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Two undecided voters gathered at hofstra university. three gave the candidates an opportunity to clarify or defend positions rounding out the questions were lib yeah, gun control, he education. the very first question came from a 20-year-old college student. jeremy, thank you for joining me. >> nice to meet you, too. thank you for having me. >> tell me quickly a little bit about yourself. where do you go to school and whats your major? >> im a student at delfi university and im studying exercise...

Manufacturing, automobile rescue. all of those things are all positive. and of course shoring up some issues with the womens vote tonight. i mean, tonight the president made the case that im going to be the fighter for you in the middle class. its the largest economic voting block in america. i think he hit it out of the park with those folks tonight. >> i think the most important thing tonight for democrats as the takeaway here was the answer to your question last time. with outrage in your voi...

>> tonight equal pay. mitt romney never clarified hes for equal pay in the workplace. he had the opportunity. he didnt do it. he made the comment if women are in the workforce. really? theres more women working than ever in the country. he also said he went through binders full of women that he looked at that he was thinking about putting in a leadership position when he was governor of massachusetts. binders full of women is now the hottest thing on twitter now. he is disrespectful. he was disr...

For equal pay in the workplace. he had the opportunity. he didnt do it. he made the comment if women are in the workforce. really? theres more women working than ever in the country. he also said he went through binders full of women that he looked at that he was thinking about putting in a leadership position when he was governor of massachusetts. binders full of women is now the hottest thing on twitter now. he is disrespectful. he was disrespectful to the president of the united states. he wa...

Have closed. and he made a lot of money. i thought he did it in a very effective way. >> will we see you in florida? >> i hope to see you in florida. >> thank you for joining us again. >> thank you, lawrence. chuck todd, msnbcs political director is with us from the spin room and looking at the impact of tonights debate. >> when you look at what the president had to do it was almost a role reversal. the president had a plan for his debate and he executed it. he still is on an unanswered question...

I think it should wait until election day. >> okay. fair enough. after the debate, did you get a chance to interact with the two candidates? >> yes, i was talking with mitt romney and president barack obama. i spoke with mitt romney briefly and said thank you for the question. i asked him if he was going to give me that job in two years. he said maybe. and i was speaking with president obama, i asked him how the chicago bulls are going to do, because they lost their mvp and he said that i could ...

Supposed to be wrapping up, it was 100% democratic surrogates with no republicans. maybe the obama side did that to get us to talk about it, or maybe they thought they did a great job and wanted to tell their story. one thing weve been discussing is the role of the moderator. the way they were combative and combative with the moderator, with candy crowley of cnn. we have a taste of that. >> he got the first question. so i get the last question. >> actually, in the follow-up it doesnt work like t...

The spin room. hes spoken to both tonight. >> well, its fascinating rachel to see the verdict coalesce here within minutes of the debate. everybody in the press room thought that the president had done a good job. after talking to both camps and reading between the lines and listening to the spin, it was clear that this was a big night for the president, and i think even the romney campaign understands that. they said the president came out swinging talking about the romney people now. and he ce...

It in terms of climate. >> one issue that came up for the first time that did not come up in the vice presidential debate or the presidential debate but is absolutely critical to this the country, not just on substance but in terms of the electorate, something steve that youve been raising which is not just the latino vote but immigration. i have a quick clip i want to play from the way mr. romney responded to a question, a very conservatively worded question. a woman asking about what the candi...

Romney. but basically most people thought it was a draw, chris. >> let me ask all four women there to answer a question tonight that romney did not answer. he was asked where he stood on equal pay for women. and he was asked directly by one of the people in the town hall tonight. he refused to answer the question. obama tagged him later saying he wouldnt answer it before when it came up. i want to know if those four women were surprised that one of the candidates refused to support equal pay for...