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The initial defense that emerged last week for trump supporters when he fired comey hey look this is following the advice of rod rosenstein here, following the career prosecutors advice and the next day donald trump sits down and says you know what i was tired of this investigation and didnt like the way he was handling im getting rid of him. if you bought into the first defense you were undercut when donald trump spoke out. weve seen a version of this play out in the 24, 18 hours where initiall...

The truth matters. chris? doesnt the truth matter? >> of course it matters. i mean, the end of the day here, this is, again, this is republican, i think, frustration with what they thought was going to happen in this debate. and what they thought was going to be an ability to attack the president on libya. they werent successful. and they can sit there and can attack candy crowley all they want. the reality is what the president said and what romney attacked the president about was wrong. >> her...

Doesnt the truth matter? >> of course it matters. i mean, the end of the day here, this is, again, this is republican, i think, frustration with what they thought was going to happen in this debate. and what they thought was going to be an ability to attack the president on libya. they werent successful. and they can sit there and can attack candy crowley all they want. the reality is what the president said and what romney attacked the president about was wrong. >> heres megyn kelly on fox news...

>> the governor said, mr. president, a fact you came out in the rose garden the next day on 12th and said an act of terror but werent specifically -- >> he didnt go far enough in the verbiage. >> he didnt go far enough. >> i dont think he said act of terror. >> the president did say act of terror. the president absolutely did say act of terror. >> but mitt romney didnt say act of terror. >> no, the president was corrected by governor romney, saying you werent speaking specifically about benghazi...

Stone for a long-term rehabilitation of the public image of tiger woods. its a number of different contexts. very well scripted. im not being cynical about it. just factual. for example, about his wife elin, mentions her ten times. started the process for discussing the damage. what does that mean? you discuss the damage. im at fault, im not at fault. start the process. so were word smithing here. but were also talking about the affect on sponsors, the affect on golf, the affect on kids, the aff...

He said there were no guarantees from volkswagen. >> you said if the union is defeated, another line from volkswagen would come into this plant. is this true? >> we have strong indications and assurances that that is going to be the case. i would never made that comment if i hadnt had those assurances. tempers have to cool. >> can you say thats guaranteed today? >> i would have said it at the time. no, ive had assurances that that is the case. >> the senator from tennessee is now the master of w...