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This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Sunday," September 30, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.
The Romney/Ryan ticket turns to the debates, to try to narrow the gap against President Obama.
WALLACE (voice-over): With 37 days until the election, we go on the campaign trail with Paul Ryan.
REP. PAUL RYAN, R-WIS., GOP VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: This is a high stakes election. We are giving the country a very clear choice.
WALLACE: And we sit down for an exclusive interview in which we discuss the economy, the new focus on national security, and, growing criticism of the Romney campaign.
Paul Ryan, only on "Fox News Sunday."
(on camera): Then, we'll preview Wednesday's first Obama-Romney debate. We'll ask our Sunday panel what each candidate needs to do to win the first face off.
(voice-over): And our Power Player of the Week has spent almost half of his life telling the inside story of how a president rose and fell from power.
All, right now on Fox News.
WALLACE: And hello again, from Fox News in Washington.
With just five weeks until Election Day, a new poll showing President Obama leading in key swing states, the presidential debates may be Mitt Romney's last, best chance to turn the race around.
And so, we wanted to find out what the Romney-Ryan plan is when they face off against Obama and Biden.
WALLACE (voice-over): We caught up with running mate Paul Ryan Saturday in Derry, New Hampshire. Before we sat down for an exclusive interview, we spoke briefly as he was about to take the stage for a campaign town hall.
(on camera): What do you think? Just before you go out on stage, each time?
RYAN: President Obama is taking us in the wrong direction. Mitt and I are offering them a different direction and I'm excited at the opportunity to give people the chance to pick that choice. That is what gets me excited about this.
Thank you so much for coming out, everybody.
WALLACE: Congressman, welcome to "Fox News Sunday."
RYAN: Great to be back with you, Chris. Welcome to New Hampshire.
WALLACE: Thank you.
What does Governor Romney need to do Wednesday night in that first debate?
RYAN: He needs to give the American people the choice that we're offering. That's what we're doing. We owe the country a very clear choice of a different future. You can either have a dynamic growing economy that produces opportunity, or you can have a stagnant economy that fosters dependency.
We can stick with the failed policies of the last four years or the next four years -- we need a brighter future. Stagnation versus growth, dependency versus opportunity and upward mobility. That is the classic choice, clear difference that we're offering.
And so what we hope people get out of this debate is that choice.
WALLACE: Well, it's interesting, because for the last -- I don't know -- six months, the Romney campaign has said this is the referendum on Barack Obama's record. Now, you're saying it's a choice.
RYAN: It's not a change in strategy. It's a phase of the campaign that we've now entered into, because I think it's important. The president is trying to paper over his problems.
The president has been trying to mislead and distort a record. It's a failed record. We think it was very important to point that out.
Look at unemployment. Look at our poverty rates. Look at the 23 million people struggling for work.
But now, at this phase of the campaign, we think it's critical that people understand it doesn't have to be that way. We can get our country back on track. Mitt Romney is offering the leadership and the policies and the principles that enable us to do that.
WALLACE: It is clear that you two, you and Romney, are trailing in the polls, especially in the key swing states. And there are a growing number of top Republicans who say that Romney needs a clear victory, not a wash, a clear victory on Wednesday or else the donor support will dry up and so will the grassroots support.
RYAN: First of all, the polls are close. This is going to be a close race.
Second of all, I don't think --
WALLACE: But you are trailing.
RYAN: Well, we're running against an incumbent president. We're running against an incumbent president with incredible resources. But more importantly, I don't think one event is going to make or break this campaign.
Look, President Obama is a very -- he's a very gifted speaker. The man's been on the national stage for many years. He's an experienced debater. He's done these kinds of debates before.
This is Mitt's first time on this kind of a stage. I think what people --
WALLACE: Yes, but he did 23 debates during the primary.
RYAN: I think what people are going to see who is Mitt Romney, what kind of president is going to be and what are the choices I have. That, to me, is what matters in this particular debate and all the debates; which is I know what President Obama has done, I know all of these empty promises and broken promises, I know about the ugly stagnant economy. What is Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan offering to get us back on track?
And I think that's what we get out of Wednesday. And if we get that out of Wednesday, then the country understands the choice they have to make.
WALLACE: I understand that Governor Romney plans to make a major foreign policy speech in the next few days. Do the two of you think that the president has engaged in a cover-up in his and the administration's explanation of what happened at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi?
RYAN: Well, I'll let others decide that. I mean, there are Republicans and Democrats in Congress that are calling for an investigation, as we need to have.
I mean, their response was slow, it was confused, it was inconsistent. The first said that it was a YouTube video and a spontaneous mob; we now know that it was a planned terrorist attack. If this was one tragic incident, that would be a tragedy in and of itself. The problem is it is part of a bigger picture of the fact that the Obama foreign policy is unraveling literally before our eyes on our TV screens.
And so what Mitt Romney is going to do is lay out a very different vision for foreign policy, one that is a policy of American strength versus what I would articulate or claim the president's policy is one of weakness.
We are seeing the ugly fruits of the Obama foreign policy unravel around the world on our TV screens. Syria, we've got 20,000 dead people. Iran is closer toward a nuclear weapon. The Middle East peace process is in shambles. And we have our flags being burned all around the world.
Russia is thwarting us at every stage in the process. This is a weak foreign policy with terrible results which makes us less safe.
WALLACE: Let me just pick you up on a couple of those. Syria, Governor Romney would not put U.S. troops on the ground in Syria. Iran, Governor Romney's red line seems to be about where Barack Obama's is. There is no big difference...
RYAN: Oh, sure there is. Look, first, let's go to Iran. That's probably the most important. That's the biggest threat we have today. The difference is credibility. The president's Iran policy lacks credibility.
What I mean when I say that is, the ayatollahs in Iran, they have to make a decision to stop pursuing a nuclear weapon and pursue a peaceful resolution, but they are not doing that.
And I would argue they are not doing that because the president doesn't have credibility. He fought and resisted tough sanctions until the last moment. He was silent for too long on the Green Revolution while we had a chance for a peaceful uprising for democracy, they cracked down.
When he puts the military option on the table, he does it in a way that doesn't have credibility because his administration sends out mixed signals such as, they are more worried about an Israeli attack than Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
WALLACE: Let me give you an opportunity to establish instant credibility and a difference. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, gave a very dramatic speech at the U.N. this week. He had a drawing of a bomb. He drew a red line.
RYAN: I saw that.
WALLACE: And he said, if Iran amasses that amount of medium enriched uranium, which would be enough to make a bomb, we have to strike. Would you and Governor Romney put the red line the same place that Benjamin Netanyahu did?
RYAN: So what Mitt Romney and I have said is a nuclear weapons capability is what we have to stop. Now we have to speak with credibility. That means a Romney/Ryan administration will be one of credibility where we don't establish daylight between our allies, especially Israel.
Where, when we say what we are going to do, it is believed. That is the issue here. The ayatollahs, by virtue of the conduct, don't believe the president when he says his interest is to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
WALLACE: But you're not putting the red line any place different than the president.
RYAN: The president has moved his rhetoric a bit to look more like ours, and that's good. But the problem is it is built upon a mountain of non-credible actions. I have been in Congress for a number of years. We have been fighting for tough, crippling sanctions since 2009 on Iran.
The administration resisted us. Tim Geithner tried to stop us from doing this until overwhelming bipartisan support for these crippling sanctions, then the administration came onboard.
When we are sending those signals overseas, the ayatollahs don't think we are that serious because they are racing toward a nuclear weapon. They are four years closer toward a nuclear weapon.
Syria is a good example. When you hesitate, when you don't speak with clarity, and when you don't project your confidence in American values, it projects weakness and equivocation.
When you gut the military, as the president is proposing to do, that shows that we are weakening our resolve, we're weakening our military. And when you project weakness like this, bad things happen, and look what is going on around the world.
WALLACE: Wednesday's debate is not going to focus on foreign policy, by the rules, it's going to focus on domestic policy, especially the economy. Looking back over the historical record, the question is, why aren't you guys running away with this race?
Let me put up some statistics. Unemployment is 8.1 percent. No president has won reelection with unemployment that high since FDR in 1940. GDP growth in the second quarter, just announced, 1.3 percent. We checked, no president has won reelection with GDP growth that low since they started measuring growth in 1930.
Question, given all of that, why are you and Romney losing at this point?
RYAN: We are going to win this race. Given that, we are going to win this race.
WALLACE: But you are not at this point. You are losing.
RYAN: Look, we can debate polls. I can tell you this. The president is offering four more years of the same. And the president has been very good at distorting the issue, at disguising the truth. He has been very good at distracting the people.
He can't run on hope and change any more. So he is running on division, on distraction, on distortion to try and win an election by default. Mitt Romney and I are going to give the people a very clear choice.
Here's what you need to do. Here are the pro-growth policies to get this economy growing, to get economic opportunity, to increase more take-home pay for the middle class, to get out of poverty into the middle class, to get economic opportunity, to get job security.
We're going to show the country, here's what you need to do to tackle these problems.
WALLACE: But, Congressman, Mitt Romney has been campaigning for two years, there are only five weeks left in this campaign, forgive me, but I want to look at a couple of polls here.
According to a Wall Street Journal survey, 42 percent of Americans now think that the economy will get better in the next few years, 18 percent think it will get worse, 32 percent say it'll stay the same.
And in a New York Times poll, when asked who can handle the economy better, Obama now leads Romney by six points in Ohio and five in Florida.
With five weeks left, with months, years of campaigning past us, isn't Romney in danger of losing the rationale to his campaign that he is the better steward of the economy?
RYAN: Well, you know, in these kinds of races people really focus near the end, and that's happening now. The president has done a very good job of trying to distort our record. Look, our pro-growth tax reform, it cuts tax rates by 20 percent, higher take-home pay for middle class, pro-growth economic policy. That right there creates about 7 million jobs.
So in the final analysis, people are going to realize all the president's offering is more of the same but with another round of stimulus and higher tax rates on job creators.
We're offering very specific reforms. How do you save and strengthen Medicare and Social Security? How do you prevent a debt crisis? How do you grow jobs? How do you have an energy policy that unleashes American energy and has energy independence?
WALLACE: OK, well, here's my question. The fact that the message hasn't gotten through as effectively as it did so far, is that your fault, is that the Romney campaign's fault? Or is it the voter's fault?
RYAN: It's not the voter's fault.
It's -- look, I think the president has done an effective job at trying to confuse the issues, at trying to distort our positions, at trying to distract people. But at the end of the day, I just don't think that's going to work because --
WALLACE: Do you take any of the responsibility that --
RYAN: Look, we are going to prosecute this campaign in the way in which we've always planned, is which we're going to give this country a very clear choice. You want stagnation and dependency, you want growth or opportunity? And so, we're offering those specifics.
The problem that we've had is that not everybody knows all these specifics that we've put out there. Not everybody knows these plans -- our five-point plan for a stronger middle class. Not everybody knows that we have these solutions that will get people better job security.
WALLACE: Let's talk specifics.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: No matter how many times they tell you they are going to talk specifics, really soon -- they don't do it! And, the reason is, because the math doesn't work.
WALLACE: You're the master of the budget, so briefly, let's go through the plan.
The Obama camp says independent groups say if you cut those taxes rates for everybody, 20 percent, it costs $5 trillion over 10 years -- true?
RYAN: Not in the least bit true. Look this just goes to show if you torture statistics enough, they'll confess to what you want them to confess to. That study has been so thoroughly discredited. It wasn't even a measurement of Mitt Romney's -- his policy.
Here's what we're saying --
WALLACE: Well, how much would it cost?
RYAN: It's revenue neutral. It --
WALLACE: No, no. I'm not talking about the -- we'll get to the deductions, but I'm talking --
RYAN: No, no.
WALLACE: -- about the tax rates.
RYAN: So the cut in tax rates is lower all American taxes rates by 20 percent.
WALLACE: So how much does that cost?
RYAN: It's revenue neutral.
WALLACE: Look, it's not revenue neutral unless you take away the deductions.
RYAN: That's -- that's --
WALLACE: I'm looking to get to that in a second. The first half, lowering the tax rates, does that cost $5 trillion?
RYAN: No, no. Look, I won't give you a baseline with these, because that's what a lot of this is about. We're saying, limited deductions so we can lower taxes rates for everybody. Start with people at the higher end.
Here's the way it works, I've been on the Ways and Means Committee for 12 years -- both parties, Republicans and Democrats, have junked up the tax code with so many giveaways and special interest tax breaks. What we're saying is, you keep you money in your pocketbook, in your business, in your family in the first place.
The way it works today is you send more of your money to Washington and then if you do what Washington approves of, you can have some of it back.
We're saying keep it in the first place. And every time we've done this, whether it was Ronald Reagan working with Top O'Neill, the idea is from Bowles-Simpson commission on how to do this. There's been a traditional Democrat and Republican consensus lowering tax rates by broadening tax rates works, and you can.
WALLACE: But I have to --
RYAN: Let me just -- let me just --
WALLACE: You haven't given me the message.
RYAN: Well, I don't have the -- it would take me too long to go through all of that, but let me say it this way. You can lower tax rates by 20 percent across the board by closing loopholes and still have preferences for the middle class for things like charitable deductions, for home purchases, for health care.
So what we're saying is people are going to get lower tax rates and therefore, they will not send as much money to Washington and they'll keep it and decide for themselves.
WALLACE: All right.
RYAN: When we've done this, we've created economic growth.
WALLACE: If, just suppose, that the doubters are right, President Romney takes office and the math doesn't add up.
RYAN: First of all, we've run the numbers, I've run them in Congress, they do. We've got about five other studies that show that you can do this.
WALLACE: OK, but let's assume it doesn't. The question is, what's more important to Romney? Would he scale back on the 20 percent tax cut for the wealthy? Would he scale back and say, OK, you know, we're going to have to raise taxes for the middle class?
I guess the question is what's most important to him in his tax reform plan?
RYAN: Keeping tax rates down. By lowering tax rates, people keep more of the next dollar that they earn. That matters. That is incentives. That's pro-growth policy. That creates 7 million jobs. And what should go first...
WALLACE: So that's more important than...
RYAN: That's more important than anything. And more importantly, it's not what deductions are in the tax code but it's who gets them. And don't forget that the higher-income people have a disproportionate amount of the loopholes that they use. So when you close a tax write-off or a tax shelter for a higher-income person, more of their income is subject to taxation so you can lower tax rates.
That's where we begin. So where we go is by denying those deductions and loopholes to higher-income people, which allows us to lower tax rates for everybody across the board and still afford important preferences for the middle-class taxpayers.
WALLACE: Governor Romney has taken heat for the 47 percent video, where he told big -- big donors that 47 percent of the country -- it's actually 46% -- don't pay federal income taxes and view themselves as victims.
Fox News did a poll this week and they found that 79 percent think all Americans should pay at least some income taxes. Do you think it would be good if -- if every American paid federal income taxes, had -- even if it's a dollar, even if it's $2 -- had some skin in the game?
RYAN: We don't think that imposing new taxes on anybody is a good idea. Don't forget, Chris, the only person running for president who's proposing higher taxes is President Obama.
So our point is we don't want to...
WALLACE: Because he would end the Bush tax cuts for the -- for the wealthy.
RYAN: Yeah, tax rates -- he already passed all these ObamaCare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers, breaking that promise. He's proposing a massive tax increase on job creators in January.
But to go to your question, we don't think the idea or the solution is to impose new taxes on low-income people. We want to get people out of poverty, back to the middle class. And that's why our economic policies are designed to create jobs and opportunities so people can get higher take-home pay.
The key is this, get people from not paying income taxes because they have bad incomes to the middle class so they have jobs that have higher take-home pay so then they pay taxes.
We want to create more taxpayers. We don't want to tax more people with bad tax policy. We want to create more taxpayers by growing the middle class, by getting people back to work with higher take-home pay.
The secret to this is economic growth, Chris. Look, the premise of these conversations; the premise of your tax reform point is as if the economic pie is fixed and that it's governments job to redistribute the slices. That's not true. That's not how the world works. We want to grow the pie. We want economic opportunity. We want people to be able to get a better job, have more income security and higher take-home pay. And you can do that through economic growth. That is what we're trying to provide. That's what we can get if we put these pro-growth policies in place.
WALLACE: A number of top Republicans say that, when Romney picked you as his running mate a little over a month ago, that they thought that this indicated that you guys were going to run a bold reform agenda campaign. And they are now expressing some frustration that instead of you changing Romney -- you've heard this -- that they feel that Romney is changing you and you're running a much more cautious campaign.
And even your own good friend and Wisconsin home state governor, Scott Walker, has gone on the radio to complain about this.
GOV. SCOTT WALKER, R-WIS.: I just haven't seen that kind of passion. I know that Paul has transferred over to our nominee, and I -- I think, a little bit -- it's a little bit of some pushback from some of the folks in the national campaign.
WALLACE: Walker says he doesn't see passion. He doesn't see reform. He doesn't see fire in the belly.
RYAN: Scott's a good buddy of mine and he's always been a good backer of mine. Come out to -- with Mitt and myself to Ohio, to Iowa, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Florida. Attend our town hall meetings. Look at how we're walking people through how we fix Medicare, how we fix Social Security, how we create jobs, how we reform the tax code, how we have an energy policy, an education policy, a trade policy.
Mitt Romney has put out more specifics on how to revive this economy, on how to get people back to work than the incumbent president of the United States has. So I hear the handwringing in Washington -- and Washington likes to talk about process. Come out into these states with us and see what we're talking about. See the forceful case we're making for economic opportunity. See the specific plans we're putting on the table, the bold solutions.
Mitt Romney has never once asked me to temper anything down. He said go out there and sell this.
WALLACE: Well, you talk about the handwringing. There was a report this weekend that you have been talking to conservative commentators and trying to get them to stay on board, not to jump ship, not to get too discouraged. But in the course of those conversations, you've admitted the campaign has made missteps.
Question: What missteps?
RYAN: I think -- I think -- first of all, 47 percent, Mitt acknowledges himself that was an inarticulate way of describing how we are worried that in a stagnant Obama economy, more people have become dependent on government because they have no economic opportunities. It was an inarticulate way to describe what we are trying to do to create prosperity and upward mobility, and reduce dependency by getting people off welfare back to work.
So, yes, those -- we've had some missteps, but at the end of the day, the choice is really clear and we're giving people a very clear choice. We have these pro-growth solutions for opportunity and upward mobility and a dynamic economy. You've got the president promising basically four more years like the last four years of stagnation, of dependency.
So yes, here and there we have -- we have not been able to frame that choice as clearly. I really believe, by the end of this day, people are going to understand exactly what they've got and the choices they have.
WALLACE: Do you think the mainstream media is carrying water for Barack Obama?
RYAN: I think it kind of goes without saying that there's definitely a media bias. We've -- look, I'm a conservative person, I'm used to media bias. We expected media bias going into this.
That's why we're trying to cut through and go straight to people. That's why when you hear people in Washington complain about media bias, come out into these states with us and attend out town hall meetings.
WALLACE: But where have you seen it? Where have you seen it in this campaign where you feel they're judging you and Romney by one standard and Obama and Biden by another?
RYAN: I don't think -- I'm not going to go into a tit-for-tat or litigate this thing. But as a conservative, I've long believed and long felt that there is inherit media bias. And I think anybody with objectivity would believe that that's the case.
WALLACE: Do you think mainstream media wants Barack Obama to win?
RYAN: You'll have to ask mainstream that.
WALLACE: No, what do you think?
RYAN: I think most people in the mainstream media are left of center and therefore, they want a very left of center president than they want a conservative president like Mitt Romney.
WALLACE: So they want Obama to win and they want to lose?
RYAN: I don't know. I'll let you decide what people want, what's in their hearts, what's in their minds. But obviously, we are offering conservative reforms that are proven ideas to work to grow the economy. We want to reapply our nation's founding principles to fix the problems. I would argue the president is replacing our founding principles.
WALLACE: We've been talking about the presidential debate on Wednesday, but the following week, you have your own debate, vice presidential debate against Joe Biden. And I know you've been watching tapes of Joe Biden and I know you're going to play the expectations game and say he's the greatest debater since -- who? -- Daniel --
RYAN: You want me to start now?
WALLACE: No, no, I don't want to hear that. What I do want to hear, though, is, you know, you watch tapes of games.
RYAN: I do.
WALLACE: What are his techniques? What are his tricks? What are his strengths?
RYAN: He's fast on the cuff. He's a witty guy. He knows who he is and he's been doing this for 40 years.
So you're not going to rattle Joe Biden. Joe Biden has been on the national stage. He's ran for president twice. He's a sitting vice president.
What I hope to achieve is to give people an alternative. A very different governing philosophy, different policies.
And Joe is very good on the attack. Joe is very good at trying to confuse the issues so that the person who leaves the debate confused about who stands for what. My job is to make sure that they are not -- they are not confused about what we stand for and what they stand for.
WALLACE: Now, you have Ted Olson, perhaps the most respected --
RYAN: Very smart guy.
WALLACE: -- lawyer, Supreme Court Appellate lawyer in the country. The guy who won Bush v. Gore as your stand-in.
What other similarities between Ted Olson and Joe Biden?
RYAN: They're about the same age, and Ted Olson is one really good debater. I hope -- I hope Joe Biden shows up more than Ted Olson, because I tell you, he's one of the best litigators in America.
But what Ted has done is he has studied Joe Biden's tape, Joe Biden's record, Joe Biden's, you know, style. And Ted, as you know, is one of the best litigators in America, he's pretty good at adapting to that.
WALLACE: Have you got lines already prepared? A tax line?
RYAN: No, I'm not really a line guy. I'm more of a gut guy. I'm more of a you know me well. I don't try to be anybody other than who I am. I believe in what I believe. I do what I do. And I really believe in the policies that we're providing, that we're pursuing. And at the end of the day, I'm just going to go in there and be me.
WALLACE: And are you hoping that Joe Biden makes one of his occasional gaffes?
RYAN: I don't think he will. You know he doesn't do that in debates. You know, gaffes, he's kind of legendary for this, that's not in these kinds of situations. He does not -- he's a very disciplined person when he speaks in these kinds of situations.
He doesn't produce gaffes in these moments. Those are when he's off the cuff, you know, on the stomp, on campaign speeches.
WALLACE: So you're not counting on one of those.
RYAN: I'm not counting on a gaffe, no.
WALLACE: Thank you so much so much for talking with us. Safe travels on the campaign trail.
RYAN: You bet. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate it
WALLACE: With that interview, we have now talked with both men on the Republican ticket.
But, it has been a different story with the Democrats. Each week, for years now, we have invited President Obama and Vice President Biden to join us here on "Fox News Sunday." When we last sat down with Mr. Obama he said he would be back soon.
WALLACE: Senator Obama, thanks for talking with us.
OBAMA: I enjoyed it.
WALLACE: Don't be a stranger.
OBAMA: I won't.
WALLACE: But that was April 27, 2008. It has now been 1,617 days since the president's last appearance. And although Senator Biden appeared on "Fox News Sunday" 35 times, it has been 1,841 days since the vice president last talked with us. In the meantime, we and you have had a lot of questions that have gone unanswered. We will invite them again for next Sunday.
Up next, with the first presidential debate now just three days away, we will ask our Sunday group what to look for Wednesday night.
ROMNEY: He is trying to fool people into thinking that I think things that I don't, and that ends, I think, during the debate.
DAVID AXELROD, OBAMA SENIOR CAMPAIGN ADVISER: We know that Governor Romney has been practicing for months. I think the invasion of Normandy took less preparation than he is putting into these debates.
WALLACE: That was Governor Romney and top Obama adviser David Axelrod playing the expectations game ahead of Wednesday's first presidential debate. And it's time now for our Sunday group. Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. Liz Marlantes from the Christian Science Monitor. Syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams.
Well, Bill, you just heard Paul Ryan say that Romney will offer the country a clear choice of two different economic futures. Is that what Romney needs to do Wednesday? Is that enough?
KRISTOL: I think it will be good to just win the debate, that's my main advice to Governor Romney. And it's sort of time to begin Panicking a little bit, and I think that means offering his own way ahead, and really explaining why the next four years under President Obama will be disastrous. Shouldn't focus on the last four years, focus on the next four years. A clear choice, but really lay out what four more years of Obama policies in terms of debt, in terms of no economic growth, in terms of a failed foreign policy would look like, lay out the Romney alternative, and I think he needs to go right at Obama. My main advice would be ignore Jim Lehrer, ignore the moderator, sort of like Juan does with you. You know when Juan argues with me and just ignores all that - all your questions and all that? He's got to take - do not get - do not answer Jim Lehrer. Go after President Obama directly, speak to him in the second person, say, you have failed unfortunately and here's what we can do differently, and really make it a sharp contrast.
WALLACE: Interestingly enough, Liz, when I talked to Congressman Ryan about the fact that Romney needs a clear victory because of the state of the polls, he pushed back very much against that.
Does he need a clear victory?
LIZ MARLANTES, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Yes. He does. I mean, I think there's pretty universal consensus at this point that he's got to do something to shake up the trajectory of this race and that a safe performance probably isn't going to be enough at this point.
Having said that, I think it might not be that hard for Romney to get a win in the first debate, challengers tend to get the win in the first debate against the incumbent.
WALLACE: Just by the fact that they're on the same stage with the president.
MARLANTES: Yes. And I think there's something where, you know, presidents sometimes feel on some level a little irritated that they're having to go through this and sometimes it customs across. And -- so, I think the dynamic, actually, in some ways, favor Romney.
And I think, really, all Romney has to do -- I sort of disagree with Bill that he should go after Obama hard in the sense that his likability has been such a problem for him that if he comes across as too negative, I think that could be risky.
But I think Romney could win this debate with one genuinely good human moment, which is something that people have been hungering to see from him throughout this entire campaign. If he could have one moment where he gives voters the sense that he is throwing the talking points out the window and telling them, what he really believes -- and it doesn't matter what the issue is. I just think, you know, he should connect with voters in some way that, that would actually, probably get him a win.
WALLACE: Laura, how do you see the debate? What do both -- because we keep talking about Romney -- what do both Obama and Romney need to do?
LAURA INGRAHAM, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: One point on the debate is the be all and end all, there is not universal consensus there has to be a clear, you know, resounding victory for Romney. Romney has to do well, no doubt about it. But this -- laying the benchmark, it's the debate, it's the debate, falls into the media meme of Romney has to perform and if he doesn't it is an excuse of another round of in my mind disgustingly bias pieces against Mitt Romney.
I believe Bill is exactly right. When Barack Obama was challenged in that Univision interview, last week, by Jorge Ramos, he was challenged pretty hard, Obama very looks uncomfortable when he's really confronted with facts and very simply worded question. I think if Mitt Romney reminds people that we have really 11.7 unemployment, not 8.1 percent, that America's best days have to be in front of her, I think he wins, not by having a, quote, "human moment". I think that is a fool's errand, but having a moment of real leadership and maturity. Contrasting that with a celebrity president who seems much more comfortable with Ellen or any of these late night hosts, than he is talking to the families of these insider attacks.
I think Romney has to be mature, and forceful. Yes, this idea that it's all in this debate, I think that's a little too convenient for the media.
WALLACE: Juan, talk about it. But also, because we kind of keep forgetting about Obama -- what does Obama need to do?
JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I think for President Obama, he's leading in the polls, nationally now. He's leading in the swing states. So, the question is, how do you reaffirm the existing status quo? You know, the sense that the sale has been made and he's there, not to seek any sort of dramatic moment, he just wants it to happen and, be history.
And, for Mitt Romney, I think the problem is, I think it came out in your interview, Chris, suddenly to hear the Republicans talking about a choice election, not a referendum on Obama. Bill Kristol's suggestion was, look, you've got to go at Obama, about his record, you got to make it about what Obama not only has done in the past but what he's likely to do in the future. That's their -- that's but what the prescription would be for the Republicans.
You know, but the fact is, most people who are going to watch this debate and a lot of people are going to watch. They think it's about 50 million people. It's going to be a huge audience.
If those people coming to the table are going to make up their mind, that will be one thing. But most of those people have already made up their mind. So they are watching -- I think they are watching for the human moment and watching for the zinger. I think that's what people will take away.
WALLACE: I want to talk about the question of media bias that Lara brought up and, Paul Ryan discussed it in our interview. And what he said is he thinks that most of the mainstream media, Bill, are left of center and they would prefer a very left, as he put it, a very left of center president, to a conservative like Mitt Romney.
How clear do you feel media bias has been in this campaign, pro-Obama, anti-Romney.
KRYSTOL: Pretty clear, but I don't think conservatives use it as an excuse. Conservatives have won plenty and, they've won campaigns before, and, look at the landslide in 2010, and, they demonized the parties.
And here's why I disagree with Liz. The like -- every liberal professor I read, his advised, or her advice to Mitt Romney, be likable. You really got to take care of your likability deficit. Forget it. Forget it. It's too late for that. Maybe there was a time he could have done it in the summer.
He's got to be tough. He's got to go right directly at President Obama. And, if the media narrative the day after the debate is, you know, they both did well, it was so nice to have a respectful debate, Jim Lehrer, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, they all got along, there was such a high tone...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's over.
KRISTOL: Right. Then it is over. He has got to get under President Obama's skin and really clarify the choice ahead.
WALLACE: I want to talk about media bias because I saw a couple of cases this week that struck me. First of all, this is the cover of TIME magazine. Mitt Romney has been running for president two years, and five weeks before the election Mitt Romney's -- they decide, TIME, that they are going to do a story on the Mormon identity. Not about tax reform, not about the economy, not about foreign policy, the Mormon identity.
And I want to also point out I have been busy on this, but I just have been struck by it this week. This is Wednesday's Washington Post, and my wife pointed this out to me. So there's a story up here on the top. It's "At U.N. Obama Issues a Challenge." Fair enough, the president spoke to the U.N. That would seem to be a big news story.
Here is the lead story: "Ohio, Florida Give Obama an Edge." Here is the sidebar story: "For Obama, the Buckeye State May be a Bulls-eye." My wife turned to me and said, well, I guess the race is over according to The Washington Post.
I mean, am I overreacting to this? And more importantly, is my wife overreacting to this, Liz?
MARLANTES: Well, I mean, reporting on polls, there has been a lot of discussion in particular about the polling and whether the polling is oversampling Democrats and all of that. And, you know, to some extent political reporters report on polls and that drives the narrative.
I would say that to some extent the biggest problem Mitt Romney has in terms of media bias is less an ideological bias than the fact that they are covering him like he is losing.
And if you think about the way they covered George W. Bush, I don't think any ideological biases have really changed a whole lot since then, but they never covered George W. Bush like he was going to lose.
WALLACE: Laura, you look like you are going to come out of your chair.
INGRAHAM: Well, look, the media has been covering this year's events as if the only thing matters is who wins in November. We've actually had a president of the United States for the last year who has spent, I bet if you go through his daily schedule, I bet he has spent about 80 percent of his time running for reelection.
I submit if that were a Republican president, on a day like we had last week at the U.N., that appeared on a more entertainment focused show but could not meet with our most important ally in the Middle East, and not with a single member of a family who has been hit by one of these insider attacks in Washington, I believe the media would be going nuts.
WALLACE: Wait, Juan?
WILLIAMS: I mean, clearly the president went to the ceremony for Ambassador Stevens, he met with the family. I mean, I think this is Republican conspiracy. Look, if...
INGRAHAM: The FBI still isn't in Benghazi.
WILLIAMS: If you give the media the 47 percent statement, if you give the media Clint Eastwood, if you have offshore accounts, guess what, people are going to write about them.
INGRAHAM: If you have 11.7 percent real unemployment, they would be actually having that as the headline, not Mormonism in the United States.
WILLIAMS: And people know about the economy, and, as Chris pointed out earlier, the confidence in the economy and the president's ability to handle the economy he has been surging.
WALLACE: All right. Well...
INGRAHAM: Yes, because the media has been all over that.
WALLACE: ... we are not going to focus on media bias any longer. We are going to talk about issues. We are going to take a break here. And when we come back, the terror attack that killed four Americans in Libya. There are growing questions about what the president knew and when knew it.
LEON PANETTA, DEFENSE SECRETARY: The reason that I think it pretty clearly was a terrorist attack is because a group of terrorists obviously conducted that attack on the consulate.
SEN. BOB CORKER, R-TENN.: This is turning into something not short of Benghazi-gate. I mean, what's going on here?
WALLACE: Defense Secretary Panetta finally calling the Benghazi assault an act of terrorism, while Republican Senator Bob Corker joins a growing number of officials questioning whether the Obama administration was involved in a cover-up.
And, we're back now with the panel.
The director of national intelligence issued an extraordinary statement Friday afternoon, that their initial information was, that it was a spontaneous protest, but that since then they got new information, they revised their assessment, and they now believe it was a deliberate, quote, "deliberate and organized terrorist attack".
Question, Bill: Does that get the Obama White House off the hook in their shifting explanations of what happened in Benghazi?
KRISTOL: Well, it shouldn't because it was clear, it was a terrorist attack and Leon Panetta said it was obviously an attack, before Susan Rice came on the show and others and said, oh, no, it was a spontaneous protest about a video.
The president has a big investment in the narrative that not only is Osama dead, but al Qaeda is finished. And, it turns out al Qaeda is capable or al Qaeda affiliates, Ansar al-Sharia are capable of launching terrorist attacks on American embassies, and in this case quite a sophisticated in Benghazi. Also attacks incidentally on the same day or the day after in Sudan and Tunisia and Yemen.
So, we have a -- you know, there's war on terror going on and the president doesn't want to discuss that and so they tried to pretend this was just a spontaneous reaction to a video.
WALLACE: Liz, the timeline that the DNI, the Department of National in -- director of national intelligence, and Panetta said was, we have early information and then got information that changed. But before Susan Rice did her famous round of five interviews, including "Fox News Sunday," the first Sunday after the attack, there was a lot of information released, allegations including the president of Libya and I specifically asked about that and I said it was a pre-planned terrorist attack and yet, they were insisting, she was, no, it was spontaneous.
MARLANTES: Yes, it was kind of amazing. I think I was on the panel that weekend. And we were just all surprised that she didn't leave wiggle room, it would have been pretty easy for them to come out and say, we're investigating. We don't really know much yet. I mean, she could have been a lot vaguer.
WALLACE: How big a problem is this?
MARLANTES: And they created a bigger problem because of the way that he handled it. I mean, I think the danger for the Obama administration is not so much voters are suddenly going to think, oh, he's weak on national security. I mean, he's got a big, big cushion in the polls right now in terms of how voters view his national security policy.
But I think there are two dangers for him. One is the honesty issue, which the Obama campaign has been hitting hard and trying to come at him in different directions on that. The idea that maybe, you know, they were deliberately dishonest or went with something they had reason to believe might not be true.
And then, I think the other real problem for Obama is the appearance of acting politically, which is, of course, what they accused Romney of doing when he issued his original statement about Benghazi. But, you know, voters will start to think, well, maybe the president is acting more in the interest of his campaign when it comes to national security issues, than really what's in the best interest of the country.
So, I think those are the two potential weak spots, coming out of all of this.
WALLACE: Laura, as we reported and as it came out in the course of our interview with Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney plans on a major foreign policy speech and a major critique of Obama's foreign policy in the next few days, probably after the debate.
How vulnerable do you think Obama's foreign policy is and how important is it for Romney to go after it?
INGRAHAM: That mantra "Usama is dead but GM lives" -- that was a pretty powerful kind of way to sum it up for him, and I think that was a smart thing for them to do.
I think today we see things a little bit differently. I mean, we see this thing unravel in Benghazi. The guess is why did they send Susan Wright out -- Rice out? Why was it necessary for her to go out on five shows and say it was spontaneous? Why not just say we have an ongoing investigation and I'm really not going to say anything more; we're going to learn more? Why is it that the FBI still can't get into the Benghazi site? They're saying it's too dangerous for the FBI.
Well, we have troops all over Afghanistan in Taliban strongholds. They're able to move and maneuver and do so at their own peril. Why are we not in Benghazi today?
I think President Obama is enormously vulnerable on this point. Because I think most Americans today question whether we are going to be the world's sole superpower five years from now or maybe three years from now.
But it's incumbent upon Mitt Romney to do the same thing, in a way, that Netanyahu did at the U.N. with that chart, you know, the bomb and the 90 percent red line. He needs to tie that all together in a really visual way. What is the world going to look like; what are we going to live like if America is not the unquestioned superpower in the world? And how is this vulnerability translating to the lives of everyday Americans?
Does it matter? I think most people want America to be the strongest and they want competence on these issues.
WALLACE: Juan?
WILLIAMS: Well, I think this is obviously taking place in a highly politicized season in the runup to the campaign. But when you look back at the timeline, I think Susan Rice, when she spoke to you, Chris, gave you the best information she had at that time. And what you see now coming from the DNI office; you later saw coming from General Petraeus at CIA and Leon Panetta at Defense, was that's what American intelligence was indicating at the time.
So I think Susan Rice was being forthcoming with you. But subsequently, according to the DNI; according to Petraeus and others, different information has come in and therefore the story has changed.
But in the current political environment, it's made out to be this is distortion, or as Laura said, they're vulnerable on this. And if you look at the polls, the American people are saying, well, what's going on over in the Middle East?
And now more and more Americans are saying we're not sure about how President Obama's approach to the Muslim world has worked. And I think the Romney campaign therefore thinks we can gain some traction on this issue in the midst of their...
INGRAHAM: Well, there's a record, right? There's a record...
WILLIAMS: ... very difficult and stalling campaign.
WALLACE: I want to move to one last subject. And we have a couple of minutes left. Bill, Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the U.N., which, if nothing else, will always be remembered for the stagecraft of him with that crazy-looking little bomb -- it looks like a cartoon bomb -- drawing -- literally drawing the red line.
But some experts read Netanyahu's speech as actually softening his approach to Obama. He said he appreciates the Obama administration's stance towards Iran. He seemed to be putting off any possible attack against Iran into next spring or summer. Is that the way you read his speech?
KRISTOL: Well, I think he's responsible. He's not going to go and insult the president of the United States. But I thought it was a very effective speech. I thought it was a classic example of how the media so often gets things wrong. The media narrative on that Wednesday afternoon and Thursday were, oh, how silly, that cartoonish bomb, even the front page of every newspaper...
KRISTOL: ... in the U.S. and a lot around the world. And his core -- and everyone had talked vaguely about red lines, and he explained very clearly why you cannot allow them to get beyond a certain point; you can't let them get to the -- you've got to stop them before they can just flip the switch and go to a nuclear weapon.
So I thought it was a very effective speech. I think -- I agree with Laura. Mitt Romney should give an effective foreign policy speech that clearly explains -- forget about the cover-up. Talk about reality. What is happening around the world? What is happening in Afghanistan? What is happening in the Middle East as a result of our weakness?
I don't -- I think there's too much focus on the media, a cover-up, who said what when. Talk about the reality of the effects of Obama's foreign policy.
WILLIAMS: And talk about the fact that Netanyahu thanked President Obama for his speech...
INGRAHAM: On the phone.
WILLIAMS: ... saying, you know what, there's a limit to our patience, but the president said we do believe there's time for negotiation. And even Netanyahu said he doesn't think anything is going to happen until next summer at the earliest.
WALLACE: Well, part of that may also be he got some blowback for appearing to go too anti-Obama...
WILLIAMS: Yeah.
WALLACE: ... in managing that relationship.
Thank you, panel. See you next week. Don't forget to check out panel plus, where our group picks right up with a discussion on our web site, foxnewssunday.com. And we'll post the video before noon Eastern time. And make sure to follow us on Twitter, @FoxNewsSunday. Up next, our Power Player of the Week.
WALLACE: Still to come, our Power Player of the Week.
ROBERT CARO, AUTHOR, "THE PASSAGE OF POWER": I don't like him or dislike him.
WALLACE: He says he's not a biographer. He's a student of power -- how you get it and what you do with it.
CARO: You are in awe of him because you are constantly saying, look what he's doing now!
WALLACE: Stay tuned, we'll be right back.
WALLACE: He is one of our most celebrated historians who has spent decades telling the story of an American president. And, yet he writes his books in long hand on legal pads, to force himself to go slower, and think more.
Here's a special "Power Player of the Week".
CARO: You want to know how political power works in America in the last half of the 20th century, studying Lyndon Johnson's life, watching him exercise power is a way to see what a president can really do.
WALLACE (voice-over): Robert Caro has spent almost half his life telling the story of LBJ. But he says he's not a biographer, he's a student of power, how you get it and what you do with it. And, Johnson, he says, was a genius at both.
(on camera): How long did you think it was going to take?
CARO: I threw in about 10 years.
WALLACE: And now, we're, what 36 years into this?
CARO: Something like that.
WALLACE (voice-over): The breadth and depth of the work is stunning. Since 1976, Caro has written four books, 3,400 pages, winning almost every award there is starting with the Pulitzer and he's not yet to Johnson and Vietnam.
Why has it taken so long? When Carol looked at how Johnson was first elected to the senate in 1948, by 87 votes, he ended up writing a book about it.
CARO: Nobody has ever looked at a stolen election from beginning to end. And say, this is where the stolen election is.
WALLACE: And his latest, "Passage of Power", tells how Johnson succeeded John Kennedy and saved his agenda.
CARO: He takes legislation that Kennedy introduced, that was stalled. It really wasn't going to pass, civil rights, the tax cut bill, and in an instant, Johnson gets it moving towards passage.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you very, very, very much.
WALLACE: Last week, Caro took part in the Library of Congress Book Festival on the National Mall. And it was clear, he's made Johnson come alive for many readers.
(on camera): Do you like him?
CARO: I don't like him or dislike him. You were in awe of him, because you are constantly saying, look what he's doing now.
WALLACE: He got excited talking about Johnson's rise to power. But as we turned to the final book he's writing now, about Johnson's presidency and Vietnam, his demeanor has suddenly changed.
CARO: The story is going to turn very dark as soon as Vietnam enters the picture. It's sort of a tragic story. It's the story of his great dreams that are destroyed by a war.
WALLACE: You're 76 now. Do you ever worry that you're not going to have time to finish this last book?
CARO: Well, sure, but you know, it's not productive to think like that.
WALLACE: How long do you think it's going to take you to finish?
CARO: Well, I could say three to four years, but why would you believe me?
WALLACE: After all, Caro's latest book took nine years. But there is at least one part of the final chapter of the Johnson's story that is already written.
Is it true that you already know the last sentence of the book?
CARO: I always have to have a last sentence to write towards. I have to know what the conclusion is.
WALLACE: Can you tell us?
CARO: No.
WALLACE: Is it a doozy of a last sentence?
CARO: Well, I hope so.
WALLACE: While Caro feels the time pressure to finish up the Johnson story, he also has plans to write another book on a different subject after that. As a big fan of his work, I can't wait to read it. And we'll have a final note in a moment.
WALLACE: Finally, this program note. Stay tuned to this station and Fox News Channel for complete coverage of the first presidential debate in Denver. That's Wednesday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. And that's it for today. Have a great week and we'll see you next "Fox News Sunday."
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BALTIMORE -- Esmil Rogers entered this season with the firm belief that his starting days were over, but instead he ended up becoming a permanent fixture in the Blue Jays' rotation.
Toronto's right-hander was slated for a role in long relief after being a full year removed from his starting job with the Rockies. He wasn't even mentioned as a possible candidate for the rotation during Spring Training, but another series of devastating injuries to the staff changed all of that.View Full Game Coverage
BALTIMORE -- Esmil Rogers entered this season with the firm belief that his starting days were over, but instead he ended up becoming a permanent fixture in the Blue Jays' rotation.
Toronto's right-hander was slated for a role in long relief after being a full year removed from his starting job with the Rockies. He wasn't even mentioned as a possible candidate for the rotation during Spring Training, but another series of devastating injuries to the staff changed all of that.View Full Game Coverage
Rogers' season came to an end on a sour note as he surrendered six runs in a 9-5 loss the Orioles on Wednesday night, but not before he made 20 surprising starts and attempted to make a case that he could still have a future in that role.
"I'm so happy, there are not a lot of pitchers that can do that in baseball," Rogers said of transitioning from the bullpen to the rotation. "I got the opportunity and I was healthy all year. I'm going to keep working. I like the team, I like the organization, I like everybody, so I'm going to work out and try to be here for a long time."
Rogers' stint with the starters was met with mixed results. He had a couple of long stretches with nice outings, but finished with a 4-7 record and 4.89 ERA. It seems unlikely that Rogers will receive much consideration for a starting job next spring, but don't tell that to the fifth-year pitcher out of the Dominican Republic.
The 28-year-old intends to head to Winter Ball during the offseason like he does every year. He wants to work on his changeup, while also making some changes to his delivery after receiving some suggestions from Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker.
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"We talked about that, and I'm going to try this winter and we'll see [how] this is going to be," said Rogers, who is out of options on his contract. "Let's try, because it has never happened before [for me]. I'm going to try it and get confidence, and try not to make too many mistakes."
Before Rogers could officially shut things down for the year, he had to first take on the Orioles. He faced the minimum through two innings, but the outing started going south in the third, when he allowed a two-run homer to No. 9 hitter Ryan Flaherty.
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Rogers was charged with six of the runs on eight hits, while striking out just two. It marked the first time since Aug. 20 that Rogers surrendered more than three runs in a start, but also was the second straight outing he failed to pitch at least five innings.
"The first couple of innings he looked pretty good, and then they started hitting him around," Gibbons said. "He was in some jams for most of the game, and then they opened it up there in the middle."
Toronto's offense was led by a pair of unlikely candidates Wednesday night. The light-hitting Munenori Kawasaki and Josh Thole both went 4-for-5, with the backup catcher adding an RBI. Anthony Gose added an RBI triple to right-center field in the third inning, while Jose Reyes also had an RBI single and a run scored. Orioles right-hander Bud Norris was charged with three of the runs and managed to last just four innings.
Kawasaki certainly isn't known for his work with the bat, but his numbers against the Orioles are surprisingly effective. He is hitting .313 (15-for-48) with three doubles, a home run and eight RBIs against the club this year. Kawasaki joked after recording a career-high four hits that his new nickname is "Lil' Papi."
"I'm just happy about the result," Kawasaki said through an interpreter. "I just appreciate the chance that the team gave me and I'm just totally enjoying this season."
Kawasaki will have one more opportunity to face the Orioles when the two sides close out their series at Camden Yards on Thursday night. The Blue Jays will then return home to finish off their year with a three-game set against Tampa Bay.
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A Trio of Events Planned for Granite State College Alumni
Concord, NH – The Alumni Learner Association (ALA) is sponsoring three events to some of the most popular attractions in New Hampshire for Granite State College alumni and friends.
The first is a NH Fisher Cats Baseball Game in the V.I.P. Party Suite on August 18, 2012. Tickets are $35 for adults, $32 for children under twelve, and the price includes a buffet prior to the game and luxury box seating.
On September 29, 2012, there is a trip on the Conway Scenic Railroad in the Notch Train's Hattie Evans Car. The 5-hour tour costs $87 for adults, $45-72 for children, and includes first class seating and a three-course meal.
The final event is a dinner cruise on the M/S Mount Washington on October 14, 2012. The $40 ticket price includes the cruise, a dinner buffet, and entertainment.
Visit granite.edu/alumnievents for full details, including registration information and deadlines.
About Granite State College:
Granite State College is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, along with record enrollments college-wide. As part of the University System of New Hampshire, GSC empowers students to fulfill their dreams via innovative higher education degrees and programs. GSC serves over 3,500 students statewide and beyond annually, and has served over 54,000 New Hampshire students since 1972. GSC proudly delivers practical and relevant education in the classroom and online, offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, post-baccalaureate programs for teacher education and a variety of transfer opportunities. GSC is committed to empowering and educating students, by delivering unparalleled, high-quality education in an affordable, flexible and innovative setting. Granite State College provides access at 10 locations across the state, including Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Portsmouth, Rochester, Claremont, Lebanon, Conway, Littleton and Berlin.


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Trial delayed for Dover man facing drug, rape chargesBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
April 02. 2013 8:54PM
BRENTWOOD - A Dover man set to go on trial in three weeks was given more time to challenge the state's evidence that allegedly shows he drugged three women in Portsmouth and sexually assaulted one of them in July of last year.
Aaron Bonds, 43, will now go on trial the week of June 3 on charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault and dispensing a substance represented to be a controlled drug.
On the night of July 11, 2012, Bonds allegedly met two of the women at a Portsmouth restaurant, providing them with what they believed was cocaine.
They then joined a third woman at a Portsmouth apartment, where Bonds allegedly raped a 26-year-old woman while she was under the influence of an unknown drug and unable to speak or resist, according to prosecutors.
All three women snorted the drug, and became nauseous and unable to move, according to Assistant County Attorney Brad Bolton.
Bonds may use the delay of his trial to argue that new DNA results that prosecutors recently obtained should not be seen by a jury.
Defense lawyer Brian Lavallee acknowledged in court papers that his client recently provided a DNA sample to the state and has been made aware of the results.
Lavallee did not reveal the results of the test, but suggested to a judge that it may be challenged, along with other evidence, prior to trial.
"Additional time is necessary for (Bonds) to fully and completely prepare for trial," Lavallee said in court papers.
Bonds, "is now in a position to formulate a specific, concrete defense strategy for trial," Lavallee said in court papers.
"It goes without saying that the strategy and/or tactical decision of counsel would differ depending upon whether the cases were joined or severed for trial," Lavallee continued in court papers.
Judge N. William Delker decided the defense should also have more time to fully prepare in the wake of his recent decision that Bonds will face one trial, instead of three.
Prosecutors had asked to consolidate all the charges into one trial because much of the evidence and witness testimony would be the same.
Bonds, a convicted sex offender, is being held at the Rockingham County jail. He was convicted of sexual assault in 2003.
Bonds could face up to 20 to 40 years in state prison on each of the three sexual assault charges if he is convicted by a jury.


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Infertility is so sharply on the increase in the West that it nowaffects one in six couples at some point in their reproductive lives. These days, the childless are led to believe that modern chemistry can easily do something about it, and increasing number of couples are seeking infertility treatment or some form of "assisted conception".
The number of visits to US doctors for infertility services rose from 600,000 in 1968 to about 1.6 million in 1984 and the number of prescriptions for clomiphene dispensed by US pharmacies nearly doubled from 1973 to 1991. In 1988, approximately two million women said that they had taken fertility drugs. (N Engl J Med, Sept 22, 1994).
But there is strong evidence to suggest that many of them particularly women are being exposed to drugs may be doing absolutely no good and a great deal of harm.
Ovarian cancer and breast cancer are the latest risks to be associated with fertility drugs. These are in addition to a further catalogue of side effects and adverse outcomes already documented in WDDTY (vol 1 no 8), including Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) a serious condition in which there is a build-up of fluid in the abdomen, thorax and sometimes the sac surrounding the heart; and thrombosis in the veins or arteries, which could lead to a heart attack, stroke or loss of a limb. Other risks associated with the drugs include ectopic and multiple pregnancy and multiple births. The latter two are common occurrences which carry further risks such as miscarriage, stillbirth, fetal abnormalities, premature and low birthweight babies.
These babies are much more susceptible to developmental problems, illness and death.
According to the Office of Population and Census Surveys, the rate of multiple births in England and Wales has increased since 1980, when it was 0.98 per cent, compared with 1.25 per cent in 1992. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority believe this is due to the use of superovulatory drugs in fertility treatment.
In about half of all infertility cases, there is a contributing male factor. Yet fertility drugs to induce ovulation are often given to women when the cause of infertility is not known, and regardless of whether or not they have ovulation problems.
Ovulation is induced to increase the chances of success in assisted conception therapy, which includes in vitro fertilization (IVF), when an egg is surgically removed from an ovary, fertilized outside the body and then placed in the uterus; gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT), when the eggs are placed with sperm in the fallopian tubes; and zygote intra-fallopian transfer (ZIFT), when the eggs are removed from the ovaries, fertilized outside and placed in the tubes.
In the US, at least 12.5 million courses of fertility drugs have been prescribed since they were launched in the 1960s. In January 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration asked drug manufacturers to add the risk of ovarian cancer to the possible adverse reactions listed on fertility drug labels such as clomiphene citrate (Clomid) and menotrophins. The decision was prompted by an evaluation of the results of 12 studies (analyzed by The American Collaborative Ovarian Cancer Group based at Stanford University, California, and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology) on risk factors for ovarian cancer. These found that the risk of invasive ovarian cancer amongst infertile women who had taken fertility drugs was almost three times that of fertile women, and that infertile women who had not taken fertility drugs were not at increased risk (The Lancet, Jan 23, 1993).


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Lost to AIDS, but Still Friended
December 18, 2009
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Using technology and art, activists are helping to chronicle the life and times of those who died of HIV infection, particularly before the widespread introduction of antiretroviral drugs.
"There is a real hunger for information about this period, this history and these lost lives, said Chris Barlett, a former classics scholar in Philadelphia who has created a social network site about those who have died of AIDS. It is one of a growing number of online outlets for those who want to honor and remember lost friends:
In addition, retrospectives of the pre-antiretrovirals era are being launched in other media:
New York Times
12.13.2009; Guy Trebay
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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The Toys for Tots annual gift-giving program aboard Camp Lejeune and across Onslow County started Nov. 1 and continues until Dec. 16.
The Toys for Tots annual gift-giving program aboard Camp Lejeune and across Onslow County started Nov. 1 and continues until Dec. 16.
The program began when Maj. Bill Hendricks and the Marines under his command wanted to give to less fortunate children during Christmas. Hendricks and his Marines collected more than 5,000 used toys in 1947, the first year of the campaign.
Since its inception, Toys for Tots provided more than 216 million children with more than 469 million toys. This year, Onslow County's goal is 13,000 toys.
In 1980, the Toys for Tots program no longer accepted used toys. In 1995, the Secretary of Defense approved the program as an official mission of the Marine Corps Reserve.
The new toys collected are redistributed within each county to ensure they are kept within the local community, said Gunnery Sgt. Robert Patterson, Toys for Tots representative for seven Eastern North Carolina counties.
�The program is designed for the children to have something to open on Christmas,� Patterson said. �If the family is struggling financially or lost their jobs, we help them with toys, and our homeless and foster children are not forgotten either.�
It is important for Marines to be part of the community in which they live, said retired Maj. Brian Murray, the Toys for Tots foundation vice president of operations. Donating money or toys can make the holiday season for children a very happy time.
�Toys for Tots brings the community together for about three months every year to help less fortunate families,� Murray said. �While we are helping parents give a new gift to their child or children at Christmas, we are also giving a gift of hope for the future.�
The goal of Toys for Tots is to reach as many children as possible each year, and with 760 campaign sites nationally for 2013, their goal is to reach more than 7 million children this year, Murray added.
Units aboard base will have their own collection sites. The main exchange will have a drop box, as well as areas in the community.
For more information about the Toys for Tots program or to find a local drop site, visit Toysfortots.org.
Families can contact the Onslow County Christmas Cheer program at 347-4646 to get an application to receive toys.


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Why Jon Stewart failed to make John Yoo squirm.
How did he do it? It's a question John Yoo has been getting a lot lately. How did he manage to outwit Jon Stewart? ("He slipped through my fingers," Stewart recalled after Yoo's recent appearance on The Daily Show. "It was like interviewing sand.") Easy, says Yoo. "I've spent my whole career learning to settle down unruly college students who have not done the reading."
Yoo reflected on his Daily Show experience Friday during a luncheon in Washington hosted by the Federalist Society—as friendly an audience as Stewart's was unfriendly—pegged to the release of his new book, Crisis and Command, about executive power throughout American history. He came to talk about presidential power and how the best presidents have been the ones willing to make bold decisions without congressional approval. But all anyone wants to know about is what it's like to be on the Daily Show. He said: "Despite three books and I don't know how many journal articles, it's the only thing I've done that's ever gotten the notice of my students."
Opponents of the Bush administration's use of torture had high expectations for Monday's interview. Finally, Stewart would take the same razor to Yoo that had so memorably eviscerated the likes of Tucker Carlson, Chris Matthews, Jim Cramer, and Betsy McCaughey. The Orwellian logic that undergirded the "torture memos" would collapse once and for all. The punishment would be so cruel, so unusual, Yoo would beg for water-boarding.
Not quite. The interview was an exercise in frustration. Stewart didn't come at Yoo with gotcha questions, as Yoo's critics might have liked. Instead, he asked open-ended ones—"Are you a good lawyer?"—presumably intended to give Yoo enough rope to hang himself. Instead, Yoo was swinging from it. Yoo didn't dodge questions so much as reframe them, answer them in an extremely friendly and civil way, and—insult to injury—tack on a joke at the end to show he's a good sport. Stewart actually took a commercial break for relief. Oh, also: "I didn't prepare at all," Yoo told me on Friday.
Stewart's performance was widely deemed a failure. He was too conciliatory. He didn't ask about whether torture works or not. He didn't correct Yoo on his factual fudging, such as his claim that Abu Zubayda was a No. 3 leader of al-Qaeda, nor did he challenge him on whether interrogators had crossed the line between harsh interrogation and torture. Stewart himself later apologized for not "nailing" Yoo.
But was "nailing" him ever a possibility? Yoo has slipped the grasp of many critics through the years. Part of the reason is his demeanor: calm, good-humored, endlessly patient. It throws people, especially those expecting a younger, Korean Dick Cheney.
But it's also Yoo's rhetorical skill. Stewart failed to "nail" Yoo not because he wasn't prepared. (Although perhaps Stewart could have quoted some of the harsher memos.) He failed because Yoo is a lawyer. The chief criticism against Yoo is that, as deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel after 9/11, he gave the Bush administration legal cover to torture suspected terrorists. In a time of war, he wrote in what became known as the "torture memos," the president has expanded power to make decisions without congressional approval. When it comes to what's torture and what's not, he wrote, only treatment that inflicts suffering equivalent to organ failure "or even death" constitutes torture. In later interviews, he suggested that nothing—no law and no treaty—could stop the president from ordering torture if the circumstances required it.
Yoo wasn't advocating these techniques, he can say. He was simply answering the question of whether the Constitution allows the president to make these decisions in a time of war. Even if his interpretation of the law led to the use of these techniques, that was the decision of the person ordering them—not the person who interpreted the law as allowing them.
It's the difference between law and policy, he said. In a brief interview before his speech, I asked him if he thought some of the methods interrogators used after 9/11 crossed the line between harsh interrogation and torture. "I really don't know," he said. "It all depends on the circumstances." Lawyers are not hired to say what to do in this or that situation, he said. "That's up to the people who know all the facts."
And that's why Stewart was set up to fail. No matter what the question, Yoo was able to fall back on vagaries about constitutional interpretation, war and peace, and presidential power. Your beef isn't with me, he seemed to say. It's with the Founding Fathers. They left the powers of the presidency deliberately vague in order to give the president wiggle room, which the greatest presidents—Lincoln, FDR—have seized. Plenty of scholars dispute this view of the presidency. And Yoo's view of history may well be oversimplified, as Jeffrey Rosen argued on a panel with Yoo on Thursday: Lincoln didn't consult Congress before declaring war against the South, for example, but he did afterward.
Stewart could have raised similar points. But those aren't damning witticisms. They're nuanced arguments, to which the most likely reaction would be "Hmm, that sounds sensible." Stewart is effective when his opponent is making a foolish point, not when he has an unorthodox constitutional interpretation. Which is why Stewart wasn't going to pin Yoo down—even if he had done all the reading.


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I've done a bit of searching... and have come up with very little.
Are there any good utilities to find out the following information on user accounts.
These utilities would be most likely used in a 2k Domain.
1.) When a user account was created.
2.) When a user last changed their password.
3.) When the account was last active.
4.) Where the user was last logged on.
5.) User logon history.
6.) List inactive accounts.
7.) List active accounts.
8.) Any other useful info that I've left out.
I can find out some of this info from pulling apart logs... but you'd think that there would be a utility to find out this info.


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We admit that we had high expectations for the latest release of Spyware Doctor, version 5.0.
Our expectations were tempered prior to testing, however, by the fact that things change quickly in the anti-spyware sector. Would the new version of Spyware Doctor continue its reign or fall back into the pack?
It only took a single scan of our badly infested system to learn the answer. While it wasn't the fastest scanner of the tools we've tested, it was among the most thorough and comprehensive.
In fact, it not only detected and removed all of the threats present on our system, but also went a few steps further than any of the other detection and removal processes. Specifically, the program detected our browser hijack, removed it and then reset our home page to About:blank, ensuring that we wouldn't be subject to skewed search results from the Google copycat site.
It also set about cleaning up all rogue bookmarks that had been inserted into our IE favorites by malware threats, and was the only scanner to detect and remove all offending adware Internet shortcuts that had been placed on our desktop.
That may not seem like a big deal, but we wish that every spyware program would pay such close attention to the smaller details which might lead users back into troubled waters. We were also alerted to the rogue DNS server settings that the DNS-changing Trojan has set upon us, helping us to get the test system back on track.
Just as impressive as Spyware Doctor's threat detection and removal facilities were its proactive defences as supplied by the OnGuard detection tools.
Spyware Doctor uses seven primary "guards" to protect your system in real time, designed to thwart a range of system changes including those to your web browser, HOSTS file, processes, startup items, and more. Most of the guards can also be tweaked and tuned to meet the needs of different users, up to and including members of the super-paranoid club.
Less-experienced users will appreciate Spyware Doctor's clean interface, as well as the fact that all detected threats - are clearly explained and anything but cryptic. When a reboot is required to remove threats completely, it's immediately suggested.
For those who want a set-it-and-forget it anti-spyware experience, scans can be scheduled while updates are downloaded automatically. Support is another issue, however: there's no phone support for Spyware Doctor, making it an email-only affair.
If there's any criticism of Spyware Doctor, it's the price: £30. However, users not willing to dole out the dosh (or wanting to take Spyware Doctor for a good test drive prior to committing) need look no further than Google Pack (http://pack.google.com).
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition - offering spyware detection and removal capabilities, but only very limited real-time protection - is available as part of the Pack free to anyone who wants to try it.


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Water testing at Prior Lake, located at the north end of Thetis Lake Regional Park, continues to test positive for a type of blue-green algae that produces cyanotoxins. Visitors are advised to avoid swimming at Prior Lake and to keep animals on a leash to prevent them from drinking or swimming in the lake until the advisory has been lifted. Read more>>
The quality of drinking water provided to customers in the Beddis Water System is overseen by the CRD Water Quality Division. Water quality samples are collected by the Plant Operators and the data is stored in the Water Quality Division database.
Water Quality Division staff prepare a number of data summaries and water quality reports for the Beddis Water System. These reports track drinking water quality against the limits listed in the BC Drinking Water Protection Regulation and the Canadian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines. All reports are posted in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
* Monthly Bacteriological Reports are updated weekly and provide test results for the previous 4 weeks.
** Year-To-Date (YTD) Reports are updated shortly after the end of each month and provide a summary of the previous 12 months of data along with summary statistics for each sampling location.
Note 1. Bacteriological samples may not be collected each week from each location (in accordance with the sampling program). This means that some weeks may not have test results for a given parameter. In general, there is a two-week lag period before bacteriological results appear in the reports (time required to analyze and transfer the bacteriological data into the database).
Note 2 . Explanation of Table Headings for Water Quality Reports.
Periodic Water Quality Reports provide water quality data for parameters that are tested periodically (i.e., quarterly, semi-annually, annually or on an 'As Required' basis). However, depending upon water system configuration, not all parameters are tested each year. If the report contains no data, it means the parameters were not tested during the reporting period shown near the top of the report.
* YTD Reports for Periodically Tested Parameters are updated shortly after the end of each month and provide a summary of test results for the most recent 12 month period.
** The metals were divided alphabetically into 2 groups to make the reports easier to read.
*** Typically, algal toxins are only tested in water systems supplied from a surface water body containing high levels of blue-green algae.
Total Microcystin: Present/Absent
The total microcystin data provided above is limited to water samples collected at the Beddis water treatment plant and does not necessarily reflect water quality conditions in other areas of Cusheon Lake. Raw water quality conditions can vary in different areas and at different depths of the lake. Therefore it should not be assumed that an "Absent" result above indicates that Cusheon Lake is entirely free of microcystins. The CRD does not assume any liability to or on behalf of those who use this data, and does not make any representations or warranties on the accuracy or completeness of the data provided.
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No-park proposal along Platte River Drive
Congestion during blizzard on curved portion.
Truckers and other motorists take heed.
No parking signs could soon be installed along the curved portion of Platte River Drive to avoid traffic bottlenecks during bad weather.
Terry Jessen, owner and developer of Comfort Suites Hotel and Terry's Business Park, asked for no-parking signs along the curve because of the number of semi-trailer trucks parked there during a January blizzard that caused several weather-related accidents.
The hotel is west of the curved portion of the street.
Interstate 80 closed for a time that Sunday which city administrator Bruce Clymer said brought trucks into town, many of which parked along the curve of Platte River Drive.
"People couldn't get through because trucks were in the way," Clymer said.
Although such parking problems rarely happen, R.J. Parmeter, who works for Jessen, said business is disrupted and emergency vehicles are hindered when it does.
If the proposal passes, signs will be erected on the south side of the street.
The council directed city attorney Mike Bacon to draw up an ordinance.
In other action, the council passed, on second reading, new flood plain management regulations.
An addition to the regulations describes "appurtenant structures" as buildings on the same parcel of property as a principal structure in a floodplain area.
Clymer said the law will allow property owners to build appurtenant structures, following floodplain requirements, without a special use permit.
Items stored in such structures must be readily removable during a flood warning.
Clymer said the proposed law was approved by the city's planning and zoning commission.
Floodplain regulations must be approved by May 3 for the community to remain in the federal floodplain program.
In other business, the council:
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