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Something we weren't involved in. you don't like 9/11, go to iraq. >> was the failure of leadership broader than just that small group of people in the bushel administration? >> it states it's the congress' authority to declare war. no matter how much they want to kick the can or not be responsible, whether it's the war powers act or whatever, they're trying to do that, just like in the gulf of tonkin resolution, which is a point that rachel alluded to. i'll go back to alex's point earlier, when you have the leadership of our country, especially the president and dick cheney, the vice presiden...

>> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, we've learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where there's a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intelligence apparatus, it's pretty easy to talk about the intelligence failures. we don't talk much about them many times, and we have intelligence and we're able to stop or prevent or disrupt an ...

Get there in time? >> no. >> you didn't have enough warning in benghazi? >> no, we did not. >> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, we've learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where there's a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intelligence apparatus, it's pretty easy to talk about the intelligence failures. we don't talk much abou...

A younger person of color, a woman -- >> and seemingly not liking her because she's tough and feisty and they also don't like elizabeth warren. interesting. >> it's like a replay of the sonia sotomayor confirmation. we sort of underappreciated in the hispanic community and what it meant to see a supreme court nominee from that community. >> my wife works in the white house on oversight matters, so i'm a little bit conflicted here -- >> then you might want to zip it, actually. >> that's kind of awkward. >> i think we can objectively say at this point that the whole battle over her talking point...

Of south carolina, lindsey graham, was on television yesterday and you know who he blames? the president. >> i blame the president more than anybody else. susan rice is a bit player here. was he informed of the attack on our consulate where they blew a hole where 40 people could go through? was he aware of the august 15th cable where stevens was saying, we can't withstand a coordinated al-qaeda attack? there are ten militia groups all over benghazi. i blame the president for making this a death trap. i blame the president for not having assets available to help these people for eight hours. we...