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Fact. and that was the word" consulate" was changed to mission. that's the only change that anyone in the white house made, and i have checked this out. >> and just as a counterpoint here, and again, we get along well. we may disagree on this issue. but we get along well on many, many issues. but what was said and as i conclude the course of that investigation was that at some point, that those so-called talking points, in other words, the narrative of how we would call this event, went up to what's called a deputy's meeting. when asked, there was no one in the professional intelligence commun...

That's where the narrative changed. and so how that thing got back to senator rice, i think, is probably another question. >> ambassador rice. >> excuse me. and we do know that the intelligence community as they presented it was accurate. and it did include terrorism and included the notion of -- >> i'd like to respond to that. >> we are showing susan rice there on "meet the press." let me play the critical clip from that morning and have you make your point, senator. this is susan rice five days after the attack. >> can you say definitively that the attacks on our consulate in libya that kill...

Said, wanted to cover up or make a political point. tom, if you can, sort of catch all of these things together. this sort of human reaction to petraeus, the impact on the national security team, at a time when this is now -- this benghazi question is coming up in such a furious way. >> i want to go back first to petraeus. you know, i think petraeus exhibited a singular act of leadership when he summoned the country for the surge that saved iraq from really going into a death spiral. it would have been a great disaster for american foreign policy. at the same time, though, that surge in iraq c...

Privately on september 14, that there appeared to be a terrorist element to it but that it appeared first to be spontaneous but it became a terrorist attack, and that that was his belief. so were they not speaking basically in the same way? >> well, first of all, why are we doing the investigation? i think that's important. so our job as chairman of the intelligence committee is make sure we did not have an intelligence failure. was there an intelligence failure on that day? that's the first question we have to get right. and i'll tell you, i am with a high degree of confidence today will tell...

>> i think they'll get a punting deal. but romney, he made an unfortunate comment, but the biggest problem he had was the republican primary. that is what is driving the brand to a disaster right now. and we have to get kind of a party view of america that is not right out of rush limbaugh's dream journal. we need to look at reality. >> what's the future of the tea party? you heard bill kristol saying we should give up some of this protection of tax cuts for wealthy americans. are you prepared to give up on that particular point to get a larger deal, including cutting government back significa...