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With Benghazi ghost lingering, did Susan Rice see the writing on the wall regarding her secretary of state prospects?
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The second big -- you mentioned Susan Rice just the last couple of hours calling the president saying that she's pulling her name out of consideration.
For secretary of state all because of that controversy over the -- for reaction to the terror attack whether or not she misled the public.
Best assessment we have today.
Is that in fact this was not a pre planned premeditated.
Attack.
None more troubled today love knowing having met with the acting director of the CIA's.
-- -- -- It was a spontaneous.
Reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo.
As a consequence of the video -- focused on.
And in some cases the obsessive focus on.
Ambassador rice's appearance on a series of Sunday shows.
Is misplaced.
And why did the administration.
-- her out there as the spokesperson.
Senator McCain.
And senator Graham and others.
Want to go after somebody they should go after -- Susan Rice.
Should have known better and she didn't help -- she's not qualified for them to go after.
UN ambassador.
Who had nothing to do what my cousin who simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to besmirch her reputation.
Is outrageous -- Bottom line on board spirit and -- and hours before that yeah.
16 September.
Explanation about half four Americans died in.
We have and faster -- -- I -- does not do justice.
Reality.
After.
And in hindsight clearly -- completely wrong.
In a lot of President Obama a short time ago ambassador rice -- -- in part if nominated.
I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lanky disruptive and costly.
Do you and to our most pressing national international priorities she continues in that letter and says I'm saddened -- we have reached the point even before you decided who to nominate.
We cannot afford such an irresponsible -- distraction from the most pressing issues facing the American people.
Senator Lindsey Graham joins us Canadians there.
-- -- You're response student does the letter that CN -- sent to the president in it's it's about the -- four paragraphs but she essentially accuses those who criticize her politicizing it.
And that debt causing an end here response to good distraction even moderate critics so are you politicized in -- And are you because -- and here response about distraction.
I don't think the problem here is the issue went on national television five days after the attack that killed four Americans.
And told a story that's just not based on any reality that I thing.
And she told a political story three weeks before the election -- -- intelligence chief says the kind of -- it was.
Strong substantially -- physically defended nothing could be further from the truth since she indicated al-Qaeda was decimated.
Trying to quite frankly continue to narrative that the president have been talking about.
They're that good bin Laden and -- hold her accountable and responsible.
For misleading the American people there's failure on the intelligence.
By the intelligence community there's a product or component but I think he was chosen.
Until.
For a reason.
If she gets annoying thing about -- -- that that president -- Find that they ticker up socialist the most politically compliant person -- -- -- and and this story she told doesn't.
The -- -- scrutiny.
Does do you factor into the equation I confess that I do that she -- which went on five shows in September 16 and it took 73 days before she said anything different and that was just US senate behind closed doors but she gets it took 73 days for -- sun blade two -- speak out about the study and publicly but.
To you guys behind closed doors.
Now they should ever said she was wrong until we pressed.
And this is just got about -- and right to present very few got a problem with the -- they.
I do this stop picking on the president disguises so that national security failure.
But the ball below hold the president accountable more than anyone else I think he's failed us commander in chief the constellation being closed -- reinforced.
Months before the attack on September 11 for seven hours there's not that we could do to help these poor people or would create or was -- -- commander in chief.
You got to movies being made about his leadership in the -- -- raid on delighted you don't know anything about what the president dear did in the seven hours that the attack and afterward.
The president tried to blamed it on a video.
And I am -- and a demonstration that never existed as food and I think in my opinion misled the public.
And then there are other problems with her time and and and politics and national.
Foreign affairs arena her her problems were deeper than a million deeper than -- -- but we're -- -- -- -- How -- for seven hours nobody comes to creative people -- -- the -- want to believe that -- open where was the president.
Went the British decided to close their content -- June.
And I afterward.
Had the intelligence -- so screwed up a lack of better work so.
We're gonna keep -- in this silicon learned from it not -- it happen again.
-- thank you sir.
Thank you.
