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Freedom. this past week the dreams that i had as a little girl in that small town were shattered. with me now is a member of the house oversight and government reform committee pennsylvania congressman pat me hahn. >> good evening, judge. great to be with you. >> thanks for being here. you were there as i was on wednesday. whats your take on gregory hicks and his recounting of that night in benghazi? >> i thought the testimony was compelling. first because he gave us a firsthand view of what wen...

Freedom. this past week the dreams that i had as a little girl in that small town were shattered. with me now is a member of the house oversight and government reform committee pennsylvania congressman pat me hahn. >> good evening, judge. great to be with you. >> thanks for being here. you were there as i was on wednesday. whats your take on gregory hicks and his recounting of that night in benghazi? >> i thought the testimony was compelling. first because he gave us a firsthand view of what wen...

Then this exchange. >> when embassador stevens talked to you perhaps minutes before he died, as a dying declaration, what precisely did he say to you? >> he said, greg, were under attack. >> would a highly decorated career diplomat have told i or washington, had there been a demonstration outside his facility that day? >> yes, sir, he would have. >> did he mention one word about a protest or a demonstration? >> no, sir, he did not. >> the recounting of a conversation from september 11, 2012, the...

One expert says congress in the white house could take an important step to establish a degree of trust. >> the first stage of entitlements that they could do and they could do it in this initial bill would be to pare back medicaid and food stamps in some of those areas as the house budget recommended doing. that would provide a down takenment on bigger entailingment reforms later. >> to save money they could limit the amount of entitlement benefits on upper income folks or reduce deductions. >>...

They are tearing down houses. >> but i was there for a week during the republican primary in michigan, and there was some campaigning around that area, but republicans really paid no attention to the issue of detroit. it was interesting when romney got kid rock to endorse him and come perform and romney plays kid rocks songs every single rally, kid rocks price of endorsement is you are going to pay attention to detroit if you are elected president and romney promised he was but a wasnt a big par...

>> sure. they are tearing down houses. >> but i was there for a week during the republican primary in michigan, and there was some campaigning around that area, but republicans really paid no attention to the issue of detroit. it was interesting when romney got kid rock to endorse him and come perform and romney plays kid rocks songs every single rally, kid rocks price of endorsement is you are going to pay attention to detroit if you are elected president and romney promised he was but a wasnt ...

Places. greg? >> reporter: it is a remarkable day, jenna. it is supposed to be a muslim holy day of prayer. there is knowing holy or sacred about the violence all of you are recounting. lets try to give you a little bit more context. lets go to tunisia first where you have been reporting and jon and james has been reporting smoke being seen coming from the u.s. embassy complex. protesters in the thousands gathering outside of that embassy, going over the walls. there was at least five people inj...

Somewhere. but here we find leaks recounting conversations and planning at the highest levels of the administration. only peoe that have access to part of those meetings would know what happened would be able to talk to the way they did. it had to come from the people around the president. its so important it fully investigated and stop being put to it before lives are lost. >> kelly: i understand that, i know you want to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible who is putting lives at r...

were getting new pictures and details as we speak including more from the survivors and heartbreaking stories about the victims. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were going live to the scene of the shooting in just a moment. but first a quick rundown of what happened on this horrible day. the shooting started after midnight about 12:38 a.m. in theater 9 of the century aurora 16 multiplex. auroras a suburb of denver. about 15 minutes into the midnight showing of the new b...

treatments. a doctor got to choose the winner. good medicine or playing god? "newsroom" starts right now. good morning to you. happy friday. im carol costello. we begin this hour with two stories sharing a common theme. the inescapable and unrelenting force of nature. well the left, the wildfire gnawing at the edges of colorado springs. today, growing deadlier and bigger. on the right, a record-setting heat wave that will have millions of americans sweltering today. intense heat wi...