after a seven year review today it became official. president obama sighing the keystone xl pipeline would not be in the national administration the decision is it s over. we re back with the panel. george? well, people are saying that he weighed the decision for seven years. i don t think he weighed it for 10 minutes. he decided seven years ago this wasn t going to be built and he waited for the right moment to do it it the fold. one is that if we don t build the pipeline the tar sands in canada will not be developed. that s nonsense. the other is it s better to ship the oil from the tar sands on railroad cars than under ground in a pipeline which is nonsense on stilts. this is now an easy layup for every republican out there to say that what they would do if they were in the the white house, virtually all the presidential candidates came out and said that they would go forward with the pipeline. it was interesting though, reading the numbers, 35,000
westmoreland. but i decided my pathway would be medicine. well this dominated a lot of the day. in political journalism. dr. ben carson defending and his campaign defending what he wrote in his book about what he called getting a full scholarship to west point, you don t don t get scholarships, you get appointments, and the campaign kind of had a couple of statements today, they started out, with the original statement this morning, saying dr. carson was the top rotc student in the city of detroit in that role he was invited to meet general westmoreland. he believes it was at a banquet. he can t remember their brief conversation, but it centered around dr. carson as a rotc city executive officer. he was introduced to west point by his rotc supervisors, they told him they could help him get an appointment. he considered it, but in the end did not seek admission. then it developed and later in
witnessed these. they ve tried to find jerry. and tell me what makes you think that you re going to find those specific people? this is a bunch of lies. that s what it is, a bunch of lies. attempting you know to say that i m lying about my history. politico has now greatly softened its dramatic headline from carson admits fabricating west point scholarship. to carson s claim of west point scholarship but never applied. and donald trump retweeting someone else s words and linking to the politico piece, is carson hallucinating? now lying about west point. but jeb bush, with neil cavuto defended carson by saying, i trust him, i believe it. i don t believe politico. brett? howard, more later with the panel. we now know what the line-up will look like for the next presidential debates tuesday on the fox business network. and the campaigns, are reacting. chief political correspondent carl cameron has the scorecard tonight.
goodness, could he have picked a better enemy to get into a fight with. in this primary? than the media? and of course, politico of all, just bebecause politico is sort of inside-the-beltway sort of media outlet and getting into a fight with them? good, it s all good, it s all good for ben carson. he told bill o rieillo reill he was told it was easy for him to get in and he should have clarified it wasn t a full scholarship. i mean it was all over the place today. it was amazing to see how it unravelled online within five hours, this go guy was dead man walking when the plit co-story hit. conservatives abandoning him. and you saw the retractions, politico had to chang their story and their headline that said he fabricated the specific allegation and what really the difference was, is that he said he, he never applied to west point and he never said he applied. he said he was offered a scholarship informally in this
kurtz has the night s top story. ben carson who has been denouncing the media for digging into his inspirational life story has acknowledged a mistake. carson s campaign told politico today that he was not accepted at west point in 1969. in fact he didn t even apply. contradicting what he wrote in his autobiography, gifted hands. carson s campaign says the late general william westmoreland, the u.s. command anywhere vietnam did urge the young rotc student to consider west point. but in the end, carson did not seek admission. carson s campaign dismissed the entire story as an outright lie. but in his book he writes i was offered a full scholarship to west point. the military academy. does not charge those who are accepted. carson offered this explanation today. to bill o reilly. you were never formally offered any kind of accommodation at west point, is that correct? right. i was just told that it would be very easy for me. so that should have been a little clearer on page 57 of