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Minutes" last night talking about this. what does that tell you? >> again, poppy, it goes to the point ive been making all week which is its so confusing you somebody with, from what we know, unless he was a mer sin nary overseas had zero military experience and yet i served as an officer in the tenth mountain divisions and the calculations he was making was the calculations a fire support officer would be supplying to me saying heres how were going to employ indirect fire. i it was physics, pro...

The fire, and, in fact, bannon apparently is requiring that these candidates give a kind of loyalty oath that if they are elected they will vow to vote against mitch mcconnell as majority leader. so this could down the road even imperil mcconnells ability to hold on to his job inside the republican caucus. >> what do you think steve bannon is thinking right now, reading the presidents tweets he called chuck schumer up over the past few days and wants to make a deal with him on health care? >> i ...

Assassination. we are learning the shooter had a history of anti-cop rants on social media. familia meanwhile leaves behind six children. today, the pentagon announcing the death of army private hansen kirkpatrick killed in a deadly mortar attack in afghanistan that wounded two others. the 19-year-old was hit by, "indirect fire" where they are in constant fire. and finally, comedian kathy griffin not laughing tonight after reports claim she was questioned by secret service agents for over an hou...

These? >> reporter: what we are hearing now it is specifically at al asad air base in western iraq a very remote area where these attacks are happening. these are so-called indirect fire. rocket and mortar attacks launched by isis militants against the base. they are very impreisiscise attacks. they aim these weapons at the base. no u.s. troops injured thankfully. we dont know about any iraqi troops injured. they are very imprecise attacks. and pretty much at the moment limited to this area wher...

Said in there. but i wonder if thats where morell didnt start to sort of say this -- lets all be together on one line, everybody, and that line is this was all a demonstration when this clearly was not. you dont show up at a demonstration with mortars and 50 caliber machine guns and people who spontaneously show up dont have the political sophistication to have cased the joint, two joints and second of all bring whats called indirect fire. that is mortar fire in on those -- both the diplomatic c...

Said in there. but i wonder if thats where morell didnt start to sort of say this -- lets all be together on one line, everybody, and that line is this was all a demonstration when this clearly was not. you dont show up at a demonstration with mortars and 50 caliber machine guns and people who spontaneously show up dont have the political sophistication to have cased the joint, two joints and second of all bring whats called indirect fire. that is mortar fire in on those -- both the diplomatic c...

Taken together experts say the administrations initial statements about the attack are further challenged. >> al-qaida in benghazi itself could only mean that all americans were in jeopardy and therefore the notion that this attack had anything to do with the famous mohammed video i think falls further into disrepute. >> the state department declined to answer specific questions that we asked at fox citing the classified nature of the cable adding quote, an independent board is conducting a thor...

>> it was either willful ignorance or a business malintelligence to think that people come to span taeupb just demonstrations with heavy weapons, mortars and the attack goes on for hours. >> senator mccain had a lot to say in that interview. michael hayden is with me, former director of the c.i.a. willful ignorance. dismal intelligence, is senator mccain onto something there. >> i know how hard intelligence is. i can understand why the senator is a bit puzzles. the elements he suggested, complex...

Look, this was an attack on its face. reason why -- heavy weapons, mortars, a well synchronized, direct fire and indirect fire attack. for them to somehow believe this was a result of a demonstration or anger over a video. by the way, its not the video. its the islamists that are pushing the video. a fundamental misunderstanding of the basics of what was happening. >> brian: do you believe that or do you believe the reports that say they knew exactly what this was and didnt want to talk about it...

Libyan guards assigned to guard the consulate also suggest to me that this was premeditated. >> at 9:35 that night sources tell fox news, a mob 100 strong, many of its members armed geard at the compound gates. they were not there to protest a video. instead began shooting and breached the perimeter within minutes. >> the attack began and evolved and escalated over several hours. >> lots of command and control. indirect fire, direct fire. there was even a stop for some period of time in the figh...