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Maybe they needed that background briefing. >> nice point. eric,ov what do you think? disaster tore them? >> very importantly. the first sound bite you rolled, jay carney said, we changed one point. can i hold this up? he said he changed consulate to diplomatic facilities. but importantly, he said, the white house and the state t department made one change. this is what they said they did. this ist what we found out they did. look at that. not onehi word, but 147 words is what they eliminated. it wasn't one thing. >> it's notten edit. it's massacre. >> jay carney doubled down again today and s...

Answered, although there are others, b but first is one of te things the white house says today is that they did not want to speculate early on, except that they speculated and blamed the youtube video when it didn'e have to do with the youtube video. southers curious. the second thing is if the white house only had unsubstantial and stylistic changes to the talking points, it is puzzling that there would be 12 iterations, plus i think we need an answer on this: why would the c.i.a. revise its own talking points that it had sent over before which completely changed the facts of the original ta...

Public, either from ambassador rice, or to others, that it turned out not to be accurate. and so the white house is going to have to kind of walk us through that. >> yeah, you mentioned the 12 iterations of the talking points and ultimately we all saw susan rice making her rounds on sunday morning in her talking points based upon that 12 iteration as you mentioned that that was scrubbed. as we, again, wait for -- here he is. jay carney, stepping up to the podium. let's take it live. >> good friday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i appreciate your patience. before i t...

Of the people have been punished. some people have then resigned. that's been resolved. if you look at -- if you make the conservative charge is that the president is covering up some malfeasance or something, but if you look at the revisions, you don't see that the white house being involved in covering these things up. it's victoria nuland who actually is not a political appointee, but a career foreign servi serviceperson who worked for the national security council during the bush years. >> hey, david, when you see jay carney at 4:00 p.m. on a friday holding a briefing, having already had a...

Holding a briefing, having already had a background briefing, that tells you this thing is very high on the attention scale of the white house. i think -- >> indeed. >> -- unlike any time in the whole era post-september 11th, meaning this september 11th that we're talking about. >> yeah, jay carney has got caught saying something that wasn't completely true. >> that's called a lie, david. >> we in washington -- everything you say that's not true may not be a lie, but if you want to accept that premise, i'll happily accuse you of lying when you get things wrong. >> okay. i'll let you try that o...