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Gregg: the very first time we are hearing from the heads of the official state department review of what went wrong in benghazi. the house oversight committee taking testimony from ambassador tom pickerring and admiral mike mullen. lawmakers want to know who was responsible for policy decisions which led to weak security. they also want to know why the review board failed to conduct more thorough interviews, an assertion which admiral mullen flatly rejected. >> we received the full cooperation o...

Ranking people whether career or political should be held accountable. >> lastly, ambassador tom pickerring, the co-chair of the state departments post benghazi review board contradicted chairman issa this weekend and said he was willing to testify reports conclusion. shep? >> shepard: james rosen more for us tonight. men found guilty of murdering three babies that was the jurys verdict in the case of the controversial abortion doctor in philadelphia, kermit gosnell. now he could face death. for...

Peculiar way. >> shepard: peculiar way. david bowie space odyssey here. >> shepard, so so so soyuz spae capsule expected to land about 10:30 this evening. one of the three astronauts on board is the canadian commander hatfield. he has gotten quite a bit of attention for showing ordinary life on board the space station. how to make a peanut butter sandwich in zero gravity and what happens when you cry in space. cover of the david bowie song he did take some liberties with bowys lyrics in the bowi...

Benghazi libya. official talking points were revised a dozen times some lawmakers are calling the obama administrations spawnsz to the attack a coverup. some democrats lawmakers while acknowledging mistakes were made say political motives are at least partially responsible for the current congressional james rosen joins me now by phone. james, you have been covering the story from the beginning. we saw a sharp exchange earlier today between the man who led the state departments post benghazi rev...

Only the president as commandener chief can give that order -- did he? or was hillary substituting that night, having gotten the famous 3:00 a.m. phone call. i cant resist quoting napoleon, only an hourave when he said, quote, as to moral courage, virarely met with 2:00 in the morning courage, i mean instantaneous courage. the two u.s. official who is oversaw an internal review of the ax tacks were invited to the house committee hearing, but declined to attend. former chairman of the joint chief...

And the continued cover-up that occurs in this so-called report of the accountability review board. look, mike mullens is a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. tom pickerring is a former ambassador. >> megyn: they headed up the review of what happened. >> exactly. tom pickerring was the beneficiary of a massive increase in security when he was our ambassador in el salvador. i know. i wrote the order. it was signed by the national security advisor, sent to the president and they beefed ...

>> secretary of state was just wrong. she said she did not participate in this and yet, only a few months before the attack, she outright denied security in her signature in a cable april 2012. >> brian: the report cites a 2012 exchange with the u.s. ambassador to libya. at that time, requesting more security and clinton said, proceed with security reduction efforts. that is direct contradiction of what she told everybody, told the country! >> and brian, the thing that our report shows and our c...

Thats i didnt think susan rice made the announcement. i think we are the verge of getting the report. but the state department is scwirnling, saying maybe we will give you the summary. secretary clinton might not come up. the report, if done accurately, is going to be a very difficult thing for the white house and the state department and the department of defense and the cia to explain. i am opt mistsic, but i think thats why susan rice made the announcement today. it is already late. >> greta:...

On entitlements and afghanistan, i thought biden scored. i would also say one thing about ryan, i was told going in that ryan was going to make this a big debate about big issues and it was only in the last 10 or 15 minutes that he made this talk about a big choice. heres where obamas going to take you, heres where he has taken you already. but on a lot of the issues, he got too far into the policy weeds and wasnt big enough. lets do a little fact checking. the biggest issue seemed to be what th...

On entitlements and afghanistan, i thought biden scored. i would also say one thing about ryan, i was told going in that ryan was going to make this a big debate about big issues and it was only in the last 10 or 15 minutes that he made this talk about a big choice. heres where obamas going to take you, heres where he has taken you already. but on a lot of the issues, he got too far into the policy weeds and wasnt big enough. lets do a little fact checking. the biggest issue seemed to be what th...