people really don t understand it. it s rather technical, maybe they haven t been through one cycle before, and they haven t actually seen things come out. yes, things are better, but they re not better by nearly enough to keep pace with population growth. alisyn: julie, is that what s going on with the media, that people don t have the depth so they re glossing over things? i don t know that i agree with what simon said, you re absolutely right, we re not out of this recovery as quickly as anybody would like. i think that s a fact of life, i think the president and mitt romney would agree on that. people understand, the general public, the people that actually vote understand that we were in a morass. it was a recession like no other since 1929, since the crash. and then people are willing to give this president more time to get out of that morass because they understand how deep that recession was and how long it would take to recover. alisyn: but all those things that i just rep
her husband and others deserve combat status just like 9/11 victims at the pentagon received. combat status makes them eligible for purple hearts and other benefits. so far the government has denied this to them, so now she s taking her message to twitter, earlier writing, quote: reporter: and telling a fellow vet s wife, quote, this administration will not continue to sweep us under the rug. pete is the ceo of concerned veterans for america. hi, pete. hi. alisyn: so autumn manning has been expressing her great frustration on social media, on twitter, and she wants her husband and others to have combat status bestowed on them. how would that change their lives? very much so. if you, if you recognize the attack by may jar hasan major hasan as what it is, terrorism,
to vote pretty overwhelmingly for republicans. these are major states that are seeing down ticks in participation or potential participation for the military. that could very much impact the november election. alisyn: guy benson, thanks so much for helping us look at these numbers. new questions today about what the media is reporting on, our economy, ahead of tomorrow s presidential debate. we ll show you how this could impact the argument between president obama and governor romney tomorrow night. and breaking news in this hour on the attack on our consulate in libya. it killed, of course, four americans including our u.s. ambassador. why some were already raising red flags about security and claim they were just being ignored. former secretary of defense don rumsfeld will join us on the story. and new questions about whether you can just keep your doctor or even keep your insurance. the new report out on two major u.s. employers launching a radical change to employee insurance
not having the benefits when you need them, and then if you can t get the benefits or the coverage, what happens? you end up back in the emergency room. so while this notion by sears and darden may seem innovative, there s a lot of companies that have tried this defined contribution plan before, and it hasn t been that successful. alisyn: simon, what happened to if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period. if you like your insurance carrier, you can keep your coverage, period? i think what the president was referring to is that under the aca, his health care reform, that there was nothing he was going to do or that they were doing that would prevent, that would push people out of their own health care plans. there s nothing the government was doing and, in fact, the fact that the private market is innovating in this way and whether it works or not, we ll find out is a sign this was not a government takeover of the health care system as you ve heard many people say o
dysfunctional justice d.s didn ts we ve ever had. the 9/11 families are opposed, they re concerned they ll move began guantanamo people, and they re now moving people out. they re moving others. they either move them to thomson because this is where they wanted to go, or they move them out to the supermax out in colorado. alisyn: congressman, what is the solution here? to keep terror suspects at gitmo indefinitely? well, you certainly don t want anybody from guantanamo bay to come to the united states. if they do, all the constitutional rights will be given to them, so under no circumstances do you want anyone from guantanamo bay, the trials would be there, and they ought to be held there, but they should not come to the united states. don t you remember when they were going to bring them to new york city? mayor bloomberg was opposed to it, the police commissioner was