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Rebuild the trust. >> let me ask you about benghazi, the attack on our consulate, four americans killed. the president is making it clear he thinks this is a political hit job by republicans. do you acknowledge any mistakes made in the course of communicating to the public by benghazi or respond together benghazi attack? >> we acknowledge what happened in benghazi was a tragedy. the independent board led by it would have our leading nonpartisan figures, ambassador pickering and admiral mullen and they said there are a lot of steps to make sure this never happens again. here's the evidence that...

Contributing to it? >> people talk about that and talk about athletic teams and male environments. i don't know the answer to that. there's certainly nothing about the military that would contribute to it in terms of the purpose of the armed forces. but i don't know the answer and i think they better really land all over people that are engaged in any kind of abuse of that nature. >> there's so much happening in washington and you are a veteran of so many controversy. you write this from the book, "if you foul up, tell the boss and correct it fast, mistakes can usually be corrected if the orga...

The young senator mcconnell. the reason we have this problem is because we have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code under the guise of a charity to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns. >> i think he would resent that remark, the young mcconnell, even if he agreed with you. there's some news this morning, a new cnn poll that has the president's approval ratings in pretty good territory but also a view there is not an overreaction on the gop, whether on the irs or benghazi and a view whether it's the irs, benghazi or the a...

Talk about athletic teams and male environments. i don't know the answer to that. there's certainly nothing about the military that would contribute to it in terms of the purpose of the armed forces. but i don't know the answer and i think they better really land all over people that are engaged in any kind of abuse of that nature. >> there's so much happening in washington and you are a veteran of so many controversy. you write this from the book, "if you foul up, tell the boss and correct it fast, mistakes can usually be corrected if the organization's leaders are made aware of them and they...

I think that's worthy of investigation and the investigations ought to go forward. >> but do you have specific evidence that they made up a tale or was it based on information they had at the time? >> well, the talking points clearly were not accurate. and i think getting to the bottom of that is an important investigation. >> i just want to come back to this because i think it important, you made a point of saying what you have not said about all of this. there are republicans in an organized fashion, accusing the president of being nixonian, comparing it to water. isn't that overblown? >> i ...