outlet is here. we hit the budweiser tent. no beer, just chili. we have been talking to people on the ground. brit hume had an interesting point. the reason this is interesting because it s the first. it will sway voters who haven t made up their minds but the first time we ll see the two men on the stage together. so the appearances matter. romney looks like the president. he has to convince voter he is can do a better job than the current one. greg: that is not true. they were a high school rendition of pippen. the spin rooms are interes interesting. bob: they have the surrogates and you can tell that the big crowd is around.
families being notified today, receiving the sad news. one was a uh 1 helicopter, one an ah 1 w helicopter. very routine training exercise by all accounts and sadly a mid-air collision killing all seven marines on board both heel lows overnight. we will follow all of the breaking details that we get from you, barbara, and also the investigation now taking place. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks. sure. look, it s no surprise when you reach the top, you get a target on your back. and poll surging rick santorum found that out last night at cnn s debate in arizona. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. you re entitled to your opinions but you re not entitled to i ve heard that line before. misrepresent the facts and you re misrepresenting the facts. you don t know what you re talking about. yes, governor you balanced the budget for four years. you have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget i
the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? because he s a fake. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. we re going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last night s republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gallon by the summer. you re going to hear from president obama on gas prices and energy policy. that s happening later today. president obama is apologizing for the burning of korans by nato troops in afghanistan. now, this incident set off protests across the country. after again president hamid karzai said president obama sent a letter calling the burning an inadvertent error. he also promised to take steps to avoid any reoccurrence. two u.s. troops were killed by someone wearing an afghan army
happy pre-thanksgiving. and we saw last night we saw last night several of the candidates moving into general election mode. they re trying to move ahead and run against obama. with gingrich who is just hammered by his other opponents for softening his position on immigration. afterwards, michele bauchmann, mitt romney s folks calling it amnesty, his plan. but he s looking at how he would match up with president obama. in the spin room last night, fascinating, the romney folks not backing away from the ad you all showed yesterday where they took a little snippet of the distorted something that was taken out of context. they liked the idea of bringing the obama folks out of engaging already with obama. and y all have been in spin rooms and it s always funny to hear people echo each other s talking points. you had both romney s stevens
the two of them together would have locked the reelection of barack obama. sean: forget the economy, interest rates, deficits, death, forget the miranda rights for enemy combatants, none of this matters. you know how you go to spin rooms after the primaries and the offices are spinning which is another way of saying lying, this is pure spinning. it is absolutely george bush, 41 after the first gulf war had an approval rating of 91%. you saw how well that served him one year later. george bush 43 had a 91% rating after 9/11. barack obama was in the 50s he s back down to 47 where he was. next year this will be an absolute nonissue for the campaign. it will not help him one iota. sean: good prediction. good to see you. how terrorist cost exploit