here to explain what that means, lanny davis is with us and joining us for the weekly standard, steven we'll start with three simple, basic questions, not a big deal, i just want direct answers, okay? why did the state department refuse multiple attempts to get extra security for benghazi, especially when we were the last people flying a flag there and british and red class left? why did they not give the security requested? >> i think that the findings of both admiral mullin and tom and the senate and intelligence committee -- >> i'm asking why. >> democrats saying the answer to your question is that there should have been greater care taken in promoting security for that embassy and that was a mistake. >> okay. >> that was not intentional and it didn't involve the secretary of state. those are the findings -- >> your job is to protect hilary, i understand -- >> you can talk over me tonight, sean, but i'll talk back. >> you can talk back all you want. >> my job is to tell the truth. >> i have a next question -- >> how did lamb testify before congress and she said how horrible to watch

lanny, what are you doing?truth, we're going to do a truth squad, a group of people that care about the facts in front of the hearing room of the gouty committee, will be available to put the facts out. republicans critical about what happened in benghazi should not fear the truth, should not worry, we're not going to used a jekttives and engage in personal attacks. we'll be a truth squad and be there to ensure whoever is using it will rely on the organization to help get us the facts. >> so a truth squad is similar to what you did for bill clinton in '97. >> yes. >> don't you have faith for the democrats doing their business? >> i hope they are going to be there. there is some mistake and assumption not showing up is a good way to get facts out or challenge those misstating. >> so you do think they should participate? >> absolutely. i think we had plenty of investigations and plenty of acceptance by secretary of state clinton who after all took a report by the ambassador who served republican and democratic an

. >> number two, lanny, they handled this wrong from the beginning. certainly we knew three days later, obviously, immediately this had nothing to do with the video. some are continuing to keep the narrative going and do not take your advice, lanny which is come out, tell the truth, tell it often and directly. they still haven't done this. it is spin control and they are institutionally incapable of self-correcting. that's the reality. >> i'm not asking for equal time but i would like to respond to the two points and the last one you made. number one, the fact is unrefuted that the cia wrote the words spontaneous demonstration trigged by cairo protests and that's what's been attributed to the obama -- >> but not a video. >> but that cairo protests were in fact a response to the words video but you don't deny -- >> i got a fundamental question -- >> on the point about ben rhodes, give me a chance to respond, ben rhodes is involved in prepping people for sunday shows. the larger question -- and it was in the middle of a presidential campaign -- is wheth

lanny, are you as surprised as i that there has not been an apology from sterling?ll, it is surprising to me, unless his goal in life is to lose credibility with friends and doesn't care about his reputation. and there are people who get to a point in life that really don't care. it looks like that is really the case. if he did care a long time ago he would have apologized and put the team up for sale himself and indicated that he doesn't deserve to own the team given what he clearly feels about african-americans, which is racism. >> cedric, i think i saw out of the corner of my eye as i was doing the intro and perhaps setting a precedent, i think i saw you nod. speak to that issue if you would. >> well, i think one of the things you really look at, you are setting the precedent. a couple of years ago kobe bryant said something that was homophobic about an official. what happens if somebody finds a tape with kobe bryant saying something like that again? where do we go? this is a slippery slope. mark cuban said i'm not sure where you go. who is the next guy up? there

lanny davis. in one crisis situation after another, they are not telling it early or telling at all or telling it themselves. >> it is a veis very strange wh very facts on your side that are positive facts in answer to the partisan charge which is what this is about as you correctly say. charging the white house with the deception and cover up. from the very beginning, they had the answer in their possession which are 14 drafts of the talking points where the controversial phrase of the horrible tragedy began with a spontaneous demonstration by a protest in cairo which was part of the general reaction throughout the middle east to the anti-muslim video. republicans are on record from the very beginning accusing the obama white house of inventing that phrase spontaneous demonstration in order to minimize their not seeing that it was a terrorist attack and trying in the middle of a presidential campaign to cover that up. we now know that the cia wrote that phrase from the very first draft of the tal

well absolutely yes i mean eric holder comes when called coming to burling and let lanny breuer sir for a while you had the top two law enforcement official officials in the world i mean in the united states coming from the same firm that doesn't necessarily make them wrong on all these things but but covington and burling represented almost every one of these too big to fail companies. so one has to wonder you know exactly how much zeal are they bringing to their investigation or not investigation of these firms at the very least it's a question that gets raised in the public's mind and that's that's unfortunate very important book the book is the still ahead this maps and the obama administration's we should deferential to release drug offenders from pleas and this is a step in the right direction don't go away. join me. for that impartial and financial commentary and contribute and much much. only on been passed and. your. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. with his book the divide was great by the way great critical acclaim and very excited about reading in a

joining me now, lanny davis, and author of the book "crisis tales" five rules for coping can crisis, in business and life. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, and talk about the word well-worn. i couldn't be happier that the republicans are helping to change the subject about why they can't answer questions about health care, jobs and all the things people care about. and are giving us a chance to talk about partisan republicans. that is all they can do is investigate, investigate, investigate. well-worn, old news, been there. done that. >> now, the decision for democrats is whether or not to go along with this. so we're just you know, boycotted outright. what is your advice? >> look, when we have facts on our side i see no reason to boycott. i see a lot of reasons to embarrass them. for example, every time they say the word "cover-up" and the word spontaneous demonstration triggered by the cairo protests, those words have been used to show a cover-up by the white house. when we know the fact that they can't dispute, which is the cia wrote that sentence based upon then current in

lanny is a crisis communication expert and also the author of the book "crisis tales."lifies" and also a radio talk show host in atlanta. i want to start with you. there aren't a lot of people jumping up and supporting donald sterling right now. i have heard people say that he's 81 years old. he was clearly in love with v. stivia stiviano. he's a horny old guy saying crazy things. is that justifiable? >> he's those things and also super wealthy which puts thinking and the way people have catered to him in his life on a different scale. >> i have to push back on that. magic johnson is well and he's not saying crazy things. >> he's done crazy things in the past. that's the thing that i think people are so outraged by what donald sterling is saying but he's just having private conversations in public. there are a lot of people that said these very same things. if you were to roll the tape back to when magic johnson made his announcement, there were many people that came out against magic johnson when he made that announcement about hiv. he's referring to things that people

well absolutely yes i mean eric holder comes from a quote coming to burrowing and let lanny breuer sir for a while you had the top two law enforcement official officials in the world i mean in the united states coming from the same firm that doesn't necessarily make them wrong on all these things but but coming to burling represented almost every one of these too big to fail companies. so one has to wonder you know exactly how much zeal are they bringing to their investigation or not investigation of these firms at the very least it's a question that gets raised in the public's mind and that's that's unfortunate very important books the book is the divide still ahead this map that the obama administration's we should deference to release drug offenders from prison is a step in the right direction don't go away. we will give it up we will stand for europe the white europe the traditional europe for the free nations europe. we should be arresting all those terrorists in kiev instead of all of the presidential candidates the military junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own peopl

well absolutely yes i mean eric holder comes in called coming to them burrowing and let lanny breuerso for a while you had the top two law enforcement official officials in the world i mean in the united states coming from the same firm that doesn't necessarily make them wrong at all these things but but coming to burling represented almost every one of these too big to fail companies and so one has to wonder you know exactly how much zeal are they bringing to their investigation or not investigation of these firms at the very least it's a question that gets raised in the public's mind and that's that's unfortunate very important books the book is the divide still ahead this map that the obama administration's we should deferential to release drug offenders from please and is a step in the right direction don't go away. please it was a. very hard to take a. look. at how exactly would that make their. to. sleep. at least. you'll sleep sleep. sleep. sleep in the middle of the day. right. the first strike. and i think that you're. on our recorders. in. the in the. economic downturn in t

chemistry reads with her her foster brother on the show and when jordan give our and touch animists lanny stepped into the room to do the character read in front of seventeen television executives everybody fell in love with both of them and we knew we found our team so when she comes to woodbury bay hugh emotions oh she knows who she is she does some really great. things to stay in character should get method social stay in character all day but often she has to change character playing two even three characters in one day so she'll go into the hair and makeup trailer as one character should put on her music that helps her get into the. into the mood of that character chill come out in costume and and her physicality has changed or going to see how the characters being cloned. i think maybe that's a that's a spoiler and i better not go to that territory we interviewed called in to snitch showrunner of lost and he said that he and damon lindelof went to the met or asking for an end date so they would know how to end the show properly have you done that we have an endgame in mind we haven'

have to and accusations are going to yeah you know all have been tried to show up maybe only maybe lannydavis is the only scuttlebutt the only person on. this committee was subpoena power is the republican former federal prosecutor who's the head of the democrats will not be allowed to ask questions or bring witnesses what they want there is a legacy that i guess you know as to the party though if they don't ask they were not told in advance to us because of the rules are set up you cannot bring your witness you know i disagree with that you know those are very very old and he is he is so he is so committed to the rule of law that that is in the ideas before a lot of other little federal prosecutor but he's not the one who established the rules for this that was john boehner who is a totally political animal and this is to say we're going to have a committee we're going to investigate something that may have a partisan dimension to it and the only person who can subpoena witnesses is going to be the chairman of the committee who is a who is a republican and the democrats will have no pow