have probably waited a day or half a day. despite criticism others are coming to romney s defense. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld tweeted, attacks on our embassies and diplomats are the result of perceived american weakness. mitt romney is right to point that out. our next guest, rich lowery the editor of the national review , late tuesday night, romney thoroughly condemned the embassy press release. in rapid confirmmation of romney s wisdom doing so through the statement under the bus. it doesn t reflect the views of the u.s. government. some are asking whether the president should have gone to vegas to campaign in the immediate aftermath of the deaths of our ambassador to libya and the three others in the embassy. joining us rich lowery, editor of national review and fox news contributor. with us simon rosenberg, former clinton campaign advisor. rich you say mitt romney was
exactly right say what he said when he did? yeah. look he is getting pressure all day because of some major event, attacks on our embassy to issue a statement. he issued a statement that rightly focused on this completely indefensible press release reaffirmed during the day by the embassy in egypt, basically apologizing to these protesters in saying that people in america were abusing their free speech rights which is not the place of one of our embassies to comment on things americans say in this country,%ing their constitutional rights. and for confirmation that that embassy statement was totally indefensible, the white house distanced it telephone from it and threw the statement under the bus and said had nothing to do with it. you would have thought romney had been vindicated. but next morning the press woke up and decided mitt romney had to apologize for something for this. when he didn t, began to write stories how his campaign was basically over and had blown itself up in a le