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>> is the sense over there among the journalists that candy crowley operated correctly? that her role stepping in there in the middle of the back and forth saying he's right, you're wrong. how's that going over among the journalists over there? >> chris, the biggest complaint i'm hearing about the moderating is not that. it's more of why didn't she let it go? for instance, i know as a viewer myself, the bush question and then the question to the president about, you know, i was with you before and i don't feel like i -- you know, i don't feel a lot better than i did four years ago, they both a...

>> will we see you in florida? >> i hope to see you in florida. >> thank you for joining us again. >> thank you, lawrence. chuck todd, msnbc's political director is with us from the spin room and looking at the impact of tonight's debate. >> when you look at what the president had to do it was almost a role reversal. the president had a plan for his debate and he executed it. he still is on an unanswered question of what is his second term going to look like. but he was going to clearly sit there and ding away and ding away at certain things that he felt he had to get out there, whether it was...

We need to continue to strengthen this economy toward recovery. governor romney wants to go back to the policies that got us in this mess. basically, an $8 trillion spending deal with $5 trillion tax cuts that benefits the wealthy and not the middle class. >> everyone sat down with some focus group somewhere and i want to play you a clip of what some undecided voters told us about president obama. >> maybe i'm wrong, but i don't think that the president mentioned the word deficit once. he didn't mention balancing the budget. he didn't deny that the deficit will be $20 trillion in four years. >...

Totally wrong. >> we'll be talking to ezra klein, our policy analyst about mitt romney's assertion that he doesn't think employers should tell people if they have contraceptives or not. immigration, which we'll be talking about in a moment. mitt romney's overseas investments. he had a ready mande rejoinder o that. it g mitt romney's 47% remarks came up at the very end of the debate in a way judged to be very effective for president obama. gun control came up, although both candidates took that as an opportunity to go off into lots of ideas totally unrelated to guns. this was a strong performan...

On that note because the moderator felt the pressure to cut short some exchanges that might have been interesting if they went on because she felt the need to get more questions in. but it meant that the time clock was almost a supporting player. it was visible behind both men as they spoke and led to frequent attempts to override the moderator. >> i will let you, absolutely -- >> let me answer and -- >> you certainly will have lot of time here coming up. we're going to move you along to taxes. >> i'm used to being interrupted. >> the president was more asserted, did his best to hold his own. ...