the only people denying that the last week is people like jay carney. they wanted us to believe the afascinations of the ambassador, stevens, and navy seals were the quote of a movie trailer. this had nothing to do with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. but as more facts about the tragedy were revealed, that story began to change and contradictions began piling up. let's review. >> this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video, a film. >> the best assessment we have today is that, in fact, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. that what happened initially, it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. >> we have condemned in the strongest possible terms the violence that has erupted from these protests. and as i have said, the video that sparked these protests is disgusting and reprehensible, and the united states government, of course, had absolutely nothi

the only people denying that the last week is people like jay carney. th wanted us to believe the afascinations of the ambassador, stevens, and navy seals were the quote of a movie trailer. this had nothing to do with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. but as more facts about the tragedy were revealed, that story began to change and contradictions began piling up. let's review. >> this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video, a film. >> the best assessment we have today is that, in fact, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. that what happened initially, it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. >> we have condemned in the strongest possible terms the violence that has erupted from these protests. and as i have said, the video that sparked these protests is disgusting and reprehensible, and the united states government, of course, had absolutely nothing

here is white house spokesman jay carney yesterday. listen. >> based on what we know now, and knew at the time, we have no evidence of preplanned, or premeditated attack. >> eric: jay carney today says it's self-evident it was terrorism. so americans deserve some answers. why won't this president call a terrorist a terrorist? hillary clinton, madam secretary, smart lady, do you really think it was all about a movie? jay carney, c'mon, you know better than what you have been saying. ambassador rice, please stop insulting our intelligence. this is a coverup of the highest levels of the united states government. don't they realize this just emboldens al-qaeda? andrea, the issue here is what is the perception in the muslim world? what is the perception among radical muslims? how does the obama administration treat what is going on in the middle east? >> andrea: considering that hillary clinton is on the hill lobbying for more aid to the countrys egypt and libya, they're laughing. they are saying they are not even going to acknowledge this

carney came out, julie, jay carney the white house press secretary came out and said terrorism now. so if he can come to the podium, why shouldn't the president? >> the president did, jamie, in fact if you look at the president's remarks he addressed them as terrorist attacks, when they initially happened. and the president did that right off the bat i think there's no disagreement from any of us certainly not from angela, me or the president for that matter or the secretary of state that this was a terrorist attack, of course it was, people killed our ambassador and our fellow americans, of course it was a terrorist attack and seems to me it was probably coordinated from everything that initially is being reported, but i think-- >> but julie, but i think it's very important to make sure that we have all the facts before the president goes out and there says something that turns out not to be accurate later on when it's complete. >> jamie: is that the case, angela, or is the president side stepping the issue because the economy is on the mind of voters and he's been campaigning and

. >> white house spokesman jay carney was reminded of and totally dismissed. then primary candidate obama complaint in 2008 he could lose pennsylvania because the voters there "cling to guns or religion." >> he is out there fighting for every american regardless of whether or not they support him politically or support the democratic party. >> romney said those par tent to big government and debt favor obama. >> i recognize those who pay no tax, 47% on americans, i'm not highly to be successful with the me sam of lowering taxes. likewise those reliant on government not atacted to the me sanel of slimming down the size of government. >> romney aides say he was describing voters with the choice seven weeks from today. romney made controversial remarks in pay casting doubt of two-state solution between israel and palestinians. >> the palestinians have no interest in establishing peac peace. and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish. >> the best way you can, you recognize it's going to remain unsolved. >> aides issued a statement reiteratin

here's jay carney saying, we have no information on this. they absolutely did have information. so when you've that going on, you wonder where are the press? this happened two weeks ago. where are the press covering? fine, abc news finally did a story. they should have been doing this a week ago. >> sean: they're covering up the death by terrorists of americans. >> absolutely. >> sean: they're covering it up. >> absolutely. cbs has yet to cover this. >> sean: nbc finally did the story, but they blamed the intelligence coming up, you know, for getting it wrong, as if they know better. by the way, it's msdnc. go ahead. >> it's win more than two weeks since the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans were killed at the u.s. consulate in banghazi. tonight a rare reversal. intelligence officials acknowledge they originally got it wrong. patience is starting to wane thin with the pace of the investigation and shifting explanations from the administration. tonight members of congress from both parties are demanding answers. >> sean: well, they got part of it right. >> they c

he did it, hillary did it, susanries did it, jay carney did it. why are they pandering this way? right here in america we have a group in dearborn that's trying to stop freedom of speech. where's the president on this in. >> because the left, contrary to popular opinion, is not the defender of free speech. you know, anytime you hear a person use the term "hate speech" you are listening to an attack on the first amendment, because you're hearing an argument that says there are things that says there are things so far out of the mainstream that they ought to be banned. slate, the online liberal magazine this week ran a piece that said we run the first amendment too seriously, there are things that are too offensive that they ought to be banned. it's a terrifying development. >> sean: tonight, it was the lead on drudge, as i was coming down to the program tonight, we're going to give another $450 million, the person that got this started, alexis, is the president of egypt, and he said he won't allow anyone saying anything negative against the prophet. my question to you is, where is

i guess jay carney spoke out about this today. >> he did. 'cause there has been conflicting information as you suggest. some administration officials have said look, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. that's the opposite, as you know, as to what the libyan president and others have suggested. u.s. intelligence sources have told fox that the u.s. government was warned by libyan officials that violence was increasing in benghazi and that the libyan government may not be able to control it. so i pressed jay carney on whether we got some kind of a warning. take a listen. >> the administration have any sort of heads up that violence was increasing specifically in libya before the attack? >> i'm not aware of any, ed. this is a matter that's under investigation in terms of what precipitated the attack, what the motivations were, what role the video played in that. >> the president taped an interview with david letterman running later tonight and he says he has a new message for the muslim world. they need to work with the u.s. to prote

this remains under investigation. >> now jay carney aboard air force one told reporters itself evident that this was a terror attack. different from what the administration has been saying all week. >> we are at the very early stages of an fbi investigation. the teams from the fbi reached libya earlier this week, and i will advise congress also that i am launching an accountability review board that will be chaired by ambassador thomas pickerring. >> clearly a terrorist attack. but exactly who perpetrated it is the question. >> we went through a very exhaust i have effort to try to take those prisoners at gitmo and to rehabilitate them. but we have seen instances, both in iraq and afghanistan, and for that matter pakistan, where former detain s have been involved in planning and executing attacks against americans abroad. >> on the issue of -- with libya today, it is stunning the lack of coordination between the intelligence community and the state department. >> what do we know? we know it was a terror attack. it was planned two or three days in advance. we knew it had nothing to do w

jay carney explained monday why the president has made no public plans. >>> the president just recently had a conversation with prime minister netanyahu that lasted more than an hour i believe, and that was just one in countless conversations that they have had. as you know the president has met with and spent time on the phone with prime minister netanyahu more than any leader since he took office. >>> many are the president. republicans are blasting president obama for being in campaign mode during his visit. they criticized the president's decision to do an interview with the television show "the view" and not meet with other leaders like prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> i know something about this. i ske ehcheduled the president three years. we wouldn't have had time for the view it would have been packed with world leaders sitting down with the president having a discussion. something you can't accomplish on the other end of the telephone. there's no substitute to sitting down with a leader and the other people he brings to the meeting to talk about the heavy issues. >>> jay c

jay carney saying, as making pretty clear. all of these demonstrations of violence and assassinations are not about the obama doctrine, obama policies, or america. what in the world, what is going on here? >> to "the rev. jeremiah right, the chickens are coming home to roost for barack obama. this is a president to win out there to the middle east, apologized for our history there, tried to appease them, showed a lack of strength and resolve in terms of american foreign policy and is reaping the world right now. it was -- lou: it was such a sad and solemn ceremony today. andrews air force base. for americans bodies were returned to this country. but all i kid think at the outset of that ceremony is the president the secretary of state , the president to decided, as this tragic event unfolded to not change his schedule, go out to las vegas and campaign rather than stand his post. but in your mind could be going on here? >> i think every calculation in the white house today, even the death of an ambassador is strained through th

jay carney explained monday why the president has made no public plans. >>> the president just recently had a conversation with prime minister netanyahu that lasted more than an hour i believe, and that was just one in countless conversations that they have had. as you know the president has met with and spent time on the phone with prime minister netanyahu more than any leader since he took office. >>> many are criticizing the president. republicans are blasting president obama for being in campaign mode during his visit. they criticized the president's decision to do an interview with the television show "the view" and not meet with other leaders like prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> i know something about this. i ske ehcheduled the president three years. we wouldn't have had time for the view it would have been packed with world leaders sitting down with the president having a discussion. something you can't accomplish on the other end of the telephone. there's no substitute to sitting down with a leader and the other people he brings to the meeting to talk about the heavy issue

i got called the next day and he said... >> rose: "he" being jay carney? >> jay carney saying "we're interested in doing this." >> i said "who's we?" he said "the president is interested in doing this." i said "that's kind of great, what about everybody else at the white house?" he said "we're not very interested in doing it." (laughter) so he said i don't know, he said jay was... jay was interested in it, he's a journalist, he knew what i was getting at. he said come on in and just meet some people and we'll see if we can assuage people's nerves about this. and it wasn't to meet the president it was just to meet the powers that be around him. and so i went in and did what amounted to like a goldman sachs job interview, meeting all the honchos and i went from room to room to room in the course of the day and at the end of it... it was interesting... >> rose: what was their worry? >> i think they just wanted to see who i was. because nobody was saying "what are you going to write?" except very broadly i said this thing i want to do is at least as much about

his name sukan ben kumu. >> jay carney suddenly said this. it is i think self-evident what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack. our embassy was attending violently and result was four deaths in american officials. why the turnaround, judy? >> as we stay in journalism, even when you try to ignore them for a week there was a stubborn theme. this was a spontaneous eruption of outrage, finally enough material leaked out through the press, not enough because the press wasn't asking the tough questions to force a change in the administration's line. that is what we have now. the tough questions lie ahead. >> jon: rick, you worked for u.n. ambassadors. when susan rice goes out on tv and says this was spontaneous and all because of a movie? >> what is interesting about susan rice, immediate response, david gregory did not push her. netanyahu came on david gregory was aggressive. but with susan rice she was able to talk about narrative of a film being the cause without any push back. however, i disagree with judy the u.s. media got it wrong. i

i raised the issue with jay carney, getting off the u.n. on what about those mitt romney releasing his tax returns. did that satisfy the president? jay carney said that's an issue for -- something for the campaign to answer. wait a minute, you've talked about this before. here's a follow-up and jay's attempt to duck the answer. >> in terms of the president believes, as a candidate that governor romney has an obligation to the american people to be forthcoming. >> i would say the president believes the tradition of candidates releasing their entire returns many years of them is a useful and valuable one for the american people. certainly one he's abided by. i have noted it began i guess just coincidentally with governor romney of michigan back in 1968. it is a process the president thinks is important even if it uncomfortable. you should be an open book. that's his view. >> bill: so in other words romney didn't do enough right? >> so therefore he did not do -- >> i think the campaign has spoken to this. but the president's view hasn't change

jay carney yesterday said president obama doesn't stand with the union workers and the teachers. he stands with the kids and the students. >> andrea: his silence tells me he stands for the unions. his principal concern is not the union. it's getting re-elected. it's the same message. the teachers want to keep their job and they want raises and they don't want to be graded by any standardize test. their record. we have a president who wants to keep his job and forget a raise, but he doesn't want to be graded on his record. it's the same theme. every day this is on the cover of the paper the worse it gets for him. even if i'm a teacher in albany new york and making $44,000 a year, i'm not happy about what is going on. i am even more unhappy if i'm unemployed out there. his demographic gets more a more raises and no accountability. >> greg: we know what the white house is concerned with, the food in the school cafeteria. i look at this stuff going on and i'm like what is more frightening, hot dog in a cafeteria? or constantly entitled angry teacher. those guys go back in the school

>> it was obvious that jay carney had the too tight shoe look on his face. rush limbaugh is wrong, this is not a democratic set up so media can swoon and the president will rush in and end the strike and helpunes. this is more politically toxic for president obama. he knows coming out in favor of teachers union is a big mistake. >> this is an opening for president obama. if he wanted to appeal to the swing voters that everybody is obsessed with, some out and say i'm for good schools. good schools no matter how we get them. i think what my chief of staff is doing in chicago is right to do. are they going to not organize them because he challenges for the home state and hometown? not taking a position for obama looks weak. this is his home state and chiechief of staff his kids woud have gone to school if he stayed there and he wouldn't take a position? >> bret: wisconsin he took a position. >> he didn't weigh in but he took a position saying he was with the union. >> charles? >> that is why he is dancing around right now. they don't want to come out against th

>> reporter: arthel, seemed after that statement that you just read from jay carney aboard air force one yesterday, after so many mixed signals from the white house and mixed messages from monday that would signal some kind of alignment in white house messaging. after the plane, air force one landed in miami for the univision forum yesterday, the president obama sent an entirely different signal. here's the president. >> what we've seen over the last week, week and a half is something we've seen in the past where there is an offensive video or cartoon directed at the prophet muhammad and this is obviously something that then is used as an excuse by some to carry out inexcusable violent acts, directed at westerners or americans. >> reporter: those remarks again suggesting that it is the film itself that bears responsibility for triggering the attacks and the deaths of americans and notice again the president absolutely tiptoed around using the phrase terrorist attack in those remarks yesterday, arthel. arthel: doug, we understand that some congressional republicans are upset over a cl