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>> well, the candidates themselves, if they go over thats what cuts into the opportunity for the people, the voters in front of them to ask the questions. the rules tonight are just about as they were with you, except there arent on-line questions this time as there had been four years ago so they get two minutes, a question asked and about five or six seconds and two minutes for each candidate to answer, two minutes for candy to follow up and go on to the next question. theyll got about 20 ques...

Surprise of some kind tonight. theyre probably planning something to startle the audience or catch them off-guard or catch the opponent off-guard. the pitfalls are always the same. george bush 41 on stage with ross perot and bill clinton. our director said take a close up of george bush 41. he looked at his watch right then. thats a moment. al gore stepping in to george bush 43s space in the debate and giving a wonky commentary about job creation that i remember. there are a lot of pitfalls. its...

Pitfalls in his wording? >> words do matter and the international community is confused by governor romney and the foreign policy. the shifting back and forth on issues such as libya, to egypt. very confusing for foreign leaders to gauge where he is and the american people also will want to hear about veterans in this speech unlike the republican convention and understand where will the $2 trillion in extra defense spending come from? >> general, isnt that a big distinction, too? because whats b...

Mine. those are the pitfalls i see him for him on his side of the debate. he has done a good job in a negative way and he will try to reinforce that. >> we have had several weeks since the convention. this is a chance remind republican what is they like about him and what they dont like about president obama. im not sure there will be a huge winner or loser from the debate but it can reset things a little bit. away from the tv ad and strategy of the specific chicago strategist and boston. but tw...

>> as a moderator, not only did you make history, you had to walk a very line, but what sort of pitfalls do moderators have to be wary of? >> well, you have, you cant, you cant think about what people are going to say about you. i tried to do my job as a good journalist, to be fair and to be objective and to be professional. and to seek the truth. i employed those attributes as a reporter and despite how professional i thought it was an how fair i thought i was, i was accused of making george bu...

Such disdain can be a killer. the cut-aways told the tale. sighing and people looking at their watches. is that going to be the mark here people both sides keeping their calm for the cut-aways? >> i think so. the candidates have to realize they are on camera every second of that debate. its not just what you communicate verbally, the way you answer questions. its the way you look, the style, capacity you bring to this stage. i think the president and governor romneys people understand thats a bi...

Politics its one to look up on-line. it was quite something to watch. >> indeed. looks like you had a great time as well. thank you. >> we did. >> and up next, the politico briefing, the pitfalls to avoid tomorrow night. stay with us. [ rosa ] im rosa and i quit smoking with chantix. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first week... im like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasnt smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people q...

Match allegedly was made between a hair on the body of carmen smith the murder victim and mr. daker. >> and this murder victim, the mother was a roommate of the woman ha he had been stalking. is that, correct? >> thats ate woman he had been accused of stalking, yes. >> judge jeanine: and the idea of his cross examining the boy who was stabbed 18 times at the age of five, did -- how do you feel about that as an attorney who represented daker? >> that is one of the real pitfalls of self-representa...

Between a hair on the body of carmen smith the murder victim and mr. daker. >> and this murder victim, the mother was a roommate of the woman ha he had been stalking. is that, correct? >> thats ate woman he had been accused of stalking, yes. >> judge jeanine: and the idea of his cross examining the boy who was stabbed 18 times at the age of five, did -- how do you feel about that as an attorney who represented daker? >> that is one of the real pitfalls of self-representation. you make it too per...

Pushed all the problems to 2013, after the election. and theyre literally, in 3 1/2 years of the obama presidency, no spending cuts, no tax increases. you know, just off to 2013. well, there is an op-ed piece in "the wall street journal" by george schultz and other economists making the point, we are handing the next government, whether its obama, romney, another treasury secretary, a problem that is literally unmanageable unless the people in congress and the white house are going to get seriou...