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Television event, and he looked unhappy. he looked mean, according to some people who just were looking at the screen themselves. mitt romney was aggressive but smiling. john harris, politico editor in chief, whae eigh in here. >> im not contrarian but i listen to ruths counterconventional wisdom because shes a shrewd observer. >> totally wrong you one or the oth other. >> its rare, et cetera specially the night of the debate, journalists are cautious, they fought to a draw. its very rare that i...

Observer of romneys performance. i could go on -- i got to let you talk. i could go on. go ahead. >> you could go on. we might want you to stand in for barack obama. >> i could do this show alone tonight actually, but go ahead. >> as you have observed, chris, essentially last night two things happened. one is that the president inexplicably bizarrely just failed to show up. and the other thing is mitt romney lied his ass off. now, the white house needs to do something about that first thing. the...

I inherited a mess and ive made it better. he believes that to be true, i know he does, but say it and say it with some passion. >> and my question to you, ron, was where was the music and the passion last night of the president. why didnt he just go in there and say here is 15 minutes and i can talk about anything i want. jim lehrer is not getting in my way. why didnt he say here is why i stuck out my neck for the american auto industry. >> absolutely. >> its not just about jobs. i feel america...

Tighten up. you talked about likability. thats the most important thing that barack obama has going for him. mitt romney was able to come across as decently likeable last night except for the big bird line, there wasnt many awkward mo moments. he talked about his kids and wife, so did the president. he did not come across as the greedy venture capitalists. president obama took no attempt to do it, and i dont know about the do nothing congress? thats a staple hold of president obamas speeches for...

You are right, i think. this is the president of bain capital. this is how they operate. and this is what he did. and what happened was, i think you used the word bystander. an observer. the president became on observer. sat there. stood there. listening. >> even if the instruction manual, even in the directors signals what youre supposed to do, they were told prepare a closing statement. >> oh. >> president obamas closing statement, the last opportunity to set the viewers straight on the impres...

Undersecretary of the air force when cobar towers were hit. huge changes were made in terms of how we hand the security for the military people and diplomats. there will be a full review. all the facts will be on the table. >> bret: does it play, though? does it hurt the president politically? >> i think that you have to look at all of the things that are going on. because the president runs on his record. in the last two weeks, we have had the largest naval exercise. i think 30 countries involv...

Nation, that we have tens of thousands of troops at war in afghanistan and the venue where you might have built some support for that, that doesnt happen. but i think you should remember that syria is one of the issues that people will critique the president on. its described as an observer. the united states is a participant like many countries in this conflict and trying to engage and be involved, but not really any leadership role or any particular action 34r57b plan or any particular goal sp...

Registrations and the like. >> brian: now, lets talk about what youre doing at the polls this year with some guys and some ladies that want to help out to make sure the vote actually gets done the right way. >> so were recruiting veterans across the country. the reason were recruiting veterans is that every veteran at one point in their life has taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defends the constitution. so who better than veterans to watch the polls and be a fair observer of elections. >>...

Go into classrooms to observe teachers and to give them feedback. training to make sure that theyre really watching things that matter for kids learning. and very carefully planned tools so that when a principal or someone else is watching they can pay attention to how the teacher leads a discussion what kind of environment there is in the classroom, whether the teachers explanations are correct from a content point of view. and quite a few other things. but if you dont provide a tool like that ...

The race. thursday night was the first debate against the two, and i want to bring in charles pierce, lead writer at "esquire" magazine and a veteran observer in massachusetts. he joins us from boston this morning. charlie, great to have you on the program. >> good morning, chris. good morning, everyone. >> so what has shifted in this race? were puzzling flew the shift that weve seen nationally in the race in the last month, and im curious for the massachusetts specific answer to that question. ...