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Attack in benghazi and i informed the president of that fact and he at that point directed both myself and general dempsey to do everything we needed to do to try to protect lives there. >> did you have any further communications with him that night? >> no. >> how long did the conversation last? >> we were there in the office for probably 30 minutes. >> so you talked to him for 30 minutes one time and you never talked to him again? either one of you? >> until afterwards. >> until after the attack was over. >> that's right. if i could just correct one thing, i wouldn't say there was no follow-u...

Mission in benghazi under attack" it says that approximately 20 armed people fired shots, explosions had been heard. >> at this point there are seven americans at three different locations, ambassador stevens and two others at the main residence over there, two special agents at the second area and cafeteria, and two more at this. attackers are coming in all around. >> world of the chaos reaches the secretary of state in washington. >> i was notified of the attack shortly of after 4 p.m. i instructed our senior department officials and diplomatic security personnel to consider every option to ...

Countries where we have high threat embassies there or consulates, is that each one of those is supposed to be designated as best value as opposed to the lowest bidder in terms of security. and both benghazi and tripoli would have been at value. they would have been high threat, high priority. so, why didn't they have the appropriate security there? >> well, if they're initiating attacks and we don't listen to the brits, we don't listen to the libyans and we're not listening to ambassador stevens, you could say incompetence or blood on their hands or an utter inability to see what's in the att...

No way for us to independently confirm that information. of course the question on everyone's mind here is where is this international help that the u.n. resolution was supposed to bring about? there's supposed to be a no-fly zone. there's supposed to be an immediate cease-fire. in fact, the libyan government itself announced it would be imposing an immediate cease-fire yesterday. and there's supposed to be international help physically to protect the civilian population. and now we are clearly seeing the civilian population in benghazi under attack, richard. >> to be clear on this. if this is...

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