President Obama dismissed questions about the editing of the Benghazi talking points as a “sideshow” driven by political animosity from Republicans, who, he noted, have raised money off the issue.

“The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow,” Obama said during a joint press briefing with British Prime Minister David Cameron. “Nobody understood exactly hat was takking place oiver the course of those first few days.”

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