things, there was turmoil to be followed. expect more questions about the administration s libya policy. whether it was a contributing factor to the violence that killed four americans on september 11th, 2012 and if america s top diplomat, secretary of state hillary clinton, missed fuentes to avoid war. chris? still ahead, the media coming around to the idea that donald trump could be elected president. first, another new york city police officer is gunned down on the increasingly mean streets.
effort we made, the way we put together the coalition, the way i put together the coalition that imposed sanctions on iran, i think that there s a lot to talk about. i talked about smart power. you re talking about what i believe, i believe we have to use every tool at our disposal. lead with diplomacy, support with development and when necessary as a last e resort, not a first choice, defense. so yes, is that what i believe, it is what i believe and i think that libya was, to some extent, as example of that. you were the author of the libya policy. it was your baby? it was an attempt to use smart power. it certainly was something that i came to believe was in the interest of the united states to join with our nato allies and our arab partners in doing. the decision, as always decisions in any administration, was made by the president.
someone had shot a rocket-propelled grenade through the front door. the security situation there is incredibly serious as well as it is in a whole lot of other places. and those are difficult decisions. but the effort here today seems to be that somehow you personally decided not to do your job in libya. okay? you re with apparently the advocate of the policy. apparently passionate about it. but not passionate enough to care about the security situation in libyap about and chris stevens incredibly passionate about libya, wanted to make that country work. it has proven very, very difficult. do we want to go back to moammar gadhafi in charge? i don t think so. and to make a policy point as long as i have a free minutes, interesting to juxtapose libya with syria. because just as many of my republican colleagues are ripping apart the obama administration on all that s involved for choosing to remove gadhafi, they re ripping apart
might make about libya. and so hillary clinton ultimately owns the libya policy. she doesn t. she can t. barack obama owns the libya policy. he used many more avenues of advice than even hillary clinton knows he used within the government. nicole wallace. well, listen, i want to take a shower sometimes when we impugn the motives of everybody involved. trey gowdy s motive was to investigate and understand how four innocent people lost their life. let me tell you something about an ambassador like that. when a codel congressional delegation. flies over to a war zone, the ambassador pays the same amount of attention to republicans and democrats. ambassador stevens had supporters on both sides of the aisle who would not have tolerated a process that was corrupted in its inception. political things can happen and
together the coalition, the way i put together the coalition, that imposed sanctions on iran, think there is a lot of talk about. i talked about smart power. you re talking about what i believe. i believe we have to use every tool at our disposal. lead with diplomacy, support with development, and, when necessary, as a last resort, not a first choice, defend. so, yes, is that what i believe? it is what i believe, and i think that libya was to some extent an example of that. you were the author of the libya policy. the one that drove itself. i was your baby. it was an attempt to use smart power and that s what you tried to do. isn t that right? certainly was something i came to believe was in the interests of the united states to join with our nato allies and our arab partners in doing the decision, as all decisions in any administration, was made by the president. so, the president deserves the historic credit, what role i