The issue focused on an April 14, 2012, interview with host Chris Matthews of MSNBC. As you may recall, Matthews took the Obama administration to task for its claims that the Department of Justice was building a case against some of the officials who had created the website. The interview was taken at a time when the administration was trying to pull out of the June 2012 Iran nuclear deal.

You can read the interview here.

But it was at the end of the interview that Matthews asked the president about the