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Is whether i have the discipline and judgment to be president. i think that's a perfectly fair question. >> is this a fair example? in other words, this notion that, somehow, obama's anti-american, that he is not on america's team, that he doesn't love america. are you prepared right now to say, both on behalf of yourself and to other republicans out there that this is nonsense, we ought to put this to rest? >> look, i think he loves america. i think he has a very different vision of what america is. >> what is that? >> well, for example, he gives a speech at the national defense university on...

Is whether i have the discipline and judgment to be president. i think that's a perfectly fair question. >> is this a fair example? in other words, this notion that, somehow, obama's anti-american, that he is not on america's team, that he doesn't love america. are you prepared right now to say, both on behalf of yourself and to other republicans out there that this is nonsense, we ought to put this to rest? >> look, i think he loves america. i think he has a very different vision of what america is. >> what is that? >> well, for example, he gives a speech at the national defense university on...

>> what is that? >> well, for example, he gives a speech at the national defense university on libya in which he cites the united nations and the arab league eight times and the u.s. congress once. now, i just think there's a little bit of imbalance there. >> you don't think he believes in american exceptionalism? >> i don't. i'm fairly confident if you look at the -- now, he's learned recently how to say it, but if you go back and look at the first two years of his presidency, it was a real change, a real -- >> all right. >> but let me talk about me for a second, not about president obama. on...

Heavy damage. a libyan government spokesman called it an assassination attempt. the u.s. military said he was not the target. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in benghazi, libya. richard, is that to be believed they were not trying to knock off gadhafi by going after the personal office? >> reporter: it's very hard to see how it wouldn't be perceived that way if you are in libya. imagine if a foreign government attacks the white house and then says, well, we weren't exactly trying to kill the president. we were just trying to destroy some command and control issues there s...

Basically side with the rebels and say, we've got to really go in there and help them. but here's lindsey graham, his longtime ally from south carolina, on libya. let's listen to lindsey graham. >> it is leading to a military stalemate. right now, there's just not enough moment by the rebels, even if they're better armed, to break through to tripoli. there's not deep support for gadhafi. so my recommendation to nato and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off. go to tripoli, start bombing gadhafi's inner circle, their compounds, their military headquarters in tripoli. >> do we h...