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Welcome back to "hardball." the president continued his push to sell the deal for iran which he says is the best chance to keep that country from getting a nuclear weapon. >> currently the breakout sometimes are only about two to three months by our intelligence estimates. so we're essential purchases for 13 14 15 years assurances that the breakout is at least a year. it's a hard argument to make that we're better off having almost no breakout period than saying over the course of 15 years, we have very clear assurances they're not going to do anything. well republican leaders have strongly ...

>> are we talking about gaza? >> this is in lebanon. you have an additional inventory in gaza. so these missiles and rockets have flooded in there. these are the intelligence estimates. so in this kind of a situation, you can imagine if you're an israeli looking at the duplicity that iran has been involved in in the past it's been in the dna over there in terms of their violation of other agreements, you're saying, where's the verification in this agreement? and the iaea is backing this up. >> international atomic energy agency. >> exactly. they've asked 12 questions, and only part of 1 of tho...

Almost impossible to do that, irresponsible to do that, because we still don't know what all of the facts are surrounding what happened in benghazi. >> yeah. reading the report last night, so many elements that popped off the page at me that had never been reported that remain mi mystifying. one is the lack of communication. nearly 14 years after september 11th, the failure of one department, the state department to connect with the cia, with central command out of tampa, the central command in tampa did not know about the cia house, the an lex located in benghazi, according to intelligence es...

>> reporter: so you're saying the chairman joint chiefs of staff, the highest ranks officer in the united states of america, isn't telling the truth? >> i think there are other assets and things that could have been put into motion. that cavalry never comes over the hill to help. that's just stunning to me. >> reporter: there was one closer option. special force troops in tripoli wanted to rush there but were ordered not to. the pentagon now concedes they were ordered not to go to benghazi but to help out in tripoli. >> if they had gone, they would have passed each other in the air. >> i'm mor...

Special force troops in tripoli wanted to rush there but were ordered not to. the pentagon now concedes they were ordered not to go to benghazi but to help out in tripoli. >> if they had gone, they would have passed each other in the air. >> i'm more interested in act one. >> reporter: michael hayden is the former cia director. >> act one is what were the intelligence estimates? what kind of warnings were given? what was the plan? why do we have so few options in act two? >> reporter: act one is numbing. warning after warning that benghazi was a disaster waiting to happen. >> what they had dec...