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Which is what did our government know, and what could it have done both before the tea terrorist attacks to protect the lives of the americans there. >> reporter: we have a half dozen committees running their own investigations. on this parallel track there is a surb for a select committee to look at the benghazi issue, martha. martha: a lot of people want to see that happen. we'll see if it does. that would take bi-partisan support for that. it's not just republicans crying foul over the talking points and surrounding issues. >> reporter: these right. a leading democrat on the house intellige...

That's the issue, reverend. and if the president wants to nominate her secretary of state, we should just put the politics aside. she didn't know about this benghazi issue. so -- >> that's what i want to get to. they are accusing her of giving bad information. but so has senator mccain and graham. watch this, governor. >> i believe that suddam hussein presents clear and present danger to acquire weapons of mass destruction and there's very little doubt that he would use them. we're going to find weapons of mass destruction and we're going to find incredible brew tal teas that this dictator has...

Election. this benghazi issue came to symbolize all bad things that some people had in her minds about the obama administration, and i find that it's dissipated since election day. still, the passionate opponents of the president trumpet this, but i don't think it's got much traction in middle america. >> thank you all. i really appreciate your time and your insight into this story. thank you. i really appreciate it. coming up, president obama's new fiscal cliff strategy revealed. the president taking a page from his campaign. he's trying to get the public on his side when it comes to extendin...

Martha: unless you want to say you defended your friend and ally and that you decided to move on because you don't want to subject her tow that because people like kirstin powers and others are telling you it's not a good idea. we'll see what the president says about it. with regard to john mccain, tony, why do you think he has changed his tune on this event? >> i don't think it was that hard a change on mccain's part. he's absolutely right as is kirstin, barack obama and others are certainly more at the center of the benghazi situation than susan rice. she was inserted there, she became some ...

No business there. so long range, that's going to be a problem. that doesn't solve the benghazi issue, but long range, you're right. >> mark halperin, jump in. >> senator, if i could ask you to put a little finer point you're saying about ambassador rice. are you saying that she has lied and the white house has lied when they've said that what she said on the sunday shows was based not on the white house political spin, as you've been saying, but specifically on what the intelligence community best sense of things was at the time? >> i'm not saying she lied. i'm just saying she didn't tell -- ...