the flag was torn down. greta: there is the political ramifications here in this country i am curious, should governor romney be speaking out about in? oh, of course. we are less than two months to an election, an important international event occurs, you would expect to hear from the candidate, as a voter, i want to hear what a candidate for president has to say. it may seem ugly and unseamly, we have had four people killed. but these are very important times. when he issued that original statement it was not known what had happened in libya. he was issuing the statement about the u.s. embassy in kirow and what happened in cairo, you can see is an uncertain situation. greta: if i look at the response, libya apologized. i am grateful for that. president karzai in afghanistan call its an insult to islam. no apology or sympathy to the fact that we lost four americans. egypt right now, the people are
i draw your attention to the pictures in cairo where the people are protesting against us. ambassador, thank you very much. thank you. greta: deadly attacks on americans in the middle-east, quickly turning the campaign trail interest a critical discussion of our national security. on the record today, traveled to green bay, wiscob sin, to talk with g.o.p. vice-presidential nominee, paul ryan. nice to see you. great to be back with you. welcome home. good to be home. isn t it? greta: it is nice. today, you had a big crowd at town hall, the local people here in green bay. as you startedded this, you started touk talking about foreign policy and what happened in libya. yeah, right. greta: there are early signs just signs that the attack was planned. of course, it was 9/11 and territory belonging to the united states. if you were vice-president working with a president romney, what would you be thinking about it? i would want to get to the bottom of it, number 1.
i would not speak in equivocal terms. i disagree with the original statements that the administration put out in cairo, sympathizing with the people storming the embassy. we should stand up for our values and our free speech rights. so i think that statement was wrong and the administration was right to walk it back, after they stood by that statement a couple of times. now what happened in benghazi, afterwards, we have lost four of our diplomats, our ambassador was killed. this is a straj trag this is a tragedy. this is outrageous. going forward, we need peace through strength. our adversaries who are tempted to test us need to than america is strong millitarily, that we won t have the devastating defense cuts that questions the resolve and the strength of our military. our president needs to speak with force and clarity for our principles. greta: that mixes several issues ever achieving peace through strength. we have the issue of
of america and our allies. i think by the result of the fact that they are this much closer to a nuclear weapon, this administration has not done near the job they should have done. greta: somebody asked you about the doctor in pakistan and you were harsh about the leaks, you say, coming out of the white house. you said something about our relationship with our allies. has our relationship changed with many of our ally snitches i worry that by gutting defense like we are, by not speaking with moral force, by standing up for our principles, freedom of religious, freedom of speech, women s rights, individual rights, the president s missed lots of opportunities. the green revolution in iran. he said bashar assad has to go. he s still there. our adversaries see us gutting defense so they are more willing to engage in what i call foreign policy adventurism and our allies wonder if we have the resolve that we traditionally
have. take a look at the way we have been treating israel. take a look at the other issues. i really believe that we need a peace through strength option, which we don t have. if america is strong and we assert our belief, standing proud and have a strong military that is unrivaled, our adversaries won t test us as much and our allies will trust us more. greta: you mentioned women s rights. the obama administration is running a ad saying that the romney administration would be dangerous to women. you smirk? this is what politicians do when they don t have a good record. 23 million people struggling to find work. the poverty rate of women is the high nest a generation. president obama said if you pass the stimulus package, unemployment would never be above 8%. it s been above 8% 43 months. the president doesn t have a record to run on, so he is running a divisive campaign. hope and change is now divide