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Battleship where we count ships. its what are our capabilities? >> i think we saw twitter explode with that comment. the room that i was in definitely exploded. its buzzy and funny and fits the narrative that obama has made about i know the new answers and complexities of the modern world and military, and youre stuck in the past. romney reminds a lot of people of a 1950s sitcom dad and this plays into that. you have this old school norman rockwell past guy and this looking to the future guy. >>...

Department provides off camera a blow-by-blow account of the attack. reporters learn that the compound was overwhelmed. fighters armed with machine guns and possibly rocket propelled grenades. congress holds a hearing. and state department officials despite being warned of attacks refused to beef up security in libya. first question is next vice presidential debate. >> i would like to begin with libya. >> and turns questions about what really happened in been gas si into benghazi into a heated i...

Department provides off camera a blow-by-blow account of the attack. reporters learn that the compound was overwhelmed. fighters armed with machine guns and possibly rocket propelled grenades. congress holds a hearing. and state department officials despite being warned of attacks refused to beef up security in libya. first question is next vice presidential debate. >> i would like to begin with libya. >> and turns questions about what really happened in been gas si into benghazi into a heated i...

Increased security at the embassy when we heard in security hearings on wednesday there were repeated requests by members of the defense department to have increased security. those requests for denied. they felt as though the taliban were itself inside the building. i think these are some questions if joe biden and barack obama did not know about this, either theyre ignorant or misleading the american people, neither of which should be tolerated. >> three lightning round questions for all three...

Of the republican party for the past few years. seen as a leader, a visionary, possibly the future of the gop. after that description, risk taker. risk taker. because running for vice president and losing is actually rarely a steppingstone on the ladder of political trajectory. after all, can you name the last vice presidential losing candidate who then went on to be elected? well, anywhere? dont answer. because i have a pop quiz. ♪ okay. so panel heres the challenge today. im going to read to...

Of course, william miller. of course it is. which unsuccessful vp candidate returned to serve as governor for 264 days before stepping down. >> sarah palin. >> very good. although there is a weird gender coherence thing going on. being, it was sarah palin. she remained governor of alaska for almost nine month before becoming the worlds biggest facebooker updater. >> there was at least a while in this race a question whether or not she was going to be in the hat for the vp. but no. not this tim...

Number two, vice presidential running mates always, first thing is do no harm. we learned that obviously from sarah palin. most americans look at the vice presidential debate and say im still going to vote for romney or the president. unless theres a game changer like a sarah palin moment. thats not going to happen on thursday. i go back to my original point. these are two very smart people sticking to the talking points. at the end of the day, now what ryan does do for the ticket is he energize...

>> if you want to know my position on issues, ask me and ill tell you. >> okay, mitt. in tonights rewrite, then, i will play the part of people who have asked you your position on issues, and you have refused to tell them your position on issues. i will use their questions word for word, and your responses word for word. your responses of course are not actually spans. they are just romney words that dont mean anything or add anything to our understanding of your position on issues. i think youl...

Ill tell you. >> okay, mitt. in tonights rewrite, then, i will play the part of people who have asked you your position on issues, and you have refused to tell them your position on issues. i will use their questions word for word, and your responses word for word. your responses of course are not actually spans. they are just romney words that dont mean anything or add anything to our understanding of your position on issues. i think youll be able to guess whose questions these are especially w...

Down ballot are still playing a little bit of defense. highcamp is the only one to show how to effectively turn that around. >> you saw how effectively the republicans showed this jujitsu on medicare and the tax, the effect on seniors. >> theres no cuts being done by anyone in medicare. medicare is growing enormously under anyones plan. it is around $550 billion a year today. its going to go even under the to supposed ryan plan to $950 billion ten years from now. then they talk about slowing the...