now pick up a special buy lithium ion drill kit for just $79. let s get it out of the way first. it is totally conceivable the main political impact of all the controversies that have been in the air for the last week trying to avoid using the word scandal here that the main political impact would be to fire up the conservative base and to boost gop turnout in next year s mid terms. it is also possible that as we just heard alan abramowitz argue, none of it will add up to anything. electoral impact in 2014. we had a gazillion game changers, awful term again in last year s campaign. you none of them changed anything. maybe we will end up looking back at scandal week 2013 the same way. there s also another possibility. it is one that republican leaders are clearly aware of and scared of. possibility that their base will get too carried away with scandal fever, that the party will be forced to spend the next 18 months treating benghazi or the irs story or both as the top
the irs, it is a minute the republicans don t have to talk why they are against background checks. it is a distraction. also, fire up their base. i mean, that s the amazing we did a thing on the show yesterday about benghazi and sort of downplaying this as a presidential scandal. and i the angry responses, this was we have a statistic here, is there a strong need to investigate the benghazi situation. three out of four, 76%. democrats, 27%. benghazi story in particular is resonating so powerfully on the right. nowhere outside of there. i think one thing that s one thing that s happened here is that you can blame obama for a lot of things and maybe one thing to blame him for is the decline quality of
former vice president dick cheney called benghazi one of the worst incidents he has seen in his career. mr. cheney spoke in ways that repeatedly recalled the epic political battles that followed 9/11. they tried to cover it up by constructing a false story, claiming there was confusion about what had happened in the benghazi consulate. there was no confusion. it was obvious as soon as we got the ambassador stevens on the phone that night and he said, quote, we are under attack. the cover up included several officials up to and including president obama, and the cover up ongoing. reporter: mr. cheney of course was himself accused in the wake of 9/11 and the iraq war as he alleged that the obama administration last night of having failed to head security warnings, of having falsified intelligence and so on. he told house republicans last week that they should subpoena former secretary of state hillary clinton to testify again on benghazi. the former secretary widely considered a lead
happened but we didn t spend our time, perhaps we should have spent more time trying to find out why they weren t prepared for 9/11. reverend al, do understand that nobody on our committee is given a pass to the administration and not having been better prepared but it s not as if we didn t happen to have a professional report by a veteran of the state department, career official, and a former chief of staff. that was a scathing report. what are we doing back here? we had benghazi one. that was with susan rice. now we have a benghazi with hillary clinton? is there anything that justifies this other than some political posturing and, as you
dozens of people, striking back at militias who probably were a at the core of this attack on the american consulate. i think we should be encouraged by the fact there is a broad reaching investigation underway and we ve seen some more positive response this week from the libyan government and the libyan people who are greatful for the role we played in their liberation from the gadhafi regime. patti ann: regarding security, this is question ambassador rice assume would have information on, what was the security on the time of the attack and she said on one of these sunday programs, quote, we had a substantial presence with our personnel at the consulate in benghazi. two of the four americans who were killed were there providing security and indeed many of their colleagues were doing the same thing n fact stephen hayes says the ambassador in the country facing a growing al qaeda threat had virtually no security. the two contractors killed were not part of the ambassador s security deta