different facilities that are closed over the coming week. without benghazi, the reaction, i think, would be very different. the political costs of benghazi to the obama administration, as you know, was very, very large. and that is the political context here. and, phil, what happens now? does the u.s. wait this out? does the threat go away? at some point the embassies reopen? this is fascinating. from someone who once sat in the chair. when we re going to remember from yellow to orange back in 03, 04, 05, we used to sit there and watch the threat matrix drive us, to escalate the threat warning. and then you d say, how do we get out of this, in this case, something we haven t talked about, the american government has said, at the end of august, the travel warnings will expire. that s the american government saying, we re not sure whether we can mitigate this strength, we re not sure whether this will decline, we want a way out, and the way out is to say, there s an end date on t
will expire, that s the american government saying, we re not sure whether we can mitigate this strength, we re not sure whether this will decline, we want a way out, and the way out is to say, there s an end date on the threat. appreciate you being on. a bride on her honeymoon killed. several others injured, a man plows a car into a popular california board walk, all of it caught on tape. a 360 exclusive, two americans justine agers who became drug cartel assassins, they talked for the first time how they were recruited to kill. in all, how many people did you kill? i have no idea. no idea? you lost track? i guess so. could you guess or are we talking like 10, 20, 30, 50? between 20 and 30. [ tires screech ]
different facilities that are closed over the coming week. without benghazi, the reaction, i think, would be very different. the political costs of benghazi to the obama administration, as you know, was very, very large. and that is the political context here. and, phil, what happens now? does the u.s. wait this out? does the threat go away? at some point the embassies reopen? this is fascinating. from someone who once sat in the chair. when we re going to remember from yellow to orange back in 03, 04, 05, we used to sit there and watch the threat matrix drive us, to escalate the threat warning. and then you d say, how do we get out of this, in this case, something we haven t talked about, the american government has said, at the end of august, the travel warnings will expire. that s the american government saying, we re not sure whether we can mitigate this strength, we re not sure whether this will
among those middle income groups, but when you come right down to all of it, rick perry is now the frontrunner, heading into a month full of debates, expectations going to be very, very high for him as he measures up against the rest of the government p. bill: i think that s a great point. now, what do you see in play with a romney matchup, because barack obama has 43 percent in your survey and mitt romney is at 39 percent. you know, again, it s four points in the other direction that romney also is doing better than but romney is doing better than he was a week or so ago. this says more about the matchup between romney and perry than anything else. if mitt romney wins the nomination, if he comes back after if he comes back his numbers will improve against the president and perry s will decline, but for right now, mitt romney not getting quite as much support, especially from republicans, compared to rick perry. bill: these are interesting observations the one more point here o
gains on the battlefield the pressure to leave will decline, not go up. as long as he, gadhafi, can claim, look, we re winning this, is a ragtag army we re facing, one other thing we have to wait for, eliot, what what happens there has been this argument in washington that the reason we haven t been raining down tomahawk missiles is because there s bad weather, low clouds and that sort of thing. if the weather clears and we still don t go in, then it s hard to see how the rebels reverse there. they ll be holed up in benghazi. everything we re hearing about the rebel forces is that this is basically a pea shooter up against a tank and simply no way absent our perriello intervention with marines on the ground that doesn t seem to be in the cards the issue of the cia is intriguing. we don t know when the president signed that order. what is within the gambit of the cia s power. could they within the u.n. s mandate or u.s. law could they