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Benghazi? >>reporter: these are conversations i have had with people familiar with intelligence. this area, libya, north africa, was considered a hot zone or a hot region. since june of this year there were at least four incidents, either successful or plots, against diplomatic interests or on diplomatic personnel. so it was considered a hot region, active. now, when they say there was no "actionable intelligence," that means that there wasnt something specific enough in the opinion of the intel...

Romney and there are less than eight weeks left. >>trace: the presidents comment that egypt was not our ally, the white house has been talking in circles saying, well...they fumbled. the response has been that the white house fumbled this from the get go. do you agree? >>chris: on that statement, they clearly fumbled. look, it is a matter of fact but as they say in washington, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. our relationship with egypt is not what it was under the dictators of mubarak where ...

Two candidates in terms of how we dole with our allies, in terms of how we tell with the enemies and they need to be brought out. >>trace: you say that, chris, but a lot people say for a head-to-head debate on foreign policy the president, rather, mitt romney will not win the debate and he needs to get this back on the economy as quickly as he can. you are saying, look, he needs to stand his ground on this. >>chris: well, look, im not a paid consultant to the romney campaign, but, yes, i do. loo...

Security, not so much money, and they made the accusation against rahm emanuel they said these guys are taking the whole policy right, being praised by people like gingrich. clearly, rahm emanuel is always linked forever more with the obama administration, how does this hurt when the unions come down on rahm emanuel? does this have a ripple effect for the democrat party nationally? >>guest: it could. right now the crisis we are seeing in the middle east is overshadowing this. it would have been ...

>>chris: well, look, they need to do more than that. in a very specific way, whether talking about iran and the presidents policy of engaging the iranians, whether it is israel, whether it is the failure of the progress in the middle east, whether it is the way the arab spring has been handled, it cannot just be phrases but has to be a coherent explanation of what the president doing wrong and what mitt romney would do differently. if they dont do that he has wasted an opportunity the week has p...

We love this country. we love the men and women who serve in this country. we face real challenges and i want to talk about some of the challenges we face in ohio and at home. this is not the way things are supposed to be the we were promised the recovery and we have not seen that recovery yet. when the president took office four years ago, 32 million people were on food stamps. today, 47 million people are on food stamps. 15 million more people, more than the population of ohio. >>trace: mitt r...

During the riots and protests in sudan. this was also violence in tripoli, a northern city in lebanon, where kentucky fried chicken franchises and hardys were attacked by a mob. this is all happening in lebanon, coincidentally or not, on the day that the pope arrived for a three-day visit. a very tense situation there. you can imagine, a lost security surrounding the popes visit. >>trace: u.s. official would like the leaders of the country to come out with a lot stronger word condemning the viol...

Have a good visual of who they are. we are not sure what the standards of the arrest was, what information they had, we are working through that issue. >>trace: mitt romney is commenting about the president. listen, now. >> there were three other individuals in the tragedy beside the ambassador, and i would ask that you might each place your hand over your heart in recognition of the blood shed for freedom by them and by other sons and daughter whose is lost their lives for the cause of america ...

See the heart wrenching ceremonies at joint base andrews, it really brings home the fact that america this week was attacked. >>chris: absolutely. we lost four heroes government see the four flag draped coffins and hear the music we hear at these ceremonies, coming off the plane, so deeply moving. four american heroes. in a sense, they are certainly, and you can feel it and see it in what hillary clinton had to say, they are members of the diplomatic family, members of our family and it is a dea...

Started. we know there is a lot of heavy weaponry on the ground. we know it is chaos. to not devote more resources in benghazi where you know you will have long-term presence of consulate personnel and occasionally, you know, visits by senior embassy personnel, that crossed the lines. >>trace: but you just said, hindsight is 20/20 and you can monday morning quarterback the situation, but is it fair to say that was the wrong call at the wrong time? >>guest: absolutely, it is. there has been an ex...