all of them received steroid shots that came from the same manufacturer in massachusetts. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is following developments closely. he joins me now. there are different types of meningitis, sanjay. which type is this? >> this is something known as fungal meningitis. it's a type of mold, actually. that's what's causing the illness here. bacterial meningitis is a different form caused by bacteria, obviously. it can be treated with antibiotics. the most common form of meningitis, the type you hear for example on college campuses, that's typically viral meningitis. viral meningitis and bacterial meningitis more common but typically more contagious. that's why viral meningitis is found on these campuses. if there's any good news about the fungal meningitis, it's typically not contagious. very hard to spread from person to person. >> they traced the source of this infection to a bad batch of steroids distributed by the new england compounding center. what is compounded, what is that? >> this is a real medical investigation, i have to tell yo

we know governor romney from our time here in massachusetts, his time here in massachusetts. we know him to be a very effective salesman and he was selling. the problem is what he was selling won't actually do what he says it will do. it will not grow opportunity from the middle out. >> tell me this, though. i remember when we spoke at the dnc convention, you said, you made a big speech, we talked about it afterwards, time for the party to show some backbone. by party, obviously including the president. last night he didn't seem to have any backbone whatsoever. what was the whole strategy of just staring down at his notes, not engaging, not competing, not really doing anything. i watched it, having been an admirer of the president for a long time, completely baffled by what i was watching. >> well, as you know, i'm a big admirer and great supporter of the president, not just personally but politically. i think his strategy of investing in education, in research, in energy independence, in infrastructure, is a winning strategy. i think that's the reason why we've added five mi

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all of them received steroids that came from the same manufacturer in massachusetts. chief correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is following this. he joins me now. there are two types of meningitis, sanjay. which type of this? >> this is known as fungal meningitis. it's a type of mold. bacterial meningitis is a different form. caused by bacteria, obviously. it can be treated with antibiotics. and the type of meningitis you hear about at college campuses, that's typically viral meningitis. viral meningitis and bacterial meningitis more common but more contagious. the good news about fungal meningitis, typically it's not contagious. it's very hard to spread it from person to person. >> so they traced the source of this infection from a bad set of steroid injections. >> we've been following this for some time. what happens is you have a manufacturer that makes the medication, in this case, the steroid that you mentioned. but then it may go to a compounding facility because it's arrived in bulk, they have to divvy it up into smaller doses. sometimes they will concentrate the do

massachusetts schools are ranked number one in the nation. not because i didn't have commitment to education, it's because i care about education for all of our kids. >> gentlemen, look -- excuse me, sir. we've barely got three minutes left. i'm not going to grade the two of you and say your answers have been too long or i've done a poor job. >> you've deny a great job, jim. >> well, the thing is, the role of government and governing, we've lost a pod in other words, we only have three minutes left in the debate before we go to your closing statements, and so i want to ask, finally here, and, remember, we've got three minutes total time here, and the question is this. many of the legislative functions of the federal government right now are in a state of paralysis as a result of partisan gridlock. if elected, re-elected what would you do about that? >> i had the great experience, it didn't seem like it at the same, of being elected in a state where my legislature was 87% democrat. i had to get along and work across the aisle to get along. we

politics and massachusetts government. it is a strong legislature system to begin with. and when you have an overwhelming majority of democrats in both the house and the senate, the governor really almost takes on a figure head role when it comes to legislative action. the legislature does what it wants to do and it has done that with republican governors, three republican governors before romney and done it with democratic governors before and after romney. >> what about education. you write about education because it was romney that said wednesday night we drove our schools to be number one in the nation. how much of that, fred, was that romney versus the system he inherited when he took office? >> it is just that he inherited -- had been trending up for the last decade. in 1983, you know, in august the s.a.t. reports came out, about eight months into his administration, and massachusetts at the top in terms of scores, and this is among the top states in terms of student participation. so, again, i liken it to somebody s

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first of all, i like the way we did it in massachusetts. i like the fact that in my state we had republicans and democrats come together and work together. what you did instead, push through a plan without a single republican vote. as a matter of fact, when massachusetts did something quite extraordinary, elected a republican senator to stop obama care, you pushed it through anyway. entirely on a partisan basis, instead of bringing america together and having a discussion on this important topic, you pushed something through that you and harry reid and nancy pelosi thought was the best answer and drove it through. what we did, we worked together. 200 legislators, only two voted against the plan when i was finished. what are some differences? we didn't raise taxes, we didn't cut medicare. of course we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't have a board that told people what treatments they could receive. we didn't also do something i think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put peopl

the plan we put in place here in massachusetts works for the people of massachusetts. by the way, we got that done without raising taxes and without cutting care to seniors. that's something that the president had to do in order to finance obama care. so, the governor will repeal obama care and he will return to the states the power to control their own health care futures. look, what works in massachusetts may not work in texas. it was wrong for the president to take the broad outlines of the massachusetts plan and impose it as they dictate from washington on every state in the nation. we will leave it to the states to decide. the governor believes that those who have continuous coverage should not be dropped, if they change plans and have a pre-existing condition. but states are well situated to manage these issues. we did it in massachusetts and they could do it in other states, as well. >> will he mandate each state to honor the pre-existing conditions or will he give the states flexibility to deal with that? >> we will give the state initiatives and money so that

romney pointed to his hiring process when he first became governor of massachusetts. listen. >> i said, gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified? and so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's group and said can you help us find folks? they brought us binders full of women. >> that's somewhat silly phrase. here's the totally serious context and why it's important to break it down. women may decide this election as you probably know. president obama's formerly big advantage appears to be gone. the polling shows a bigger gender gap in president obama's favor. whatever size of it actually is, mitt romney can successful narrow that gap, that would make the president's road to re-election very, very difficult, nearly impossible. campaigning in virginia, romney said the president has failed america's women. he was touting his own record claiming he went to a number of women's groups and said can you help us find folks? keeping them honest, th

first of all, i like the way we did it in massachusetts. i like the fact that in my state we had republicans and democrats come together and work together. what you did instead was to push through a plan without a single republican vote. as a matter of fact, when massachusetts did something quite extraordinary, elected a republican senator to stop obama care, you pushed it through anyway. the so entirely on a partisan basis, instead of bringing america together and having a discussion on this important topic, you pushed through something that you thought was the best answer and drove it through. what we did in the legislature, 87% democrat, we worked together. 200 legislators, only 2 voted against the plan by the time we were finished. we didn't raise taxes. you raised them by a trillion under obama care. we didn't cut medicare. of course, we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. we didn't also do something that

we saw what he did in massachusetts. >> that's right. the president -- >> the president, are you at all fearful he may enact a ban? >> the president was very clear on tuesday night and mitt romney was very clear on tuesday night. mitt romney said that he doesn't support additional gun bans and the president wants a new national gun ban. the president, it's consistent. he supported every gun ban before him his entire career. this might be a surprise to some but not to the national rifle association. >> if you are not too worried of mitt romney to do or not do if elected, what then took the nra so long to endorse him? that happened october 4th. >> we traditionally wait until the fall but here's what nra is worried about and it's the supreme court. our basic right to own a gun survives by one vote on the supreme court. this means we're one retirement or death away from losing the 2nd amendment. president obama's already put two anti-gun justices on the court. god forbid he puts another one to three on it. this is a very, very high stakes gu

you saw that scott brown, elizabeth warren debate last night in massachusetts. this is what campaigns do. this is what candidates do. but i will tell you that mitt romney has been behind closed doors for much of the day today, in debate preparations, brooke, with the sparring partner, ohio senator rob portman. and perhaps the day's most notable development in the day with not very many development is that they just stopped for lunch at chipotle. they put a wrap if you don't mind the pun, on the morning debate session. i'm sorry. i had to do it. >> puns aside, before we start focusing on tomorrow night in den denver, i want to look back at romney and obama. romney, maybe appearing a little more amped up than the president in these sxmexamples. let's watch and talk on the other side. >> you have a problem with al w allowing someone to finish speaking. i suggest if you want to become president of the united states, you got to let both people speak. let me speak. >> at the time when the war started you said it would be quick and easy. you said you knew where the wea

. >> the irony is we've seen this model work really well in massachusetts. because governor romney did a good thing working with democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and as a consequence, people are covered. there it hasn't destroyed jobs. >> reporter: romney who ran from his massachusetts health care plan during the gop primaries now used it to attack to the middle to the general election. >> i like the way we did it in massachusetts. i like the fact that in my state we had republicans and democrats come together and work together. what you did, instead, was to push through a plan would the a single republican vote. >> reporter: and romney's countless hours of rehearsals clearly produced lines like this. >> mr. president, your title as a president to your own airplane and house but not to your own facts. >> you know, you can say a lot of things about this debate, but one thing you have to say is it was substantive. for months we heard president obama when he was a young person eating dog in indonesia, we heard about mitt

you obviously -- another governor of massachusetts. his old stomping ground. did you inherit his binder of women? >> well, let me tell you that we have had a lot more success in encouraging talent of all kinds and backgrounds into this administration than the record of governor romney. i will say i listened to governor romney sometimes talk about his experience governing here in massachusetts and how successful he says it was. remember that governor romney is trailing the president here in massachusetts by 20 or 30 points. we know him. we know what that record really is. we know what that performance really was. we know that we slipped from 35th in job creation to 47th while he was governor. we know that the level of debt hit record highs and we know that he came in making promises to reform state government and delivered on none of that. he made one profoundly important contribution, and that was the health care reform, which is very successful here and very popular. and when i listen to him talk about obama care, it sounds like the only element of obama care

>> this is a great audition to go back to massachusetts. >> a dodge on that one. a dodge on the secretary of state question. nice to see you, senator. thank you for talking with us. we've got to get back to john berman. >> thanks, soledad. one of the students involved in the hazing death of a florida a&m university drum major robert champion is avoiding jail time altogether. brian jones was sentenced yesterday to two years probation, 200 hours of community service. jones is the first of a dozen defendants charged in connection with champion's death last november. on a bus ride outside orlando, orlando hotel after a game. >>> tears in court as the harassment and child endangerment trial of douglas kennedy begins. a maternity ward nurse broke down yesterday testifying kennedy, the son of late senator robert f. kennedy, twisted her arm and kicked another nurse. the assistant d.a. said the nurses were simply following protocol during the january incident. the defense calls the nurse abrasive, and confrontational. >>> police say two thieves in northern michigan stole a

former massachusetts chemist, annie dookhan. >> can you tell us what happened? >> reporter: the state of massachusetts is accusing dookhan of tampering with drug evidence that could call into question at least 34,000 cases going back to 2003. 34,000. at the moment, she faces only three charges. however, in boston alone, the d.a. estimates as many as 500 convicted felons could be set free. how big of a mess is this? >> at this point, susan, we don't know. >> reporter: at this lab, now closed by the state, dookhan allegedly mishandled drugs seized by police for evidence at trial. she allegedly estimated the amount of drugs at times by simply looking at them, and certified some drugs as cocaine that are now testing negative. she didn't just write down the wrong thing. prosecutors accuse her of doctoring evidence to change test results. >> she would take known cocaine from an area that she knew was cocaine and actually add them to the sample to make it cocaine. >> reporter: dookhan is also charged with lying on the witness stand about the credentials on her resume,

the president went after romney as a flip-flopper. >> when you were governor of massachusetts you stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, this plant kills. and took great pride in shutting it down. and now suddenly you're a big champion of coal. >> reporter: romney appeared determined to use his rehearsed lines, even when they were off topic. the question was on immigration but romney launched into a defense of his offshore investments, with a practiced pivot against the president. >> any investments i have over the last eight years have been managed by a blind trust. and i understand they do include investments outside the united states, including in chinese companies. mr. president, have you looked at your pension? have you looked at your pension? >> i've got to say -- >> mr. president, have you looked at your pension? >> you know, i don't look at my pension. it's not as big as yours. >> let me -- >> now that -- that was clearly a moment that mitt romney thought he had the president, and the president came right back at him. and that was maybe indicative of so many

romney pointed to the hiring process when he first became governor of massachusetts. let's listen. >> gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified? we took a concerted effort to find women who had backgrounds to find women. they brought us whole binders full of women. >> that is a somewhat silly phrase. here is the totally serious context and why it's important to break it down. women may decide this election. look at this. president obama's formerly big advantage with female voters answers to be gone. whatever the size of it actually is, mitt romney can successfully narrow that gap, that would make the president's road to re-election very, very difficult. mr. romney said the president has failed american women and he claimed that "he went to a number of women groups and said can you help us find folks?" there's a problem with the timeline. we want to look at that tonight. the group in albuquerque a nonpartisan outfit, actually approached him, they put out a statement, and i quote "prior to the 2002 gubernatorial election, massgap approached the campaigns of

the senator from massachusetts. john kerry, who played mitt romney in a debate rehearsal for the president. >> that's right, wolf, and senator kerry right here with me now. you must be pleased tonight. the president much more aggressive this time. some people observing both men were quite in one another's face at times. what were your thoughts on this? >> look, everybody is going to he expect me to say that the president did well. i think the president overwhelmed mitt romney tonight with facts and a vision for the future. let me be very specific. on libya. mitt romney tried to suggest -- didn't say what it was. the president and candy crowley backed him up. called it an act of terror. what happened in benghazi was an act of terror. what happened in new york on september 11th was an act of terror. and the republicans are trying to play a game, saying that's not a terrorist attack. please, then they lost this debate, and they are clearly playing games. let me go further, the president made it clear mitt romney's tax

he's not even contesting massachusetts. >> i hear you. the problem that you have in the obama camp is as you say, momentum has moved to mitt romney. there's a poll of swing states today showing a five-point lead for mitt romney. more worryingly, when you study the detail of it in gallup and "usa today" , you see there are two areas where he's really improved. one, in his likability that was a major issue for romney before, clearly since the debate people just found him more likeable. they can relate to him more. secondly, with women. the gap has closed completely now in a series of polls where barack obama was way ahead with women. so women for whatever reason are being put off by the president's campaigning right now. why is this? >> well, let me say this. mitt romney is very fond of saying that hope is not a strategy. but dishonesty is. that was his strategy during the debate and it's not going to prevail. you talked a lot about the swing states. the fact of the matter is, if the electoral college were to play out right now, the preside

new information on massachusetts, let me tell you a little bit about that. one of the many places that's had to close schools is boston. we're looking at more than two million young people that will not have school in the coming days. also another thing to know going into duvall patrick, massachusetts did face some criticism in the wake of the previous storm. the states are trying to do absolutely everything they can to make sure that people are not left without power for days on end or even for weeks on end. let's go into my screen here, i want to show you all a couple of things that are coming in from our coverage of the storm. i've been wanting to start with this because while we are focusinging on preparations right now in the northeastern united states. we have already seen a deadly storm. hurricane sandy was deadly. a fire was sparked when a generator apparently was faultily and -- here's a spread of photos, all of this is up at cnn.com. >> wo gol a blob fo you kaepwe for you, and if you are in a position to take photos or videos safely, go ahead and s

as the governor of massachusetts, he did quite well. and you know, listen to what he says. i believe him. i believe he deserves a shot. >> well, whether people agree with you or not, i absolutely defend your right to be here, to vote for who you like. the idiots tweeting you are, to coin a phrase, clueless. >> oh, dear. >> stacey dash, been a pleasure to see you. >> thank you so much, piers. >> you keep battling your own corner. stacey dash has made up her mind. other female voters seem to be changing their minds. will they be the tipping point in this election? battleground america coming next. oh no, not a migraine now. try this... bayer? this isn't just a headache. trust me, this is new bayer migraine. [ male announcer ] it's the power of aspirin plus more in a triple action formula to relieve your tough migraines. new bayer migraine formula. it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee-fi-fo-femma ♪ em-ma very good sweety, how do

now, a lot of people may say that's not true, but he did work with a democratic legislature in massachusetts, and they say that is one of the strong telling points heading into the rest of this campaign, but as for the issue of tax cuts, i mean, i think one thing that has not been answered by the romney campaign and not by paul ryan at that debate the other night is how they pay for these tax cuts. mitt romney has been given this opportunity on a number of occasions. he just won't specify. he talks about the loopholes that will be closed or eliminated. >> in fact, isn't there -- i want you to take that on because isn't there some kind of mathematical formula that if you close all those loopholes, just close them all, you still can't pay for that kind of 20% tax hike? is that not true? >> well, most important thing -- you could always do something along those lines, but the most important thing is economic growth. if our economy had grown since the bottom of this recession as reagan's did, we would have ten million more americans at work today than we do. reagan had a pro-growth, low tax rate

now, they were made by necc, a compounding pharmacy in massachusetts that is licensed to distribute drugs in all 50 states. compound pharmacies were established so that the pharmacists could make custom specific doses for patients with those needs. now the fda is not charged with regulating them, because the compound facilities are not making new drugs, just charged with mixing them. but i'll tell you over the last few years, compounding pharmacies have grown over the past few years, accounts for many of the drugs taken by patients over the last few years. it is big business, has little oversight and it impacts all of us. you work here? >> i'm security for the facility. >> reporter: okay. all week we have been trying to dig up anything to try to understand how a common steroid injection could have become so deadly. >> unfortunately, i have to ask you guys to leave the property. >> reporter: no one here really wants to talk. >> your call has been forwarded. the number you dialled is not in service. the call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. >> reporter: all right. he

one of the things that i think people didn't understand is mitt romney's record as a governor of massachusetts. very deeply democratic state and his ability to work across the aisle to get things done with an 85% democratic electorate. >> i think the point that's being made is that the governor of massachusetts and the guy who is running -- who ran for president in the primaries sometimes seemed to be at odds with one another. let me just play you something first, which is sort of a romney then and now. one is from the primary and one is from this "des moines register" and the subject is abortion. >> in my view if we had justices like roberts, alito, scalia, and more justices like that, they might well decide to return this issue to states as opposed to saying it's in the federal constitution. do i believe supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes, i do. >> do you intend to pursue any legislation specifically regarding abortion? >> there's no legislation regarding -- with regards to abortion that i'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda." >> so is it or is it not a priority f

you know, wolf, i'm from massachusetts. i know what mitt romney's record is in terms of reaching across the aye. there isn't one. you know, he cornered himself off in the state house from every other legislature. >> he did get health care reform passed in massachusetts. >> he did but as you know, wolf -- he did and the train had left that station by the time he got on board. we all know that. you know, i worked with ted kennedy. i'm familiar with that. in terms of his record in massachusetts, i just listened to that ad, he did not reduce the deficit. he left a deficit for devalue patrick. >> the question, stephanie -- >> largest per capita debt of any governor in the country. that's the real record. >> any president to work with republicans to pass important legislation over these four years. >> well, wolf, he has, actually. payroll tax cuts, trade deals, a number of pieces of legislation but you know what's been going on in washington. you're aware of what mitch mcconnell said years ago when the president was first being i

when's happening today in massachusetts? let's go to boston to a reporter who's been covering the race from top to bottom, andy hill we are the boston affiliate hdh. welcome to you. you know, when you go from a four-point lead for one kand ditto a five-point lead for the challenger, something's going on. when's happening there? >> well, there's a couple of things happening and certainly not going to deny that elizabeth warren is ahead. however, i would point out that the poll that you quote, the wbur poll taken last month was a little bit outside all of the other polls. the truth is we are not seeing a big opening here. we are seeing a trend which we have seen really for months and the trend is to elizabeth warren and it is away scott brown and the poll today shows that and others poll show that, too. >> one part of the race is senator brown getting a wall street report that the center for responsive politics reporting 9 out of 10 wall street dollars spent in massachusetts campaign here going to brown. how's that playing, ho

you're a massachusetts boy, you know massachusetts politics. especially covering congress, the one thing i will say is, there are not a lot of traditionally women politicians in the state of massachusetts. there have been, you know, lieutenant governor was a woman. i know, but by and large, you know -- >> that's an excellent point. because i thought show me the binder full of women and show me if you paid them the same amount of money if you pay men. >> i've been in transition, you know, i've been in transition government and it is not an uncommon thing to get binders full of candidates. >> binders -- >> we're talking about binders. >> binders -- >> that show that say this is a binder full of qualified women. >> yeah, we have a binder full of -- >> we're now bound by time. that's going to have to be our last word here. >> way to go. >> dana bash, roland, richard socarides in the clock that's beating down on us. >> you said that very well because you had very little sleep. >> so do i. so do i. all right. 41 minutes past the hour. we hear it all

as the governor of massachusetts, he did quite well. and you know, listen to what he says. i believe him. i believe he deserves a shot. >> well, whether people agree with you or not, i absolutely defend your right to be here, to vote for who you like. the idiots tweeting you are, to coin a phrase, clueless. >> oh, dear. >> stacey dash, been a pleasure to see you. >> thank you so much, piers. >> you keep battling your own corner. stacey dash has made up her mind. other female voters seem to be changing their minds. will they be the tipping point in this election? battleground america coming next. [ female announcer ] the best things in life are the real things. nature valley trail mix bars are made with real ingredients you can see. like whole roasted nuts, chewy granola, and real fruit. nature valley trail mix bars. 100% natural. 100% delicious. 100% natural. capella university understands back from rough economic times. employees are being forced to do more with less. and the need for capable leaders is greater than ever. when you see these problems do you take a step back

in 1994 he was running against senator ted kennedy in massachusetts. he said this. >> i believe that abortion should remain safe and legal in this country. i believed that since roe v. wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it i sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice. >> he lost that election. eight years later running for governor in massachusetts he said this. >> so when asked will i preserve a woman's right to choose, i make an unequivocal answer, yes. >> he said he would not make it more change, is that would "make it more difficult for a woman to make that choice herself." once elected, though, mr. romney changed his position and vetoed a bill expanding access to emergency contraception. fred thompson made an ad using that 1994 pro-choice clip against him. i asked the governor about that during a debate, here is what he said. >> i don't know how many times i could tell it i was wrong. i was effectively pro choice when i ran for office. if people in this country are looking for someone

he answered a question about equal pay with a story about searching for women in his massachusetts cabinet. >> i went to a number of women groups, can you help us find folks and they brought us binders full of women. >> reporter: within moments romney's binders had its own twitter handle. the president went after romney as a flip flopper. >> you stood in front of a coal plant as governor of massachusetts and pointed at it and said this plant kills and took great pride in shutting it down. and now suddenly you're a big champion of coal. >> reporter: romney appeared determined to use his rehearsed lines even when they were off topic. the question was on immigration but romney launched into a defense of his offshore investments with a practice pivot against the president. >> any investments i have over the last eight years have been managed by a blind trust. i understand they do include investments outside the united states, including in chinese companies. mr. president, if you look add you at your pension? have you looked at your pension? >> i don't look at my pension. it's not as big as you

as the governor of massachusetts, he did quite well. and you know, listen to what he says. i believe him. i believe he deserves a shot. >> well, whether people agree with you or not, i absolutely defend your right to be here, to vote for who you like. the idiots tweeting you are, to coin a phrase, clueless. >> oh, dear. >> stacey dash, been a pleasure to see you. >> thank you so much, piers. >> you keep battling your own corner. stacey dash has made up her mind. other female voters seem to be changing their minds. will they be the tipping point in this election? battleground america coming next. >>> after the debate i had a g . it's the only rinse that makes your teeth two shades whiter and two times stronger. ♪ listerine® whitening... power to your mouth. 100% new. 100% mmm... wow, that is mmm... it's so mmm you might not believe it's a hundred calories. new yoplait greek 100. it is so good. >> announcer: you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity and turn your life upside down. >> hi. >> hi. you know, i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card

meyers was his chief of staff when he was massachusetts governor. and his lieutenant governor was also a woman, carrie healy. 42% of romney's senior positions went to women. before romney became massachusetts governor, 30% of senior-level positions in the state were held by women. in the first half of his term he did employ even more women. in the second half of his term when the number of women in state senior positions fell to about 27.5%, according to a report for center of women in politics and public policy and nonpartisan group mass gap. lisa sylvester, cnn, washington. >>> in other political news this morning, arizona's largest county, dozens of voters have been given the wrong election date. maric maricopa county election officials handed out voter election cards in spanish, saying the election is on november 8th. of course, the election is really on the 6th of november. county officials say about 50 cards were handed out and the error has now been fixed. local rights group says the damage has already been done. >>> turning now to the econom

she's been the first lady of massachusetts. she -- you know, she has been involved in the campaign since day one. she probably has good insights on how to her husband a more notable to the american people. >> during the convention, we saw that she was trying to send that message, a very strong message, particularly to female voters out there. take a listen as to what took place on that convention. oh, sorry. we don't have that pulled. sorry about that. you remember. you know, she was directly speaking to women. >> i will tell you, what was striking about that speech was for the first time you heard about the love story. she talked about her conversion to the mormon faith. people, i think -- people's -- she shared it with us. i thought she did a terrific job in the role of lead-off speaker for the convention. >> then there's michelle obama. she's become very comfortable in tegts with lots of people. small, you know, or giant audiences. she, too, has been considered kind of a secret weapon of president obama. do you think she wil

he was very much in favor of pro choice, governor of massachusetts, now he is in favor of pro life. but he always as a pro lifer said we need to revert to roe v wade, people say he says what suits him, depending on whether he is appealing to the hard right of the party, or as he is now, according to bill clinton, mr. moderate mitt, that we haven't seen it for a few months. >> well, first of all, i couldn't hear it very well, i assume it is referring to the des moines register. but are there piles of legislation sitting in congress that he is going to point to? the des moines register editorial board? the fact is, he is and has always been committed to being a pro-life president. he is committed to the fact that he will not fund planned parenthood to fund abortions. and committed to not sending foreign aid to countries to fund abortion. he is a pro life president, he is proud of it. and i just think -- i just think many are taking it, referring to one sound bite, piles of legislation, sitting in congress. and it is much ado about nothing, this election is about the economy, the presi

that's a compounding pharmacy in massachusetts that's licensed to distribute drugs in all 50 states. compound facilities were established so they could make custom dosages for paetsch epts with individual needs. the fda isn't in charge of regulating them because technically they're not making new drugs. they're just customizing drugs already on the market. but in recent years it's grown into a much larger business. it accounts for 37 million prescription drugs taken by patients in the united states every year. it's big business, has little oversight, and it impacts all of us. you work here? >> i'm security for the facility. >> reporter: all week we've tried to dig up anything about how it could have become so deadly. >> unfortunately i have to ask you guys to lead the property. >> reporter: no one here really wants to talk. >> your call has been forwarded to an automatic. >> the number you dialed is not in service. >> your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice system. >> hello. >> hello. i'm trying to get ahold of barry cadden. that one, wrong number. is there someone we can

massachusetts is not a historically female state, but the way he articulated it did not come over right >> dana bash, congresswoman rodgers and congresswoman and dan balz. >>> thank you for watching as the campaign nears the final run we ask cnners what they won't miss. on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of $8,000. hurry in before they're all gone! bp has paid overthe people of bp twenty-threeitment to the gulf. billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> and finally, 16 days physical the election. if you think you have already heard it all, tr

this is from the group mass gap which is a nonpartisan group in massachusetts. prior to the 2002 gubernatorial election, mass gap approached the campaigns of shannon o'brien and mitt romney and asked them both to commit to make best efforts to insure that number of women in appointed state positions is appropriate. now mass gap says they then put together this binder and they say it was a big bind we are women's names there. they provided them to mitt romney once he won the election. he never asked for them, they say, as he claimed in the debate. they just handed him the binder. maria, is that what you're talking about? >> yeah, that's exactly right, john. for him to go before the debate audience and say that he was so -- that he was so worried that there were no qualified women applying for positions in his cabinet that he pro actively went looking for them and then we actually hear from the actual group that put together these binders full of women that it's not true. again, i think it betrays the -- eric, it's the truth. did you just not read the statement th

says it was good for massachusetts at the time. for the federal government, he doesn't have a lot of details. people with pre-existing conditions, how do they get insurance? he hasn't laid that out in full detail. >> what about medicare? medicare comes up tonight. where do they stand there? >> it has come up so many times. romney will say, obama is cutting medicare, that's for seniors, which obama denies. it is interesting because they have been saying this for months. let's look at the newest cnn orc poll. this is a really recent poll, obama, the question was asked who would better handle medicare. 52% said obama and 44% romney. that's a big difference. interesting to see if that changes after the debate. >> as we mentioned, these are 15-minute topical chunks, health care getting an entire solid chunk. after they answer the initial questions, that's a lot of time. >> that's right. that's really unusual. and it shows you how important health care is in this particular election. >> it affects every single one of us. elizabeth cohen,

when i was governor of massachusetts, to get a high school degree you had to pass an exam, if you graduated in the top quarter of your class, we gave you a scholarship to a four-year degree. i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing, and also our loan program so people are able to afford school. but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. it's been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you have to a job. i know what it takes to get going. to graduate without a job, without a college level job, that's just unacceptable. and you've got more and more debt on your back. so more jobs and les debt. i know what it takes to create good jobs and to make sure you have the opportunity you deserve. and kids across the country are going to recognize, we're bringing back an economy. the middle class has been crushed over the last four years and jobs have been too scarce. i know what it takes to bring it back. when do you graduate? >> 2014. >> when you come out in 2014, i presume i'm going to be president, i'm going to make sure you get a j