the president and vice president got. weren t they curious? jay carney is lying about we have thousands of security situations and personnel around the world. libya i think we can agree was a special case. this is a situation where even if the white house is correct, they didn t know the facts. then shouldn t they have shut up until they got the facts? instead they lept out with categorical statement that this was about the video. megyn: now we are on to point two where the attack takes place, and we are told about it administration repeatedly in the days that follow that this all about a video. people were upset about this video that made fun of the fro prophet mohammad. susan rice went on the talk shows and we know that s not true. the vice president said that s what we were told. she said by who? who told you that? he said we said what the
behavior. this kind of compulsive behavior that we could not control. he could not control himself. speaking to people, they said i really couldn t watch parts of it because i was trying to listen to congressman ryan, and i would show him on the split screen, and it showed that he was having an absolute meltdown. there was a lot of it was offensive. frankly when you talk about iran and the risk of nuclear war, when you talk about libya and the death of four great americans, you see the vice president openly laughing. an aggressive and scornful way. it is disconcerting and even maybe alarming. i think he started off with a strategy that he wanted to be getting in and out of boy when he returned to the white house. you are great, you helped us, but i think it fell apart.
growing legal questions for the parents of a young girl who found herself at the center of a political scandal, more after journal ism scandal over her photo with governor mitt romney. what kind of action can a family take if their child is in a photo that shows something embarrassing and inaccurate. the vice president take serious heat after he blames the intelligence community for not sending in more security to the consulate and libya, and for plus, new questions ahead of about there bidens strange laugh and constant grinning in last night s debate. we are back in three minutes.
ed henry is here to take us through what happened at the white house press briefing this morning. is that the distinct they were trying to draw? i tried to fin jay carney down on whether he s saying with absolute certainty that the president and vice president were never briefed in recent weeks or months about the security problems around the consulate in benghazi. but as we know now it had been targeted several times. the am bass deern others had been asking for more security, they were concerned about it. jay carney hernlgd on whether they were ever briefed. he said they never got any actionable intelligence about an impending terror attack at that consulate. that leaves the door open to other briefings about security issues there. i pressed jay on that point. does this mean that the president and vice president are sort of passing things over to the state department? take a listen.
jay carney accusing mitt romney and paul ryan of politicizing this issue. mitt romney did go after the administration on this based upon what the vice president said he says it seems to contradict what the state department testified to a couple days ago. mitt romney saying he wants answers on this. meg even if we accept the president and vice president were never told they needed more security. what insulation does it provide for the president when it s clear the state department was told. is there a distinction without a difference? reporter: the state department is doing its own review. the fbi is doing a criminal investigation as to not just who perpetrated the murders of these four americans, but also what went wrong when state department officials ignored warnings or not. so all of that will come out eventually. we ll see if it come out before or after the election. megyn: we ll have much more on this coming up in a bit. the vice president went a step further about libya and put