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About justice how agretsive vice president joe biden will be. has president obama spoken to the veep and offered any sage words of advice? >> well, you heard it right there in the interview, i think the vice presidents goal will be the same as the presidents was last week to lay out the economic choice for the middle class in this election. but what he will do is try to correct the brazen attempt that the romney/ryan ticket to rewrite and hide their position. you saw "the new york times" reporte...

Moment without a doubt. even the focus groups taken that night were giving results that commentators were saying, weve done focus groups since the beginning of election. never has there been confirmed affirmative support of one candidate as a result of one performance. this is exactly why right now you see the president of and his campaign starting to grasp for straws. theyre getting to the point theyre getting a little desperate. trying to create this impression mitt romney lied his way through...

Middle east and developments around the world is a real concern and republicans and democrats both love america, but we need to have leadership. leadership in washington to bring people together and get the job done and could not care a less it is republican or democrat. i have done it before and i will do it again. >> you agree with that. >> yes. what was so powerful for you listening to the debate. >> the fact that he will bring people together and work with both asked and come to an agreement...

Of tie up. as a rin governor in a very democratic state of massachusetts he got things passed. >> he did. its a particularly effective discussion for him to develop because as you know and you and i had this discussion most americans want to see things get done of they want to see problems solved and what mitt rom fee has done is fix things. and this is to work as cross the line. hes had to do that when running lirp olympics so that is something american people want to hear. i would be willing t...

In iran hundreds of angry protestors marching in tehran chanting anti-government slogans. they are upset that the currency is losing the value. at one point riot police used tear gas. iranian ahmadinejad claims that the current sanctions is creating a crisis in his country. heather? >> time for who is talking . we have reaction from undecided voters. frank lunt spoke with focus groups and heres reaction. >> lets take a look at what our undecided said was highlights of the debate. >> as president...

Yesterday. or as you see almost every day. its his natural format. hes very good at it. >> and hes worked on it. >> he has. >> hes a lot better than he was in 2008. >> no doubt about it. yeah. and by the way, those debates, al, did make a difference for some people. >> let me go back to 1980 because i covered that debate and wrote a book on that campaign. i went back the other day and i did, sam, re-read the 1980 -- >> someone make fun of al, then. geez. >> listen, hes, like, our age. he has no ...

Ryan matters very much, certainly on a foreign policy story. >> do you think it worked? >> i think theres a sequence of things thats going to happen here. this links up the first two. mitt romney has a paramount goal. he must get past this first debate and still have life in this campaign. if he can get through that first debate and as mark was saying earlier, convince republicans that hes still in the race, not have his fund-raising dry up, not have all the republican outside groups abandon him...

Republican focus groups and democratic focus groups, one topic is dominating both of those. and that is the 47% videotape. that broke through, pollsters are finding both campaigns seeing this in their focus groups in a way that nothing else has. to the point that one romney adviser told me that they think that the president may refer to it in every third answer. they believe strongly the president is going to hammer them on this videotape because everyones talking about it in the poll -- in the ...

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In this same case the 47% thing i think is devastating. and mark talked about the people -- we talk to people all the time who are doing focus groups on the republican side and democratic side. this is cutting with voters. voters think theres something thats toxic here and theres a reason why this is the third ad the obama campaign has put up on this 47% thing. theyre putting up those ads because theyre working and this ad in particular i think because its in mitt romneys own voice is just a sig...