. heather: welcome back. a possible showdown in washington has president obama prepares to assemble his new cabinet and there is controversy over the potential candidacy of u.n. ambassador susan rice to be the next secretary of state. andy dean is national radio host. ellen rat nor. let s begin with this. white house has signaled that susan rice may be the president s choice to replace hillary clinton for secretary of state. she is known to be one of the president s greatest loyalists and as recently this week, the president voiced utmost confidence in her. what hou do we feel about that? it s interesting but all the republicans have gone after ambassador rice because of benghazi but in fact there is a lot of reasons she may not make
jumpinger ton, jim pinkerton, writer for american spectator magazine. ellen, did candy crowley take sides. the debate commission clearly wanted her and let her decide to intervene. however i have to say i think that, her trying to clarify the issue of terror and the president s discussion was in fact a little over the line. i wouldn t have done it if i was a moderator. but on the other hand her overall, her moderation i think was quite good. jon: all right, jim. did she take sides. she went completely rogue on the rules. the debate commission and thing both romney and obama campaigns signed and shook on was the moderator won t participate in the questions. and, she asked as many questions as the real people which means the real people in the audience were squeezed out of that many questions they could ask. and ben shapiro of breitbart pointed out if you look at the questions, there were 11
debate at times seeming to favor the president, actually backing him up when he said he called the murder of four americans in benghazi a terror attack the very next day in the rose garden. in fact he did not directly do so. a lot of folks are saying crowley went over the line turning from moderator into an advocate for the president. this morning crowley was clarifying her statement. i was trying to move them on. they were hung up on this one thing. mitt romney gone out and said, first they said it was the tape. then they said it was this. then they got hung up on did he say act of terror or not. he said acts of terror. but you re perfectly correct they took weeks, actually it was short, a month to figure out or at least to tell us and then he got back on, yes, the track. jon: candy crowley this morning on cnn let s talk about it with our news watch panel. ellen rat nor.
correct? that s right. about 200,000 men, women and children were taken from the south and enslaved in the north and about at least admitted by the northern government, 35,000 still remain. i was just there with ellen rat nor repate crating 400 slaves this week. you re seeing individuals casting off slavery. they re starting their new life and the individual before had actually been shot. this is a young boy who just returned. he s lost his parents. he only had his uncle and was just recently beaten by his slave master. but you know, the beacon of hope this morning was really the fact that you had the president of north sudan and the president of south sudan together president bushier and president bashir and president kir raising the
it is what it is. jon: paula deen fights accusations of being a racist. are the media behind the smear? knock-knock, who is there. the george zimmerman gets off to a question start. they go wall to wall with the coverage but is all the attention adding to a racial divide? and a tip on how to protect yourself from government spying. jon: on the panel, judy miller, joe consha, jim pinkerton, ellen rat they are and richard grenell. i m jon scott. fox news watch is on right now.