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Romney problem. >> just before romney faced the press to make statement about the tragedy in libya and take question, reporters could be heard conferring with each other. >> id say do you regret your statement? then he can go off on -- >> if he does a -- >> media watchers including fox john stossel point out conversations like that one arent necessarily rare. >> they have a limited time with the president, with the candidate. they want to make sure they get answer to the question and do coordina...

Disposition on free speech with the mob? implication here, perhaps the mob is right, that we ought to be suppressing anything that offends islam. this is a nation when somebody puts a chris fix in a bottom of -- crucifix in bottle of urine it ends up in a museum. we allow all kind of expression. perhaps we ought to make exception in islam. she ought to be speaking to the heads of state. to the state department equivalence in other state and speak to your mob and talk to them and defend the embas...

Argue in foreign policy called the cable. a blog. but put that up, it goes in to detail about how that statement came out. when it came out and how the state department reacted. even secretary clinton reacted very angrily during that time. it has specific quotes from senior state department officials. saying they didnt understand it. the statement was tone deaf. it didnt provided a quite balance. we thought all of the references to 9/11 were inappropriate. we advised against it. to your point. >...

Today. >> this look as if the administration has no idea what it thinks about what just happened. we had that statement coming out of the embassy in cairo. which was a disgraceful apology. romney attacks it. the white house hasnt said anything. but after the romney attack, the state deparent denies it or disavows it. white house does. everybody jumps on romney because he criticized it. he was right in attacking it. now when we heard from secretary of state clinton she basically repeated the apol...

The questions were mainly about the timing of his statement. and the fact they made a statement without knowing all of the facts on the ground, which is something that, you know, miles per hour officials are careful about. >> bret: weighing that coverage versus the amount of coverage or scrutiny that president received or the administration policy received, it didnt seem like it -- >> there was some surprise when you know, you still had events unfolding on the ground in libya late on tuesday nig...

Bush would have been treated if he went to las vegas after this? >> one journalism professor take on questioning, coverage of this week. all of the embassy back and forth and mitt romney. frankly, a lot of mitt romney. if you look at some of the statement, the tweets from some reporters, mark halperin from "time" romney doubling down of criticism of the president statement coming out of kay re is likely to -- cairo is likely to be seen as one of the most tactical mov moves. otherother responses ...

Conference. tonight, correspondent shannon bream looks at how the press has covered governor romney response to events in the middle east. >> late tuesday, g.o.p. romney called the u.s. response to the attacks in middle east disgraceful and say it appeared to sympathize with those weighing the attack. i came in form of an embassy statement which secretary of state hillary clinton rejected and senior officials officials say the white house never approved. despite the distance the administration w...

World about the outer limits of free speech and free expression. but there should be no debate about the simple proposition that violence in response to speech is not acceptable. >> bret: secretary clinton talking today as you continue to look live outside the embassy in cairo, egypt, as the protest continues. talking about an anti-islam video. she went on to condemn violence and it was a lengthy statement that she read. it comes on the day after the president was asked a question whether egypt ...

Put on is permanent. i think thats an error. >> with the clinton statement, he said he always said it should be a temporary extension, but the bottom line is he did refer to a recession that is clearly not what the white house people wants people to think about and he did talk about extending the tax cuts. its not the message. >> its clearly not. the fact that they had to put out a statement or felt compelled to clean it up suggests that they knew they walked in a different direction than they s...