challenge of on the one hand trying to demonstrate that he s responsible but he s is going reassert greater american leadership because there s always a desire in the american public for us to be seen as a leader. do we want to pay the price of leadership? thanks to our panel. so laying out a second term agenda for fortunate. is that his biggest weakness? i ll talk with congressman charlie rangel about that. he joins me in the studio. even the newspapers are split. some of the biggest papers in the country in the key battleground states make their choice throwing their support behind candidates. i want to know what you think. what foreign policy question is most important? we want to hear your thoughts in light of the debate coming up. tweet me @thomasroberts.
still the libya story and the facts coming out of that persist and also the report about these talks with iran after the election. what foreign policy question do you want answered above all others tonight? what your hoping to hear? well i do think the biggest question is given transformation in the middle east what sing the right position for the united states, what s the posture and what are the responses we ought to be taking? i mean one thing to keep in mind not every country is the same and you have to do something different in light of it. syria is where we have an all out conflict going on right now. the we is given the potential for conflict in syria to radiate out to the region should we be doing smothering and if so what should it took like? tissue of iran has been there for the last four years and last three administration. are we on the right track? can we change iran s behavior? i don t take those stories seriously on agreement about talks but by the same token both
new york times magazine. very good day to you. thank you, richard. good to be here. so give me your thoughts here. we just said you don t expect the questions that you have to be answered. why is that? we do have 90 minutes here. they ve got to talk about something, obviously. right. if you look at the last debate where they thought there would be half foreign policy and half domestic. and the only foreign policy question was libya. i think people who actually have followed this libya thing find it incredibly display maiing. while there are some very important questions about libya, like should the united states have intervened? is it good thing? how do we feel about the consequences of democracy in the arab world? that s not what anyone is talking about. mitt romney is saying when did you say terrorist and what did you mean by the word terrorist? the underlying question is it s very confusing. it seems it was spontaneous act a, though carried out by an organization that has
week s debate, i think one of the challenges we re going to talk about on the next segment, but foreign policy is not probably where this debate, this campaign is going to be won. they re going to have to find some ways to trick that debate into domestic issues, aren t they? there are a lot of ways that you can do it. things like climate change and energy certainly have internation and domestic implications. but i do think in terms of the impact of these debates, there s a little bit of drama gone because we ve had them both have strong performances. it s 90 minutes of foreign policy and if you look at the town hall format and what questions voters wanted to ask, there was only one foreign policy question. i think both candidates to the extent they can cheat back to domestic policy will probably do so. thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up, the most important news in the world. malala is back on her feet.