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There is a long standing history here, and you are more familiar with this, even, than i am, im sure, of protecting the internal deliberations, the communications in a white house thats a long-standing position that has been held by administrations of both parties. and so you do not release that kind of communication lightly. in this case, because in an extraordinary circumstance, related to the confirmation process for john brennan, cia director, we made those e-mails available in the way we it...

Tend to be protected for all of the reasons that are important in a deliberative process within the white house. but we took that step, because we knew that they would demonstrate what we have been saying all along. that ambassador rice was speaking based on talking points, provided by the cia. and that the fundamental error in those talking points was corrected by us when we became -- when it became clear that new information shed new light on what happened, and this was not a case as republica...

Dump, which seems in many ways to have solved a lot of problems for the white house. i mean, the stack is out there. we all have them. ive got my 100 pages. and were looking for the incriminating thing. you know, that proves the republican case. and it aint there. >> speaking of marriage vows, my wife works for the white house on congressional -- including on benghazi. full disclosure. i agree with you. its -- i also agree with jay. there was a reason to hold these back for protecting the abilit...

Targeted to specific reporters who they knew had conversations, not 100 reporters at "time" magazine. >> yes, absolutely. and today the president spoke about the need to find a balance between national security interests and the first amendment. and my only question to jay would be, your administration has had twice as many leak investigations as every other administration combined. in this case, you went very broad in the subpoenaing of a.p. reporters. how can you say youre hitting that balance...

Fundamental issue of what does security mean, why were there intelligence failures and not this tit for tat about a turf war. >> jay carney was talking when they were subject to subpoenas investigating the leaks about valerie plame and our public understanding, they were very targeted to specific reporters who they knew had conversations, not 100 reporters at "time" magazine. >> yes, absolutely. and today the president spoke about the need to find a balance between national security interests an...

Things really bother you in terms of the irs intimidating people because of their political point of view. >> i agree. >> benghazi, four dead americans and we did nothing before when requests were help were out there -- >> i dont agree with you on that. >> they were toll to stand down. >> i dont agree. >> and a web of lies was built afterwards. now the a.p. story. my question to you is what do you recommend the president do to get out of his scandal mix that hes now in? >> i could be dana perino...

Things really bother you in terms of the irs intimidating people because of their political point of view. >> i agree. >> benghazi, four dead americans and we did nothing before when requests were help were out there -- >> i dont agree with you on that. >> they were toll to stand down. >> i dont agree. >> and a web of lies was built afterwards. now the a.p. story. my question to you is what do you recommend the president do to get out of his scandal mix that hes now in? >> i could be dana perino...

What group was involved. >> the obama administration continues today to assert the lingering questions over the false talking points on benghazi delivered by susan rice on september 16th are simply part of a quote, unquote, political circus. >> ongoing obsession with talking points and benghazi and the attempt to politicize that. constitute a sideshow that is driven purely by -- or largely by political interests, and not the interests of finding out exactly what happened and who was responsible....

Was satisfied that he knew what happened in the benghazi case. clearly there are problems maybe with security for these consulates and there was a lot of things we dont know in terms of the security situation and what kind of agencies were on the ground there and how they interacted but we have to keep this out of the political process. its nerve-racking to watch republicans try to make so much political hay out of this which clearly seems to me to have overtones going into 2016 in the possible ...

Max baucus and now harry reid. no one ever thought this was well done. but it was done as well as they thought was possible. it took on sort of the feeling of a snatch and grab operation. they knew that scott brown had been elected in massachusetts. they just had to get it done in 2010 or they decided they had to get it done. they put it together. nobody thought it was put together particularly well. liberals had complaints about it too, but they pressed on. under promises that this would get be...