. >> this ms. rice is very close personally to the president. it is almost like his kid sister was being appointed national security advisor, i almost think when i see her, he is so voluble, so direct and frank that she, that he is saying the things that barack obama would say if he was less reticent man, if he was more open and more of an extrovert, so i think it is going to be useful to have somebody who really knows the president's mind and can speak for him, both in the. >> the interpreter: agency process and to the extent other world leaders, i still think susan rice is more of a policy intellectual than tom don lon was. >> we continue with. >> who considers the president's

issa wasted no time attacking the president and ms. ricements ago. >> you know, susan rice claims that she reads the classified dailies. obviously if she had read the classified dailies, she couldn't have been so wrong on benghazi, it's unfortunate the president is rewarding somebody for reading talking points that simply weren't true. >> mr. maserati issa there pumped up for tomorrow's hearings. every time, though, issa offers unsubstantiated attacks on the president or calls someone a liar, do a shot. of espresso, of course. >>> let's get to our guest. elijah cummings, is congressman elijah cummings, a democrat of maryland. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> i wonder if you could give us your response to the president's appointment of a known liar, susan rice, as his national security adviser, because that's how she has been repeatedly described by your colleague on the house oversight committee, mr. darrell issa. >> first of all, i think it's unfortunate that chairman issa would use such words for a, an awesome lady. who

but ms. rice knows, she knows who gave her the misleading talking points and she will not testify to that. therefore, susan rice is the face of the benghazi chaos. and now she has been rewarded, promoted by a president who also refuses to explain what happened in libya. outrageous? you bet. the president will also not explain the irs situation. his defenders denying that former irs chief douglas shulman visited the white house 157 times. but he was cleared into the people's house 157 times. that is a fact. those who diminish the shulman factor are lying directly to you of course the white house can clear all this up very easily the president chooses not to and his ache lights defend that. >> many of those meetings were for healthcare implementation. i was in them with them. there is nothing nefarious going on just because bill o'reilly has been raising questions about it. it doesn't mean that there is actually anything going on here. >> bill: that's just dumb. that's just dumb. if there wasn't any

this will be a big problem, not just with ms. rice, but i think the confirmation of ms. powers as u.n. ambassador is going to raise a lot of questions in the senate. >> do you think, this is my last question for you because we're running out of time, but do you think samantha power will become a proxy battle about susan rice or are there opposition -- is there reason to oppose power in and of herself that you're hearing from your fellow republicans in the senate. >> >> we'll be talking about both of them, but mrs. power, the opposition will stand on its own in terloffs her -- you know, you want an u.n. ambassador that's going to advocate for the united states, not apologize for the united states. she's compared our recent american foreign policy to those of the nazis. this is a horrible rhetoric. it's not the kind of messenger i want to be sent to the united nations to speak on behalf of the united states. so we have some serious problems with this nomination. >> all right, congressman, thank you so much for joining us as always. >> thanks. >> we're also following breaki

ms. rice the latest, how she has failed all the way up obama ladder. on september 11th, 2011, four were killed by terrorists. they claimed the video was responsible and then president obama flew to las vegas. on september 14th, hillary standing in front of caskets, insults america by blaming the video again. september 15th, the obama administration changes the intel talking points to reflect the dishonesty they had been saying all week. this was weeks away from the presidential election. on september 16th hillary refuses to go on record and sends susan rice out to cover for them all. let's get this part of it out of the way. the timing is beyond interesting to me. it's hot under america's collar. is this an attempt by the obama administration to transfer the focus from the irs back to benghazi. >> bob: first, i don't think benghazi is turning out to be the big epic conspiracy that everybody thinks it is. let's keep something in mind. she doesn't have to go under oath. donalon was involved in this. the she is one that said we did a poor job. i think ben

. >> this ms. rice is very close personally to the president. it is almost like his kid sister was being appointed national security advisor, i almost think when i see her, he is so voluble, so direct and frank that she, that he is saying the things that barack obama would say if he was less reticent man, if he was more open and more of an extrovert, so i think it is going to be useful to have somebody who really knows the president's mind and can speak for him, both in the. >> the interpreter: agency process and to the extent other world leaders, i still think susan rice is more of a policy intellectual than tom don lon was. >> we continue with. >> who considers the president's reelection campaign in a new book called the center holds, obama and his enemies. >> and just a little bit on the political point because i think it is relevant, i think of him as kind of missing the schmooze gene and is so for him, the neediness of other politicians and ceos and a lot of the people he deals with is an abstraction, he knows that he needs to be stroking a

obama plans to make one's afternoon what ms. rice, 40 eight, outspoken diplomat and close ally at the heart of the administration's foreign policy apparatus. also a defiant gesture to republicans who are still -- harshly criticize ms. rice for preventing an erroneous account on the deadly attack on the american mission in libya. the post, while powerful, does not require senate confirmation. brookfield, new york, independent caller. caller: i am one of those guys that the fellow from michigan described as not having enough brains for this. but i got to tell you, a commander is responsible for all fails toens, that happen, and by limiting his use his forces appropriately, you are dooming them to failure in difficult and dangerous situations. it is clear from your callers that they don't have the military experience to have an opinion on this, much less enforce their will on the military. this is absolutely insane. , herndon, virginia. republican caller. caller: how was it going? yeah, good morning. i am a former marine myself. this ar

timeline tha prove be so troubling for ambassador rice, we'll take it epte15th, days after the attack, ms. rice on all five sunday talk shows and said the attack was spontaneous and downplayed any terror connection, even though she had seen talking points full of discussions about the terror. a month later, october 16th her first public comment since the sunday shows, ambassador rice blame intel community for the talking points and their faulty information. in early november she was mentioned as a top can dpdidate replace hillary clinton. november 19th nearly 100 house ns wrote a letter to president obama to him from nominating her to that post. november 27th she admits to republican senators there was never any protest in benghazi, something news outlets had been administration was telling us so. december 13th she officially withdraws her name for consideration for stary of state, a position now h by john kerry. today we get this. susan rice about to be named national security adviser by the president. and that happens just as former ambassador thomas pickering who led the review at the state

this, the reporter suggested it was, quote, a defiant gesture to republicans who harshly criticized ms. riceount of the deadly attacks and the american mission in benghazi, libya. so would you go as far as jason chaffins in saying her presentation that sunday should disqualify her? >> well, you know, i can't say that. i'm not sure i could raise that level, and i don't know that the "new york times" is right that the president did it to poke republicans in the eye. but if both of those positions prove my point, wolf. this is going to be a political lightning rod. it's going to have all of this discussion pulling both ways on both parties on a position that should be as nonpolitical as you can get it. that's my concern. >> quaickly on syria before i lt you know, the french now sumging they have hard evidence that gas, poison gas, serine, was used, and if it's true, that would certainly cross what the president has called that red line. do you have hard evidence that the syrian regime of president bashar al assad has used serine gas or other poisen gas against the rebels? >> listen, you and i i

a change on the foreign policy front, with news that susan rice will replace tom donilon as national security adviser, and then mson. >>> chaos erupted in oakland sunday when a masked gunman began firing at a crowd in broad daylight. the teen, later identified as 17-year-old david manson junior lay on the sidewalk. after firing several shots, the gunman walks up to the boy, shoots him several times at point-blank range. so far, no arrests. >>> demands for an apology. during a hearing on sexual assault in the military, georgia's saxby cham lis say hormones may be partly responsible for the epidemic. >> the young folks coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. gee whiz, that's the level of -- the hormone level created by nature, sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. >> hormones. that drew a sharp review from both sides of the aisle. mike turner who co-chairs a caucus on military sexual assault says that kind of thinking helps perpetuate the problem. the commanders of every military branch argued against a change to the way that sexual soughts are handled. >>> fi