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on two occasions, the administration put forward an official statement. ignored what had occurred in egypt. what is the reason for their? >> there isn't any reason. this is a complete breakdown of american policy. the embassy apparently not cleared by washington and not very much distinguishable from statements made in washington today. apologizing for this. nobody has seen this film that we are all talking about. lou: i've seen about 10 minutes of it. >> it was a pretext at best. it didn't happen on september 11 by coincidence. let's get to the real issue here. the government of egypt could've stopped those people from penetrating the embassy if they have had security guards and military around the fermenter. we knew enough this demonstration was coming in the government of egypt must have known that they let it happen. the government of egypt, and i think the government of libya were complicit in these incidents. lou: these charges of complicity, knowledge of plans that obviously resulted in the events of september 11 in cairo. the united states, as the

the obama administration. is an ongoing war too. debates about foreign policy are a vital part of our democracy. and i don't know why the media is rushing to criticize mitt romney for criticizing a foreign policy when they did not do that to barack obama or john kerry when they exercised their right to criticize republican foreign policy. >> two quick things. one is, it's apples and oranges. that's just not a fair comparison. a fairer comparison would be what democrats did directly after 9/11. you know, on the 12th, you had statements by people like hillary clinton who at that time was then senator clinton and seen as a very partisan figure, who said we stand united behind the president. that's a leadership -- that's what leaders are supposed to do. the other part of this, which is now disturbing, is it's okay to sort of say that mistakes were made. you know, as people work in this industry, you know, we sort of have a responsibility to be care takers of this industry. when we just follow, you know, our partis

this is becoming an unwieldy weight for the administration. surely, they understand how urgent it is that the record be set straight and soon. >> well, here's where the cover up begins. they are trying to cover tracks by saying initially the intelligent services told them it was a spoon tape yows attack, but the key questions, lou, is what did the president know? when did he know it? when did the narrative change? did the president ask questions? was he briefed in person? or rely on paper reports? one thing is for sure, lou, and that's this. if this happened in new york, if one of the ambassadors picked off the streets in new york and the consulate in new york to the u.n. was damaged like in libya, there would have been hell to pay. what's the difference between where our ambassadors picked off by terrorist terrorists whether the votes of new york or benghazi. how is it possible the administration and the president, who should have superior knowledge, allows so board nants to tell multiple stories to the american people over a period of time? i

, via the administration. >> after the administration withdrew that statement, why did he have to double down the next morning after we knew the american ambassador and three other americans were killed? >> at the time the initial statement went out, we knew there had been violence. the embassy in cairo had reissued the statement via social networks. it was still a point of disagreement. >> the white house had distanced themselves by the next day from the cairo embassy statement. he was disavowing the statement too. he was getting a lot of criticism. i think it was fair to point out there were major differences between the administration and governor romney on our overall approach at the middle east, which was the nub of his criticism. >> do you have any criticism of the way the president has behaved, reacted since this crisis and the killing of the american ambassador has unfolded. deploying naval ships to libya and the statements he has made. >> you have to take a step back. we can get bogged down in the minute to minute developments and take a step back and say, what's going on in the

this is despite the fact that the obama administration had benefit of all the intel from years of theministration. all the c.i.a., all the intel evidents. compilation together and still they drop the ball on this because they're more worried about diplomacy than the safety of people sevenning the country abroad. >> dana: possibly not just a safety and diplomacy but the politics. >> eric: there it is. >> dana: rice goes on the sunday shows. first, she is never out. you never see her. she goes out and says this is all the video, the information we have at the time. three days later we find out that is completely wrong. how does that happen? >> eric: honestly, dana, looks and smells and probably a coverup. the white house is covering up for what will be a terrorist attack on american soil and three reasons. they're all political. in the hours and the aftermath of the attack, president obama decided to go to vegas and pick up cam pape checks. number two, this isn't an attack in retaliation for 9/11. 9/11 was 11 years ago. this is attack in retaliation for bin laden killing and the victory

now an excuse for the administration. i think it's two-fold. ink hillary clinton, gets the fact when you have an ambassador murdered it's a national humiliation. i think president obama is too obtuse to figure that out. i think a successful attack before an election is terrible thing to happen to the administration. that is why you see the state department officials coming out. they keep blaming this on the video. here is what is so troubling to me. on the ground, al-qaeda in libya had better intelligence than we did. it's embarrassing. it's embarrassing to the administration we didn't have better intelligence. think about it. 400 people, rpgs, they knew that the ambassador was no longer in tripoli. then they knew he was at the consulate. then they knew he was moved from the consulate. they had all that intel and we did not. we failed. so it's an embarrassment. >> bob: what does obtuse mean? >> greg: when you ask it, you prove the point. here is the thing, who cares what caused what? it doesn't matter. it's terror no matter what. as an american,

which is the obama administration do in response? >> well, they had an election in libya back in july. in that election, the muslim brotherhood came in and the solace is that we think are responsible for these attacks, is about one out of 80. so the libyan people have made their voice very clear. the problem is the militias in libya with all the guns and weapons were equipped while the united states led from behind to do nothing. something one of the lessons is when there is this kind of thing, we should be in there, helping our friends in this case establish law and order. the public reaction in libya, the killing of the ambassador is frankly very sympathetic to the united states. and i think we should be taking advantage of that. lou: we didn't like the results of the election in egypt, but they also had an election, they also had change direction, again from a direction that the united states is not particularly enamored with. nonetheless, they had changed the character of their government in the direction of the nation. what shoul

he's been critical of how the administration has handled the benghazi aftermath. we spoke earlier today. take a look. what do you make of the response by the administration in the early days, ambassador rice, and now what they're saying now, they're now saying it was a terrorist attack. the president diuse the word terror early on in the rose garden, but we heard from ambassador rice, who is saying link this to the video that's been released. what do you see as going on? >> i see a fundamental misunderstanding in the larger picture and then on the smaller picture. on the smaller picture, they were either incredibly naive or willfully deceiving the american people. i don't know which, but to think an attack of this nature with heavy weapons, mortars, and a very sophisticated direct fire and indirect fire, that somehow that could be the result of a spontaneous demonstration is just impossible for me to understand. >> let me just throw in a third option, though, which supporters of the administration would say, was, look, they want to be cautious about how they chara

when you look at the bush administration, a moment was katrina. when the american people thought that the administration was not properly handling katrina. this so me is potentially much more serious and much more devastating because not only is it -- it is either total incompetentence or worse so i don't know which you want to call it. say that they were totally incompetent and didn't know what it was and one person wasn't speaking to the other all the way up to the president or they frankly were covering it up and i don't know frankly how you want to categorize it but either way i think there are a lot of unanswered questions and i want to commend senator isakson. one of the most responsible and serious members of congress in the u.s. senate. i want to commend him for once again seriously trying to get to the bottom of this. this is a serious issue. american people deserve answers and by the way, the families of these slain american heros deserve for the president and for the administration to speak to them straightforward and let them know what

for more than a week the obama administration sticking with the story the attack was a spontaneous responsem a video. eight days of a september 11th, an administration official admitting before congress the assault that killed our ambassador and three others was an act of terror. and today white house press secretary jay carney saying outright itself evident that what happened at benghazi was a terrorist attack. but later president obama speaking at a florida forum still seeming to blame the youtube video for the violence. is it flip-flopping? if so, does it make the russ look weak? john bolton is joining us. i simply don't understand why they are pushing the whole business of the youtube video to begin it. having said that, our hangup on the video, who is the impact on it, ours meaning the nation? >> i think the president revert to go his basic world view, his basic ideology is giving as you revealing piece of evidence of how he sees the world and how his policies are formulated. he doesn't bother himself facts like the admission by the head of the counterterrorism center that this was ind

the obama administration is running a ad saying that the romney administration would be dangerous to women. you smirk? >> this is what politicians do when they don't have a good record. 23 million people struggling to find work. the poverty rate of women is the high nest a generation. president obama said if you pass the stimulus package, unemployment would never be above 8%. it's been above 8% 43 months. the president doesn't have a record to run on, so he is running a divisive campaign. hope and change is now divide and conquer. this is a political tactic to divide americans. >> greta: but you need the women's vote. that's a powerful vote. >> of course, we need the women's vote. >> greta: i understand that. but that's run against you. >> when i think of women's issues are i think of my mom and my wife and my daughter and the quality of education we are giving our children. i think about the mountain of debt that we are giving the next generation, which will guarantee they have a diminished future. i think about the poverty rate and the women who start businesses and employ people an

are you surprised that the administration is insisting that the murder of a u.s. ambassador was the result of a spontaneous demonstration by a mob that eyewitnesses and intelligence sources entirely neutral on the issue, say, didn't happen? >> i'm not surprised by it because i think that our entire policy, and this isn't exclusively an obama administration problem but you think they have exacerbated it, our entire policy is based on a fiction that we, we have a threat that is basically constituted by a handful of violent extremists and that everyone else in the muslim world who we confront is more likely an ally than an enemy. lou: this has moved beyond illusion though. this is an administration saying to the american people something that is on its face not true. >> yes. lou: first, it was a result, a consequence of the actions in cairo in which our embassy's walls were scaled, the american flag taken down and then the murder of a u.s. ambassador which we now learn from intelligence sources in libya, again, eyewitnesses in libya, that this was an attack, an assas

and the embassy is the administration, the statement that came from the administration was -- was a statement which is akin to apology and i think was a severe miscalculation. >> on capitol hill, honoring the heros, the american flag lowered to half staff in memories of the lives lost. good day. it is a somber day in washington and america around the world. flanked by secretary of state hillary clinton, president obama condemned the attack in benghazi that led to the death of four americans including the death of ambassador chris steven. >> we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake justice will be done. >> joining me chief foreign correspondent richard engel in cairo ro and nicolas burns former ambassador to nato and professor at the harvard kennedy school. first to you, richard, you've been out there all day. tell me about what's happening in cairo right now and your recap of what sparked the attacks both in cairo and benghazi? >> i think it's important to differentiate between the two because they're very different ki

it's part of the administration, never apologize to your attackers. can have that thought on your head an condemn the actions against america. what media did in the press conference is conflateed it and went after him and said he was condemning the administration. he was saying c'mon, guys. these are the enemy. >> eric: i think it's -- we're mixing this up a little bit. here is how it went down. when the embassy released the statement that we agreed was probably misguided statement through twitter or whatever they did. romney came out and said hey, administration, don't apologize for american exceptionalism or strength. certainly don't apologize when you're being attacked. >> greg: i just said. >> eric: however, then the media went after romney for saying it too early going after obama, too early. should not be going after obama. then president obama after romney made the statement, then president obama condemned the killing. of course he has the right in the world to say really, we're going to apologize -- when you read it yesterday i thought we're ap

this is a dark day for the administration. handled this terribly, hurts them or helps them politically is almost off to the side. what is significant in a dangerous part of the world the administration showed it either didn't know what it was talking about or intentionally misleading the american people and the world and that is bad news. that is the wrong thing to do when we have a deadly enemy like al qaeda. jon: a quick question about the blind sheikh, omar abdel rahman. you and a number of republicans wrote the administration they heard it was possible he was considered to be released toward egyptian authorities. this was in connection with the first attack on the world trade center. the white house said it was never under consideration. are you satisfied with that explanation? >> no, i'm not. members of my staff were sold by senior people in law enforcement this is being considered. we don't know if it was or not. we were told by people we have reason to believe it was. that's why we contacted the administration. what we

he was chief of staff in the obama administration. will this have ramifications for the presidential election? >> this is a fight between the mayor and his teachers unions. >> 23 other states are debating the same stuff. >> that's a bigger issue. i think the reforms that you look out that they're doing in chicago, they're cutting edge. it is butting up against the way things have been done for a long time. it is not just from emmanuel, but there are lots of experiments being done to try to improve schools. in d.c., we have a big fight about similar issues. the administration is supportive of many of those types of experiments. the education department has encouraged it in many ways for the same reason, just trying to get our education system back up and moving in a direction in which it the kids have the skills that they need for the new kind of jobs that are out there. short-term, know it will not affect as president. >> this is huge. politically, it's huge because the teachers unions historically have helped democrats get elected. ob

i think the proof positive that the administration can't understand what is going on, is it continueso insist that the real problem here is the scurrilous movie trailer about the prophet mohammed. that is simply the manifestation of the hatred an extremism and backing away from film is not going to eliminate the hate and extremism. in fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney correctly pointed out it will only encourage them to do more, the harder they push, the more we apologize and they'll push more. >> eric: talk about apologizing, here's a shocking analysis from the "new york times," this past week about the president's foreign policy: what makes egypt's uncertain course so vexing for the white house is that mr. obama, more than any other foreign leader, has sided again and again with the arab street in cairo. even when it meant going expressly against the wishes of traditional allies, including the egyptian military, the persian gulf states and israel. i mean, what do you make of that, when the president of the united states, sides with the, quote

question is the honesty of the obama administration. s deception on the part of the administration and sending susan rice to say this is spontaneous demonstration when you reported it was known inside the administration within a day it was not. it was a terror attack. why did they deceive? of course. the attack took place five days after the democrats had spent a week in charlotte. out thing, spiking the football on usama and since it's the only foreign policy achievement of four years they repeat it over and over again. the triumph over al-qaeda. in a week, al-qaeda sacks a u.s. embassy, kills an ambassador and administration did not want to admit it. it spent a week deceiving americans to think it's about demonstration and film. thinking i think correctly that if it strung it out long enough the media would let it slide. and now it's obvious and true, nobody will care, i guarantee you. this is not a headline in the mainstream -- >> bret: i'll point out that the president and secretary clinton spoke about this video at the memorial serv

now it seems the administration is not sticking to the script.imes" reports the general services administration, gsa, approved the purchase of chinese solar panels for a federal building. even though it violates the buy american provision of the stimulus law. also, this week abound solar, solar panel manufacturer given $400 million government loan guarantee by the obama administration went on the auction block. abound announceed bankruptcy in june about nine months after another benefactor of the government loan guarantee program solyndra. finally earlier in week daily caller reported we are gone. progolf letter sent letter after the quiv about the president's frequent golfing asking him to please reconsider the political strategy of criticizing president obama's passion for golf. the group says it hurts the industry and the employees. daily caller now points out golf coalition is represented by tony podesta, democratic lobbyist with close ties to the white house. we are golf contend the issue is not political. it's just wants to prevent unnecess

we think that's the first time we've heard that from administration officials. you say the way in which the mortars were used in this attack would right away lead to that conclusion. >> well, it's very hard to walk in mortars on a target and apparently as i hear, they were hit, the annex, very quickly by mortars so somebody had the exact coordinates, somebody knew how to fire mortars, direct fire, and i think that's what has the pentagon concerned that this was a military style attack and the people who did attack it knew what they were doing. and you know, in defense of the secretary of defense, the details are coming in very slowly simply because it's been difficult to get people out of the country. the debriefings have gone slowly and we can't put people on the ground because of the security situation. so the truth has come out very slowly, even inside our government. >> fran, a lot of people are being critical of the administration. to play devil's advocate here, it's one thing for politicians who are not part of the government to say -- or not part of the ad

that was the conclusion of the clinton administration, the bush administration and at least to date the obama administration. when it comes to welfare work requirements, i guess we could say president obama was against them before he was before them before he was against them. unfortunately for the president, the american people do not agree with his original and most recent position on this issue. a recent survey shows that 83% support a work requirement as a condition for receiving welfare. and for good reason. the work requirement and other 1996 reforms are responsible for increasing employment of single mothers by 15% from 1996 to 2000 and decreasing welfare caseloads by 57% over the last decade and a half. but inexplicablely, these results don't sit well with the -- inexplicably, these results don't sit well with the obama administration. that's why we brought this resolution to the floor today. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve this successful welfare work requirement and join me in passing this resolution and i reserve the balance of my time