For the media, as donald trump won more than a dozen states, crushing nikki haley who eked out only a win in vermont. The former president was briefly in a celeb rah rah story mood but soon moved on to what he sees as the dangers facing america. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. [cheers and applause] this is a big one. Were going to close our borders. Were going to have to deport a lot of people, a lot of bad people, because our country cant live like this, our cities are choking to death. [applause] howard but then came a sharp pivot by the press saying, yes, trump had an amazingly successful night, but look at all these warning signs he faces in november. And theres even a more fundamental divide among the pundits and prognosticators. The right is more focused on turns message and what he stands for while the left keeps assailing him as a wouldbe dictator. What most of these people have never if understood is that this really isnt about a trump, and he himself often a says hes
which presidential candidates kick their campaigns into full year. well, the start of this election year summer it s unlike anything wave seen before. in onewa week president biden a former president trump will face-off in the earliest election debate in modern history. the biden campaign made a deliberate choice to challenge trump to an early debate to force voters to reckon with the reality of the choice they re goingof have to make sooner ratr than later. today we got new details about how that debate is going to play out. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. officially failing to qualify. biden will be standing at the podium on the right of the television screen while trump will have the podium on the left, the same configuration as the two debates held four years ago. donald trump got to choose the order of thedo closing statemen. he chose to go last, giving him the final word. we also got new details how the two candidates plan to prepare for the debate. tonight
respond to reporters questions. she was reading from a prepared statement. you ll see she was looking down. so this, this was carefully thought out in advance. this is her story, this is the line she s going to follow. why is it a mistake? two reasons. one, we ve had now weeks of testimony from intelligence officials who say uniformly that they never thought that the attack in libya was the result of a demonstration that got out of of control because of the famous youtube video. so this simply puts the fat in the fire again over who in the administration made the decision that they would attribute the attack to the youtube video rather than to the evidence of their own eyes on september the 11th that they were under attack. and it s a personal mistake because i think blaming somebody else in this circumstance and saying, in effect, i just presented what was given to me and didn t inquire into it isn t
had a particular point of view on. and you do follow policy as an ambassador. but let me make it clear, in my government experience i never used talking points. i just refused to use them. obviously, you had information that you had to acquire, and you had to adhere to the administration s policy. but i never used talking points. and the issue here is who set the administration policy that the attack in benghazi was caused by a hypercaffeinated demonstration? that s the issue. it s not in particular the issue who changed what word in the talking points, because this narrative continued both before susan rice was on the five tv talk shows, white house spokesman jay carney was following it, and it continued right up to and including president obama s speech to the u.n. general assembly. so it s the big picture here that we should be focused on, and that is who, contrary to all of the intelligence information that the heads of the
intelligence agencies said they had, thought that this had something to do with a demonstration. rick: i don t want to let you go without first asking you about what s going on in egypt right now where muhammad morsi must feel pretty emboldened after playing such a crucial role in helping to broker a ceasefire between s reel and hamas. between israel and hamas. he is now sort of changing the law of the land, a power grab. how s this going to work out? is. well, i think he s revealed his true stripes. this is not democracy in action, this is a classic effort at one person, one vote, one time. he s, obviously, met resistance. let s hope it s successful. but i think it s just highly ironic that after dozens of commentators left and right in this country hailed muhammad morsi for his responsible conduct with respect to gaza and how he wasn t acting like an an extremist from the muslim brotherhood got what he, got what he needed from the