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Let's get to the military though. >> that's what i'm trying to get. >> he should have answered the first question. >> look, governor romney has called for $5 trillion of tax cuts that he says is he going to pay for by closing deductions. the math doesn't work he continues to claim that he is going to do it. he then wants to spend another $2 trillion on military spending that our military is not asking for. now, keep in mind that our military spending has gone up every single year that i have been in office. we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined, china, russia, franc...

Budget. >> that's what i'm trying to get to. >> he should have answered the first question. look. governor romney's called for $5 trillion of tax cuts that he says he's going to pay for by closing deductions. now the math doesn't work, but he continues to claim that he's going to do it. he then wants to spend $2 trillion on military spending that our military is not asking for. now keep in mind, our military spending has gone up every single year that i have been in office. we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined. china, russia, france, the uk, you name it. the next ...

To anticipate. we've been asking for months, how is mitt romney going to explain the deduction side of his $5 trillion tax cut. he's going to do a $5 trillion tax cut. he says he's going to pay for it by closing deductions. who among us anticipated that mitt romney's answer would be, i will not do a $5 trillion tax cut? that is not -- i could not anticipate it. i don't know if anyone on the obama team anticipated it, but that was a stunning way for mitt romney to get out of his obligation to answer how he's going to pay for this tax cut. he simply lied outright about the size of his tax cut. >...

Different approaches of romney and obama played very differently with this sort of a format and that romney just rolled over the format and made it about everything he wanted it to be. everything on domestic policy on which he is the weakest was just avoided because he drove the agenda of the debate. lehrer got rolled over by romney again and again. and it was the president's fault that he did not do the same thing. >> one more quick point. mitt romney is very, very hard to anticipate. we've been asking for months, how is mitt romney going to explain the deduction side of his $5 trillion tax c...

he has three words of advice today for the obama white house to try to salvage the party's chances of victory in 2012. those words, "fire, indict and fight." james carville is joining us now. james, you created quite a stir in this article you've written for cnn.com. let me read a couple of lines. among other things you say, "what should the white house do now? one word came to mind, panic. this is what i would say to president barack obama. the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed." what are you talking about? >> ...