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Fray so deeply before this election. it is too dangerous to start using these kind of issues as political fray because they can go wild on the internet and end with this kind of mayhem we're seeing on the screen. >> let's talk about that a little bit. the response yesterday from last night, i should say, from the romney campaign to all this, the american embassy first released -- the american embassy in egypt first released a statement before all this violence erupted. it was an apparent response and a reference to this florida pastor we've been talking about apparently linked to the film that...

Maverick credentials, show what a leader he was and said i'll suspend my campaign. >> terrible decision. >> go there and fix the crisis. >> barack obama meanwhile handled it cooley and said i can walk and chew gum at the same time. i'm going to be a senator and go to washington and deal with this. the country saw a lot more calm, a lot more status and a lot more mo ma which you arty in barack obama in that moment and i think if you look at the grief that mitt romney's taking from this statement right now and again i think all justifiable, a similar effect on foreign policy and what comes away ...

Embargo shortly before midnight. actually as mike allen reported, they asked reporters not to release it till 12:01 so it wouldn't be 9/11 released this statement. "it's disgraceful that the obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." >> how stupid. >> well, it begs the question, what should the first response have been in a romney administration? send in the fifth marines? >> exactly. i know. >> what would the first response be? >> the stupidity -- and of course, we all feel the same thing. y...

And not impetuous. >> and in control. >> disciplined. >> right. >> you laid out a perfectly good strategy that the romney campaign should have followed. >> should hire you. >> call me maybe. >> a trade for them is -- too complicated. >> right. >> her's the problem for romney. as i see it. he's already been losing on the foreign policy question, losing to obama and dlats on the question of who do you trust with foreign policy? this may become in part a foreign policy election. the idea is maybe the moment to erase the advantage of barack obama had. what i'm remembering of the noise and the crit...

Statement of people trying to keep the peace and prevent attack on the embassy. do you think there was anything out of line about this statement or do you think this was a reasonable thing for an embassy in cairo to be doing? >> this was an absolutely reasonable thing for the embassy in cairo to be doing. politics in the united states notwithstanding. i would have issued or had authorized my public affairs staff to issue a similar statement for what essentially was a demonstration and try to calm things without knowledge, of course, how this violence was going to break out next door in libya. ...