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0 filter going on. she wasn t playing any political games for the team. i agree with that. finish up. i m sorry, michael. just to take that point, chris, more broadly, there was every reason to think this might have been a spontaneous demonstration, and susan s instincts may have been in that direction. you think what happened the same day in egypt, it apparently was still spontaneous, and that s what our best intelligence says. if you think to the demonstrations in afghanistan over the years when the korans were burned or the prophet was insulted, that was often the span spontaneous. the same thing when the danes published that cartoon with the prophet mohammed, and there were demonstrations throughout the muslim world. it was not an unreasonable initial assumption. i do believe that someone in the administration, not in the campaign, but in the administration probably could have done a better job between wednesday and sunday of getting better talking points. but i don t think i
0 wednesday and sunday of getting better talking points. but i don t think it was ambassador rice s fault. i definitely don t think she lied. if it came through the white house, then she didn t give a straight story. anyway, joe lieberman, who s fascinating to watch because you never know which way he s going to go. he s usually a faithful ally of mccain and graham, but this afternoon joe lieberman came to a far different conclusion. take a listen. i specifically asked her whether at any point prior to going on those sunday morning television shows she was briefed or urged to say certain things by anybody in the white house related to the campaign or political operation. she said no, she was not given messaging points at all by the white house. to me, based on her public record and her public service, barring some evidence to the contrary, i think she s answered the questions that i have about why she said the things she did on those sunday morning talk shows. well, there you hav
the conservative may not want to go along with that. the best push is coming from people i don t normally side with like tom donahue of the u.s. chamber of commerce because he s warning if the congress screws around with this thing, the whole world is going to be watching us screw it up again and it s going to hurt the economy no matter who is in charge, it will hurt everybody, and we better darn well have a deal. i think they re the strongest push, better than the progressives, in get a deal. your thoughts? i think dick durbin is a hero. i d give him the medal of honor with oak leaf clusters. he was on our commission. when you give a spread between dick durbin and tom coburn and get five democrats and five republicans, one independent, 60% of the commission a supermajority and everybody walks away because they all say, and durbin is tremendous, he s absolutely up front on that, but everybody is saying, well, it s the framework. we don t care whether our names are connected with it.
0 campaign takes this as a personal shot at him. how will he respond? will he name ambassador rice his new secretary of state to replace hillary clinton? will he meet mccain s challenge head on and send rice up to the capitol to go face-to-face with the enly? tonight we study the battlefield and the fire power. mccain sure wants this fight, but do his fellow republicans? do they want an older white guy taking on the xre tense of a young woman of color, a rhodes scholar of solid reputation? most important what end does the president want for this match of fact and wits? i m joined by michael o hanlon of the brookings institution and jonathan lindie. michael, thank you for this. i want to get to the facts. am i right, is the main charge here coming from mccain and the others that ambassador rice knowingly covered up a national security breach for political purposes? i think that s probably correct, chris, because i don t understand the level of invective and anger otherwise. clearly, t