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Osama bin laden, is undermined by an attack like this and further chaos in the middle east. how do you respond? i think it s nonsense. obviously, this was a tragic event, and the president did call it an act of terror not just once but several times, and asked for and ordered an investigation to get to the bottom of what happened, why it happened, and to bring those who 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, ....
And there s a tremendous disquiet in iran. their currency has dropped in value by 50%. their oil business has dropped by 50%. there s restiveness in their political environment there. and they re feeling the heat. and that s what the sanctions were meant to do. so it s not if they re sensible, they are looking at that and saying it s time to set aside our nuclear ambitions and save our economy. and that s what the president s been working on. that s a project he s been working on for all of these years. remember when he came into office, we were isolated in our position on iran. and in the world. and today the world is unified against iran with us. all because of the leadership of this president. let me ask you about libya. this certainly will come up again in the response to the killing of our ambassador, chris stevens. the issue has been there s been inconsistency from the administration as to how they described it. ....
To look at this. the question of embassy security is one that is definitely, you know, should be looked at. the administration has to study that. but the larger issue is the issue of the arab spring and what s happening in this key area, key region for american foreign policy. and that s where you re seeing in libya, egypt, and all of yemen and all over the place you have all of this democracy and the mess that comes with it. and i think americans need to be i think tom s point is excellent about the response of the libyan people. in the egypt case, you didn t see quite the same response. i think that s very worrying for the united states and for the administration. but i think the far larger point is that we re right now in the middle of the region is in the middle of such turmoil. and we don t seem to be addressing it in any meaningful way. instead, we re talking about the death of four americans, which ....
Cases. those states have broken down, but a new order hasn t arisen. and that s what you saw in benghazi. but here s what s also new, and we have completely missed this story, and it s a great thing for america. let s forget which candidate it might serve. what happened immediately a day and a half after this incident in libya, thousands of libyans, carrying pictures of our ambassador, voluntarily marched on the militia headquarters that did this and took these guys down. that is one of the greatest 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 ....
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 incumbent. it was a sunday before election day, you d be very worried. how concerned are you about that right now, including the fact that in total romney seems to have an edge in the battleground states? well, first of all, david, i would say on the battleground state issue, you guys also issued polls in the last week that showed us with an eight-point lead in iowa. i think we had a lead in ohio. you showed us having a lead in florida. so i don t know how to square all of the polling that nbc is releasing ....