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Questioners were terrible so she looked great. it was because of endurance and preparation. >> you know, i didnt mean to misspeak. what i was saying was exactly what youre saying, she put to bed this benghazi issue, who was responsible for the security failure, but not the larger question of her foreign policy which i think is very much on the table. they tried, a couple of them tried to tee that up because her foreign policy is, you know, is something that she should be tested on and nobody rea...

Joining me now, chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press" and host of msnbcs "mtp daily" and chris cillizza, msnbc contributor, founder of the "washington post" fix blog. thanks to both of you. chuck, you watched it all. she still has the hurdle of the fbi investigation but shes really put at least the republican-led benghazi issue to bed, if not the larger question of the foreign policy, that toppled gadhafi and led to arguably the disaster in libya. >> i accept the first premise. i dont accept...

Smoke signals. what is relevant is that he was sending information to the secretary of state. >> ive heard one dismissive thing after another. i was this group, it was that group. i wasnt served by this. i wasnt served by that. what did you do? what do you own? >> well, i was just telling you some of the many related issues i was working on to try to help the libyan people -- >> whats your responsibility to benghazi? thats my question. >> four americans died in the attack. state department infor...

She had a great temperament which i think is a difficult thing to do, but she took a lot of care to try to paint as comprehensive a picture of what she was facing and what the people making the difficult decisions were facing dealing with benghazi and libya policy and just the secretary of state in general. i thought it gave everyone a very good window into not just how she was secretary of state but the person she is. there are so many stereotypes and caricatures of her, these moments even thou...

Consulate. i mean, ive been to libya since the liberation, and the group -- the allegation i was with was very well received. i mean, this is a -- it is a mob, but its not representative of libyan society. neither is the mob in egypt representative of egyptian society. now, we see that imagery on tv, and we think, well, this is the whole country or this is most people. it really isnt. and i think its important, you know, for us to just acknowledge that, you know, if the rest of the world judged ...

But the underlying dynamics of the election are no longer seen as being enough for romney. he trails obama in the polls and has for basically the entire campaign. he received little to no bump from his convention and watched obama enjoy a significant polling bounce out of his. the economy just isnt proving sufficient to beat obama. that means that the romney campaign strategy isnt proving sufficient to beat obama, which means they need to change it on the fly. when campaigns are losing, they get...

It should be pointed out that ten libyan security guards reportedly died defending the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi. thousands of libyans staged counterprotests today in a show of o support for the united states. many of them held signs thanking ambassador stevens for his service, and the libyan government was quick and forceful in its condemnation of the attacks. that, at least, is the situation in libya. in egypt, the conditions are much different. more protests against the offending an...

History, it wasnt a straight line toward democracy from the moment of declaration of independence. there were bumps and bruises up and down, but the reality is is that theyve gone through some pretty amazing political changes, and i think are making steady progress towards free democratic society. now, its not going to look just like in the united states, but i do think at the end of the day, weve got to embrace the change and stay the course. >> congressman keith ellison, thank you very much fo...

The romney campaign isnt run by amateurs. they knew this statement was incendiary. they knew it would change the campaign, and presumably, they knew it was wrong. it conflates a statement from a terrified staffer in the egyptian gas embassy, who was trying to calm a potentially angry mob with the obama administration. it conflates unrest in egypt with the murder of an american diplomat among others in libya. and it accuses the obama administration of something that they not only didnt do, but th...

The obama campaign is driving. he doesnt have less foreign policy experience than, say, barack obama had before, you know, he worked in international business, hes talked to people at a high level in that world for a long time, as much as bill clinton, as many presidents did, before taking office. i think theres a bind on republican foreign policy right now, which is that in their heart, what they want to say is that who lost egypt, who lost libya. you know, we need to be in a muscular way retak...