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Some are in camps. if the united states wanted to strike through the air or with a special operations approach, we could. >> that begs the question, why werent our special operators in benghazi shortly after the attack to find this guy whos been giving interviews to cable news and to the new york times and others. why didnt we have people on the ground? why dont we put people on the ground. do you lament the fact that special operators were not aparentally put into libya. >> a hundred percent, u...

Equivocating and not making a dgsz. as far as libya is concerned, thats political. covered up the fact that it was a decided terrorist attack and therefore dragged their feet in response that it would be critically important. the longer you wait, the more difficult it makes your options. we can still act there and send a strong signal. but, instead, were looking at syria and punting to congress and handing sluxs to putin. . >> scott, in terms of the infiltration of special operators into benghaz...

8th of april that we sent to the house of representatives to act as a catalyst to upon sor house resolution -- sponsor house resolution 36 which is now being supported by congressman stockmans discharge petition. and what that letter says, basically, is that the special ops community now joined by the conventional community and patriots want to foe the truth -- want to know the truth for the families, for the fallen and for the veterans that have been sent a terrible message that we dont have yo...

The days of rambo are over. >> reporter: in january, then defense secretary leon panetta signed an order saying women must have the same opportunities as men in the military. opening 200,000 jobs previously not open to women. >> we dont set female marines up for failure. >> i was encouraged by physical performance of some of the girls. >> reporter: they have until 2016 to make changes or request exemption from the defense secretary for special operators like navy s.e.a.l.s and army rangers. >> i...

>> r eporter: again, fox news has confirmed that two u.s. military units in europe have been alerted to be on standby in case they are need inside the capital tripoli given the deteriorating security situation. one of those is a marine task force that is based in marone, spain. the other is comprised of special operators who are based out of germany, and they are on heightened alert as we speak. jon. jon: jennifer griffin, thats very big news. thank you. jenna: more on that story as it develops....

Saying the united states military stands, quote, ready to help if called in. hello, even, im jenna lee. we have that breaking news coming up. jon: welcome to the second hour of "happening now," im jon scott. lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to get to the bottom of the benghazi terror attacks, and the british embassy in the tripoli is withdrawing some of its staff said to be because of security concerns. and according to a brand new state department warning, a number of u.s. government person...

Her name is joycelyn. apparently she was born six years ago on christmas. >>brian: what did you think about the testimony yesterday? >>steve: rivetting. >>gretchen: especially from gregory hicks. emotional from eric nordstrom as well because he misses the four americans who were killed and feels that they and their families deserve answers. >>brian: heres the sense i got. obviously elijah cummings, a big pushback. he wanted everyone to know im not questioning the integrity of the whistle-blowers...

Administration approved. former navy seal brandon web and jack murphy author of a new book "benghazi, the definitive report." you say that john brennan essentially was running a war out of the white house? >> yeah, that is correct. he was authorized to clear these operations inside libya to go in there and destroy weapons and also target high value targets. >> steve: were talking about a secret war run out of the white house. who gave them the authority? >> it had to be delegated from the presid...

People in a communication vacuum it becomes a problem and c.i.a. doesnt realize what they are doing. >> steve: so what you are suggesting in your book is that the c.i.a. didnt know about the secret war and also ambassador stevens didnt know about the war. you got the special operators coming over with the secret war run by the white house and they essentially kicked a hornets nest. >> the problem is you get the turf wars and different agencies not communicating with each other. that is why we en...

Intelligent. i was going to read the whole study. but im just going to wait fort movie. >> gretchen: well, fewer people i guess are reading newspapers. maybe theyre reading on-line. lets hope. >> steve: speaking of on-line, there is a book that was reloosed on-line. an e book called" benghazi, the definitive report." it was released this week. whats interesting is what it says essentially is our attack on our consulate unuseful this past year was in effect, retaliation against some special opera...