questions. martha: i don t know whether to laugh or cry. bill: look out for monkeys, martha. white house weighing a military response for the attack in libya. what fox news learned about a possible strike. martha: just hours away from round two, we check in with bret baier and ask if the town hall-style of debate could change the game?
they are routinely briefed to the highest levels of ouf our government. not just to the president but the inch tire national security team would have that in a morning briefing, at least either read it or have somebody talking about it. bill: if that s the case these questions the senators are asking is legitimate. what did the president know and what did he do. singapore mccain is the ranking leader of the senate armed services committee and overseeing the security of the united states from a legislative perspective and has a rightful claim to ask these questions. bill: why last night, why before the debate, in lima, peru did secretary hillary clinton take the fall for this. take the blame for this? i don t know. i do know secretary clinton and she has broad shoulders and she is a tough diplomat, and certainly she is very much aware i would imagine that there has been a serious security failure inside her department. we know how to protect embassies that are in high threat area. t
the vp debate. after the first presidential debate we actually saw a slight negative turn for both candidates. now this is something we also saw after each of their nomination speeches. voters negative on the election on both fronts when they talk about it on twitter, and you start seeing some of that effect when people are reacting to what they are seeing and what they don t want to hear. bill: adam, listen it s a fascinating new way to gauge what people are thinking and talking about. we ll check you out at at adam sharp, and you can check us out at martha maccallum and at bill hemmer. stay tuned tonight we ll have all this covered on fox news after the debate. martha: i was tweeting away last time and i probably will tonight. there is new insight involving the presidential debate from a pioneer of the town hall format. carol simpson moderated the
minutes. this fox news alert now. the presidential candidates ready for round two in their debate series with only three weeks to go from today. 21 days away, folks. tonight is a town hall-style debate. it takes place at hofstra university on new york s long island in what could be the most intriguing part of all of this, the american voters will be doing the questioning tonight. but a lot of questions about this format, where the questions are coming from, how it will all work. john roberts is there in hempstead, no new york, to search some of it out for us. good morning, john. reporter: governor romney wheels up from boston on the way to hofstra university. he has a walk-through this afternoon the bar is high for him after the first debate. he really has to win this one. he has momentum going. polls are evening toward him. women making up 15 point deficit to president obama. he has to articulate a clear
leading up. does the buck stop there? what other questions should we be asking? you report we decide, that is coming up on happening now. bill: see you in a couple of minutes. debate number two have a look at what some 60, 70 million americans will see tonight. there is the debate stage. round one was the most tweet eddie bait in history. that is hard to do. the man behind the twitter scene and what we can learn from it as voters. four years ago when i stood on this stage i said that i would cut taxes for middle class families, and that is exactly what i did. under the president s policies middle income americans have been buried. they are just being crushed. we are running out of time, gentlemen. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf.