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report given what we knew about it since the attack. the fact of the matter is senator lieberman s and senator snowe s committee were highly critical of the department of state, dod and the white house. department of state. they we ll indict the department of state for being shockingly irresponsible to protect american citizens at benghazi. that in view, heather, what you just said. they knew for months there was an ever increasing threat. there was a clear, present danger to benghazi and given the fact that the security forces, the local libyan security forces were ineffective and could not secure it, they either should have closed it down as you just pointed out or provided adequate security. you mentioned what they knew. it wasn t just what they knew, what we all knew, publicly reported incidents included in this time frame included this report as well. first on may 22nded the red cross building hit by two rpg round. no casualties.
neil: a lot of the republican congresses say, not necessarily, we do not have to swallow anything if we think there is a chance we can take the senate, maybe the white house, and, then, katie bar the door. guest: i make of that, it is a risky proposition. the stock is pointing to things looking better for president obama with senator snowe s requirement. i don t think the senate is a lock. and why we have to have this conversation, in december, alone, we have $2.5 trillion in a hole we have to fix and the bush tax cuts expire, sequestration needs to be resolved and the plan by search such plan by simpson-bowles would have done that. the ryan plan means we have that stuff staring at us in the face. i wish they would have made the
have either been forced out of congress or chosen to leave over the last 2 1/2 cycles. and she s not the first to issue a call for cooperation on her way out the door. taking advantage of political gusts or whims, is not what our constituents expect of us, nor is it what they deserve. we must have courage to come out of the fox holes, the fox holes we dig into, to the middle to where the rest of america is. that was from democratic senator blanche lincoln delivering her farewell address in 2010. she joins me now. thank you, both. thank you. both of you, you didn t choose to leave. you both got booted out arguably by you had problems because of the ideological left, in your case, ideological right in your case. you watched senator snowe leave and the way she s leaving and how do you react?
which reminds people, it s an amendment to the highway bill. yes, exactly. and that happens in the senate. the senator can discuss that better than i, but that happens. it s not the rules committee, it s a little more limited. and you re right, it s something that s unrelated, it s become a political issue, and i m not that familiar with all the details of it. but it is a social issue, which is being raised, which is very divisive, you know, particularly among women perhaps in this country. and that s a problem, i think, for the republican party. it s a problem in the republican primary that s going on right now. it could be a problem in the general election. so i think regardless of where you are on it, it s problematic politically. i think as you see olympia snowe leave in the northeast, scott brown may lose, there might not be any republicans in new england anymore. it s hard to be a republican and get elected in the state of delaware, in the south, it s hard to be a democra
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