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>> we had been training local libyans and arming them for almost a year. >> let me interrupt. >> why do you think the request was denied? >> i don't know. i really don't know. in the case of the s.s.t., that was provided to them by d.o.d. the state department didn't have to pay money. i can't imagine why. i can't fill in the blank. that is part of what was trying to come out of a congressional investigation. >> were you flabbergasted like what can we do? we couldn't even keep what we had. >> i think what was motivating the state department was that if we had security that would have truly been...

And do an incredible job in a very dangerous situation. >> bill: that's not what the guy asked. with all due respect, the president dodged the very important question about who pulled two security teams out of libya in august. he just simply dodged it. it was embarrassing. after that, the libyan deal got even worse. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration. is that what you are saying. >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he calle...

Afghanistan, iraq and syria, that's 11 countries. >> right. bill: what are we missing? >> libya. that was september 11th that was al qaeda affiliate. what al qaeda does, think about it as you're setting up a mcdonald's franchise. they go into a country. the first stage is to organize. they get the real estate. they have got the training camps. they set up shop. then they start recruiting locally. once they have recruited then they go operational. that is the stage that al qaeda in libya was this summer. there was a report, in fact a defense department report prepared by the library of congress...

Got our hands on an e-mail he sent where he revealed the government of libya was not able to forget the american diplomatic mission and described benghazi as, quote, not an environment where posts should be directed to normalize operations and reduce security resources in accordance with an artificial timetable. special forces security team left libya in august, a few weeks before the attack, and the state department so far is saying they never heard anyone on the ground ask for that team to stay longer. but the leader of that team, lieutenant colonel andrew wood from the utah army national gu...

Good morning to you. you don't know this man, right. >> no, i don't. bill: what would he have done in libya? what would i know? >> he led up, the sf security team that was deployed out there i believe from early this year, probably february of this year. so, you know, six or seven months. they took off in august. they left libya in august. now the fact that they had a 16 person sf team out there, along with additional personnel from state for that period of time, it tells you that they understood this was a kay attic, dangerous, pseudo war zone. it was very, very unstable. and, again we have t...