laudable job. that libya moment was a terrible moment for romney. and one that could have easily been prevented if he had paid attention to what he was saying, instead of inserting himself into the national dialogue. remember the person that played their cards wrong on that very, very bad day for the united states, and it was mitt romney. what s amazing to me is that the romney team did no fact checking. they have a certain plank of their campaign built on this foreign policy question and they don t have the basic facts right. the question that, the item that george will was praising in particular was holding the 47% comment until the very end, until the last word. let s show how the president did that. when he said, behind closed doors, that 47% of the country considered themselves victims who refuse personal responsibility, think about who
bill maher said. that s a paraphrase. i think candy crowley did a laudable job. that libya moment was a terrible moment for romney. and one that could have easily been prevented if he had paid attention to what he was saying, instead of inserting himself into the national dialogue. remember the person that played their cards wrong on that very, very bad day for the united states, and it was mitt romney. what s amazing to me is that the romney team did no fact checking. they have a certain plank of their campaign built on this foreign policy question and they don t have the basic facts right. the question that, the item that george will was praising in particular was holding the 47% comment until the very end, until the last word. let s show how the president did that. when he said, behind closed doors, that 47% of the country considered themselves victims
loopholes and exemptions. over 10 years that s $11 trillion minimum. and i m only going to i m only going to use broaden the base, eliminate deductions at about a third of that the way i m going to do it, unlike what you did, which is to ram through obama care purely on your party s vote, without gettingsultation from the other side, i m going to do it in a way that it should be done. bill: that s specific, charles, you are agreeing with me. that s specific. if all we mean by specific is to give an answer, yes. but he should not be numbers. bill: that s hard to criticize. we agree. you came around to my view i appreciate that. bill: sure. sure. bill: if you are mitt romney, do you ram libya down the president s throat? i don t ram it but i think there is going to be a foreign policy question. and obama is going to you know, he will resort to the only thing he has got, the bin laden raid. and romney is going to say, you know, that was a great thing, but you have been
claiming ever since you said even last week al qaeda is on its heels, al qaeda is on its heels? they just killed our ambassador the first murder of an ambassador in 30 years. they just sacked an embassy. in the demonstrations just one month ago, four american embassies had the flags destroyed and the al qaeda flag hoisted about above them. and you want to claim that this is a success and al qaeda is on its heels? mr. president, you misunderstood how the war on terror is fought. bill: guy further than that. yes, there is justice in killing usama bin laden, but it is not a foreign policy. that s the mistake you are making, mr. president. bill: all right. guy further than that. as soon as i get the foreign policy question, even if it s about the malukins out in the specific i turn it around to the middle east. i look at the president and i will go will you explain to me why the u.n. ambassador was out there for a week misleading the american public?
the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden, and i told the american people in the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror. i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. get the transcript. he did, in fact, sir, so let me call it an act of terror. can you say that a little louder, candy. he did call it an act of terror. it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there, about this tape, to come out. you re correct about that. that was a big moment in last night s debate. it happened the seventh question in about 70 minutes into the debate. the first foreign policy question. the only foreign policy question about libya. after the debate the president talked to the question ner, the libya questioner, after the