k.t. mcfarland and have been unsuccessful. a quote he gave.of a joke, what roger says, a wiseass the way he puts it way i have. i thought the republican primarily field needed shaken up and patreaus might be a good candidate. sounds like she thought she was on a secret mission in the reagan administration. it's someone's fantasy to make me a kingmaker, it's not my job. i will say, having covered that campaign for months there were operatives inside, high-level operatives, inside some of the campaigns that thought that fox news was playing favorites with candidates or there were people on fox news playing favorites with particular candidates and they were getting too involved in the process and so this may be a reflection of some of that, though roger ailes says he was having fun there. >> one part of that tape, though, that may be troubling to those who think that a news organization shouldn't be dictated to by the person in charge of prosecuting the war in afghanistan and that part of the tape suggested that k.t. mcfarland asks, anything that

k.t. mcfarland and fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt. who is driving the blame game here? i don't know -- i know who i believe, but it's going like this right now in washington. >> yeah. i don't think there's any independent act. it's t clear that it's white hoe driven. it's not state department or secretary of defense or cia. this is a white house driven scenario that's happened since the 11th. >> and kt, you're the person, you're our person, our man, our woman who was in washington during preps for these kinds of interviews. >> yeah. >> did susan rice not know the truth? >> look. everybody knew the truth. everybody knew it was al-qaeda from the very beginning. >>y the question by colonel hunt is who didn't know. >> where did she get her marching orders and why her? now, i think it's because hillary clinton looked at that, i'm sure she was asked first, and she said i don't want to go out there like colin powell did at the united nations saying there are weapons of mass destruction of iraq and be proven wrong and there's the end of his career. she didn't want to be out the

k.t. mcfarland, made the offer but more of a -- but more of a joke. do you buy that?, the reason i don't completely buy is because ailes is not denying it and as i've reported in the past, he is a former republican strategist, has a history of meeting privately with people like mitt romney and other candidates on the gop side when they were r running. he likes to keep his fingers in the political pie a little bit. >> why would he care? what would be in it for roger ailes? . >> i don't think that's the way to look at it. roger ailes i know really cares about the country. he's made no secret of his conservative views. he may have believed general petraeus was a great general, would be a great leader for this country. the problem comes in is one of perception. we don't know because this is just an audiotape involving a fox contributor, we don't know how serious a courtship this was. but fox is a news organization that covers petraeus and politics and if somebody from, i don't know, cnn, nbc, abc had the head of one of those networks met with somebody on the democratic si

k.t. mcfarland, thought she was on a secret mission in the reagan administration.he was way out of line. it's someone's fantasy to make me a kingmaker. it is not my job. but it is your job to talk about it, howie kurtz, and i assume on "relabel sources" this will be one of your topics. >> yeah. that was a nondenial denial. that will be one of our topics inde indeed. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. ...i propose savings for everyone! i'm talking hundreds here... and furthermore.. newscaster:breaking news. the gecko is demanding free pudding. and political parties that are actual parties!? with cake! and presents! ah, that was good. too bad nobody could hear me. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. i have a cold... i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't work on runny noses. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have an antihistamine. really? [ male announcer ] really. alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to r

k.t. mcfarland, a fox news national security analyst. willing to give up his job at the network to run a campaign. >> if i ever ran, i'd take him up on his offer. he said he would quit fox -- >> and i know. >> -- and bankroll it? >> bankroll it? >> maybe i'm confused and that was rupert. >> i know roger has done okay. but i think the one who is bankrolling it is the big boss. big boss is bankrolling it. roger is going to run it. and the rest of us are going to be your in house. >> reporter: that big boss is rupert murdoch, head of news corp. but petraeus repeatedly shuts down the idea. >> my wife would divorce me. >> reporter: after petraeus later accepted the job at the cia, mcfarland went on fox to talk about her conversation with the general. but she never mentioned the ailes offer. >> i think that petraeus doesn't want to run. i asked him that question and he said, i'm not running for president. >> reporter: ailes told "the washington post" that he did ask mcfarland to approach petraeus, but added, it was more of a joke, a wise-a ass

k.t. mcfarland, one takes her at her word when she and spokesperson says she is ill.as certainly managed to dodge a lot of this event since september 11th. >> yeah, she said she would take full responsibility but she has avoided taking any blame. one thing i think with the hearings, this will probably be the last opportunity as they lawmakers will have to question her as secretary of state. i hope instead of looking back and saying, what did you know, why didn't you talk about the video, i hope instead they focus forward which is why have you not responded. why haven't the responded after these attacks. we know that ten years ago, in the late 1989 and embassies were bombed, 2000, u.s.s. cole was bombed, we beefed up security and changed the rules of engagement but we never went after al-qaeda. what happened as a result, bin laden said, let's go get them again. my concern and i hope these lawmakers and secretary clinton, why has the united states not gotten these people who killed ours. we know where those people are. we could do a drone strike against them. second poi