opponents of hers are already starting to frame her time as secretary of state. jon, the way the washington post frames this citing unnamed sources in the clinton circle is that this is going to be sped up a bit, this book, in an effort to kind of frame what could be a presidential run. one source in this article says, quote, it s almost becoming a kind of conventional wisdom that there were minimal accomplishments of her time as secretary of state. quote, the concern about this talking point taking hold has lent more urgency to getting the book done. a lot of this has to do with the benghazi situation, this bipartisan senate intel committee report. really focussing in on the lack of security in secretary clinton s state department for that benghazi facility and all of the things that were dropped
circumstances by which the military offered security to ambassador stevens. he didn t have that. he didn t answer that. the state department didn t provide the security. he didn t say yes to the military security but nonetheless, the senate report says the state department dropped the ball. jon: you have to wonder whether she s going to be paying special attention to the media criticism of robert gates, the former secretary of defense whose current book is getting so much heat because of recounting of conversations or meetings that he had with the president who is still serving. obviously president obama will still be serving when this book comes out and she s going to have to write, presumably, about her thinking on things like libya and benghazi and the arab spring. if she disagrees publicly with the path that president obama took, what is that? well, it s essentially setting up a run potentially
president obama a few years ago and this seems to be a continuation of it. if you plow through it, the president comes across as calm ands says i m not ideological. that doesn t ask him how come your administration has followed green zealous who are trying to shut down the united states economy or how come you left us incompetent in the health care website? if the president does nothing for three years except give interviews and they don t ask hard questions, then i guess he has an easy life. ask him a question like why is the add months zealous and wants to shut down the economy? why would he even ask a question like that? what s wrong with having a 17,000 word profile by somebody who isn t necessarily looking to confront the s on every possible or perceived fault? what s wrong with that.
because there will be some distancing. i mean, listen. former president clinton in speeches and appearances has already started to distance the clintons from some of the foreign policy decisions of the obama administration. and if you see that in this book that some of these foreign policy decisions by the obama white house, some distancing from secretary clinton and those decisions, that would be quite something and striking. and like the gates book, we probably get a whole heck of a lot of attention. jon: seems like she would have difficulty writing, i didn t want to do it but the president made me. that was the policy so i enforced it. we ll see how it comes out. the book they re talking about a june publishing date. bret baier, thank you. jenna: just in time for summer reading list. jon: and just in time to particular off a book tour ahead of the election. jenna: we re learning new information about the cyber attack on target. the security breach for tens of
arth three years. it also highlights what i said earlier, he s a hero, a soldier. a soldier doesn t take down his commanding officer or all the way up, or all the way down the channel, when you re in battle. we re at war, still at war. he s admirable for that. let me get greg s last word. do you think timing is a concern for obama. do you think it s dangerous at this time to question a commander in chief? i don t know, because i m always of the feeling that people hold on to material for a book when they should be letting it out sooner. if you feel the people are in danger, you should come out and say something and sacrifice the couple of million dollars you re going to make out of this book. but more important, i think the book doesn t just really expose president obama s innate beliefs america and his anti-exceptionalism. it also exposes the media for its kind of intentional hibernation.