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Team fox coverage. carl cameron has mitt romney s response from the campaign trail. jennifer griffin assesses the situation in the middle east and northern africa. we begin with the chief white house correspondent ed henry on the president s reaction today. good evening, ed. good evening, bret. tonight, the president is blasting mitt romney for his criticism of the administration s initial response. mr. obama telling cbs 60 minutes that mr. romney has a tendency to shoot first and aim later. in cold blood, four americans murdered by a mob in benghazi. in a bat that lasted four hours on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. including u.s. ambassador to libya chris stevens. the first american ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979. raising alarm bells about american outposts all around the globe. i ve directed my administration to increase the security at diplomatic posts around the world. make no mistake, we will work ....
Out a statement about the attacks, about the loss of life in libya and it continueed disgraceful that the obama administration first response was not to condemn the attacks on our diplomatic missions but to similar not these with those who sympathize with those who waged the attacks. how does this play as you hear the back and forth? we re back with the panel. steve? i think on the substance mitt romney s cri tier is the right critique. the president did send mixed signals. the administration from the first tweet from the embassy in egypt did lead with an apology. even subsequent statements by hillary clinton where she added in denunciation of the violence led with what wastantment to an apology. on the substance, good case. on the timing would i have done the press conference, i probably wouldn t have, but it has much more to do with the fact that you knew the media were going to obsess on this and obsess on it they did. they are so now fascinated by ....
Itself is confusing. yes. the problem is if mitt romney wants to make an argument against the way the president has handleed the arab spring, he needs to make it. he wasn t making it today and he focused on the statement. if that is it, the subtotal of the charge against the obama administration i don t know where it will go. risky if you inject yourself in fast-moving foreign crisis, learned this through the chinese dissident story he got involved and then the next thing you know he was criticizing the administration, not getting the guy out and he gets the guy out. i think that it has to be thought through and make the argument and make them in a concerted way over time. if this is just a one-day thing where he swipes at obama and goes back to economy i don t know how it helps him. bret: charles? i agree st. substance of what romney said was absolutely right. the problem he needs to make a larger argument. there is a collapse of obama ....
That suggest there is something wrong with the right of free speech. romney initial rebuke prompted counterattack not from the obama administration but the obama campaign in chicago. which set in a statement, we are shocked that at a time when the united states of america is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in libya, governor romney would choose to launch a political attack. reporters grilled romney with questions whether he turned too partisan, too soon. do you regret the tone at all given what we know now? do you regret having that statement come out so early? romney brushed back reporters noting that the white house officials backed away from the u.s. mission in cairo statement and removed it from the internet last night. the white house distance itself last night from the statement. saying it wasn t cleared by washington. that reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world. romney is under fire for speaking too soon before all t ....
Services more or less done their job. they didn t do it yesterday. why didn t they do it? taking a bigger step back and looking at the scene in egypt. some of this we could have anticipated. when you have the president of egypt, the newly sworn in president of egypt, mohammed morsi, in his inaugural address requesting that the united states return the blind sheikh behind the world trade center attacks. in 93. bret: and the obama administration downplaying and dismissing that rather than confronting him about the attacks. it was a mistake not to do that at the time. we should have signaled strength at the time. the response was one to, you know, we don t want to make this a big deal. let it go. bret: we re going to talk about the politics of this statement from cairo embassy and what mitt romney said about it. but charles, what about that thought? you talked about it yesterday, about the initial we reported it on the show. the initial statement from the embassy, and then the fa ....