action. shortly in response to the events overseas in the past week, we ve seen the president ensure that our diplomatic boosts and american personnel in the region are secure, reached out to international leaders to ensure that they were condemning the violence that they saw in the regions and meeting their security obligations to our embassies. again, i think you ve seen that the president s been steady and governor romney is somebody who weighed in as the situation was developing, without a full set of facts and he s been roundly criticized for that. ben la bolt from the obama campaign headquarters, thank you very much. and up next, we have our politico briefing, republicans airing their doubts about their candidate. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. bob.
humanitarian reasons and also for the campaign now it would seem. reporter: absolutely because governor romney last night put out a very sharply worded statement say it was outrage just in his mind that the u.s. embassy in cairo, violence you were talking about separately in egypt first started yesterday, that the u.s. embassy in cairo put out some tweets and put out a statement that basically suggested they were apologizing for that anti-muslim film you and bill mention ad moment ago. to be clear secretary of state hillary clinton has since made clear that statement was not veted in washington and that there is no justification at all for any of this violence but governor romney jumping on all of that. i can tell you that ben la bolt, obama campaign spokesman not the white house but chicago campaign spokesman in said quote, we re shocked at a time when the united states of america is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in libya governor romney would choose
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trade barbs. how nasty can this campaign get? we ll talk to the press secretary of the obama reelection campaign right here. mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. erica did. jn: and a groro navy als critical of the president now being called gutless by the far left bomb throwers. we will talk to one of the seals under attack. caution. you re about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. juan: hi. i m juan williams in for bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. let s get right to our top story and our lead guest, ben, the obama campaign spokesman. i have a lot to talk about with him, including the nasty tone of the obama campaign and its supporters. complaints from the white house press corp. that mr. obama is
he accused the president of running a hateful campaign. as i said, if you spend a day on the campaign trail, i don t think those remarks had any bearing on that. we spend a lot of time debating an ad that our campaign didn t produce, but every day on the campaign trail, governor romney questions whether juan: are you going to apologize for that ad? are you going to disavow any association with that ad? you want to apologize for it right now tonight? we didn t produce that ad and we have made a different argument. governor romney is campaigning on his experience as a corporate buyout specialist and he said that during his tenure at bain capital, he was a job creator. but the fact is he profited off of bankrupted juan: okay, okay. ben, you re not answering the question. all right. ben, look, thanks. it s not an ad that we produced. juan: all right. we have made a different case. juan: okay. i hear you. i think everybody hears you. but then look, thanks.