peter johnson, thanks for filling in for brian and we ve got anna in for elisabeth. elisabeth will be out in times square tomorrow night at midnight. are you? getting ready for that. that s great. with bill hemmer. let s talk about this. over the weekend the new york times came out, they did an investigation in what happened at benghazi and as it turns out, the stories that those republicans have been telling us for the last year or so, all wrong, according to the new york times, david kirkpat trick. he talked to a bunch of people, sources on the ground. that video did have something to do with benghazi attack, but no evidence al-qaeda or any other terror group was involved. what s interesting is adam housley, fox news correspondent, has got a piece up right now on foxnews.com and he s speaking to some of the special operators who are on the ground that night. they are angry because they say the new york times story is a complete lie. the quote is, it was a coordinated at
every day on twitter and facebook more it information than they should be and in some instances parents are able to stop them. we give away information freel. if we re concerned about that, we need to be concerned about companies like target that just really blew it on people s privacy and data and what companies are doing with our data. bart, since you ve been following this story, is there a concern and wired has a piece up that talks about the potential concern if the nsa recommendations are dopted. right now you have various companies that keep cellular date fa for time. it s very disparate. if the recommended reforms are adopted, it will become uniform and it could be really long, it could be seven to ten years of your data being held by a private company. to karen s point, target got hacked. would we be any more secure with a private entity holding the same data as opposed to us, the
charlie crist is. and you have a video of him talking about democrats. mike allen, the chief of the white house correspondent for politico. mike, good to have you up here. first thing, your screaming headline this morning is ominous one for ken cuccinelli. it reads cuccinelli fights off stench of doom. you also have a piece up, texas tea party members trying recruit what they say is another ted cruz. oh, boy. who are they looking at and why? ted cruz is driving the conversation in the republican party much to the dismay of republicans so in texas they are talking about bringing another tea party guy, a ted cruz-type to run against senator jon cornyn who is up next year. david barton who helped ted cruz win. they call him an vevangelical
payroll. also in this age of concern about climate change, kind of funny to tell everyone to get in their car and commute to yahoo! every day. that is bizarre. yeah, a lot of questions. i want to hear more about that. we ll follow up. but it s time now, willie, for politico. chief white house correspondent is mike allen who s got a look at the playbook. hey, mike. hey, good morning, guys. this morning on politico, you ve got a piece up, the nation s governors have assembled there in washington. politico reporting many of the top names on the democrats side may be waiting on the sidelines, at least until after 2016. we re talking about running for president here because of one woman and one woman alone. well, that s exactly right, willie. the hillary factor was huge conversation among the governors themselves as they talked this weekend. republicans are almost certainly going to go with a new generation, younger candidate in 2016. but for the democrats, the younger
but the pie chart makes me hungry, though. look at this. lemon meringue. lemon meringue and blueberry. but smoking offsets that obesity. it s true. i mean, it s medicine. doctors have said it. okay. since 1951. you know what? just for that, alex, let s just officially say this right now on the record. we re going to do an hour on this. is that okay, alex? on blueberry pies? i like blueberry pies. willie, it s time for done. political moment. let s go to washington, political editor for the huffington post, sam stein. your favorite pie, serve. what s your favorite pie? i m impartial to apple. it s kind of boring but i like apple pie. that s okay. back to basics. banana cream s pretty good, too. you ve got a piece up right now talking about the obama campaign and its media strategy targeting these kind of niche audiences.