Joe Klein Insists Benghazi Was Really the Result of a Video

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

HEILEMANN: “Hillary Clinton is going to get up there, put aside the question of the e-mail and the e-mails, is there any question about Benghazi that you as a foreign policy and national security expert as a journalist want to see answered. Is there any unanswered question?”

KLEIN: “No, there's a larger issue of howdy employee mats and my son is a diplomat. He's a friend of Chris Stevens, how diplomats are protected and it's important for them to be able to be out among the people. Benghazi, most of the questions have been answered. I think that we haven't heard enough about the fact that this was a CIA station there. Not so much a conciliate and those guys should be able to protect themselves in most circumstances.”

SCARBOROUGH: "So then what is your 30 second summary of what happened in Benghazi?"

KLEIN: “What happened in Benghazi is a couple of things joined. One was the video which was affecting the entire Islamic world. Riots across the entire Islamic world. Why should Libya be different and you had a street gang that called itself a militia that was heavily armed that chose that moment to attack our facilities there and, you know, this is something that does not rise to the level of a -- of the secretary of state for sure. There's other people that should be questioned. David was the CIA director at that point and he had a significant role in how this thing was role out after it happened but you have to remember that diplomats get killed in every administration.”

SCARBOROUGH: "This is the first ambassador killed since '79."

KLEIN: “But there's a lot of diplomats killed. You can talk to probably our greatest Middle East diplomat and he was digging his colleges out of the rubble of the embassy in Lebanon.”