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2012. sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. i'm martha raddatz, of abc news, and i am honored to moderate this debate between two men who have dedicated much of their lives to public service. tonight's debate is divided between domestic and foreign policy issues. and i'm going to move back and forth between foreign and domestic since that is what a vice president or president would have to do. we will have nine different segments. at the beginning of each segment, i will ask both candidates a question and they will each have two minutes to answer. then i will encourage a discuss...

Response from president obama. >> the strategy for vice-president biden is to drive a wedge in between paul ryan and governor romney, to get in between the policy positions so that, essentially, they're setting up vice-president biden would be setting up his boss before the next debate. in other words, to put governor romney back on his heels before that town hall debate in new york. >> one of the dynamics we will be watching is the considerable age difference, between the two men, about 30 years. we talked about how when vice-president biden had already gotten married and graduated from colle...

At least dan quayle says that he was consulted in preparing for this debate tonight. the debate is about now to begin. again, one of the interesting things about tonight is the moderator is an unconventional choice. the moderator is martha raddatz, a very, very well respected, well traveled, hard nosed serious reporter. she's the senior foreign affairs correspondent at abc. because of that, and because of the wide open format of tonight's structure of the debate, we do expect that there will be questions tonight on foreign policy which we have not yet seen in debate season. for everything that...