Megyn Kelly started an attack on Barack Obama Wednesday evening by opening with a video of Obama explaining why the Democratic Party CIA report was released, saying, "part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong we acknowledge it." She then launched into a long list of items where the President or someone in his administration obfuscated rather than acknowledging an error.

Kelly: Breaking tonight, with our troops under heightened alert in the wake of the Democrats decision to release a new report on a now-defunct enhanced interrogation technique program used after 9/11, President Obama defending that decision by demanding American accountability and transparency. To which some responded, ‘preacher heal thyself.’ Welcome to The Kelly File, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Here are the President and his spokesman on why the Democrats chose to release this report.

Obama (on tape): There's never a perfect time to release a report like this, but it was important for us, I think, to recognize that part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong we acknowledge it.

Earnest (on tape): It demonstrates a commitment to transparency; it demonstrates commitment to accountability in terms of fessing up for falling short. One substantial way we can rebuild that moral authority it’s to be honest about what happened, to be as transparent as possible about it.

Kelly launched her attack:

Kelly: When we in America do something wrong, we acknowledge it. We are transparent. Accountable. We fess up. So we can claim our moral authority. Like when the President immediately came clean about his, ‘if you like your plan you can keep your plan’ promise? When he sold us the Obamacare mandate by denying that it was actually a tax, as he went before the Supreme Court to say exactly the opposite? When his spokesman told us the White House did not alter the Benghazi talking points? When James Clapper lied about spying on all Americans? When Eric Holder misled about targeting journalists like James Rosen?

And then there’s the President's 180 on immigration. For years President Obama said he did not have the power to halt more deportations. He was specifically asked why not just do it for at least the families of the so-called dreamers, the kids he allowed today stay here. And time and time again the President said ‘I can't.’

The Fox host played a segment of Jose Diaz Balart interviewing President Obama on Telemundo, and followed up with a more recent interview of the President by Jorge Ramos of Univision:

Diaz Balart: Won't you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of deferred action kids?

Obama: But if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally. So that's not an option.

Kelly: And once the midterms were over it suddenly became an option. Yesterday he was pressed on his 180 by Jorge Ramos of Univision. Rather than be transparent and accountable, the President denied he's been inconsistent.

Ramos: Are you concerned about being impeached?

Obama: No. Because what we've done is not only lawful based on the evaluations of the office of the legal council, but is of the same type of action that was taken by every Democratic and Republican President over the last 20, 30 years.

Ramos: Many times you said you didn't have the legal authority to go ahead. You said I’m not the king, I’m not the emperor of the United States, even on March 2011 on a Univision town hall you told them, I quote, ‘we respect the notion we can just suspend deportation through executive order that’s just not the case,’ but that's exactly what you did.

Obama: No, Jorge, at the time, and I can run back the tape on your questions and some of the questions at that town hall, the notion was that we can just stop deportations period. And we can't do that.

Kelly takes the President's advice and runs back the tape, except this time she only runs the party where Obama is trying to spin rather than admit the truth:

Obama: What I said very clearly, consistently is what was clear was that we could re-prioritize how we deploy the limited resources we had. We began that process as soon as I came into office because one of the things I think is important to understand is that although we are re-prioritizing and we're still going to be focused on making sure--- but let me say this, Jorge--- no, no, no. That is not true. Listen, here's the fact of the matter. The question is are we doing the right thing and have we consistently tried to move this country in a better direction? When you present it in that way it does a disservice, because it makes the assumption that the political process is one---but we've still got a big fight that we're going to have to take in the future.

Ramos: I could continue on immigration.

Obama: You could. And I’d be happy to do it. But you're probably running out of time.

And for the coup de grâce:

So the transparency that puts U.S. lives on the line is apparently easy to come by in Washington. But that which paints the President in a potentially bad light appears to be a much harder lift.