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Welcome back. the administration and congressional republicans are in a war of words over benghazi. joining me now is congressman peter king, chairman of the house homeland security committee. you have a lot of oversight over the cia as well as some other committees. let's talk about what the intelligence did and what do you want to know? you sent a letter now requesting a release of the intelligence that the administration had at the time and the cables as well as some of the background reporting. >> the reason for that is either the white house spun its own story or the intelligence they got...

♪ welcome back to "morning joe." a beautiful shot of the mall from the capitol. we're going to get to steve rattner's charts in a second. but katty kay, with a british background reporting for the bbc, how do you explain to your viewers in great britain that we have a front runner that mocks the president, calls him a snob for suggesting that people go to college? >> yeah, i mean, this -- this whole race has had many people in britain looking kind of wide-eyed and what's happening in american politics, and this isn't the first time, it's been michele bachmann, herman cain, how do i explain...

>> somebodied with this kind of background. they're blake mailable. it's both moral dereliction and a real security breach. it's real sloppiness. >> what's supposed to happen now? josh, what -- you know, all normal behavior is out the window with this white house. >> yeah. you know, it's strange because this is in some ways it's one of the most conventional trump white house resignations. he did a very bad thing. he resigned as opposed to whatever anthony scaramucci did or steve bannon did or whatever. i get the sense that this is not going to go away. it's really -- it seems very clear. there...