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>> by the end of the week we will be hearing noise about who the person is and direction. maybe by the end of the day. >> rubio, christie. >> how likely do you think bipartisanship will happen with the fiscal cliff end of the year? issue one? >> the time bomb ready to detonate. i do think the president had is a chance. if he comes forward quickly, this is my solution, get the public behind him. use the presidency in way he didn't over four year. then you have a chance to break something. otherwise we have the same congress, the same president, not a lot of people optimistic things will change....

An exciting day, an emotional day, and all those adjectives fit. >> let's get analysis from rick klein, a lot of people want to know, can, can they get anything done in washington now, pretty much everything stays the same. you hear this bipartisan tone. the president saying he is going to invite romney to have a discussion to talk about some idea. >> the voters did not give president obama a mandate. what he can do is create that mandate. i think if he begins to govern like the promise of barack obama in 2008, 2004, at the democratic convention. begins to bring that piece of america together ...

So you look at this map right now, and you can continue to have to say president obama has the edge. >> we're hearing that mitt romney is going to pennsylvania. most people would say, why spend time there? i mean that clearly is joe biden's backyard. >> maybe this is the head fake, a bit of a hail mary for the romney campaign. the intriguing thing is the obama campaign is responding with advertising in those states. they're not sending the president there directly, although, bill clinton is spending time in minnesota and joe biden, son of scranton, will be in pennsylvania before this is out. >...

Hypothermia at 60 degrees, something like that. >> some of the lows this week are in the 30s. >> exactly. >> and winter is -- we're getting deeper into fall, and it's getting chilly out. plus, if there is another storm and winds, all that debris on the ground. >> and snow. >> it would just be insult to injury to say the least. let's keep our fingers crossed this thing goes out to sea, but we just don't know. we'll see. we'll keep an eye on that. and there's the potential it could hit tuesday, which would be election day. so an already complicated political picture gets even muddier. so we'll, ...

They are saying the storm is so massive it could be from florida to main inland to ohio. hurricane sandy is already being blamed for 21 deaths. leon pineda doesn't have enough military to send troops into benghazi during the consulate attack. it was the 11th anniversary of 9-11. secretary pineda didn't want to put troops into harm's way without knowing more. chris stevens and tleers died in that attack. i am mary ann raf pert. now ba -- marianne rafferty. now back to "on the record"." >> don't mess with texas. they are threatening to arrest observers if they get too close to the polls. they ar...