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Welcome back to "americas newsroom." you heard the other side. what do you think of that? >> well i think that the mayor is, im sure might have been watching a little bit of a different debate than most people were last night. you know, obviously joe bidens mugging for the camera took a lot away from his performance but the one thing i think, bill, that is most important, and is that the vice president was really factually incorrect when it came to the security issue in benghazi. he said that th...

T gop should be talking about the middle class and ways to help it. but they are not. not in the least. not seriously. for months republicans have proudly carried around their note cards that show all their jobs plans for the work class. yet a new report says those bills wont actually create jobs. thats right. one economist even says, quote, a lot of these proposals are laughable. funny. im not laughing. well, at least they wont let taxes increase on the middle class. right? >> we are not going ...

This administration has increased the level of economic uncertainty. the largest tax increase in america is about to start december 31st -- megyn: i want to answer one question before we go. let me put this to you, basil. its in the news today that barack obama is now moving away from his use of the teleprompter, that hes now going off note cards, and they thought it would give him, you know, be more humanistic. >> more candid. megyn: do you think this was, possibly, a result of that? you go off...

If youre mitt romneys campaign, mitt romneys campaign will make the point they think this recovery should have been much more quick than it has been and they will point out to people that there are still that high unemployment rate. manufacturing as weve been discussing and they will say obamas economic policies have not helped the country and in fact have discouraged business development. as youre pointing out on the other side, you can see president obama saying, well you know what? were makin...

much more from and about the hawkeye caucuses later this hour. sears holdings is out with a partial list of the sears and k-mart stores it plans to close. earlier this week sears said it would close between 100 and 120 stores as a result of poor holiday sales. the firm has released a list of 79 that will be closed nationwide. sears said in a statement that it could not say how many jobs will be cut or when the stores will be closed. sears holdings has more than 4,000 stores in the u....

Thats one problem that he has. the other problem he has, he is blaming the feds. basically saying he wants the feds to do more to protect the border. regardless of what the texas rangers are doing. in another part of his answer, he blame lack of support for the federal government. then he is making an argument in terms of federal power and responsibility which also undercuts the main message of his campaign which is the states can do it alone. so he got caught in both directions on that answer. ...

What was written on his note cards, which was the litany of romney flip-flops which has been written out. he presumably has practiced, attempted to memorize. the fact that he completely bungled that. i said it was like he was doing his best will ferrell impersonation. he looks like a bad george w. bush impersonation. it was a romney victory. can i say one thing about the dream act? i dont think there is any response that would work. from the perspective of the republican base, it is indefensible...

He can take any speech and insert some of these one-liners. >> martha: when he was writing a speech did he say, get me box number three that has great stuff on communication or whatever? >> it was more personal. he kept them to himself. with if one of his homes was on fire he would be grabbing these cards. he had his on system. lets say he to speak to a kawanis club group he knew what to put in. if he was talking to a fireman, he collected a joke about putting out a fire or something. he created...

He can take any speech and insert some of these one-liners. >> martha: when he was writing a speech did he say, get me box number three that has great stuff on communication or whatever? >> it was more personal. he kept them to himself. with if one of his homes was on fire he would be grabbing these cards. he had his on system. lets say he to speak to a kawanis club group he knew what to put in. if he was talking to a fireman, he collected a joke about putting out a fire or something. he created...

Much of his governorship and even into his presidency. >> well, they always say in show business easier to find a new audience than to find new material. here is one of reagans note cards that dougs dug up. its on taxes. it reads, every time the government shifts to the left the decimal point in taxes shifts to the right. ron, did he really believe if you lowered the tax rates the government made more money? really believed it? >> i honestly think he did. all evidence to the contrary, i know fin...