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Minister of libya. >> it was the saddest phone call i ever had in my life. he told me that ambassador stevens had passed away. i -- i immediately telephoned washington. >> reporter: 4:00 a.m. benghazi. 10:00 p.m. in washington. >> i spoke with president obama later in the evening to, you know, bring him up to date to hear his perspective. >> reporter: its the only call between the two that night. >> the secretary of state should have been on the phone to the president constantly, saying weve got...

Minister of libya. >> it was the saddest phone call i ever had in my life. he told me that ambassador stevens had passed away. i -- i immediately telephoned washington. >> reporter: 4:00 a.m. benghazi. 10:00 p.m. in washington. >> i spoke with president obama later in the evening to, you know, bring him up to date to hear his perspective. >> reporter: its the only call between the two that night. >> the secretary of state should have been on the phone to the president constantly, saying weve got...

Lane? >> correct. the clips that you referenced from states exhibit 185, mr. mckinney, im going to first show you what we talked about as the kitchen video. is this what were talking about? >> yes. >> were looking out onto retreat view circle? >> thats correct. >> and the time on it appears to be 18:50:33 but you need to eight 18 minutes to that so pits actually 19:08:33 that were

Obama has done, president obama has done very poorly in the 08 election, worse in the 2012 election. democrats have had no action here for a very long time. it was the first moment, really going back to ann richards, that you saw the democratic party spring to life, the kind of periscope came up. were actually here. the first individual figure in wendy davis to really get traction among the democrats. it was an amazing moment. i watched the legislature for more than two decades. it was like noth...

Has done very poorly in the 08 election, worse in the 2012 election. democrats have had no action here for a very long time. it was the first moment, really going back to ann richards, that you saw the democratic party spring to life, the kind of pariscope came up. were actually here. the first individual figure in wendy davis to really get traction among the democrats. it was an amazing moment. i watched the legislature for more than two decades. it was like nothing ive ever seen before. >> hes...

New home sales were up 29% in may over a year ago. the last time sales were this high was july of 08 right before the financial crisis. and look at the green there. because of all this potentially, were up 111 points. so up triple digits now. still under that 15,000 mark with an hour left of trading to come. coming up, disturbing story with graphic detail. a mother attacked in her own home while her daughter stood there. its tough to watch while being beaten. she admits the video is difficul...

Between everybodys rooms. and drinking. >> and they offered a family four-ware. >> yeah, well -- one of those brilliant party concepts. >> that you wish you never thought of the next day. >> what was the response for the record? >> nancy and i didnt go for it >> just want to get that on tape. >> no, no, we didnt. ♪ ooh barracuda oh yeah >> you dont talk about politics a lot, but there was a period during the 08 campaign and your hit "barracuda" when you heard the song played during a sarah pal...

If there is a republican president, democrats tend to pick up seats in the house and senate in the mid-term elections. if there is a democratic president, republicans tend to pick up seats in the mid-term elections. its a general rule of american politics. americans tend to like to swing the it back a little bit. they added seats to the house and the senate, but after the pendulum swung that far towards the republicans in 08, it swung back in 2010 hard. they lost six seats in the senate and the ...

At rice university. i just want to get your take right off the bat, since its all fresh and its all live and its just wrapping up, as you watch the remarks today, as you saw the backdrop, you saw the turnout, comparing it to what happened in 08, what are your thoughts? >> my first thoughts listening to the speech was that it was obamas second inaugural speech, except only for the world. he hit on climate change, gay rights. it was, you know, many of the same themethemes, sort of reintroducing hi...

Home is control the conversation politically. if he can do anything to reassert a kind of american centr centrality over politics, i think hell have done something important. second term presidents love dealing with foreign affairs because they dont have to deal with subcommittee chairmen anymore. thats something that president obama is findsing just as president clinton found. >> can you talk about the five years that have passed from the time this president went over as a candidate, a triumpha...