were president obama i might be i mean, what happens now, this week, this particular week, is he has secretary of state hillary clinton in new york meeting with foreign ministers. that s her job. but she s also met with the president of libya, the president of egypt, the president of yemen, the president, i think, today i forgot which president she met with today. and she s meeting with prime minister netanyahu. looks like she s cleaning up behind him, that he s outsourced his job this week as leader. i would assume that it s important to develop these relationships with these countries owe, and this is the chance to do it, so in the future we need their help we can get it. well, that s what the u.n. opening of the general assembly provides, an opportunity to have a lot of meetings in a compressed period of time. but just to dissent from the criticism a little bit, you know, back when ronald reagan was president, he did not attend every general debate at the end of september at t
were president obama i might be i mean, what happens now, this week, this particular week, is he has secretary of state hillary clinton in new york meeting with foreign ministers. that s her job. but she s also met with the president of libya, the president of egypt, the president of yemen, the president, i think, today i forgot which president she met with today. and she s meeting with prime minister netanyahu. looks like she s cleaning up behind him, that he s outsourced his job this week as leader. i would assume that it s important to develop these relationships with these countries owe, and this is the chance to do it, so in the future we need their help we can get it. well, that s what the u.n. opening of the general assembly provides, an opportunity to have a lot of meetings in a compressed period of time. but just to dissent from the criticism a little bit, you know, back when ronald reagan was president, he did not attend every general debate at the end of september at t
he s really like the substitute referees in the sense that he s not a real president. i mean, he doesn t do any of the things presidents do. he doesn t worry about any of the things presidents do. but he has the white house. he has enormous power. he ll go down in history as president. i suspect he s pretty contempious of the rest of us. >us^. bill: oftentimes women think we do the men s work, believe it or not. did you know that? calista has suggested to me that this model exists. bill: look at secretary of state hillary clinton s schedule this week. she met with the president of libya. she s not the president. president obama is. she met with the president of egypt, the president of yemen. she found in her schedule this week for prime minister netanyahu, and at the same time met with foreign ministers, which are her counterparts in the government. she found time in her busy schedule to meet these people. well, there s a huge
but for his overall handling of the foreign policy and the record. chief political correspondent carl cameron has that part of the story. romney. in virginia, swing state where the battle is more heated than most, mitt romney renewed the call to president obama to strongly assert american strength and conviction overseas in face of attack on u.s. embassy. the world needs american leadership, middle east needs american leadership and i intend to be a president that provides the leadership that america respects and keep us admired throughout the world. one day after romney accused the president of apologizing for and sending mixed message for principles and which he rebuked them for shooting without aiming with facts, romney cast the crisis in libya and egyptian as example of obama weakness and grieved for americans killed. right now, we re in mourning. we lost four diplomats across the world, we are thinking about their families, those
u.s. embassy in egypt. it looks like they re unrelated to that anti-islamic film that has caused the protests outside the u.s. embassy in egypt, also in yemen earlier today when the embassy of yemen was stormed by more than 100 protesters. it looks like the attack in benghazi may have been more related, jenna, to the september 11th anniversary. again, it s looking like a highly-coordinated, very military-style attack on the u.s. ambassador, glenn doherty, sean smith and one other security officer there at the compound. jenna: interesting, unique elements to everything that we re seeing in the middle east, but the timing can t be ignored, all happening in the same week, and certainly momentum that we re watching as well. jennifer, thank you so much for the breaking news on that. jon: so world affairs and troubles in the mideast bleed into the presidential campaign. how could these new developments overseas effect the race for the white house here at home? we ve already seen some back an