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is in the business of selling. he believes that if you repeat things people will believe them even if they re wrong and he has little ticks where he says, and you probably know this better than anybody, he says that because it s a psychological suggestion that a lot of con men do. don, i m going to tell you something, a lot of people say it, you know this is true. he s a great salesman. there is no question about that. but very often what he s selling isn t true. and just because he says it a lot, and where he s getting help, here s the problem. he s getting help from people who are buying the same b.s. and they know it isn t true but they re selling it anyway. i don t understand how people of good conscience, i get that they re partisans, i get that you could look at this and say when is enough enough. okay, but he s blocking these investigations right now. this isn t benghazi where one after the other just keeps going, seven of them i think we had.
he s a great salesman. there is no question about that. but very often what he s selling isn t true. and just because he says it a lot, and where he s getting help, here s the problem. he s getting help from people who are buying the same b.s. and they know it isn t true but they re selling it anyway. i don t understand how people of good conscience, i get that they re partisans, i get that you could look at this and say when is enough enough. he s blocking the investigations right now. this isn t benghazi where one after the other just keeps going, seven of them i think we had. eight, yeah. listen, i know why they re doing it. it s power, people like to be in power and it s the shortest line to the front. that s what it is, shortest line to the front. and it works with this particular president. but here s the problem, here s the problem he has. this binary choice he gave them today, it s a bad look. yeah. nixon, clinton, they kept doing their job. why can t he? infrastructure
false narrative to avoid any kind of criticism or responsibility. the daily beast this morning told the roads, do not call this trumps benghazi because of what we re saying yesterday. because then that means that the media has to finally admit that benghazi mattered. this isn t benghazi because this was a mission of 30 missions are 29 mission similar to this which were not top-secret. people knew about it, you could read about it. congressman and senators know about it. we need that we were fighting isis over there and not here. these events are always confusing, as kimberly says, but i think the thing is, we are trying to do the right thing this time. we are not blaming this on a movie, and if you think blaming it on a movie was a small matter, or jailing a filmmaker, if you think that s a small
iraq, benghazi, clint on s new book, fair game, all topics of cnn s exclusive town hall event. hello, i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we start with the breaking news out of libya. one of the prime suspects in the 2012 attack in benghazi has been captured, and he is in u.s. custody. four americans died in the attack. the white house released a statement from president obama that reads, in part, this individual will now face the full weight of the american justice system. barbara starr s over at the pentagon. she s got details. our senior international correspondent arwa damon is standing by in iraq. this is the first arrest connected with the benghazi attack. give us the details. what is the pentagon saying?