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Military strike against our embassy. there was never confusion, there was never confusion about the military nature of the strike. what there was confusion of in benghazi was the role of the video. megyn: okay. thank you both. >> sure. [laughter] megyn: coming up, obama campaign co-chair eva longoria taking serious fire for a very ugly tweet about mitt romney.

Megyn: well, it was five weeks ago yesterday when president obama stepped up to the microphone in the rose garden and spoke about 9/11. the crowds, storming our embassy in cairo x the deaths of four americans at our consulate in benghazi, libya. at this weeks presidential debate, president obama challenged governor mitt romney and the rest of america to, quote, get the transcript to prove that he had labeled the attack on our benghazi consulate "terror" from day one. decided to go one better and...

Investigation. theres no doubt that the kind of weapons that were used, the ongoing assault, that it wasnt just a mob action. >> september 25th at the united nations -- >> there are to words that cause the killing of innocents. theres no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. megyn: well, the benghazi igniting yet another fierce battle at this weeks town hall debate. after a man named cary latka stood up and asked the president about the situation and specifically why the state department...

The tape was still roiling the middle east, it was still a factor in the debate at that time. and to deny it is just ignorant. and so i think -- >> but the president knew -- megyn: no, to deny it is not ignorant. >> it is ignorant. its ignorant, megyn. megyn: -- at the benghazi consulate on the day of the attack. >> it was relevant and causing trouble in dozens of other capitals around the middle east. megyn: but not in benghazi. hold on! ambassador susan rice, heres susan rice five days after t...

"terrorist." theyre killers, attackers. certainly no reference to islamist terrorists. the only bleak reference is a mild apology for the video so that fronts covered. and its after his mention of 9/11 that he gets to, well, act of terror. but really seems to be referring to 9/11, and very artfully-crafted speech that gives him deniability all around. megyn: we are actually going to play the rose garden remarks after this break so they can make up their own minds about whether the president was ...

Stream, and we determined that the security at benghazi was appropriate for what we knew. >> and another statement about the anti-islam video. >> there is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence. >> september 14th, the president and secretary of state greet the bodies of the fallen at joint base andrews. >> we will stand fast against the violence on our diplomatic missions. >> later that day on capitol hill -- >> its pretty obvious that theres very likely that t...

What also happened was extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies including the one, the consulate in libya. >> september 19th on capitol hill, the head of the national counterterrorism center, the only administration official to testify so far. >> question i would say, yes. they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy. >> september 20th -- >> it is, i think, self-evident that what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack. >> w...

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Preplanned, premeditated attack. >> september 17th -- >> simply on the basis of what ambassador rice has publicly disclosed, does the united states government regard what happened in benghazi as an act of terror in. >> again, im not going to put labels on this until we have a complete investigation, okay? >> so you dont regard it as an act of terrorism? >> i dont think we know enough. i dont think we know enough. >> september 18th on the david letterman show -- >> is this an act of war? are we a...