respect. there was no protest or demonstration in benghazi. the white house briefing spokesman carney minimized the impact of her statements on the sunday talk shows and he turned the focus on to the importance of finding who was responsible. people are more interested in talking points to a sunday show several months ago than they are in finding out what happened in benghazi, bringing to justice who was responsible and ensuring we take action to prevent something like that happening again. reporter: one of the interesting headlines that came out of the meetings the senators have not seen the transcripts of the interviews between f.b.i. agents and diplomatic security agents who were evacuated to germany from benghazi. the interviews took place on september 14, and what we understand from the interviews is the diplomatic security agents said at that time there was no demonstration when the attack occurred and that was two days before ambassador susan rice s statement. shepard: than
players on the fiscal issues. erskine bowles, coauthor of the simpson-bowles plan, they want the business community to hear their ideas after president obama met with ceos two weeks ago. a big deal should include spending cut and reforms. chief white house correspondent ed henry is reporting that both sides cannot agree on whether they are still talking. the republicans suggest fiscal talk hit impasse and demand that president obama show leadership to break it. we ll wait on the president and hope he can bring people together to forge a compromise. if he does, we will get there and if he doesn t, we won t. that simple. white house released a report on cyber monday warning that a deadlock would crush retailer and devastate consumer spending, white house spokesman carney pushed back
but senator levin said they did immense harm to clients and helped create the crisis that nearly plunged us into a second-grade decision. whether the decision is a product of weak laws or weak enforcement, goldman sach s actions were deceptive and immoral but the justice department did not think it had enough to meet the burden of proof. trace: what is goldman saying? reporter: a spokesman said we are pleased that this matter is behind us. at the white house, spokesman carney did not give us much. i have to rough you to the justice department. i have not spoken to the president about this. he is very focused on taking measures that assist homeowners. goldman sacs has paid in other ways including $550 million to settle with the s.e.c. and analysts note that the stock dropped 15 percent. the hope is, with regulations,
new stories caping allegations by mostly unnamed sources and any information that can be assessed as credible will be followed up on in the appropriate manner. and the seattle reporter has named of officers involved so it could turn out to be credible and worthy of investigation by the secrets service. white house spokesman carney fielded a lot of questions today about the new allegations and referred reporters to the secret service and said the vast majority of people in the secret service conducts themselves in a professional manner. it is difficult and dangerous but crucial to democracy. shepard: anything on the new reports from folks on capitol hill? reporter: a lot. chairman of the homeland security committee when asked if secretary napolitano has explaining, i am sure she didn t have evidence of this but a lot of people have told me this or that and harry reid offered this
in this case the health care plan. a republican-appointed federal judge in texas ordered the justice department to explain, today, exactly what the president meant. after all the supreme court has overturned laws passed by congress at least 159 times. and the president has tried to clarify he meant specifically laws dealing with economic issues citing a case from 1905 but that led to heated exchanges at a white house briefing between spokesman carney and our own chief white house correspondent ed henry. for the sake of argument we will pretend . i am telling you . and, also, when you say . we don t know those cases. do you think most average americans know about a supreme court of 75 years ago. attorney general holder will respond to the texas judge today, three pages, single space