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The u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya was under attack and there was no sign of a demonstration being involved. general hamm addressed the question. >> dunk it was a terrorist attack? >> i don't know that that was my first reaction but pretty quickly as we started to gain understanding within the hours after the initiation of the attack, yes. and i don't think anybody thought -- at the command, i don't think that anyone thought differently. >> general hamm said he immediately told leon panetta that it was under attack. it became a recovery operation by the evening and like panetta and others, ...

Bring in the chief political correspondent for the washington examiner. president obama famously promised that the people who killed our ambassador and the three others would be brought to justice. so where does that stand? >> well, it hasn't happened yet. we think there are five people who are the ring leaders in this. we believe that one of them was in the custody of this libyan government and they let him go. in march they said they didn't have enough evidence. we're frustrated about this. remember, it was months, weeks and weeks and months after this september 11 attack before f.b.i. inves...

Each week we ask you to vote online in the friday lightning round poll. you chose the latest on the benghazi investigation. back with the panel. charles, this week, general carter hamm, then africom commander, testified behind closed doors. take a listen what one representative said she took out of it. >> the day before the white house sent out a press release bragging about how prepared they were to protect on a very important anniversary of 9/11. what we also know as a result of today's hearing is that they did not even confer with the combatant commander in that part of the world to make su...

The preparedness, and all you get from the white house and you see it is a theme through all of this, including the talking points, is trying to make the appearances look good, trying to explain all of the behavior of the administration, why would you cover up, why would you tell a story. they want it to look as if they were not responsible, everything had been done because it was an election year. that i think is the root of all of the distortions analyze. >> carter hamm also said behind closed doors that there was no stand down order, there was a stay there order for special forces in tripol...

Weren't told to stand down. they were simply told don't go. essentially the fighting there was over and they were unsure of the theater. in other words, they didn't know what threats existed, and they weren't going to send a small group of people into it that could in fact, then, sort of escalate the level of confrontation. but this is interesting. i mean, i don't think much came out yesterday, to be quite frank. i do think all of a sudden we're hearing a challenge to the military command because essentially if you're challenging the chairman of the joint chiefs, you're also challenging former...