a lot of news on libya. 166 pages of documents that have come out from the state department that are chilling because it shows that ambassador stevens, who was sending cables back to the state department was very worried about security in libya. and he saw the growing threat there. yeah. it really echos things mike baker told us a week ago. one, that there were many people concerned about the security. two, all you need are these cables. you don t need a month long investigation. here is what we now know. it s not that they mislabeled this thing after the fact but it was really the intelligence ignored leading up to it. the state department documents alli mentioned bring to light this. in june of 2012, there was a memo from ambassador stevens titled libyans fragile security deteriorates as tribal rivalries, power plays and extremism intensify. more emails came along as there were attacks in other areas and outposts. stevens email out post what we have seen are not random
and we just released her databook i do-not-call complaints for the last fiscal year that ended end of september this year and are complaints were up, just a government office, nearly double for do-not-call complaints. robocall complaints even higher and an even larger percentage than they were the year before, not surprisingly. .. 2.5 billion. there are lots of other companies with lots and lots of calls so that is when we figure out when we are looking at who are we going to go after we look at the claim and we get information from those claims and we try to figure out who will stop the most number of calls. talk about complaint figures, we filed 94 enforcement actions involving do not call violations. some of those include robo-calls and some of those are just specifically do not call that 94 enforcement actions against 271 companies and 212 individuals. those defendants in the case of the independence some of those cases are still ongoing have paid more than $69 million
up arrows. some of the names that have been helping the dow is proctor and gamble we continue to get earnings. back to you. dagen: thank you. connell: the second presidential debate in the books. the action was so much more contentious than maybe anything we have ever seen in a presidential debate. we loved every single thing. peter barnes on the scene. he is still out at hofstra university. he is joining us with more. peter: no question about it. they are calling it fight night in long island. president obama and governor romney going at it for 90 minutes. back and forth. stomping on each other. calling each other liars. every political trick in the book on policy and the politics of it. however, the president can t pardon me, mixing it up over taxes, jobs, healthcare, energy, even china investment in the retirement program. i did not get a chance when he was describing chinese investments and so forth hold on a second. mr. president, i am still speaking. [ talking
million. any expectations, highballing it, lowballing it tonight? you know, i think maybe when you consider the realm of other presidential and vice presidential debates, so many expectations are lotter in vice presidential debates, and even vice presidential picks, but this year is a little bit different only because republicans went out and picked a guy who s written their national economic plan. he s the face of the republican economic plan. he s got the most details out of two economic plans from governor romney and the economic committee. his budget passed the house. it s the fore front of the campaign here, neil, republicans are aware of that as well as democrats. neil: rich edson, thank you very much. rich, the other side of the spin room with me here and that after the debate is over, we rejoin you, it will be crowded. the event itself now, martha raddatz. moderator: good eveningment welcome to the first vice presidential debate in 2012. i m martha raddatz of abc
he needs to close that. that could also work in his favor as we saw when dick cheney and john edwards were together. let s take a look at a clip of that from viewers remind you have that. first time i ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight. that gave a real distance between the two. you saw the generational gap there but also a gap in experience in a way. it was a bright move by dick cheney saying you are a new comer nobody knows who you are. vice president biden is saying there s a chance to say i know foreign policy you don t. paul ryan the expectations are low for him. as long as he stands on stage and holds his own he will be fine. take a look at another blunder here. we remember this whith ross pert getting into this. who am i? why am i here? that was back in 1992. that was a gore quail three-way