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0 captioned by closed captioning services, inc eric: hello. i m eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. eric: exactly two weeks until we know who will lead america for four or eight years. last night, the final one-on-one debate between the two candidates. the forum was buzzing with anticipation. the sense of just how much was at stake, made the mood tense and historic. 90 minutes of two political gladiators doing battle in boca. afterwards, both sides claimed victory. here is how some of the seasoned and political minds saw the debate. mitt romney has the demeanor, the temperament, the principles, the skills, to be a great person policy president. what governor romney showed today and i felt badly because it s clear he is not ready to be the commander-in-chief of the united states military. nobody won. it was a draw. boring. so boring. it was the most boring debate i ve ever seen. governor romney, while he may have lost the debate looked like a commander-in-chief. and presented himself in a presidential way. i think the president was very aggressive and it s hoard win a debate when you re not in that mode. i think it s unequivocal, romney won. not just tactically, but strategically. eric: so, let s each take a minute or so and call the debate the way we saw it. bob has promised he won t interrupt anyone. start with andrea and run around the table. what did you think? andrea: i think it was probably a draw. it s supposed to be boring. it s foreign policy debate not with it. 30 in i realized what he was doing. he is going to, he feelings he has the base. he wants to lock down the female vote. he has proven he can be tough. showing he can be a tough president. this one he wanted to prove he could be a statesman. he could be well thought out. and not what thelet has been trying to paint him as, most recently. as a warmonger. i think if that is the litmus test, number one, i think he won. but number two, the reason he did that, they have internal polling to say he s in the lead. dana: there was a delay reaction. some people went to bed thinking oh, he could have got him on this and that. waking up in the morning you think that was the smarter way to handle it. it was a wise decision. what you want in a president is someone you think is wiser than you. like the challenger. that blew my mind. the other winner this is conservatism in the sense when a liberal runs for president, he starts talking like a security. it s all of a sudden about security, not cutting defense. talking about strengths. conservatism is the go-to stance when you want to win. become one? eric: very good. very good. all right, so we each picked our favorite moment from the debate. going to do the five style and start with dana. dana: sure. well, if you d like. eric: start with dana. dana: i believe that this phrase, these six words summed up five words if you contract two words to one. sums up the entire campaign from the obama sand point of attacking romney. take a look. we re talking about the middle east. and how to help the middle east reject the kind of terrorism we re seeing and the rising tide of tumult and confusion. and attacking me is not an biggest threat. romney turned it around i thought answered it just masterfully. take a listen. russia, i indicated is a geo political foe. not excuse me. geopolitical foe. in the same paragraph i said iran is the greatest national security threat we face. russia does continue to battle us in the u.n. time and time again. i have clear eyes on this. i m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr. putin. i m certainly not going to say i ll give you more flexibility after the election. andrea: i thought that it was a very naive attempt by the president to score political point it. he confused that russia is geopolitical foe. we battle them at the u.n. and the other is a terror organization. the fact that the president tried to lump it in and hit it on that, he missed the mark. romney was able to make the distinction and look shrewd. bob: the fact that romney would suggest iran is biggest-threat and doesn t make china, who is clear through biggest threat to the united states, you are talking about iran, a third rate nation dana: iran who is threatening nuclear war? bob: threatening to build a knic nuclear weapon. greg: support china supportser the not the way iran does. dana: iran is funding terrornist iraq killing our troops. andrea: that is his point. dana: president obama got it wrong also when he said that china is the adversary. that s not what the secretary of state said. i thought president obama had terrible debate on merits and he gets the biggest things wrong. he came up with the defense cut idea, sequestions administration, a boring sequestration. bob: what do you mean? it was dana: do you believe bob woodward s book that said obama team came up with sequestration? bob: if you think the deal was cut without republicans agreeing to it. eric: even more disturbing is president obama said don t worry about sequestration. i have it taken care of. what do you mean? dana: he said it s not going to happen. eric: meaning is the second term of obama a bunch of i m going to run around congress, i m not going to talk to senators but what we ll do. we ll do it bob: it has to get done by january 1. first term of obama anyway. greg: this reflects the whole president obama, you don t know his foreign policy. it will out get taken care of after he wins the second term, the whole thing with the putin, promising putin. we don t know. we are in the dark. we re not sure if he knows. what you said in green room, romney seems to know obama s foreign policy more than obama does. dana: better than obama. eric: get this in. one more in before we go to break. for me, my favorite moment, unfortunately it wasn t until 53 minutes in to the debate. take a listen to the apology tour. obama called out and president obama pushed back on. watch. the president began what i call an apology tour, going to the various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. nothing governor romney said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that has been told during the course of this campaign. mr. president, the reason i call it an apology tour is because you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt, and to saudi arabia, and to turkey and iraq. you skipped israel, by the way, our closest friend in the region. you went to the other nations. they noticed you skipped israel. eric: they noticed. israel noticed and so did all of our enemies. bob: he was in israel doing a fundraiser, the fact he did stop and talked to one u.s. troop in afghanistan dana: there is only one candidate who has taken foreign money in this campaign. bob: excuse me. dana: not romney. bob: romney had a fundraiser in jerusalem. eric: stay on president obama. bob: that s what you want to do he didn t apologize for america. eric: romney said mr. president, apologetic for america. bob: pick up the right wing crap about apology tour, which is ridiculous. it s not. bowing and saying we have been dismissive. even divisive. eric: we have to go. january 2009, my job to the muslim world is communicate that america is not your enemy. we sometimes make mistakes. april, america like every bob: that is an apology? eric: makes mistakes and has flaws. united states has done peace, prosperity and we have at times been disengage and at times we sought to dictate our terms. i have more. bob: that is an apology? that s what you call an apology tour? greg: can i make a point. what bob is saying is correct. what you re saying is correct. that is the problem with president obama. is that he always says i never said that. but he means it. his actions dictate an apology but he never has to say i m sorry when he talking about mistakes. that s how he weasels out of the things. i never said i was sorry. you didn t have to say you re sorry. bob: do you have an apology quote using apology ? eric: i ll use it in the next block. we re not close to being finished with last night, the hottest moments, best zingers and gaps are coming up. keep it right here on the five. people really love snapshot from progressive, but don t just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. with snapshot, i knew what i could save before i switched to progressive. the better i drive, the more i save. i wish our company had something this cool. you re not filming this, are you? 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