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Request. these are questions the president has to answer. i don't think six weeks after the attack does anybody believe that the president of the united states doesn't know whether there was a security request? there would be records of this. >> greta: do the voters care about this? >> mitt romney is out there making speeches every day and doesn't bring this up. a lot of people willing to bring it up and a lot of folks in the conservative movement and just independent journalists want this to be a beggar issue and brought to the forefront. i don't think the romney campaign thinks this moves vo...

Ed? >> reporter: good to see you, megyn. this was a flash point as you say in the debate. they had a lot of confrontations. but the one over libya stands out. this was the first time the president had been directly confronted by a voter about this situation who asked him why the security request had been turned down by his administration, the request for more security in libya. what the president was doing, wait appeared he was doing was rewriting history a little bit by saying that on 9/12, the day after the terror attack in benghazi he had called it an acts of terror. he more generally said ...

Really capture that. >> we have now, in the media, more benghazi fatigue or more on snegs obsession? >> fatigue, for sure. i think it is -- i don't think that it did establish she was a passive leader. i think it established there are maybe some things that need to be revamped. and i think, but if -- >> leaders want -- >> this is the thing that republicans keep saying that's not true. she didn't ignore the security request. >> it didn't come to her. >> okay. >> buried in the hearing was the fact that she created an atmosphere there. she didn't get any direct information. she let other people m...

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