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Has for basically the entire campaign. he received little to no bump from his convention and watched obama enjoy a significant polling bounce out of his. the economy just isn't proving sufficient to beat obama. that means that the romney campaign strategy isn't proving sufficient to beat obama, which means they need to change it on the fly. when campaigns are losing, they get a little desperate like that. and when they get desperate, they begin making riskier decision. and so tuesday night, the romney campaign made a very, very risky decision. they released this at the same time. "i'm outraged...

There is a saying in american politics. no campaign is ever as good as it looks when it is winning, nor as bad as it looks when it is losing. in mitt romney's comments on libya, you see part of the reason why campaigns end up looking so very bad when they are losing. a few months ago, the romney campaign had a clear theory of the race. to keep the focus on the economy. when other issues came up, they had a clear strategy for dealing with them. you acknowledge the issue, you put out some restrained comment. and if possible, you end by saying, and we need to remain focused on the economy. everyt...

United states. do we have a sense of what group carried it out, at all? i mean, there are clearly factions vying for this, and there was a protest, as hillary mentioned, we knew at least something about. do we know if it was even the folks who were protesting? >> we don't know specific organizations. none have taken responsibility yet. there's been a lot of speculation, but i think it would be ill of us to focus on things that we don't actually know. but something that really did come across from some of the details that came out was that this wasn't americans versus libyans. libyan security o...

Response to the attacks on u.s. diplomatic installations in egypt and libya, attacks that left four americans the dead. romney hastily released a statement late last night that read, "i'm outraged by the attacks on american diplomatic missions in america and egypt and the attack on a american consulate worker in benghazi. it's disgraceful that obama administration first response was to condemn attacks on our diploma ikic missions, but to sympathize with the protesters." some republicans have been quick to defend him. south carolina senator jim demint released a at the same time today that read...

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 really nothing about where it's 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 s...