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Wednesday morning, given a chance to walk it all back as full details of the attacks revealed themselves, the romney campaign doubled down on that statement, making clearly that it was not a mistake. the romney campaign isn't run by amateurs. they knew this statement was incendiary. they knew it would change the campaign, and presumably, they knew it was wrong. it conflates a statement from a terrified staffer in the egyptian embassy, who was trying to calm a potentially angry mob with the obama administration. it conflates unrest in egypt with the murder of an american diplomat among others i...

It was under attack. >> you were mentioning a minute ago that you were in libya recently. i know you were in that region and followed it closely. what is your sense of where the arab spring is going at this point? both egypt and libya are countries that had very, very dramatic changes of regime. it's not entirely clear how the political ground will settle. what does today say about where it's going, or does it say going, as of yet? >> well, today's events, you know, i think should and can only be considered a setback, but i would say the overall trend, i would say, is cautiously optimistic. th...

Through the motivations of the various factions and shadowy militant groups that are currently vying for power. and the outcome, who wins and who loses these struggles, could decide the very shape of american foreign policy in the decades to come. middle east with an egypt that is friendly to american interests is very different than middle east with an egypt that is not. here to help us make sense of all of this, is hillary man lever, and a former foreign service officer, who was twice stationed at the gassy embassy in egypt, and spencer ackerman, senior writer for "wired" magazine, and one o...

More on the kind of substantiative side of this, what are we learning in this campaign, there seems to be kind of a tough pattern emerging here for romney. his trip -- on foreign policy, his trip to the london olympics didn't go very well. had a lot of gaffes. he went to israel and accidentally insulted the palestinians, and now he jumped on the political dimension of a national tragedy much too quickly, in a way that created a really significant backlash. he doesn't come to the campaign with very much foreign policy experience, so at what point is there a danger of having assigned a narrative...

Full details of the attacks revealed themselves, the romney campaign doubled down on that statement, making clearly that it was not a mistake. the romney campaign isn't run by amateurs. they knew this statement was incendiary. they knew it would change the campaign, and presumably, they knew it was wrong. it conflates a statement from a terrified staffer in the egyptian gembassy, who was tryig to calm a potentially angry mob with the obama administration. it conflates unrest in egypt with the murder of an american diplomat among others in libya. and it accuses the obama administration of somet...