island for tonight s debate as his running mate stumps in virginia today. how are you doing? man. what a beautiful day. the president needs to reverse his slide after denver, mitt romney hopes to maintain the enthusiasm he s built and prove his first debate victory wasn t a fluke. taking responsibility, hillary clinton accepting full responsibility for the security failures in benghazi, but she says it shouldn t be a political issue. i don t think we want to get into any blame game. what we want to do is get to the bottom of what happened. and with the polls showing that romney is now narrowing the gap among women, the wives are front and center. mitt s prepared, mitt s confident, mitt s got a good presence about him. look at you for encouragement? you know, i can never tell, but i m always primed just in case he is, so i m perched looking at had him, smiling giving a thumb s up if he can see it. and good day. i m andrea mitchell live at hofstra university in
how are you doing? man. what a beautiful day. the president needs to reverse his slide after denver, mitt romney hopes to maintain the enthusiasm he s built and prove his first debate victory wasn t a fluke. taking responsibility, hillary clinton accepting full responsibility for the security failures in benghazi, but she says it shouldn t be a political issue. i don t think we want to get into any blame game. what we want to do is get to the bottom of what happened. and with the polls showing that romney is now narrowing the gap among women, the wives are front and center. mitt s prepared, mitt s confident, mitt s got a good presence about him. look at you for encouragement? you know, i can never tell, but i m always primed just in case he is, so i m perched looking at had him, smiling giving a thumb s up if he can see it. and good day. i m andrea mitchell live at hofstra university in new york. we have a big crowd here. a thumb s up to them and let s play 20
portman, of course, is playing the role of president obama and governor romney s practice sessions. up tonight s town hall style debate at hofstra university poses unique challenges for president obama and governor romney. both must exchange and confront each other while at the same time showing more concern for voters. the first read team notes president obama must show he s a fighter and explain his vision for a second term. mitt romney needs to show he can connect with americans. you re going to see an exceptionally strong debate performance tonight from the president. you walk in front of the jury at closing argument, and you don t have a few good facts on your side, you re going to have perry mason at your lawyer or you re losing the case. your one question for the president? why would the last four years be better? we re moving, man, come on. the setting is familiar to president obama. he sparred in the same location with john mccain only four years ago. let
why are you telling people? you just go and do it. it s like that guy that always spoils the ending of every movie or the person that can t keep a secret for a surprise party. you ruin the surprise by telling the person there s a party the same way you re ryaning the opportunity ruining the opportunity to get these guys if you tell them you re going to bomb them. it says they moved drones into the skies above africa ready to hit militant targets from libya if the u.s. finds an al-qaeda linked group responsible for death of the ambassador. don t we already know they re the culprits? this is an article stating the obvious. on the front page of the new york times about two and a half weeks ago as the story unfolded, the story said okay, the administration is looking into try to find out who did this and we re going to eliminate them. okay, again, the very least we could do. here s something they haven t done at all i which is why havet they gone to the un and asked for t
trapped under a burning car, tonight emotional thanks for the good samaritans who came to the rescue. good samaritans who came to the rescue. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the subject first came up this week at the gop debate. hpv, the virus that can cause cancer. it s spread by sexual activity but can be prevented by a vaccine, but only if it s given to young people before it s too late. it was a political issue in the state of texas because governor perry, now a presidential candidate, said all young girls in the state should have the vaccine. but people are now speaking up about the medical issue and an aspect of it that often isn t talked about because in part of the mode of transmission, the high rate of head and neck cancers from the same virus, a form of cancer that kills roughly one american every hour. our chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman is here in the studio to start us off tonight. good evening.