my best advice for jay carney is to stay out of it. you're going to get a fight and it's going to be about hillary versus barack obama. it's going to be hard for them to swallow any sort of the distancing she's going to have to do. >> it's going to be a very careful dance. it's going to have to be a skilled person at that podium. all of the democrats are going to be trying to put distance between themselves and president obama. you didn't answer my question. what did you do the next day after? >> i woke up in scotland because my husband and i left after we said good-bye to the president. we flew overseas and we saw my husband's children and my step grandchildren. i'm a grandmother. >> you are. grandmother america. >> i got as far away from there as i could. then i went to africa. >> you're the best looking grandma i know. >> not according to bob beckel who dissed me earlier. >>> coming up next -- >> we have to have every parent, coach, and teacher recognize the signs of concussions and we need athletes to understand how important it is

you can't lie about -- >> what about jay carney today? two days in a row, many people would say he's lying when he stands up there. >> i absolutely agree that he seems squishy, he seems squirmy, to be bending the truth. but how can you prove that jay carney himself beyond a reasonable doubt believed x, y, z and was saying a, b, c? carney will say, my opinion of the video is -- and to nail him or anyone in that administration from the state department, from hillary clinton on to the cia or to the military -- let me say briefly one thing. we missed the boat by trying to pin the lack of a military response on the white house. the military said they couldn't do anything. we should have left that alone and gone after this -- this was always the -- >> a lot of other elements to this story including that very revealing e-mail. i have to wrap it there. >>> we have breaking news. is there a new call from congress for secretary kerry to testify on the hill regarding benghazi? >>> plus, the florida governor has new allegations about v.a. hospitals i

jay carney was standing up lying right to jonathan karl's face. to your point about new information, isn't it true that a new round of documents that could take months to come out is slated through judicial watch to also be released? so there is more to come. >> we expect more to come. but, you know, i want to be clear. i'm not saying that benghazi should go away forever and ever as an issue if there's no new e-mails in the next week or two just like the health care law, it's something that we and others will be talking about for a long time because the law will be implemented over the next several years. today i think jay carney may have gotten three or four questions about health care. that doesn't mean it's no longer important, that the whoit house press corps has moved on. but also you understand as important as benghazi is, there's a lot of other issues like health care, like the economy and jobs. >> but he lied about morell's testimony, as recently as yesterday. >> and we have a fact check and no doubt about it. i'm not sluffing that off. i'

does any of this you find difficult to swallow, jay carney's propaganda? >> i don't share your belief, you're entitled to your belief -- >> they are called facts. >> got to let me finish. >> it's a fact. >> are you going to let me finish. >> go ahead. >> you had plenty of time in your opening. i don't believe jay carney lied and i have one fact you did not address. i read the 13 versions of the talking points beginning with version one that the cia said it drafted that was circulated and went back and forth over 13 different versions. >> i did, too. >> one sentence never changed in all 13 versions, fact, the cia wrote the words this was a spontaneous demonstration, that's their phrase, and then it ended with triggered by cairo protest. fact, that was written by the cia, was not invented by the obama white house or the state department or ambassador rice. if there was a mistake, and there was a mistake made in the intelligence assessment about this being a spontaneous demonstration, we now know that was wrong. >> here is the problem, here is the problem wit

announces jay carney leaving, appointing josh earnest now to fill that post. wendell, i take it this was a big surprise, right? >> well, it was. jay carney had given no hint that he was ready to give it up, but after two years as vice president's biden's press secretary and three years for president obama, he really was pushing the limits at a demanding job, it's easy to get burned out. >> jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary, and a great advisor, he's got good judgment, he has a good temperament, and he's got a good heart. >> carney says he won't be leaving right away, he's looking at the second or third week in june before taking the summer off, gretchen? >> so tell me a little bit more about his replacement, i mean the reporters know who he is, he's been, there right? >> josh ernest is the guy you see sitting beside jay carney, he's from kansas city, he's 37, his mother's a psychologist and his father's a school athletic director, he will pick up the president's trip to europe to celebrate the 70th anniversary of d-day. an

jay carney is stepping down as white house press secretary. this comes days after carney leaked the identity of the top cia agent in afghanistan but despite the monumental misstep, the president was full of praise. take a look. >> jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary, and a great advisor, he's got good judgment and temperament and he's got a good heart and i'm going >> dana, what are your thoughts? the press secretary, an honor to work for a president obama and to have -- i can't imagine how sort of fulfilled and joyous he felt. no matter how embattled the press secretary has been, that's something they can't take away. the job on press secretary has changed a lot since the regan and bush 41 era. marlin who was press secretary under regan and stays for the first bush term for 41 stayed in that job for eight years. now remember there was no internet then. there wasn't the 24/7 news cycle. fox news was not a glimmer, we had nothing like that at the time and changes with how much preparing you have to do and hav

jay carney had to defend the indefensible. he had to explain or try to explain the less and less transparency at the white house, barring photographers from important events, and most especially of all, the government surveillance of ap journalists and our own james rosen and leaked investigations that seemed to criminalize reporting. >> well the change in podium will help? >> josh has a softer touch. even the great press secretary hes over the years can't work miracles when the news is mostly bad. >>> hillary clinton is launching a political preemptive strike over benghazi. the presumptive 2016 presidential candidate is going on the offensive against those critical in her roll in response to the attacks. >> reporter: top members of hillary clinton's potential 2016 presidential campaign huddled today at the headquarter of third way, a d.c. think tank. the purpose, plotting message andç1/ secretary of state for benghazi and other security controversies. like clockwork, her book surfaced in which she wrote i will not be a part

>> a lot of people don't feel jay carney was being earnest. on bob's first point on the fact that he had a really tough press corps. i disagree. i think they were lap dogs for a lot of it. i don't think that after watching dana perino having to deal with what you had to deal with. you had a lot more battle scars. >> she had lap dogs all over that place. what are you talking about. >> there was something in that clip where we played yesterday, it just looked like he was done and you know he probably wanted to leave for a while and they didn't want him to leave because it would reflect poorly but his face between ed henry and jonathan carl. today, it looked like he had a face lift. who is the happiest guy in washington right now, it's probably jay carney? >> yeah. his wife and his children are probably going to be glad to have dad back. i stayed till the end. i think this is the other thing that's happening in the white house right now. >> look at the fox news makeover. >> good god, is that you? >> yesterday, eric bolling said i was mean and b w

jay carney aside, you've been in d.c. a long time. talk to me about the job of a white house press secretary. just how tough is it having to deal with reporters like yourself who are going to ask tough questions and want answers? >> i'm not over there. there are a people lot tougher than i am over there. it's not nearly as good a job as it probably was 30 or 40 years ago. and i think most press secretaries really aren't intimately involved with policy. i think probably carney's predecessor, robert gibbs, was an exception to that. but it's not unimportant because it's the face you present on some issues to the public. but it can be a very frustrating job. >> "political capital" host a.l. hunt. you can see his full interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi and congressman peter roskam, republican from illinois, on "political capital" tonight at 9:00 p.m. washington time right here on bloomberg television. stay with us. we're going to have another check of the market movers on the other side of the break. "bottom line" on bloombe

you find difficult to swallow, jay carney's propaganda? >> i don't share your belief, you're entitled to your belief -- >> they are called facts. >> got to let me finish. >> it's a fact. >> are you going to let me finish. >> go ahead. >> you had plenty of time in your opening. >> i don't believe jay carney did not lie and i have one fact you did not address. i read the 13 versions of the talking points beginning with version one that the cia said it drafted that was circulated and went back and forth over 13 different versions. >> i did, too. >> one sentence never changed in all 13 versions, fact, the cia wrote the words this was a spontaneous demonstration, that's their phrase, and then it ended with triggered by cairo protest. fact, that was written by the cia was not invented by the obama white house or state department. if there was a mistake and there was in the intelligence assessment about this being a spontaneous demonstration, we know that was wrong -- >> here is the problem, here is the problem with your -- >> it is not a lie. >>

heated exchanges between john carney and jim accosta when carney was asked why rice responded to questions about the attack on the u.s. consulate in b9&ctkzi with talking points aimed at the broader arab region as she did when she attended all the sunday news shows. carney said rice didn't mix up her talking points though. the director of the cia at the time has said that their initial analysis of the attack on the consulate had nothing to do with the anti-islam movie and simplest explanation for what carney had to say is that he may have been trying to protect then ambassador rice. though administration critics say that rice was trying to protect the president's claim that al guide was on the run. remember, all this happened about two months before the presidential election, greta. >> in fact, wendell, the reporters when they walked away from today's briefing, did they sense that they got answers out of the administration or did they feel like carney was basically doing some sort of two step and not answering? >> as i said, i'm not sure how many of these questions were answered. i'm sure

robe own chose to send jay carney out to try to answer questions from white house press corps. carney claims that ben rhodes e-mail had nothing to do with benghazi, while taking another cheap shot at fox news, chief white house correspondent ed henry in his usual front row seat with the report. >> day two of white house press secretary jay carney under fire, sticking to hist key e-mail from ben rhodes to brief susan rice for sunday talk shows are not about benghazi. >> the e-mail was about protests round the rejoin. >> chargeing that credibility of president obama, and his top aides is on the line. >> it is not only now the needless and tragic deaths of 4 americans but it is a obvious cover-up by the white house. >> reporter: carney pushed back hard on that charge saying only part of e-mail mentions benghazi was taken from cia talking points, press secretary blamed garagbarrage of questions this k on fox, even though several news networks pressed carny. >> no we're res restaurant gate. >> only -- investigating it. >> only thing is this e-mail is a cut and paste from talking poi

robe own chose to send jay carney out to try to answer questions from white house press corps. carney claims that ben rhodes e-mail had nothing to do with benghazi, while taking another cheap shot at fox news, chief white house correspondent ed henry in his usual front row seat with the report. >> day two of white house press secretary jay carney under fire, sticking to his story that key e-mail from ben rhodes to brief susan rice for sunday talk shows are not about benghazi. >> the e-mail was about protests round the rejoin. >> chargeing that credibility of president obama, and his top aides is on the line. >> it is not only now the needless and tragic deaths of 4 americans but it is a obvious cover-up by the white house. >> reporter: carney pushed back hard on that charge saying only part of e-mail mentions benghazi was taken from cia talking points, press secretary blamed garagbarrage of questions this k on fox, even though several news networks pressed carny. >> no we're res restaurant gate. >> only -- investigating it. >> only thing is this e-mail is a cut and paste from t

jonah you have role of jay carney in all this. >> jay carney is unusual creature in washington. on one hand is very confident liar and other hand he is not very believable liar. usually those two things go together. he said, initially that he white house changed the exactly one word in these talking points. he is saying that these talking points had nothing to do with benghazi which strains credulity even for the biggest offenders. this memo was written on september 14th, i believe the day that the bodies were coming back and hillary clinton and went and hugged the families, telling them that we're going to go after these people with the video. the idea that somehow this memo was talking about americans who were done harm and all of that wasn't about benghazi, is the kind of thing that, even barack obama's biggest defenders in the press corps are going to have a hard time swallowing it is such nakedly unpersuasive untruth. jon: jonah goldberg, nationalreview.online. ron fournier also with us there from "national journal." gentlemen, thank you both. >> thank you. jenna: new fallo

what carney said is that particular e-mail did not cover benghazi. those were general talking points. >> and three days after -- >> but what i would also say is that what the e-mail shows is that it seemed like no one really knew what the other was doing. >> hang on. basel, you didn't answer my question. i asked you do you believe three days after the attack that killed four americans in the lead-up to sunday shows with susan rice prep, are you telling me you buy that crap that they're spewing in the white house? you believe that bull? >> you know what? i didn't buy it, and i'll tell you exactly why. >> i didn't think you did. >> i didn't buy it because that soon after the fact, to me it was going to be really difficult to get all the information you needed to get to make a great assessment about what happened. >> well, that's the nature of our news cycle today and the 24-hour news. everyone demands answers in a statement immediately, immediately, immediately. and even a lot of the news outlets are coming out and saying we didn't have this informatio

what carney said is that particular e-mail did not cover benghazi. those were general talking points. >> and three days after -- >> but what i would also say is that what the e-mail shows is that it seemed like no one really knew what the other was doing. >> hang on. basil, you didn't answer my question. i asked you do you believe three days after the attack that killed four americans in the lead-up to sunday shows with susan rice prep, are you telling me you buy that crap that they're spewing in the white house? you believe that bull? >> you know what? i didn't buy it, and i'll tell you exactly why. >> i didn't think you did. >> i didn't buy it because that soon after the fact, to me it was going to be really difficult to get all the information you needed to get to make a great assessment about what happened. >> well, that's the nature of our news cycle today and the 24-hour news. everyone demands answers in a statement immediately, immediately, immediately. and even a lot of the news outlets are coming out and saying we didn't have this informatio

jay carney has said they didn't have any guidance. one more thing. this e-mail was classified at first. it was classified, so it didn't go up to the hill originally. then it was declassified and put up there redacted, so they couldn't see who sent it and who received it. the judicial watch request was for benghazi e-mails or documents. nothing else. and the judge ordered that they had to comply. this is an e-mail that came out and jay carney says it is not a benghazi e-mail. >> this is what i believe is a smoking gun. do you think it's a smoking gun? do you think jay carney's explanation was plausible? >> i don't know if it's a smoking gun. i'll let that be for others to decide. it's clear when you look at the narrative by multiple obama administration officials they were all reading from the same page. whether or not carney is correct that that particular e-mail dealt with benghazi or did not deal with benghazi, it was the message that was put out by hillary clinton when she smoke to t -- spoke to families upon return of the bodies. >> you mentioned

out and you will see, according to jay carney, that there was nothing nefarious about it. let the facts speak for themselves. i think they should be cooperating. in jay carney was in the press corps where he used to be, he would be demanding for this information to come out. that's the nature are where he was before. i think that the administration should be supportive. trey gowdy is a very responsible member of congress. he will play it straight and i have every reason to believe he will run a very good, clean investigation, that's not trying to predict the outcome. i think he wants to see what the facts are. >> you were on the inside of the white house. did you find it unusual that the national security spokesperson, the former one, a few days ago with brett bair said that president obama was not in the situation room on the night of the attack. >> i don't think that's odd. the president does not have to be in the situation room with every crisis. usually they're interested enough where they want to go but they also know there is a lot of work being done. my question wou

>> carney's challenge. chiefnk of england's tries to manage expectations on the timing of rate hikes. we will bring you his inflation report in full. the foreignwith minister as germany's chancellor wades into the conflict. >> and astrazeneca's ceo on day two of the takeover hearings. hello. welcome to "the pulse," live from bloomberg's european headquarters in london. i am mark barton. >> and i am caroline hyde. we begin with the bank of england. the pound is rallying as mark carney gets ready to give the latest quarterly inflation report. jonathan ferro joins us in the studio. clues, what clues could we get? >> 9:30 u.k. time. .rowth set to come in unemployment above seven percent. you have all of this talk about slack and spare capacity in the economy. look for wage growth. two guys who used to work at the bank of england say that is a reflection of supply and demand in the labor market. ,hen wages start to pick up that is when you start to see that slack. we have real wage growth now. is coming down. >>

jay carney knew. it was not the result of a video. the attacks were planned by al qaeda. the cia never said that it was a video, in fact, said it wasn't. they altered the talking point. this e-mail from september 14th is a smoking gun because it reveals that the white house knew it and they wanted to prepy shows to say that it was the video. and they were clearly covering obama for reelection. it had a potentially substantial effect on his reelection because if it would have shown that it was a result of an al qaeda attack, it could have cost obama the election because he said he had ali qaeda on the run. they prepped susan race to say we're doing everything we can to protect our facility and the ameri american people. we are bringing them to justice. this wasn't caused by terrorism but a video. three of the four bulletins were out right lies. administration is concerned about covering its own you know what and its own pr like it was in the gulf oil spill. it's never concerned about the american interest and this is outrageous and i really believe and i'll shut up in a se

we have yet to see if it's a similar environment today with jay carney. but yesterday carney said referencing those talking points susan rice had which we now know were false, he referenced that that was the best information that we had at that time. why didn't they come out and say that rather than doing what we now know was misleading the public and putting out false talking points? it's going to be really tough for democrats to try to distract from this conversation right now. >> yeah. steve, welcome again to the program. give us your thoughts. you've seen this news develop throughout the day here. >> well, you know, what's interesting is let this be a lesson to the kids watching right now. when you tell a lie and you get caught, you get in trouble. you were talking earlier about how there's clearly been a cover up because they got caught, but there was also system sort of a conspiracy because the general lovell today said we knew at 3:15 in the morning that it was not the video. the white house knew, the cia knew. we knew at fox news the next day that

not an easy day for jay carney as the president's spokesperson. he continues to be hammered by a slew of reporters now on the v.a. scandal. and whether or not the president still has confidence in secretary shinseki. and also, what about this criminal investigation that now some members of congress are suggesting should happen? jay carney continues to deflect many of these questions about when the president's going to respond yet again to this or when he might take action and ask for the resignation of eric shinseki. we are keeping a close eye on this briefing. we will bring you more fireworks as they continue. >>> in the meantime, a lot of heat going on capitol hill right now as veterans affairs committee grill top v.a. officials following that scathing new i.g. report revealing a quote, systemic breakdown nationwide. and for one freshman lawmaker whose father served in the military, the issue is deeply personal. >> our focus remains on caring for these veterans. we join you in this -- may i finish? >> no, because i have five minutes. if that has

stephanie was saying the whole world will be looking at what carney does. we are on a divergent path in terms of where central banks are. how important is today? it should be important. he started by talking about -- today will be a good opportunity for him to backtrack from that a little bit. he is putting it on the table to make the market more comfortable with it. but look att avoid dollar-sterling and euros-sterling. they are racing ahead. it is what threatens the bank of england the most. .> the market needs to price in floating.ns have been >> that is quite aggressive. >> at the same time, we have to keep in mind is the reason they can do that is because things are doing better. the u.s. did not put a date on right increases. just mentioning tapering did not derail it. he did get the ecb, which likely will announce more aggressive measures between june and the end of the year. you are still getting liquidity in the world, just in the places where you need it. and my being to -- and my being overly trite? being bullish on stocks doesn't just come from

there is press secretary jay carney. he is no doubt going to take pointed questions of what is going on in the va. let's listen in. >> over all, well, as secretary on issues like homelessness and gi bill and 9/11 gi bill and working with us to reduce the backlog. he's put his heart and soul into this thing and taken it seriously. when it comes to the current situation inquiries and allegations, the president wants to see the results of these reports, he as you know made clear that he believes there ought to be accountability once we establish the facts. >> does that leave open the question of whether secretary shinseki can lead the apartment. >> the president identified that he expected a preliminary report from secretary shinseki's internal audit very soon and when he receives that, he will be able to evaluate those findings along with what we have seen from the inspector general. and assess where we are at that time. >> is it fair to say that the white house moved from the point where the president has confidence in se

>> jay carney said that he will address these matters "soon." that could be tomorrow, that could be a week from now, could be a month from now. frankly, it was almost a month ago that i asked the president at a news conference in manila when this scandal first broke in phoenix about allegedly 40 patients dying as they were waiting for care. so he says the president will address this at some point but it is interesting because they keep saying he's angry about this, he's telling his staff he wants something to be done, but i pressed jay carney as well on why have we not heard more from him and what can we expect in the days ahead. >> why do you keep saying, and you've been saying, the president is mad as hell. >> he is mad as hell. >> why are we not hearing that expressed from him. >> i'm sure you'll be hearing from him soon. he did answer not sure if it was in response to your question or someone else's when these allegations first arose. he's strongly supported the action taken by general shinseki. he's sent deputy rob neighbors to assist in th

i think we should also note jay carney pointed out today. remember, it was mitt romney after the michelle attack who did put out a statement blasting the president. was there politics at the white house? yeah. was there politics by mitt romney we should also note, yeah. >> ed, thank you. >> thank you. >> while jay carney was at the podium in the press briefing room. the house oversight committee dancing for answers from a top military intelligence official. >> alive. usama bin laden is dead. al qaeda is on the run. when really they are standing at the front door of our facility in benghazi getting ready to murder our ambassador and burn it down. >> once the first word that we have problems at this annex. it could have lasted 12 hours, 24, 48 hours, so the idea that somehow looking back in hindsight and saying oh well, you know, we didn't wouldn't have got therein in time. that doesn't satisfy me. am i wrong in that? >> no, sir. i didn't believe you are. >> did they ever tell to you go save the people in benghazi? >> not to my knowledge, sir.

jay carney under fire from all new's organization approximate benghazi. he said the cover up is bogus and a gp conspiracy. coming up we'll demand the answers. nnone of them think it is a video. none of them. the military, the cia. the cia station chief and state department. all of them. and the va scandal continues to grow we'll have an interview with the florida governor. va hospitals have blocked inspectors from coming inside. >> politics now. president obama facing dismal approval numbers and slim support for the health care law and bruising military election and a long list of foreign policy problems. and an interesting editorial caught our news. writing for clear politics. larry said "obama is what abraham lincoln called using steam boat lingo, as a dead point. weak abroad and frustrated and home and looking at a brutal november." we havero talk show host and contributors. the comparison is that the obama administration is essentially dead in the water and not going anywhere. captain policies are mired in a lack of support, do you agree? >> no, no. w

from jay carney. "i can tell you that the president believes that ambassador rice has done an excellent job as the united states ambassador to the united nations, and i believe that -- and i know that he believes that everyone here working for him has been transparent in the way that we've tried to answer questions about what happened in benghazi if you were trying to be transparent about what was happening in benghazi, why would you fail to provide the relevant information, the information that was provided was based on the available assessment at the time? i'm here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, they have not provided the relevant information. why? because the relevant information crumbles the story susan rice told on 16 september, crumbles the story of the president himself when weeks later he talked about a protest caused by video that never happened. the reason they haven't shared this with us is because it exposes the lie of benghazi. and i will end with this thought. you would not know toda

the principal dep toy jay carney, a grueling job. throw and a half years, he has been take something tough questions on the va scandal and men other issues, talker about how he has young kids, his wife, claire, an accomplish it journalist at abc news, wants to spend more time at home with the family, a little less time with me. >> i would ask if you guys gave him a bear hug. you're so close. >> we'll take him to lunch. it'ses a very sayreal -- it's adversarial but here web site. tell me about his replacement. >> near the end, jay carney let him come up to the podium. josh ernest filled inch a kid from missouri and worked through the obama campaign. i decided to press him on, we have to get down to business right away. and secretary shinseki steppings down today and as the president said earlier today, that something the secretary was deeply disappointed about is that bad news did not fill their up to him. i pressed josherness on -- josh ernest why the information never came to the president. >> no doubt the president wished he had a

as we just noted eric shinseki and expwra carney. joining us our political panel the washington examiner susan ferrechio; susan, first to you, i guess the writing certainly was on the wall for general shinseki. the last one to know was the president, apparently. >> well, for a while we thought he might hang on a little bit longer. last week getting support from people on both sides of the aisle. only people calling for him to resign are people running for office. then what happened this week the inspector general at the v.a. put out this report that pretty much verified all of the things been hearing about in the press. secret waiting list of people weren't put on the waiting list. destruction of records, all these things were verified in the inspector general's report. once that came out within the hour had you people calling for resignation are those calls got louder and more frequent as the days went on that. was really the last straw for most people. once they said look we got a look at this report, it's all true. it's not just s

>> now back to jay carney about to answer questions about the v.a. scandal. >> i think you saw the statement i put out yesterday reflecting the president was extremely troubled by that preliminary report. when it comes to the overall issue, as you know, from what the president has said and others have said, we are focused ongetting to the root of the problem and full scope of the problem so we can get most importantly veterans care they deserve and they need and they've earned. as the president said last week, this is very important, the v.a. should not and must not wait for current investigations of v.a. operations to conclude before taking steps to improve care. you have seen a reaction to that insist steance in reactions the v.a. has taken this week, when it comes to moving more quickly to reach out to those veterans who have been identified as having been on waiting lists for far too long, and allowing for greater eases when it comes to, if there is a need to having veterans receive care from private or nonprofit hospitals. earlier this week, as

carney still insisted ms. rice had relied on points about the benghazi attack that were produced by the cia. he must think the press core is stupid. yarn may think the press corps is stupid. he knows the press corps doesn't care and that's why he says these outrageous things. he knows the coverage will be minimal, except on fox news. last night, cbs evening news didn't cover benghazi. nbc did a 30 second reader. abc did a report with jonathan karl, the man you saw there who gave carney a hard time, that was 10 minutes into the broadcast. abc should have led with it most newspapers ignored or manipulate mizeed the story, -- minimized same thing as yesterday. let me break it down again. the u.s. military made no attempt to defend the americans under siege because they were not asked to do so. >> what specifically did the state department, what have they done or what prevented you from doing that. >> well, it's not what they did in that particular situation, it's what they didn't do. they didn't come forward with

respond to the claimdividual by jay carney there has never been more transparent information. major garrett i'll roll my eyes and bull you know what and on and on it goes. they clearly think the white house is not telling their stories on the irs, obamacare. >> it's true we in the media tend to focus on stories maybe like monica lewinsky and stories that maybe have more legs on that maybe donald sterling but it is very difficult for the media to somehow spend an amazing amount of time on an issue that is important to the public. >> it's harder to figure out the irs controversy. >> more legs, that was a nice way of working in the sexual angle. when president obama took office, he gave interviews and rarely does he give interviews to hard news people. instead, he's on with ellen or picking brackets on espn or g more. >> so you think he thought it would be easier and he did face tougher questions. >> president barack obama got lulled and especially in the second term when he hasn't accomplished much, he's finding out he lost that. >> they lost the love. panel, see you sunday at 1

and that watching carney today, they don't pay him enough. on the first question, if this was a release of information for a request on benghazi, how can you tell us it isn't about benghazi, he simply said, i have no idea, ask state department. but then when you point out the fact that this is the only time -- well, it isn't the only. it's one of the rare times when you get a high administration official going on all five shows. it happened only once in the bush administration. it never happened in the clinton administration. and if they had not been about benghazi, does anybody imagine she would have been on the five shows because of a demonstration in cryer? that's ridiculouridiculous. the briefing, the appearance, it was all about benghazi. of course everything in the memo is about benghazi. and when carney denies it, he simply looks foolish. >> i didn't pull the sound bite, but a few weeks ago you said right here on this panel that republicans should move on, that they should kind of leave benghazi alone, that it was a dead end. have you

. >> jay carney insisted there were two talking points with unabout benghazi and roads about unrest in the region. to bolster the case it said the president routinely criticizes. >> fox news sunday's promo begins anti u.s. protests are spreading across the arab world. >> the explanation conflicting with the court record. the e-mail was released to judicial watch which was for benghazi documents. it was released to capitol hill after a subpoena was issued. >> the oversit committee ask--o site committee asked for e-mails about benghazi they gave us the video. susan rice connected it to benghazi carney denied it saying she used the best intelligence. >> she was prepared as members of congress based on what they produced to talk about benghazi. >> that conflicts with the talking point. >> michael morrell recently testified it was rice who made the connection. they explained what happened. >> when she talked about the video my reaction was that is not something the analyst had attributed this attack to. >> there are new allegations and other documents are being delayed, blocked or unnecessa

. >> reporter: jay carney repeatedly deflected by saying the president is waiting for a second report as early as friday from shinseki and a third report from the v.a. health care system weeks from now by rob neighbaib. republicans note the president has a tough time firing top officials. >> he's decisively indecisive. i think we're going to continue to see him indecisive on the v.a. >> as for how the white house leaked the identity of a cia official over the weekend, carney says the white house chief of staff has asked the council to review. >> has anyone been fired? >> as for wednesday's speech at west point, it got panned from the left with the "new york times" editorial page declaring, quote, the address did not match the hype. was largely uninspire, lacked strategic sweep. many still doubt he fully appreciates the leverage the united states has even in a changing world. falling back on hackneyed phrases like america is the indispensable nation told us little. a harsh review from the man who oversaw the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the head of u.s. central command, retired genera

here's carney, jay carney, facing off with abc's jonathan karl who's actually quite good with his questioning earlier this week. let's watch karl going after carney. >> why were you hold back this information. >> was wasset not turned over? why wasset not released when all the other e-mails were? why did you hold it back? why did it take a court case to release this? >> john, i can say it again and again and you can keep asking again and again. this document was not about benghazi. >> it was prep for the -- >> it wasn't her only prep, john. she relied on -- for her answers on benghazi on the document prepared by the cia as did members of congress. >> well, this is just kind of -- this is to me not the thing i want to argue about in my life hourk people screw things up. internally they have a problem with the white house. my role is rolling disclosures. it's like fish. the longer you keep it, the more it smells. get it out if you have it. move it. >> they waited a while to get out that initial batch that we talked about a year ago. it took a while. these come out and now the republicans are sa

apparently jay carney, i read a john carl said it nine times or mentioned it nine times. nine times in one press briefing to get it wrong why did he do that? >> i don't know if he misunderstood. i can't speak for what he was thinking. i know what the american legion's intentions are. reform at the top of the v.a. leadership take charge of what's going on over there straighten this out immediately. the american legion has been a long standing partner with v.a. over the years. we want to make sure that it's run correctly. and calling for the resignation of someone who is getting ready to leave on retirement anyway, it might have been better if they would have said hold on, you are not retiring now, we are going to hold you here until this investigation is done. that might have been a stronger statement. >> should shinseki resign? >> we called for secretary shin shin shin shinseki's resignation. we were disappointed. we felt that the secretary was woeful ely unprepared for that we felt he was ill advised and we were disappointed in the amount of knowledge the secretary had a

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carney plans to take the summer off and spend time with his family. the deputy press secretary will take over for carney. >> back here, people getting ready to rock out in wine country this weekend. >> yes. bottle rock concert is underway. organizers want everybody to know problems have been dealt with. >> yes wayne freedman is live with the story. wayne? >> take a listen to this sound over my shoulder. four bands playing on four stages. what began as a stream of people has become a river. they're expecting 25,000 people a day for three days and tonight, it wraps up with a two and a half hour concert by the cure. speaking of the cure here they are. fans next to the stage, planning to wait all day or tonight. >> is it worth it? >> definitely. >> for the cure? robert smith! >> you get intimate with that music. >> the people will get into it again is a miracle. last year's promoters failed to pay all of their debts. this year a new company began after paying vendors owed from the first concert and change the business model. >> do you know anything about

jay carney feeling pressure. it makes you wonder what it takes to get jay carney fired. he didn't have a lot of answers today. >> does the president have confidence in president shinseki. >> john, the president atreddred this question. >> he wasn't asked directly. >> the president believes that and is confident that secretary shinseki has served his nation admirably. >> the president promised at that podium, quote, once we know the facts i assure you it will be punished. who has been punished? >> a preliminary report -- we got a report yesterday. the president found the report extremely troubling. >> why is he still tolerating it and where is the punishment? >> ed, i don't ask how else to disappoint you, but i'll give you the same answer. >> it's not me you're disappointing. there's veterans waiting 115 days. >> the sniffing, the alaughing, why can't he answer the question? >> i think what's happened is the president hasn't made a it decision yet so jay carney is in a position where he has to represent the president and give the president a little bit of wiggle room poss

i pressed jay carney on why that didn't happen sooner. listen. four years ago -- they were saying it's not just allegations, but a top v.a. official determined this was going on and they had to immediately take care of it. will you admit at least that it's not all allegations, that in fact some of this has happened? >> the v.a. said it. >> again, i have made clear some of the allegations that have emerged in these reports including the most sensational ones are under investigation and we'll wait to see the results of that. i think it's an important place to start that no one in this building or anywhere else in the administration, including over at the v.a., holds the position that all the challenges that the v.a. were confronting in 2008 and 2009 have been solved. far from it. >> what about rob nabors in 2010 and 2011? >> this is under investigation. >> it was going on four years ago -- >> talking about an internal v.a. memo. i would refer you to the v.a. about their internal memos. >> obviously the v.a. headed by secretary shinseki. he's been u

. >> you are talking about press secretary jay carney? >> i'm talking about jay carney. i knew him for years. i knew him as a pretty straightforward journalist. he has destroyed his own reputation by that statement that what clearly was the talking points, which had saying it had nothing to do with benghazi. that, to me, is an all-time low for a presidential spokesperson. >> i didn't have any particular interest in where the president was that night. i assumed that he was busy working on this as all presidents are. the fact that they won't tell us has made me enormously suspicious. this guy that they sent, tommy veiter that i had never seen until the other night. so flip about it he is the one in the situation room. >> didn't remember after all. but since when does 19 months go by and it has to be a court order for information. you know, in return for the confirmation of brennan as cia director. we were all told that everything to do with benghazi would be released. now the question is, is what else don't we know about it? and what's been destroyed? >> i don't like the f

here's carney, jay carney, facing off with abc's jonathan karl who's actually quite good with his questioning earlier this week. let's watch karl going after carney. >> why were you holding back this information? why was this e-mail not turned over to the congress? why was it not released when you released all the other e-mails? this is directly relevant. why did you told it back? >> john, again -- >> why did it take a court case for you to release this? >> john, i can say it again and again and you can keep asking again and again. this document was not about benghazi. >> it was a prep for the sunday shows. >> it wasn't her only prep, john. she relied on -- for her answers on benghazi on the document prepared by the cia as did members of congress. >> well, this is just kind of -- this is to me not the thing i want to argue about in my life how people screw things up. internally they have a problem at the white house. my role is rolling disclosures. is the worst thing in the world. get it out. it's like fish. the longer you keep it, the more it rots. the more it smells. get it out if you have