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What’s Government Doing During Election Season?

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    FNC’s Mike Emanuel breaks down what’s happening on the Hill while the election battles continue.

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Let's talk about -- is one important employment missile -- Just because a correspondent for Fox News.

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A white -- don't like the investigation -- period of slower ramping -- out.

That is ongoing guard.

Still staffers working on the hill working on that digging in and trying to make sure they get to the bottom of that there's also.

A tremendous amount of buzz on the hill about the -- got -- situation where the US ambassador and three other staffers were killed in.

There's -- -- be some testimony this week from security officials on Capitol Hill.

Telling lawmakers that they -- you know had requested -- enhance security enhanced safety measures in Libya.

In the days leading up to that attack on September the eleventh but they were -- -- their higher -- -- the State Department in Washington so.

That's pretty damning stuff and so that's what lawmakers are expecting -- hear from the security types who were involved in the situation there in Libya.

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Yeah I mean from Washington is known for creating a lot of reports a lot of things that goes stood up on the shelf and so you do make a point there.

With -- -- -- they can't they develop necessarily be the case but.

You know there has been a lot to come to light and then.

Tragically we just had another border agent killed by apparently friendly fire recently -- while this -- that he's been going -- and so.

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Action there actually costing lie down on the border and so.

Lawmakers need to figure out what's going on because there are a lot of American families out there wondering what the heck is going on the border and and our guys there -- in danger sitting ducks or are they okay.

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Well -- the reality in congress right now is -- close to the election a lot of them are thinking about.

Winning reelection and so a lot of the official work is down for now and -- out back home in their districts.

Trying to make sure they preserve their own jobs and so don't -- campaign full campaign mode at this point and then.

Perhaps after the election we'll see some more attending too serious business like some of these incidents we've discussed.

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NFL right now and so.

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I have -- -- of the New York football giants who I think will be pretty good by the end of the season but have had their ups and downs so far.

Only gone but I don't know those -- Sunday there's good -- started slow but put exporter one points.

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I do like based -- political born and raised the Yankee fan but.

Here in DC get everybody so excited about the nationals because you know it's been at last paid last place franchise that has been here in Washington.

-- Washington franchise -- -- in the playoffs and forever and so there's a lot of -- about them and a lot of people excited about the Orioles and so baseball alive and well in Washington even if how much work getting done these days.

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Paris -- on our mind bad for Fox News has a quarter toll -- -- around again about foreign affairs foreign policy speech just today.

How's that generally been received by everybody -- It's interesting you know things are so polarized right now because you know there -- some media -- -- and his speech saying there were not enough specifics.

Other people that they they like him for going after the president for this.

This strategy of you know leading from behind and so you know knowing that the president is gonna take credit for winding down the war in Iraq the war in Afghanistan and the operation together some -- bin Laden.

Ronnie went after him saying you know meant Libya was mishandled the idea that our our threats are going away is not true in this idea of the United States doesn't have to lead -- thinks is wrong and so he essentially was talking about a change in philosophy.

Where we need to be a more active presence -- player in the Middle East and in really show leadership and in -- Iran that we're gonna stick up for Israel and in either their closest ally.

America has lost some sort of second those -- -- -- and such orders is already don't permanent doesn't themselves.

Well on the Obama campaign -- bring it on you wanna talk foreign policy wanna talk about you know changing strategy you know we think.

Ending those wars and getting assault bin Laden still a winning.

Accommodation for us when it comes to talking to the American voters and there will be a full national -- foreign policy debate coming up in less than two weeks and so.

Build -- -- -- on stage on these issues in if he's not specific enough for the the American voters will decide that but.

They will have a chance to duke it out on stage over these issues.

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