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>>. >> greta: now on more the breaking news, new evidence that the obama administration new the libya attack was a terrorist attack. an al-qaeda group claimed responsibility. were back with our political panel. >> i think its new questions about why there was certainty emanating from susan rice in the aftermath to say it was about video when there was conflicting evidence. it was very confusing at the time. there was a lot of stories filtering in at the time. there were different messages but to...

Director of national intelligence who said by september 15 a protest had nothing to do with the attack. that is the top story. ed henry is live on it. the debate tonight is supposed to be about foreign possibility and the president has been playing a lot of defense on the libya attack. >>reporter: no doubt. foreign policy was to be a slam dunk between getting osama bin laden to the fact that mitt romney has stumbles on the one big overseas trip. you can see in recent weeks this has taken a turn....

Sunshine state. and senator graham said it is all about the terror attack. >> what happened in benghazi is a case study in failure at every phase, before, during and after. what they did after the attack is, i think, absolutely unacceptable. they tried to confuse, delay, and deny, and create a narrative it was a spontaneous event. it was not. >>reporter: republicans have focused the attacks on libya, there is a host of other global hot spots that will come up from iran to syria the future of rus...

>> well, a lot depends on how tonight goes. governor romney is used to the debates, its his advantage. it showed that he was not an ogre. this race, though, is moving as a national phenomenon. reagan -- excuse me, romney is the challenger. i think hes in a better position that way. but remember, obama theres always been historically a little bump for the incumbent at the beginning of the last week of the campaign. well see if that happens. tonight will have a lot to do with it. reagan in 1980 re...

>> first from fox at 3:00 in florida, counting down to the final debate between president obama and governor romney. there is brand new finger-pointing over what the president claims he knew about libya and when. republicans are saying this new report is based on selectively leaked information timed to take the pressure off president obama. according to the reporting of the the "wall street journal," parent company of this network. the c.i.a. intelligence briefing pointed to a protest as a possi...

Violence across the border in lebanon. president assad of syria has a number of reasons to want to do that, to distract attention from what he is doing to his own people inside syria. that is why the lebanese army was out in force in beirut and other lebanese cities today trying to keep calm. that is request u.s. officials are appealing to everyone in lebanon on every political side to work together. >> all of lebanons political leaders need to work together, need to address the concerns over th...

Bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news like this afternoon from boca raton. the lebanese military fighting to restore calm after the assassination of an official sparked violent protests. sectarian clashes have killed five people. the bomb attack occurred in beirut that killed a top intelligence official who was critical of syrias in lebanon. the attack killed seven others and injured many more when parents were picking up their kids from school. lebanon and syria has a long history of...

An unnamed senior intelligence official entitled "cia document supported susan rices description of benghazi attacks." another headline. no evidence found of al qaeda role in libya attack. creating about the intelligence and how these stories came to appear right before tonights foreign policy debate. tucker carlson who is editor and foirngds of the daily caller *. i want to start with this. steven hayes wrote a comprehensive and interesting piece trying to digest the media. he says, tucker, thi...

The operational channel is the organization thats involved in a particular activity whether its military and embassy, law enforcement of the united states, it doesnt make that much difference. we go through the operational channel. it would go into the state department, we know for a fact they were receiving blow-by-blow accounts. the state department furnishes information to the white house situation room. that is the normal process of any cats if i thats unfolding -- catastrophe thats unfoldin...

Romney. great to see you. we talked to general clark about this matter of libya. he says, look, you cant judge the foreign policy of a president based on one incident and it has been very successful. and romney camp would say? >>guest: there are two points to be made. first, you cannot judge it on one incident but there were troubles across the middle east at the time this occurred around september 11. what was unique about this, this is a terrorist attack. what you can say is the american peopl...