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Maybe they needed that background briefing. >> nice point. eric,ov what do you think? disaster tore them? >> very importantly. the first sound bite you rolled, jay carney said, we changed one point. can i hold this up? he said he changed consulate to diplomatic facilities. but importantly, he said, the white house and the state t department made one change. this is what they said they did. this ist what we found out they did. look at that. not onehi word, but 147 words is what they eliminated. i...

Answered, although there are others, b but first is one of te things the white house says today is that they did not want to speculate early on, except that they speculated and blamed the youtube video when it didne have to do with the youtube video. southers curious. the second thing is if the white house only had unsubstantial and stylistic changes to the talking points, it is puzzling that there would be 12 iterations, plus i think we need an answer on this: why would the c.i.a. revise its ow...

Public, either from ambassador rice, or to others, that it turned out not to be accurate. and so the white house is going to have to kind of walk us through that. >> yeah, you mentioned the 12 iterations of the talking points and ultimately we all saw susan rice making her rounds on sunday morning in her talking points based upon that 12 iteration as you mentioned that that was scrubbed. as we, again, wait for -- here he is. jay carney, stepping up to the podium. lets take it live. >> good frida...

Of the people have been punished. some people have then resigned. thats been resolved. if you look at -- if you make the conservative charge is that the president is covering up some malfeasance or something, but if you look at the revisions, you dont see that the white house being involved in covering these things up. its victoria nuland who actually is not a political appointee, but a career foreign servi serviceperson who worked for the national security council during the bush years. >> hey,...

Holding a briefing, having already had a background briefing, that tells you this thing is very high on the attention scale of the white house. i think -- >> indeed. >> -- unlike any time in the whole era post-september 11th, meaning this september 11th that were talking about. >> yeah, jay carney has got caught saying something that wasnt completely true. >> thats called a lie, david. >> we in washington -- everything you say thats not true may not be a lie, but if you want to accept that premi...

>> the whole effort here by republicans to find some hidden mystery comes to nothing because the president called it an act of terror. the ambassador to the united nations, that very sunday, that has caused republicans so much concern, talked about the possible involvement of al qaeda and ansar al sharia. all of this is a distraction. >> joining us now, nbcs kristen welker who we saw earlier asking questions about jay carney. kristen, how would you characterize the response of mr. carney to the ...

The leadership and took a senator guy out to dinner directly to tell him to his face. have you seen this dynamic at work even before last night? >> i would like to tell you i have not. i have seen it a lot. i was in a briefing with a very senior republican member of congress about a week and a half ago, and it was a background briefing so, i cant say who. but this was a genuinely good guy, very informed guy, one of the guys who knows this issue very well. and there was a bunch of reporters in th...

Directly to tell him to his face. have you seen this dynamic at work even before last night? >> i would like to tell you i have not. i have seen it a lot. i was in a briefing with a very senior republican member of congress about a week and a half ago, and it was a background briefing so, i cant say who. but this was a genuinely good guy, very informed guy, one of the guys who knows this issue very well. and there was a bunch of reporters in the room. and somebody said to him, would it matter if...

Lou dobbs is going to join us to crunch the numbers on what the president wants and wait will truly mean on paper for our economy. this is a fox news alert. we are about 20 minutes away from what could be a critical briefing at the pentagon where defense official we are told will give a background briefing on the d.o.d.s response to the september 11 terrorist attack in libya that left four americans dead, including our ambassador. this as we are learning defense secretary leon panetta said the m...

So concerned about the security at the consulate, despite the fact that the type of fighting was done that night, type of direct and indirect fire, the weapons that were used, how the intelligence community told the president there was no terrorist involvement and it was based on a demonstration, which the people in the consulate said never happened. what was done? what did the president drill down on? what did he try to find out which allowed him to go forward and say it was not a terrorist att...