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newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. were following breaking news out of south korea. a horrific chain of event and a fast rising death toll in seoul. 146 people are confirmed dead. this happened a t a halloween festival. the video is graphic. its a chaotic scene on the streets of seoul as people perform cpr. the fire department chief says the cause is presumed to be a huge controllable crush of people. we do not know what led to that crush of people. the white house, at this hour, i...

Say a prayer for a friend of mine, mr. paul pelosi. who was attacked, 82 years old, was attacked when somebody broke into his home looking for his wife, nancy. thankfully, doctors believe hesgoing to be okay, but well let the investigators do their job but here is one thing we can feel, we know. if our rhetoric about each other gets that mean, when we dont just disagree with people but we start demonizing them, making wild, crazy allegations about them, that creates a dangerous climate. if elect...

Campaign doesnt offer any evidence of that. romney used the passive terminology, help was given. yes, help was given by the federal government. it wasnt given by the private sector. if hes going to pursue it, hes got to really pursue it. otherwise, hes going to look foolish having raised this to begin with. i think the challenge to the romney campaign, im here talking to their people. i want to know what they are up to, if theyre going to pursue this, really pursue it. we didnt see it on day two...

President obamas camp? theres some guys here that vote republican that have in the past. how much of a labor effort and a vote is there going to be? >> were going to go all out. we realize we have no choice. he is the only game in the room for us. hes the guy thats going to have to fight our fight. were going to fight it together. we dont get everything we want from him but we also realize he shares most of our values and hes there on collective bargaining. hes there on unions and hesgoing to fi...

We wont comment on how much the court should have set the became for. ill only takes $15,000 in the right surety agent to get him out. thats not a lot. >> is this the right move? thisç happens all the time tha someone would get bail on a second-degree murder charge. this isnt unusual in that regard. in this case, were you thinking going into that courtroom, hesgoing to be released and theres going to be some conditions and the fact hes out of state. >> i think -- any florida lawyer knew bail w...

Sometimes joe biden just speaks the truth a little too good. thats a confident camp right there. if we add jobs april, may, june, july, august, september, october. thats going to be a string of months plus the 24 weve had, thats going to be 30 months of private sector job growth. what can romney say about that? >> i dont know what hell say. hes losing his argument. whats he going to say if the economy is on its way to being fixed if people think things are getting better. >> what about bidens co...

What the dynamism is in the private sector. >> the bottom line is if you look at 62% of kids who go on the college with the faith commitment leave without it. i understand why barack obama wants to send every kid to college. ive floated the idea. im trying to figure out how we can make it work of somehow or another requiring colleges and universities who receive public dollars to have diversity. >> he has issue with public education system. his children are home schooled. hes got an issue with h...

Other presidents is deeply invested in the best interest op this country. just because we have political differences and different ways to approach the economy does not mean that one candidate is the devil and one is the sort of deliverance by the grace of god. that kind of politics is very destructive and dangerous. its quite ignorant. >> indeed. the fight is now on for michigan. even if romney does pull off a win on tuesday, our latest polling has him down 18 points there against the president...

We shouldnt expect the president to slow down. hesgoing to keep going on this. >> reporter: i think the white house has hit its stride from a communication standpoint and the economic data over the last several weeks is helping him out, not only helping the country out but helping the president out politically. a lot has been made that the only president to be re-elected with an unemployment rate over 8% -- over 7% was ronald reagan in 84. the trend is presidents frentsdfriend. >> the president,...

Gop specialist. newt gingrichs conduct is beginning to remind of the road to bazra. hes going to set fire to as much as the republican party as he can. what advice would you give him? >> i would give the advice of dont do it. choose the less selfish route and focus on the task at hand and thats unseating president obama in november, which there is a real chance to do. newt gingrich, this sb it for him. this is his political career. its not surprising that hesgoing down this way. he worked to rec...