he would try to block any effort to promote ms. rice to secretary of state should hillary clinton resign. if senator mccain and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i m happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the un ambassador, who had nothing to do with agabenghazi and was mak a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to go after her reputation is outrageous. senator mccain heard that remark and took to the floor of the sen sat to respond. mr. president, four brave americans died. it has now been eight weeks and the american people have received nothing but contradick tri statements from all levels of our government. this administration has either been guilty of incompetence or engaged in a cover up neither of which is acceptable to the american people. there are still serious unanswered questions about the timeline of events. remarks in the days and weeks that followed. specifically, why didn t t
and is it happening where you live? tigers versus giants. it s happening tonight. we ll talk to two of their former pitching greats. jack morris, i love him. tropical storm watches up for the southeast coast of florida and maybe impacts across the entire east coast. forecast coming up. newsroom starts right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new revelations that could cast a large shadow on the presidential race 13 days before the election. they involve the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya and new questions about what the white house knew and when it knew it. as you might remember, the obama administration has been under fire for being slow to label the military-like siege an act of terrorism. four americans died in that attack, including the u.s. ambassador to libya, christopher stevens. here s the latest. cnn has obtained government e-mails showing that just two hours just two hours after the a
good evening, on this friday outfront tonight, could the the election already be over? we are 18 days out. presidential debate is still ahead and yet, more than 2 million people have cost their ballots already. that s because 34 states, plus washington, d.c., now allow early voting. 19 of them have already started, including the battleground states of north carolina, ohio and iowa. and eight more get underway on monday including crucial colorado. now, early voting historically favors democrats and this year, it looks like it s going that way. in iowa, nearly half a million ballots have been requested. 45% from democrats. only 30% from republicans and in ohio, we all know it gets no more important than ohio. it is closer, but democrats are still ahead. 36% of ballots so far registered democrats. 29% have been requested are for republicans. now, just to give you an anecdote that underlines how significant this can be, in 2008 in north carolina, early voting won it for the pre
washington, d.c., now allow early voting. 19 of them have already started, including the battleground states of north carolina, ohio and iowa. and eight more get underway on monday including crucial ballots have been requested. 45% from democrats. only 30% from republicans and in ohio, we all know it gets no more important than ohio. it is closer, but democrats are still ahead. 36% of ballots so far registered democrats. 29% have been requested are for republicans. now, just to give you an anecdote that underlines how significant this can be, in 2008 in north carolina, early voting won it for the president. based on votes cast only on election day, he lost the state to john mccain. john mccain got 58% of the votes cast on election day. that s an overwhelming margin, right? but obama won the state. he built up such a big lead in early voting that he won. the first time in 32 years. there s a statistic today on north carolina that s going to shock you. i ve got that to share wi
it is closer, but democrats are still ahead. 36% of ballots so far registered democrats. 29% have been requested are for republicans. now, just to give you an anecdote that underlines how significant this can be, in 2008 in north carolina, early voting won it for the president. based on votes cast only on election day, he lost the state to john mccain. john mccain got 58% of the votes cast on election day. that s an overwhelming margin, right? but obama won the state. he built up such a big lead in early voting that he won. the first time in 32 years. there s a statistic today on north carolina that s going to shock you. i ve got that to share with james carville, political contributor and democratic strategist and erick erickson. great to see you. let me start with you. redstate.com, interesting especially since we re talking about north carolina. these numbers have got to scare you. to a degree, they do, although again, democrats typically do do well in early votinging, b