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For something like this happening at an american diplomatic facility were not enough to protect the lives of the four americans who died, including the ambassador. those are the questions the congressional committees looking at that attack are going to be asking tomorrow, when those hearings convene, including expected from david petraeus himself, who is now the former head of the cia. but what does not follow rationally, from the anger and concern over the attack in september is that john mccai...

The four americans who died, including the ambassador. those are the questions the congressional committees looking at that attack are going to be asking tomorrow, when those hearings convene, including expected testimony from david petraeus himself, who is now the former head of the cia. but what does not follow rationally, from the anger and concern over the attack in september is that john mccain and conservative media assaults on the american ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, who...

Holding prisoners? where was the in the did he know about requests for help? did he know what was happening that night? why did he to go vegas. why did he say two weeks later that it wasnt a terror attack? >> there was no secret there was a security problems in benghazi. there was no surprise there. there is failure, an administrative failure to put in place a security procedures that needed to be there to protect u.s. personnel overseas. that part needs to be addressed. there is no doubt about ...

Holding prisoners? where was the in the did he know about requests for help? did he know what was happening that night? why did he to go vegas. why did he say two weeks later that it wasnt a terror attack? >> there was no secret there was a security problems in benghazi. there was no surprise there. there is failure, an administrative failure to put in place a security procedures that needed to be there to protect u.s. personnel overseas. that part needs to be addressed. there is no doubt about ...

White house. the state department had a different asessment and she said she is ultimately responsible for the security. in 98 i didnt see secretary of state come out and say that is my fault. >> gretchen: why would she take the fault. they dont love each other. why would she take the fall for president obama. >> steve: that is a great question. what the president could say presidential thing, i know yesterday hillary clinton took responsibility for the security lapses. but he could say the buck...

Being briefed. questions though about whether the president was ever briefed on the security problems. youll remember the consulate was targeted several times in benghazi long before this terror attack. obviously a big source of controversy on the sunday talk shows. yesterday you have republicans like lindsey graham suggesting maybe there was a cover up while the presidents top advisers like david axelrod said everything should calm down. >> this is the same administration that leaks every detai...

Told us, that they knew. >> the romney campaign released this statement saying biden wrongly stated that the administration was not aware of requests for more security from our diplomatic facilities in libya, but we now know from the sworn testimony of two u.s. security officials who were stationed in libya, that there were repeated requests for more security in the face of rising threats. we just saw that in the hearing that was held, several fact checkers said joe biden was wrong. what happene...

Ed henry is here to take us through what happened at the white house press briefing this morning. is that the distinct they were trying to draw? >> i tried to fin jay carney down on whether hes saying with absolute certainty that the president and vice president were never briefed in recent weeks or months about the security problems around the consulate in benghazi. but as we know now it had been targeted several times. the am bass deern others had been asking for more security, they were conce...

Presidential issue. i mean the notion that the president is supposed to know where each security officer is at a given time, but it is an issue about the overall ability of the administration to manage these problems in a troubled part of the world. >> in this political climate the republicans were saying that the president should have been responsible for what a press officer in cairo put out. this does rise to the level of whether the state department anticipated security problems, whether the...

At the moment. both the radars -- raiders and the rams left the city after the 94 season. im shepard smith. this is the fox report. this the bottom of the hour and time for fox top story. intelligence sources telling fox news there were serious security problems at the consulate of benghazi before this months attack. gunmen killed four americans, including our u.s. ambassador in that assault on the consulate on november the 119 catherine herridge has this. she is live from washington tonight. wh...