bill: in the impact segment tonight. president obama s job approval rating stands about 2 will%. will it go down after the benghazi hearing this week. joining us from austin, texas, karl rove. this is a story to me. and i m right on top of story. i not only report the benghazi story and have been pretty fair about doing that since it happened. i also see the ratings television ratings that come in after we report it. and we do minute-by-minute ratings at the factor. we know everybody who is watching at every time and what they are interested. in this story really hasn t grabbed the american public yet or am i wrong? no. i think you are right. i mean, people are trying to figure it out. to the degree that they figured it out. it s not particularly a favorable towards the administration. the people who are concerned about the president s and the administration s handling of this from a negative perspective feel more strongly about it than those who applaud what he did. but you are
bill: hume zone segment tonight. latest polling has clinton way out in front in the nomination in 2016. it s hers if she wants it. widely believed that president obama will help mrs. clinton get off to an early and fast start in her quest to be be president. right now the only negative on current resume is the murder of the u.s. ambassador in libya. joining us now from washington fox news senior analyst brit hume. do you know where hillary clinton was? we just went over where president clinton was. he was on in the white house hours after the attack on benghazi. where was hillary? was she working? so far she was in town and on duty when this happened. bill: we don t have any time line about what she did or what she said. we do not. guess to the fact that she wasn t closely questioned about that when she was before the committee on capitol hill which was a sad day and too typical what happens in congressional hearings. the interrogators are often not very good. it is stanley cup
questioning that occurs when the news media riled up about something. bill: not going to get it? news media don t get riled up about this. very good reporting lately on cbs news by sharyl attkisson and we re beginning to see a crack in this and it may begin to change. this testimony might bring to us critical mass or even the hesitant members of the mainstream media will decide gee there is something here after all we better pursue it i m not predicting that but i m saying it s possible. bill: ask bernie goldberg to come in on thursday and take a look again. bernie is coming up today as well how the network news hand delegates it that night. they will have to cover we expect some of the cable networks make excuses for the president. we will see. final thing, i think that hillary clinton is almost the teflon lady. nothing really seems to stick to her no matter what it is. she kind of blightly goes along. two years ago benghazi, oh well what was that all
applies here. if you don t understand a fight, don t step into the middle of it. and this administration has no clue what s really going on in syria. bill: if he gets into the middle of it. you know what bill clinton did when he got in trouble with monica lewenski started to bomb to divert attention and wag the dog theory. we are not going to speculate on that. all we are going to do is report the facts. gentlemen, appreciate it couple of footnotes colonel peters has a brand new book out novel called hell or richmond. terror red written before boston marathon bombing happened. bill: brit hume on hillary clinton. will she take a hit on benghazi. and brit hume on those people that don t like president obama. we re coming back. oh, he s a fighter alright.
and casually ask some folks about what they buy benghazi. two words are likely to emerge? blank looks. the obama administration and that includes hillary clinton made a calculation that the american people simply don t care about the benghazi story. we will see how things play out this week. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. joining us from boston fox news analyst david hunt and here in the studio fox news strategic analyst lt. colonel ralph peters. first to you. i know you have said ton this program and others that you believe there is a coverup, correct? absolutely. bill: wait, wait. not a conspiracy theirist guy, it s evident. bill: you believe the obama administration didn t tell the truth to the world, not just the american people on purpose for political reasons? is that what you believe? i believe that president obama lied to the american people. bill: himself? himself, secretary clinton lied to congress. susan rice lied to the u.n.