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Interpreter. >> well, that is exactly right, and that's why the cooperation and coordination that -- >> ma'am -- >> i've been talking about -- >> from all the information we've got, mr. glen dowtry said we are going down to help our brothers, and he got permission from the chief of station to go down there and he took three other grs agents and then he got the two dod guys that wanted to go, volunteered to go and they took the interpreter and chartered the plane and went down there. it was not a state department deal, and in fact, if you want to know the truth, the only option that the state d...

Subcommittee. to date that committee has had a difficult time getting information from cia operatives on the ground in benghazi, including trying to find out what exactly the cia was doing there. nunez wants to find out. he has another question, erin, about why there was no rescue team sent immediately to ambassador chris stephens' compound when the attack began. we've got a copy of the letter to speaker boehner. nunes wants to know who was responsible for not sending a counter terror team known as fest immediately. and also why it took so long, three weeks to send fbi agents to libya. he writ...

A response team in tripoli was also kept out. >> two different things, the fest team which is designed to respond to crisis was, the decision was made not to use them. that is what mark thompson is testifying to and he doesn't know why. why he was kept out of loop. then the questioning from representative chaffetz to gregg hicks, it was about the special forces team and special forces on the ground in tripoli who was going to get on c-130 to get the people out thereof and they were told to stand down. they wouldn't have made it in time for the second attack, the mortar attack that killed the t...

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...

How to respond to the night of the september 11th attack. top state department firms decided not to send an inneragency rapid response unit designed to respond to terrorist attacks known as a f.e.s.t. team, a foreign emergency support team. this team in the cia and state department has a military joint special operations command to it and has been routinely deployed into investigations after is coal and come boggs -- bombing at u.s. embassy in kenya and tanzania. they could have helped they argue, get access to the consulate site in benghazi faster than the 24 days. national security spokesman...