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Stories to tell about bashar al-assad and his violence. thats it for now, back to you, rick. martha: well take you back to leon panetta the secretary of defense speaking on benghazi. lets listen. >> and friendship that ive had with all of you on both sides of the aisle. ive had the honor to in many ways live the american dream as the son of italian immigrants in the various capacities that ive had to serve this country. the greatest privilege i think ive had is to serve as an elected member in t...

Transfer ceremony when those bodies of those heroes were returned home, and i had the opportunity to meet with their families. i believe we all have a solemn responsibility to these families, and to all the diplomatic personnel who put themselves at risk, to find out exactly what happened, to bring those involved to justice, and to make sure that were doing everything possible to prevent it from happening again, and to insure the safety of our personnel anna silt and and facilities worldwide. to...

My understanding is that that uav arrived about an hour and 11 minutes after the attack had begun and was focused on the primary facility there to try to determine what was taking place. soon after the initial reports about the attack in benghazi were received general dempsey and i met with president obama, and he ordered all available dodassetts to respond to the attack in libya and to protect u.s. personnel and interests in the region. its important to remember that in addition to responding t...

Breakfast. president obama showing up and beginning his remarks. well continue to stream this on foxnews.com for those of you who would like to listen to the presidents remarks at the national prayer breakfast. leon panetta on the hot seat on the subject of benghazi. the chief is expected to testify about the pentagons response to the attack on ought consulate. he said the u.s. didnt have enough time to respond. he says its not like you can pick up the phone and call 911. mike emanuel is on the ...

We had no communications with u.s. personnel on the ground, and as a matter of fact we had no idea where the ambassador was at that point to be able to kind of conduct any kind of attacks on the ground. the quickest response option available was a tripoli-based security team that was located at the embassy in tripoli. to their credit within hours this six-man team, including two u.s. military personnel chartered a private airplane deployed to benghazi. within 15 minutes of arriving at the annex ...

Martha: we have been listening to testimony by the secretary of defensively on panetta and he talked about benghazi and there is no doubt that this has prompted a huge number of questions that these senators are likely to press him on. lets play a little bit of it for you then well talk to senator rand paul. >> this was pure and simple in the absence as i said of any kind of advanced warning a problem of distance and time. frankly, even if we were able to get the f-16s, ors ac130s over the targe...

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Hitting the hot seat on capitol hill. the hearing on benghazi coming up next. >> the security in benghazi was a struggle and remained a struggle throughout my time there. the situation remains uncertain and reports from some libyans indicated it what is getting worse. in april there was only one u.s. diplomatic security agent stationed there. hen our cab wen, it took forever to get it fixed. and now they want us to get our home security from them? bundle it with our other services? no, thank you...

So a lot of questions for the military response, rick. rick: a lot of people have been asking about how much the pentagon knew, if anything about the cias presence in benghazi and whether or not that may have played a role in the delay of any kind of a military response. is that likely to come up? >> reporter: i think its very interesting in the statement departments arb report, the after action review, general carter hamm said that he wasnt aware that there was such a large group of americans o...

In northern africa? or did they think they had sporadic outbursts to deal with on that day to what we are told was a video. how much do you think we will get to the heart of the matter of that? >> i dont think were going to get much here that differs from the administration line. but president obama said in his acceptance speech at the democratic convention on september the 6th, knife days beforfive days before the attack on benghazi, child is on the road to defeat. thats why so many people are ...