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Benghazi. contrary to early assertions by the administration, lets understand, there was no protest and cameras reveal that and the state department, the fbi and others have that video. >> democrats charged the hearing itself was politically motivated and that republicans have left them out of the investigation. here was ranking member elijiah couple krchl ummings. >> we need to carefully investigate allegations that have been made over the past week and we need to run them to the ground before ...

Benghazi. contrary to early assertions by the administration, lets understand, there was no protest and cameras reveal that and the state department, the fbi and others have that video. >> democrats charged the hearing itself was politically motivated and that republicans have left them out of the investigation. here was ranking member cummings. >> we need to carefully investigate allegations that have been made over the past week and we need to run them to the ground before we jump to conclusio...

In benghazi. contrary to early assertions by the administration, lets understand. there was no protest. and cameras reveal that and the state department, the fbi and others have that video. >> however, the chairman claims we are pursuing this investigation on a quote bipartisan basis, that has simply not been the case. chairman withheld documents provided to the committee which is in violation of the house rules. >> struggled to obtain additional personnel but was never able to obtain the number...

People trying to figure it out today are axelrod and those guys. i think to certain extent what he did very effectively last night laid out differences with a scalpel, not with a hatchet. he basically kept coming book to jobs. hear is the conditions of the country in very clear terms and heres how we basically fix it by creating more jobs. megyn: lot of folks on the left felt the president missed opportunities to quote, fact check, some of governor romneys assertions. david axelrod went on msnbc...

Trillion tax cut. thats defensible because he doesnt want to lower the rates. then he says in order to pay for it he has to raise tax on the middle class. the study hes because that on admits its making that. you. mitt romney has never proposed raising taxes on the middle class. you might as well -- its just as plausible to say mitt romney is going to pay for this tax cut by invading canada and seizing their oil wells. its fictional assertions they are passing off as fact and saying romney is ca...

Mitt romney? >> i dont buy that. >> not sure, right? >> i dont think its intentional. you look at every poll and its methodology and you can say whether its a good or bad poll. do i think theres a concerted effort to skew the polls against governor romney? no, i dont buy that. >> peter, what do you make of his debunking the conservative assertions there? >> yeah, i dont think theres any systematic effort to skew the polls against mitt romney. if you look back historically, youve seen years in wh...

Information coming from a lot of different places and yes, there is confusion all the way around in the immediate aftermath of this. they probably should have said less than they did at the time. but there was no attempt and evidence of attempt to deliberately mislead. >> okay, go ahead. >> somebody in the administration should say something like what stephen said. what they did is they made a bunch of early assertions to try to shape the story and they turned turned out to say some things that ...

>> is that all it is, brit? >> its an interesting way to put it. basically what hes saying is, politics aint beanbag, and hes right, politics aint beanbag and there is a certain amount of rough-and-tumble that goes on and a certain amount of exaggeration for effect that happens in campaign ads. that seems to be what hes saying. the question is, a thorough follow-up on this would have been nice, it didnt happen apparently. to say, well what exactly are you talking about mr. president? are you tal...

The bronx zoo and climbed a fence to get a closer look to a sleeping tiger. he reportedly told police, he, quote, wanted to be one with the tiger. he got his wish. the tiger grabbed him by the foot and dragged him into the enclosure. he said he glad and he is recovering at a hospital. hopefully the tiger is recovering, as well. >> jamie: moments ago in an exclusive interview on fox news sunday, former white house press secretary robert gibbs sat down with chris wallace, chris asked specifically ...

Another version of what went down in libya two weeks ago. >> what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack. >> the confusion started september 12 in a president obama rose gar dan remarks. >> no act of terrorism will shake the great nation. >> despite the reference to terrorism, top officials spent the next week insisting it was not a terrorist attack and suggested it was likely spontaneous reaction to anti-muslim film. >> the best assessment we have today in fact this was not a preplanned, p...