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Ambassador. he seems to be backing away from that. what do you think? >> i think benghazi was hyped by this network especially and now that the campaign is over i think hes backing off a little bit. they are not going to stop susan rice from being secretary of state. >> benghazi was hyped, especially by the network, but it doesnt stop there. >> you have four people dead including the first u.n. ambassador. >> i see this focus on a small fire fight. ive covered a lot of fire fights. its impossibl...

Republican senators, john mccain, lindsey graham, and kelly. on wednesday she will meet with republican senator susan collins. but forget the facts that make this a no scandal. fox news just keeps its drumbeat going. for the past three months is on an never ending loop. they talk about coverups, what did susan rice know and when did they know it was terror. but today the truth came out. listen to what tom ricks, the defense expert and pulitzer price winner -- listen to what he has had to say. >>...

Interview very short. >> yes. the poor chap was struggling to give a response when mr. ricks made that comment about if the journalists knew anything of the numbers who had been killed in that sort of setting prior and outside of the actual attacks on that day. he just didnt know what to say. >> yeah. i mean, tom ricks went at him and said how many contractors have been killed in libya in these conflicts? and the anchor had nothing to say. and tom ricks said, its somewhere in the couple thousand...

Extremely political probably because fox was operating as a wing of the republican party. >> tom ricks, thanks very much for joining us today. >> youre welcome. >> joining us now is lynn sweet, d.c. bureau chief for "the chicago sun-times" and john than capehart, an msnbc contributor. welcome to both of you. john, that was tom ricks, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist. do you get the impression that the tent that houses the ben z benghazi truthers is getting a little smaller and by the way, if ...

Wing of the political party. >> tom ricks, thank you for joining us. >> as far as young women are concerned, i can state my position on abortion. other than that leave the issue alone. >> 20 hail marys, 20 our fathers. ja lets get to our fanl. ana marie cox is a correspondent for "the guardian," and msnbc political analyst karen finney. karen, we just heard senator john mccain a moment ago in "top lines" saying, okay, from now on we republicans should just leave the issue of abortion alone. does...

The election with a tragedy that happened in north africa? >> and they were fighting him there and then geraldo tweeted on october 31st, gop bloodlust regarding benghazigate insincere deperate and reminiscent of fast and furious petraeus lie-new rule if issa in charge truth not the goal. >> thank god that geraldo has come to the point where he is willing to speak truth to power because they have the power of his paycheck. lets be honest about it. and that -- thomas ricks. we need more thomas ric...

0 is, how do you do that? well, john boehner went to the white house ten days ago and said republicans in the house are willing to put revenues on the table. that was a big move, right? >> a big move? huh? the gop has always been open to raising revenue. governor romney even promised to do that. it seems awfully similar to what speaker boehner offered a year ago during debt talks. >> we have an agreement on a revenue number. there was an agreement on some additional revenues. >> i stuck my neck ...

horror, break with their sacred pledge to grover norquist. >> im not obligated on the pledge i made tennesseans aware is just elected that the only thing im honoring is the oath that i take when i serve when im sworn in this january. >> theres a lot that has been said about this pledge, and i will tell you when i go to the constituents that have elected -- re-elected me, it is not about that pledge. it really is about trying to solve problems. >> when youre $16 trillion in debt, the on...

they kicked it down to the 4th circuit. depending what they decide, the supreme court could decide the same thing all over again based on rights of religious freedom. well continue to keep an eye on this. but a surprise and perhaps a momentous decision this morning from the u.s. supreme court. jenna: well con continue to watch that story a fox news alert. were awaiting the outcome of a very pivotal meeting that could potentially ease the crisis in egypt or push that country into furthe...

This happening now? does it have anything to do with a potential strike? richard engel joins us now. talking to blogger tom ricks about whether a potential strike on iran has anything to do with the fighting going on right now. >> some people think that what this is about is in preparation for a likely war with iran, israel testing the rockets that would be fired against it from gaza. so we may something with lebanon soon. its a preliminary. this is a warm-up round for the real conflict ahead. >...