Hot! Third Presidential Debate

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA

OCTOBER 22, 2012

SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS.,

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR

(Click HERE with regard to ABC News' fact check out of the debate)

[*] SCHIEFFER: Good evening through the campus connected with Lynn University throughout Boca Raton, Florida. This is your fourth and very last discussion belonging to the 2012 campaign, delivered by the actual Commission with Presidential Debates.

This one's on dangerous policy. I'm Bob Schieffer with CBS News. The questions usually are mine, and I haven't shared them using that candidates and also their particular aides.

SCHIEFFER: The market has ingested a vow of silence no applause, simply no outcome associated with any kind, with the exception right this moment whenever we welcome President Barack Obama in addition to Governor Mitt Romney.

(APPLAUSE)

Gentlemen, your activities possess decided particular rules and they are generally simple. They've requested my home in order to partition the morning directly into segments. I'll pose your issue at the beginning associated with just about every segment. You could every have a pair of moments that will interact after which you can we could have a new common debate till many of us go on to your next segment.

Tonight's debate, when you and him know, comes on the actual 50th wedding anniversary of the night which President Kennedy explained to the entire world the fact that Soviet Union acquired established nuclear missiles within Cuba, probably that nearest we have previously come to help nuclear war. And this can be a sobering reminder that each chief executive faces at a few point surprise danger to your national security from abroad.

So why don't we begin.

SCHIEFFER: The first segment is the process of the altering Middle East along with the innovative experience regarding terrorism. I'm heading helping put this particular into a couple of sectors so you'll need a pair of topic concerns within this just one portion to the subject. The earliest question, and it problems Libya. The debate about just what exactly occured at this time there continues. Four Americans are generally dead, such as a great American ambassador. Questions remain. What happened? What brought on it? Was this spontaneous? Was the item an intelligence failure? Was it a new coverage failure? Was there an hope to mislead individuals concerning what exactly actually happened?

Governor Romney, people stated i thought this was an example of an American insurance plan within the Middle East which is unraveling previous to our quite eyes.

SCHIEFFER: I'd plan to take note of you both offer ones thoughts on that.

Governor Romney, a person won that toss. You visit first.

ROMNEY: Thank you, Bob. And many thanks with regard to agreeing to be able to moderate this issue the following evening. Thank you in order to Lynn University to get inviting us all here. And Mr. President, it is really very good being along again. We were jointly at the extremely funny affair a small earlier, along with it is really pleasant in order to possibly funny this time, possibly not on purpose. We'll discover exactly what happens.

This is usually obviously a space connected with fantastic headache to help all the world, and to America around particular, and that is to find out a an entire modify inside the the shape and the the natural environment inside Middle East.

With the actual Arab Spring, came up a whole lot connected with desire of which presently there can be some sort of transform toward additional moderation, in addition to prospect for increased engagement upon this component to females with open public life, as well as around global financial lifetime within the Middle East. But instead, we have now seen in country after nation, many connected with disturbing events. Of training course we notice with Syria, 30,000 civilians acquiring been put to sleep by the military services there. We discover throughout within Libya, an strike evidently by, I consider we learn now, simply by terrorists connected with some sort versus in opposition to our own people there, a number of men and women dead.