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President obama joined president clinton on stage. and joining us now our political panel. byron york, and amy stod yard and rick klein. all right. byron, youre first, big night tonight. president clinton coming out to, you cant stop thinking about tomorrow. >> its a big speech. i said it last night. bill clinton makes the case for barack obamas reelection better than barack obama does. clinton is the best simplifier and best explainer in the business. and he just knocked down republican policy ...

President obama joined president clinton on stage. and joining us now our political panel. byron york, and amy stod yard and rick klein. all right. byron, youre first, big night tonight. president clinton coming out to, you cant stop thinking about tomorrow. >> its a big speech. i said it last night. bill clinton makes the case for barack obamas reelection better than barack obama does. clinton is the best simplifier and best explainer in the business. and he just knocked down republican policy ...

Going in to what might be considered a lions den for you, what is your comfort level at attending an event where people have talked about you in negative way, debated your role as a woman in a national figure within the conversation itself and finds you to be a threat? how comfortable are you going to that dinner? >> im excited. i think it will be fun to go to the dirn ill get to meet people and hear from the performer and things im excited. im not worried who ill meet there or anything like tha...

Enunciating 24 policy points. bill: yeah, gets a little dry over time. but weve got a lot of them we can make. we heard a little clip. was the target of your speech all directed at president obama? >> no. really what i was trying to say that when a persons policies are so at odds with the basic moral center of the country its going to reflect itself not just in the issues that people tend to marginalize as social issues, it will have an impact on economic issues. heres the point. if you dont hav...

Of the population. bill: thats a fair point. i just want to make this point, the moderates and the conservatives moved along the same line in both of the clips you just showed us. how do viewers or voters react to the emotion that you saw? >> they want to see it. bill: do they? does the tears and the stories, theyre okay with that? >> its not just whats in your head, its also whats in your heart, its whats in your soul. and these debates up until now have argued over specific policy points, and ...

He has taken his licks in the first two debates. now in this third debate hes coming back at romney. romney wants to look presidential, wants to make perry look like hes too extreme so he will look have a cooler performance and those two will collide with each other in a big way tonight. megyn: what do you anticipate will happen? mitt romney has been going around with his questions on social security. he has been doing it on the stumps. does perry come out and answer those questions tonight? >> ...

today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the middle east wasnt naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous. >> and the governor didnt stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left irans radical regime emboldened. >> to date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was wasting precious time on a naive policy of out...

street. but it is trying to negotiate some compromise so that it doesnt come to that. thats tough enough. and now add in this in your face political chal friend the republican presidential front-runner. texas governor rick perry who came to new york city to accuse president obama of fumbling middle east diplomacy and undermining israel in the process. >> we are equally indignant of the obama administration and their middle east policy of appeasement thats encouraged such an ominous act...

Eight people running for the democratic nomination. if you asked each of the candidates. theyre going to the debates and running against the other six or seven individuals made them stronger in terms of talking points and stronger in terms of policy points. the more the merrier, goose -- good for the american people, they finally have a choice. remind me of alan keyes, fires up the base, and theres no there there, in terms of qualifications for running for president, its not there. >> dave: its ...

Federal government are specifically limited. the states have the rights to, for instance, mandate kids going to school, mandate auto insurance. states have certain rights they can exercise and the right thing for the president to do now with these decisions saying his bill is unconstitutional, with the house taking action to repeal it, with the senate considering doing so, he should press the pause button and say, you know what, lets hold back on this obama care. >> david corn is the washington ...