being played out on those talking points. an interesting back story here is that before that on camera briefing there was a and another interesting side bar, bob, is that five or six days ago steve hayes at the weekly standard had the same story, not in the same detail as jon karl did and he had examples and he had quotes. it didn t get anywhere near the attention that it did when abc news reported it. i think it s the lens. steve hayes is a good reporter and been reporting on this extensively. too easy for people to say, oh, that s the weekly standard. he s bias, but, clearly, he had the information, as well, and not getting the credit that jonathan karl did. but i do think, if you look at the timeline of how this administration dealt with benghazi. a lot of contradictions from the get go. the media hasn t looked at it as extensively as they should have. some people say that is
blamed president bush and called the growing debt unpatriotic. number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome so that we now have over 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back, $30,000 for every man, woman and child, that s irresponsible. it s unpatriotic. mike: unpatriotic. 9 trillion dollars in debt 2008. we re 16 1/2 trillion dollars in debt today. all right. joining me now, former house speaker newt gingrich. mr. speaker, great having you with me tonight. [applause] good to be with you, governor. i must say that was a terrific lead-in and one i kind of wish the president had seen. mike: well, i want to begin asking you, does it strike you as odd? the media hasn t really called the president account to account for this rapid evolution that he s had on the
blamed president bush and called the growing debt unpatriotic. number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome so that we now have over 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back, $30,000 for every man, woman and child, that s irresponsible. it s unpatriotic. mike: unpatriotic. 9 trillion dollars in debt 2008. we re 16 1/2 trillion dollars in debt today. all right. joining me now, former house speaker newt gingrich. mr. speaker, great having you with me tonight. [applause] good to be with you, governor. i must say that was a terrific lead-in and one i kind of wish the president had seen. mike: well, i want to begin asking you, does it strike you as odd? the media hasn t really called the president account to account for this rapid evolution that he s had on the
in 2008, candidate obama blamed president bush and called the growing debt unpatriotic. number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome so that we now have over 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back, $30,000 for every man, woman and child, that s irresponsible. it s unpatriotic. mike: unpatriotic. 9 trillion dollars in debt 2008. we re 16 1/2 trillion dollars in debt today. all right. joining me now, former house speaker newt gingrich. mr. speaker, great having you with me tonight. [applause] good to be with you, governor. i must say that was a terrific lead-in and one i kind of wish the president had seen. mike: well, i want to begin asking you, does it strike you as odd? the media hasn t really called the president account to account for this rapid evolution that he s had on the
being this close to the election and saying i can t make up my mind. i think the independent and undieded will break to the challenger and say let s give somebody else a chance. four ore years of what we had four years of. i don t see that helping us getting jobs. let me judge ask you about libya. are you surprised that mitt romney hasn t made this a front burner issue on the campaign trail? i think he s afraid to. because the national media hasn t made an issue of it. and he s not reaching out in the big blue sky and come up with something in the last minute. i am not hur it is the best one. i think it is a huge story and the most important story out there. and if the president and/or his administration or somebody, we don t know who yet. we know somebody lied to us