Contradictory message from each of them. But theyre hoping that they reach their targets. Listen to some examples. Four more years like the last four years would continue to have a president playing hide and seek trying to find a plan to get the economy going. To create jobs. This is a president whos whose approach to croating jobs is another stimulus. 000 the first one work out . You can choose a Foreign Policy thats reckless and wrong, or you can choose one that is steady and strong. You can choose to turn back the clock 50 years for immigrants and gays and women, or in this election, you can decide we will remain an inclusive, generous country. Now there is a pretty big map of battleground states right now. And you have eight of them. Eight battleground states that are really too close to call, soledad. But it not just states like ohio and nevada and iowa and so on. Theres also one very interesting state in the northeast that is never a battleground because its always democratic and thats the state of maine. The romney super pac is running an ad in maine. Why is that . The way the state distributes their electoral votes its by Congressional District. Theres a very conservative Congressional District that could provide republicans one electoral vote and if it is that tight that could matter. Interesting. Wow. Wow, maine. Republicans kind of raised their hands and said maybe we should go up there. Four years ago, there was one Congressional District in nebraska, which is the only other state to do it. Theres a new obama ad out today. Tell me about that. This really speaks to the idea that the Obama Campaign is desperate to get eve single democrat out, even those who are maybe hohum about going to the polls. Theyre reminding democrats about what happened in,000 and how they felt about it. Watch this. 537. The number of votes that changed the course of american history. Florida is too close to call. The difference between what was, and what could have been. So this year, if youre thinking that your vote doesnt count, that it wont matter, well, back then, there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. A reminder to everybody out there that every vote does matter. And way to kind of send chills up the spine of every democrat who still has not gotten over that loss in 2000. You know to get them to go out and knock on maybe one more door, make one more phone call, convince their aunt that doesnt feel like going out to vote that they really should go out to vote. Thats what thats about. An indication, i think, that both campaigns are thinking that this could really not be decided on election night. Certain democratic voters says dont let people steal this election. Thats what the message is. They got everybody back. Thats interesting. Dana, thank you very much. Johns got a look at some of the other stories making news. No comment from the white house yet about new emails detailing information about last months deadly assault on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. According to those emails the white house and the state department were informed a militant Islamic Group had claimed credit for the attack, two hours after it began. And u. S. Diplomats were providing details to officials in washington while it was happening. Now, in a moment were going to get reaction from congressman mike rogers who is the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee. A massive document dump reveals the state of massachusetts knew about reports that necc was breaking prescription laws over the past decade. The documents show complaints from doctors and even complaints from officials in iowa, wisconsin and texas. But massachusetts failed to take tough action. Necc is behind a nationwide meningitis outbreak now up to 304 cases and four other infections, including 23 deaths in 17 states. A deadly shark attack off the coast of Santa Barbara in california. Police say the victim was an expert surfer. He was riding the waves with friends off the Santa Barbara coast near Vandenberg Air force base when he was bitten in the upper torso. Friends tried to rescue him but they were unable to. Tropical storm sandy is gaining strength. It isnt a hurricane just yet but it is expected to become one soon, as it bears down on jamaica later today. A hurricane warning is in effect there, and in some provinces in central and eastern cuba, as well. Later this morning montego bay airport will close. Also a Tropical Storm watch is in effect for southeastern florida in the northeastern keys. Rob marciano told us a little while ago this may be a storm we have to watch on the northeast, and the east coast of the u. S. Coming up later next week. A powerful 6. 5 magnitude earthquake in western costa rica centered about five miles from the Tourist Destination of nicoya. The quake struck around 7 30 last night local time and could be felt 90 miles away. It was followed by a 4. 5 aftershock. No word yet of any injuries. Smaller and pricier. Apple is hoping that this formula will be a hit after introducing its new ipad mini. The companys razor thin tablet has a 7. 9 inch screen, front and rear cameras, and weighs about 0. 68 pounds. The starting price 329 which is pricier than some competitors. Wall street does not seem impressed so far. Apple shares are down more than 3 since the company made the price public. Thats interesting. Costs about 100 more than the competitors the kindle and nook and samsung. I dont know. I dont know if id get one. Im not sure. The ipad is not so big. It fits in most purses. Especially the purses we carry. The large bags we carry. All right, john, thank you. There are some new emails, we were just talking about that in your news update, obtained by cnn, providing some detail about the deadly september 11th attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi showing the white house and the state department were informed about an islamic military group taking the responsibility for the assault two hours after that assault began. Want to take a look at some of those emails. They were sent between 4 00 and 6 00 p. M. Eastern time on the day of the attack. Heres the first one. Quote, a Diplomatic Mission is under attack. Embassy tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots, explosions have been heard, as well. Ambassador stevens, who is currently in benghazi, and four com personnel are in the compound safe haven. Embassy tripoli reports the firing at the u. S. Diplomatic mission in benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A Response Team on site is on site attempting to locate the com personnel. And this one, Embassy Tripoli reports the group Ansar Al Sharia claimed responsibility on facebook and twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli. Lets get right to republican congressman mike rogers of michigan. Hes the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee. Its nice to see you, sir. Thank you very much for talking with us. So in these emails, we are, i guess, sort of seeing the event unravel mostly in realtime. When you see these emails, what does it tell you . Well, its not just these emails, its everything that came before it. So when you look at the entire timeline, soledad, we know that there were threat streams from aqim, al qaeda in the magrab and Ansar Al Sharia, this group that was claiming responsibility that they referenced in the email, is an affiliate of that al qaeda group. And so what we saw was threat streams that 9 embassy, the consulate had been attacked twice before, april and june before that september attack. This was clearly a targeted place, somewhere they wanted to have some terrorist success on the compound. So what you saw in the emails in that realtime was a real description, and as you noticed, there was no talk of demonstrations or other things. And it was clearly very early identified with a terrorist affiliate of aqim. So let me ask you about that. How they linked to al qaeda. Because i, i know, as you know, that there are some who say that they are, that theyre, theyre not one and the same. I mean you know for those of us who are not on the sbel committee, clearly, we think of them as this region of bad guys. But al qaeda has sort of Leadership Structure and other people have said that Ansar Al Sharia is just sort of a label and not so much of a Leadership Structure. Can you walk us through that . Yeah. What al qaeda, the core group of al qaeda, so Osama Bin Laden, and a guy named zawahiri, and of course Osama Bin Laden is gone and zawahiri has taken his place. Thats the core leadership of al qaeda. Those were the original folks who brought up together and found groups that would join and swear allegiance to the leadership of al qaeda. So thats that core group. Then you have al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which was an Affiliate Group that joined al qaeda. And pledged allegiance to them. And about 06, al qaeda in the magreb, which was not direct al qaeda affiliate then joined al qaeda and swore allegiance to that core group. So, what you have is these different Affiliate Groups, who are engaged in terrorism, and have been prior to this, who have sworn allegiance to the principles of that core group. So its theyre affiliated. They have the same goals, the same aims. Sometimes theyll take direction. Sometimes they wont, from the core group. But they all engage in the same tactics, same principles, and still want, at the end of the day, the they cover all of northern africa, southern europe, the middle east. Thats what theyre stated and intended goal is. And Ansar Al Sharia basically means protector of islam. So they have sworn an oath to do that. So they are that extremist, jihadist group. All of them continue to be dangerous. And the interesting thing, again, soledad, is we also know now that on the 13th of september, there was what we believe is probably an affiliated of al qaeda attack the u. S. Embassy in tunisia. Four dead, not americans, and they also hit the American School there. Nobodys really talking about it. But that tells you the level of coordination and of sheer interest in trying to hit western targets. So lets talk about that a little bit, if we can. I want to go through some reports. Earlier we were talking about, talking about the l. A. Times report, which said this, ill piece of it, said the assault on the u. S. Diplomatic mission in benghazi last month appears to have been an opportunistic attack rather than a longplanned operation. An intelligence agencies have found no evidence that it was ordered by al qaeda. According to u. S. Officials, and witnesses interviewed in libya. This was an article on october 19th. And then, ill give you the wall street journal one, we could talk about, excuse me, both. Wall street journal, president barack obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege in benghazi that the assault grew out of a spontaneous protest, despite conflicting reports from witnesses and other sources that began to cast doubt on the accuracy of that assessment almost from the start. So, is this the l. A. Times is wrong . Is it the wall street journal is wrong . Is it theyre both right . Is it just so confusing that everybody could be right in this . Explain those two reports to me. Yeah. Its this is pretty interesting. I think somebody latched onto what they wanted to hear in intelligence that was provided. Remember, if youre an analyst and you do this for a living, you see all of this threat information about the consulate long before the september 11th attack on the consulate. We know twice that its been attacked. Which it tells you, by the way, al qaeda sponsored events, they want to theyll continue hitting the target until theyre successful. We saw that with the twin towers in the 93 attack, and then if successful 9 11 attack in 2000. Their success, not ours. And so you take a look at all of that stream of information, and then these emails that you just highlighted, its really difficult to come to the conclusion up front that it was a spontaneous, not planned, part of a protest when none of that was in the early hours of reporting. So were still trying to figure out what happened. What i believe happened, soledad, is that somebody saw something that they thought was the way that they wanted to talk about it, versus what the facts on the ground were. Because think about it, even when that narrative was starting to develop, oh, this was spontaneous, it wasnt planned, it wasnt really a terrorist attack, on september 13th, we had another jihadist attack on an embassy in tunisia. It was very serious, four people killed, again not americans, we had to evacuate the embassy, and they also went and stormed the American School there. So you see this pattern of activity is really hard to come to this conclusion that was just spontaneous, and just kind of happened. So thats what were trying to figure out. And why this is important, not because who did what when is a problem here. Its about the fact that decisions were made, big policy decisions, including elevating the video that, if you listen to those email or read those emails, nothing about the video, it elevated the video and actually caused more protests across the middle east. At the same time, though, we know that there were a list of countries in which the video was triggering, i mean in the context of all of that at the same time there were protests that, that reporting show that the video had been involved. It seems slightly confusing. Congressman rogers were out of time. But i thank you for your insight this morning. Chair of the Intelligence Committee and Romney Campaign surrogate i should mention as well. Weve got to take a break this morning on starting point. Were going to take a look at the fall classic. S tigers taking on the giants in the world series. Who is most likely to take home the ring . Were going to talk to the host of espns mike and mike in the morning coming up next. And fake letters sent to voters in one crucial state questioning their citizenship and registration just days before the election. Well tell you what you need to know about that scam. Y cousins. Im just gettin started. 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