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Americans over in benghazi, we still aren't any closer to the investigation. when we talk about what we're going to be doing when it comes to the boston bombers, he believes it's self-radicalization. we're going to be in the wait and see mode. the whole point of the press conference, let's wait to find out on everything and even closing gitmo, he says, i'm going to focus on that. really? what are you going to do about it that you haven't been doing? >> gretchen: his first executive order was to close gitmo. i found that startling during the press conference that that was going to be a high pri...

>>steve: yesterday the president of the united states had a rather spontaneous press conference. it was supposed to be at 10:15. >>brian: rolled in at 10:45. no opening statement. >>steve: he did say, ed henry because you're retiring as white house correspondent association president, you're going to get -- the first question. it was a two-parter. the second one was about our lead story yesterday that there are whistle-blowers out there who want to explain what happened in benghazi but they are being intimidated. ed asked president about that and the president extraordinarily said this: >> ed,...

Places like north africa and the broader middle east, we cannot leave this area. we need to continue to deploy c.i.a., special operations forces and others that deal with terrorists in these areas that are killing americans and american ambassadors. >>brian: how do you feel about our response to benghazi? our response to the way we left iraq, the way we're leaving afghanistan? what message are we sending al qaeda? >> i think the message is very clear. the message they push out on their internet sites is twofold. one is when you push the americans, they leave. second, that when you attack and k...

>>brian: skeptical or deniability. let's see if the story gets legs now because there were questions on that. it is also extraordinary. doing the radio show at the same time but then i watched the press conference. i'm saying to myself no matter what the president was asked, he kept saying how hard his job was, how much he's pursuing the answers but he actually had no answers or nothing to report especially when it came to obamacare. you're looking at senator baucus, tom harkin, jean shaheen, these are democratic senators saying bad things about obamacare. in terms of max baucus, he said it is...

To. >> they're saying they've been blocked from coming forward. >> steve: kind of sounds like lawyer talk. the correct answer -- even if he didn't know that there were people who were trying to come forward, so-called whistle blowers, the correct position the president should have taken was, you k absolutely. if there are people who have information about what really happened, we should welcome them and i will do everything in my power to make sure that that happens. instead, we got that. yeah, i haven't really heard about it, which is extraordinary. does that mean the white house thinks bengh...