Lives for florida, tonight round three. Big question who will win . And ive been saying up until a couple of weeks ago probably obama by a few points. Now i have absolutely no idea. 40 is not a great number for a president a couple weeks before election day. In the last few months theres a lacking narrative, absence after clear vision where we go. Lets get straight to it. Joining me is sean spicer. Sean, good to have you here. Tonights debate will be broken into six separate sections, moderated by Bob Schieffer. Each focusing on a Foreign Policy hot spot. We want to drill down on some of these. The contrast between the governor and president. First we want to start with libya because theres a new report out today from the wall street journal that supports what the white house said about the intelligence briefing. Heres what Stephanie Cutter from the Obama Campaign said about libya today on morning joe. Mitt romney on the day of that tragedy when he came out and shot from this and before he had any facts blamed the United States. So, blamed the president. So sean, a president romney would presumably have been given this same information. How can he credibly claim his response would be any different than that of president obamas . Well what governor romney was responding to at the time as you recall that the embassy in cairo had put out a statement talking about appeasement and that a video and trying to the folks that were attacking the embassy in cairo, it wasnt something that we condoned and apologizing for the video. Thats what the governor was talking about then. I think theres a big difference between how the white house reacted to the terrorist act that occurred at the consulate in benghazi and thats a whole separate issue. The problem, thomas, is the timeline that the white house is trying to discuss changes so often in terms of what they said and when they said it and, you know, the president went to the u. N. Two weeks after the attack in benghazi and made it very clear six times that the incident there stemmed from a video. The u. N. Ambassador susan rice was on all five of the sunday talk shows on stunned after the incident abutting to it a video and jay carney did it. Now they are coming back and rewriting history saying we called it an act of terror and knew all along. Then why did you comment the way did you for two weeks if you had that information. So i think thats where the timeline just doesnt add up. When we talk about whats going to take place tonight both the white house and iran are disputing this report that appeared in the New York Times over the weekend that theres these bilateral talks planned for a postelection time period, both president and governor romney said military action is on the table as a last resort here. Diplomacy first. The governor favors sanctions and the president has put the most crippling sanctions in history on iran. Is there a clear contrast between what the president has done and what mitt romney said he would do if elected . I think in this area, were going to assume that the white house denials of these attempts to have one on one talks are false because they denied them. We do need to move forward with the p5 plus one, work with our allies, make it a group effort to continue to put pressure on iran. But we need to start seeing iran walk backwards not continue to fight for more time so they eventually, you know, get this mission, get this weapon up. So weve got to continue to work with our allies under the p 4 plus one process. As we talk about tissue of afghanistan which is likely to come up this evening as well and we talk about what the Obama Campaign has a new ad calling it a clear choice between candidates on this topic the president is moving american troops out in 2014. Keeping that timeline, if in 2014 generals were to talk to mitt romney about the, what hes called the president s and chastised the president on a timed retreat mitt romney supports moving out in 2014. If mitt romney talked to generals in afghanistan in that time period he would recalibrate his position on that or move those troops out . The first part that the governor has sort of criticized is the notion of publicly announcing your time table. I think that tells the enemy and the folks in afghanistan and a lot of these groups know how to play the long game. They go okay if we have to wait for a year well wait four to get out. Talking and exposing what your plan is, when youre going to withdraw is not probably a policy that mitt romney would have pursued. That being said to your question i think he will continue to listen to the generals on the ground and part of it is in just listening to them but figure out what threats is foeposed to our National Interest. If the generals are telling you theres a resurgence in one particular area, we need to address it thats something as any commanderinchief would sit down and say lets figure it out, how do we protect america to the best of our ability. Is it in our National Interest to be an occupier . Thats correct. Its also in our National Interest to protect our nation, our people and our allies. When we talk about staying in afghanistan and talking about a timeline, do you think that in announcing a timeline that weve been able to reach the goals that were out lined, why we went to afghanistan in the first place for . I think theres still a lot of work that has to to be done in training the Afghan Forces to get to the place where they can assume responsibility for their own safety. Progress is being made in that front. And were going to have to dont see. Sean spicer with the rnc down in boca for talks, the debate. Sean, thanks so much. I want to bring in monday morning political power panel. Its great to have you all thee here. Joanna i want to start with you because the race very interesting. All tied up among the likely voters. 4747. This is not good news if youre the incumbent. Its good news if youre mitt romney. Think what youve seen over the last few sweweeks is a consolidation of his base. Youve seen particularly in our poll in the nbc wall street journal poll Barack Obamas numbers have been stable. Philippines look at registered voters. What that does mean a lot of the media momentum is with mitt romney. Hes getting more of the positive headlines and more momentum describing headlines. Going into tonight his challenge is to go in and not over learn once again the lessons of that first debate and be so aggressive. The elephant in the room he has so many george bushs advisers on his team. They are talking about whether we should take military acshow in the middle east. He has to calibrate how hell attack that issue. Thats the last thing people want on the right is to align romney with bush and remind people that mitt romney is being advised by a lot of the people that advised george w. Bush. John bolton, he has the bush team. Mitt romney, a novice on Foreign Policy. He has aligned himself with people that were advisers to bush 43. He made headlines for what David Axelrod called dukes of hazard in a National Tour when he went to europe and brought up his olympics experience in Salt Lake City to take the knees out of the gang in london because of the planning that had gone into theirs. Is this more of a situation where do no harm benefits mitt romney tonight like not coming out and taking the bait of the president to show any aggravation because when youre the president theres a different view of Foreign Policy from the oval office. Mitt romney does not have that. Youre right. I think do no harm wont be enough for mitt romney. I think its wrong to view this as a debate in any sense we would understand what a norm wral debate is. Its a televised opportunity for mitt romney to exaggerate differences on key issues that cynically and pragmatically they will try to figure out how to move voters in ohio what happens in those 90 minutes tonight. I expect for that reason ill try to tie the Foreign Policy discussion to economics and jobs. I think that pushes him towards china where hes been more aggressive than the president in what his kind of aggression is about the chinese currency manipulation, the trade subsidy, theft of intellectual property. The question is because the obama folks have him boxed in, as soon as he hits the China Capital they hit bain capital, outsourcing the values issues that they are running in ohio saying hes not one of us so they may trump what otherwise would be a vulnerability i think the president would have on the china trade relationship. In the syllabus, china comes in last. Well see how quickly they can push that button. Hell try to do it. Ambassador ross two Big International stories in the headlines over the weekend. Still the libya story and the facts coming out of that persist and also the report about these talks with iran after the election. What Foreign Policy question do you want answered above all others tonight . What your hoping to hear . Well i do think the biggest question is given transformation in the middle east whatsing the right position for the United States, whats the posture and what are the responses we ought to be taking . I mean one thing to keep in mind not every country is the same and you have to do Something Different in light of it. Syria is where we have an all out conflict going on right now. The we is given the potential for conflict in syria to radiate out to the region should we be doing smothering and if so what should it took like . Tissue of iran has been there for the last four years and last three administration. Are we on the right track . Can we change irans behavior . I dont take those stories seriously on agreement about talks but by the same token both sides emphasize our objective is prevention of iran with nuclear extra abilities meaning they cant have it. If thats the case, what more do we need to do from a diplomatic to achieve that. If diplomacy fails, whats left on the table . When we talk about the arab spring is democracy but the path there is very muddled. Joanna as you brought up, new poll shows mitt romney narrowing the gap when it comes to women. Why do you think hes been able to lock up what has been a very vulnerable spot for him . Theres still a gender gap but its very demarcated when it comes to race and age and marital status. Married white women over 50 lean republican anyway. Once again youre seeing mitt romney conso lie dating what our constituencies that leaning republican which is married, particularly suburban white women. When you look at women among ethnic lines, latino women and africanamerican women thats a wider gender gap. A lot has to do with the age of the respondent. I want to show quinnipiac the poll they have out. Showing the president with a double digit lead among women. Leading overall there by five points. Do you think it will boil down to ohio . It looks like it may boil down thoi. Im still worried. Maybe im a worry wart were hearded to a scenario where theres a electoral vote and popular vote which will be a disaster for the country. If we have to go through Something Like that again with all until applications of a Banana Republic it would imply and be awful. I hope it wont be that way but i have a little bit of fear. Ambassador ross when we talk about the president coming in tonight with a different purview from the oval office on Foreign Policy what it means for noerk be a world leader and calling other countries to rise up do you think he walks a fine line of being able to lay out that agenda and do so in a way that americans want to resonate with that because in our polling its showing that on certain factors americans want to see a second term going in a different direction. On the one hand when youre president you have a responsibility because the world is listen towing and everyone who you are dealing with is listening to you. Youre trying to strike out a posture that in a sense addresses those needs and be responsible. On the other hand you want to say things that resonate with the American People. The president has adopted a position that says were going to were is going shape our Foreign Policy that takes account of our resource, well be active in the world, we cant solve every problem every where. I think governor romney faces a challenge of on the one hand trying to demonstrate that hes responsible but hes is going reassert greater American Leadership because theres always a desire in the American Public for us to be seen as a leader. Do we want to pay the price of leadership . Thanks to our panel. So laying out a second term agenda for fortunate. Is that his biggest weakness . Ill talk with congressman Charlie Rangel about that. He joins me in the studio. Even the newspapers are split. Some of the biggest papers in the country in the key battleground states make their choice throwing their support behind candidates. I want to know what you think. What Foreign Policy question is most important . We want to hear your thoughts in light of the debate coming up. 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Here is something for the candidates to keep in mind as they head to florida for their final face to face before election day. This headline in the mime herald, Foreign Policy is a local issue in south florida. Meanwhile president obama and governor romney have both picked up big endorsements from floridas largest newspapers. President obama the Tampa Bay Times and governor romney the orlando sentinel. Romney also picked up the tampa trib. Ohio papers handed out sbe endorsements. Cleveland plain dealer backing Prsident Obama and Columbus Dispatch backing romney. Ballots are being cast before election day in seven of nine battleground states. Virginia and New Hampshire dont have early in person voting. So just moments ago president obama left camp david and they are hitting back on accusations hes failed to lay out an agenda for a second term. He has laid out a second term agenda. It was a big part of the convention speech. It was a reason we got such a bump out of the convention because the American People saw what a second term would mean. Here is part of the president s second term agenda. Investment in manufacturing jobs by doubling exports and closing loopholes that send jobs overseas. 100,000 new math and science teachers expanding Community College around the country, cutting dependence on foreign oil in half and a plan to cut the deficit. Why isnt that message coming through . Well bring in congressman Charlie Rangel to talk more about that. I want to play for you first off what senator mark rubio said over the weekend on meet the press. Take a listen. The American People have got into see up close as he offers a vision for the future. But even more startling is the president s complete failure to put forth an agenda for the next four years. Senator rubio there saying americans have had more time to get to know who the real mitt romney is but the fact that the president hasnt laid out this clear agenda. Is that a problem . Has the problem failed to lay out a clear second term agenda . No. Its going close election, but its abundantly clear to everyone thats followed congress that the president s laid out an agenda that almost all of americans can opt into. But when they start out on the day that hes sworn in saying not one piece of legislation are they prepared to support in the house of representatives, the republican majority, how the heck to we get a jobs bill, how do we get tax reform, how do we get education, how can we create manufacturing jobs. But dont say we didnt lay it out. We laid it out. Were proud of it. One thing thats abundantly clear, if romney is depending on what hes tone in the past, whether were talking domestic or Foreign Policy, the president has been in charge. I really hope that he shows that hes in charge. Sir, one thing i want to get to is very important is the president says he wants to complete the work he started within his first term in the next four years. However a brand new nbc wall street journal poll shows if reelected 62 wants the president to make some major changes. Do you think those are major changes they want to see in policy or in governing styles . They want to go back network. They want decent salaries. They want to buy a home. They want to send their kids to college again. They want to feel comfortable that their life will be at least as good as their parents. Thats a feeling thats based on the economy. And the question has to be who do you have the most confidence in . Someone who has a record years ago or someone that has been trying hard to get the congress to suppo