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Number of lessons we learned from benghazi but he never specifies what the lessons were. its trouble some. here is what we did wrong. >> bret: john brennan moving out of committee, pretty big vote 12-3, still could be held up there. but the drone issue, benghazi issue, also documents about the bin laden compound were finding out about now. >> i dont think it will stop ending up as head of c.i.a. i think it was an opportunity to have a debate on the drone issue to have a debate on some of these o...

Venezuela, still it has a lot of power on the oil marketed. will this have an affect on any 2456? >> twad so badly managed over the last decade. if a competent government comes into power and if that oil so the world market instead of used for all of the chavez attempted to use it for, i think it will bring more abundance into the markets and fields will be far more productive without chavez there, without his micromanagement of what used to be a fairly efficient operation for oil fields. i thin...

Training for some forces in that conflict. what is your hope for how that will help contribute to a speedy exit from assad and do you see it expanding in the future? >> i think what president obama is hoping to build on what has already happened. now, the president has ratcheted up through the meeting in rome which we brought about inviting countries to come in order to send the signal that we are determined to change president assads calculation. that is one part of it, but other nations are do...

Few years. >> bret: okay. we will follow this. the breaking news continuing. hugo chavez, dead at the age of 58. coming up next, secretary of state john kerry talking about benghazi, why are the benghazi survivors not talking? he doesnt have an answer but he talked to one of them, that is next.

Is incredible. >> reporter: on the investigation, egyptian authorities are still denying direct u.s. access to a man that allegedly set up camps in eastern libya where some of the suspects may have been trained. he tried to raise the access with egyptian president morsi. >> for them not to allow us to interview a person that may have information on the death of an american ambassador and three other people that were killed and others that were wounded is unacceptable. >> beyond benghazi in a mov...

Pick to run to run c.i.a. got the nod of approval. >> this is an agency that most of us think needs oversight and needs direction and needs a director. so i believe that the majority leader will be likely moving cloture shortly. >> reporter: the administration just released the email traffic on the talking points and demonstration for the 911 attack. >> john brennans ought to be considered on his qualifications, not on disputes on an issue that did not involve john brennans nomination to be the ...

Have given the iraqis to have a democracy that hopefully can work. its up to them to make it work and we are still struggling with that. >> reporter: in the nine foreign capitals he visited he met close to 40 world leaders. now, he heads back to the oval office to talk to what he calls the guy calling the shots, president obama. senate intelligence committee has approved john been in an as c.i.a. director. before that the administration greased the wheels by providing some documents. senators ...

Opposition to u.n. ambassador susan rices possible nomination to the position of secretary of state. ms. rice had a rough week trying to mend fences on capitol hill, unsuccessfully as it turns out, it seems, over her statements in the immediate aftermath of the terror attack that killed four americans in benghazi on 9/11. but today former attorney general michael mukasey offers a list of reasons why ambassador rice may not be qualified for the job, and they go well beyond benghazi. joining me no...

Embassy, not for benghazi, which is 400 miles away. the fact that the romney team doesnt distinguish between an embassy and a compound, i think, is indicative of perhaps their lack of information. but let me just say, they have -- the romney team is politicizing this. they are politicizing this issue for their benefit. and they are -- theyve got a lot of nerve when the republicans in congress actually were the ones who cut $300 million from the administrations request for security to embassies. ...

Leadership and foreign policy thats getting a lot of traction this week. and i think we should talk about it, and that is the issue with how the administration handled the attack on 9/11 in libya. weve seen this past week there was testimony on capitol hill from the state department folks saying indeed they asked for additional security that was not in place in benghazi at the consulate when ambassador chris stevens was killed. this came up in the vice presidential debate, and biden answered, an...