>>> over, here's the question. now what? politico writes it this way, quote, there's scant reason to believe a debate among vice presidential nominees can in any lasting way alter the trajectory of the race. the biden /ryan clash will dominate conversation about the campaign will effectively amount to a holding pattern until tuesday. that's when they meet in new york for their second face-to-face, mitt romney and president obama . a week later in florida they go at it again, this one a foreign policy debate. and msnbc senior political analyst mark halperin says it is not a good idea, he thinks.
>> the last debate should be all about the fiscal cliff. 90 minutes , what are you going to do about taxes and spending. it is the issue facing the country. it is the issue for who gets elect. if they don't deal with it in january, we'll have a world of trouble.
>> let me bring in political analyst jim ritenburg. the town hall will be both questions from the public. do you think it should be about taxes and spending and where this country, at least the direction, the person who watts the white house is going to take us?
>> you know, it's funny. i've been surprised that the first two debates weren't more about that anyway. i keep preparing on these debate nights. we try to prepare for what the story is going to be. i expect it to be about the fiscal cliff.
>> you know, it's interesting with this town hall format perhaps you will have people in the audience who do ask the question about the fiscal cliff, what is happening, how do you break what is referred to as the fever within washington to try to get both sides to work together here. the bottom line , you and others have certainly made the comment that it is tuesday, what matters. we'll talk about what happened with joe biden and congressman ryan but the reality is, all eyes will once again be on the president more than anything to see how he steps up his game, if he can.
>> yes.
>> so basically i think that the consensus is that vice president biden bought the president a little bit of time. but it falls on the president's shoulders. before the first debate the president's campaign got him where it needed to get him. it was on his shoulders and the campaign would say he blew it.
>> it's interesting, we're going into this next debate talking about foreign policy . andrea mitchell and others have noted if there was a major gaffe from vice president biden , it was his answer regarding the security concerns in benghazi we said they were unaware of those security concerns. it's had quote was exactly we weren't told they wanted more security when in fact we know that there had been a request, andrea mitchell pointed out, the state department did know that request for more security resources have been made. we know going into this second debate governor romney feels they at least can pick up momentum with libya. there are new events tooed in egypt we're going to report to our audience, major protests in egypt as well today. do the republicans have an advantage, especially if a lot of these questions are, again, on foreign policy ?
>> right now, first of all last night vice president biden 's answer a gaffe or is the administration still fumbling around in general on this? he didn't seem to have a solid answer on it. today the administration is saying that not everyone db the vice president or president didn't know all the details about that. is this a gaffe or the white house not having its story straight yet? it seems to be the latter.
>> going into that debate, questions on libya, the president, is it necessary at this point to deliver a clear time line so that this story line or this narrative the republicans are trying to pick up of there being incompetentence, and in some extreme corners accusing the administration of having a cover-up in the way ambassador rice was on the sunday morning shows i believe it was september 16th attempting to explain what happened based on the information she had available at the time.
>> i mean, look at where we are. we're so many days after that initial rice interview and we're still talking about it. frankly, just from covering politics and government for too many years to mention, i haven't seen an administration fumble around for this many days on a pretty -- okay, these situations get confusing but it's pretty straightforward. i'm almost baffled it's taking this long for them to give an answer.
>> we'll see what the president's answer is, perhaps if this comes up on tuesday. all eyes will be on the big debate in new york. thank you. appreciate your time.
>> thanks for having me.
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