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>> bret: every week viewers vote for your choice online in this a lightning friday lightning round. this week, fast and furious won with 48% of the vote. back with the panel. okay. impact of the i.g. report, where it goes from here? david? >> heads roll. president fingertips are not on it. political impact zero. i dont know if we go anywhere from here. >> kirsten? >> that is what i have been saying for a long time. if anyone want to apologize to me can do it now. saying that basically the presid...

Generous the romneys are. with their income going to charity. im sure that the press will spend days on every detail of this as the middle east lear bus which they will ignore. >> bret: president released his return in april. first income, $700,000 paid $162,000. 20.5%. he donated $172,000. 22%. fair and balanced. >> the press is obsessed with the fact that he paid more in taxes i guess than he needed to. romney campaign says thats because he wanted to honor what he had said that he would pay at...

Are talking about the issue that the administration facing, people cant get upset first about something they dont know that much about. seconds of all, given quite honestly voters heavy focus on the economy and in a sense theyre tired of always worrying about thingsover seas. its hard for to blow up? >> the problem is it is blowing up, david. kirsten, you look at al-qaeda in libya. and theyre expanding. today there was a protest there, the demonstration there that was pro-u.s. good sign. senator...

Were used by extremists to see if they could directly harm u.s. interests. >> al-qaeda? >> well, we dont know yet. we will continue to investigate this. >> what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack and we will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the terrorists who murdered four americans. >> bret: secretary clinton today at the state department. one day after you saw president obama in the univision interview and the evolving stories from the administration about th...

They had to pretend isnt having and press is collaborating and suppressing what it doesnt understand or it doesnt want to harm obama. >> bret: david, is the administration coming to the conclusion that the benghazi attack was not specifically about the video. there are other protests and demonstrations around the world that are about that video. including in pakistan today. which turned very violent. at least in part about that anti-islam video. the pakistani government gave people the day off. ...

Led by this guy sufyan bin qumu former guantanamo bay detainee embodied al-qaeda presence in libya as indicateed by the active social media propaganda, extremist discourse, hatred of the west, especially the united states. goes on to say they expect it to expand and grow. this is in august. the president has wanted to say bin laden is dead and were after al-qaeda. is that why this has happened? the way its happened? >> look, the administration is either lying or is dangerously clueless. that is ...

Inmate in texas received 42% of the vote in that primary. embarrassing for the obama campaign. he won 42% serving 17-1/2 years for extortion but shows you as a protest vote in west virginia. we talk little bit about north carolina. we are back with the panel. david, it goes to perhaps vulnerability in some of the states that is underneath. but if you see it when the votes come up. >> i think it shows the president doesnt walk on water the way he did four years ago. you dont have a completely ene...

And polarization and surround this issue. dont forget. part of his base, we saw this in north carolina, just yesterday, is critically opposed to this issue. that is african-americans. >> bret: this is what romney said this afternoon when asked about this issue on the stat statement. >> my view is that marriage, itself, is a relationship between a man and a woman. and that is my own preference. i know other people have differing views. this is a very tender and sensitive topic as are many social ...

Win if he was the only candidate in the general election. in a state like north carolina, that he wants to win again, the convention in charlotte. couple points. one way or the other. and youve got a much different election. it shows he has work to do. that is one of the reasons we see, obviously, the president unopposed at a primary throughout the past few months he has been making key overtures to his base. whether it was the environmentalists on the keystone xl pipeline. or going after republ...

Marriage. if you break down the state-by-state voting, 30 states now have laws or constitutional amendments prohibiting same sex marriage. seven are key battleground states including north carolina that voted last night for the same thing. bring in the panel. david druger, associated politic editor for roll call. juan williams, columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. about the timing and positioning and the development? >> well, it surely the first time in scientifi...