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Stuff and making incredible statements. what came out because the same day he testified we had outgoing secretary of defense panetta, went to testify on benghazi and told us what we learned. two weeks ago, we talked last week about the difference between what panetta and clinton said about iran versus hagel, and two weeks ago when they went on "60 minutes" we called it the biggest pay off in history. in that show, i remember suggesting one of the reasons that came out of hillary clintons testimo...

Distance. a lot of this is about trying to make changes for the future and youve got secretary panetta talking about how they are going to try to reposition some things. in north africa they say they have gaps in intelligence. it was really exposing those flaws. what was new and i think very compelling today was this focus on what did the president know and why did he apparently not show more interest and certainly secretary panetta fought back to say he was confident the president was very conc...

Used to refuel those french jets and intelligence from spy satellites and drones from the u.s. in that region right now. it is already being shared with france. here is some of what panetta had to say about the u.s. role and the operation to rid mali of al qaeda, in the islamic maghreb or aqim. take a listen. >> we have commended the french for this effort to try to go into mali to stop the aqim. these terrorists and members of al qaeda from being able to develop a base of operations in mali. >>...

dropping out of sight. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with todays damming new report on penn states universitys cover-up of coach jerry sanduskys sexual attacks on young boys. it says the top people at the university including the legendary football coach, joe paterno, hid what they knew and had no regard for the young victims. just now university officials are promising it will never, never happen again. >> you should know that our hearts remain heavy. and ...

Permission from them, and the defense secretary seemed to be doubling down on that a couple of times. >> youre right, megyn. by the way, i serve on an international advisory board for the secretary of state, but my views are my own, and i dont represent the u.s. government in any way, so i can be very frank. the secretary of defense made a mistake. he used the wrong word. i bet he doesnt use that word again. megyn: permission. >> using that word, "permission." that isnt what he meant and, clearl...

Other countries so we dont have a got it alone strategy in the muslim world where it will create belowback on americans worldwide. >> ask usama bin laden in pakistan whether barack obama got permission to taken by * out. this notion that hes willing to defer to others the national security of the united states is ridiculous and insulting to what he has done as president. he has taken more unilateral action through drones to take out bad guys then arguably the preceding president. what panetta wa...

"superstition." you knew that, though. >> i know all that, soledad. >> he lives it, yes, he does. >> superstitious dude. >> we begin this northemorning iran. defense secretary leon panetta says there is a growing likelihood, quote, that israel will attack iran this spring and try to destroy its suspected nuclear program. israeli defense minister ehud barak said this, quoek, iran must be prevent fred becoming nuclear and no option should be taken off the table. lets get right to barbara...

investigating whether or not the riot was caused by sports rivalry or political tensions. >> new scenes of the violence raging in syria. this video posted online is said to show rebel fighters who have captured a tank. the u.n. security council is again talking about how to end the bloodshed. arab and western nations want president bashar assad out, but russia and china will not accept any suggestion of economic sanctions or military intervention. u.s. troops will stop fighting in af...

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