had was wrong. president obama says when they got the information they provided it. if you look at the information that s been released that can t possibly be true. megyn: is it time for a presidential press conference where he can come out and answer what he knows, what they knew? that can put an end to this kind of thing. giver the american people the chance to size up the president and his testimonial, this is what we knew. whatever the explanation is as opposed to with all due respect, sitting down with a comedian on comedy central who is very entertaining but not a journalist, not the white house press corps. i never thought they should have announced that interview with jon stewart beforehand. i m sure he wanted to get on the show one more time. i love the show, too. but when it comes to presidential leadership and governing. i think they should have waited and made a game day decision on whether to do that interview. it s coming back to haunt them.
crimes of opportunity but rather targeted and discriminate attacks. that followed a cable that stevens sent 44 days earlier in which he wrote, islamic extremism appears to be on the right in eastern libya. the al qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government building and training to sits. until the government of libya is able to deal with these issues the violence is likely to worsen. president obama vowed to hunt down the killers. the president said in his interview are jon stewart, every piece of information what he got as we got it we laid out to the american people. these facts were laid out today as i say by two republican congressmen. megyn? megyn: thank you. joining me now dana perino who
i think the libya debate was short-circuited to some extent the way because of the way candy crowley interjected and threw the flag in there. she has since readjusted what she meant by that. but charles is right that we are going to have 90 minutes where they are both going to go toe to toe on that issue. i would not under estimate the president s ability to win that debate nor that romney won t be able to get to his points. if bob scheiffer who is the moderator, i worked for him for a couple years at cbs. i know him well. i think he will let them have it out on this one and push it in the right direction. megyn: the presidential debate commission was pleased with the way jim lehrer did the, just stayed out of the way. there are questions whether the
the libya moment in the debate the other night was a very bad moment for mitt romney where he got the facts wrong, because they are trying to make the case that the obama administration didn t want to say it was terror as if they don t want to admit that terror could happen on their watch when in fact for terror was not mentioned just in the rose garden but the day after in a speech in denver. romney got the it wrong. it was his first moment of the last debate. dee dee vine intervention, alan, i m telling you the stars are lining up. megyn: there may be some hysteria here. alan do you deny that the message this administration was sending us in the first week after this attack was that this was about anger, sparked by a video that bashed the prophet muhammad? i maintain that the administration told us what it knew at the time, based on conflicting reports. megyn: why didn t they tell us that it was conducted by militants who were not upset about a video but who were
unleashing a terror attack which was one of the streams of information they were receiving. the president actually mentioned terror on two successive days after september 11th. megyn: they were getting information that there was a militant terror attack underway that didn t have anything to do with the video. i don t think you rush to judgment like mitt romney does until you have all your duck nasa row. mitt romney immediately even before we knew about the death of the ambassador said we were siding with people who wanted to do us and meant us harm. he should be embarrassed by this and the people on the right are trying to use this for political purposes in the middle of an election season rather than gather together to do what is best for the security of the country. it s great spin, alan. no spin. i would argue that you pretending. i m not pretending. that this is in fact a political mood all listen to your own words, it s devine intervention for romney. megyn: let