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Welcome back. in new interviews today, dianne feinstein and saxby chambliss gave different descriptions of what they learned in fridays benghazi hearing. >> why was a reference to a terrorist attack taken out of public talking points? thats something we will find out but it was. thats the point. now with the allegation the whitehouse changed those talking points, thats false. >> everybody there was asked, do you know who made these changes, and nobody knew. the only entity that reviewed the talk...

Power is operating. >> i think the other power dynamic that changed is speaker boehners power has changed. he worked really hard to re-elect his caucus and got a majority of his caucus when a democratic president won in a difficult economy. he can say to his caucus follow me here. hes gotten things done in his career in washington. if you look at his power, his changing power within his caucus, hes going to be able to pull a few more members with him. i know there are definitely conservatives sa...

You can join the news nation on twitter. find us @newsnation. time for the gut check. white house weighed in within the last hour saying the president appreciates the service of both general david petraeus and general john allen. the press secretary says the president was surprised at the situation involving petraeus but would not say much about allen because defense officials are still investigating. our first team questions how the fallout could affect perceptions of our military. we have beco...

Women percentage of congress. what we saw this year, particularly among emilys list candidates we went 9 for 10. 9 out of 10 women won which was incredible. >> wisconsin. >> massachusetts. >> only loss was nevada. >> thats right. >> the most underrepresented demographic in congress are pro-life women. >> its interesting about this is the number of women in the house republican congress went down. this widens the perceptions that democrats are becoming the party of women than republicans. >> it g...

Lots of them. but there just werent enough to combat the numbers the obama campaign had run up. what really probably killed and torpedoed romneys candidacy was this idea that the obama campaign portrayed him as a rich guy who didnt care about regular folks. even though the romney campaign tried to counter that by saying, well, he can help you even if he doesnt understand you, in the end, megyn, it just wasnt loud enough to breakthrough those negative perceptions. megyn: john roberts, thank you. ...

>> keith, let me bring you in. i want to play a little bit of what the director of marist polling had to say about what were seeing in some of these numbers. lets play it. >> mitt romneys favorable, unfavorable is still upside down in iowa, not in new hampshire or wisconsin. iowa is still maintaining that pattern that weve seen a lot this fall. so it hasnt moved for him. the other thing is iowa is a huge early voting state. and i think if the story of this election ends up being the re-election,...

>> dee dee, you were on bill clintons campaign during hurricane andrew, and you were in that awkward position where youre running against a guy that runs the government. you guys are the outsiders. you probably were tempted to criticize, but you realized there was a line. what is the line? >> well, and i think this is one that obviously governor romney faces right now, which is the one thing you dont want to do is be attacking the president while hes trying to manage a national crisis. we have a...

Lets talk more about some of these key battleground states from the presidents perspective. patrick gaspart joins me live. lets start with the storm here. president has big events over the next few days. hes supposed to appear with president clinton on monday in prince william county, virginia. whats the likelihood of that event happening? second of all, how is he going to balance the realities of governing in a crisis with the perceptions? >> well, craig, first, its great to be on. obviously, t...

What do you think? >>guest: well, look, a lot of this, again, a lot of focus on the numbers them sells like the unemployment rate, it is under 8 percent, and that magically makes the economy better. that is not the case. people are living in their day-to-day likes and they necessity people who are unemployed other there is pain at the pump. so, you are right if a lot of the swing states this is where it will be decided. so, it can fought help but help the president. the question is whether the p...

Partner, but america is their principal security partner, and what they want to do is balance between these two powers in some sense and not be squeezed by either. what a lot of people were saying in d.c. over the last year or two is that chinas been americas best diplomat, and in some respects thats true. the aggressiveness of china over the last couple of years has meant many of these asian allies have moved towards the united states. if you look at poll ratings in europe, you know, its quite ...