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That. >> that is certainly the hope. cedric alexander, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. and we are following breaking news out of turkey right now. the u.s. consulate in istanbul coming under attack today. turkish authorities say the attackers with armed with a long-range weapon and artillery. we are joined from the pentagon with the latest from barbara sta starr. any casualties so far? >> reporter: thankfully no, however the u.s. state department put out a message saying the consulate would be closed for the rest of today and they will see whether tomorrow they reopen. they ar...

Administration and for hillary clinton. >> yeah, this is devastating for hillary clinton. i mean, this is a bipartisan report. so it is her own members of her own party were saying that she was repeatedly warned. and that this attack was completely preventible, and the intelligence committee gave us all the information we needed that something was going to happen and that we needed to fortify that in the consulate area and we didn't do that. and hillary clinton was the one that campaigned against barack obama with that 3:00 a.m. phone call readiness, that she would be ready to answer the phone...

Country, it would be glen and ty. i'm not surprised that they volunteered and did a quick reaction-force type of movement to go help when help was needed, because that is the type of men that these two guys were, and i think -- i think it's important for the country to realize that there is a lot of people just like them who nobody knows about that are continually doing work such as that internationally. martha: that is so important for all of us to remember and to recognize, that they, you know, really gave their lives in this mission, and as we say, you know, it wasn't there original reason ...

Consequence of the video that, people gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary libya and that then spun out of control. martha: well that clearly just not jibe with everything else we're hearing from the president of libya onward. john bolton joins me now, former u.n. ambassador and fox news contributor. good to have you here. >> good morning, martha. glad to be with you. martha: sort of parsing these words but it does matter in terms of understand...