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From relatives of two of the victims. it has been more than a year since the attack in libya left four americans dead including the ambassador chris stevens. no arrests have been made. no one responsible for consulate security has been held accountable. pat smith mother of shawn smith took the floor at this weeks senate hearing pleading for answers she says she was promised by president obama and his administration. >> i was told a few things and they were all lies. obama and hillary and panetta...

Survived. the republicans need to get over it. it is here. it will be here 100% forever. not going anywhere. >> and by that point, that is actually true. the irony for republicans is the more they fight on obama care, they sort of spiraling themselves down a drain because it cant be done but they have to keep saying theyre going to do it in order for their base not to get angry. theyre literally destroying their party from within. it is like a virus inside the republican party that they cant cur...

And as much as daryl issa and john mccain have been trying to get answers from the fbi and the cia and the intelligence committee and all of those other things, we have to go through susan rice. before we can work on preventing this from happening again, we have to agree on what exactly happened. and we dont fully know and we need to find out. >> i appreciate a lot of your position. if this was really about consulate security and what happened that day for a lot of these people, i would find tha...

Senator is waning. he sees benghazi as a life raft that he can cling to. he will be forced to leave the senate armed forces committee. in benghazi he hoped he would find the scandal that would embarrass obama and allow the creation of a new committee that would investigate benghazi with him as a leader. but instead of pursuing reasonable questions about consulate security, he fixated on a conspiracy about a pre-election cover-up and attacked susan rice as incompetent and unqualified. >> if this ...

There are positive signs, also most of the israeli troops that begin to mass along the border they have withdrawn from that area. border is being paroled by hamas and israeli troops but a much smaller contingent. all signs of progress in terms of keeping this cease-fire going forward. there are some big issues to be dealt with in the coming days. there is a real concern that this fragile cease-fire could be broken up with any type of flare-up of violence. we will be watching over the next days a...

Relations committee would want to hear from secretary clinton and all those who are responsible for consulate security. the problem is that the three committees will not be able to hear what the other groups are saying. id like to ask general petraeus some questions. and im sure there are people on the intel committee would like to hear what the department of defense has to say about their handling of the benghazi attack. and when it comes to the state department all of us would like to know why...

Details. >> while military assets were moved in response to the libyan crisis, the defense secretary told reporters the intelligence on the ground was so poor they had to hold. >> the basic principle is that you dont deploy forces in to harms way. without knowing what is going on, without having real-time information on what is taking place. >> joint decision on a six-hour timeline by panetta joint of chairman joints chief dempsey and regional general carter ham. report from the consulate securi...

Libya. yesterday secretary of state hillary clinton in fact just around this time last night took responsibility for the consulate security but several senators released a statement last night which n. which they said if the president didnt know of the threat level in benghazi then they have lost confidence in his national security team and today an obama campaign aide said president obama takes responsibility of the death of the four americans in libya. in fact, jen sacky said on "studio b" to ...

Our ambassador and former seals in libya sitting ducks? our consulate security will be talking about that coming up. pictures of kate middleton topless? another republican getting ready to print them. but buckingham palace has other plans for the peeping toms pictures.

Meanwhile, the white house says a report indicated officials were aware of credible threats against the american mission is flat out untrue. >> i have seen that report and the story is absolutely wrong. we were not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi was planned or eminent. >> and the focus now tracking down the people who did this and bringing them to justice. catherine herridge with the news now in washington. lawmakers are asking why ...