p.j. crowley, thank you for coming in.do britain, authorities have lee rigby as the victim in the knife attack. the two men suspected of the killing are under armed guard in the hospital. they were known to the security services. drummer lee rigby, 22 years old. helmandr who survived but not hate street. he leaves behind a two-year-old son. tonight, his family paid this tribute. towas lovely, all he wanted do was to be in the army. he wanted to live life and enjoy himself. ,e was a loving son, husband father, brother, and uncle. he was a friend to many. the flag flew at half mast. his soldiers on standby to serve in afghanistan. >> he was a dedicated and professional soldier. he was proud to wear the badge of his regiment. he was a real character. he was at the heart of our corps of drums and had taken part in many ceremonies. he was also an accomplished in gunner who have served with the station in afghanistan, germany, and cyprus. >> route the day, a steady flow of flowers arrived at the barracks. the prime minister visi

p.j. crowley, thank you for coming in.do britain, authorities have lee rigby as the victim in the knife attack. the two men suspected of the killing are under armed guard in the hospital. they were known to the security services. drummer lee rigby, 22 years old. helmandr who survived but not hate street. he leaves behind a two-year-old son. tonight, his family paid this tribute. towas lovely, all he wanted do was to be in the army. he wanted to live life and enjoy himself. ,e was a loving son, husband father, brother, and uncle. he was a friend to many. the flag flew at half mast. his soldiers on standby to serve in afghanistan. >> he was a dedicated and professional soldier. he was proud to wear the badge of his regiment. he was a real character. he was at the heart of our corps of drums and had taken part in many ceremonies. he was also an accomplished in gunner who have served with the station in afghanistan, germany, and cyprus. >> route the day, a steady flow of flowers arrived at the barracks. the prime minister visi

p.j. crowley, professor at and by steve clemons. can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections tuberculosis lymphoma, other cancers, >> i think this could all very well be a dispute intact ticks. if you should have sent special forces you wants in tripoli when you may be abandoning an event that might be subject to a siege as well. what i don't think the american public got from the white house was a fair accounting from some of these different perspectives. that's not necessarily something that was a conscious decision by the white house but i do think that the tendency to resist disclosure of information has fed the notion that there is a conspiracy here when they tonight feel there is. i learned a lot from gregory hicks that i didn't know today. and i think those who have been tenaciou

p.j. crowley professor of george washington university and former assistant secretary of state to president obama and assistant to president clinton. p.j., what a pleasure to have you back. >> thank you john. >> john: is president obama trying to smudge that red line that assad was trying to cross and if he is, what could that do to u.s. credibility as it tries to manage adversaries like iran and north korea? >> as the president said, we have to be prudent and get our facts right. take some time to sort through this. he's absolutely right about that. i think i prefer to have him on the other side of the line where to acknowledge that chemicals have been used in the battlefield in syria. regardless of whether it is by the assad government or the rebels and be leading a conversation about how do we make the weapons more secure so they can't be used or they can't be stolen. >> john: in other words you're saying this is a president unwilling to commit troops to war on inadequate intelligence. >> well, i think a lot of people have interpreted the red line as meaning that we have to take military

p.j. crowley, former assi assistant secretary of state for public affairs.aren, you heard there the range of arguments. senator bob menendez put forward a bill this afternoon. he's the democratic chairman of the foreign relations committee. as you know. are we seeing right at this moment the beginning of what next steps could look like? >> i believe we are, but, again, i think as the clips you were just playing indicate, there are still a lot of questions, and i think you have to give the president some credit for saying, let's take a breath here and make sure when we talk about vetting those rebel groups, how are we going to do that? how are we going to ensure we are going to be able to, you know, arm or whatever it is that we do the more moderate factions in the rebel groups, and not al qaeda? i mean, those are very serious questions. and the other -- >> but karen, but karen, ten years ago george bush heard the british had some intelligence on the purchasing of uranium and george bush said, let's go into iraq. i mean, what's the problem? >> right. we went

p.j. crowley raised a big ruckus and had to resign as a result. >> for basically criticizing the way he wased. >> correct. >> and, you know, he's supposed to be a trial one 90 days. now it will -- i think it will be interesting when bradley manning goes on trial to see just how people react to him. he's been the invisible person, but he's a fulcrum, kind of an interesting character from whom we can learn about this tension from national security and the need to know. i think he'll end up being a much more simp they sick character. >> and one connotes a certain amount of heroism, the other seems to be a violation of some sort of privilege. it would be interesting to see how bradley manning is treated. >> it's interesting to reflect that the degree of clearance was much higher when daniel e. lsburg. and now we regard him universally as a hero. >> times are a-changing. "we steal secrets" is in select theaters beginning may 24th. the producer that worked on this segment thinks it's one of the best films he has ever seen and he is a very intelligence person. >> i think so, too. >> alex, thanks f

p.j. crowley, usa today columnist raul reyes and senior political reporter for politico, lois romano. thank you for being here today. what's your take? >> we still don't know the facts. above everything else we still have an active fbi investigation that will tell us who actually did it and why they did it and under what circumstances. there is still a fast nation about talking points. my sense of having gone through the process at various times, it is more about protecting bureaucratic equities than any kind of political conspiracy. >> and raul the white house has said that they had minimal involvement in crafting the talking points. >> i don't think the revelations from these e-mails necessarily contradict what we already know other than maybe it is fleshing it out. because general petraeus and jay carney have both said that it underwent various drafts through the cia. so i think this is, it is still, i feel that the focus is not on where it should be which is september 11, 2012. it was a tragedy. it was obviously a huge policy failure, a security failure and five people died. yet s

p.j. crowley is also watching this along with me. he is the former assistant secretary of state. e president just coming back from that trip, he had made several statements, one to telemundo about what's happening in syria, his remarks today most likely will not involve necessarily specifics on that as he addresses the graduating class here. but president obama returning to ohio, a state that's become very important to them in the last two elections. >> sure. and obviously for john kerry as secretary of state, had he won ohio, he might have been president in 2004. >> so as we wait for the president to come forward with his comments here, with the overhang of what has developed in syria over the last few days with the two bombings that had been reported in syria at military facilities, the president now the question of what the red line is and what it isn't has been debated in the sunday talk shows. has the president handled this subject in the best manner possible? >> i think it's important, richard, that we are at a critical juncture with respect to syria and the president needs

p.j. crowley. erved as a senior director of public affairs for the national security counsel during the clinton administration and is a retired air force colonel. >> hello, michael. >> michael: p.j. on benghazi do you think there is anything to the criticism of the administration, or is this just a way to start attacking hilary and to continue attacking the president in one fail swoop? >> those are not mutually exclusive. four americans died and -- and those are legitimate questions. security can never be 100% but we should try to find out, you know, what can we do better and that was the purpose of the accountability review board run by am bahs der tom pinkering, and mike mullen. if a congress has more questions about that terrific but we should not politicize this. these people were put in a dangerous situation and they were doing the national interest and -- and we should try as much as possible to keep the politics out of this. >> michael: i appreciate that. but of course the politics were in it