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may be phony, but that is the pretext and it is part of the narrative that we are dealing with tonight. as this crisis is growing. >> why would they have -- why would the united states government have four marines guarding this embassy in libya with the instruction that they should carry no ammunition in their guns? what is this about?! they knew it was september 11. they knew that something was going to happen, if they didn't have specific 48 hours' notice. every september 11 -- we are not talking about the american embassy in bangladesh or something. we are talking about it right in the missed of the middle-east in a country that is enormously unstable. let me say this -- >> greta: let me just respond to that. frankly, i just -- for me, it seems so amateurish that we didn't know that this was an extremely volatile situation. i saw that as i reverse engineer it. you don't have all of these places erupt allat at once, if this hasn't been simmering and
stupid people. >> greta: tell me, what do you make of the fact that there are protests in yemen and in cairo, besides just in libya. do you have any connection between the protests? >> well, of course, the connection, i think is the movie. i believe.. -- >> greta: but the movie's just -- i mean, the movie was -- is... not done by american government. people know that, right? >> it is very difficult to distinguish in the middle-east now. because of the different system that we have. anything that comes from a country and they -- they believe that the government is responsible for that because they tried to make it very clear by the administration. but i believe strongly that what is behind this and the protest against the american embassy and all over some countries, it is of this movie. this movie is a very humiliation to the history and to the muslim and to the prophet.
marines and former military contractors, like the two men who were killed in libya, providing that final line of defense for the u.s. embassy. the question is going to be, whether those marines are going to have to pull out those loaded m16s and riot gear, if the protesters once again breach the walls of the embassy here in cairo, as they did on tuesday. >> greta: do you feel safe? >> reporter: thank you. >> greta: leyland? >> reporter: do i feel safe? pardon me, i thought you said, stay safe. do we feel safe on the ground? you feel safe, so long as you stay where you are not supposed to be. it is interesting, the number of emails that we get from advisory groups saying stay away from the american embassy, there is going to be violence. i feel safe on the street right now? no, not at all. as an american citizen, you are a target by the fact that you
and this is a very delicate subject. but i believe now, the ones responsible for this movie, to me, they are terrorists like anybody else because they are responsible for what happened in benghazi. they create hatred among the people. what he tried to get out of this movie? when i -- what -- what i see -- what i think that the american government -- or any government, when something has happened like this, and somebody he involved in work or act or whatsoever, leads to the killing of, murder of other people, i think we should be investigated. did. >> greta: i guess, you know, you know, if two people make a movie... and four people who are totally innocent eye am not saying -- we don't kill for bad movies anyway, but four people who had nothing to do with it and the
both places. some folks who have been in benghazi for a long time, refer to the ambassador there, who is well known, many libyans were embracing and the attitude was, in fact, very different. >> i think the most important thing to take away, the content may be offensive, but the conditions are in the arab world. there is brewing anti-americannism and trying to stir it up -- that's what we need to understand better. >> greta: panel, stick around. an open mike caught reporters talking. you will hear what they said. that's next n. cairo, it is almost 5:00 in the morning, it is very tense. a live report from cairo, coming up ♪ [ malennouncer ] the first look...is only the beginning. ♪ ♪ introducing a stunning work of technology.
may be phony, but that is the pretext and it is part of the narrative that we are dealing with tonight. as this crisis is growing. >> why would they have -- why would the united states government have four marines guarding this embassy in libya with the instruction that they should carry no ammunition in their guns? what is this about?! they knew it was september 11. they knew that something was going to happen, if they didn't have specific 48 hours' notice. every september 11 -- we are not talking about the american embassy in bangladesh or something. we are talking about it right in the missed of the middle-east in a country that is enormously unstable. let me say this -- >> greta: let me just respond to that. frankly, i just -- for me, it seems so amateurish that we didn't know that this was an extremely volatile situation. i saw that as i reverse engineer it. you don't have all of these places erupt allat at once, if this hasn't been simmering and
and this is a very delicate subject. but i believe now, the ones responsible for this movie, to me, they are terrorists like anybody else because they are responsible for what happened in benghazi. they create hatred among the people. what he tried to get out of this movie? when i -- what -- what i see -- what i think that the american government -- or any government, when something has happened like this, and somebody he involved in work or act or whatsoever, leads to the killing of, murder of other people, i think we should be investigated. did. >> greta: i guess, you know, you know, if two people make a movie... and four people who are totally innocent eye am not saying -- we don't kill for bad movies anyway, but four people who had nothing to do with it and the
this attack was going to happen? and finally, approved an american diplomatic embassy statement apologizing for the video and condemning it, rather than condemning the violence. then -- >> greta: well -- i -- [overlapping dialogue] >> re-upped the statement and tried to criticize romney for that. >> greta: what i don't understand, whether those 48 hours' notice or not, which we have been unable to verify. but the region is a powder keg and we should have known that because there was such a swift reaction. frankly, i am curious whether any of the people who have spoken out on behalf of the administration about this movie have looked at the movie or whether they are just relying on the -- >> forget the movie. it has nothing -- >> greta: i -- >> this is propaganda. >> greta:: this is a pretext. i got that. i got that [overlapping dialogue] >> greta: nonetheless, dirks it is part of the narrative because it's being used. i agree it's a pretext and it
least tonight, seems to be up to their eyeballs in this protest. ambassador, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> greta: the growing violence sal50. to president clinton. good evening, dick. >> hi. well, i think that eye think absolutely, this is what happens when you have a weak presidency. maybe bush was too strong and the casualty there is that people start turning against the war. but obama is way too weak. and like with jimmy carter when the american president is weak, our enemies are going to take advantage of him. >> greta: how do we separate out that -- the crisis right now, we are looking at the beginnings of, we are looking at a from -- at a protest. how do we separate out the real