seemed peculiar. we have all lived through 9/11. it s our embassy and an attack. it seems it has all the earmarks of terrorism. there was no information, even our state department monitoring it, that there was a protest about a video. why would the white house in the early day, including ambassador rice, why push that story? it wasn t necessarily the early days, this was the whole week they pushed this wrong story. we were baffled. the only explaining we have heard from people is, in fact, that they were hoping to deflect the fact that conditions are bad. conditions were so bad in libya they had upped the hazardous pay to our foreign service officers, all the time we were reducing the appearance of security. they were eliminating the size of convoy, they were doing everything to try to make it look like we were peaceful, while they were paying for because the risk was high. greta: are you suspicious that it s incompetence in terms or misinformation and
this, meaning the video, as an excuse to attack the variety of embassies, including libya. the director of terrorism center on the 19th, testifies before congress, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack. has anybody phoned up the president? there is a pattern here. this comes from the president. the day after the attack, patrick kennedy, who briefed the hill, they thought it was a terrorist attack, everybody except the president seems to be getting the point at some stage, except those who work directly for him, who want to. so when you say, where is this problem coming from? it all points to the president. you can criticize susan rice all you want. i know some republicans have called for her to recipe, it is not her fault greta: but i think, if you say that it s the president ideology for basically making this up, since there is no facts to suggest it the war on terrorism is over, al qaeda s been defeated. sweetness and light have broken out in libya
you don t want joe doing his gaffe thing, getting carried away. i think he does that more often in crowd it s. and speeches. he is pretty goods in the debates and against palin last time around. i think there is it s a fascinating debate because there is no clear favorite. i could see either man winning. bide pid has the foreign policy experience. but paul ryan is on his home turf, on the big issues of the day, the economy, jobs and entitlement reform. that s what make this is so fascinating. biden has to stop the momentum from romney. romney/ryan has the momentum. it is up to joe biden. we will be looking for the gaffes. so he has to be careful. yeah, i don t think that s bad advice. if you look at the democratic convention, i think that joe biden did a better job of driving the message home than president obama did. we remember him saying, g.m. s alive and bin laden s dead. if he can get memorable lines in, he will have done his job. greta: is more riding on vice-presiden
but he has been pretty steady with a likeability advantage throughout the campaign and the duration of his presidency, there has been a gap between the issues and his job approval and his personal likeability. there is a way that people are saying, we kind of like this guy, even if we don t know what he is doing. greta: were the people really if you look at the polls and say he has mostly failed improving health care and image and stimulating the economy and creating jobs, you say he s mostly failed. but they like him. yeah. that s what i think. i agree greta: it s almost like the congeniality award. i think that george bush had that over john kerry and al gore and i think the obama campaign is ride the likeability greta: which would you rather be? the one who is liked or with all of those peal polls, or the one that succeeded? liked. greta: you too? who do you want to have a beer with? i hate to boil it down, but if this is one thing you need to know about the el
over 100,000 employees. you are a large employers. i am curious about your thoughts on steve wynn s remarks? kigrade him on style or substance. where would you like me to start? greta: you pick. let s start with substance. i will go on substance. steve wynn is a smart guy, he does have a very deep understanding of the economy. i think he is a fellow who is used to he doesn t listen very well. he spouts a lot and expects everyone to salute. i think this is an exercise in what freud called the narcissism of petty differences. you see two people who are very much alike and you think they would like each other but they are always squabbling, that s the republican and democrats, they are much more similar than they are different. they both believe in central planning. tax policy eye listen to since you called this afternoon, i listened on that whole hour show. yes, on tax policy, president obama is a bit is a tinkerer