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Committees. there are so many committees that can claim jurisdiction over this issue. chaffetz' committee that he sits on along with others to the intelligence committee to the foreign affairs committee, everybody wants a piece of the pie and that's part of the problem. >> here's my beef. so we established with president obama that on the libya issue, and i asked him point blank, did secretary of defense leon panetta tell you it was a terrorist attack on the day it happened. simple question because i'm a simple man, as you know. he wouldn't answer the question. the president wouldn't answer it...

Collectivize this country and pit them against each other to help me win the points to help get me elected. and now how do i win back the house in 2014. you're going to hear this sound bite coming out, he's a real nice guy reaching out, and sometimes down the line he'll say i've tried with these guys. >> megyn: some democrats are worried they won't be able to gain the houses that they lost to republicans back in 2010. their own party president, president obama is too polarizing. let me ask you quickly, is there a democrat you feel more able to reach out. the president says it's you, it's house...

Decision on who could be the best commander in chief. >> bill: don't you think that issue is hurting your guy? >> your premise, i'm not talking about horse race, i'm talking about what is good for america. >> bill: you are a foreign policy advisor. don't you think this is hurting your guy? >> i think that president obama has done a great job as commander in chief. i think when you lay it in the right frame, the american people see it, too. look, bill, if you go back and look at the big picture, getting out of iraq, getting osama bin laden having a plan for afghanistan, rebuilding our allyians ...

Seen obama's favorability numbers on foreign policy go down. so, he now has a slight lead in terms of who do you prefer to handle foreign policy over governor romney. but it's smaller. it still has not become determinative, bill, and that is the key thing here. obama don't think he liar. they like him. when they look at this issue, you know, they see obama having gotten out of afghanistan, out of iraq, leaving afghanistan, i should say. they see him having handled libya and egypt without having u.s. forces intervene on the ground with boots. and they think, given the war weariness in the count...

For a long time, that the president doesn't hold press conferences, he doesn't feel it necessary to keep people up to speed on what's going on here? i mean, it would seem like, you know, you hold a little press conference, here's what we know. this one made a mistake. we're sorry about it. we are correcting it. doesn't that seem logical? >> yeah. but, remember, you are in the middle of a very intense political campaign, bill. >> bill: all right. this is part of it. this is part of it, juan. he is getting hurt. you just admitted he is getting hurt. >> i said in terms of the polls the polls are ...