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Vice President Biden said his boss "clearly" made up for his performance in the first presidential debate and the overnight polls seemed to agree, giving President Obama a win in last night's foreign policy debate agains t Mitt Romney.

"He clearly [has] made up for that but what Governor Romney showed today, and I felt a little badly because it's clear he is not, he is not ready to be the commander-in-chief of the United States military," the Vice President told me. "He demonstrated a lack of sophistication about what's going on in the world, his rapid change in his positions. Look being president requires a clear vision and a steady hand. That's exactly what president Obama demonstrated tonight."

Vice presidential contender Paul Ryan accused Obama of spending too much time "attacking Mitt Romney" and not enough time laying out his vision for the next four years.

"We really didn't actually get an agenda for how we should move our country forward on foreign

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There's only one presidential debate left, and hundreds of you sent me your remaining questions via Facebook and Twitter.

Doctor Callaghan tweeted to ask "how are people still undecided and what would help them make a decision?"

And Gregory Pickel asked "Why can't they turn off their microphone when their time is up?" Referring, of course, to the presidential candidates during the televised debates.

Two great questions, and here are my answers:

Please keep the questions coming via Facebook and Twitter. And hope to see you Sunday on This Week.

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Stephen Colbert joined us on "GMA" today. He talked about his new book, "America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't."

And of course I asked him about the debate tomorrow night. (He thinks President Obama and Mitt Romney should play rock, paper, scissors to see who has the first question.)

Colbert also weighed in on who he thinks is the most American American.

Don't miss it.

WATCH: Flashback: Colbert Reports for 'GMA' in 1997

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He's still a Republican but Arnold Schwarzenegger told me he doesn't know who he will vote for in the presidential election next month.

"I always wait until the last minute because there are some very interesting debates coming up and I think it's always nice when you see both of the candidates next to each other and they can debate the issues," he said on "Good Morning America."

"I'm open-minded and I want to hear what everyone has to say and I'm also not one who just votes on issue. I vote on the whole package so which one of the candidates really is the best package because no one is perfect and no one is exactly what you want," Schwarzenegger told me on "GMA." "The ideal thing is if you can put two candidates together but that's not going to happen and so I'm going to keep an open mind."

Schwarzenegger has a book out today, "Total Recall," on growing up in Austria, bodybuilding, Hollywood, his marriage to Maria Shriver and life as governor.

It was an unlikely

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"It's just one of the disastrous situations I've created and the worst thing that I've ever done," former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told me this morning on "GMA" when I asked him about his affair with the housekeeper who he fathered a child with and kept hidden from his wife for years.

"It hurt so many people and the mistakes and failures I've had in the past, and I write about all of them in the book…But this is the worst because it has affected so many people," he said.

The affair with Mildred Baena occurred in 1996, according to Schwarzenegger's new autobiography "Total Recall," when Maria Shriver and their children were away. The following August Mildred gave birth to Joseph, but it wasn't until the boy was older that Schwarzenegger saw the resemblance.

"While Mildred and I barely discussed it, from then on I paid for his schooling and helped financially with him and her other kids," Schwarzenegger writes.

Shriver asked her husband if Joseph was his son

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With the first presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors. In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman is a tough stand-in for a president who basically lies in debates.

"I think the challenge that I'll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren't true," Romney said. "I've looked at prior debates. And in that kind of case, it's difficult to say, 'Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren't quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?"

The former governor told me he's tempted to use Ronald Reagan's famous line against President Carter in a 1980 debate, "There you go again" - the same line that Bill Clinton turned on Romney and the Republicans at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

When I asked if Portman was crushing him in early debate

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In our interview today, Mitt Romney did not back down from his belief that the Obama administration's first response to the Cairo protest demonstrated "sympathy" for the attackers, but he also made it clear that he was ready to move on.

"What I said was exactly the same conclusion the White House reached, which was that the statement was inappropriate. That's why they backed away from it as well," Romney told me.

The Cairo Embassy's statement, released before it was attacked, said it rejects "the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."

When I pointed out that the White House did not say the embassy's statement showed sympathy for the attackers, Romney stuck by his remarks.

"Well, I think the statement was an inappropriate statement. I think it was not directly applicable and appropriate for the setting. I think it should have been taken down. And apparently the White House felt the same way," he said.

In

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said it was "ridiculous" for New Gingrich to say that having former President Clinton speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., was an "enormous risk" that would remind voters of how "pathetically bad Obama has been."

"That is ridiculous," Emanuel said today on "Good Morning America" of the former House speaker's comments.

"A former president who is very popular who can explain about the policies and the parallel tracks the two presidents have had in the sense of investing in education, investing in research and development, alternative energy and green energy and a responsible way of balancing the budget. I think he can do nothing but help and the notion that Newt is going to give our party strategic advice, no thank you."

Emanuel - a veteran of the both the Clinton and Obama administrations who is known for his sharp tongue - also took at shot at the GOP presidential ticket.

"Let me say this, my

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