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Answers in response to the questions. we have seen a constantly shifting story from various parts of the administration and when vice president biden said in the debate wednesday night that we weren't told that they wanted more security there in libya, he directly contradicted the sworn testimony of the regional security director for the state department with responsibility for libya. that is a real problem, chris. that is a problem. >> chris: what about the argument that you just heard from david axel rod when said we he meant the president and vice president and even the white house and quit...

May be a moment where somebody is going ask one of those and it will really put either candidate or both on the spot. >> chris: jeff, i don't want to ignore the event of this last week. from your reporting did the obama camp always intend for joe biden to be so aggressive? some would say be over the top in his dealing with paul ryan? did they think that that was a good tactic? >> perhaps not always but after the debate in denver absolutely. they knew that they needed a moment to sort of quiet things down on the democratic side to show that they had some fight in here and really to kind of shak...

Because in the debate the vice president also blamed the intelligence community for the false reports that came out immediately after about the idea that this was a spontaneous demonstration that ran amuk. in fact, the top state department official said this week he was asked about that and this is what he said. that is a question that you would have to ask others. that was not the idea of the spontaneous demonstration that was not our conclusion. question work all of the finger pointing going on at the state department, going on towards the intelligence community, whatever happened to the pri...

From somebody that's not there. and so you have to be careful there. look, i think the president's going to pick and choose the sort of three areas, the three or four areas that focus group best with biden versus ryan, right? i think you're going to hear him talk a lot. i think he's going to figure out how to get in contraception and abortion. i think that was clearly paul ryan's weakest moment where biden's probably one of his strongest moments. they're going to try to get at this -- what i've been curious about is i do think they're still conflicted. do they attack romney as a flip-flopper o...

May be a moment where somebody is going ask one of those and it will really put either candidate or both on the spot. >> chris: jeff, i don't want to ignore the event of this last week. from your reporting did the obama camp always intend for joe biden to be so aggressive? some would say be over the top in his dealing with paul ryan? did they think that that was a good tactic? >> perhaps not always but after the debate in denver absolutely. they knew that they needed a moment to sort of quiet things down on the democratic side to show that they had some fight in here and really to kind of shak...