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>> africon is reviewing closely the security procedures. >> the army chief of staff openly acknowledging a full investigation is under way. >> they're evaluating the mission, enemy terrain, time, all of that to come up with the appropriate risk mitigation factors. >> a u.s. special operations team quickly organized a high-risk rescue mission, ready to move in. president trump was briefed. military officials are now looking into reports that a locater beacon emitted a signal from the area indicating that someone might still be alive on the ground. they are not sure if that signal was really acc...

We started some really in-depth work with the french in north africa, back in 2008, 2009, when the french were taking the lead. so i think different parts of the u.s. government has shared better at times with the french. africon has done very well. the central command responsible for syria probably doesn't have that in-depth relationship that other countries have with france in the past. so i think it's opening up that spigot a little more. we are very open with the french, they are very open with us. >> very open with the french, reasonably open with us. you're saying we're more open with th...

Committee loses credibility. david petraeus was in charge of that. he has not been in front of this committee. why not the head of africon? it does make it appear that all they care about is one person, hillary clinton. >> well, we're hear from her less than an hour from now. amid all of this you see the clinton racedense on the left, you see the hearing room on the right. we have to go across town in washington for some breaking news at this hour of all things. jim miklaszewski on duty with that. jim, what do you have? >> brian, u.s. sources tell nbc news that at least one, maybe more, americ...

Than the white house at stake. it all comes to a head tomorrow as the house benghazi committee grills hillary clinton. i'm joined now by republican congressman peter roskam. congressman, welcome to "meet the press daily." >> thank you very much. >> let me start with a question that i asked congressman p mama on sunday. that is, there were a lot of people that were involved in decisions that were made that night that have yet to be called in front of your committee. i'm talking about the general in charge of africon. i'm talking about david petraeus. plenty of people at the defense department. ...

General hamm who was the head of the u.s. command in africa at this time, which had military control over u.s. forces in that region, and he testified back in the summer before congress and that testimony was released this week. he testified that within minutes of the attack, quote, to me it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just something sporadic. again, that's directly contradicting the narrative that came out of the white house in the days right after the attack, the narrative i heard and she was sitting right here from susan rice, th...