bret: every week viewers vote for your choice online in this a lightning friday lightning round. this week, fast and furious won with 48% of the vote. back with the panel. okay. impact of the i.g. report, where it goes from here? david? heads roll. president fingertips are not on it. political impact zero. i don t know if we go anywhere from here. kirsten? that is what i have been saying for a long time. if anyone want to apologize to me can do it now. saying that basically the president, there was no evidence that the president knew about it. no president that the attorney general knew about it. that s what the i.g. report found. chairman issa s office has been making accusations that aren t founded. this report doesn t support them. this is a dead political issue. right or wrong, the issa, the time he spent on the investigation didn t yield anything politically that might have been other areas that might have yielded more political benefit for the
generous the romneys are. with their income going to charity. i m sure that the press will spend days on every detail of this as the middle east lear bus which they will ignore. bret: president released his return in april. first income, $700,000 paid $162,000. 20.5%. he donated $172,000. 22%. fair and balanced. the press is obsessed with the fact that he paid more in taxes i guess than he needed to. romney campaign says that s because he wanted to honor what he had said that he would pay at least 13%. in a debate he said anybody who pays more in taxes, than they should have to pay shouldn t be president. he is getting beaten over the head with that right now. middle east burns. bret: they gave, david, one thing, they only gameed deduction of $2.25 million.
are talking about the issue that the administration facing, people can t get upset first about something they don t know that much about. seconds of all, given quite honestly voters heavy focus on the economy and in a sense they re tired of always worrying about thingsover seas. it s hard for to blow up? the problem is it is blowing up, david. kirsten, you look at al-qaeda in libya. and they re expanding. today there was a protest there, the demonstration there that was pro-u.s. good sign. senator mccain just put out a statement about that. by all accounts, al-qaeda is expanding there on the ground. we reported this guy earlier in the week that could be the leader of this very attack. sufyan bin qumu. there was report in augus august 2012, now unclassified and i ll quote from it.
were used by extremists to see if they could directly harm u.s. interests. al-qaeda? well, we don t know yet. we will continue to investigate this. what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack and we will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the terrorists who murdered four americans. bret: secretary clinton today at the state department. one day after you saw president obama in the univision interview and the evolving stories from the administration about the attack in libya. as we continue to learn more details about the attack in benghazi. let s bring in the panel. david druger, associate politics editor for roll call. kirsten powers for daily beast. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. this is the end of quite week when it comes to this story, david. you see the stories that came out starting with susan rice. well, actually, the white
they had to pretend isn t having and press is collaborating and suppressing what it doesn t understand or it doesn t want to harm obama. bret: david, is the administration coming to the conclusion that the benghazi attack was not specifically about the video. there are other protests and demonstrations around the world that are about that video. including in pakistan today. which turned very violent. at least in part about that anti-islam video. the pakistani government gave people the day off. made it a holiday to go take to the streets about this video. 19 people died in protests all across the country. many of them very anti-american. as you can imagine. what about that from our ally that we provide billions and billions of dollars to pakistan? well, this is the precarious situation we have oftennen in, in trouble spots. in this part of the world in particular. the allies are nominal, they don t necessarily support us but they need us.