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Obama and Clinton, part two

January 27, 2013 4:00 PM

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discuss the disaster in Benghazi and the state of her health. Steve Kroft reports.

Obama and Clinton: The 60 Minutes interview

60 Minutes OverTimeHillary's first joint interview-- next to Bill in '92

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by meandme1972 February 4, 2013 1:39 AM EST
Please, Ask yourself that HOW MANY AMERICAN LIFES WERE KILLED DURING THE G. BUSH AND CONDOLEEZZA RICE??
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by meandme1972 February 4, 2013 1:36 AM EST
Please, ask yourself that HOW MANY AMERICAN LIFES GOT KILLED WITH G.BUSH AND CONDOLEEZZA RICE??
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by brightring January 29, 2013 10:26 PM EST
Hillary, it does matter how they died. Tell the families what happened. Don't protect yourself or anyone else, especially the president. Where is transparency? Where is Truth?!
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by SingingHawk926 January 29, 2013 11:15 AM EST
Thank you, VictoriaIII, for the most sanguine comment on this page! I know there are many questions we all have regarding many issues these two have faced during the past four years, but a 30-minute time slot on 60 Minutes doesn't really provide an appropriate venue. The only thing that can be accomplished during that brief a period is to verbally skewer them further without time for them to respond with anything more than the standard replies they have been making. Steve did ask about Benghazi, they answered. The intent of the segment was to show the nature of their relationship, which I think it did well. I am sure that the parameters of the discussion were negotiated before the interview was agreed to. The fact that the President approached 60 Minutes instead of the other way round makes perfect sense when you know that such an arrangement only occurs when the Administration in power has something it wants to say. This has been true ever since the television entered the political arena. I would think that by now every American would know and understand this. To expect otherwise is unrealistic and pointless. The best investigative reporting results from the instigation of the press, not the White House.
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by commonsense962 January 29, 2013 9:47 AM EST
Here are a few more questions for CBS to consider next time they get the President and Secretary of State in a side by side sit down interview. Feel free to use these, I offer my services free of charge. It's sad that an average citizen do a far better job at investigative journalism than a major "news" network.

Question 1) In the reporting of your recent congressional hearings, the media widely used a clip where you, Secretary Clinton, said "what difference does it make?" surrounding the question of how and with what motivation the terrorists attacked in Benghazi, then in the same breath you said that our job now was to determine what happened. Don't those two points contradict each other? What difference does it make is exactly what the American people still deserve to know, is it not?

Question 2) President Obama do you believe it makes a difference in how and with what motivation the terrorists attacked?

Question 3) Are both of you currently reading all current cables from Diplomats abroad, which specifically ask for changes in security levels? Have you personally made an effort to ensure an attack like this never happens again?

Question 4) After logging close to a million miles and visiting over a 100 countries do you, Secretary Clinton, believe that not enough of your time was spent on addressing the needs of embassies in the most dangerous regions of the world?

Question 5) Secretary Clinton, during the hearings you repeatedly referred to the Accountability Review Board? Did you make yourself available for them during the investigation?

Question 6) President Obama, during the hearings Sec. Clinton said the State Department did not contact the surviving diplomats to ask what had happened because the FBI was investigating. Did the White House make any effort to contact the survivors? Why would your National Security Advisor,representing both the White House and your Administration in general, insist that this was not an act of terrorism? Where you happy when she contradicted both the reality and your own statements the after the attacks?

Question 7) President Obama, you have used executive privilege to fill vacancies within the Federal Government, why have you not utilized this power to hold those accountable for the negligence that led to this successful attack on US interests abroad?
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by taoc79 January 29, 2013 6:50 AM EST
I am sorry to say, but it is typical of the U.S. to obsess about four dead Americans after its failed wars have killed hundreds of thousands of children, women and men in the Middle East. It was the same in southeast Asia, obsessing for decades about the remains of a thousand MIAs, after having destroyed three countries and killed MILLIONS of their citizens.
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by Victorialll January 28, 2013 2:59 PM EST
To those who wanted Steve Croft to go for the throat: the election is over! Enough of the shrill voices, it does not diminish us to see how former fierce competitors can come together and, on behalf of the common cause, work effectively for their country, something we should want more of, not less. There is a time and place for everything, and this was a place for politicians being civil and positive.
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by Babashege76 January 28, 2013 12:20 PM EST
Somebody should remind President Obama that when his mother was pregnant with him, Hillary was a teenager. "Not by much" from him to Hillary is an hyperbole.......
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by patandfritz January 28, 2013 10:37 AM EST
This is all prep for her running in 2016. The continuous campaign will continue, but with his chosen successor. Peel Biden off the ceiling now! Lets see, the Clintons stole $20,000 in items from the White House and had to return them when they left. What will they steal the next time?? Nothing left to steal. Our country and Constitution have been stolen already by Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
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by DAN4288 January 28, 2013 8:24 AM EST
So, I am reading comments like, "you should be embarrassed" and " you should have asked the tough questions."
How about suggesting some of these tough questions instead of indicting the show for wrongly handling a 30 minute interview with two of the most powerful politicians and statesmen in the World. Make sure your questions are reasonable and within the "rules of play" for such an arranged interview.

I agree with the rest of you that our media is fundamentally flawed in this country and most other countries of the World. That is what happens when a very few people in power control what the media feeds us. But, I am not naive enough to believe that the interviewer had the power to put them on trial in the agreed-upon 30 minute format that you are now trashing.

C'mon arm-chair journalists, what are your questions? Put up or shut up.
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