so many have suggested somewhere around the defense secretary, what would you do about afghanistan? is it time to come home? well, you know, yeah, i mean, regardless of what, you know, happens to me, governor romney wants to get the troops out by 2014, which is the current schedule. buff we have got a lot of work to do. we have got to make shearn that we have trained up the afghanistan security forces because we don t want to happen there what unfortunately may be happening in iraq where we sacrifice all these years and then we leave the government dessingrates. shepard: we have one goal left and that is to train afghan soldiers so they can train on their own. now that we have had so many insider attacks that we can t accomplish that goal under any circumstances. what i m asking is a man who has been widely talked about as potential secretary of state do we need to speed that up process and if so how do we do it. we certainly need to do a better job of training the
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let s bring in chris wallace. have you spoken to both camps today, what did you learn? i have been working the phones trying to get a preview and the most interesting thing i learned is that the romney camp says that their guy is going to really go on offense when it comes to the obama record. they had noticed in the polls that people are getting a little bit more optimistic about the economy, that romney is losing some of his edge in the polls on who would handle the economy better. so they say he is really going to take it to obama on the obama record over these past four years. and one of the points they are going to make is he made a lot of promises to voters in 2008. they are going to say he hasn t kept those promises. i talked about the fact that one of the other problems that romney has got is likability. that people like obama more than they like romney. the romney camp says they are not worried about likability. they want him to stay on offense tonight and they expect it to
shepard: governor romney got some good news as he heads into tonight s debate in denver. a new poll by the wall street journal and nbc news shows he is gaining on president obama, both nationwide and in a couple of swing states. the parent company of fox news channel owns the journal, by the way. according to the poll, the president now leads governor romney by 3 points among likely voters across the country, that s down from 5 points two weeks ago. the survey also shows the president s lead dropping to 1 point in the state of florida and two points in virginia. both of those statistical ties now. but the president actually gained a point in ohio and his 8-point lead is well outside the margin of error there. jim talent is a former republic senator from the state of missouri. and romney campaign advisor. he is with us here in denver as well. senator, good evening, thank you. what s governor romney s job number one tonight? well, if he was out here, shepard, his job number one wou