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Something we werent involved in. you dont like 9/11, go to iraq. >> was the failure of leadership broader than just that small group of people in the bushel administration? >> it states its the congress authority to declare war. no matter how much they want to kick the can or not be responsible, whether its the war powers act or whatever, theyre trying to do that, just like in the gulf of tonkin resolution, which is a point that rachel alluded to. ill go back to alexs point earlier, when you hav...

>> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, weve learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where theres a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intelligence apparatus, its pretty easy to talk about the intelligence failures. we dont talk much ...

Get there in time? >> no. >> you didnt have enough warning in benghazi? >> no, we did not. >> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, weve learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where theres a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intellig...

A younger person of color, a woman -- >> and seemingly not liking her because shes tough and feisty and they also dont like elizabeth warren. interesting. >> its like a replay of the sonia sotomayor confirmation. we sort of underappreciated in the hispanic community and what it meant to see a supreme court nominee from that community. >> my wife works in the white house on oversight matters, so im a little bit conflicted here -- >> then you might want to zip it, actually. >> thats kind of awkwar...

Of south carolina, lindsey graham, was on television yesterday and you know who he blames? the president. >> i blame the president more than anybody else. susan rice is a bit player here. was he informed of the attack on our consulate where they blew a hole where 40 people could go through? was he aware of the august 15th cable where stevens was saying, we cant withstand a coordinated al-qaeda attack? there are ten militia groups all over benghazi. i blame the president for making this a death t...

Were going to discuss what role america can play here a little later in the program. jon: lawmakers are demanding answers about the administrations talking points about the deadly attack in benghazi. so far they have found no intelligence failures since the cia quickly blamed the attack on terror im. well, now lawmakers want to know why terrorism was deleted to talking points from susan rice who claimed the attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration. >> what i found fascinating about this in...

Under which they get injured or lose their lives, but this is a dangerous job. george w. bush had 3,000 americans killed on his watch and we didnt even get to the commission that investigated him until 2004. and there was incompetence there and there was intelligence failure there, but we got beyond that. we need to get beyond this, because we have some serious challenges confronting this country. >> yes, we do. john mccain said to the reporters there at capitol hill today after this hearing tha...

>> who was briefly cia director during the clinton years. some people are asking me, this is a laymans question, that comes to us, how could the cia director, who has such security, be operating in this extramarital affair, how could he have the privacy for this to have happened? >> oh, well, people find ways. thats all i can say. people find ways. and it happens over and over and over again. >> and in terms of paula broadwell, will you want to call her as a witness as well? >> well see. i dont ...

Story. no evidence found of al qaeda role in libya and the piece doughs on to not actually show that. >> what the cia talking points do not show is the intelligence communities concluded this video was in any way responsible for what happened in benghazi. here is how you know this is an orchestrated political effort on the part of the obama white house. you have cia officers attacks their agencies for its intelligence failures. that does not happen in washington with a pretty aggressive nudge fr...

Community, intelligence failures, megyn, when a presidential administration. megyn: let me stop you, ralph. its two points so i want to make sure everybody is with us. there is two parts of what he said. intel people told us about a video. but i want to stay on this first thing. hes trying to say according to the white house we didnt know, the president and i didnt know that these folks at the consulate were asking for more security. does that matter? or is the president and the vice president, ...