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Settlement against citigroup was only reached after a delay caused by the u.s. catching the benghazi suspect, which actually turned out to give negotiators more time to reach that deal. the captures also muted some of the politics of benghazi, which were once at watergate levels for many republicans on the attack. >> nobody died in watergate. >> more serious than watergate? >> absolutely. >> all that drama you may remember led house republicans to create a special committee devoted to reinvestigating the attacks in may. congress has previously conducted seven investigations. now the new commit...

Sorry. for uninsured -- >> no. 50 million americans who are uninsured are going to have the ability to have insurance. and at the end of the day, 159 million americans who, you know, nonelderly americans who have preexisting conditions will have access to health care. >> i look at this from a different perspective. i want to go back to about the lying about the lying. there are several of us who have had the privilege of working in the white house. there is something call the staffing process. you put the president's remarks through and senior staff gets to sign off. those folks knew the presi...

End of story. >> mark thiessen is a former speech writer for president george w. bush. you are uh the man to talk to. you have intricate knowledge into how presidential speeches and comments are crafted and vetted. the journal reports today, quote, some white house policy advisers objected to the breadth of mr. obama's keep your plan promise. they were overruled by political aides. your thoughts? >> it's unbelievable. look. the president didn't say if we like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan. he said if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. the fact is they w...

Of the executive orders that he was signing, he didn't know he was giving steve bannon a permanent seat on the national security council. during your time with george w. bush, did he ever sign an executive order when he didn't know the contents? >> not to my knowledge, particularly one that's high profile and generates some criticism or controversy. i view that as a failure of staffing. there's a staffing process that exists within the white house to make sure that all appropriate personnel within the white house and within the affected agencies comment on an executive order, and the chief of ...

I remember interviewing harry reid when he was senate majority leader back in 2009, and my understanding is that mitch mcconnell did exactly do that with quite a number of nominees. in fact, the sort of staffing process slowed to a halt, particularly on judicial nominees. >> absolutely. >> but this was not something that they were reticent to use back in 2009. >> absolutely. the process that everyone saw with merrick garland saw with hundreds of nominees and obviously we have the ability to do that, not just with the cabinet secretaries but with all of their deputies and appointees. we don't w...