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Benghazi terror attacks. after them and ghazi terror attack of 9/11, the administration repeatedly claimed that the violence was spontaneous and the video was to blame. >> initially it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo is a consequence of the video. and then it grew very violent. >> we see rage and violence directed at american embassies over an awful internet video that we have nothing to do with. >> our initial information, that includes all information, we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned or premeditated attack. we saw evid...

His contacts in benghazi and trying to get them at the local level there to respond to the attack. and he also was in touch with our local employee there as well. excuse me to check my notes here. it was a long --, the attack unfolded in four faces or the night unfolded in four spaces. the first phase was the attack on our consulate. this story is well-known i think. the benghazi, the consulate was invaded. the villa c where the ambassador and sean smith and scott wikland were hiding in the safe area was set on fire.

There were repeated attempts by all of the rsoes and by the response team from the annex to go into the burning building and recover or try to save sean and the ambassador. they found sean's body and pulled it out but he was no longer responsive. they did not find the ambassador. i spoke with a medical officer, one our medical officers after the attack and the heroism of these individuals in repeatedly going into petroleum-based fire can not be understated. according to our regional medical officer, petrol yum -- petroleum-based fires emit enormous amounts cyanide gas. he told me that one full...

He was on the ground that night in libya. he was the number two person, the number two state department person in libya just under ambassador stevens who lost his life that night. he has been the first one to testify and his testimony has been in short, gripping. let's get ambassador john bolton, the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and a fox news contributor. let's get his take. when he was talking about, you know, speaking to ambassador stevens and warning him or hearing, hearing from him that the consulate was under attack, it was absolutely gripping. >> well, this is extraordin...

Best and bravest of our country, ambassador christopher stevens, sean smith, former navy s.e.a.l. glen doherty and tyrone woods, who were there to protect the consulate staff, christopher stevens arriving in libya to serve as ambassador in may of 2012. he had previously served in other roles in libya from 2007 to 2009. then again during the 2011 uprising that led to the qaddafi regime. ambassador stevens becoming the first ambassador killed in an overseas attack since the year 1979. sean smith, he was there working with a sore wrist information management officer and he joined the state depart...