alternative facts, that was the trending topic on twitter. the white house press secretary gave alternative facts about frud s inauguration. listen. the entire white house press office on day one. don t be dramatic about it, chuck. you re saying it s a falsehood. they are giving alternative facts to that. but the point is alternative facts? alternative facts, 4 of the 5 facts, twere just not true. alternative facts are not facts. they are falsehoods. our panel is here. ryan lizza and powers a columnist. the washington examiner is here.
star denounced him as part of the problem. even somecruz s fellow i congre furious. our image is spent. they led us into the valley of death. reporter: not tea party members. if you had to do this all over again, should house republicans have taken the same approach here? this wa right approach take. itwere we on the right path? were we fighting the right fighfcaeubli lost. the entire war. reporter: in three short months they can do it all over again. all right. it brings us to our facebook question of the day, what s your advice for congress in seeking a permanent solution to the budget crisis. log on to wnnfans.com and join the debate. four women have died after a boat capsized off the waters in florida. ten survivors were found clinging to the boat. all are believed to be migrants. one of the survivors called 911 on a phone alerting authorities to their location 7 miles from florida. a controversial funeral has been called off.
one analyst who we spoke to said he believed that this was an attack that was planned by al qaeda and twere now fighting in syria. unfortunately the u.s. government can t count on libya doing much to arrest this guy or any of the other suspects who have now been criminally charged. arwa damon, thanks very much for that. all of this is a subject of a cnn special investigation by erin burnett called the truth about benghazi. it airs later tonight here on cnn. erin is joining us from new york. excellent work, erin. i know you spoke to the mother of one of the americans who was killed in benghazi. what did she tell you? you know, it was amazing. we had a chance to speak with the families. and for me, i remember that night. it was 7:00 eastern when we first got news that an american had been killed in benghazi. and we had just gone on the air.
the controversy of the last couple of weeks would distract trump from attacking the media, but he s still attacking the media, classic charm, exactly what we ve seen almost every day on the campaign trail. combative, outrageous, funny, completely different, not sure it s a great look for the president of the united states or where it will wear well, but he wants to have a fight with the media and fire of his supporters. tom: do you know anything more about the leakers than i do and what s been in the news? who is it, are they people from the former obama administration quest or mark i d imagine it s accommodation of formal obama people and people who are still there who are hostile to those in administration, or genuinely outraged by what they consider mike flynn s conduct or deception. the leaks are a huge problem, they are illegal, but you can almost never track these people down. every single administration is annoyed by leaks, and says they re going to find the leakers, and the