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He is a great salesman. id buy a car from him. >> tom, how do you see it? >> i see it as good for the country. i think these debates have reenergized the country. i think that the two candidates have to have big ideas and theyre going to have to be explained not only coherently but practically speaking. theyll have to be candid with the american public. i think well hear from president obama as we did not in that first debate a lot more about the 47% remarks, about the auto bailout for general m...

>> bill: is he not even close, right? >> no. i believe in a cushion, keeping the citizens alive and well and educated and housed. barack obama doesnt provide that nor does this country. >> bill: you and i are in the same union do you know that after sag. its not militant enough for you. >> no. >> bill: i think you and i should run for president and vice president. ill be the president and you be the vice president of the union. [ laughter ] >> bill: i would send you on peace keeping missions. >>...

Thought. >> bill: is he not even close, right? >> no. i believe in a cushion, keeping the citizens alive and well and educated and housed. barack obama doesnt provide that nor does this country. >> bill: you and i are in the same union do you know that after sag. its not militant enough for you. >> no. >> bill: i think you and i should run for president and vice president. ill be the president and you be the vice president of the union. [ laughter ] >> bill: i would send you on peace keeping mis...

Realist manner. budget and financial matters. not necessarily an ideological predilection. >> i agree with you completely. >> before we get to stephanie cutter, we have one more chart to look at which plays into this. >> we sum it up, we talked about the total spending target and ways to get there and about the fact that romney has more ambitious plans for defense, so its all got to come out of somewhere. lets look at the somewhere. this is essentially everything else. this is everything from ve...

Lets take a look at the "morning papers." >> lets do that, from our parade of papers, "chicago tribune," rahm emanuel is promising to close the citys $300 million budget deficit without raising taxes and fees this year. in his annual budget speech, emanuel took aim at chicagos pensions, warning that without reform, the city could raise property taxes in the future by as much as 150%. that is tough news. >> that is tough sledding. in "the wall street journal," the deaths of four americans on the ...

The challenger actually won by several percentage points. is there any recourse here? >> there are elections coming up at the govern ship level and really reveal and be a referendum on what i see is a decline in chavez popularity. in terms of recourse it will be very challenging to overturn the election results. you have a highly technical election process. its clear with chavez controlling the air wave, the election commission and pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the provinces befor...

Much buy votes, spend it on public housing and spend it on pensions. so much so that there is real concern that the currency may have to be devalued pretty soon, shep. >> shep: steve, is there anything to come out of this thats positive for the united states? >> i think for u.s. policy makers, it is positive that this election was largely peaceful. more than 80% turnout, people waiting in lines for hours. there is concern, though, with chavezs direction, both domestically, he supplies 10% of the...

>> bill: a nasty situation involving a romney campaign sign also in california. here now fox news anchor geraldo rivera. so richard is mad at romney, why? >> well, richard hayes is a really, the sanitation worker. is he really the garbage collector at romneys la jolla mansion. also a member of as me the american federation of county and state employees. wevehement opponents of mitt romneys candidacy. they represent all the municipal workers. the people whose pensions are bankrupting cities and h...

That. >> a nasty situation with a romney campaign sign. ews anchor geraldo rivera. so richard is mad at romney, why? >> well, richard hayes is a really, the sanitation worker. is he really the garbage collector at romneys la jolla mansion. also a member of as me the american federation of county and state employees. wevehement opponents of mitt romneys candidacy. they represent all the municipal workers. the people whose pensions are bankrupting cities and have been, you know, in the crosshairs ...

>> bill: a nasty situation involving a romney campaign sign also in california. here now fox news anchor geraldo rivera. so richard is mad at romney, why? >> well, richard hayes is a really, the sanitation worker. is he really the garbage collector at romneys la jolla mansion. also a member of as me the american federation of county and state employees. wevehement opponents of mitt romneys candidacy. they represent all the municipal workers. the people whose pensions are bankrupting cities and h...