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Anything about benghazi. she had nothing to do with it. if you got a problem, why dont you take it up with me? i thought that was an odd response. i thought it was very strange for the president wanting to pick somebody to tell america about benghazi, had nothing to do with benghazi. if she had known anything about benghazi and looked at any of the intelligence she would have seen a deteriorating security environment just like the people who did the report. if he paid any attention at all, you w...

Department officials including the head of diplomatic security. here was bob corker taking the department to task. lets watch. >> what i saw in the report is the department that has sclerosis, that doesnt think outside the box, that is not using the resources that it has in any kind of creative ways, is not prioritizing. i cannot imagine that we had people out there with a lack of security existing. it seems to me that what the state department would have done is to prioritize and if, in fact, w...

This week an independent investigation concluded there were, quote, systemic failures at the state department in the run up to the deadly attack. the report led to the resignation of four senior state department officials including the head of diplomatic security. here was bob corker taking the department to task. lets watch. >> what i saw in the report is the department that has sclerosis, that doesnt think outside the box, that is not using the resources that it has in any kind of creative way...

State department would have done is to prioritize and if, in fact, we cannot have people safely there, not send them there. >> well, absent from todays hearing, secretary of state hillary clinton. shes expected to testify next month on the same questions, but todays focus was the failure of clintons state department to recognize the deteriorating security environment in benghazi so what are the lessons from benghazi and how high should the focus go. mike ohanlon and pete j. crowley. the same que...

Destablizing the korean peninsula. so many hot spots in the world today to watch as we welcome you on this friday morning to a brand new hour of "americas newsroom." im martha maccallum. bill: im bill hemmer welcome to you at home. good morning to you, again, martha. were watching the second launch attempt since kim jong-un took over after his fathers death a year ago. the last try failed. here is the head of the u.s. pacific command keeping a watch on this. >> were approaching once again a pote...

Missile de -- guided missile destroyers will gain the launch. uss benifold and uss fitzgerald are heading there. they both have high-tech missile systems on board. they will watch the rocket and track any parts that fall into the secording to admiral locklear who doubts this launch is for benign purposes. >> there are indications declared indication of intention to do what they would call a peaceful satellite launch. we believe it is still in contradictory to the u.n. security council resolution...

Foreign affairs committee is seeking a cable warning the consulate could not sustain a coordinated attack and that the staff considered suspending operations in benghazi. mission personnel could go locate to the annex cia outpost if the environment degraded suddenly. there were agreement to formal weekly meetings to the discuss the security environment. in the longer term wee, believe the formal colocation with the annex will greatly improve the situation. state department pending their own inte...

Testify. but hillary clinton, who was ambassador stevens boss, who knows a lot about this, is pretty much getting a pass on this. she is not, at this point, scheduled to testify. dont you see a problem with that? >> there is a couple of things here. first of all, its important that general petraeus testify not only behind closed doors, but take an oath in public and give his account there of what happened. secondly, with respect to secretary clinton, she certainly does have a responsibility to b...

Tanzania in 1998. a u.s. intelligence official briefed reporters on cia response in to the attack insisted they responsed to the consulate in 30 minutes and there was quote, no hesitation to act that evening. review of secret diplomatic cable by fox news, august 16th a month before the attack consulate and cia leadership in benghazi agreed to work hand-in-glove as security on the ground deteriorated. quote, mission personnel could colocate to the annex. cia outpost is the security environment de...

But they said it would continue to detear democrat as the islamists cemented their hold in benghazi. the classified cable shows the consulate staff and ci leadership in benghazi agreed to work hand in glove, which collision reviewing emergency action plans. the cable reads mission personnel could collate to the annex at the cia outpost it the security environment degraded suddenly. there was an agreement to formal weekly meet to go discuss the security environment. in the longer term we believe ...