Segment 1

Ben Mankiewicz hosting today.  Story of the AP breaking a story and getting it suffocated by the Obama Administration.  Obama finally responded strongly to the faux outrage over Benghazi.  Republican talking points calling the Admin’s response “scrubbing” the evidence.  Dennis Kucinich also jumped aboard this line of thinking on Fox News.  Both Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl parroted the GOP talking point that the White House wanted to have it both ways.  Darrell Issa broke down the difference between an act of terror and terrorist attack.  Video of American Crossroads ad going after Hillary Clinton for the Benghazi scandal.

Segment 2

Robert Gates responded to the criticism over the Benghazi response by calling their reactions cartoonish.  Ben brings up the multiple, multiple times acts of terror were carried out under Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush that they didn’t respond to, and Republicans didn’t seem to mind.  An IRS office in Cincinnati has been targeting groups that have the words Tea Party in them for their tax-exempt status.  President Obama responded harshly to these allegations.  Rand Paul made a video with CBN called “At Home with Rand.”  Video of Michelle Bachmann calling for prayer on 9-11 to prevent more of God’s Wrath on our country.  May 13, 1846 was the day that America went to war with Mexico and took tons of territory that became several American states.  Ben talks about how now we go ballistic about these portions of the land, crying about the borders when we took much of our land from others that owned it first.