executes some sort of cover upor effort to tamp things down for three days? the whole thing defies logic. brian: there was the counterterrorism person that told congress it was a terror attack after susan rice came forward. if you look back at what the president did, he was in full campaign mode, doing all the fun talk shows like the view and letterman. he couldn t answer the question. let s look back at what the president said when he was posed questions by joy behar. mr. president, this morning you went out of your way to avoid using the word terrorism in connection with the libyan attack. do you believe this was a terrorist attack? it s too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved. here s what happened. you had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a
but on the other hand, it s also a serious national security leak investigation that was prompted by outcries from congress to begin with. the fact of the matter is here, that there will be a tremendous price to be paid and is being paid by the justice department and the administration for taking this step. what we don t know yet really, and aren t in a position to make a final judgment about, is whether it s justified or not. steve: that s a good point. remember, the leaker would be the bad actor, the person who leaks the stuff. that s the person they should go after. but instead what they re doing is they re going after the reporters and the editors. brian: they re trying to find out maybe who the leaker is by going after the editor. steve: no. they re end running it. the big question is brian: the bottom line is they re doing this without their permission. the secretary of state is not in charge of benghazi. the president is not in charge of anything. is everybody running
hubbard, who was killed in newtown, and she always wanted to have an animal sanctuary. her family is trying to make that a reality. it s the animal center.org and for grace mcdonald, an artist. she can be found with her organization at fccfoundation.org. it will be a tribute to those two little girls coming up this weekend. thank you, governor huckabee. steve: somebody has been taking some lessons. they are very, very good. gretchen: well, you know, my mom always told me to make the most of your talents and especially in a positive way to give back to the community and i hope i m teaching my children what i think is one of life s most important lessons, to give back. steve: very nice. meanwhile, on this tuesday, we have headlines for you and we start with a fox news alert. reports coming, american citizen has been detained in russia. officials there claim ryan fogel, a secretary at our embassy, is a c.i.a. agent. he s accused of trying to recruit a russian intelligence
intact. producers will skip some hours and condense others to fit into the 24 hour format. it will pick up where the other series left off. brian: why stop it if you re going to bring it back? gretchen: i think people missed it. maybe other programming didn t work out. steve: yeah. plus issues it was puzzling, when exactly does he fill up his car, make a pit stop? gretchen: speak of some other big news going on, the president finally spoke out in a press conference with prime minister david cameron. he took two questions. he called benghazi when he was ironically asked that question right off the bat, he was asked about the irs and benghazi. he called it a side show and says calling for an investigation dishonors the victims. here is the president. the whole issue of talking points frankly throughout this
was terror from the beginning, wouldn t you roink that the main person m the administration five days later should be in a lot of trouble then if she wasn t following the correct talking points of terror? brian: not only that. she s the wrong person. for the last time, she should not have been done this. tom donilon, john brennan, anybody from the military perspective. what about somebody like david petraeus? gretchen: that s part of the story. don t you remember we asked that question here on the couch: why is it susan rice? at one point we thought it was maybe to get a plum position later on in the administration. but it s still unknown. steve: it s because hillary clinton wouldn t do it. the whole administration knew the day after it was terror. but for the president to say yesterday that the day after i came out and i said it was terror, that is not true. he was talking generally in the rose garden about it. one other thing, when was it first defined as terrorism? jay carney had