lou: not just the president's display of awkward las of grace -- lack of sensitivity and lack of grace in dealing with the beheading of james foley. but the white house failure to act, some upset that they chose to try to rescue foley and other american hostages and failed, an admission some say is helpful to our enemies, and it may embolten them. in a pentagon news confront, chuck hai hagel stood by his bo' decision. >> there is always risk, there continues to be risk in every action or inaction we take. also, the administration had informed the families of the hostages. of this effort. lou: the administration was stumbleing over itself to escape responsible of any -- accountability of any kind in face of that criticism, the state department insisting they would not have made that fail mission public, were it not for the national media, which had forced their action. >> we had no intention of ever making this public, when a number of media outlets came to the government with details information that had been provided to them, we were forced at that points to acknowledge it, given they