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Intelligence failure is the last refuge of an embarrassed politician. megyn: we know from our own sources that intel sources knew within 24 hours this is terror. yet there is a conflicting report about what general david petraeus said to them. is it possible there is a is connect between the top brass in the intel community and the guys with boots on the ground and what would account for that disparity? politics? >> politics. there has often been a disconnect between the people who know what is ...

Base, though. what about the swing voters, florida congresswoman and democratic national chair debbie wasserman-schultz joins me from sunny florida. youve heard the criticisms of joe biden. some said he came on too strong, smirking, mocking and interrupting and was basically too had heavy handed and jim talent just said basically rude. >> wow. you know when the other side is talking about facial expressions and arguing over whether the vice president smiled too much, that they know they lost on ...

>> there is a marine detachment at embassy in tripoli but not the consulate where ambassador stevens was killed. >>trace: wendell, each side now is accusing the other side of playing politics. >>reporter: republicans say that the administration underestimated al qaeda and tried to cover up the intelligence failure. there were a couple of attacks in benghazi before the 9/11 including at the consulate. the white house says republicans are trying to make the president take 9 blame for something tha...

Prepostorrous itself. >> absolutely. three things we should look for. you did a great job by the way of outlining them. initially intelligence. what was the intelligence failure. why did we not know. there had already been attacks on this embassy in june. the area was getting much more dangerous. why did we not know? if we do know, why did we fail to provide the security. >> judge jeanine: let me stop you there. if we did know why did we file provide the security not only if we he did know which...

Prepostorrous itself. >> absolutely. three things we should look for. you did a great job by the way of outlining them. initially intelligence. what was the intelligence failure. why did we not know. there had already been attacks on this embassy in june. the area was getting much more dangerous. why did we not know? if we do know, why did we fail to provide the security. >> judge jeanine: let me stop you there. if we did know why did we file provide the security not only if we he did know which...

The watergate break in and the cover up. thats what youre starting to see now. why? because the administration has blamed first the movie, then they tried to blame the intelligence community and now theyll start blaming the state department. bill, the decision to not protect an american ambassador, to not protect an american embassy overseas that is not a decision that is made at the low level of some function nare reat the state department security service. that is made at the highs levels of t...

They arrived at sun up, left at sundown, about 13 hours on the ground. they collected evidence for about three hours time. what more do you have on that? >> this is a month later. there are so many problems with this its hard to know where to start. there was an intelligence failure, why did we not know that there were attacks planned on the ambassador. there had been a number, a string of attacks leading up to this attack. an intelligence failure. two, a security failure. why? in the light of a...

Hadnt even stepped foot in libya because it was too dangerous. if its that dangerous, then why did we have an ambassador sitting there like a sitting duck? this is the controversy as its been laid out by those watching the situation. they are there now, where does the story go from here? >> there are three failures, and its going to be one or all of the above. its going to be an intense failure, theyre going to find out that, in fact, we didnt know there was going to be a problem in that part of...

Hard work, you know, hes been able to take a couple of trips, you know, to the hoover dam and he went to visit our field office, but, you know, hes putting good time in to get ready for this debate. as you know we had to cut back other debate prep because of the job of being president, but hes taken the criticism well and i think that youll see him show up tonight well prepared. >> there is a foreign policy debate exploding around him and this is supposed to be a domestic policy debate. the ques...

House and barack obama flubbed it miserably. john bolton is here. >> i thought the article was outstanding. anybody who hasnt read it should get a copy of the "wall street journal" and take a look at it. he points to the obama administration ideology being at fault both before the attack and afterwards. thats important to understand. before the attack we clearly didnt suspect it was coming. thats due to an intelligence failure in the sense we looked for information and couldnt get it or if the i...