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Has the facts on his side, the problem is he tried to litigate it on the one word or words of the rose garden and we really didn't get a sinus of the time line and just how long it took for the administration to call the civic attack in libya an act of terrorism . on that point. i thought he should have stuck to the overall picture of what happened in benghazi rather than tryying to lit great out. i thought he went down the wrong path. >> gretchen: the final debate is all about foreign policy. it is my opinion this morning that this one question will now forward the story for the next couple o...

What happened in libya and it's interesting, the president of the united states did fine will he take responsibility for what happened there as commander in chief, but then extraordinarily, and this was new -- he said, and the day after it happened, i went out into the rose garden and i called it an act of terror. when, in fact, he didn't do that. he called it no acts of terror. so he got it wrong. but unfortunately, candy crowley essentially acting not as the moderator, but instead as the ump, threw a flag and said the president was right. i think that mystified mitt romney who was correct. >...

Semantics but the fact is, governor romney blew the moment. >> i don't think so at all. and i don't think it's a matter of semantics. >> at the moment and he missed the larger point. >> i don't think so. i think the point here to the american people, number one, is this is a tragedy. and everyone agrees with that. and i would say the other thing is, when bad things happen, it doesn't mean that the president, because of that bad event, is a bad leader. that's not the point. the point is that this president has been totally inconsistent, if not dishonest about what happened in libya and chose fo...

Popped up. they clearly believe this is a weak point for the president. >> look, what i think the president talked about is a balanced plan. as he talked about last night, we're going to have to make some tough spending cuts. we're going to need to ask mitt romney and others, including barack obama, to pay their fair share, to pay a little bit more. certainly the president talked about taxpayers and do this in a way to allow us to invest in important things, like education and things that we know will grow our economy. mitt romney wants to start the deficit conversation with $5 trillion new ro...

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. ...