it because that s the most popular with most party base. you saw a fewer partisanship, people bringing up benghazi. but you re seeing republicans, including speaker boehner being very serious about this. you just wonder, is there an effect of this debate on the rest of the discussions? that s wildly optimistic. it s probably wrong but i d really like to see that happen because war concentrates people in a way that nothing else does and rightly so. e.j. dionne, thank you for being on the program. and phillip bump, thank you. secretary john kerry will be a guest with chris hayes in all in . the tsa is expanding its prescreening program known as precheck. it allows to keep your chewshoe
now, you know, unsettled and unsure about this global terror threat that we re now faced with. president obama spoke to that last night on jay leno. let s take a listen. this global travel warning, this is for americans all around the world. are we telling people don t take that european vacation just yet? what are we saying? no, i think the general rule is just show some common sense and some caution. obviously, an abundance of caution is what we ve been seeing. it s really hard to talk about this without bringing up benghazi. i want to point out that the first charges are being filed today on benghazi. but there are still folks that are talking about benghazi, questions that they still want asked. a lot of people are still saying that we wouldn t be here today had benghazi been handled with some quote/unquote common sense. is that fair at all to say here? the benghazi political issue has been reduced some. republicans talk about it less than they used to, for sure,
apologizes and lies and gets caught. benghazi is a mess but these are phony? well, this is classic distraction. we have an economy that is having slow economic growth, tepid growth in and of itself and the labor market participation is relatively low. so the obama administration has gotten a modest case to make on the economy. the scandals are very serious. we will talk about them today in great detail particularly pat caddell. bottom line, we have dysfunction in washington. the only asset the president has is republican disarray, totally divided on the budget and the president is basically doing a divide and conquer strategy to take modest credit for modest gain but to blame the republicans, try to demonize them and above all else turn away from the so-called phony
scandal. gregg: i play a clipthe whity jake carney because it appears to be a constant theme in the white house, scandals. what scandals? guest: we see as more facts known whether it is about the attacks in benghazi or revelations of conduct at the i.r.s., attempts to turn this into a scandal have failed. other than him being the most disingenuous person to stand on the podium we face a crisis in american democracy of proportions none of us have seen in terms of the wide-spread scandals and government abuse and the real problem is for the first time in american history you have the party in power, the party out of power in the news
the fateful night. more from washington, dc. veterans of the intelligence community tell fox news that they never have witnessed the kind of sensitivity to press leaks that top officials at c.i.a. are exhibiting on the subject of benghazi. one c.i.a. source describes it as a nuclear blanket. why are the heroes told not to talk? what is the administration afraid of? what is it protecting? reporter: there are reports of area administering polygraph tests to the survivors and a spokesman dismissed this but fox has learned of five c.i.a. personnel on the ground on the night of 9/11 who are forced to sign non-disclosure agreements although all five had signed the documents with the clear fading they were being discoupled from sharing recollections with the news media. that is not consistent with the law and it leads to a general belief that you should not talk to congress. that happens to be obstruction. it is illegal under the