reporter: armed attackers entered the main gate without warning or resistance. and hicks as a villa has someone run in. gregg, gregg, the consulate is under attack. gregg, we re under attack. the attackers set the main residence ablaze. and the safe haven filled with thick, dark smoke. more than a mile away, at the ciaannex, tyron wood and other agents get their weapons ready. mobilizing a response team there to go to our facility and provide reinforcement and to repel the attack. reporter: 9:59 p.m. an unarmed surveillance drone heads to the come pound, hicks called washington, just about 4:00 in the afternoon. i called the state department to record the attack.
voters reelected barack obama but they are giving him a pass on benghazi. a recent fox poll found more than 7 in 10 american voters want congress to continue investigating. congress has. and so have we. we begin with peter boyer who finds one piece of common ground between obama s supporters and critics. both agree to understand benghazi, you must go back a few years. any clear-eyed examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact. benghazi joins a long list of tragedies and for america, hostages taken in tehran in 1979, our embassy and marine barracks bombed in beirut in 1983. khobar towers in 1996. she essentially said to understand benghazi, you have to understand the series of terror attacks that had occurred before. is she right? she is certainly right in terms of understanding the ideology that fuels these attacks. andrew mccarthy is a form he federal prosecutor who won a conviction of the blind sheikh who had plotted to bomb new york city tunnels a
voters re-elected barack obama, but they aren t giving him a pass on benghazi. a recent fox poll showed more than 7-10 american voters want congress to continue investigating. congress has. and so have we. we begin with peter boyer, who finds one piece of common ground between obama supporters and critics. both agree that to understand benghazi, you must go back a few years. any clear-eyed examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact. benghazi joins a long list of tragedies for america. hostages taken in tehran in 1979, embassy and marine barracks bombed in 1983. saudi arabia in 1996. she essentially said to understand benghazi, you have to understand a series of terror attacks that had occurred before. is she right? she is certainly right in terms of understanding the ideology that fuels these attacks. andrew mccarthy, a former federal prosecutor who won a conviction of the blind shaikh that plotted to bomb new york city tunnels and landmarks in the
obama but they are not giving him a pass on benz. a recent benghazi. seven out of ten wanted congress to continue investigating. congress has and so have we. we begin with peter who finds one piece of common ground between supporters and critics. both agree to understand benghazi you must go back a few years. any clear examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact. benghazi joins us a long list of tragedies for america hostages taken in tehran in 1979, barracks bombed in 1983. kobart tours in 1996. she essentially said to understand benghazi you have to understand a series of terror attacks that occurred before, is she right? she is right in terms of understanding the ideology that fuels these attacks. andrew mccarthy is a former federal prosecutor to won a conviction of the blind swhaik in 1990s. islamic supremacism is what is behind these attacks. the difference between obama administration and its critics the lesson it has heard through that his
twitter posts are calling for attacks of the embassy in tripoli. we have to take care of ourselves. someone using wickland s cell phone redials hicks, the caller says the ambassador is at the benghazi medical center. we learned that he was in the hospital, controlled by shari a. hicks suspects a trap. 1:15 a.m., libya. the american chartered plane arrives at the benghazi airport. there is a hitch. the tripoli team had to stay at the benghazi airport, because it had no transport and no escort from the libyans. reporter: the delay would give the terrorists time to set up anotherl lethal assault. 2:00 a.m., hicks gets a call from washington, where it s now 8:00 p.m. secretary of state clinton called me, along with her senior staff, all on the phone, and she