
toss. will president obama try to be more aggressive? chris clooey, pro football player and political activist. to me that s flat out discrimination, the same as segregation or suffrage. on same sex marriage and paying more taxes and why he s so darn political. newsroom starts now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you very much for joining us. 12 hours before the big debate tonight and hillary clinton throws the president a lifeline. secretary of state taking full responsibility for the death of the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans. i take responsibility. i m in charge of the state department, 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts. the president and the vice president certainly wouldn t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. they re the ones who weigh all the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision. clinton made it very clear to cnn s elise labott
disappointed in the expectations that he has for helps. but look, i think part of that was because as i said earlier we met a new mitt romney. speaker gingrich was pretty eloquent in running during the primaries, saying that mitt romney will say absolutely anything to get elected. but former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, says that president obama had no excuse. president obama had 90 minutes. now if he had done his homework, if he had actually prepared and studiy eied romney, why didn t say it? why didn t he take him on? the job of the president is supposed to be able to fight back. and douglas brinkly of rice university, thank you for joining us. great to be here. you just heard robert gibb saying that the president was disappointed in himself.
first, here is the campaign adviser, robert gibbs. it takes a long time to dig out of this avalanche of bad decisions that were before the obama presidency, one thing we see is clear, mitt romney s plan is to go back to a failed economic theory of tax cuts for the rich, despite the fact he deny attend tax cuts, and the math. and let s go to war with sesame street but give wall street a big, wet, kiss, that is call what got us into this mess, we spent four years digging out of it. meanwhile, gingrich saying the numbers were good for the president, but the overall picture is still gloomy. i think it was a significant help to the president. imagine coming out at 8.2 following the debate, i mean people would have entered the week saying it is close to the end. so it is part of the whole process, the campaign will go down to the end. it will be one of the most interesting campaigns in american history, i think you will see it go back and forth somewhat. on friday, the imf sa