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Barack Obama: “If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And I'm happy to…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2012
If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And I'm happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and besmirch her reputation is outrageous.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama defends U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice against accusations from Senators McCain and Graham regarding the Benghazi attacks.

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