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In april. the british ambassador was attacked. the british closed their consulate. the red cross left banghazi. and as lieutenant colonel wood said, we were going to be the last flag standing in banghazi, and he said the attack was, quote, inevitable. now that is a massive intelligence failure. now, the president may not have known whether 16 people or 18 people were extended or not, but wasnt he told about this deteriorating situation in banghazi? >> greta: what do you think? what do you make e...

In april. the british ambassador was attacked. the british closed their consulate. the red cross left banghazi. and as lieutenant colonel wood said, we were going to be the last flag standing in banghazi, and he said the attack was, quote, inevitable. now that is a massive intelligence failure. now, the president may not have known whether 16 people or 18 people were extended or not, but wasnt he told about this deteriorating situation in banghazi? >> greta: what do you think? what do you make e...

To unravel about the protest. ed henry was here at the top of the show saying this wasnt just a phrase by the president, this is going to be the new narrative, that they knew it was terror all along and identified it as such. >> stalinist rewriting of history. it is so shameless. im pretty good with words, megyn, but i cant find adjectives adequate to describe the hypocrisy and deceit in the white house. and its something i think senator feinstein -- who, by the bay, i admire e nor in mousily --...

Extremist bases and operations. something we were very focused on. >> asked by nbc news if the benghazi attack was the result of an intelligence failure, she wanted to take politics out of the equation. >> i think what we want to do is get to the bottom of what happened. >> clintons remarks drew a quick response from john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte, wrote in a statement -- this is ayotte replacing senator lieberman as the three amigos. it is clear, senator lieberman decided to take ...

War? what are they proposing to do in syria, in iran, beyond what we have already done? biden was effective in doing that. he should definitely do that now. in benghazi, there was a real intelligence failure that he can only kind of apologize for and promise to avenge. but one of the distortions you seem to hear from the republicans is that this was somehow the new libyan government was complicit in the attack and that we installed a less-friendly regime, which is a complete distortion. one of t...

Developments in the libya story this week. at a congressional hearing we learned that top security people like nordstrom repeatedly requested and were turn ited down for more security. also the comments from vice president biden in the debate "we werent told." how politically vulnerable do you think the president is on libya? >> i think it is a significant vulnerability. it is on two tracks really. one is a security and intelligence failure that manifest by what happened there and the second is ...

Developments in the libya story this week. at a congressional hearing we learned that top security people like nordstrom repeatedly requested and were turn ited down for more security. also the comments from vice president biden in the debate "we werent told." how politically vulnerable do you think the president is on libya? >> i think it is a significant vulnerability. it is on two tracks really. one is a security and intelligence failure that manifest by what happened there and the second is ...

And complaining about that does not change that. but the other person who was pumped last night and whose performance was both winning and, therefore, grating to the side who came out the worst last night, was the moderator martha raddatz. she gave both candidates almost exactly equal time. but martha raddatz who i officially would now support for president, herself, martha raddatz kept it moving and stopped these guys from diving down talking points rabbit holes. >> with all due respect, thats ...

>> be specific. wasnt this a massive intelligence failure? was that really appropriate right in the middle of the crisis? you have refused, and, again, to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20% across the board tax cut. do you actually have the specifics, or are you still working on it and thats why you wont tell voters? >> and when he wouldnt give her the specifics she followed up by saying, okay, no specifics. by knowing what she was talking about particularly on foreign policy but essent...

Video did not come from us. the state department is saying we said terror, but there seem to be other reports including republicans who came out after meeting with general petraeus who heads up the cia who said there have been suggestions by the cia that this was about a video. this was in the early days. >> well, i suspect somebody high up in the intelligence communities might have agreed to take a bullet for the team. there are ambitious people in the intelligence communities as well. it is be...