it was an indirect fire, direct fire, and now you have the ndi with this statement. to me, the most porn and significant thing learned today, lou, is all the members of the senate foreign relations committee, kerry, the chairman, allegedly doing debate preparations with president obama this weekend, but in a bipartisan and unanimous show of support said the american people deserve and demand to know answers to what happened, and this administration has been less than forthcoming at best, misleading at worst, and lying if you want to get down to it, to the american people to make the president's political fortunes look better over the tragic death of the ambassador and three other americans. lou: john kerry spent -- set to spend the next three days with the president outside las vegas preparing for that debate. one can only imagine the attention that might exist between the two. brad, let's turn to the issue of what the republicans are doing, what specifically governor romney is doing, and why there is such a -- it is a grievance lack of coordination of interest in th

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