Of the phonus points of the debate. Joining us now from the debate site, ace reporter cnbc contributor robert costa, national review. Robert, what is team romney telling you about tonight . Reporter team romney is very optimistic about tonight, but they know it will be a breakeven debate. This is president obamas best subject, Foreign Policy, romney is a governor and businessman, not his wheelhouse, but hes been well prepared for this debate and expect him to come out firing at the president s record, especially on libya. Okay. Lets pursue that. Is he going to go right after benghazigate, go right after it picking up where he left off in the last debate . Well, as you remember, larry, the Romney Campaign feels during the town hall romney didnt have a great answer on libya so they spent the last week on libya going hour by hour in how the administration failed to react to that tragedy in benghazi. Hour by hour, is that what youre saying, heavy stuff hour by hour . Romney wants to critiq
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