generated. it s all geared towards the next election originiginning up a ba. it s not on the level. joining me now, our nbcnews.com editor. and reporter david mcnamara. ladies first, daphne. republicans are investigating lois learner s lost e-mails. of course, she the ex-irs official at the center of this whole controversy. learner s lawyer says she doesn t know what happened and says it s quote, silly, that they think this. are there legitimate questions to be asked here? sure, but there s also, i mean, an amount of outrage, an amount of scandal, an amount of sort of paranoia and ideas that are just no factual basis for. one of my favorite headlines was in the chicago tribute today where it said e-mails lost and
attack of the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. what have you learned? alex, good afternoon, that suspect, ahmed abu khattalah, is back on u.s. soil and set to be arraigned at a federal courthouse right here in washington, d.c., not far from the white house, a little bit later on this afternoon. u.s. officials say he was transferred from a navy warship to a navy facility, and then transferred to that courthouse. now, we re also learning that he faces a number of charges related to terrorism. we don t know what those specific charges are. but of course they date back to that attack against the u.s. consulate in benghazi which occurred on september 11th, 2012, which claimed the life of ambassador stevens and three other americans. that is the very latest. we ll continue to stay on top of all of the developments today. a little bit of background. khattalah was captured two weeks ago by special forceses in libya. that came after an exhaustive investigation by the u.s. governme
law maker who got a heads up the day before it happened. i m not sure eye ti m the on one. a big deal over nothing. whole deal, is it friday or saturday, what difference does it make, you know, what difference does it make. david, do you think democrats are accepting the reasons the administration is giving for not informing congress or do you think there s more fallout to come? there might be some more fallout, depending on what happens. democrats are circling the wagon and making the point reid did. whether he makes the point about what difference does it make whether it was friday or saturday and whether he was the only one who knew technical ahead of time. the administration is now saying, look, these general terms have been on the table for several months. there was talk about exchanging the five taliban prisoners as far back as january and february and doing it all at one time. where previous years, they talked about maybe doling out the different taliban members,
talking points she had, but i wish i bet she wishes for the second time in the past few years she could go back and maybe tweak the words she used. and even the optics from the white house, david, let s talk about that. we saw the president. he was there in the rose guard within sergeant bergdahl s parents. look, we ve had a week to absorb everything. given the chance to do that picture, that scene over again, the president would have done it the same way? i don t know internally if they think that but they re not saying that publicly. it s obviously taking a lot heat, you know, not just with the father, what he said on twitter that he sort of erased where he seems to be communicating directly to the taliban, talking about he d like ton release more prisoners from guantanamo. the president, sort like susan rice, is now saying the reason i stand with these parents is because they reflect all parents who send their children into war and they ve created a sacrifice and i am responsi
they wanted to get him free. they looked at the deal. they looked at i think this is a case in which they say the details of the deal matter. the politics of this issue matter as well. david, last thoughts from you. i think also the fact that although there was some information that sergeant bergdahl had, you know, potentially walked off on his own, i think more platoon members have come out and doubted him and talked about he was not a good soldier. that s creating some of this firestorm, democrats and republicans who hailed the deal initially are backtracking because there are questions about bergdahl himself so i think that s a problem as well. good to see you both, susan page, david mcnamara, always a pleasure. the latest odds on california chrome ahead of today s belmont. who can beat him and take away his triple crown dream next. [ whispers ] that boys start to smell. mom! what? you re becoming a man. this bag filled with his baseball clothes. let s just say it s got