[Burnett:] We start the second half of our show with stories we care about. We focus on our own reporting, make the calls, and find the "OutFront Five". Number one tonight the search for baby Lisa, the Kansas City Police Department went on the offensive today, accusing the parents of avoiding questions. Police Department officials told OUTFRONT the couple's lack of cooperation is hurting the case. Officials said that Bradley Irwin became uncomfortable and stopped answering questions on October 8th. The detectives have not had unrestricted access since then. Baby Lisa is 11 months old. Stocks ending the day on a high note, now the S&P; rose 24 points. This puts it at its highest level since August. Reports that France and Germany might actually expand the size of the bailout fund for Greece gave investors something to cheer about. Robert Pavlik of Banyan Partners told OUTFRONT that despite the news out of Europe, earnings will continue to be out front for most investors. And speaking of earnings Apple coming out with a rare miss actually its first miss since 2004. Apple was the second biggest company in the United States, 6.6 billion in the third quarter. The weakness came from iPhone sales, which may surprise you. Remember that the quarter does not include sales for the iPhone 4S, which went on sale last week. Will Power of Robert W. Baird says a lot of people were waiting to buy that phone, so this weakness may just be temporary. Now, bank earnings are really important for the market. Bank of America and Goldman reported earnings as well. Goldman Sachs, a larger than expected loss. But when you look at details of the numbers, it came out pretty much in line which sent the stock higher. Bank of America also did better than expected, but it's no longer the largest bank in America. JPMorgan's assets totaling $2.289 trillion. Well, it has been 74 days since the U.S. lost its top credit rating. Who's counting? We are every single of day because we want to know what they're doing to get it back. Well, there is one candidate noticeably absent tonight. He was the author of the one liner about 9-9-9 being the cost for pizza. That's Jon Huntsman, boycotting the debate and the caucuses in Nevada, after Nevada leapfrogged New Hampshire on the calendar. He's put all of his bets on New Hampshire, obviously, and this is a live shot where Huntsman has chosen to focus most of his campaign time. It's all about New Hampshire for his campaign. Our OUTFRONT team has learned that the former Utah governor just received $1,000 from New Hampshire voters in the third quarter, and he is $3 million in debt overall according to the FEC. All right. We're less than 30 minutes away from the town hall for the CNN Western Republican Presidential Debate here in Las Vegas. As the crowd pours in, the candidates are busy putting on their game faces. You've been seeing them arrive over the past hour here. We've been showing you live pictures as they walk in. The stakes are incredibly high before the Iowa caucus and there's a lot at stake for everyone, but particularly for the three topping the polls. Herman Cain obviously came in very strong in the last debate. He won over voters with the smooth pitch for the 9-9-9 economic plan which faced criticism today, and he is number one in likability. But for Cain staying in the game means offering a whole lot more than salesmanship and tonight, he's going to be challenged on the substance, not just by Anderson, but also by the audience and by the likes of Ron Paul. Meantime, Rick Perry could use some of the gift for gap. He has been noticeably absent during the debate so far. There have been some gaffes that have been hurting him. Question: will he be able to become more than a late-night comedy show joke after these debaters or really hit a home run? That's the question. And Mitt Romney, on the againoff again front runner who has been facing attacks from all sides. Can he fight them off? That's the big question. Of course, you've got Newt Gingrich also on the stage, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum all of them trying to get a word in edgewise. Well, let's walk through what's really at stake here, the dos and don'ts of a debate. Former White House press secretary and CNN contributor Ari Fleischer, Republican strategist Kevin Madden, spokesperson for Mitt Romney in the 2008 campaign, and senior political analyst David Gergen. OK. I got to take a deep breath. I had to go for a long time there. Whoo! All right. David Gergen, let's start with you. Who has the most to gain tonight?
[David Gergen, Cnn Senior Political Analyst:] Most to gain I think Herman Cain, if he can take the punches tonight, if he can convince people that he's a serious candidate and not just sort of the flavor of the month, that he could he could become the anti-Romney candidate and that's been the name of the game all along, who can be the alternative to Romney? Nobody's been able to hold that second position yet.
[Burnett:] Ari, what do you think Rick Perry needs to do tonight?
[Ari Fleischer, Cnn Contributor:] Rick Perry needs to be aggressive. Rick Perry needs to be articulate and he needs to go after Mitt Romney. Rick Perry is the presumed number two. He's dropped from that assumption. Now, he has to retake that ground. And he's got the ability to do it. He's got the vulnerabilities of Mitt Romney that he can expose and open up. And he just needs to be articulate and on point. And it's been I can't understand why he has not done that yet in the debates.
[Burnett:] All right. What about Mitt Romney himself? Your former guy?
[Kevin Madden, Republican Strategist:] Well, look, I think, ultimately, these debates are they're a contest of who can be the most presidential. I think one of the reasons that Governor Romney has performed so well is because when he gets up on stage, the contrast emerge. He doesn't have to force them. He looks the most presidential because he's the most articulate on the economy. He has the most command and control on all the issues that everybody cares about. So, I don't think he has to do anything really different on this debate. He has to keep doing that and keep winning that presidential contest with all the other candidates on stage.
[Burnett:] Does likability matter for him, David Gergen? I mean, he's done better. It proved on that count, but he's still
[Gergen:] Absolutely. And I think Rick Perry has done him a favor because I think Mitt Romney is a better debater now than he was on the beginning of the campaign. But I think he needs to start going beyond where he's been. He's been sort of flat-lining in the polls. He needs to solidify his position in the Republicans, but I also think he needs to start looking over his shoulder to these other guys to the general, and he's got to start building up his likability among American voters in general. The more he does that, the more I think that he becomes the, in effect, the candidate, the inevitable candidate for Republicans and the strength is in his polls against Obama. That's very, very important in the next few weeks.
[Burnett:] And, Ari, in the recent polls, he's come out very well on electability which, I mean, I guess fundamentally is more important than likability. But you'd like it if the two went together.
[Fleischer:] Well, it's fun to get those two.
[Burnett:] Yes.
[Fleischer:] There's this ideology that Republican voters vote on, likeability that they vote on and electability. For one voter, it might be more of one, less of the other, but they all three add up to what you can historically look for in a nominee you say can deliver the White House for me. You don't vote for somebody because you like them and you believe in them if they can't win. All three go together.
[Burnett:] Right. I was bringing it up earlier. I think "The New York Times" magazine and the whole issue of the Tea Party, what is establishment GOP? Do you think that how important is a Tea Party sign-on endorsement for Mitt Romney at this point?
[Madden:] Well, look, I think the Tea Party is not a model that they block. This is a force within the electorate right now that's very focused on reform elements within the party. They want to see everybody, and they're very animated about the issues of spending, deficits and the growth of government. I think any candidate, if they're going to want to get Tea Party support, they don't necessarily have to go out and say, I'm a Tea Party. What they have to do is have a comprehensive vision on what they're going do to reduce spending, what they're going to do to reduce deficits, what they're going to do to get government out of the way of the private sector. And I think Governor Romney has done very well on that and that's where eventually, you know, Wayne Gretzky used to have a saying. "I don't skate to where the puck is, I skate to where I think that puck is going to be."
[Burnett:] Yes.
[Madden:] Ultimately, I think that's how you win campaigns, is that you trying and build up your support, how to make your message so therefore when people go in there and they make their decision on the day of the caucus or the day of the primary, that they're there with you.
[Burnett:] It's like my nieces and nephews with the Gretzky comment.
[Fleischer:] Keep the hockey going. Romney has turned into a great goalie. Everybody who keeps shooting trying to score on Mitt Romney, he keeps knocking the puck back and skates out to center ice with it. He needs to take a good shot at him.
[Gergen:] He needs to go on offense.
[Fleischer:] When you're the front-runner, everyone is coming at you.
[Gergen:] You know, you don't elections
[Fleischer:] My point is, but despite his vulnerabilities, that's to his credit.
[Gergen:] Let me make point to what Kevin said and asked you this, my sense is that Perry tonight, instead of going after Romney he's got to go after Cain. He's got to puncture the balloon of Cain so that when Cain starts going down, there's Romney and Perry. The longer Romney has both Perry and Cain in the race, the better off he is.
[Fleischer:] If I'm Perry, I have to go up to Romney and I let everybody else go after Cain because he knows Santorum and Bachmann need to go after Cain. So, you got to count on them to make that fight for you and you concentrate on Romney.
[Cain:] I wouldn't count
[Burnett:] Any fight would be good. I like watching them. Thanks to all three. We really appreciate it three people who really know what's going on out there. Well, every year, as we said, more than 35 million people come here to Las Vegas and they bring it about $8 billion to the gaming table. Tourism may surprise you despite the fact that housing houses have plunged here by 60 percent from the peak, we have seen an increase in tourism in Las Vegas for each of the past 18 months. Still, though, for this city and this state, it is one of the worst outlooks economically in the country. We went OUTFRONT with Sheldon Adelson. He is the eight richest man in this country. He owns the Venetian, where we're sitting right now, the host of tonight's debate. And earlier today, he told me conditions are getting better after he met with all of the candidates.
[Sheldon Adelson, Chairman & Ceo, Las Vegas Sands:] Things are actually getting better. There are, on the FIT side, the free and independent traveler, the leisure traveler typically comes to enjoy. By the way, you should know that only 14 percent of the people come to Las Vegas come to gamble. That means 86 percent come for something other. So and we are the creators of what is now called the integrated resort which has a multi-amenity, multi-discipline package, cornucopia of different things to do, like shopping, the exhibition center, the meeting and ballroom center complex. Internationally, they call it congress center.
[Burnett:] What about Asia, though? I saw 90 percent of your bottom line there. Your operation income comes from Asia, and you got huge resorts in Macau and in Singapore. Is Asia where all of the growth is now for you?
[Adelson:] Yes. Asia is where the growth is. The Asian people have a very high propensity to game. There are I mean, it would take a lot longer than the time we have here to explain it all, but the concept of challenging luck is part of the culture in Asia. We're also contemplating and we're pretty much while we're not finally committed and but we're on the way to being committed to build a half the equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas Strip has 25 or 30 mega resorts. We're going to build 12 3,000-room mega resorts in Spain for the 50 countries surrounding Spain.
[Burnett:] In Europe?
[Adelson:] In a five-hour flight. So, we're going to make a big bet on Europe and we've been doing a lot of studies and we've been getting second-opinion studies, and it all looks like one study says that even when we're fully built out with 36,000 rooms, we would have only penetrated 85 percent of the demand that there is today.
[Burnett:] We can only hope that he is right with that big bet on Europe. That is an enormous bet, and if it's right, it would mean well, frankly, the Europeans, the American, and the whole global economy is stronger than people bet. All right. Well, still OUTFRONT, day two of the president's jobs push. What it means for his re-election chances and what it means for the debate. Just over 20 minute away, what do the candidates need to do tonight? Just heard some Ron Paul supporters drive by. If you didn't, I did. We'll be right back.