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with libya sure to come up tomorrow night. senator lindsey graham this weekend accusing the white house of a cover-up. >> they're trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that the mideast, the wars are receding and al qaeda's been dismantled. they believe believed the media would investigate. congress was out of session, and this caught up with them. >> on the trail today, paul ryan stumping in his home state before heading this hour to ohio. >> and in wisconsin, we have shown that if leaders step up and lead, we as voters have their backs. we haven't dedicated our electoral votes since 1984 to the republican nominee. it is time we change that. >> and a laugh a minute. "snl's" take on joe biden and paul ryan. >> first of all, i want to thank centre college for hosting us this evening. >> oh, boy, here we go. oh, man. >> four years ago president obama made a promise. that he would bring down unemployment below 6%. >> oh, this guy. i mean -- >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. tomorrow night's debate could be another turning point. mitt romney will try to extend the gai

and senator lindsey graham is demanding answers. >> did anyone inform the president of the united states about the terrorist attacks on the consulate? what did he know and when he did know about it? >> dana: we'll try to get to bottom of that when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] start with nothing, build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you've ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display... [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash, give it park assist. the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home, his work here is done. destroy time machine. win some awards, send in brady. that's how you do it. easy. ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back. south carolina senator lindsey graham sent a letter to president obama demanding answers on libya. he wants to know what action, if any, was taken after our consulate was attacked two separate times in april and june befor

lindsey graham and illinois democratic senator dick durbin weighing in. listen. >> we should have closed that conflict long before september 11th or heavily reinforced that. i put that on the president of the united states. this is a national security breakdown before, during, and after the attack. >> we lost over 230 marines in the bar rackracks in beirut, le, under president ronald reagan. these attacks are part of living in a dangerous world. >> jamie: joining me now is the ageanchor of "fox news sunday" s chris wallace. does senator dur whip wan durbie american people to accept the deaths of four americans slaughtered at the consulate as part of the living in a dangerous world? >> no. i was struck by that comment. he goes on and one of the things he says is that there's going to be an investigation, and we shouldn't rush to judgment, and we should wait to see what the investigation shows. i, then, say well, you know, a sinic or a skeptic might suggest that that investigation will end two weeks -- we'll get the results of it twho week two it r the election. there are some politics at

apologizing for his son's remarks. senator lindsey graham is leading the charge that the obama administration was involved in a deliberate cover-up over the response to the deadly afak in libya. >> they never believed the media would investigate and congress was out of session and this caught up with them. >> will the president have an opportunity tomorrow during the foreign policy discussion of the debate to push back on this allegation from graham and others? patrick gaspar from the dnc will join me live. plus, three states consider laws to legalize pot for recreational use. if they pass that would be in direct conflict with federal law. why hasn't the government come out against the law? i'll talk with ryan grimm who has written extensively on this particular topic and join our conversation on twitter. find us at @tamron hall and at @newsnation. follow the wings. victor! victor! i got your campbell's chunky soup. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. the giants don't have a mascot! ohhh! eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. hmmm. for giant

.s. consulate in libya has now become campaign fodder. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham is accusing the administration of a coverup. but the top democrat on the house committee investigating that attack says the accusation is quote ridiculous conspiracy stuff. >>> republicans and democrats alike are paying tribute this morning to former senator arlen specter. the moderate republican turned democrat from pennsylvania who served 30 years in the senate died yesterday of complications from non-hodgkin's lymphoma. he was known for being fiercely independent and for also being a man of the people. >> i remember as a kid, he would be down in the stands at three rivers stadium at steelers games introducing himself, just getting to know, he wanted to know the whole stadium. i think people will look back and say, that is what an elected official is supposed to do, even if it is not convenient or is difficult at times. arlen specter always did that. >> his funeral is tomorrow. vice president joe biden has postponed campaign events in order to attend. former senator arlen specter wa

lindsey graham charged the administration people didn't want to know al qaeda remains a threat. >>> either they are misleading the american people incredibly incompetent, there was no way with anybody looking at all that five days after the attack it was based on a riot that never occurred. to say that you're either very incompetent or misleading. >> ambassador father's said he doesn't want his son's death to become a campaign issue. he said the security issue has to be objectively examined. >>> the 14-year-old pakistani girl shot by the taliban has been moved to england for medical treatment. the next few days are critical for malala yousufzai. she was shot in the head by the taliban nearly a week ago for promoting girls education and criticizing the militant group. pakistani doctors say she needs more surgery and rehabilitation. >> funeral services will be held tomorrow for arlen specter. he died yesterday following a long battle with cancer. he was 82 years old. specter was a republican turned democrat who was ousted from office. sharyl attkisson has our report. >> reporter: during most

lindsey graham.durbin anx news sunday." then it's been a roller-coaster ride in the polls. we'll talk numbers with the man in charge of gallup, the granddaddy of polling firms, frank newport. >> we'll ask our sunday panel what to expect in the race to the finish line. from a a tense debate to laughs over dinner, it was quite a week on the trail. and hello again from fox news in washington. with 16 days 'til the election president obama and 0 governor romney meet one last time monday night for a debate on foreign policy. we want to preview the issues with a debate of our own. dick durbin joins us from his home state of illinois. a top republican on foreign policy, senator lindsey graham is in his home state of south carolina. let's start with breaking news. a report in today's "new york times" that iran and the u.s. agreed in principal to one-on-one talks about iran's nuclear program. the white house said last night they have not agreed to talks but that the u.s., the administration, is open to the idea. senator graham, let me start with you, what do you think of one-on-one talks with

are john mccain and lindsey graham. so they are now in a very different place. he always was an effective economic president and almost redeems himself by bringing peace to the middle east. she is off doing incredibly important work in new york and she becomes an independent person one more time. they are still together, they still are in love but now she is the person in charge and her career is at stake. we have never had this kind of story in the american white house. we have never had this kind of personal chemistry, personal chemistry which both incredibly enriches our understanding of what to face during those years and also leaves us with an abundance of unanswered questions. mabus your turn to ask the questions and i will answer. thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen if you have a question for professor chafe please come up to the microphone and please ask as a question, no statements on the introduction which would be appropriate. [laughter] >> i can't see that many hands some people off to start walking up to the microphone. >> i had 25 questions the other night. [laughter]

level. there is a question as to whether that will be part of the matter. we have senator lindsey graham writing a letter to president obama saying that we had two attacks in april and june. and they blew a 40-foot hole through the fence that surrounded it. were you aware and why not? did you take even seriously? we don't have a response yet, but can she or the white house stave off responsibility even if they do come out and say it is secretary clinton's fault. >> not if we have a press that is demanding real answers and not only predebate choreographed interviews where she jumps on the grenade before he faces met romney again. they are leaking out information today or last night about planned strikes against the militants involved. they are still leaking out intelligence, despite what we know from intelligence officials in the field. what they have said and how that damages their ability to operate in the field. it seems like there are a lot of politics going on. national security credentials are being thrown about in a hotly contested debate. the decision making is being called into q

. interesting that we -- fox has learned tonight that senator lindsey graham the republic from south carolina is firing off a letter to the president with some pointed questions. if you look at these he says quote: mr. president were you informed of some of these attacks on our consulate. two attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. if not, why not? do you consider these serious events? if you were informed, what action was taken to protect the consulate. those were the two previous times the consulate were targeted back in april and june. lindsey graham trying to attack to the heart of the matter here. the third and final presidential debate next thursday night in florida. that's foreign policy not domestic at all. some of those questions may be coming up, shep. >> shepard: ed henry live in williamsburg, virginia. registered voters are expected to ask most of the voters. selected them from sample of people there in nassau county on long island where hofstra is located. gallup reported it asked each person a series of questions and selected those reporters who signaled that they were still

, that there is no agreement for the administration to meet with iranian leaders after the election. lindsey graham, who's one of the top surrogates for morm, was on fox news sunday and he did address the issue this morning. >> i think the iranians are trying to take advantage of our election cycle to continue to talk. as we talk with the iranians, whether it's bilaterally or unilaterally, they continue to enrich. >> here you have lindsey graham, talking about this story, about whether there will be one-on-one negotiations. mitt romney was asked this question today. he chose not to answer it. as you said, don, this is all about foreign policy, or maybe it's not. tomorrow night's debate certainly will be centered on that. they'll be talking about israel and iran. they'll be talking about afghanistan and pakistan. they'll be talking about china. don, they will also be talking about the economy. that's the number one issue in this election. >> that is the number one issue in this election. foreign policy has i think 4% people think it's a priority when it comes to who they're going to vote for. how important is

of terrific young leaders coming up. >> lindsey graham, who was on earlier, said in a moment of honesty, that we may not have enough grumpy old white men left soon to continue the party as it is. the demographic changes in this country are so powerful-- >> today's party-- >> right now, congress has-- democrats in the senate and republicans in the house, has a 10% job approval rate. qacoffee had a 14% rating and that's among the people who killed him. >> you're not advocate-- >> schieffer: i want to do my focus group. what happens next in the campaign and what does your person have to do and i'll start with bay, go down this way, and come back this way. >> we have to keep the momentum. we have enormous momentum across the board as is indicated in every one of these states. and what the governor has to do and will do is be exactly who he was at that last debate, be himself. get out there and let the american people know the kind of amazing leader, he has competence and experience and know-how to turn this country around and put america back to work. we doll it in the next two debates. >>

with o bob schieffer on face the nation senator lindsey graham a senior member of the senate arms services committee was harsh. >> i think they have been misleading us but it finally caught up with us. >> schieffer: that is a very serious charge that you have just leveled, senator graham. are you saying that the administration deliberately mislead the american people to make it look as if terrorism is not as much of a threat as apparently it is? >> either they are misleading the american people or incredibly incompetent they are very political when it comes to foreign policy. when something goes bad, they deny, they deceive and they delay. >> reporter: libya became an issue last week on the campaign trail, especially after thursday's vice presidential debate when joe biden said the white house wasn't informed of multiple requests for more security at the consullate. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security. >> reporter: obama campaign advisor david axelrod tried to deflect criticism sunday by pointing the finger at romney. >> i can te

of the u.s. consulate in libya. lindsey graham suggested the administration deliberately covered up details. they're trying to sell a narrative that the mideast, the wars are receding and al qaeda has been dismantled, and to admit our embassy was attacked by al qaeda operatives and libya did not work undercuts that narrative. they didn't believe media would investigate, congress was out of session and this caught up with them. there was no way with anybody looking at all that you could believe five days after the attack that it was based on a riot that never occurred. there was no riot at all. to say that, you are either incompetent or misleading. >>> democrats are dismissing these as politically moetivated allegations. >>> the 14-year-old girl shot last week by the taliban for promoting girls education is now heading to britton for specialized treatment. malala yousufzai was reportedly flown out of the country today in an air ambulance provided by the united arab emirates. it comes six days after she was attacked in pakistan by a gunman while riding home in a school van last tuesday. she w

think wendell for that great interview today. republican senator lindsey graham, he sits on the armed services committee. he weighed in on all of this on fox and friends. >> the secretary of states responsible for the the president's duty of protecting against al qaeda and the radical islamists. in april, an ied was thrown over the wall. in june, there was a hole blown in the wall. the northern gate was penetrated. four days later, the british ambassador in benghazi was attacked. the red cross was attacked. the office in benghazi, did anyone ever inform the informed the president of the united states about these terrorist attacks and conflicts? what did he know, when did he know it, and how did he do it? it would be stunning if our national security team did not know anything about this. i find it almost impossible to believe. jenna: senator graham also sending a letter to president and asking obama if he was informed of the attacks on our consulate. if not, why not? the letter goes on to ask the president considered the event serious and whether he took any action to prevent the atta

in there and take the guy out or get him before that debate. >> andrea: lindsey graham came out and said the reason they have done this, they have been strong on foreign policy. they needed to cover up the fact that they dropped the ball. that's why they need this contradicting narrative about a video. he also said listen, he should have secured that embassy long ago. is the president going to have to come clean about that monday night, you think? >> dana: yeah, because they can't keep the story straight. we have a situation american citizen was arrested for first amendment right. he took blame for several days, two weeks, from the highest level of the government that he was responsible for the death of four americans. someone needs to take responsibility for getting that so wrong. whoever is working with him, catch him whatever way they need to do it. >> andrea: isn't that another contradiction. the president came out and bragged at the debate saying i said we'd get those guys. f.b.i. is heading in there. now we have intel of who it is and they can't capture him. >> greg: they change their stories

lindsey graham. gentlemen, welcome back to "hannity." >> thank you. >> we played what the vice president said. coupled with what the president said tonight on jon stewart, i'll play it for you. the question will be did they lie to the american people? watch what he said last night. >> every piece of information that we get, as we got it, we laid it out for the american people. >> congressman did the vice president and the president of the united states lie? >> i come to that conclusion, sean. >> look it what the president said and secretary clinton said and they have not been hon west the american people. intelligence community foreshadowed for months terrorism was abound, terrorism was happening. al-qaeda was flying flags. they come out after the attack and say we think it was a video? this is all classified intelligence. >> all right, now, senator graham. there are videos of all of this. that prove from day one, the intelligence knew it was not spontaneous. intelligence knew it was not related to this video. will -- did they lie in your opinion and should those tapes be released? >> th

on the internet. and republican senators john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte yesterday sent their second letter to the cia director and other intel leaders asking in part whens intelligence community decided it was a terrorist attack. they write, our questions should not be hard to answer, and the american people have a right to learn what our intelligence communities knew about events of september 11th, 2012, and when they knew it. congressman buck mckeon, chair of the house armed services committee, says the president's team keeps, quote, digging a bigger hole. >> this to me, it looks like they're trying to hush this whole thing up, hope it goes away, and wait till after the election. they're wrong. the american people are getting engaged in this. everywhere i go, people talk to me about this. they're concerned. >> but democrats are pushing back, saying republicans are using this tragedy to, quote, score political brownie points. >> barack obama is no more responsible for what happened in benghazi than george bush was responsible for 9/11 or ronald reagan was responsible for the marine

. the american people deserve better. >> also g.o.p. senators mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte sent a second letter to the nation's intelligence leaders again asking them to clarify what they told the obama administration. the senators write your lack of response is inhibiting our ability to perform our duties. >> i'm troubled by the way the incident is unfolding. >> they're not being responsive. >> republican congressman peter king chairman of the house homeland security committee also has written to president obama asking him to release intelligence documents related to the attack. juliet? >> juliet: molly henneberg live in washington. thank you for the report. >> rick: getting chilling account of threats against the u.s. consulate in benghazi before the deadly attack on september 11. according to the state department documents by the republican lawmakers the late ambassador chris stevens medal several attempts to alert u.s. authorities to increasing unrest and violence in benghazi. three other americans were killed in that attack. coming up tomorrow, bret baier takes a look at th

. as lindsey graham stated, look this messed up the narrative on terrorism. from on high or further down, people want to cover it up. that is what we have going on. noise on it. >> geraldo: you have in terms of iran. move on. i'll talk more about the benghazi gate with pete king. the iran and nukes the republicans fear the democrats' plan or administration of barack obama plan an october surprise to announce that they will stop the drive to nuclear weapon. white house is denying it. do you figure it could be october surprisevoing iran? >> for the good of the security i hope there. is get politics out of this. someone to led men and women in war, i support this approach to make them hurt. sanctions, diplomatic and otherwise. before we have to use the militarying ons to get the nuclear weapons. you should have seen the reports. the currency has fallen in value. unemployment skyrocketing. they can't sell the oil. it dropped one-third. yesterday the european union putting more squeeze on them. we have to try to stop them from getting the nuclear weapons. >> geraldo: you would applause one wh

right. fox news alert now. republican senator lindsey graham slamming the white house in a new letter this morning. after secretary of state hillary clinton claims responsibility for the security failures that led to the u.s. consulate attack in libya that killed four americans. the letter asks this question. if the president was aware that there were two prior ied attacks against that consulate just months before in april and in june? and it says, quote, to the president, this letter, did you consider these serious events? if you were informed, what action was taken to protect the consulate? here's what secretary of state hillary clinton said that touched off this firestorm. listen. >> well, i'm responsible for the state department, for more than 60,000 people around the world. the decisions about security assets are made by security professionals but we're going to review everything to make sure that we're doing what needs to be done in increasingly risky environment around the world. there's no doubt that our men and women from the state department, u.s. aid, the rest of the govern

. we got a report. sources tell fox that senator lindsey graham accept a letter to the white house asking the white house for answers to this question. after the june 6th bombing in benghazi in the consulate, what exactly did you do, sir, administration, white house? they're asking for answers. >> it gets more deeper and complicated. >> we report. we ask the questions. you decide. >> you're up. >> earlier we were talking about the debate and there was a question and how the format is. this is what i was told, okay. the attendees have written in questions. those questions have been given to candy crowley so she knows in advance what they are. she calls i on the people in the audience. the question was can she ask a follow up to that. i think she said yes, i can. >> that was clear, dana. >> the candidates don't like that. otherwise, what is the point? >> i'm going to try to be as ultimately serious here which is unusual for me. i'll show you a t-shirt that appeared at a mitt romney concert or excuse me, a rally. >> a concert. >> it says put the white back in the white house. let me s

that as a way to cover for the vice-president. but if i can add one point to what lindsey graham said, he explained, i think, absolutely correctly why they tried to cover up, because it contradicted their story. bin laden dead, spiking of the football in charlotte. there was another factor here. how could they have thought they would get away with it? they already knew by sunday, in other words, when susan rice went on the air, they knew right away it was a terror attack, and they had real-time following of the events in benghazi, real-time access to what was happening on the night it happened at the state department in washington, so they knew there was no riot. there wasn't a mob. there wasn't a demonstration. why did they think they could actually get away with that? i think part of the answer is they thought that the media would not dash would not work on it, and look at the way they handled it. they went after romney ease statement for three days. ambassador killed for the first time in 30 years, and that was the whole media analysis for three days, and they thought the media's not g

a quick response from john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte, wrote in a statement -- this is ayotte replacing senator lieberman as the three amigos. it is clear, senator lieberman decided to take a step away. clinton weighed in on the stakes for her boss in tonight's debate. >> i think he'll do fine. i think he just has to get out there and talk about what he's done for the country and wants to do the next four years. >> tonight's debate has the chance to put space for the candidates, both men face challenge, show passion without being aggressive, sell their vision for the country, you know, and actually win this election. this morning, i spoke to new york's democratic senator, chuck schumer, about the debate taking place tonight in his home state. how important is it for president obama? >> i think it's fright important for the president but i have a lot of confidence in him. i think, you know, he knows it wasn't his best performance last time and he is a fight, he's win. and you know, he has -- sort of an easy case to make and that is that the real mitt romney is this and in the d

of politicizization on romney's part. i was on a sunday show this past sunday, funny, and they had on lindsey graham and darrell issa bashing away at the administration on this and saying things i didn't think were true and the administration did not make anybody available to get to these points that i think are pretty well established now. so they kind of lost the politics of this. even though i think the facts are not that bad for them. >> initially they thought they had won this. romney came out and gave what by all accounts was a very bad performance condemning the president right away, and i happened to sit in a focus group of undecided voters a couple days later and every one of them to a person was really kind of incensed and offended at romney's behavior. initially the white house didn't see this as something they necessarily was a negative and was, in fact, a kind of a positive from a crass, raw politics standpoint. >> but it's -- i think part of the problem is the information has come out in dribs and drabs. secretary of state -- we have u.s. -- we have our u.n. ambassador susan rice sayin

say to senator ayotte and lindsey graham and other senators who say that the president was either not informed or covering up? >> i will say this, that the shamelessness of that interview is really remarkable. the notion that anybody wants to find out what happened more in benghazi than barack obama, we have to figure out what happened and make sure it never happens again. but the lengths to which so many people in the republican party are going to play politics with this issue, i think is startling. ambassador stevens' own father said this shouldn't be a political issue. we should figure out what's going on. this president and administration have passed on the information that they've had when they've had it to the american people. it's not been deceptive, it's not been misleading in any way, shape, or form. >> let's talk about tonight and the debate. this is a town hall format as you know very well. you helped prepare barack obama for that format four years ago. what is the bigger challenge now tonight given his weak acknowledged weak performance in denver, how does he get aggre

and the hill is going to keep up this attack as you say kelly ayotte, lindsey graham and the others. they see a vulnerability. this is a way to brig it down a notch or two or three. president obama's very high ratings on handling national security. >> if he's asked tonight does the puck stop with you regarding what happened in libya, despite what secretary clinton has said, is there a right or wrong answer or any answer he gives will be politicized tonight and tomorrow and beyond perhaps before the election? >> i'm sure they have thought this through, and depending on how the question is framed, it's more appealing, i think, when people are already suspicious and kept cskeptical and these a undecided voters by the gallup organization. it's always berlt given the way people think about politicians to try and take sfont yourself. harry truman was popular for that, and decades and decades later it stands true. >> all right. andrea mitchell, great pleasure as always. enjoy the evening. can't wait to see what happens in a few hours. president obama and governor romney supporters square off in our

professionals. >> brown: republicans, however, weren't buying it. in a statement senators john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayot said if the president was truly not aware of this rising threat level in benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team whose responsibility it is to keep the president informed. indeed what happened in libya has become the cutting-edge for republican criticism of president obama's overall response to upheavals in the middle east. vice presidential candidate paul ryan said as much during last week's debate. >> this benghazi issue would be a tragedy in and of itself, but unfortunately it's indicative of a broader problem, and that is what we are watching on tv screens is the unraveling of the obama foreign policy which is making the world more chaotic and us less safe. >> reporter: democrats in turn charged that the romney-ryan camp is simply playing politics with the benghazi attack. on sunday obama campaign strategist david axle rod again criticized romney's initial response. >> he jumped in right away the day of these attacks with half inf

, what republicans like lindsey graham say, it's time for the president to step up. take a listen. >> did anyone ever inform the president of the united states about these terrorist attacks on our consulate? what did he know, when did he know it, and what did he do about it? it would be stunning to me for our national security team not to inform the president back in april and june, and it's stunning to me that the vice president denies any knowledge of the security situation in banghazi, libya. >> in fact, while secretary clinton was saying this was contained within the state department, andy card, the former chief of staff for president bush, told fox today that intelligence like that, while it may have originated at the state department, eventually would have made its way to the white house. at least the national security council, if not the president himself. shep? >> shepard: ed henry at hofstra university. though secretary clinton took responsibility last nights, today through stephanie cutter of the obama campaign the president took responsibility as well. he says he takes responsi

from his campaign speech. senator lindsey graham is demanding answers from the president and joins. nice to see you, senator. >> thank you. i'm from wisconsin, believe it or not,. >> greta: oh, the great state of wisconsin. >> people love you out here. >> greta: you wrote a letter on a couple days ago to the president, and you identified two prior incidents that the consulate in banghazi, one in april and one in june. the one in june blowing a big enough hole in the perimeter, that 40 people could march through, and you asked the president did you consider these serious events. why did you ask that? >> well, to be fair to the president, i don't expect that the request for 12 additional security personnel would go to president. that does go through the state department. i don't expect him to know the request, to keep 16 utah national guardsmen in libya for security. but i do expect him to know that banghazi was deteriorating over time, that our consulate was attacked twice. i can't imagine any white house -- and andy card addressed this directly -- if the consulate in banghazi is at

think she would basically try to work with people like lindsey graham, assuming he's in the u.s. senate and basically try to create these. i think obama thought he had that with boehner, and then it blew up in his face. hilary would have handled that differently, i think. >> the comment on several characters. jim and susan mcdewing l, james carville, and what lead to the suicide of vitamin sent foster. [whistling] >> how much time do we have? [laughter] first of all, jim mcdoug l is kind of a weird person. he has a lot of psychology abnormalities, and he is very manipulative, and, you know, when he proposed the white water deal, bill was not interested at all. hillary clinton thought was a great idea. it was basically her idea. jim is sick. susan, his wife, was an incredibly suffering person who never betrayed her confidence in and trust in the clintons. and she was treated scandalously by kenneth star who her e man kled and put her in solitary confinement. it was the horrible in which he treated her until she was able to get out of jail. james carville everybody to stand to talk about

but not more security. >> reporter: south carolina republican senator lindsey graham said the assault on the benghazi consulate was a national security breakdown before, during, and after the attack. harris? >> also part of the story, molly, democrats are pushing back on the state department 2k0789s suggesting republicans should not have made them public. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes. there were scores of state department documents related to the attack, and they were released by republican congressman darrell issa on friday. the documents also include names of some libyan nationals and democrats say releasing those documents endangers the lives of those libyans. >> this idea of chairman issa, that he will dump the names in public of libyans who are risking their lives to support america and keep us safe in an effort to get a political toe hold in this election is unconscionable. it's unacceptable. >> reporter: congressman issa strongly disagrees and argues that the documents that were released were not classified. harris? >> molly henneberg, thank you very much. sticker sho

group affiliated with al-qaeda. lindsey graham, spear carrier for john mccain is the one who's been leading the charge and he was on the sunday talk shows yesterday, making the point again that the administration was misleading americans. >> either they are misleading the american people or are incredibly incompetent. there was no way with anybody looking at all that you could believe five days after the attack that it was a riot. there was no riot at all. to say that, he's very incompetent or misleading. >> in fact as joe biden made clear in last week's debate, the administration was saying that because that's what they were being told by our people on the ground in benghazi. there was a lot of confusion at the time. during when the thing was going -- when this protest or incident, whatever you want to call it was going on or this attack was going on and in the days immediately following they weren't sure exactly how it got started, how it kind of escalated and who was behind it. lindsey graham actually goes on to make the totally outrageous statement that which republicans would r

. yesterday you have republicans like lindsey graham suggesting maybe there was a cover up while the president's top advisers like david axelrod said everything should calm down. >> this is the same administration that leaks every detail of classified operations that are successful. within a week you had three stories about cyber attacks against the iranian nuclear program, about disrupting the underwear bomber place. details of osama bin laden, all over the press showing how strong this administration was, they are very political when it comes to foreign policy. when something goes bad they deny, deceive and delay. >> we want to get to the bottom of it and the first order of business is to bring to justice those who committed this heinous act and secondly find out what went wrong and what adjustments need to be made to further secure our diplomats around the world. >> and here is how it ties into tomorrow night's debate at hofstra university. the topics will be split between domestic and foreign policy. libya can come up, that is something that could not have happened in denver when it was al

. jenna: that was south carolina republican senator lindsey graham over the weekend, highlighting what he sees as a looming crisis in the middle east. the senator also comparing the president's current response to the attack on our consulate in libya with president george w. bush's handling of the war in iraq. joining me now for his take on everything that is happening in the middle east including libya is ambassador david newden. he served as our ambassador both in yemen and iraq and in both republican and democratic administrations. he is now a scholar at the middle east institute. ambassador, nice to have you with us today. >> pleasure. jenna: like to go back to senator graham's first comment about the region about to explode in reference to the middle east. how would you characterize what is happening in that part of the world? >> well since the beginning of the arab spring we're in a period of tremendous turbulence and change in the middle east. much like we had in the '60s and '70s. it could easily go on for an entire decade. and this is not determined from people outside the region

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were killed in the september 11th attack on the american consulate in benghazi. now, lindsey graham of south carolina says the obama administration knew early on the incident was terror-related and not tied to anti-american protests. >> trying to sell a nare raw tiff that the middle east -- narrative that the middle east and -- >> there's nobody on this planet more concerned and more interested than getting to the bottom of this than the president of the united states. he feels personally responsible for every representative he sends around the world. >> well, the u.s. senate has conducted a bipartisan investigation of the attack and the obama administration's response to it. >>> a young girl from pakistan who was shot in the head by the taliban is now being moved to britain to be treated. early this morning, the 14-year- old was wheeled out of a pakistani hospital there on the stretcher. now, over the weekend doctors say she showed some signs of improvement. she was able to move her hands and feet. pakistan's military says she's gonna need a lot of medical care to newly recover fro

committee shot off a statement, john mccain, along with senators lindsey graham and kelly yayotte. if the president was not aware of the rising threat level in benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team. the security of americans serving in our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the commander in chief. the buck stops there. well, all of this back and forth over the libya attack come as head of the second presidential debate. is this helping or hurting president obama? with the debate now hour as way, white house correspondent dan lothian and political editor paul stein house joins us from the debate site at hofstra university. candy crowley is moderating debate. dan, let's start with you if we can. does the campaign think this is taking the pressure off the white house? will the timing of the clinton statement add to the controversy? do voters care about this issue? >> reporter: well it just might add to the controversy, because, yes, i mean, critics will look at the timing of all of this over the last several days, the white house ha

lindsey graham is on to something. certainly the president got high marks for taking responsibility that everybody worked for him and that's appreciated but still there's a lot more to this story. they did a good job deflecting a lot of the facts last night the president was charming, mitt romney was articulate. but this race right now is, and i think penny will agree, this race is no longer about the base. if it was about the base, the bases are coming, they're moving. the president had a base problem from the last election of energizing. it's about that small sliver in the middle, what the turnout models are and i would contend right now both ground games are working. i think the president would have collapsed more in the numbers without his early investment in the ground game. my estimate is they have around 6,000 people working, the governor has about the same working that small sliver last night. cnn was the real winner last night. it was a professional debate. i commend candy crowley from doing tremendous job. this information matters and these voters are watching as we see wh

that killed four americans. yesterday morning senator lindsey graham of south carolina who sits on the armed services committee suggested the administration deliberately covered up some of the details. >> they're trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that the mideast, the wars are receding and al qaeda's been dismantled. and to admit that our embassy was attacked by al qaeda operatives and libya leading from behind didn't work i think undercuts that narrative. they never believed the media would investigate. congress was out of session, and this caught up with them. there was no way with anybody looking at all that you could believe five days after the attack it was based on a riot that never occurred. there was no riot at all. so to say that, you're very incompetent or you're misleading. >> democrats are dismissing these allegations as political. david axelrod accusing mitt romney of cravenly trying to exploit the situation for political gain. >> i refer you back to the famous 47% tape in the spring where governor romney told in private told his supporters that he was waiting for a cri

to this response. kelly ayotte and lindsey graham and john mccain, senators, all of them said this. if the president was truly not aware of this rising threat level in benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team. the security of americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the commander in chief. the buck stops there. >>> meantime, a public memorial service will be held later today for the late ambassador chris stevens. it's going to take place in san francisco city hall. 4:15 p.m. local time this afternoon. >>> still ahead this morning on "starting point," she's a supermodel. but says she knows exactly what it's like to have flaws. tyra banks is going to join us to talk about how she's trying to show young women it's going to be flawsome. back in just a moment. [ female announcer ] ready for a taste of what's hot? check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic. >>> welcome

john mccain along with senators lindsey graham and senator ayotte released a statement. quote, if the president was truly not aware of this rising threat level in benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team. the security of americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the commander in chief. the buck stops there. end quote. as you might expect, president obama and governor romney out of the spotlight today as they prepare for tonight's debate. mitt romney's family is out on the campaign trail. romney's youngest son, craig, bragged about his dad to cnn's piers morgan and explained why governor romney wants to be preside president. >> you know, it's interesting. i ran into -- i've been touring around the country, had a chance to meet voters all over the place. i met a woman in nevada who owns a small beauty salon. she came up to me and said i've been in business for 30 years. these last four years have been the hardest i've ever gone through and i'm struggling to keep my business going. i need your dad to win or eye think

than to watch "fox news on sunday. martha: he will have senators dick durbin and lindsey graham. check your listings what time "fox news is on in your town. bill to you. bill: big focus on the state of florida and there are so many votes down here in the southeastern part much the states and electoral votes too in florida. back in 2008 barack obama was the winner in the sunshine state. he beat senator mccain by 3 minutes, 51-48%. where do you go whether you're a tkepl charlott democrat or republican to win votes. where do you find folks to support you in general in the southeast. these are blue counties around miami, heavily democratic in the southeast. republicans win the panhandle with the one sepg exception of tallahassee. between here and the northwest, where do you go? the swing voters, the independent voters in florida typically live right here along the interstate 4 corridor. i4 starts in tampa, runs up through orlando and orange k-rbgts up to daytona beach and volusia county. that's where you will see paul ryan and mitt romney later at daytona beach, a county barack obama one b

died and were murdered actually and on this program yesterday, lindsey graham from south carolina was on this program and he asked a really good question. i want you to watch it and then weigh in. >> my question is, did anyone ever inform the president of the united states about these terrorist attacks on our consulate? what did he know? when did he know it and what did he do about it? >> steve: there were attacks in april and june, i think somebody blew great big hole in the wall in june. the president of the united states should know about something like that. did he? >> i'm not in the white house anymore. >> steve: but you talked about this. >> gretchen: they're putting you out as a person to respond instead of the security people. >> i'm ready to admit that again, i don't sit in those meetings as brian said, i don't have the clearance to sit in each of those meetings. but i know this, that the president is concerned about what is happening in libya, what is happening throughout the middle east. i think one of the things that didn't go as highly covered as some events in the mi

sure that with lindsey graham and chuck schumer. we get back to the business. those are the bipartisan individuals who have been working on a proposal that we couldn't get to because the partnership bicker in washington, d.c., was so strong and the conservative elements of the republican party didn't want to bring it up. it's costing us million the in the products that we have to pick and ship overseas because we don't get awork force. we have to solve this problem and just like the tbhail passed out of the senate before, we're going pass it again and make sure this time the house of representatives gets the job done. baumgartner: once again, we have twelve year record of failure. it's something that has to be addressed for humanitarian reasons, national security reasons. it's somebody else's fault. i think it's unfortunate the president elected to cothis way. the issue with immigration reform it needs to be sequenced correctly. it we don't solve the system, in terms of having secure border greatly expanding the number and efficiency of the guest worker visa we're not going solve the p

want to make sure that with lindsey graham and chuck schumer we get back to the business, the bipartisan individuals working proposal we cannot get to because the partisan bickering in washington, d.c., was so strong and conservative elements of the republican party to not want to bring it up. it is costing us millions and the products that we have to pick and ship overseas because we don't get a work force. we have to solve this problem, and just like the bill that passed the senate before, we will pass it again and this time it should the house gets the job done. >> mr. baumgartner? >> once again, 12 years of a record of failure. this has to be addressed for humanitarian reasons, economic reasons, and i had a lot of concern over the growth of illegal immigrants see under president bush. it has gone to a new level under president obama. the issue is it needs to be sequenced correctly. if we don't solve the system in terms of having secure borders, greatly expanding the number and efficiency of our guest worker visas, we will not solve the problem in a sustainable way. we

that should be released and this is senator lindsey graham and congressman chaffets they want the tapes released so we could get more information. >> the tapes should be released. they are either incredibly confident. they are stonewalling us all. thank god for a republic-controlled house. do you think we would know much of anything if it hadn't been for jason and darryl? they are not being forth coming. have to drag it out of them. >> the president said on that hard hitting interview with jon stewart as the information becomes available we share it with the american people. then, mr. president, show us that video. >> nothing like that is going to happen this weekend right now because both can tarkts president obama now at camp date hunkered down for this next and final debate down there in boca rotan florida. governor romney also practice iting for this debate. >> that may be where we get answers. it is about foreign policy. libya will come up. you remember what it flap it caused when it came up in the last debate when the president tried tried to say he first called it a terror attack

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