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LiveBlog for Friday, October 5, 2012

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• Teamsters President James Hoffa joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the presidential campaign and how it affects working people

Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the GOP attempts to drive America off a fiscal cliff

• Actress Olivia Munn of HBO’s “The Newsroom” calls in from Ohio at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the message she’s delivering to win the battleground state for Obama

• Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to tell us about tonight’s debut of his new Current TV show, “John Fugelsang: So That Happened”

• Mitt Romney, trying to distance himself from perhaps his most damaging campaign moment, said Thursday that his infamous “47 percent” remarks were “completely wrong” and that he will “be about helping the 100 percent.”

• An animated President Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin yesterday: “When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney. But it couldn’t have been Mitt Romney, because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy.”

The government today issues its September jobs report, expected to show an uptick in the U.S. unemployment rate after employers added only a modest number of jobs.