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Taking a leave of absence along with her producer. their october 27th report featured a security contractor who claimed among other things that he tried to fight off the attackers from inside that embassy compound. the contractor's story was later discredited, and logan made an on-air apology. the benghazi assault happened back on september 11, 2012. it led to the deaths of four americans, including the u.s. ambassador chris stevens. and alec baldwin's show on the cable network msnbc is not coming back. this just one week after the network suspended the actor for a rant on a paparazzi. a ran...

Been broadcast at all. >> discredited pretty quickly, i might add. >> and cbs shouldn't have dug in their heels. >> brian, we appreciate you. now host of reliable sources. congratulations. we'll talk next hour. you have something else we're going to chat about as well. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> i want to move on and talk about tails of double-agent spies, interrogations, millions of dollars in cash payoffs. it is not cold war fiction. it is an actual cia program that began in the aftermath of 9/11. the goal was this, to recruit terror detainees at guantanamo bay and turn them into doubl...

But it's big news here because "60 minutes" is the most esteemed, most prestigious news magazine on american television. it's the kind of magazine that doesn't make mistakes. that's why it's going to get so much attention today. >> brian, why did it take them so long? >> you know, it's been exactly 30 days since this was broadcast. what the standards record which came out about an hour ago, suggests is that this shouldn't have gotten on the air in the first place. this report shouldn't have been broadcast at all. once it was broadcast, cbs did exactly the wrong thing. they got up against the w...

Seems more like alec baldwin didn't want to do it anymore. msnbc sure didn't want him to do it, so they went their separate ways. i think he probably quit, but if he hadn't quit, he probably was going to feel the shove sooner rather than later. >> in terms of the shove, tell me this, brian. you have martin bashir, another host on msnbc, apologized for a horrible remark he made about sarah palin. it is so graphic, i am not repeating it here on television. he didn't even get suspended, so where's the logic there? >> i don't know if there is logic. maybe that's why msnbc hasn't fully explained th...

Around for a while. so far, though, they haven't taken any disciplinary action. >> we're watching. we know you are. and brian, before i let you go, welcome once again to the cnn family from "the new york times." we're thrilled to have you here. there's a little initiation i want to get you through quickly that we do on my show with our new colleagues. we're going to do a little word association. you with me? >> i'm with you. let's try it. >> okay. i'm going to throw one thing out and you tell me what first comes to mind. wolf blitzer. >> the face of cnn's political coverage. >> morning televis...