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On the recordOctober 18, 2012
The administration clearly did not have all the facts when they started saying that they had all the facts, and so the initial stories they say were overtaken by events.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Begala discusses the mistakes made by the Obama administration regarding the Benghazi attack.

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