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The next play. >> house armed services testimony, general carter ham, you know the general. security in africa. he testified that on the day that the ambassador was murdered and the three other americans, all right, he told secretary panetta it was a terrorist attack. shortly after ham said that, secretary panetta came in to you. did he tell you, secretary panetta, it was a terrorist attack? >> you know what he told me was there was an attack on our compound. >> he didn't use the word terror? >> you know, in the heat of the moment, bill, what folks are focused on is what's happening on the gro...

>> well, go back further to when this event occurred. i was not in congress yet. i was won a primary for general election. i'm a military person, spent one year in rack. i was at a base three, four times a week and sometimes we have demonstrations. i don't think it takes long for many military personnel to realize a the difference between a terrorist attack and a demonstration that got out of control. and i found it hard to believe that anyone in the military would be advising as such. and so those were the questions i asked. i said was anyone in the military ever calling them a demonstration ...

Good. that's what the real finding was. >> i don't agree with that. they said the intelligence was good and in fact the cia reacted to it and the state didn't. >> carter ham also said there was no evidence of an imminent attack there. i think they said, the intelligence, especially the intelligence assessment given to the president and secretary rice, was consistent with what secretary rice said here. and i think -- you know, so i think there's a big effort. i think that's what we see in the appendix to try to pull hillary clinton because she's a leading candidate among the democrats for 2016,...

Record and said they told the president it was terrorism in that meeting? >> i don't think we can yet do that but martin dempsey knew it was terrorism. carter ham said he had that discussion with dempsey and panetta. bill: it's a dereliction of duty if you did not tell the president during that meeting. second question. who in the intelligence community sin on september 11, 2012 has refuted the excuse of the video. anyone? >> certainly not that i know of. the intelligence community has been on both side of that and there is a long and complicated answer as to why they used it. it certainly did...

And while we know what happened. we don't know why or who? >> there is another excerpt. obviously there are questions why ambassador stephens didn't have more security. he decloined two specific offers from general carter ham, then head of a fricomin the weeks before the terrorist attacks. why would he not want additional -- >> he didn't want additional guys in military security. what he was asking for and his people were asking for state department security officers. and so it is not like he said i am fine and don't need. it he said i want this kind. >> he wanted more local security and the p...