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Fray so deeply before this election. it is too dangerous to start using these kind of issues as political fray because they can go wild on the internet and end with this kind of mayhem were seeing on the screen. >> lets talk about that a little bit. the response yesterday from last night, i should say, from the romney campaign to all this, the american embassy first released -- the american embassy in egypt first released a statement before all this violence erupted. it was an apparent response ...

Maverick credentials, show what a leader he was and said ill suspend my campaign. >> terrible decision. >> go there and fix the crisis. >> barack obama meanwhile handled it cooley and said i can walk and chew gum at the same time. im going to be a senator and go to washington and deal with this. the country saw a lot more calm, a lot more status and a lot more mo ma which you arty in barack obama in that moment and i think if you look at the grief that mitt romneys taking from this statement rig...

Embargo shortly before midnight. actually as mike allen reported, they asked reporters not to release it till 12:01 so it wouldnt be 9/11 released this statement. "its disgraceful that the obama administrations first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." >> how stupid. >> well, it begs the question, what should the first response have been in a romney administration? send in the fifth marines? >> exactly. i know. >> w...

And not impetuous. >> and in control. >> disciplined. >> right. >> you laid out a perfectly good strategy that the romney campaign should have followed. >> should hire you. >> call me maybe. >> a trade for them is -- too complicated. >> right. >> hers the problem for romney. as i see it. hes already been losing on the foreign policy question, losing to obama and dlats on the question of who do you trust with foreign policy? this may become in part a foreign policy election. the idea is maybe the...

Statement of people trying to keep the peace and prevent attack on the embassy. do you think there was anything out of line about this statement or do you think this was a reasonable thing for an embassy in cairo to be doing? >> this was an absolutely reasonable thing for the embassy in cairo to be doing. politics in the united states notwithstanding. i would have issued or had authorized my public affairs staff to issue a similar statement for what essentially was a demonstration and try to cal...

Try to smooth it over and then both sides issued statements which didnt really smooth over the rift. so youve got a lot in play here. and this is very challenging as the president is trying to campaign for re-election. >> yeah, were going to get to israel in just a second. mark mckinnon in boston, i want to get to you because the chronology here is very important. andrea alluded to this back-and-forth between the romney and obama campaigns. the american embassy released a statement before the vi...

In cairo, the american embassy. look whats happening today in syria. the area is a tough neighborhood. and i think we change the approach that we speak with our neighbors. and also we expect from the people in washington to understand that they have to stand with us today. >> andrea mitchell has a question for you. andrea, i understand first you have some breaking news out of libya. >> we do. we have the statement from the president of the united states about the death of ambassador stevens. he ...

Anniversary of 9/11, lifted that embargo shortly before midnight, released a statement that blasted the state department, reading "its disgraceful that the obama administrations first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." as i said, the statement came out before the attacks took place. so the obama campaign came back, going after essentially mitt romney, saying we are shocked that at a time when we are mourning, confr...

Department. they clearly, they clearly sent mixed messages to the world and the statement that came from the administration and the embassy is the administration. >> they asked for it. there it was. today, mitt romney refusing to back down. theres a lot of back and forth of who said what and when. heres the breakdown as we best know it. tuesday morning the u.s. embassy in cairo issues a statement denouncing that anti-islamic amateur video and reads in part we condemn the continuing efforts of mi...

Cairo embassy statement saying no one in washington approved it. 10:26, the embargo on the romney statement is lifted early and can be reported. right after midnight, the obama campaign formally responds to romney saying its shocked. fast forward and you get the duelling speeches this morning. romney slamming the president for that embassy statement. president obama did not mention the political back and forth at all. so why does this tick-tock matter? well, heres my take. first, i want to put u...