to push it off. their stories piling one untruth on top of another. the fact it was incompetent cover-up is not an argument being an cover-up. a lot of coverups and crimes are incompetent that is not evidence that it wasn t. theory i have they might have thought at the beginning this is going to be a terror attack, but remember what happened between the attack and susan rice. three days of unrelenting media coverage of romney. the attacks on romney the gaffe he made. the media was uninterested in the story. they might have made a calculation the media is interested in romney stuff. we ride it out until election day. steve: who in the administration decided we re going with this story it s all about the video. because they put that story out for a very long time before essentially they said it was
but remember what happened. between the attack and the susan rice appearance three. days of unrelenting media coverage of romney. the romney statement. the attacks on romney. the gaffe he made and all of that. the media were uninterested in the story. they might have made a calculation. media interested in romney stuff and not interested in the detail. the secretary of state said that we saw is, you know, let s not rush any judgment, because we re going to get the report of the committee. you know what her committee will report? in the middle of next month. that means after election day. all they want to do is string it out to election day and run with a story it s about an american nut who released a video and not about the administration for admitting that al-qaeda is not on the heels but active. bret: i want to call an audible here and talk about the political impact of all of this and how it affects the
in this case. what s your take? jon stewart said it first in that exchange. and i think what the president meant is, it s not acceptable. i m not sure i d put my candidate out in these type of shows. i know they say, well, let s appeal to the base, but gosh, there s so much opportunity here to say something that sort of gets misconstrued like the tag romney stuff, people are making a big deal out of that. it s ridiculous. it s ridiculous. i wouldn t even air that. that s just dumb. but in the middle of this benghazi crisis, donny, to send the president on the daily show and then to have the president say, whenever you have the killing of four americans, it s not optimal, and he was there to talk about communication problems, he probably caused himself another problem. yeah, i m going to pick up on what ed says and attach it back to the springsteen thing. he s not going to get one extra vote going to a show that is 1,000% his base in the first
welcome back. let s find out if we got anything wrong. we go to andy levy. hi, andy. hi, greg, how are you? did you have a good night off? yes, excellent. got that thing taken care of. good. everything it won t come back? no. you told the man! i just walked home from the woods. love that broadway show. romney stuff. you said what romney said is true and he should own it. i do think he is mostly owning it. you were giving him
investigated. we know it was under a car and that s about it. we ll continue to follow this for more information on that. a wild day in london from extreme disappoint to a golden moment for an american teenager, we start though with a 16-year-old chinese swimmer who did one lap faster than ryan lochte. it s raising doping suspicions. atika schubert is live in london. reporter: it was an incredible performance, she basically won at the 400 meter individual medley with stunning speed. she was literally for the last 50 meters faster than the u.s. gold winner in the same event, ryan lochte for the mens. as you can imagine, a lot of speculation into possible doping. here s what the international olympic committee had to say about it. so the sudden rise in the performance or a surprise win be primarily suspected for being acheat, sport is a danger for sure because it partially ruins the charm of competitive sport if a surprise win is surrounded by suspicions and question marks.