had not made contact with him? you said it was what, six weeks after? >> reporter: yeah, remarkable stuff. it was a full six weeks after the attack the fbi team had been on the ground in benghazi a few weeks before. he told us no one had made contact with him. he said he would be happy to speak with the americans, not to say that showed any love for the americans however. he refused to condemn the attack. he sprained that the u.s. had brought it on itself for being involved with libyan affairs. and again, while he denied being a member of the al qaeda-linked ansar al sharia group, he did say he knew militia members. he said he would be in contact with them. he said he agreed with the aims, the goals of the group. his general mood, heather, i have to say, relaxed and defiant. at one point during the interview which we conducted in a terrorist restaurant of a hotel in benghazi, a u.s. surveillance aircraft circled overhead. i pointed to it. he looked up and he simply