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Weeks before an election, that al qaeda's not on the run. they're at the front door of our facility in benghazi, murdering our ambassador, and setting it on fire. heavens knows we can't make that admission. >> all right. congressman, thank you very much for being with us tonight. trey gowdy. >> yes, ma'am. so there is the view from capitol hill you just heard from trey gowdy, and then there is another view. mark teesen is a "washington post" columnist, also a presidential speechwriter in the bush white house. he joins us now. good evening. >> good to be with you, martha. >> what are your thoug...

Struggle against violent extremism, the gsav. and it was absurd. we weren't at war with all violent extremists. we weren't at war with the i.r.a. and the tamil tigers. we were at war with islamic extremists. so even in the bush administration we had our struggles over whether to call it islamic or not. but we never struggled with whether to call it terrorism. and that's the problem that we're facing here today with benghazi. president obama didn't want to admit this was a terrorist attack. so i wish you could -- i wish we could blame this on sort of high-minded misguided foreign policy motive,...

Weeks before an election, that al qaeda's not on the run. they're at the front door of our facility in benghazi, murdering our ambassador, and setting it on fire. heavens knows we can't make that admission. >> all right. congressman, thank you very much for being with us tonight. trey gowdy. >> yes, ma'am. so there is the view from capitol hill you just heard from trey gowdy, and then there is another view. mark teesen is a "washington post" columnist, also a presidential speechwriter in the bush white house. he joins us now. good evening. >> good to be with you, martha. >> what are your thoug...

>> well, success looks like millions of people with affordable health coverage. >> so you're changing your standing -- >> i said success looks like millions. >> actually you said 7 million. >> i think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of march 2014. >> it is called videotape and all of the television stations have it. mark, i got to run, quick final word. >> they're moving their red lines again. >> see you soon. >> thank you, megyn. >> speaking of videotape, as i say all the tv stations have it but not everyone cosmo to spend a whole lot of time using it ...

Paid for coverage. we have no idea. and then a republican upset in florida, despite the fact that democrats spent almost four times more money than republicans and even recruited both vice president joe biden and bill clinton to campaign for the democrat there. she lost in a district that president obama carried not once but twice when he ran for president. and today, the job approval shows it is tanking, 41%, a 20-point fall from the numbers he enjoyed back in 2009. mark teesen is a former speech writer to president george bush and a fellow at the george washington institute. what do you make...