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Well, but there is on the side of this, andrea, the fact is the state department budget as a percentage of the federal budget is quite small, it is not fully funded for the last few years and the security request, thats the request for funds to protect the diplomats, to solidify the infrastructure of the embassies to support, protect the diplomats, that hasnt been fully funded so i think there are real lessons here for the state department that they have to work on but there are also i think an ...

Suggested? she seemed confident when she said it. >> well, i tell you, everything you said about general petraeus is true. we were losing in iraq, he turned it around. he got us back on good footing in afghanistan that i think the president has made poor decisions on iraq and afghanistan, in spite of great military leadership. but general petraeus supposedly told the house intelligence and senate intelligence committee a couple of days after the attack, he thought it was the result of a radio. h...

Request. these are questions the president has to answer. i dont think six weeks after the attack does anybody believe that the president of the united states doesnt know whether there was a security request? there would be records of this. >> greta: do the voters care about this? >> mitt romney is out there making speeches every day and doesnt bring this up. a lot of people willing to bring it up and a lot of folks in the conservative movement and just independent journalists want this to be a ...

Were american operatives denied requests for backup help while they were under attack in benghazi. he pointedly did not answer that question. now, will this ignite more curiosity and make the president make more people ask the president about this? i dont know. but it is really really clear this s a question he does not want to answer. >> greta: john, any impact? >> i think this is an even more serious issue than the previous questions concerning the coverup and the fact that there were requests...

Asked twice about this issue. were american operatives denied requests for backup help while they were under attack in benghazi. he pointedly did not answer that question. now, will this ignite more curiosity and make the president make more people ask the president about this? i dont know. but it is really really clear this s a question he does not want to answer. >> greta: john, any impact? >> i think this is an even more serious issue than the previous questions concerning the coverup and the...

Request. these are questions the president has to answer. i dont think six weeks after the attack does anybody believe that the president of the united states doesnt know whether there was a security request? there would be records of this. >> greta: do the voters care about this? >> mitt romney is out there making speeches every day and doesnt bring this up. a lot of people willing to bring it up and a lot of folks in the conservative movement and just independent journalists want this to be a ...

Ed? >> reporter: good to see you, megyn. this was a flash point as you say in the debate. they had a lot of confrontations. but the one over libya stands out. this was the first time the president had been directly confronted by a voter about this situation who asked him why the security request had been turned down by his administration, the request for more security in libya. what the president was doing, wait appeared he was doing was rewriting history a little bit by saying that on 9/12, the...

Really capture that. >> we have now, in the media, more benghazi fatigue or more on snegs obsession? >> fatigue, for sure. i think it is -- i dont think that it did establish she was a passive leader. i think it established there are maybe some things that need to be revamped. and i think, but if -- >> leaders want -- >> this is the thing that republicans keep saying thats not true. she didnt ignore the security request. >> it didnt come to her. >> okay. >> buried in the hearing was the fact tha...

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