even if people didn t watch the tv coverage. greta: ohio. steve, you have been to ohio? yeah. anybody know what s going to happen in ohio? i have heard from the republicans that the interm numbers are showing it s very close and we have seen a tightening. greta: there is a bad poll for governor romney tonight. not a bad one. but it got worse. he hasn t been in the lead. he has been tied. but he hasn t been in the lead, in polls, dating back to last spring. there may be sampling issues and those problems, but until he is going to leave, republicans won t be yelling and screaming about ohio. i think ohio is a pretty big lift. it s obviously, you know, close, it s do-able. greta: how about the early voting? you know, the early voting because i looked at a lot of statistics, it looks like the democrats have a fairly big lead in this, overall. but they almost always do. so. i think, you know, johner
even if people didn t watch the tv coverage. greta: ohio. steve, you have been to ohio? yeah. anybody know what s going to happen in ohio? i have heard from the republicans that the interm numbers are showing it s very close and we have seen a tightening. greta: there is a bad poll for governor romney tonight. not a bad one. but it got worse. he hasn t been in the lead. he has been tied. but he hasn t been in the lead, in polls, dating back to last spring. there may be sampling issues and those problems, but until he is going to leave, republicans won t be yelling and screaming about ohio. i think ohio is a pretty big lift. it s obviously, you know, close, it s do-able. greta: how about the early voting? you know, the early voting because i looked at a lot of statistics, it looks like the democrats have a fairly big lead in this, overall. but they almost always do. so. i think, you know, johner
commander and chief as bret mentioned. when it comes to libya, they say he is not going to relitigate the details of what the president said or didn t say in the rose garden a month ago. instead, they are going to talk about it as an example of bigger failures than the president s policy. as for the president, his camp says that he wants to draw sharp contrast with romney tonight. when it comes to afghanistan, when it comes to russia, and that he wants to portray romney s foreign trip this summer as a kind of national lampoon european vacation as a bunch of blunders to show he is not up to being commander and chief. it seems almost counter indo youive. look for the president to be more aggressive tonight. romney perhaps a little less so. megyn: brit, how much of an advantage, if at all, is it to the president to actually being the commander and chief and having the access that he does? brit: the first thing that it does is he doesn t have to pass the commander and chief test, is he
green revolution was happening in iran, when iranian students were holding up signs saying america help us, this president was the one who sat on the side line and did nothing. you wouldn t have heard that from him tonight. this is a president who forever in his speech was talkling about how al qaeda is on the run. he s dropped that because as governor romney very effectively pointed out tonight, in mali, in libya, with the egyptian brotherhood in egypt. just a few days ago, front page aerl, the new york times is saying because of our absence of leadership ises islamic radical groups in syria that are getting the arms to stand up to assad and that represents an enormous threat to us, to israel and to the civilized world going forward. i m proud of governor romney tonight. i think he did an excellent job. on mitt romney s trip to israel he did bring campaign
exploited it from the begin while the flames were burning in mitt romney, romney sent out political press releases on this. the republican party followed. andrea: if they try and scapegoat romney tonight, for 90 minutes it s difficult. they can t last 90 minutes. dana: it s a light touch. maybe a serious answer but won t pick up majority of the debate. we have a lot to get to. if the white house did not mislead on the timeline they would haven t this. stories fizzle if there is nothing else left. this is the front page of most papers. cbs broke news. not just republican party. they have a huge problem. they put out campaign officials out talking about this. they should have not done it from the beginning. they politicized it from the get go. now you don t have any