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good evening, everyone, welcome to "ac360." two trades. and most of nasa is is on furlough. and they are seeing the movie "gravity" what a rocket scientist thinks of the movie. we start with the government shutdown day seven. joining me is christiane amanpour, anna navarro, and gro grovernor quist. lets start with da that on capitol hill. is there any change or movement? >> no. the only movement is the sound of the president talking and house speaker john boehner talking and the woosh ...

0 were back. and now im in a straight jacket. this is probably everyones dream. how are you, criss angel. >> im going to leave you like the government is leaving us. >> i have been shut down by criss angel. look out for him this week. it will been amazing stunt when it happens. he has ten shows a week at the luxor in las vegas. thanks, again. >> i will leave you be. thank you. thank you. >> thanks. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone, welcome to "ac360." two trades. and ...

Intelligence of this threat as the kind of justification they need to continue the scale of intelligence gathering that snowden revealed. >> thank you so much. news about this threat is breaking very fast and theres still much to learn about the nature of the threat and the potential target. i am joined now by daniel benjamin and the former coordinator for counterterrorism at the state department. i want to talk about al qaeda in yemen for a second. they were responsible for underwear bomber. ...

0 taxpayers are send agoiing a lo money to california. theres going to be state hearings on this et cetera. >> we will watch for the follow-up with you. thats it for me. to jake tapper, the lead. the u.s. government warning of an attack in the final stages of planning by al qaeda in the arab yan peninsula. if youre an american overseas, you could be a target. the world lead. 21 u.s. embassies closing this weekend. the state department issuing a world wide travel alert over an al qaeda linked t...

failure ofommunication between the state department, the pentagon and libya. hicks confirmed forces were available in tripoli, but were told to stand down before they could mount a rescue effort. >> we determined that we needed to send a second team from tripoli to secure the airport for the withdrawal of our personnel from benghazi after the mortar attack. >> but were any of these u.s. military personnel not permitted to travel on a rescue mission or relief mission to benghazi? >> the...

failure of communication between the state department, the pentagon and libya. hicks confirmed forces were available in tripoli, but were told to stand down before they could mount a rescue effort. >> we determined that we needed to send a second team from tripoli to secure the airport for the withdrawal of our personnel from benghazi after the mortar attack. >> but were any of these u.s. military personnel not permitted to travel on a rescue mission or relief mission to benghazi? >> t...

committee. , he is 74t chairman years old. there have been some chatter that he might be considering retirement. like the spot could be open. >he is the vice chairman. he is the no. 2 guy. is a way to shift it around. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] mac thornberry talked about defense issues. watch this today at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> post 9/11 a lot more people cared about national ...

failure of communication between the state department, the pentagon and libya. hicks confirmed forces were available in tripoli, but were told to stand down before they could mount a rescue effort. >> we determined at we need to send a second team from tripoli to secure the airport for the withdraw of our personnel from benghazi ter the mortar attack. >> but were any of these u.s. military personnel not permitted to travel on a rescue mission or relief mission to benghazi? >> they were...

failure of communication between the state department, the pentagon and libya. hicks confirmed forces were available in tripoli, but were told to stand down before they could mount a rescue effort. >> we determined that we needed to send a second team from tripoli to secure the airport for the withdrawal of our personnel from benghazi after the mortar attack. >> but were any of these u.s. military personnel not permitted to travel on a rescue mission or relief mission to benghazi? >> t...

Within a week, by september 20 when we came up here we had a clear picture. we did not have a clear picture. >> another newly unveiled e-mail was sent on 9-11 by mark thompson, the operations officer at the state department counterterrorism bureau with the u.s. annex in benghazi about to face mortar fire, he wrote to patrick kennedys deputy, wondering why the undersecretary swiftly rejected the option that the f.b.i. and the defense department special operations command had recommended that nigh...