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Dollars as much as the guy who made 10. where does it say you have to hurt the guy. >> megyn: and now brad, a former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and dan, the president of gotham ghost writers. an interesting question posed by miss crowly whether it was disrespectful and some on the panel, say it was disrespectful for the doctor to speak this way before the president at the national prayer breakfast. dan, your thoughts? >> i teach a class at nyu and the first thing i tell my stud...

House a totally new strategy. i mean, confronting -- for example, everybodys talking about, okay, now comes the debt ceiling. thats, frankly, a dead loser. >> john boehner doesnt think that way and you know it. >> he has to learn to think that way. >> remember in the candy crowly debate and mitt romney trying to get the president on benghazi and theres this moment and the president just goes, please proceed, governor. it strikes me that this is almost a, please proceed gop moment because its a d...

>> so what is it? are debates becoming less civil or is it just a perception? whats that all about? >> you know, i think it all started during those town hall meetings that were held on the health care reform act. remember at some of those town hall meetings people really got -- got out of control. >> absolutely. yeah. >> and i think it also goes to the fact that theres a lack of civility in the country just generally. i dont think people are as polite or as kind to each other as they have been....

Mother thing and just being a woman, how does crowleys gender play a role in how she was treated? do you think a male moderator would have been talked over the same way? is there a matter of respect or a lack thereof here? >> well, when i think back to the first debate and jim larehr he didnt get to say anything. he completely lost control and just kind of threw up his hands. and i think candy was determined to show that she could handle this debate and she was going to get the questions answere...

Senior adviser tells me, one of the challenges for mitt romney in this debate will be to try to simplify the message into simple sound bite that can be digestible by an american audience but more significantly that can fit into the small timeline presented by a debate format like this. the issue of libya will obviously be an element thats part of the conversation there, given among other things the release by house republicans of state department documents that had been provided to congress, inc...

>> erin, there were more than a handful of men on television today saying that the tone of the debate somehow would perhaps turn off women as if we cant take tough language, as if, i dont know that this is -- i dont want to say "leave it the beaver" because that was a favorite growing up as a kid but in the world of cable news battles we see every day, where is this story line coming up that women who are watching last night would shriek and be afraid of them? i believe thats what they say, we c...

Has been able to break through the stereotype that he is privileged and out of touch n april, when a voter challenged him on his mormon faith, he talked about a decade serving as a pastor in his church. >> that gave met o the occasion work with people on a very personal basis dealing with unemployment, with marital difficulties with health difficulties of their own or with their kids. most americans, by the way, are carrying a burden of some kind. we dont see it. we see some of the street, they ...

Some by this weeks debate moderator. we are learning of an 11-hour change to the debate format. now a followup discussion will be aloud for the candidates that will be driven by the moderator. candy crowley of cnn. here is how this crowley described her perceptions of her job. >> town hall meeting. there will be questioners to the right and left of me and in front of the candidate. they will have the questions and as was the case in the charlie gibson town hall meeting and the tom brokaw town ha...

We have has four trillion dollar budget deficits in a row. megyn: well see you near spin alley. its quiet now, but it wont be in about 7 hours. just hours before the presidential candidates face off we are get something breaking news about in the event. an 11th hour change to the debate format and the role of the debate moderator candy crowly. disturbing details about a drone shot down over israeli air space. the israeli army is linking that to iran. stay tuned for that. [ male announcer ] kids ...

>> gretchen: maybe it will come up at the debate. >> brian: lets look how the debate will fall out. 90 minutes. they take questions and they will each get two minutes to respond. if it goes to president obama, hell respond for two minutes and then mitt romney will have a chance to go. and i understand then the moderator will have a chance to follow up and facilitate the discussion. but not change direction and come up with a different question. questions will focus on everything foreign and dome...