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Siege of the gas facility in southern algeria. so he was prestaging something that then we all knew about several months later. and ive interviewed many of the libyan officials, prime ministers that said the justice minister and they all agree on one point, and that is they do not have the security inside their country right now, that it is becoming a place where these foreign jihadists are gathering as theyre being pushed out of other areas and this security vacuum and the political vacuum in l...

Still very much in question. there remains 16,000 people missing as we were saying. the political society itself remains extremely fractured. there is no trust among the major political parties. there is really not a functioning government. life there for ordinary people is a daily struggle. more than 60 people were killed today alone. there is still a very present security threat or a security vacuum, if you will. so you cant say definitively that iraq from the perspective of ordinary iraqis is...

Against the administrations narrative that things are getting better in afghanistan. im very concerned about this. was this a clerical error? things like this can happen. jenna: that is what theyre saying. didnt add a number somewhere along the lines. they missed it. >> congress has to look at this. the get some answers. were talking about drawing troops down there. we talked about terrorism and al qaeda. and we found out from that report we were just talking about a lot of these people trained ...

Very negative. certainly assad remaining in power is not good. in the aftermath of that the worst case scenario would be a security vacuum or a government dominated by radical islamists. they need ammunition. >> russia has joined the arab league to broker a peace talks. heres a major reversal from last summer the governor of florida, republican rick scott said that he now supports expanding medicaid in his state despite opposition from tea party supporters many of whom who worked to get scott ...

We are trying hard to make them be more organized and there are the umbrella organizations that try to have them talk to each other but in terms of the tactics and how they are fighting, it is a lot of little battles all over the country. that makes it harder to bring to an end. >>gregg: if this is a security vacuum what should the united states do? >>guest: the hardest question of all, we have to gradually step up support for the opposition, try to make them work better together and, perhaps, g...

See. >> brian: knows what it is like when the afghan forces get infiltrated and the guys you train turn their guns against you. find out some of the libya security forces may have been working for the other side or at the very least been loyal to the other side. your reaction? >> not surprising. they discovered new documents that showed that there was concerns as recently as that morning of september 11th. taking photos of the compound and police officers that were supposed to come in and provid...

Republicans" generally -- >> greg: wait, wait, wait. obama was slow on the security vacuum and fast on blaming the video. he blamed the video. so they are inconsistent. what happens is they conflated a mistake with a crime covering it up. obama should admit this. >> bob: 20 on the video and one was not, right? >> kimberly: dont stand by the video. maybe he wouldnt have fanned the blames of violence. maybe its his fault. >> bob: have you looked at the timeline? >> greg: believe it or not, i prepa...

Which i argue exacerbated the problem. it was really quite something. it is really frustrating to watch them go through this. martha: if there is one man who knew very much what was going on the ground at the consulate in the embassy it was ambassador chris stevens. we got some very shocking and upsetting reports in terms of what he was saying on the day that he died, about the situation on the ground. i want to show our viewers what some of those quotes were, from chris stevens. that just surfa...

He could have been seen as a soft target a way to strike out at america. one of his jobs was to look into that violence from last month. there were questions about security at that u.s. embassy too. whether enough was provided by the united states or yemen. alisyn: what do we know about the broader picture of the level of violence in yemen right now. >> well the al-qaida chapter there is thought of as one of the most dangerous. known for the anwar al-awlaki. the fear is that a security vacuum co...

Powerful tribe. this cable says incidents anyone this security vacuum as they refer to it in benghazi. i would point to september 4. in their memo they highlighted a september 1 maximum alert. a maximum alert. september 1. this was the information that was coming. and whats infuriating is we have hundreds of terrorist times of activities. our consulate is bombed twice. the british ambassador has an assassination attempt and you are arguing whether the number was 5 or 2 or 5 or 3 and the security...