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We will take it in just a second. live pictures. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for washington. we're going to send it to washington a bit early today. let's get to jake tapper with "the lead." good afternoon, welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. you're about to look at some live pictures out of the pentagon where any second president obama is going to step behind that podium flanked by his top military commanders and debrief the press. we're expecting him to appear with general lloyd austin who is commander of central command or centcom, and the commander of africom and more. isis the rel...

The health of the radio star who suffers from dementia and other elements. bill: new details on the benghazi terror attacks, evidence growing a distext between knowledge on the ground and political talking points. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has detailed on this now. catherine, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, bill, counterterrorism and congressional sources have confirmed new details to fox news about a targeting memo drawn up by the defense department's africom which was sent to the state department as the most current available intelligence in the early morn...

Leading republican is now asking the state department to declassify and release the africom memo. >> this is a document from military intelligence widely distributed to the state department, the white house, the pentagon, the intelligence community. you have president obama, you have secretary clinton both said and promised if new information became available, we'd share it with the american people. then show them that document, because it's crystal clear who they thought committed that attack. >> reporter: we'll be asking the state department why, in fact, it took two years to produce this to...

The notion that there is somehow something else wanted to be gained here other than politics, it just defies commonsense. i think anybody looking at this rationally understands this tragedy will make you lose focus. >> secretary clinton says basically all the questions have been answered, and, yet, we have found out in some of the hearings since she testified, that the deputy chief of trip tripoli that night, the deputy head of intelligence for u.s. forces in africa, africom. they all knew right away this was not a protest. this was not about the video. this was a terrorist attack. where did c...

Nation's two most senior military official that is benghazi was terrorist attack. panetta and dempsey headed to a previously scheduled meeting in the oval office with president obama and briefed him accordingly. these declassified transcripts throughout the pentagon and africom command, benghazi was always known as terrorist attack. check out the exchange of testimony between congressman brad wenstrup, republican from ohio and ma corps colonel, commander of africom's task force trans-sahara region. no one was the military advising that you're aware this was a demonstration gone out of control?...