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General hamm who was the head of the u.s. command in africa at this time, which had military control over u.s. forces in that region, and he testified back in the summer before congress and that testimony was released this week. he testified that within minutes of the attack, quote, to me it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just something sporadic. again, thats directly contradicting the narrative that came out of the white house in the da...

General hamm who was the head of the u.s. command in africa at this time, which had military control over u.s. forces in that region, and he testified back in the summer before congress and that testimony was released this week. he testified that within minutes of the attack, quote, to me it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just something sporadic. again, thats directly contradicting the narrative that came out of the white house in the da...

Fighting all night, tired, exhausted. >> reporter: and a special forces team. >> go bring our people home. thats what he wanted to do. colonel gibson, and his three personnel, getting in the cars, he stopped. and he called them off and told me that hes not been authorized to go. >> how did the personnel react to being told to stand down. >> i will quote you lieutenant colonel gibson. he said this is the first time in my career that a diplomat uk has more balls than someone in the military. >> re...

Number of policy issues with libya. but i do know for a fact having talked to many senior government officials that our national security team was engaged in this trying to figure out and what the response is a sense of urgency about doing something about it. africon was not denied any asset they wanted. could this he get support into the annex in time to do something about it. their judgment looking through the soda straw of a drone where you dont get to see an area picture where they knew it w...

That the fire fights routinely in afghanistan we get into with enemy forces in residential areas many times we dont provide over head air sport for that was we are concerned with killing innocents. we take casualties under those circumstances. unfortunately we have these people killed. the fact of the matter is here africom is in charge of africa and libya comes under their command. the challenge is africom has no informed speeches hardly any. its not like european command you just sign forces. ...

What happened in niger. >> hans, a lot of things americans have become familiar with in the last few days they didnt know. there are american troops in about 144 different countries around the world, many of whom involved in missions we didnt actually know they were involved in. >> reporter: yes. >> the fbi is investigating. a lot of people trying to figure why the fb i has a role in this. is the military okay with the fact -- are we supposed to know there were troops all over the world? >> repo...

Defense secretary leon panetta said we simply didnt have enough information for individuals to go into that zen. what do you make of all of this? >> were in the stage now of conflicting explanation by the administration. we are long past the point of confusion about what happened on the terrorist side. we know it was a planned terrorist attack. this mohammed video explanation which was always foolish is out of the picture. but now the administration is saying different things. this fox report ab...

>> jon: its one of those things that -- >> good morning. jon: its one of those things that sometimes happens, we get the satellite phone calls, theyre checked in and when we try and bring them to air were not able to actually listen to the correspondent who is making that report. well try to get back a little later on. jenna: also back at home the president is taking heat from both the right and left over his handling of the libya situation. take a listen: >> who is in come of this operation? i ...