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Benghazi? >>reporter: these are conversations i have had with people familiar with intelligence. this area, libya, north africa, was considered a hot zone or a hot region. since june of this year there were at least four incidents, either successful or plots, against diplomatic interests or on diplomatic personnel. so it was considered a hot region, active. now, when they say there was no "actionable intelligence," that means that there wasn't something specific enough in the opinion of the intelligence community to do something, to try and mitigate the threat. that's the subject or where the ...

Romney and there are less than eight weeks left. >>trace: the president's comment that egypt was not our ally, the white house has been talking in circles saying, well...they fumbled. the response has been that the white house fumbled this from the get go. do you agree? >>chris: on that statement, they clearly fumbled. look, it is a matter of fact but as they say in washington, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. our relationship with egypt is not what it was under the dictators of mubarak where you could call him up and say, wait, control that, and the mob disappeared. it is a more complicate...

Two candidates in terms of how we dole with our allies, in terms of how we tell with the enemies and they need to be brought out. >>trace: you say that, chris, but a lot people say for a head-to-head debate on foreign policy the president, rather, mitt romney will not win the debate and he needs to get this back on the economy as quickly as he can. you are saying, look, he needs to stand his ground on this. >>chris: well, look, i'm not a paid consultant to the romney campaign, but, yes, i do. look, the romney campaign has set a very solid and consistent strategy, the economy stinks, and people...

Security, not so much money, and they made the accusation against rahm emanuel they said these guys are taking the whole policy right, being praised by people like gingrich. clearly, rahm emanuel is always linked forever more with the obama administration, how does this hurt when the unions come down on rahm emanuel? does this have a ripple effect for the democrat party nationally? >>guest: it could. right now the crisis we are seeing in the middle east is overshadowing this. it would have been a much bigger problem if this had not happened. the unions need to come out for president obama for ...

>>chris: well, look, they need to do more than that. in a very specific way, whether talking about iran and the president's policy of engaging the iranians, whether it is israel, whether it is the failure of the progress in the middle east, whether it is the way the arab spring has been handled, it cannot just be phrases but has to be a coherent explanation of what the president doing wrong and what mitt romney would do differently. if they don't do that he has wasted an opportunity the week has presented. >>trace: thank you, chris wallace, host of sunday. who coming up? >>chris: we will have ...