as it turns out bret baier had tommy vietor in the chair last night. he wanted to know who changed the talking points. who soft pedalled the language to make the president look better. you know what? turns out tommy vitor may have been the man. >> did you also change the text to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't snsh >> dude, this is like two years ago. >> dude, it's the thing that everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about processing editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. >> he actually does understand that when you change talking points after an ambassador is killed, three other people are dead in a major military operation led by the united states then that's huge and by the way this is a communications expert. this is a man that is supposed to understand the story more than the guy or woman interviewing them and for him to come back and dismissively use the word "dude" in a sentence. >> that's the most disturbing sound and i think because if you examine the tone by

but basically, something else tommy vietor set caught republican interest for potential investigations by this special committee. vietor said he was in the situation room on the night of the terror attacks, but the president was not. that led republicans today to press for information on exactly what the president was doing on the night of the attacks while democrats within the administration say that republicans are wasting time and just reinvestigating stuff that has already been investigated. listen. >> the president -- all the president's men and women in the white house worried not about how to save those americans on the ground in benghazi but putting priority on saving the president's campaign for reelection. >> i am confident that what the republicans allege, that there was some attempt by this administration to cover up or spin what happened is 100% false. >> now, you heard marie harf there at the end. she works for secretary of state john kerry pushing back hard on this new republican special committee. she also -- her boss received a subpoena today for secretary kerry to tes

i'm sure they're going to drill down on is something that was brought up on your program with tommy vietort one change in the talking points. and that is completely different than what former c.i.a. top guy mike morell said under oath in front of congress. one of the two of them isn't telling the truth. >> the white house said forever that they didn't change anything. they only changed one word, from consulate to diplomatic facility. tommy in that interview, unless he was tremendously mistaken, suggested that he changed a couple of things and it was no big deal. listen, there is a focus on these talking points because this is this new e-mail from ben rhodes and we've talked about the significance of prepping the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. for those five sunday talk shows and the white house says it wasn't about benghazi. that doesn't really pass the smell test with reporters in the white house and all over. the important thing is what comes out next, because it's going to be new information that drives this story. not the rehash. i think there may be other documents. there is a d.i.a. doc

i enjoy tommy vietor's tweets very much and i kind of miss him at the white house but that was astonishingrmance. if you're going to go out there and tell the american people what this thing was about and what your role was in it, you might be prepared for that question. but i think it is this kind of performance that is going to force, force the mainstream media to cover this story and stop dismissing it, as politically motivated and a fox news story. jon: we are going to have -- >> if i could -- jon: go ahead, tammy, real quickly. >> if i could just add, tommy's performance is an indication of them becoming lazy because they haven't been held to account by the media. and as a result it really backed up on them because they haven't been asked hard questions and they have been acting accordingly. so i think we'll see them maybe tighten it up a little bit. jon: tammy, judy, thank you both very much. >> audios, dude. >> thank you. arthel: oscar pistorius trial set to resume monday. the olympic athlete is accused murdering his model girlfriend reeva steinkamp. maintains he shot her because he

i don't think i'm interper lating too much to say tommy vietor is not necessarily telling what i believee the full truth. >> they made a deliberate decision not to release that document. there are two paragraphs that are basically all politics. the national security council is not supposed to be about politics, it's supposed to be about governing and national security. we spend billions of dollars on intelligence. why didn't we have more intelligence? that's another thing you can get to the bottom of that. peter king who was on your show would be a perfect member to have on this committee. i don't know who the members are going to be. you need someone who knows about intelligence is and why we are not getting your monies worth. >> we at fox have taken some ribbing. now the wider media are starting to ask questions, well you know, fox well maybe they were right to ask on behalf of the american people and to actually do our job. katie hugh says on twitter dude what planet are you from? >> a long time, my experience in washington was part of the nixon administration, richard nixon didn't co

>> i think people especially with that extraordinary performance by tommy vietor are pulling their hair out over this. i love how they have gone to great lengths to sort of -- democrats as well as the white house, to try to blame all this on republicans, that they just won't stop talking about it. but of course the whole reason that everybody is still talking about it is because the administration has not been forthcoming, has done everything they can to obfuscate what happened that night, not forthcoming with the documentation. and i would argue that most importantly what they did that day by trying to blame the terrorist attack in benghazi on -- at that point on an obscure internet video, thereby raising the profile of that video and causing it to go viral and then subsequently causing thousands of hundreds of demonstrations around the world in muslim countries where lots of people got killed and many, many more got injured. that's blood on their hands. and all of it stems from the fact that the administration and democrats were trying to cover up what happened that night because it h

know, during the heated interview with bret baier, former national security council spokesman tommy vietor revealed the president was in the white house, but he said he was not in the situation room, as the attacks unfolded. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this was like two years ago. we're still talking about -- >> dude, it is the thing that everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. your producers edit scripts. >> now there are reports the president could have been in debate preps that night at the white house residence. is it possible? the white house said he was consulted and in contact about the attack, and coming up a lot more on this in a moment when republican congressman peter king joins us here live to discuss the latest benghazi revelations. >> meanwhile, a day of mourning in ukraine after friday's violence this killed more than 40 people in the city of odessa. most of the dead were pro-

lou: and to top of all off, clinton hired former national security council spokesman tommy vietor to help coordinate her response to the book and the benghazi scandal. if you're not familiar with vietor, here is a refresher. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe, i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude this, is like two years ago. we're still talking about the most mundane -- >> everybody is talking about. lou: we'll be talking with "new york times" best-selling author ed klein, who is always breaking news about the clintons later here in the broadcast. >>> the navy today announced it rejected an advocacy group's request to have the defense department appoint a chaplain for atheists. the military association of atheists and free thinkers had been pushing for an atheist chaplain arguing that current chaplains are not doing enough to embrace non-believers. think about that. the navy apparently did think about it a great deal. successful any. -- suck festfully. we're coming right back. >>> it's a human catastrophe in the making

he literally thinks, tommy vietor. he doesn't think he did anything wrong. you looked at american people and said dude, it's not a big deal. it was a two years ago. you dismissed it as would think bob was dismissing on friday saying it doesn't matter to the american people. it does matter to a lot of people. >> but i want -- >> i would like to say this. i think you got a little worked up. i know your heart is in the right place and i think you are trying to make it right here and i commend you for being stand up for that. >> that might be a newhart. >> he has multiple hearts beating right now. >> let me make this one as quickly what you are saying. i hear what you are saying, dana, i think if the impression was i didn't think the american people cared that these people were dead or that they got lied to during the campaign. what i said was i accept the fact that it was a terrorist fact, that they plit sized it. i accept the fact that the video thing was not a part of this thing, it was used as a coverup, but i don't know -- there's nothing in that that's an

. >> reporter: new headline may be emerging from bret baier's interview thursday with tommy vietor. he admits to having made significant changes to the talking points, adding references to cairo and protests and possibly changing the wording attacks to demonstrations. catherine herridge points out that that conflicts directly with the testimony of former deputy c.i.a. director mike moral, that only technical changes were made. listen up. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this was like two years ago. we're still talking about -- >> dude, it is the thing that everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. >> that and the release of this key ben rose e-mail is what is sparking the gop's move to a select committee. >> when you have someone who is supposed to be a professional communications person sounding like jeff spicoli talking to bret baier the other night august the word dude and when you have j

another sur veal moment came thursday night, tommy vietor former national security spokesman pretended he couldn't remember something as trivial as benghazi. >> you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points. >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember. >> dude. it was two years ago. we're talking about the mundane process. >> really. is this someone we gave top security security clearance to. he sounds like a scene from wains world. i would love for him to have to face the families of the four americans murdered that night and say oh, dude that was two years ago. disgraceful. the cover up of the original lie was told so often that democratic members of congress became immune to the tragedy and fought any attempts to get to the truth as some kind of partisan which hunt, most of the mainstream press ignored the story and the white house even became so bald as to call the entire incident a phone in scandal. president obama, vice president biden, and hillary clinton all look the family members in the eye and promised they would get to the bottom of it. they e

tommy vietor is talking about the benghazi in the talking points and urging the media move on. >> you don't remember? >> dude. it's two years ago. we're talking about the process of editing talking points. >> boehner could not disagree more. after months of refusing to appoint a special committee on benghazi, the speaker decided to take the investigation of benghazi to a new level. the change of heart coming after the state department turned over an email from white house aide ben rhodes. obama administration is so intent on obstructing the truth about benghazi, that it is even willing to defy subpoenas issue by the standing committees of the people's house. investigate the atark provide necessary accountability and ensure justice is finally serve and it forces us to ask the question what else about the benghazi is the obama administration still hiding from the american people? republican darrell issa issued a subpoena for secretary of state john kerry to testify on may 21st about whether his department has other relevant documents that have not been turned over. kerry already has pla

tommy vietor, former spokesman for the administration told bret baier last week the night of the benghazi attacks the president was not in the situation room. i know you have been asking of the white house about that. why is that important? >> well they made two movies about the bin laden raid. we have famous photo of all key players watching screen in real time. i will be the first to give president obama for ordering the bin laden raid. that was the gutsy call. you have to remember there is criminal investigation going on right now about releasing classified information to make the president look good to media outlets like "the new york times" describing raid in detail that compromised some of our sources. here is the question for the question. would this administration, if they're willing to leak classified information to let, to make themselves look good, would they withhold it to keep from having to talk about a failure? they have got a propensity here to play politics with national security matters. i think it caught up with them in benghazi. where was the president? we know what he

. >> former national security spokesman tommy vietor. >> joining me is senior fellow at media matters i have to at a certain point i don't know you sort of tip your cap out of kind of perverse respect that they they just will not let anything stop them from from keeping this truck going. it was the lead on every fox show. it was i mean yesterday in the right wing media if you don't if you're not imbibing it to the extent that i am it was the only story in america that mattered for the last two days. >> and if we went back to may of 2003 we were in the exact same pattern right when we were talking about e-mails from the white house and benghazi in a cover-up. >> yes, exactly a year ago. >> exactly. 50 weeks ago. and so after that passed after it blew up, after it was debunked after we realized -- >> let's just remember exactly there was there was basically hearsay of someone saying what was in e-mails that was leaked that at first looked incriminating, then they released the actual e-mails and they were not incriminating at all. we have gone through this pattern 50, 60, 70 times in thi

. >> tommy vietor, former aide. she says it's unworthy of your great country.nsist of politicizing the tragedy will have to do it without me. what's your sense for argument's sake she does run for president, about how much this issue of benghazi will nag her? >> republicans have found it's a very effective issue for them. they think it's a real opening. it opens questions about the effectiveness of her record. she wants to be able to run on being an effective secretary of state. so that's why republicans are going to jump on it. willie, this chapter tries to close off a lot of the questions by questioning the motives of those who are asking them and saying we just don't know. she talked about how will all the attackers out there, they weren't all motivated by a video. but she acknowledges you can't say none of them were either. >> all right. mike allen with a look inside the politico playbook. thanks so much. >> happy weekend. >>> still ahead, the epic finish to last night's scripps spelling bee. an ending that has not happened in more than half a century. >> i

been dismisssiveness of tone of #throwbackthursday, as we saw with bret baier's interview with tommy vietormy standpoint is pretty simple answer, is i believe they're trying to cover up their dereliction of duty before. i think they're feeling pretty guilty that they denied that added security that would have saved or certainly prevented the deaths of those four americans. >> senator. >> thanks. >> have a great morning. >> new calls for punishments after veterans are left to die in that phoenix v.a. hospital. top v.a. officials told to step down are not going down without a fight of their own. >>> and nearly one in four women now are the family bread winners. is this a recipe for disaster? one of them says it can be and she's here with the tips every couple needs to know and have. ♪ ♪ woman: this is not exactly what i expected. man: definitely more murdery than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of p

your faith in not just the political orientation but the competence of this administration that tommy vietorion of authority. >> they are doing something about it the state department is hiring tutors so that things like dude, i don't know, isn't going to come out anymore hopefully. remember the nominees for ambassadors in front of congress, too and they would not have any idea about the information of the countries that they were going to be living in after leaving the united states? >> he they didn't know about what was unfolding in norway in argentina, countries. >> these are supposed to be diplomats, as in diplomacy. they are offending the countries to which they are going to be posted before they even get there. >> these congressional hearings now. you know, claire miscass kill out of missouri, a senator has written a letter to the state department saying wait a minute, why are we spending men on this program to tutor our members of -- members of the administration before they have to testify in front of congress. we're going to spend money so that they are tutored so that when members