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Interrogation. what do you make of this question, what took the u.s. so long? >> i think one has to look at the groundwork that existed in libya at the time that we sat down with abu khattalah. this was almost exactly a year ago, may of 2013, when we first met him. it was at a time when america's relationships with the libyan government was tenuous at best. there was a lot of anti-american sentiment, and therefore not a lot of support within the libyan security forces, nor within the government in and of itself to actually allow the u.s. to conduct any sort of raid on libyan soil or any sort o...

It's been a long road. the arrest of ahmed abu khattalah is finally news for those waiting, wanting answers. one of those outspoken critics has been patricia smith, because her son, sean smith, a state department information officer, was one of the four americans killed in benghazi in september of 2012. patricia smith talked to anderson cooper a month after that attack. >> i told him if it's such a secret thing, fine, take me in another room, whisper in my ear what happened so i know and we'll go from there. but no, no, they treat me like at first i was so proud because they were treating me s...

What took the u.s. so long to grab and arrest him? we will double back to that. let me bring in arwa damon. she is standing by live. bob baer, former cia, standing by as well. evan perez, let me go to you. you have the answer to one of the questions asked of the admiral, that being the tick-tock, if you will, as far as where he will be brought to the u.s. tell me about that. >> we expect he will be brought to the united states in the next couple of days, and he is set to be tried in washington, d.c., where the charges were filed last july. now, we first reported last september that these charg...

So obviously, it is not the same thing for a journalist to make an appointment or to see a terrorist interview him and a special forces team to go in and grab him. obviously those are two different things. but the administration response so far from the pentagon, from the state department, to be fair, i think they have been a little snarky about the question. obviously there are a lot of political rumblings out there suggesting that the timing is convenient for the president. i find that a little hard to believe. politics sullies so many things but it's a legitimate question, if they had known...

Fast forward to what benghazi looks like right now. still very lawless, still a very dangerous place, but at the same time, interestingly, you have this big anti-islamist movement that has been happening, part of it spearheaded by a renegade general who made it his mission to go after these various different islamist brigades, focusing very heavily on sharia and also the support of the population when it comes to these operations. so the circumstances inside libya right now make it much more conducive for this kind of operation to take place. plus, after the attack on the u.s. consulate and th...