we had john stewart and bill owe really from fox news. they faced off in a debate, 90 minutes, air conditioned room, streamed live. it was more entertaining than the obama. >> am i going to see this? >> yeah. let's roll through the tape. >> income redistribution, do you believe in it? >> do you. >> no. >> i asked first. i believe -- >> oh, it's -- >> social security. do you believe in social security. >> yes. absolutely. >> we're both socialists. >> no. no. [ applause ] >> redistribution. >> social security is income redistribution. >> no, it's not. >> you pay into it. >> but you don't pay into it what you get out of it. >> some pay in more. >> a cumulative effect. >> no. no. no. >> how is it the two personalities such as yourself who are almost polar opposites share a willingness to come together when congress can't. what advice would you give congress? [ applause ] . . >> wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. >> go ahead. >> and what would you like for christmas, little boy? >> okay. good clip for the cooler. what else do you have? >> well, "sa

the rehab units are demolished, so that john stewart company can build whatever and our elderly are put in other homes where asbestos fly all over the place and in months they die and you think it's a joke and come up with some ordinance this. is sickening. this is the city named after st. francis. where is the compassion? why aren't we educated on issues? after all the gang injunctions and after everybody has been removed and after so many have died and after a whole community has been bombarded, now we want to come to their rescue at the tail-end? while the john stewart company, the bridge developers, mercy housing and other big developers want this property to build market-value homes. pretending that they are going to give the poor people something, but when the time comes they are going to ask the poor people, do you have a good credit rating? and i want to ask you supervisors, do you have a good credit rating, something above 800 and say 880 points? most of you all don't have it. how do you expect the poor people to have it? think about it. thank you very much. >> thank you. next

plus, john stewart on the media obsession with polls. we'll show that you clip a little bit later in the show. first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city and in john stewart's honor we begin with polls. new numbers released just moments ago for likely voters in three critical swing states n ohio, an nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows president obama hanging on to a lead, 51-45. down in florida, it was a one point race before the debate. this morning, still a one-point lead for president obama within the margin of error. they are tied in the state of florida. in virginia is where the republican candidate is seeing some of the biggest gains. they are now in a virtual tie. romney has edged ahead of the president 48-47. that's a three point reversal from a week ago. again though, within the margin of error. they are tied in virginia as well. >>> another battleground poll out today points to a very tight race. according to "new york times"/cbs news poll, mitt romney leads the president by one point

. >>> we'll be showing you what bill o'reilly and john stewart had to say when things got rather heated and o'reilly weighed in on those who use media to spew hate. i don't spend money on gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. [ male announcer ] and it's not just these owners giving the volt high praise. volt received the j.d. power and associates appeal award two years in a row. ♪ >>> it was a different kind of debate and some people were watching bill o'reilly and john stewart battle it out. >> it was only on line. you can imagine there were sparks flying when they disagreed. >> income redistribution, do you believe in it? >> no. >> no? >> i asked first. >> i believe in social security. do you believe in social security? >> yes, absolutely. >> so we're both socialists. >> no, no. >> do you believe in redistribution? >> social security is income redistributi

. >> john stewart's postmortem of president obama's performance at the denver debate. that clip and a check on weather when "way too early" comes right back. >>> i have as much experience in the congress as jack kennedy did when he sought the presidency. >> senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. [ mother ] you can't leave the table till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8... >>> 5:45 in the morning as we look at a beautiful live picture of new york city from the top of our building looking south. now we're looking east. first south then east. bill karins with a look at the first. >> today's a sad day. last day for our jean shorts and tank tops. >> i never say that. >> you keep them out all year? >> indian summer is a great time for jean shorts. >> yes, they are. good morning, everyone. if you're on the east coast, a little taste of summer today. th

john stewart significantly shorter than bill o'reilly. he used a platform there to sort of get up to his height. that was a joke that he carried on throughout the entire debate. the issues were the economics of the country, healthcare, social security, and the middle east. back out live, i'll tell you both of them agreed to disagree on many different things, but the one thing that they both shared a consensus on is that the winners of all of this today were the chunk of the profits. of course, this is something that was done all in good fun, they say, but they also hope that this will continue to keep those conversations, those crucial, important conversations going in this country leading up to the election. bruce. >> you know, we keep score. do you want to tell us who won or remain neutral? >> you see, that's the thing. i don't think any one won more than the other. both took equal jabs at each other. at they said, and i do believe this, bruce, the winners were the public. a lot of people watched this online and so they think they are t

john stewart asked all of it? and he said all of it. what happened during the course of the presidency is the government is a big operation and at any given time something screws up, you make sure you find out what is broken and you fix it. that's the danger for the president. while they still believe they make the allegation and mitt romney was playing politics and the president can stand above that. it has become a political issue. they have to deal with it because it cuts to the heart of did this mismanagement -- did they mismanage this? >> and if you are on the president's team, you have to get past this. what is the thinking on how you do that? >> they have a debate, and they know it will be about foreign policy. it was half domestic policy and half foreign policy. that's why the president was pressed by libya by the undecided voter. they are feeling in the obama camp that when this comes into the spotlight again next monday in florida, if the president does more of what he did in this interview and really lays out what he knew whe

stewart. so in that transition, what if any changes will be made to that "standard of good standing?" >> yes. >> that is a little bit unclear and we within the to make sure and ensure had a every resident that is there now and any unit of housing, when the transition happens from the housing authority to the private management company. that no one is lost or as we heard earlier today, falls through the cracks in the midst of that transition. >> thank you. supervisor olague, did you want to ask mr. alvarez? >> again, thank you, mr. alvarez and kyle, i forgot your last flame, for [tpha*-eufpl/], for name of for all of your assistance. i have heard a lot of concerns around displacement at those sites. so i don't know if you could len to this. >> supervisor, thank you, henry alvarez from the housing authority. i don't know much about marcus gardens. we don't manage those, but in hunters view the notion of right to return and we believe that is an important clarification that and distinction that n

sandra: some say a word of the mall that he was repeating john stewart's phrase but john stewart was talking about the communication. the president applied it to the death of the four americans. stuart: it will come up on the debate monday night. remember the first question in tuesday's debate? ecologist and tasking the candidates what they can do to assure him of employment after college. yesterday i pose the same question to a democrat who represents young people and here is what she said. i will give you 30 seconds. give me thirty-second y new graduates should vote for president obama. >> how did they not vote for president obama? stuart: that is all i got. how could they not? 53% of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. the class of 2011 faces an average 26,000 the hundred dollars in student loan debt, all-time high. jason is the author of obama zombies. any sign that the young people's vote which went heavily to president obama in 2008, show me any evidence if you have got it that there really is a turn. >> of course there is a turn specifically after the first deba

i believe in the natural law from john stewart mill and other philosophers that our rights do not flow from the government, the government's rights and the government's rights flow from the citizens. and so the government should have as limited a scope as possible, not and interfere with business and not interfere with our privacy and not spy on us and generally keep the public order and that is about it. >> thank you, so following up on that one of those things that the government is involved in right now is the educational system. and california used to have an education system that was the envy of the nation. how do you feel we get that back? >> well, it is a tragedy that what used to be one of the top systems in the country is now i think, 47th according to a recent standard that i saw. the senator and folks in hi

apparently even john stewart can appreciate a little poll wonkiness from the experts including our very own steve kornaki. i give you two nats and a steve. >> how the [ bleep ] are these polls so divergent, useless yet accurate and quotable? i think we all know what we need. nerds. >> so when you see obama gaining in today's gallup tracking polls that means obama's interviews were better. >> he fwrent three ahead to five ahead in their track today. >> this next round of polls from nbc marist and other polls show the swing states tied then democrats will be appropriate for them to panic. >> nobody understands these things but you guys. >> steve, you are one of the superstar nerds. i love that. >> it's a compliment. >> you guys are so good with numbers but none of you can tie a tie. what's up with that? >> let me say this. when you're sitting home at 11:30 and you start getting texts and tweets and said john stewart mentioned you in a show. >> you get nervous. >> it could have been a lot worse than that. >> imagine the feeling when you get texts and tweets saying you're on "saturday night

. >> reporter: also while in new york, president obama stopped by the "daly show" with john stewart where things took a serious turn. >> the president: we weren't confused about the fact that four americans had been killed, that we needed to ramp up security around the world. >> reporter: back to business today. president obama heads to virginia mitt romney campaigns in florida. the latest gallup poll capturing one day of post-debate sentiment shows romney in the lead by seven points. polls of the battleground states will decide this election show a closer race. >> obviously, the stables are high for both. -- the stakes are high for both. who do analysts think faces the most pressure? >> reporter: probably president obama foreign policy is something the obama campaign is in their we'll house. mitt romney had a number of foreign policy missteps over the summer. if romney were to land some blows on president obama who has been on the offensive over the u.s. consulate attack in benghazi, it could be devastating for the president. >> thank you. reminder that the third and final presidential d

they are talking about fox news host bill o'reilly and the daily show host john stewart. both men went at it and left no subject off the table during debate they billed as the rumble in the air conditioned auditorium at george washington university in d.c. >> fox news is sort of the lupus of news. they are -- they have seen something. it is there with a -- and fox news has gone overboard. >> well, hey -- [ applause ] >> fnc is making a billion dollars a year so something is -- >> you can't make money selling -- >> if you missed it last night, you can watch it on-line at the rumble 2012.com. >>> romney's foreign policy speech. afghanistan, israel, iran. which issue will romney focus on and which one gives him more ammunition against president obama? we'll take a look. jack, you're a little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi card to get the ben

john stewart and bill o'reilly are doing it as well. mike viqueira has more now from the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, jenna. both candidates are pouring it on now, raising big piles of campaign cash and playing to ever bigger crowds. this with 30 days to go to the finish line. momentum off his debate's success, mitt romney kept the heat on the president last night in florida. >> he said, you know, you can't fix washington from the inside. you can only fix it from the outside. we'll give him that chance on november. >> reporter: the romney campaign says it's taken in $12 million in campaign cash. while the obama campaign reported a record monthly haul, $181 million in september, tops for either campaign this year. in his weekly address the president touted another september number, the unexpected drop in the jobless rate. >> friday we learned the unemployment rate is at its lowest level since i took office. more americans are entering the workforce. more americans are getting jobs. >> reporter: and in case

why did they take away all of our living essentials, but other john stewart buildings in san francisco has back and front door, washer outlets, balcony, windows and a kitchen and bathroom? why do i have to pay security deposit just to move back? and another thing is i will be evicted if i am arrested and found not guilty. these are rules that are ridiculous to my community. the black community has a right to stay in the communities that have stayed in for years. they were brought from africa here and again i'm speaking for bayview hunters point. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon. chair mar, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener. my name is tessie ester ceo of mothers against crime and i ran a foodbank on fridays and i'm the coordinator for mother's committee on environmental justice. people speaking on huntersview are so right. there with 250 residents living in hunterview and right now there are only 125. some choose to move and some got evicted, which shethy they shouldn't have. like tracy was saying, i have seen three bridges all my life and right now i s

. >> president obama also stopping by john stewart's "daily show" but his conversation turned serious when he talked about the september 11th attack and benghazi libya that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. >> we weren't confused about the fact that four americans have been killed. >> sure. >> i wasn't confused about the fact that we needed to ramp up diplomatic security around the world right after it happened. >> i would say even you would admit it was not the optimal response, at least to the american people as far as us all being on the same page. >> well, here's what i'll say. >> yeah. >> if four americans get killed, it's not optimal. >> cnn political director mark preston joining us now live from washington, so, mark, what have you learned last night about the two candidates, particularly not at the john stewart there when we heard the president talk about a rather serious matter, but we're talking about kind of this roast, this dinner. >> well, we learned that mitt romney can actually tell a joke and people can laugh at it, fred, you know? although he

i love john stewart in the daily show, but san francisco has to stop giving him such easy material for his jokes. if you're tired of city hall not focusing on the basic, if you're tired of your house being the city's atm and if you're tired of the same old politics and the same old choices, i offer you an independent choice for supervisor. i'll be your advocate. if you're like me, you want san francisco to be an off beat tolerant and fun. but you also expect a functioning city that buses run on time, potholes get paved, and city programs are held accountable nor how they spend our money. i'll be your common sense supervisor. the reality is we need to raise revenue and cut spending. we can't pretend we're immune to what's happening 100 miles away in stockton which is going bankrupt on pensions. we have to face the reality of basic arithmetic. i'm not against taxes, but just have to be spent smartly and with accountability. we need to audit programs and pay for only what works. we can't just keep going back to homeowners with bonds and parcel taxes and use them as the city's atm. we have

john stewart having a little fun as did the president with our buddy, joe biden. >> how many times a week does biden show up in a wet bathing suit to a meeting? just ballpark figure. >> obama: i had a put out a presidential directive on that. i put a stop to that. i have to say he looks pretty good. >> it's such a funny image of joe coming in dripping wet to the oval office. >> bill: and the vice president himself was on the campaign trail yesterday in a key swing state, which is looking pretty good for president obama in nevada, and had fun with president obama's sketchy deal cement. >> as the president said the day after the debate, romney's plans were awful sketchy. sketchy. well i folks, i don't think they were just sketchy. i think they were etch-a-sketchy. >> bill: that was good. etch-a-sketchy yeah, indeed. coming up, frank rich will be joining us, bob cusack from the hill. eleanor smeal, and we'll start off this hour with another leader of nuns on the bus from ohio. but first... >> announcer: this is the full court press. >> other headlines making news, uma thurman gave birth

uncomfortable question which is why it was so disappointing to see that he didn't obama just use the john yoo logic of oh yeah we dealt with our legal practices by creating a legal framework to justify our illegalities then he follows up by saying remember i'm the president and this isn't a sexy enough topic to talk about i guess it's not very sexy to talk about how you not only continued the bush administration's agree just violations of civil liberties and warrantless wiretapping but expanded them all across the board. at any given time something screws up. and you make sure that you find out what's broken in your fiction find out what's broken really really you know what's broken the establishment you represent sir instead of addressing the real problem of a corrupt system based on any quality and to tear justice you fight the symptoms with partisanship and reward corruption like you did with b.p. when you gave them record contracts after they poison the entire gulf or continue to employ blackwater after they lost the sleep massacred hundreds of innocent civilians in u.s. war zones so

stewart in new york city. now the only one is with president barack obama and the two candidates will try to play nice and it's with the smith foundation memorial and it helps them attend and make humorous remarks about the campaign. >>> police are looking for a suspect in a bold robbery. this is surveillance video where a man jumped over the counter demanded cash from the teller and was last seen running on east ventura avenue. >>> this is a year old homicide case. he is due to appear in court. he is accused of killing his girlfriend back in september of last year. he originally told police she committed suicide but investigators think she was strangled. that death has been ruled a homicide and this raises last year's total to 40 and that would be a 15 year high. so far this year there have been 37 homicides in san jose. >>> a sea lion who was rescued from pier 39 will be released back into the ocean today. rescuers removed it so they could remove a plastic packaging net around its neck. it will be placed bac