director and the former homeland security secretary michael chertoff released this statement. it s clear that any failure was not on the part of the intelligence community but on the part of white house decision-makers who should have listened to and acted on available intelligence. blaming those who put their lives on the line is not the kind of leadership this country needs. bold statements for the former intelligence folks like hayden to make in this environment. let s bring in panel. bill kristol editor of weekly standard. kirsten powers for daily beast. syndicated columnnist charles krauthammer. bill, start with the libya and go from there in this debate. i think that was the great opening, great failure of joe biden in this debate. not only did he not improve what was a tenuous and tough contradictory story of the administration on what they knew about what happened in benghazi and when they knew it, he made it much worse. he is now accomplished other minor things in the deba
to obama-biden, 44%. that is a choice among independents. romney, 4 #% over the president. and then who do you trust to do a better job improving the economy? creating jobs? romney-ryan, 45%. obama-biden 43%. trust me, there are up by one. we ll get to that poll in a second. bring in the panel. judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior judicial analyst. casey hunt, national political reporter for the associated press. syndicated columnnist, charles krauthammer. okay, you have been on the trail with governor romney. do you sense from the president there, what he said in the fundraising effort that the obama campaign sees movement on the romney-ryan side? i think that they the official talked to the press and they think it s stable. we want to look at whether or not obama above or bow low
with that. bret barnes, executive editor of weekly standard. juan williams, columnist with the hill. syndicated columnnist charles krauthammer. i asked brit about this earlier and it does seem strange, the back an forth. attorney general holder offering a briefing, not the documents. what is your sense of this? my sense is the ball is not in issa s court. it s in holder s court. all he has to do is one thing. obey the subpoena. hand over the documents. he clearly doesn t want to do this. this is nixonian. i remember back to watergate and i covered some of it; particularly, the hearing. president nixon would do strange things to not turn over documents, subpoena by the senate watergate committee. at one press conference he had transcripts and volumes stacked up behind him. a speech he gave. he said, senator john stennis of mississippi can come look at the documents. senator stennis who he called
beast. and syndicated columnnist charles krauthammer. the latest poll has the president holding a slight lead over mitt romney. 47 to 45.4. do you sense that the race changed or there was an inflection point in job numbers on friday? when professional sycophants like maureen dowd turn face you know the tide is turning. significant person from research and election that the voter attitude is hardening. young adults 18 to 2 is 12%. if you think it won t affect turn-out or voting behavior, you are wrong. that is one reason that they re starting to panic. they have good reason to. is there a panic setting in
holding dr. afridi. we refret both the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence. his help after all was instrumental in taking down one of the world s most notorious murders. he should be getting a medal. honored by the pakistani government. instead, they are putting anymore prison for 33 years, absolutely disgraceful. bret: the doctor was a doctor on the ground in pakistan helping the c.i.a., helping the u.s. intelligence community get usama bin laden. numerous ways. he has been rounded up by the pakistanis, as you heard there, tried of high tryson and sentenced to 33 years in prison. now critics are saying it s because he was, he was rounded up because of administration loose talk about the bin laden raid. the administration is pushing back on that. let s bring in our panel. bill kristol, editor of weekly standard. charles lane, opinion writer for the washington post. syndicated columnnist charles krauthammer. bill, pete king, congressman