committees. there are so many committees that can claim jurisdiction over this issue. chaffetz committee that he sits on along with others to the intelligence committee to the foreign affairs committee, everybody wants a piece of the pie and that s part of the problem. here s my beef. so we established with president obama that on the libya issue, and i asked him point blank, did secretary of defense leon panetta tell you it was a terrorist attack on the day it happened. simple question because i m a simple man, as you know. he wouldn t answer the question. the president wouldn t answer it. he was all over the place. all right. now, i m tired of republicans whining about president obama when they have subpoena power to bring in the man who talked to him on that day, low aun eon pa and ask him did you tell the president of the united states it was a terror attack and panetta under oath would have to answer yes or no. i think they need a select committee that not only has subpoena p
collectivize this country and pit them against each other to help me win the points to help get me elected. and now how do i win back the house in 2014. you re going to hear this sound bite coming out, he s a real nice guy reaching out, and sometimes down the line he ll say i ve tried with these guys. megyn: some democrats are worried they won t be able to gain the houses that they lost to republicans back in 2010. their own party president, president obama is too polarizing. let me ask you quickly, is there a democrat you feel more able to reach out. the president says it s you, it s house republicans who have been so obstinate and won t meet him in the middle and until he has somebody who can do that it s pointless for him to dennis kucinich and i were together on the libya issue, the war parties act is the war parties october. and a college of mine on the
decision on who could be the best commander in chief. bill: don t you think that issue is hurting your guy? your premise, i m not talking about horse race, i m talking about what is good for america. bill: you are a foreign policy advisor. don t you think this is hurting your guy? i think that president obama has done a great job as commander in chief. i think when you lay it in the right frame, the american people see it, too. look, bill, if you go back and look at the big picture, getting out of iraq, getting osama bin laden having a plan for afghanistan, rebuilding our allyians and compare it what he faced when he came into office and mitt romney hasn t given us a single plan, not on iraq, not on afghanistan, not on terrorism. instead, he has tried to take political partisan advantage that should have been used to bring the country together.
more security and george w. bush were president, joe klein would think it was an important story. i mean, this is just a liberal journalist who is rooting for barack obama, dismissing, dismissing libya as an issue. and i m wondering since we heard it from him and we heard it from the general tonight, i m just wondering if this is the new talking point. bill: it is, definitely. but president obama can t do that. see, he he can t just say hey, this isn t important. i mean, that would be the end of him. but bob schieffer has to make a decision, and this will be well worth watching everyone. whether to make this a central issue issue of the policy debate and say listen, mr. president, i don t understand what happened there. do you want to tell us tonight? you have got an opportunity right now to tell us, or, does he do it in a kind of round about, oh easy way so that they can get away from it? well, you know, we will
i would assume he would ask president obama the question first. you would assume the guy on the scene you ask. so let s assume, if schieffer doesn t ask libya, he has to retire tomorrow. maybe he wants to because he is 75. it s the big story. it s everywhere. big foreign policy story is libya. so it has to be asked. now, what i m asking you is, does romney take that issue and try to just nail the president with it putting him on the defensive for the rest of the debate? i would think he would try to make the most of it. i suspect he would go about it in such a way that he ll look presidential in doing it. what that means, you don t do it like a strual brawl. you do it like somebody who is bidding to be commander in chief. bill: would this be presidential, more president, can i ask you why you haven t had a press conference in a