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Serve him in the arena as opposed to jim lehrer and candy crowley? >> jim lehrer has tone more debates than anybody else. that was his 12th debate. it didn't serve him very well because he lost complete control of the first debate. now, bob schieffer does "face the nation" every week so he's used to dealing with people and calming them down and getting information out of them. but i just laugh when i hear there are going to be six 15 segments devoted to these topics. i don't think they will keep to that at all. >> it seems too hopeful. alan, i want to ask you because the latest polling is show...

Challenge of on the one hand trying to demonstrate that he's responsible but he's is going reassert greater american leadership because there's 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? i'll 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 cand...

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 you're the president there's a different view of foreign p...

They were just desperate to get down and volunteer and get their friends to the polls. so i think there's a higher level of interest. mitt romney hasn't helped himself with some of the statements he made last week in the debate and that he's made throughout the election about immigration, about the dream act and the kids who want to go to college and i think that's reverberating with hispanic voters. >> thank you for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. >> so joining me now for a special edition of soundoff, melissa harris perry. she's also a political science professor at tulane universi...

Domestic policy again. i talked to a man in my building as i was leaving this morning and i said your watching the debate tonight and he said i don't think so. i said you're not? he said no i don't care about -- i don't care about foreign policy. i don't care about israel and iran. and i'm wondering if that may be the reaction of a lot of americans who want to hear more about the economy than foreign affairs. new make a great point. however this morning there were surrogates on both sides talking about what we can expect to we hear it comes to libya tonight. take a listen. >> it's important we...