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Have not. they'll explain which plots were thwarted by the surveillance program when he testifies before the house intelligence committee tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon. fox news learned the senate armed services committee will have a classified briefing on the attack in benghazi that left four americans dead last september. it will be close today the public, but will be the first time retired general carter hamm, then head of africom was questioned about his oversight of military assets during that attack. fox news has also confirmed veteran washington lawyer cli...

Those ambassador pickering among others who said i learned nothing new in the hearings this week. did you learn anything new about benghazi? and what don't you know you want to know? >> i did learn something new. there were further further itterration s and changes in the talking points than i've been aware of. in addition, the whole discussion of whether or not help could have been sent in time is a discussion that joe lieberman and i had, but which congressman issa took to a new and important level. i think it's extraordinary that the head of africom general ham told our committee he had no ...

We need to know a name. we need to know who the commander, who said in africom or who told africom to stand down. this is why it's good to have journalists do the questioning. >> tucker: in the end, congress can force the answers to these questions and speaker boehner is coming under intense pressure in his own caucus on the hill to take charge and get more aggressive on benghazi. >> alisyn: meanwhile, headlines with for. there was intense standoff over 36 hours and it is finally over in new jersey. three children held hostage by a gunman are safety hour. the man barricaded himself after he re...

Secretary of state clinton called me and along with her senior staff were all on the phone. and she asked me what was going on, and i briefed her on the developments. >> what emerged clearly in the hearing today is that there were no military assets within range that could have prevented what happened in benghazi that night. >> at about 10:45 or 11:00 we confer and i asked the defense attache who had been talking with africom and with the joint staff, is anything coming? will they be sending us any help? is there something out there? and he answered that, the nearest help was in aviano, where ...

Low historic levels of attacks at targets. it's unclear that embassy security on the whole in a macrosense is deficient. and the thing, eric, i couldn't help but notice today, to the extent there is a latest plot point in the scandal, it comes down to second-guessing a call presumably made by the africom commander as to whether to send out a special ops team at the moment he made the call not to send it. i don't believe the general is above second-guessing, but i do have a little humility myself about whether i'm the right person to make that call nine months later in the midst of what is a ch...