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Inexcusable violent acts, directed at westerners or americans. >> reporter: those remarks again suggesting that it is the film itself that bears responsibility for triggering the attacks and the deaths of americans and notice again the president absolutely tiptoed around using the phrase terrorist attack in those remarks yesterday, arthel. arthel: doug, we understand that some congressional republicans are upset over a classified briefing they received about the attacks just yesterday. is that r...

>> was there actionable intelligence prior to this attack? and if there was not, why not? >> reporter: the administration suggested there was no advanced warning because the attack was a spontaneous reaction to the anti-muslim video that sparked protests in egypt last week. >> what this began was a spontaneous, not premeditated response to what transpired in cairo. >> reporter: republicans say that is just not right. >> it shows the what happened in benghazi was not an anti-american protest, it ...

Of the world trade center. a guy who has been in prison in north carolina for a number of years. now as it turns out, were learning more that it sounds like behind the scenes with the state department and others, there is the guy right there, it sounds like because the country egypt and -- country of egypt and morsi asked for his release, it sounds like in the back channels theyre actually talking about doing it. peter king has confirmed to fox the request is being considered. white house state ...

On september 12, the day after the attack, president obama talked about terrorism in his remarks. three days later, we hear its all about the video. the spokesperson at that time said the video is not in response to anything about the administration, it wasnt about america. then today they say oh, obviously its terrorist attack. okay. terrorist attacks to me cannot be both spontaneous and premeditated. its one or the other. if is it a terrorist attack, then they had an obligation to say what the...

Soldiers who were supposed to be training in afghanistan. ihas the president addressed this enough and in what say do you think he should. >> the president basically tries to pretend afghanistan doesnt exist until after the election. you never hear him talk about it. and the violence by afghan-trained soldiers or police against the coalition, particularly u.s. military is appalling. in just the last couple of days we suspended most of the joint operations with the afghan forces. the president do...

Are going to play nice now in politics. they are undoubtedly remnants to hold to his views. >> will the libyans help us uncover the culpriculprit? >> i am quite confident they will. >> this past may you hosted at the embassy during a taliban terrorist attack. you think they will be a country where it is almost impossible to eradicate the bad guys? >> i have often thought about the visit there and still trying to connect the dots. the terrorist attacks in kabul i havent gotten there yet but watch...

Are going to play nice now in politics. they are undoubtedly remnants to hold to his views. >> will the libyans help us uncover the culpriculprit? >> i am quite confident they will. >> this past may you hosted at the embassy during a taliban terrorist attack. you think they will be a country where it is almost impossible to eradicate the bad guys? >> i have often thought about the visit there and still trying to connect the dots. the terrorist attacks in kabul i havent gotten there yet but watch...

One nuclear weapon. theyre looking at a broad nuclear weapons, and the threats for years to come. >> harris: and we saw john mccain of arizona saying that the white house is disengaujed and its that kind of policy thats gotten us to this point. is he right? are those critics right? >> i think that the president is very disingauged from a security point and not anywhere like a consideration the president shut give to protect american interests arounded world and the withdrawal and decline and wit...

In fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney correctly pointed out it will only encourage them to do more, the harder they push, the more we apologize and theyll push more. >> eric: talk about apologizing, heres a shocking analysis from the "new york times," this past week about the presidents foreign policy: what makes egypts uncertain course so vexing for the white house is that mr. obama, more than any other foreign leader, has sided again and again with the a...

The identity of the individuals. he said that would be made public in due course. >> whats the situation on the ground there in benghazi right now? >> reporter: benghazi is relativeliky either and calm. the people here have been really shocked and saddened. yesterday there was a vigil in support of the united states denouncing the terrorist attacks against the u.s. embassy and also expressing solidarity and sympathy for ambassador stevens. he was an individual widely respected, very well-known m...