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 break-even debate. this is president obama s best subject, foreign policy, romney is a governor and businessman, not his wheelhouse, but he s been well prepared for this debate and expect him to come out firing at the president s record, especially on libya. okay. let s 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 didn t 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 you re saying, heavy stuff hour by hour
staples and children s place, we ll break them all down for you. paypal co-founder reed hoffman fires back at carl icahn and ahead of tomorrow s big jobs number weekly jobless claims did decline slightly as we said. we ll start with retail. as we mentioned three big misses, costco bigger-than-expected fall in profit as deep discounting during the holiday season hurt margins. children s place announcing an 18% drop in fourth quarter earnings. highly promotional market in severe weather and then staples missed on revenues said it s going to close more than 200 stores by the end of the year now that nearly half of its sales are generated online. people are calling it a triple whammy in retail and obviously tough news for obvious reasons. disconcerting mostly by costco because costco when i saw the number, hey, that s not so good but when i read the release they were telling you they were unhappy with their performance. it s the new pattern where someone says, look, it s not ju
this is the worst day for gold so far since the day of the taper last year. in our road map, sales of coca-cola beat expectations driven by strong numbers out of china. cnbc s exes cluesive with the ceo of coke on earnings, activism and diet soda. johnson & johnson moved the stock higher, j&j ups its forecast for 2014. profit rises as drug sales soar. end of the 20-year ceo, the journal s say jeff immelt may end his tenure early and a message for ge s next executive. starting now for one day only google glass goes on sale supplies are limited but will we actually see any demand. the price tag $1500. first up, stocks on track to open higher following yesterday s rally saw the dow close with the 146-point gain and the nasdaq up 23 for the day. the session did not end without some drama. stocks lost a big chunk of their gains in the final hour and that did send the nasdaq into negative territory for a short period before heading back into rally mode. it is a tuesday, jim
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his extended family is one of the leading mormon families. he can t talk about it because it involves polygamy. controversy. he s the first nobel peace prize winner with a kill list. mitt romney doesn t have an ideological bone in his body, as far as i can tell. and destiny. what unites both of these characters is this sense that there was a place that they were going, a destiny that they had. tonight ofrontline, the choice 2012. frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. in massachusetts, in a political fight that ted kennedy probably never imagined. kennedy s