don t release this until midnight. oh, wait, now you can release it before midnight. and i guess the overarching thing is that i think yesterday, you know, we re all reminded every september 11th thankfully that we have been very fortunate, you know, but we still live in a very fragile time. i think that s exactly what we re seeing today. you know, not just in libya and cairo but, you know, in other places. foreign policy on the front page, and it happened in the blij blink of an eye. we ll learn more about mitt romney seeing how he handles this. meanwhile, bill clinton going to spend a second straight day campaigning for president obama in florida. yesterday he was on the campus of florida international university. the former president urging the young audience to register to vote. he also reiterated his message that the current president has laid the foundation for an economic recovery that clinton says is setting up the nation to move in the right direction. no one, not me, no
politicize an already incredibly politicized situation. i d like to ask you, willie or andrea or anybody else, what s the connection to terry jones and what was his involvement? what do we know about terry jones? well, terry jones, the pastor you re referencing, he s the guy who threatened to burn the koran and set off death, frankly, in afghanistan, violence in afghanistan. he s believed to be involved somehow with this film. we hesitate even to use his name. exactly. exactly. how he manages to stay in the loop is beyond belief. it defies it defies explanation, really. you know, lee, you know, mark mckinnon s advice to both campaigns which will go unheeded, it does, i think, leave some of us with just a sinking feeling that the politics of this is going to explode in the next 24 hours. and it s not going to be healthy for anyone. very quickly, i think that s absolutely right. and you know, i think the lesson here is that, you know, this is a film that when we go back to our of
we know has heard of this film. and yet it is center stage over there. so we forget that, you know, somebody out of left field can just create something, to donny s point, in this digital age that just gets lost in the sea here. but it just explodes. i mean, this is just obviously you have to be very careful, but, you know, i think it s a really terrible example of what can go wrong in this digital age. and it s absolutely going to go political. i checked last night, donny, when the story was exploding about 10:00. you could link through and find this film on youtube. and it s 6,000 views. not 6 million. 6,000 views. no one had seen it. that was after it had been out for a while. presumably it got a bunch after that. the idea that this is somehow representative of the american view or the obama administration s view of islam is obviously absurd. but it s all about how it s shot back out. i m going to say it again. there s terrorism that s a danger, and there s technology that s a
for a second, you know, and obviously we know both sides are capable of doing horrifically politicized, stupid things. i thought the state department, the obama response, as far as to immediately calm the situation, i thought the romney one was clearly a political hand grenade, and i think shame on that campaign, personally. if you try and object to look out at the response and the response to the response. absolutely. you know, it s hard to say you started, you started, but i think as just common sense, the white house s response seemed to make sense. not on the other side. we ve got a lot more to talk about with this story. we haven t even gotten to israel and the united states. we ll get to that in just a minute with andrea. also, dr. zeke emanuel and emily senay will break down the latest medical headlines including a surprising new study on fish oil supplements. i take fish oil. do you really? yes. for what? it s supposed to be good for you. we re going to find o
to osama. and the doctor has revealed that pakistan just sees america now as enemy number one. even despite the over $25 billion in aid we give to pakistan. it is now america is now seen as public enemy number one. so you have incidents like this and you see something as threatening as pakistan who does have nuclear weapons. tina, i d love you to react to something threw out in the earlier hour as somebody who runs the daily beast, a very influential digital enterprise, that this digital danger that continues to lurk. this is an example of what terrifies me, in the next 10, 20 years, how international events will be triggered by what i call the dark underbelly of the internet. and that the average poeerson, forget here, across the globe, cannot distinguish information they are getting from a mass media versus some idiot in his white boxer briefs in a basement.