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Consulate in benghazi and romney came under criticism for the initial response to the violence there. the statement released shortly before egyptian protesters stormed that embassy's compound read in part, quote, the embassy of the united states in cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims. as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. so, matt, you were critical this week of mitt romney's response to the events. how so? >> i think there's a very hamhanded response. it was happening, you could quibble with the embassy...

Consulate in benghazi and romney came under criticism for the initial response to the violence there. the statement released shortly before egyptian protesters stormed that embassy's compound read in part, quote, the embassy of the united states in cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims. as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. so, matt, you were critical this week of mitt romney's response to the events. how so? >> i think there's a very hamhanded response. it was happening, you could quibble with the embassy...

The world. >> an extremely abbreviated time line, the question for us here on news watch, how did the media react or fail to react to the news and the real issues surrounding these events. let's first go to fox news correspondent shannon bream for more. >> late tuesday, mitt romney released a statement calling the initial response to the attacks in egypt disgraceful saying they appeared to quote, sympathize with those who waged attacks and that original response came in the the form of an embassy statement which secretary of state hillary clinton had reportedly rejected and senior officials sa...

That the obama administration had sympathized with the attackers. >> the embassy of the united states issued what appeared to be an apology for american principles. >> i want to be clear, it is never too early for the united states to condemn attacks on americans, on our properties, and to defend our values. >> but romney's tone softened considerably. he sounded remarkably similar to the embassy statement he had criticized when he discussed the film in an interview with abc news on thursday. >> it's dispiriting sometimes to see some of the awful things people say and the idea of using somethin...

Sometimes cool words or no words is the way to go. >> a number of experts also rebuked romney. one senior foreign policy p hand called it an utter disaster and said it was romney's lehman moment to the financial crisis back in 2008. he said, they were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it's just completely blown up and a former aide said, it's bad. just on a factual level that the statement was not a response but one could make the statement precipitating and just calling it a disgrace is not really cutting it. not ready for primetime. we'll be r...