he will spend - on >> carl cameron's shot froze up. it is live television. as governor romney takes the stage we'll go back to carl. >> a major development to actul about in an effort to tell you why our ambassador and others were not better protected. the house oversight committee issuing subpeonas for a hearing next week. we knew that but we are hearing now what is on the list. we'll see lieutenant colonelandy wood. and colonel wood was in charge of a 16-member special forces security team recall protecting the forces. and also tonight defense secretary leon paneta weighing in on the deadly attacks saying that the u.s. is investigating a new lead in the case. the focus two men from tunisia with fake passports and held up and they have a connection to the attack, all of this as obama administration is facing new questions from law makers and could have done more about the safety of the four americans killed in libya. among the dead u.s. ambassador chris stevens. >> harris, it has been 25 days since four americans were murdered in libya the latest word from

>>shepard: thank you, carl cameron. now, we will bring in the dean of exclusions at hofstra university. nice to see you. what do you make of the format as a goal to get the people as much information as possible? does this format allow for that? >>guest: the difficulty kinds of information that the people want to see. some is factual and some is judging the president's character, the challenger's character, how he or other cases, she, will spend to this interaction with ordinary citizens. i get the notion that the questions will be more from the heart, perhaps, than a moderator's question. so, it is as the lead in suggested, something where mr. romney has an opportunity to show he can connect with voters in a way that some people feel he has failed to do so far and we have seen in the past this kind of townhall debate can have an effect as in the 1992 campaign where the first george bush had a bit of trouble connecting with the questioners in a town-hall style. >>shepard: his own people admitted that and they adjusted b

>>shepard: thank you, carl cameron. the republican congressman is with us from illinois and the democratic congressman from california is with us, as well. gentleman, nice to see you. you are here to speak on behalf of your candidate? are you worried about the gaffe? everyone thinks he can hit hard. but if he says something weird that wouldn't help help. >>guest: i'm more concerned about the vice president having a chance to talk about what they will do. the vice president always speaks from the heart. that is great. sometimes he has things he has to explain later on but the great thing about the vice president, he speaks from the heart. i wish mitt romney would speak more from the heart rather than left field or, maybe, right field and maybe we would view a better idea who mitt romney is. he will talk how we are going do get out of the black hole, what we will do the next four years and keep paul ryan to task and not talk about the grand ideas but, actually, telling us exactly what is going on. >> we thought we would g

we'll go first to carl cameron who is traveling with mitt romney in lebanon, ohio. hey, carl. >> hi. a huge crowd here. governor romney wrapped up his event. we're right in the middle of opportunity to debt non, historic part of the community. thousands of people in the street. you can't see him hitting -- you can see him hitting his stride, seeing polls surge. over the course of today, this is his third event. today both he and his running mate, paul ryan, in the buckeye state, separately campaigning, have been hitting the obama administration for china policies, specifically arguing that the president of the united states has not done enough to protect the u.s. economy from china's alleged currency manipulation and unfair trade practices. at each event today, mitt romney and paul ryan have been trying to thump mr. obama for his absence of leadership on this, they say. here is a sampling from earlier today at mr. romney's convenient in portsmouth, ohio. >> over the past several years, the president failed to call china a currency manipulator. he had the occasion on

>> bret: carl cameron in spin room. see you there in a few minutes. thank you, carl. how will tonight's debate impact the race? let me know on twitter. follow me. @bretbaier. new issues for two of the president green energy pet projects. i.r.s. is proposing a bankruptcy settlement for solyndra saying it's a dodge to avoid taxes. house committee wants to know what the energy department knew about problems with panels made by now bankrupt abound solar. the company received half a billion dollars apiece in taxpayer funded loan guarantees. the dow's losing streak continueed today. it lost 19. s&p 500 goes up a fraction. nasdaq dropped two. 14 people have died from the meningitis outbreak now. the cdc says 170 people have been sickened. that is 33 more cases and two more deaths since tuesday. agency estimates 14,000 people could be at risk. this outbreak has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. >>> the smoke is still clearing from wednesday's fiery capitol hill hearing about the terror attack on the u.s. mission in libya. chief intelligence correspondent catherine h

carl cameron, chief political correspondent. joining us for more on this final month before the election and what changed since the debate, carl rove joins us, the head of the american cross roads, former adviser to president bush. good to have you here. start with, first of all, that pempsz. you and i have not had the chance to talk since then. governor romney was simply dominating. >> yeah. just from the opening bell to the final wimper. he was in charge. who was that guy? he was funny. he was aggressive. he was presidential. his tone was direct. he spent a lot of time explaning in clear, precise detail what it is he wanted to do. he shared the values this under girded that, a performance that was extraordinary as was the preponderate's. the president came, you know, while romney brought his a-game, the president was clearly not in the zone, and it showed. lou: and i -- i have to say that at least in my memory, i can't think of when last a candidate was determined to be in all of the instant polls, all of the snap polls, such

carl cameron is live in karl gables florida. >>carl: they are back, mitt romney's hiatus ended after hurricane sandy and he has been cautiously but ramping up the rhetoric. there have been plenty of references to assist and encourage people to make disaster relief donations but the rhetoric has increased. he has not mentioned president obama by name on the campaign trail but the message is pretty clear, the choice is only six days away, and in romney's view the nation has an opportunity at hand to change direction for bold reform. watch. >> when you take a new course, we have 47 million people on food stamps. think of that. richest country in the history of the earth, largest economy in the world, and, yet, 47 million people need food stamps. so, i believe this is the year for us to take a different course. i will bring real change and real reform. >>carl: he is swinging through the sunshine state beginning in tampa and now here in coral gables and university of miami, and then wrapping up in jacksonville headed north. there is

as far as last night's debate goes, chief political correspondent carl cameron reports each candidate landed some blows but no knockout punch. >> rallying voters, mitt romney got rousing applause after last night's debate showdown with president obama. >> i love these debates. these things are great, and i think it's interesting thrat president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. he has to come up with it this weekend because there's only one more weekend before the last debate on monday. >> in need of a come back after romney beat him in the first debate, the president was on offense most of the first night, all about calling romney a liar repeatedly. very little of what governor romney said is true. >> the president's statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong. let me come back. >> a cnn poll of registered voters right after the debate said obama won 46-39 while a poll of undecided voters scored it romney 37, obama 30, and the rest called it a tie. the cbs poll indicates those who think romney cares about people like them soared from 35 to 59%. the cnn poll s

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>> campaign carl cameron. carl, good to see you. thank you so much. >>> governor mitt romney's now calling out president obama over what many are calling a string of petty attacks on the campaign trail, truly getting nasty. it's a huge sign, according to governor romney, of just how desperate the obama campaign has become. take a listen. >> they have no agenda for the future. no agenda for america. no agenda for a second term. it's a good thing. they won't have a second term. [cheers and applause] they have -- they've been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. just watch it. the obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. >> so little time left. angela mcgown is a fox news political analyst, jumu green is a fox news contributor, the former president of the women's media center. we now, ladies, have our christmas cards between us. great to see both of you. >> you too, jamie. >> i know voters are looking for specifics. i know that foreign policy is going to be the topic for the debate on monday. what is it th

carl cameron live from florida. the final presidential debate is two days away. monday night. fox news will bring you the action live from lynn university in boca raton. the full debate coverage at 8:55:00 p.m. eastern time on monday october 22. you can watch me and harris faulkner on foxnews.com live. >> juliet: look at you. promoting yourself. >> rick: sorry. someone has to do it. this is the interactive coverage. live chat. tens of thousand of people in the chat room for debates each and every night. great way to watch the debate on fox news. and be part of the interactive programming on foxnews.com same time. >> juliet: i like you together. >> rick: that's sweet. thank you. >> juliet: good chemistry. the quest for answers in the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya getting more intense. the obama administration faces mounting pressure for transparency from members from congress. molly henneberg is live from washington. washington is following the story. good to see you. bring us up to date. >> rick: hi, it's good to see you. >> two members of congress are darrell i

carl cameron has more on the romney campaign. first, to wendell live at the white house. wendell, anything new in the president's jobs book? >>reporter: not really. the idea was to gather the economic policies including balanced approach to cutting the deficit which is tax hikes and spending cuts and investments in education and renewable energy and rebuilding the manufacturing sector into a slick booklet and give 3.5 million copies to undecide voters. the president started using the book at a prop at a rally in florida and could use it this afternoon in ohio. he said it is the challenger who really doesn't have a jobs plan. >> the jobs plan doesn't create jobs. the deficit plan does not reduce the deficit. it adds to it. the foreign policy is from the 1980's. the social policies is from the 1950s. the economic policies are from the 1920's. everything he is doing right now is to hide his real position and try to win the election. >>carl: the president says he uses the book to compare his plan to governor romney but the only comparison is on taxes and he says mitt romney w

campaign carl cameron is coming up with how many days we might be awake. first, a top g.o.p. senator says hillary clintonly engaged in a "incredible coverup." that is of a we see more e-mails detailing the timeline of the deadly attack in libya accusing the secretary of state of a "coverup" from the american people. lot of paperwork. actually... [ dennis' voice ] an allstate agent can help do the switching and paperwork for you. well, it probably costs a lot. [ dennis' voice ] allstate can save you up to 30% more when you bundle. well, his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. ♪ bundle and save with an allstate agent. are you in good hands? >>shepard: john mccain now, the republican senator, one time presidential candidate himself, today slammed the sitting secretary of state of the united states saying hillary clinton and top intelligence officials got raked over the coals by him for the administration's response to the attack in libya that killed four americans including our ambassador. senator john mccain told fox that he thinks

carl cameron live with governor romney. we heard new lines from governor romney today. >> they are getting what they are call closing arguments. for more romney it's about distilling the race to the choice to the president and a status quo of stagnation. low job growth, low economic growth versus his own big change he is now referring to it. making his reference to desire to cut taxes, grow the economy, restore the u.s. reputation around the world. he had three stops and this will be the third in ohio wrapping up the night. listen. >> the obama campaign doesn't have a plan. the obama campaign is slipping because he is talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that america has such huge challenges and this is such an opportunity for america. that is why on november 6th i'm counting on ohio to vote for big change. >> reporter: more romney continues to tout his debated performances. taken as totality many voters believe that mr. romney won them overall. they raised $111.8 million in first two weeks of october.

now, carl cameron is in daytona beach during bike week. >>carl: romney campaign is confident what they say is "safe." there will always be polls showing the president closing the edge. this is where it is demographically representative of the country, the same as ohio. it is very important to mitt romney. he assumes he is going to win florida. it is leaning pink. as a consequence, when you look at the entire electoral map, they have a map where they do the entire electoral college and it is 206 potential for mitt romney and 201 for president obama out of 270 needed so 130 plus up for grabs. bike week is an interesting contrast in image. mitt romney will hold a rally with paul ryan in the middle of bike week which is normally if the spring in florida and they have added recently the fall rally, 500,000 bikers are expected to come through the area so lots of leather and harley and in a state that mitt romney needs to win. it gives us an opportunity to talk about the i-4 corridor where romney has been working so hard for the republican votes.

>> bret: carl cameron live in dleshray beach, florida. thank you. now to the obama campaign. a bit of a change in presentation. if not product. chief white house correspondent ed henry looks at whether today's roll-out is a better late than never scenario or political recycling. >> i am fired up right now. >> meet the new agenda. same as the old one for president obama. >> here is my plan for the next four years. >> making education and training a national priority. building on manufacturing bill. boosting american made energy. reducing the deficit responsibly by cutting where we can, and asking wealthy to pay a little more. >> new ad that is a closing argument from the president for the final stretch. as republicans accuse him of laying out very few specifics. >> we haven't heard an agenda from the president. that's why, his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is -- [ inaudible ] >> he did lay out possible second term agenda in convention speech. they still felt the need today to unveil shiny new pamphlet headline "a plan for jobs and middle class security." the que

right now carl cameron is watching the rally there. that is where the candidates are spending a lot of time putting a lot of ads. romney is narrowly down by 2 percentage points. i would think as goes ohio, goes this election. whoever wins ohio will win the election. >> patti ann: north carolina, romney was leading but now high is leading by more. what about north carolina? >> i think this is going to be romney's election. they have it in the toss-up category. president obama won it very narrowly in 2008. everybody agrees that it's different in 2008 but the enthusiasm is not there as it was in 2008. so i think that will be a romney win. >> patti ann: virginia is tied and obama a lead. that is toss-up state, too? >> virginia has become more democratic over the years. it's going to be close race there. both candidates are focusing their ads there and if the momentum continues that could certainly swing to romney. >> patti ann: small states, iowa with just six votes and nevada with six and new hampshire with four. folks are saying, that co

carl cameron in ohio. thank you. >>> we're getting a new look at the stage for tomorrow night's vice presidential showdown. this is in danville, ken, southwest of lexington. you can see the debate live here on fox news channel. our coverage starts tomorrow night, just a tick before 9:00 o'clock eastern time and shep will be there, too. anchor studio b in the afternoon and the fox report live in danville, kentucky and then on your local fox station. check your local listings for that. >>> the defense secretary, leon panetta, confirming that the united states has deployed american troops to help jordan with a civil war across its northern border in syria. this marks the strongest u.s. military response yet to syria's 19 month long civil war. a u.s. defense official saying more than 100 military planners and other troops now operating from a joint u.s. jordanian military center, north of the capital city of amman. that's less than 35 miles from jordan's border with syria. this follows several days of cross bo

carl cameron looks at economic speech for surging republican challenger mitt romney. but we begin with ed henry and another statistic to hurt the president. good evening, ed. >> good evening, bret. the good news for the president is the economy is making up ground. but the bad news is it's still not nearly enough to get millions back to work. >> hours before the latest numbers came in showing the economy is growing too slowly to boost hiring, president obama was in ohio, stressing again he inherited a disaster. >> we can't go backwards to the policies that caused us so much trouble, that hurt so many families. we have to stick to the policies that are getting us out of this mess. >> except the new gdp numbers show the president presided over slowest rate of growth of any recovery since world war ii. obama campaign spokeswoman today admitted 2% growth is not good enough, she accused republican mitt romney of offering a, "nothing burger." >> we've created 5.2 million jobs over 32 months. what is romney's plan? he has no plan. >> romney actually reiterated his plan today

to prevent that the democrats were pumping out attack ads to keep it very much. >> bret: carl cameron, on your last point, almost everyone talking about wednesday's debate says mitt romney did pretty well or won, but how he won, that's the question, as carl mentioned, that has entered the post debate spin cycle. >> governor romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth. >> stretching the truth or worse, that's how mitt romney won the debate. it's now a familiar refrain from democrats. echoed by sympathetic media outlets. >> i give him credit for a strong performance. i give him a "f" for being honest with the american people. >> at the end of the day he failed on the facts. >> governor romney has changed a number of positions or didn't remember some of his positions. >> republicans call it all sour grapes. >> with what this says is that obama got his clock cleaned in the schoolyard and now he and his friends are out there the next day saying, we would have, could have, should have, and making up excuses for why ne lost. >

chief political correspondent carl cameron begins our coverage from ohio. >> using a cincinnati machine shop as backdrop to ohio to promote job creation, mitt romney blasted the president for failing to offer an economic comeback strategy. >> the obama campaign doesn't have a plan. the obama campaign is slipping because he is talking about smaller and smaller things. despite the fact that america has huge challenges. and this is an opportunity for america. that's why on november 6, i am counting on ohio to vote for big change. >> the president now toting 20-page glossy booklet of second term goals for the final 12 campaign days romney called at it choice between big change for future growth versus the president status quo of stagnation. >> path of status quo the president represents will take to us $20 trillion in debt by the end of the next four years. status quo path. is the path that doesn't have an answer about how to get our economy going. >> the status quo path of this president continues to shrink our military year after year. >> president obama was in virginia and continued his

carl cameron and ed henry is live in boca. we're learning near nau details about the president's daily intelligence briefings? >> this is most sensitive intelligence that gets to him. you know the white house is taking a beating for changing their story about the reaction to the terror attack in libya. this leak, what it does it points the finger to the c.i.a. and blames them for the intelligence. what this information the "wall street journal" is saying is the c.i.a. for more than a week after the attack told the president and top aides this was a spontaneous retook a protest, not necessarily a terror attack. what is confusing about that, as you know, after the last debate the president's story within 24 hours of the attack he believed it was a terror attack. was he then getting ahead of the c.i.a. intelligence? it adds more confusion to the story. bottom line one of the top advisors stephanie cutter said it was not a foreign policy failure. >> no. we live in a dangerous world. any time american lives are lost its terrible tr

>>shepard: thank you, carl cameron coming from delaware, ohio. >>shepard: this is on the east of the first and only scheduled vice presidential debate with less than a month until the election. polls are tightening. the stakes are high. vice president biden under pressure to reverse the momentum after the lack of president obama's performance and the v.p. has decades of experience and he has had some great debates. youtube, google it, look it up. but he has the reputation for gaffes which makes it great. paul ryan, owns has lots of different specific positions but he hasn't mentioned them the maybe he will capitalize on the momentum tomorrow. he made a name for himself in congress but is a newcomer to the national stage. with us now is a former consultant on president obama's campaign back in 2008 and a republican minority leader and new jersey state assemblyman. it is fun when you get two "johns" on one set. tomorrow, the big question, really, obama got a bump after his convention because people on both sides think his convention went better tha

chief political correspondent carl cameron is with romney campaign in iowa. ed henry is not. with a look at how president obama is handling this emergency, much differently than the last. good evening, ed. >> the president took heat from how he reacted to benghazi. so they are struggling and scrambling to stay on top of the storm with the rain and wind whipping around in washington. aides say the president stuck here and off the campaign trail until wednesday. >> i just received a full briefing from energy response teams. >> the last time president obama faced a crisis, the terror attack in libya last month he went ahead with campaign events in nevada and colorado. given sandy's wrath closer to the election this time is intent to look presidential. today he canceled series of campaign vents and convening a high-level conference call in white house situation room. >> this is going to be a big and powerful storm. all across the eastern seaboard, serve taking the appropriate preparations. >> except the president tried to get in one last campaign appearance. leighing washington l

i will not take something they have purchased o now, live to carl cameron. is this a change, carl, or a change of emphasis for the governor? >>carl: change of emphasis. in colorado, latino are an influential voting block the he has been polling in the low 30's and even high 20 but most g.o.p. strategists says to be competitive nationally he has to get 40 percent of the that tomorrow vote. he is not close. the emphasis is he will not do what in his words he said, there will not be roundups of people being deported. he was reluctant to say that in the republican primaries and now, where latinos hold more sway than in the republican election process he is making a big deal of that. immigration is not going to be on the agenda tomorrow in the debate. there are six segments and the first three are on the economy, then obamacare, the role of government, and how each individual would governor iran -- govern in their approach to governing. if he has a liability, it is when he talked about the 47 percent of people in america who do not pay income taxes. paul ryan was

>> bret: carl cameron in spin room. we'll be there in a bit. thank you. obama campaign is calling 2007 video of senator obama then delivering a racially charged speech in virginia is distraction and accusing allies of romney of spreading the tape to the media. the romney come pain denies having -- campaign denies having any part in it. it surfaced last night on daily caller.com and thin ran on "hannity." the speech was open to the press in hampton university in june of 2007. we covered that speech on "special report" with brit hume. ran a sound bite from senator obama on his concern about the federal response to hurricane katrina. other media outlets covered it as well. but what was not covered then was senator obama's praise for his controversial pastor jeremiah wright. the additional comments what about he called disparity in the way new orleans got federal assistance after katrina and his charge that that was because of race. >> there is a law, federal law when you get reconstruction money from the federal government called the stafford act. basically

cameron are standing by. that report moments away >> bill: back of the book segment, let's go back to kentucky and talk to ed henry and carl cameron, two of the correspondents covering the presidential race. inside stuff on vice president biden tonight. >> yeah. i spoke to a senior democratic a short time ago who said when vice president biden started his debate prep, the first one did not go well. that he was all over the place. he had not debated in four years, was a little rusty. there was concern in the obama camp, remember the president was pretty rusty in denver as well. and david axelrod and some of the president's top aides came in, work with the vice president in his next few sessions. don't democrats down playing there was a problem. saying it's all fine. they think the vice president is ready. it's significant because he has a lot of work to do, clean-up work because of the denver debate. >> bill: did they go to this in washington? did they go to washington with biden? >> no, they went back to dela