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Subscribe to RSS*** Thursday’s “The Daily Rundown” line-up: Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter… Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) on the I-4 corridor fight and Romney’s chances in Florida… Marist’s Lee Miringoff on the new numbers… NBC’s David Gregory, Politico’s Jonathan Martin and the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza on what to watch for in the homestretch… Cape May County Registrar Michael Kennedy on how Sandy may affect voting in his area and others on Tuesday… NBC’s Michelle Franzen with the latest from Seaside Heights, NJ… MSNBC’s Robert Traynham, AP’s Liz Sidoti, National Review’s Jim Geraghty and Democratic strategist Mike Feldman on the final five days.
*** Thursday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviews the Atlantic’s Molly Ball and the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank; Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt; Rep. Ed Markey looks at global warming and Sandy; Steve Elmendorf & Chip Saltsman on campaigning during a crisis; and ad guru Bob Gardner on political advertising in the post-Mad Med era.
*** Thursday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts will have reporters stationed all over areas stricken by Super Storm Sandy. He’ll also interview MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY). Today’s Power Panel includes TheGrio.com’s Perry Bacon, Republican Strategist Alice Stewart and Democratic Strategist Chris Kofinis.
*** Thursday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include New York Magazine National Affairs Editor John Heilemann, msnbc.com Executive Editor Richard Wolffe, Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Alter, Democratic strategist Karen Finney, and TIME’s Michael Scherer
*** Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews former White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes, Time’s Richard Stengel, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, Republican strategist David Winston and Ellen Tauscher, Special envoy for strategic stability and missile defense at the State Department.
*** Thursday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Tamron Hall interviews The Hill’s AB Stoddard, Dem strategist Keith Boykin, and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
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Mr. Todd answers his very own - and all of our - question in the opening paragraph of this page this morning.
He ponders if Mr. Obama's Midwest firewall will hold for him and deliver the right amount of electoral college votes to win this thing, and then he shows how the President is ahead in those very states.
Mr. Romney has to win two out of three of the following states to pull it off: Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa.
Two out of three.
And then it goes on to show Mr. Obama winning in all three states. Overanalyze the numbers all you want…he is ahead in all three.
Mr. Romney knows this. He wouldn't be in all those non-Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa states otherwise.
Aaaaaand NOW we commence with all the odd and creepy Romney campaign voters with their desperate name-calling, conspiracy theories, and sad little lies….
Obama/Biden - 4 more for 44
I agree 4 more days, 4 more days, 4 more days, 4 more days!!!!!
I cannot believe that anyone would be ignorant enough to vote for Romney. They want change and the guy isn't clear on how he's going to make the change from day to day... he's nuts! But unfortunately not as nuts as those who can believe all of his BS. You are lacking any type of social intelligence if you believe the man. ..scam bait. Wake up, clear your ears and get your @!$%# together... Vote OBAMA!!!
Now how did Obama lay out his change which, other than the healthcare debacle, have not come to fruition in his campaign in 2008?
Obama's problem was that he had all kinds of pipe dreams of what he could do and when confronted with reality, tripped over his tongue. "We didn't know how bad it was" yet he said he was going to fix it. At least Romney gives and outline with an attainable outcome and won't have to resort to backtracking when he sits in the Oval Office.
The honey bucket is being filled daily with obama crap, with no record to fall back on the obama administration is left with attacking Romney with out & out lies. The Benghazi cover-up, the fast & furious cover-up, coupled with the unemployment situation, the worsening economy and the overall failure of obama is what's going to defeat the democrats. When obama told Gov. Christie that he would cut thru the government red tape & bureaucracy, he unknowingly admitted that the government is in need of reform. Then obama makes the statement that he wants to creat yet another department of business. That is what Romney is all about, his expertise is business. Seems obama is unconsiously supporting his replacement.
WHY? NBC does not care about American lives being killed by terrorist on 9/11/12 by terrorist and the fact that Obama left them to die by their own refusing to report the news for left wing political agendas. Obama would not and did not give the security that the Libya Ambassador and his staff requested weeks prior to the attack and then told the CIA to stand down and not go in and rescue them during the 6 hour battle which left the Libya Ambassador and 3 other Americans dead.
This is Real News and a Cover-up which NBC has decided to not report and held with the Obama Administration cover-up with no regards for the Murdered Americans nor their grieving families. This is Criminal and absurd that others, including the media would Aid & Abet this crime.
NBC is Not a professional journalism reporting news media, only feeding the masses what they make up as news, rejecting their duties as journalist in favor of left wing political agendas, favoring Obama in this case!
Very sad day for America, reprehensible and an absolute disgrace to our Nation. May you all seek the Truth and Demand NBC to Report the Truth!
@ 'Patriot': Then why do you keep reading the info here and commenting on it? Makes NO sense, any of it.
.... AND YET MORE LIES FROM FOX NEWS .... REPUBLICAN PARTY USING LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES ..... JUST PATHETIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .... and voters don't see it ... or refuse to see it???
U.S. says CIA responded within 25 minutes to Benghazi attack
Intelligence officials dispute a report by Fox News that officers in Libya were ordered to 'stand down' after the diplomatic compound came under attack.
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times November 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — CIA security officers in a Benghazi post responded within 25 minutes to a call for help from a nearby State Department compound after it came under attack Sept. 11, officials said Thursday, seeking to refute a Fox News report asserting that CIA managers ordered them to stay put.
In releasing a detailed timeline of CIA actions that night, senior intelligence officials have put aside long-standing concerns about revealing the extent of the agency's presence in Benghazi in order to push back against what officials say are baseless allegations that aid was withheld.
"At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could," a senior intelligence official said in a statement. "There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support."
Fox News asserted in a story last week that CIA managers had ordered agency security officers to "stand down" and remain in their own facility, known as the Annex, when the attack on the diplomatic compound began about 9:40 p.m. and that there was an hour delay before officers disobeyed orders and went to help repel the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and State Department officer Sean Smith.
Among those who rushed to help was Tyrone Woods, a former Navy SEAL who was part of the CIA security team and who later died in the attacks.
The Fox story also asserted that the CIA "chain of command" refused to pass along requests from its officers for military aid and that special operations forces in nearby Sicily could have been sent to help but were not. Intelligence and Pentagon officials strenuously denied that Thursday.
They insisted there was no viable military option to disrupt what amounted to a series of sporadic attacks in a crowded city full of people sympathetic to the U.S. There were no armed drones in the region and airstrikes were not called for, officials said.
"Let's say we were able to get an aircraft there. Do you go in and start strafing a populated area without knowing where friend or foe is?" a senior Defense official asked. "If you did that, you could kill the very people you are trying to help."
A special operations team was sent to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, but the team arrived after the attack ended, said the senior Defense official, who would not be quoted by name discussing potentially classified
information.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta learned of the attack shortly after it began, about 4:30 p.m Eastern
time, Defense officials said, and discussed it in a previously scheduled meeting with the president. Obama ordered him to pursue whatever options were feasible, a Defense official said.
Panetta "ordered all appropriate forces to respond to the unfolding events in Benghazi, but the attack was over before those forces could be employed,"Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
Shortly after 11 p.m. a surveillance drone had arrived from elsewhere in Libya — about an hour after it was requested, officials said. But the video feed was not seen by the president, contrary to some news reports. And the feed did not offer analysts a clear understanding of what was happening on the ground, officials said.
After the CIA team arrived at the compound, "over the next 25 minutes, team members approach the compound, attempt to secure heavy weapons [from Libyans], and make their way onto the compound itself in the face of enemy fire," the senior U.S. intelligence official said.
The senior intelligence official disclosed that the CIA also sent a second six-member team from Tripoli on a chartered plane to help repel the attack. The team included Glen Doherty, another former SEAL, who was later killed when attackers fired mortar rounds at the CIA Annex.
The team arrived around midnight but got bogged down at the airport. Ultimately, it learned that "the ambassador was almost certainly dead" and headed to the agency facility "to assist with the evacuation," the official said.
It arrived with Libyan support at the Annex at 5:15 a.m., just before mortar rounds began to strike. Woods and Doherty were killed as they fired on militants from the roof. The mortar attack lasted 11 minutes, the official said.
The drone overhead was not armed. Even if it had been, there were no viable targets, officials said.
"The officers on the ground in Benghazi responded to the situation on the night of 11 and 12 September as quickly and as effectively as possible," the intelligence official said. "The security officers in particular were genuine heroes. They quickly tried to rally additional local support and heavier weapons, and when that could not be accomplished within minutes, they still moved in and put their own lives on the line to save their comrades."
Another episode of. "Darth Rove!" AKA. Karl Rove. The GOP/RNC "Master Of Madness and Misinformation." Progressive Power Productions has been following the continuing "Politically Criminal" behaviors of "Darth Rove!!" Yes America! Little "Darth Rove" is reading all the polls, and is packing up his "Crazy Conservative Chamber Of Clown Crap." He is so looking forward to setting up his "Conservative Chamber Of Clowns." In the basment of the GOP/RNC "Romulian Romney" White House/Casino.