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Differential thing to do. but i dont think it was to biden. >> all right, all right, all right, enough from you. gavin she -- no. biden, yes. can you imagine what our president -- what the united states would be like if he was president? it would be unbelievably fun. >> nothing can be worse. >> it would be fun. >> it would be uh fusing. amusing. ronald reagan was a rocket scientist. he said let the free market handle it. >> biden would be hands-off. >> biden would be as good as reagan. >> and he...

A very sad moment. these attacks against her were completely baseless. she was not the problem in benghazi, said this over and over. she reported exactly what the intelligence community told her to say and what they wanted said at that moment. this is naked politics by the gop to take blood a piece of blood out of obama. a return to somebody who had tabled mccain as part of the 08 campaign, part of mccains bitterness about losing in 08 and perhaps again losing in 2012. and just this sad, nakedly...

She is going to be testified next week. i dont know that this will have a huge effect on her candidacy in four years but i dont know her less legacy is sewn up yet. we will see where that goes. but from benghazi to ben affleck. that just happened. >> well done. >> that transition just happened. benghazi to ben affleck, also one of barbaras most interesting or fascinating people. i object. i object because if you are one of the most overexposed celebrities on the planet, i dont think you can stil...

To the president of the united states that she is withdrawing her own name from any future consideration for nomination to become perhaps the next secretary of state following hillary rodham clinton. in the letter to the president, and ambassador rice has subsequently spoke tonight president, "im highly honored to be kbird you for appoint as secretary of state. the position of secretary of state" is she goes on to say, "should never be poll lit side. im sanded we have reached this point even bef...

Was given despite the fact that there were differences within the government about whether this was an attack or a spontaneous event. and the reality is i think that that was a smaller issue than the larger issue of debate, which is what does america do in terms of its footprint in countries like libya where we have fewer forces and we dont really want to reconstitute the entire country. thats what i think the debate was all about. but, again, it comes back to the political reality that the pres...

Educated rhodes scholar. >> david, i wonder what you make of this. as andrea alluded, it seems completely a personal attack against susan rice, against the president. just a sort of naked attack to extract a pound of blood from the president. theres zero evidence that benghazi is not just a -- is a scandal and not just a tragedy. >> the political reality is the president was going to have a fight on his hands with susan rice. whether people think it should be a fight or not is a separate questio...

Hadnt happened, if she hadnt become the face of benghazi, would she have just sailed to the nomination or would there still have been some road blocks for her? >> there may have been some road blocks but theres no question that that interview, and i agree with you, i have obviously gone through the transcript in addition to having done the interview. she certainly inserted caveats into what she was talking about in the course of that interview, but, you know, where administration officials admit...

Week by the american security officers to tell congress the pleas for the enhanced safety measures in libya in days leading up to 9/11 were rebuffed by the higher-ups at the state department in washington. >> my understanding that there were requests made and the requests were denied. >> that tracks with the account offered to cbs news today by the former head of the u.s. special forces team in libya. >> so all the experts on the ground are telling headquarters at the state department we need th...