Lets Talk Libya News Today

Aside our nuclear ambitions and save our economy. and thats what the presidents been working on. thats a project hes been working on for all of these years. remember when he came into office, we were isolated in our position on iran. and in the world. and today the world is unified against iran with us. all because of the leadership of this president. >> let me ask you about libya. this certainly will come up again in the response to the killing of our ambassador, chris stephe stephenss. >> the ...

Committed this act of terror to justice. and thats what hes going to do. theres only one candidate here who has tried to exploit it from the beginning, even while the flames were burning in benghazi. mitt romney was sending out political press releases on this. and the whole republican party has followed. and on friday, chairman issa in the house on the republican side released a reef of documents that he asked for that included the names of people on the ground in libya who are cooperating with...

Helene, if im watching all of this, and maybe im an undecided voter, if im out there, what is the bigger point about all of this that i should be giving some serious attention to, if at all? >> i think thats a really good question. i wonder whether a lot of these undecided voters are actually -- if they do exist, are actually thinking that. i think as an american, you have to look at this. the question of embassy security is one that is definitely, you know, should be looked at. the administrati...

You can have a flash mob turned into a plan thing. you can have plan people inside of a flash mob. to me, this is utterly contrived story in the sense that this is the end of, you know, obamas foreign policy. i think we are missing two things. one is the global picture. whats going on in the arab world since the arab spring? weve seen the breakdown of the intelligence service state. all of these states have collared all of these islamists and jihadists for us, in many cases. those states have br...

You can have a flash mob turned into a plan thing. you can have plan people inside of a flash mob. to me, this is utterly contrived story in the sense that this is the end of, you know, obamas foreign policy. i think we are missing two things. one is the global picture. whats going on in the arab world since the arab spring? weve seen the breakdown of the intelligence service state. all of these states have collared all of these islamists and jihadists for us, in many cases. those states have br...

Successes for the united states possible. we didnt have to do it. they did it, on their own. and the fact that were not talking about that but talking about how many times you used the word terrorism and did you scratch your ear like this is nonsense. >> but what seems to be an important policy question, dee dee myers, we do know that this administration has asserted it has done grave damage to al qaeda. the ultimate of course is killing osama bin laden. but here you have chaotic situations, inc...

Mislead when we have lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. thats not what we do. thats not what i do as president. thats not what i do as commander in chief. >> that was an exchange from tuesdays debate. it will get hot and heavy again tomorrow in the final debate. we are back at our roundtable. joining me now, "the new york times" helene cooper. "new york times" columnist and co-author of that "that used to be us" tom friedman. republican strategist and columnist for "time" magazine mik...

Helene, if im watching all of this, and maybe im an undecided voter, if im out there, what is the bigger point about all of this that i should be giving some serious attention to, if at all? >> i think thats a really good question. i wonder whether a lot of these undecided voters are actually -- if they do exist, are actually thinking that. i think as an american, you have to look at this. the question of embassy security is one that is definitely, you know, should be looked at. the administrati...

Aside our nuclear ambitions and save our economy. and thats what the presidents been working on. thats a project hes been working on for all of these years. remember when he came into office, we were isolated in our position on iran. and in the world. and today the world is unified against iran with us. all because of the leadership of this president. >> let me ask you about libya. this certainly will come up again in the response to the killing of our ambassador, chris stephe stephenss. >> the ...

Be an important debate. i dont think any one event is decisive. but this is an important issue. even though being strong at home and rebuilding our economy is the number one issue, people want to know they have a strong, steady hand in the oval office, and they dont want someone whos reckless and has been consistently wrong on foreign policy issues as governor romney has. we all remember his dukes of hazard tour of international destinations over the summer where he not only roiled countries tha...