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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 officials were helping guard the compound. there ...

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...

United states and posted on a youtube account. more on that film in a moment. by late afternoon, the compass embassy was reiterating its statement on twitter, one of the tweets read, "of course we condemn breaches of our compound. we're the ones actually living through this." a short time later, the state department confirmed the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, was under attack. searches for the british monitoring group called it a well-planned assault that occurred in two wavs. the sources said the attack involved a group of about 20 militants and included heavy artillery, machine...

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...