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Here we are thursday and weve just seen another new issue reinjected into this campaign, afghanistan. and so, you just never know whats going to change the landscape on any given day and were too inclined to think when you have a debate like tuesday night, somehow it is the most important thing that ever happened or ever will happen and it set the table for the rest of the campaign and thats not true. jon: one of the issues that really didnt get mentioned that much during the debate the benghazi...

Debate the foreign policy ramifications of all of this, theres a lot of families that are listening to what the president has to say today and wondering what does this really mean for us? what does it mean for us not only as a country, but also as a family. we cant forget that. jon: it does bring that hope. jenna: it does. jon: coming up, well be talking with another one of our fox news military analysts, major general bob scales -- now retired from the army -- what he heard in the presidents re...

Aftershocks as well. josh earnest responded to comments that the clinton camp may be pressuring the vice president to speed up his decision. >> they run their own campaign. they can apply pressure or take it away wherever they feel warranted. im confident the vice president will do what he set out to do, make a intensely personal consideration based on his own considerations. jon: joining us, larry sabato, director of politics at the university of virginia. so, larry, if the vice president was l...

Office. >> yes and october 22nd is a date that ought to be circled twice in everybodys political calendar. it may be more critical to hillary clintons chances and maybe joe bidens decision to run or not run than that debate was. october 22nd, when hillary clinton appears before the benghazi committee. jon: that is exactly right. she will be testifying in public, seems to be eager to do so according to her, statements the other night during that debate. what about bernie sanders? he went in as th...

Lets see. of course im for the delicate balance. we have to keep homeland safe, national security, paramount. lets see how they got the data, what they are using the data for and some healthy skepticism about what has been going on. >> i want to ask you, because you mentioned ambassador susan rice tapped to be the presidents national security adviser, a position that doesnt mean she would go before the senate, any of your colleagues on the other side of the hill to answer questions about benghaz...

Other americans died in that attack. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with the latest. catherine. >> reporter: thank you, rick. the letter from citizens united the same group behind campaign finance reform is part of a growing body evidence that is building behind a special congressional committee to investigate the benghazi terror attack. it gathers 23 major conservative groups and sponsors and reads in part, one of the legislatives branches most importa...

Hearing the other day. what are you thinking about this idea that there was only one phone conversation or one conversation between the president, the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff while this benghazi tragedy was unfolding? >> well, i will say having watched the hearing and having covered every twist and turn of this story for several months, i was shocked at that. i mean, its not what i exengd to hear. we havent had a very good accounting of where the president...

Hi hjihadist threat across nort africa. is it your view that the attack on the consulate in libya, the hostage taking at that gas plant in algeria, and the conflict in mali mean that north africa is now the main front for islamic terrorism and how does a new secretary of state confront this? >> great question. i dont know that i would say its the main front, but it is certainly a serious front and a serious set of interlocked issues. one thing we have to debate on libya, because ive been perp x ...

A very sad moment. these attacks against her were completely baseless. she was not the problem in benghazi, said this over and over. she reported exactly what the intelligence community told her to say and what they wanted said at that moment. this is naked politics by the gop to take blood a piece of blood out of obama. a return to somebody who had tabled mccain as part of the 08 campaign, part of mccains bitterness about losing in 08 and perhaps again losing in 2012. and just this sad, nakedly...

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