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>> so fast forward, mr. hicks, to the sunday talk shows and ambassador susan rice, she blamed this attack on a video. in fact, she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped. and i was embarrassed. >> did she talk to you before she went on the five sunday talk shows? >> no, sir. >> bill: mr. hicks was in tripoli during the attacks and says he felt powerless to help the ambassador. >> i asked the defense attache who had been talking with after -- africom and joint staff. will anything be coming? will they be sending us any help? is there someth...

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 ...

Benghazi. that made them livid. >> megyn: let me stop you there. are we talking about one or two stand down orders? is there a difference between the c-130 team that was ready to deploy and the f.e. s.t. team? >> two different things. these are the libyan and the c-130 is the vehicle by which they were going to take the u.s. forces in tripoli. the fest team is something that would be activated in washington. they would be responding within four hours, technically f.e.s.t. teams operate in crises around the world. the questions by khia fets, where did the stand down order for folks on the groun...

And say that i also discussed with the annex chief about mobilizing a tripoli response team and we agreed that we would move forward with a chartering a plane from tripoli to fly a response team to benghazi to provide additional reinforcements. the defense attache was also reporting through his chain of command back to africom and to the joint staff here in washington about what was going on in the country. david mcfar land, our political section chief, had just returned from benghazi where he had been our principle officer for the previous ten days. so he jumped into this picture by reaching ...

Themselves. like al shabaab has made a bunch of money from holding people ransom and some corp. raeurgss pay them off to get their hostages go. why would their groups want to do more with al-qaida? you'd think they would have to kick money up the food chain. >> this goes to the core of what the leaderships of the groups are all about. what they are about is global jihad. there is a lot of confusion out there about whether they are mafias or fundamentally business interests, they are not. these al-qaida franchises, al-qaida and the islamic meghreb, al shabaab, these are ideologically motivated ...