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>> i believe it came from africom or south africa. gregg hicks was the second in command in libya during the benghazi attacks. hes accusing a standdown order. a lot of debate over the standdown order. but that moment from gregory hicks. he comes across as very credible and not having anything in the game other than his recollection of what happened that night. >> he wasnt playing partisan politics. the military doesnt do anything without a paper trail. if he was given an order to stand down ther...

>> no, the point is what do we know about benghazi that we didnt know when this investigation started? what can we tell the families? what can we tell the american people about these core conspiracy allegations, that there was a standdown order or that there was a gun running or that the secretary interfered with security and the fact is, chuck, after 17 months, $4.5 million, we have nothing new to tell the families. apart from that there was a private e-mail server. that doesnt tell us anything...

Phases to this scandal. there is the phase that led up to this. what was ambassador stevens doing in tripoli with security train down? if this was her friend, he knew about these cables. hed been asking for security. hillary didnt give it to him. yet she sent him to tripoli that night with no security. and by the way, there was an attack on the consulate, the british be consulate and the red cross. they had closed both of them down in the weeks that led up to it, and sandra, our consulate was at...

General fighting in the syrian at the beginning, lets civil war. establish rules for the youve got iran, youve got committee. lets establish rules so we can general suleimanny in bed with vote on subpoenas. you can have the majority vote, the russians so you now have whatever. they wouldnt even establish rules. russia, cuba and iran all arm in why? they want to run this the way they want it. arm and anyone who believes they want to be able to go after secretary clinton. russia is fighting agains...

There was one thing he wanted to do before he commented on the record about what his comments were and kmants were. wanted to tell the audience about what it was. >> he wanted to listen to the tapes so he knew what kind of question he was going to be asked and what kind of evidence there was. if there wasnt a standdown order, megyn, if there was no issue for a police officer to do his job, why arent so many in trouble while a city burned. >> leland thank you. for more we turn to tom vierney wh...

At top with the mayor. the mayor made several fatal errors in the days following the death of freddie gray. first, she did a standdown order. that was horrible. next she wrapped herself around al sharpton days following riots. bad move. third she reversed herself saying people were dying rioting were thugs. we dont have any thugs in baltimore. she has a lot of thugs in baltimore. they were out last weekend. calling in justice department and throwing police department overboard and blaming them f...

News leland vittert who has a confrontation with reverend al sharpton today leland? >> greta, good evening that report really sending shock waves through this city. its very incendiary. yet, you have these police officers who are still trying to keep the calm. thats what we were really trying to do when we went out and ended up finding the mayor of the city of baltimore who was with al sharpton. trying to ask her some questions about her finest. the men in blue behind me who have kept these stre...

Hes in retirement now. what happened that night that they were fighting for hours and got no backup? we have never done that before. the standdown order. i mean, as i understand it, president obama went to sleep, hillary clinton and leon panetta said weve got this one, but we have never left our men and women behind, and those men went in themselves to try and save them. why did we do it that night, and i think we still are owed that answer. >> jedediah, talk to me about the politics. was critic...

Theres not a lot of new ground to tread here and the armed services committee helped shed light on that. a lot of these committee members and we heard the excerpt from darryl issa and just about all of the republicans on the select committee at one time or another have said military assets could have been brought to bear. we have to get to the bottom of this, the committee did get to the bottom of that. they found no merit to that, and i hope that theyll read these interviews now that theyre wid...

Weapons raising a lot of red flags as chuck hagel, the defense secretary, acknowledged yesterday, and heres what he had to say. >> where there are gaps, we will close them. where there are inadequacies, we will address them. and where there is failures, we will correct them. we owe the victims, their families and all our people nothing less. >> reporter: hagel has ordered the review of base security and clearance procedures at u.s. military bases around the world. bill? bill: theres something we...