for bob beckel coming up behind you it's not. >> yeah of course bob. >> bill: he sold that pretty well last night. last word. >> i think his presentation, bill, you are right. a the lot of passion. he had the tough body language sticking his chest out. looked romney directly in the eye. but, again, i thought he didn't make the case as to why the next four years are going to be demonstrably better than the previous four how is he going to work with the pesky republicans in the house of representatives. i think those were two failing points. >> bill: directly ahead, bob beckel cease the world differently than laura. he will have some debate opinion. later, miller now helping out romney, the d-man will tell us how. upcoming. ...seems like you guys got a little gassed out there. enough already. c'mon guys. next question. hello! what's your favorite color? what's my favorite color? yes. purple. what's your favorite animal? sea turtle. what's your bedtime? do you believe in space aliens? ...i love puppies. hash browns or home fries? home fries. do you like my dress? why can't you guys ask go

bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5 verz in new yor 5:00 in . this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: think the war on terror is over? not even close. exhibit "a," this taliban commander revealing the partnership with a bold and powerful new al-qaeda. their target? america. >> these are taliban attacks. this is part of our new military strategy. we have our people in the afghan police, and the army. >> what skills do the al-qaeda tighters bring? >> they are masters of everything. for example, making i.e.d. something we don't know how to do. but they are teaching us. they are also master engineers and good with all weapons. >> eric: today a car bomb killed three more americans bringing the casualty count to 2,002. listen to president obama in las vegas just yesterday. >> al-qaeda is on the path to defeat and usama bin laden is dead.

it's bob beckel. the next topic is barroom brawls. allen west has an ad out against his opponent patrick murphy and he brings up something that patrick murphy his opponent would like to forget. >> february 16, 2003. they prepare them to go to war. that night, south beach miami. patrick murphy is thrown out of a club for fighting, covered in alcohol, unable to stand. murphy confronts and verbally assaults a police officer. he was arrested and taken to jail. >> andrea: is this the best the democrats have? >> eric: this is the best ad ever. allen west ad. unbelievable good job, sir. >> bob: if this was on me it would have been a documentary. for allen west to open this up on a 19-year-old kid who is getting in a barroom brawl, which a lot did. same time, allen west is charged by the military with assault. told to believe the military. he was charged by the military with assault. >> greg: do you know what he did? put a gun to terrorist head who was planning to kill american troops. he shot the gun by his head. who would ahmadinejad rather

bill o'reilly and bob beckel square off on the election. >> here is where you are making a mistake. it's a tragic mistake. >> up next o'reilly tells bob beckel what's really the issue in this year's election. >> while the candidates talk tough about the nation's debt they are not holding back on political ad spending. those numbers will come up and they will shock you. >> 14 after the hour. here's what you missed while you were sleeping. check this out a meteor shower lighting up the night sky over oakland, california. >> looks like a movie. it was so big you literally look like you could see the flames on it. >> it looked like a huge rock or something slideling over. oh my god what's that? >> the souped was so loud it shook their homes making them think it was an earthed quake. astronomers believe the meteor was about the size of a car when it broke off over the bay area. more companies are slamming the brea brakes on lance armstrong. ending sponsorship deals with the disgraced cyclist. stepped down as the live strong cancer charity. a friend says armstrong has been better but he h

on top of all of, this i think bob beckel is right. bob, you said, saying all along that people don't pay attention until after labor day. i think people got to meet mitt romney, as staggering as this sounds, for the first time at that debate. that is the only way to explain it. >> bob: true. if you look at my analysis of this race, romney has a two-point lead. 49-47%. in the swing states it eat about even. you got a 5-point boost off the debate. generally boosts coming off the convention or debate go away. they flatten out. by the way, i think obama with single women. but leaving that aside, romney did extremely well in getting himself positioned in the race. the question now, i don't agree. i'll say there is two more debates but he got himself back in the race. right now, if i had to bet, i would say it's literally a half a point. >> dana: thoughts on the poll? >> eric: if you throw the gallup poll up again. look at the date. that's in the debate. just after the debate. if you remember, the days after the debate, the swell, the groun

no stafford money. >> eric: bob beckel, don't get in that boat. that boat is sinking in front of your eyes. right there said where is your stafford money going? knowing very well, stafford money was approved ten days prior. he voted against it. kimberly, jump in. >> kimberly: this is new title, pand derer in chief, whoever he is in front of, he will morph and become a chameleon. he is sounding like a minister from the south. now he sounds more like bill clinton. he can get up there and say something like that knowing full well his vote was not in support of those people. this shows you, people will say is this the real obama or is he playing a role now as commanderrer in chief? >> greg: two points. they had mother jones discus discussing this. when the story about the haircut incident or bain capital comes up, they never say it came from a liberal blog or outlet. but this is coming up from the conservative areas because you didn't do your damn job. this is another point. this isn't a conservative nightmare. a liberal dream fulfillment. if you ask

charles krauthammer is next followed by bob beckel. megyn kelly and laura ingraham. the factor will return after these announcements. >> bill: continuing now with our lead story, assessing the presidential debate last night. as we mentioned the consensus is that mitt romney deteethed barack obama. and today mr. obama under his energy a bit. >> so you see the man on stage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he has been saying for the last year. so governor romney may dance around his positions but if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth. >> bill: joining us now from washington fox news analyst charles krauthammer. give me something new, charles, give me something you picked up during that debate. >> what i learned by watching it is that mitt romney doesn't seem like the kind of guy who kills the wives of laid off steal workers, which is another way of saying that negative campaigning. negative ads are double-edged. they have had a tremendous effect. including that really revolting

i'm just okay. >> bob: welcome back. my name is bob beckel, i'm a member of "the five." and i wanted to just say how much a chance for me to talk to you. i appreciate it. now, debates. the debates are coming up. first big debate is tomorrow night. andrea is flying out to denver tonight to see and cover that for us. and you know, debates, having been through a through of these myself at presidential level, they're important events. sometimes overly stated but nonetheless they do matter and they shape people's thinking about a campaign and a race. let's take a look at one with a particular impact in the 1980 presidential campaign. >> governor reagan again, typically is against such a proposal. >> governor? >> there you go again. >> bob: i tell you, what was important about that was reagan was saying that carter had been misstating everything he said during the campaign taped he said there you go again. it brought it in to focus that reagan was the kind of guy being put upon. that was the idea there. but it stuck. it lasted. anybody have any thoughts about -- y'all weren't

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i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: they knew. fox news obtained e-mails that proved the white house was told two hours after the consulate attack in libya that a group affiliated with al-qaeda claimed responsibility for it. two hours. not two days. not two weeks. they knew on day one. but still, perpetuated a story that a video sparked protest when it was a planter ror attack. there is one of the e-mails from the state department to the white house. and others on september 11. it says the embassy in tripoli reports that sharia claimed responsibility on facebook and twitter and called for an attack on the embassy. here is what the white house said a week later. >> based on the information that our initial information, that includes all information, we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned or premeditated attack. >> kimberly: today, here is how secretary of state hillary clinton described the situation. >> posting so

joining me, cohost of "the five," bob beckel, and pat caddell. romney was trailing with women, and now it's 48-49. overall 50-46. romney is up with men. why is losing women, the president? >> romney improved himself a lot for one thing. because they care about the issues. look, romney has been awful at relating to people. that debate was probably the most significant. let me tell you something, obama still has a 50% approva approva. he's not been defeated. >> sean: actually it's lower than that. it's 47%. >> if he gets under 47%, that's it. he's in the high zone. look, tomorrow's debate will decide this. all these states that are happening -- i heard dick morris earlier. look, everything is in play, the thing is moving nationally. >> sean: a sitting president it becomes tough. three weeks out of an election, states are close like pennsylvania, wisconsin, even minnesota, and michigan. i don't they're going to win those states, but i do think the fact that it's close there is very telling, bob. >> let me tell you an interesting fact about politics.

with us, the co-host of the five bob beckel. that doesn't surprise you, does it? >> i have been hearing this for 30 years. awful can i say is if republicans want to get some people tone roll in journalism school and mane they have an opportunity to get themselves in some of thieves high positions. it's a ridiculous argument. >> bill: wait, let me just stop you. so you believe that there are no conservative republic journalists qualified to do that kind of work? is that what you are saying? >> i would say you were qualified to do that kind of work. shep. >> bill: i'm not a republic or a conservative. i'm an independent. >> independent spin zone, okay. i think. >> bill: you are dodging my question. do you believe there are no republics or conservative journalists that are qualified to hold those positions? >> i certainly think there are, sure. i don't care if they are not. >> bill: why don't you care? >> i don't think it matters. it sends the news one way or the other. >> bill: so if all of the network anchors were republic/conservatives it wouldn't bother you. >> o

bob beckel has counseled hundreds of candidates. >> it's theater of politics and trying to get people come into the theater and take a look and see if they like your play. >> john: here in cleveland the romney campaign is preparing. they are trying to get lots of people to watch. >> let's tighten that out a little bit. >> one presidential campaign in the fall involves 400 people, advance people, setting up the stage. >> check, one, two. >> a presidential campaign stop involves a lot of hard work. >> john: most are paid to do this. some are volunteers. the planning starts days early. >> we send people driving around and asking people, can we use campus green. >> bill ritter is director of operations for mitt romney. campaign staff make sure the right number of people show up. hillary clinton's campaign was run by patty. >> you make phone calls. you do robo calls. >> john: hillary is going to be here. do they show up? >> yes. >> john: they even advertise in the sky. >> see if the plane company can do this flash. >> john: because if the arena is bigger than the crowd it looks bad. >> the

outspoken token bob beckel. mighty righty eric bolling. she cartwheels to work on a moon beam, dana perino. live from college in danville, kentucky, where it got 10 degrees hotter it's kimberly guilfoyle. it's 5:00 in new york city. 3:00 a.m. in andrea's cave made of shoes. this is "the five." let's do this, america. ♪ ♪ >> greg: so tonight's debate is special. the first time america will really see paul ryan. it's the first time you will see joe biden live, since may. so where has he been? my guess is they told him he was working on a top secret plan to prevent global chaos, which meant sittin sitting in am watching "matlock" reruns. what is joe's strategy in general motors is alive and bin laden is dead. paul ryan says to this, if g.m. alive why is detroit dead? why is everything around it stiff? if that is victory, imagine what failure is like. if you celebrate the rebirth of detroit, you can do the same with meningitis. for bin laden is dead, so is christophersteins, smith, doherty and woods. if you take credit for one, you have to

. >> democratic bob beckel has counseled hundreds of candidates. >> it's theatre of politics, trying to get the people to come in and take a look and see if they like your play. >> here in cleveland, the romney campaign's preparing a play, trying to get lots of people to watch. >> only way to attract them to the theatre is if it looks good. >> tighten that out a little bit. >> just one presidential campaign, in the fall, in the general election, involves 400 people, advance people, setting up a stage. >> mike check. 1-2. >> a presidential campaign stop involves a lot of hard work. >> most are paid to do this. some are volunteers. >> does anybody have any questions? >> the planning starts days earlier. >> you send people driving around small towns in america, and asking people, hey, can we use your -- can we use your campus green? >> mel ritter is the director of candidate operations for mitt romney. >> let's get to work. >> campaign staffs try to make sure the right number of people show up. hillary clinton's presidential campaign was run by patty solis-doyle. >> you make calls to ca

i'm kimberly guilfoyle along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: there are new developments on the terror attack in benghazi, libya, on september 11 that we'll get to in a moment. first, romney was in lexington, virginia, today, outlining the vision of america's role in the world at the virginia military institute. the governor doesn't think that president obama is providing strong leadership. >> i know the president hopes for a safer, freer and more prosperous middle east aligned with us. i share this hope. but hope is not a strategy. we can't support our friends and defeat our enemies in the middle east when our words are not backed up by deeds. when our defense spending is being arbitrarily and deeply cut. when we have no trade agenda to speak of. the perception of our strategy is not one of partnership, but of passivity. >> kimberly: all right. do you think this is the right message and tone? a lot of discussion whether or not romney was going to come out on top on foreign pol