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Successes for the united states possible. we didn t have to do it. they did it, on their own. and the fact that we re not talking about that but talking about how many times you used the word terrorism and did you scratch your ear like this is nonsense. but what seems to be an important policy question, dee dee myers, we do know that this administration has asserted it has done grave damage to al qaeda. the ultimate of course is killing osama bin laden. but here you have chaotic situations, including in libya, where there were questions about whether there was adequate security for diplomatic institution outposts like this. also the issue of what s happened since. the fact that the fbi couldn t get in there, even to investigate, because of security. and this from steven hayes of the weekly standard, which i think we should talk about. he writes in the magazine, the man suspected of organizing the attack on the u.s. consulate spent two leisurely hours sipping a strawberry frap on a ....
Of our own, governor, is offensive. that s not what we do. that s not what i do as president. that s not what i do as commander in chief. that was an exchange from tuesday s debate. it will get hot and heavy again tomorrow in the final debate. we are back at our roundtable. joining me now, the new york times helene cooper. new york times columnist and co-author of that that used to be us tom friedman. republican strategist and columnist for time magazine mike murphy. and former white house secretary for president clinton dee dee myers. welcome to all of you. let s talk libya, tom friedman. what are we to make of this? could this be politicized any further? it s totally politicized at this point. other than a civil war in beirut for 40 years, these are incredibly messy situations. people don t show up in uniforms. ....
I don t think any one event is decisive. but this is an important issue. even though being strong at home and rebuilding our economy is the number one issue, people want to know they have a strong, steady hand in the oval office, and they don t want someone who s reckless and has been consistently wrong on foreign policy issues as governor romney has. we all remember his dukes of hazard tour of international destinations over the summer where he not only roiled countries that are not friendly to us but our best ally, britain. he was wrong on libya. he was wrong on iraq. so people are going to have a chance to take a measure of these two guys and say, who do i want as the commander in chief? who do i want leading the war on terror? and i think we re going to i think that s a very stark contrast. finally, state of the race now as you handicap the final weeks. you heard chuck todd with our new numbers. 47%, 47%. he said 47% for the president is not a good number for an ....
Committed this act of terror to justice. and that s what he s going to do. there s only one candidate here who has tried to exploit it from the beginning, even while the flames were burning in benghazi. mitt romney was sending out political press releases on this. and the whole republican party has followed. and on friday, chairman issa in the house on the republican side released a reef of documents that he asked for that included the names of people on the ground in libya who are cooperating with us and helping us on these security issues, jeopardizing their lives, carelessly, recklessly putting them at risk, all to score political points in the final weeks before an election. that s disgraceful. the way they have handled this issue is disgraceful. to hear paul ryan make the case, who is budget committee chair, wanting to cut back on our request for security funding for these embassies and consulates, makes it even worse. but this wouldn t be an ....
Killing osama bin laden. but here you have chaotic situations, including in libya, where there were questions about whether there was adequate security for diplomatic institution outposts like this. also the issue of what s happened since. the fact that the fbi couldn t get in there, even to investigate, because of security. and this from steven hayes of the weekly standard, which i think we should talk about. he writes in the magazine, the man suspected of organizing the attack on the u.s. consulate spent two leisurely hours sipping a strawberry frap on a patio and boasted he wasn t even questioned by the united states. it raises an obvious question. why is it more than a month after the attack a reporter can spend more than two hours with the alleged mastermind and no u.s. agent has approached him? well, by the way, president obama still did take out osama bin laden, and there s no question about that. and the leadership of al qaeda ....