>> cenk: bye buy. >> john: tonight on "viewpoint," mark sanford wins his congressional race in south carolina and i bet elizabeth colbert bush is kicking herself for not cheating on her husband by using taxpayer funds herself. the 2016 presidential rand paul said hillary clinton should not be allowed to hold future offices. and we're going to have a special pitch to any advertisers who want to reach the fans of the man who is now evolved into an id barely cored by skin. today the birthday of late president harry truman, and don

rickels is 87 years old today. and the we judge the news media guilty of shoving trials down our throats for for attractive ratings. >> john: i'm john fugelsang. this is "viewpoint." thank you for joining us this evening. this is a day that the g.o.p. and hillary haters have been waiting for. the house oversight hearings on the 9112012 attacks. later blamed on terrorists with alleged links to al-qaeda. four americans were killed,

including two security contractors, and ambassador christopher stevens. at the hearing eric nordstrom who had worked in libya explained what the hearing meant to him. >> it matters to me personally and it matters to my colleagues. >> john: key testimony came from gregory hicks. hicks said he requested an f-16 fighter to be sensed to buzz the bengahzi compound in hopes to scare attackers off but was turned down. he was asked that special forces teams could to be sent to bengahzi only to be turned down again. how did the special forces feel about that? >> they were furious. i can only say well, i will

quote lt. col. gibson who said this is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than someone in the military. >> john: however in the pentagon spokesman george little said i quote: >> john: but for many conservatives the big question of the day was if any of the testimony could be tie the bengahzi attack to hillary clinton. sense last fall fox news and it's fellow travelers have cleaned the white house knew that the attack was caused by terrorist but was a cover up as the president as a tough leader in the war on terror. susan rice went on talk shows supporting the claim that an anti-video protest had gotten

out of hand. >> she blamed this attack on a video, and in fact she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped. and i was embarrassed. >> john: but none of the witnesses said much of anything about the so-called cover up that inflames fox and it's friends. the partisan nature of the hearing was in nature for democrats including maryland representative elijah cummings. >> for those who want to use their statements for political purposes. >> john: i'm pleased to be joined by eleanor holmes norton who represents the district of columbia and took part in today's hearing. thank you for joining us. >> good evening. >> john: what did you expect from this hearing today? >> i have to tell you it's over

the top four of five days with everything but trailers. i really had every reason to expect any revelation the likes of which we could not possibly imagine. but as i speak i'm having a hard time pinpointing anything that came through today that i did not already know. i remember that mr. hicks who was in tripoli he said he was stunned when he heard susan rice mention her firstty ration of what had occurred around the muslim world. there was reaction to language that had-used but he was in tripoli. hundreds of miles away. how did he know what happened? what we know is that general petraeus said that the talking

points that were used were scrubbed a little bit to eliminate reference to al-qaeda because they didn't want those terrorists to know that they were under investigation. but there was no stand give to it. we know there has been scaling by a veteran career diplomat, and a former joint chief of staff, so it's not as if we hadn't had any--any investigation. it was very hard to understand why we were here, and if you heard the questions there were many of the same questions that were asked in prior hearings. it was a redo if ever there was one.

>> john: some are screaming cover up and conspiracy ever since the bengahzi attacks were first reportedded. was there any evidence of cover up or conspiracy on the part of the state department or the white house introduced today. >> that's what was missing. evidence. you would have to believe that some how the president general petraeus the national security adviser, hillary clinton sat down and deliberately cooked up a story and went on television with it. but hillary called a couple of days after the attack. the president himself used the word terror. that seems to be the hang up. did anyone call it a terrorist attack. in the fog of war of the intelligence officials are supposed to know instantly and suddenly get it all out there and get it right the first time? not one shred of evidence of cover up, yet they compare this to watergate. be some people believe everything that they say. >> john: do you believe it's about a scandal or the

exploitation of a tragedy. >> let's face it, they're not through with hillary clinton. bengahzi one susan rice. bengahzi two, hillary clinton. if you consider our committee this is an investigation committee. they don't have anything to investigate about this president. so, they just redo investigations they've already had. more build up, get the press all excited. we wondered if there was going to be--i almost wish there were because we want to get to the bottom of this. we agree with the report. we believe mistakes were made. this was a classic case of bipartisanship but they were not even let the democrats according to the usual procedure, interview the witnesses ahead of time so that we could prepare. we were kept out all together. so you can see that they were

into a mode that they didn't get economic. >> john: well, senator rand paul who we now know may be running for profit said that hillary clinton should not be allowed to hold another public office because of bengahzi. she doesn't hold office now so he must be referring to her future plans. how much of this hearing do you think has to do with damaging hillary clinton if she decides to run. >> of course it is. hillary clinton is the most popular politician in the united states today. they are afraid to death that hillary clinton will come out here and run. they're trying early to your her. the more you say hillary clinton in this hearing you more people rallied to the democrats because hillary clinton has so much credibility. they haven't touched her. >> representative eleanor holmes norton representing the district of klumdistrict of columbia many thanks for joining us today.

>> always a pleasure. >> john: i'm joined by p.j. crowley, professor at and by steve clemons.

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public got from the white house was a fair accounting from some of these different perspectives. that's not necessarily something that was a conscious decision by the white house but i do think that the tendency to resist disclosure of information has fed the notion that there is a conspiracy here when they tonight feel there is. i learned a lot from gregory hicks that i didn't know today. and i think those who have been tenacious in driving this forward has scored some points. this should have been material and information that the white house should not have been afraid of and put it out to the american public and that didn't happen. >> cenk: did you see anything to indicate a cover up, as we heard so often? >> i haven't seen anything to indicate a cover up. there are rumors and things that i don't want to speak to about the role of some state department officials possibly trying to get mr. hicks not to speak out. i do think that gregory hicks, who is one of the people who was interviewed in the

accountability review board process has been very animated in his discussion, and very forceful and compelling in his discussion today. and one wonders why is there this gap between what we thought we knew before from him and the interviews he's giving now to congressional investigators. i think that gap is substantial. that does not necessarily mean that there is a cover up. i can't explain it, but i believe there is new information, new color and new dimension to the question of what happened in bengahzi, this great tragedy and i think it's something that people on the state department--i've been it fascinated by the dod and state department an affirmation of key parts that of what gregory hicks laid out. if that is the case that should have been acknowledged and put out before today. >> john: p.j. how would you evaluate how the white house handled this issue.

do you think it has shaped the president's needs as some critic critics acclaim. >> i don't think so, but you have to acknowledge as bengahzi occurred in the home stretch of the presidential campaign, so it's been tinged with politics for the past eight months. you know, part of the problem here is that when you say the word bengahzi, there are ten different things that it might mean depending on how you approach the issue. i certainly do think that in terms of understandel the spell against beforehand and what the united states understood to be the threat picture in bengahzi, very, very important. i always think that it's because four americans died in bengahzi, going back through was there anything that we could have done you know, to affect the issues on the ground or affect the second attack even if the first one came up suddenly, those are important questions to ask whether it's it's because we

lost four people in bengahzi or four thousand people in iraq. there are very legitimate aspects. as steve said there are still things we don't know, including the results of the investigation about who did it and why. these are some of these things are quite legitimate. but as steve suggested, we can agree to disagree on certain elements, i see no evidence of a cover up. >> john: steve, were any of your questions put to rest from today today's testimony? was there anything that could have been done to save the lives of ambassador chris stevens. >> chris stevens is a great man. regrettableregrettably, i don't believe that anything we learned would have changed that unfortunate and tragic outcome. it did raise the question and a legitimate one if the special forces units had been flown to

bengahzi we didn't know at that time what the nature, the end point of the two phases of the terrorist attack. maybe there would have been a third phase, a widening, maybe others would have been under siege. i think it's fair to basically debate whether the units would have been useful or not. i also don't believe there was a cover up, but i do believe that gregory hicks is a passionate man with a great record of service. i've been disturbed by how quickly some of the conservative political action community have embraceed him. i think it's important in terms of his own credibility and the lessons that coo be learned from this to maintain a judicial and unsentiment approach that favors neither particular side and lays out the fax as we know them. as p.j. who comes out of the

state department, he knows it well there are communication processes as i wrote today that deserve to be scrutinized rebuked and fixed. but we have to remember that many in that hearing today who were hammering away on susan rice and others, which i thought was inappropriate and unfair, they are also people who have defunded and criticized the state department, they have not been robust supporters either of its security nor the key role that it plays in advance diplomats in regions of the world that we need to be. i found that to be a missing element. to some degree, when gregory hicks explained the rolls i think people got a sense of the real heroes, in many places in the world where you have turbulent circumstances. >> john: i'm so sorry.

the only thing we know know for sure is that this story is not going away any time soon and already is a factor in the 2016 presidential race. p.j. crowley and steve clemens gentlemen, thank you for your time and expertise this evening. >> thanks, john. >> thanks, john. >> john: former south carolina governor sanford, now he's going to be a congressman punch line. we'll talk about that coming up next.

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disgrace violate your divorce agreement, being humiliateed by your wife who writes a book about you. mark sanford was easily elected to represent the first district over challenger elizabeth colbert bush. the only real surprise may be that colbert bush only lost by nine points. 54-45 in a district that voted for mitt romney by 18 points last november proving no democrat has won a republican- republican-controlled seat in south carolina for 25 years because democrats don't win republican-controlled seats in south carolina. here to evaluate the race we welcome in michael tomasky. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you john. >> john: it's great to have you here for the carolina follies. did we learn anything from this

special election except it's hard for a democrat to defeat a republican in the deputy south south carolina. --deep south south carolina. >> we learned that one can come close. if only there were five or ten more things on that list that you rattled off that mark sanford had done she might have had a shot. she ran a decent race, but then ran out of steam. when he threw up a tried and true question used by candidates on both sides is she going to vote for nancy pelosi speaker. i in my younger days covering politics she really didn't have an answer for that. it through here off her game and put the momentum back on sanford. and in a very republican district just return things to status quo. >> john: i agree.

a lot of liberals mock sanford for having a fake debate with a nancy pelosi cutout. and that's the image he wanted to get back to the voters and it seems to have worked. now is there a template that other politicians should learn from in his political rehabilitation. >> anthony wiener hopes so. i'm sure he was watching with great interest up in new york. you know, i don't know. this to me--this was pretty unique to this district. you know, voters--we've seen many politicians have affairs and have messy circumstances in their personal lives become public, and they've run for election or for re-election, and they've won. why is that? because the voters, you know, the voters consider ideology more important than those kinds of things most of the time. it's a republican district, they're going to vote for the republican. both on in term of affinity, he's like us, and in terms of

ideology. he agrees with us. he thinks the way we think. it will take something really big to dislodge those pre-held notions, and this just wasn't quite big enough. this was just about this district. >> john: i got to say, michael i must disagree with you for once. i agree with you on the affinity thing, but i don't see how mark sanford could have violated the ideology that these voters claim to espouse any more than he did unless his girlfriend was not actually a girlfriend. using a mockery and using taxpayer funds to visit his international lover it was product brand name loyalty or basic tribalism that made the people figure this is my guy. >> yeah, tribalism, i can go with that. it depends--we seem to have different meanings in our head of ideology. i'm talking about straight conservative policies positions.

>> john: yes. >> all those kinds of things. on those they're going to stick with the republican, and he has to be pretty nasty really nasty piece of work if they're going to abandon him. >> john: and for all the uniqueness of this election does it also personify where we are at as a country with all the partship gerrymandering, and the elections are decided before the candidates are announced? >> most are. i was looking at these numbers not recently enough that i remember them exactly but i remember them generally. in 2004 george w. bush won about 70 districts held by democratic members of the house. in 2008 barack obama won something close to 50 districts that were happened by republicans. then in 2012 both obama and mitt romney had very, very little success in winning those kind of cross-over districts.

obama didn't win many red districts, and romney didn't win many blue districts. that tells you something about the way districts have been drawn, for sure, and it tells but the increasing rigidity and intensification of voting appearance by people on both sides. so what it has the effect of doing, john, as you know, is reducing the number of competitive and genuinely scenes. >> john: it will be fascinating to watch his new congressional career and his new wife as a d. d.c. housewife. michael tomasky. thank you for your time and insight this is evening. >> thank you. i enjoyed it. >> john: what do you do with the dead body of boston's most hated citizen even after death tamerlan tsarnaev is a problem.

view on tonight's wtf new hampshire, we attend the tale of republican state representative peter hansen who referred to women as, quote vaginas. it's a bit odd that a lawmaker would describe anyone else as a body part especially someone named "peter." actually in a law that allows

people to defend themselves, he used the phrase, vaginas and children. as in abandon ship vaginas and first. as we remember in the movie "titanic" when the captain said that. >> and quote this is something that has been totally blown out of proportion. blowing things out of proportion is usually what happens when guys discuss their own private parts. but then hansen caved and apologized. i am embarrassed to say the least. it turns out that hansen is, i wish there was an euphemism for vagina i could use for a wimpy man but for the life of me i can't think of one. where does a republican politician get off saying offensive things about women? who does he think he is, a republican or something?

>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." no resting place for the wicked. nearly three weeks after tamerlan tsarnaev died, the boston bombing suspect remains lodged in a funeral home in western massachusetts unburied. it has you fallen on them to find a gravesite and they've face rejection often without explanation. it's a drain on the community. >> the police department is expending resources that could be used by other needs in our community. there is a need to do the right thing. we are not barbarians. we bury the dead. >> john: and people around the country good people have been offering private gravesites. but "the new york daily news" said that the family wants a local grave and a muslim burialish that's going to be

tough because the local muslim community has distanced itself from tsarnaev since the beginning and the islamic law may discourage imams praying over this someone who has committed this type of atrocity. what is to be done with this person? joining me now is reverend dr. susan thistlethwaite professor of theology and former president of chicago theological seminary. and author of "interfaith, just peace making jewish christian and muslim perper speculatives." and harris zafar. i'm happy you both could join me tonight. thank you for joining me on a painful and difficult subject. if tamerlan tsarnaev committed these bombings, is there a place for him for burial.

>> this is a very difficult situation and no muslim would stand up for the actions that he has committed but if you believe there is a god and you are a believer of the god you honor his creation. that's what our faith says regardless of the act of committed during the lifetime of that person, you still have an obligation to honor the dead. and so the prophet mohammed said we come from dust and we return to dust, meaning we should be buried in the ground. if there is a place for him to have a final resting place because his soul has moved on. we can't retaliate against him. it's really an empty shell and it becomes our obligation to give it his right due of burying it in the ground. >> i think many christians would agree for the reasons you just laid out. however, the reality is any

cemetery that takes mr. sr. tsarnaev will be buying themselves many hassles. does the cemetery have take someone who hurts business. >> it's important to think about it's the community response that coo make that something that the cemetery would be reluctant to do. and look at what happened just when "viewpoint" tweeted that we were going to be having this conversation this evening there was an outpouring of revengeful, negative angry tweets that are largely unquotable here on such a program. >> john: welcome to my world. >> yes exactly. >> john: and when communities give in to anger--it is

understandable. the anger is understandable, but when that fuels this kind of community backlash against letting someone be buryied, we're not going to be able to move past this anger, and actually get to grieve. if you don't get to grieve, you don't feel the pain. communities need to actually feel the pain in order to be able to come together. so i'm concerned about the very fact as you're pointing out this is absolutely the case, that these communities fear backlash but they fear backlash, and i think the religious leaders in those communities, christian muslim jewish, of all faith, need to come together and say this is inappropriate, and this person needs to be allowed to be buried. >> john: again, it's a prime example of the stewards concerns up against the commercial

concerns. should an imam pray over someone who has committed this type of atrocity. the family had a very difficult time finding someone to do it. how much of a muslim ceremony can be done here. >> they would keep it simple, and the only time in islam is instructed not to perform a prayer is in a suicide. he has given up trust in god and decided to play god himself and take his own life. it's the lack of faith in god we don't do a funeral prayer but we still bury the dead. in this case, he has alleged certainly he has committed a very heinous crime that no one is going to try to justify but the fact remains that he hasn't done anything according to the islamic faith that would prevent him from having a funeral prayer because even a prayer can be a

prayer for forgiveness that god has mercy on him. but as spiritual beings we should know that he's in the court of alah llah now. and it serves no purpose of what will happen to him. of course, we don't want to create any disorder in the land. we want to respect people's feelings and emotions. we we just call people to decency. we are not barbarians. we still owe the right of the dead. >> john: can he be buried in a non-muslim cemetery. >> absolutely. the vast majority of muslims are buried in non-muslim gravesites. it's a small community who buy purchase sites to be buried in. there's nothing that prevents a

muslim were being youried in a graveyard that is not muslim. >> john: what would you say to protesters outside of this funeral home and the people who tweeted us who because we were talking about this subject and who were angry about the process prospect of a bury. >> i understand your pain. it's natural to feel pain when violence rips apart your community. we can't change the past. the only thing we can do is change how we relate to the past. if you don't put the anger down, that past will control you. you're giving in to the violence because you're letting it control you in the present and it will warp you in the future. put it down for your own sake. not for the sake of anyone else, let go because if you don't then what happens is the very thing that the terrorism tries to do which is disrupt and

disorder communities and make us turn against one another will succeed. >> john: the reverend dr. susan thistlethwaite and harris zafar, thanks to both of you my friends, it's a pleasure to have you here. >> it's been a pleasure, john. >> thank you. >> john: we'll return to the lighter topic of mark sanford thank god. my panelists trying to figure him out. up next.

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on social media i asked all y'all if you thought there was any way that mark sanford could have lost in south carolina. on face back ambr road, charles manson could be elected in south carolina as long as he ran as republican. i think you're right and family is very important to chuck, that would help him out with the south carolinaen voter as well. if you have a question for "viewpoint." write to fug fusion john fugelsang on our facebook account. former south carolina republican governor mark sanford won a special congressional election last night to defeat democratic challenger liz colbert bush. if a sex scandal with your argentinians lover doesn't prevent you from winning the family values vote, tell me what possibly could. here to tell me what possibly could, joining me on my none

expert panel richard chassler. and comedian jim david glad to have you back, and jeff kreisler, great to have you back. some people are surprised that a guy who publicly cheated on his wife in such a heroic way and did it with public funds which he was forced to pay back, $07,000, could win this action. i'm more surprised that in a congressional race in a 70% white district it could even be this close. if mr. sanford could win is there anything that could cause the republican to lose in a district like this? >> yeah, i mean, marry a black jew. >> that would do it. do you think if he cheated on his wife to visit a male lover. >> especially if it was a gay black muslim.

>> only if he had to provide him healthcare. >> well, okay, let me ask you-- >> i used to live there i liveed in south carolina for four years. but they think halliburton is richard burton's daughter. >> we discussed with michael tomasky earlier isn't it more will tribalism. you're one of us, and elizabethcalelizabethbizcolbert bush. >> it depends on how you spell your name. democrats do it. how do you spend your name. does it end with an r or d. we talked in a poll, was colbert bush winning? but people don't pay attention. they look at "r" or "d." >> is there anything that a democrat could do that would

cause him or her to lose to a republican in the upper manhattan. >> john: doesn't it work for the left as well? if john edwards ran against david duke, democrats would vote for him. but is there anything that a democrat could do to lose to a republican in portland, oregon. >> no, very difficult. >> no, i think the pattern is like you know, pretty much set isn't it, around the country. this is where it is. >> the question is does the shift in the matter ever make a difference? we're commenting the change in the republican party they're becoming this extreme party is that ever going to change people's mind about how they vote? if the democrats went to some extreme maybe democrats would stop voting for them, but that hasn't happened yet. >> john: a lot of people are comparing the sex scandal to anthony wiener since the anthony wiener sex scandal contained no

actually sex. that was a guy alone on the internet, it was creepy, and john edwards covered up an affair. is there any with a that john edwards could win a prime in the country? >> sure. >> john: where. >> in any blue states. the republicans have proven time and time again "a," a very short memory, and a tremendous feeling to forgive people who go i messed up. i. >> i disagree about john edwards. he was totally against character. he was a beautiful man with a beautiful fame who did family who did this thing. mark sanford, it's like john edwards became drunk upper man and mark sanford became lex luther. he was a healer. >> cenk: and unlike newt gringrich, we all knew his

cancer-stricken wife for a long time. >> and she was amazing, we loved her, yes. >> john: is this a bad trend that there are less and less swing districts in the country where both parties have somewhat of a chance to win. >> more swinging, but because they--as they think in the south, well, he's got real good taste in mistresses. because he's dating evita. and she's hot. >> john: i think you're right. you think it's a level that to some degree people respect him for having great taste in second wives? >> absolutely. >> they don't care. that's especially, men the southern men i've heard them say it. my dad's golfing buddy's says it it. >> john: my theory is he's an activity. and once you understand through the language difficulty that he's not that bright, it's going to be tough for her living in georgetown. all of his old friends when he

was in d.c. before, i wonder if their wives will have him back over the house with the new mrs. sanford. elizabeth colbert bush had the support of her celebrity brother, was it because of who the celebrity is, or is her brother's name immaterial to this whole side. >> i think it's immaterial down there. i don't think they know who he is or care, really. some of them may. >> john: when george clooney couldn't get his dad in congress. >> people voted for george w. bush because they thought he was george bush. but it depends on who it is. there are not colbert fans streaming around in the woods. >> there is something to be said with politicians surrounding themselves with a-list left wing celebrities. >> john: did that hurt her. >> well, the thing is his character is so believable there

are things who believe that steve colbert is a republican. they don't get the character. >> there is a whole mentality down there that i don't need some northern liberal telling me what to do. i don't need you telling me. i don't need them telling me. >> john: i do just want to remind all the conservative christians who voted for mr. mr. sanford, if you believe in the book of leviticus you have to stone adulterers. we have more coming after the break. you know who is coming on guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time

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>> john: welcome back. one more quick question from the panel. what percentage, gentlemen, and it's great to finally have a show where four white guys can get equal time. what percentage of white wing radio is actually based on fact. >> based on fact, 100%. actually fact factual 1%. >> i think it's based on the onion. >> you can appreciate right wing radio. >> i appreciate all the propaganda. we don't have the facts but the rumors behind it. >> it's not just four white guys

but it's four white house white guys with the evolution of hear. karl rove will have to check it again. >> i think you got it right. i think that's why it's a little different tonight. i want to be serious for a second if that's okay. like many of you watching i was shocked of how the rush limbaugh is dying in the ratings. one trade publication called it the and of right wing talk radio. the reason is because rush limbaugh has scared off more sponsors than lindsay lohan. 48% exclude limbaugh show to their ad buys. but many care about the rush limbaugh show and want to see it continue i'm talking about comedians. i want to take a moment and offer a personal appeal to potential advertisers. >> hello, are you a small business owner wanting to reach

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are you a right wing megachurch? do you want to reach to larger people who think that jesus hates gays advertising on the rush limbaugh show could be the answer to your prayers. your real prayers of power not the phoney prayers that you do in your church. advertise on the rush limbaugh show and your dreams of unending client dates will come true. sure rush has chased away all livers moderate, black white hispanic emotionally sensitive but there are wheat people, caucasians closet loathing

homosexuals who are waiting to hear your ad on the rush limbaugh show. call now and we'll give a free satellite radio that will allow you to listen to the show in its original german. advertising on the limbaugh show will bring untold wealth, riches and incredibly luxury to rush limbaugh. he needs your business. those viagra packs from the dominican republic don't pay for themselves. his entire world is depending on you. that's "viewpoint" for tonight. i want to thank my panel richard chassler, jim david and jeff kreisler, and from the final edition. this is current. we're still here. have a great evening. good night mom.

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