awanetta? >> one issue that came up in the debate is the obama administration's response to the killing of the ambassador in libya as well as three others. on point ryan said that it took the president two weeks to acknowledge the september 01th attack on the benghazi conflict was not part of a protest about a youtube video but was, in fact, a terrorist attack. let's listen to that statement. >> it took the president two weeks to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack. he went to the un, and in his speech at the un, he said six times he talked about the youtube video. look if we are hit by terrorists, we're going to call it for what it is, a terrorist attack. our ambassador in paris has a marine detach. guarding him. shouldn't we have a marine detach. guarding our ambassador in benghazi, a place where we knew that there was an al-qaeda cell with arms. >> okay. joining me now, paul singer, politics editor at "usa today." did it take the president two weeks to acknowledge this was a terror