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Confirmation hearing. >> do you believe that the president should provide an individual american with the opportunity to surrender before killing them? >> i haven't spoken about any specific operation -- >> i'm talking about the concept because you talked about the concept. >> right. >> that is just the democrats. republicans are also frustrated with what they say is the administration's lack of transparency on droning, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. a car bomb that struck the heart of the sirian regime's power in damascus is reportedly the deadliest attack to hit ...

To believe that we could have gotten forces to that facility in time to save the ambassador and the other people. >> this report is quite clear in saying that whole line of argument that has been used by people on the right was wrong. it says the inner agency response was appropriate and timely. but they were not asked -- >> did we have forced protection? it was available and didn't bring it in? >> evidently there were not drones or ships. the terrible fact -- i think the report is too easy on the military, frankly. the terrible fact is there were no military assets close enough to protect tho...

Roof of the anex who were killed by a simple mortar attack. >> seven hours after this started, the problem is that the north africa command that had been started appropriately because of al qaeda's growing influence there in north africa, buzz not located in italy or any place close to north africa. they couldn't get there in time. there was a drone that took pictures but it was unarmed. >> let's bring this to human terms. people like to find somebody responsible. there isn't always somebody responsible. sometimes things break. is it true they were tough in their report, the pickering and mull...

Although she herself takes the responsibility. >> the night of in the horror of the attack, the peak of the attack, i hear from a lot of conservative people. they believe and have been led to believe that we could have gotten forces to that facility in time to save the ambassador and the other people. >> this report is quite clear in saying that whole line of argument that has been used by people on the right was wrong. it says the inner agency response was appropriate and timely. but they were not asked -- >> did we have forced protection? it was available and didn't bring it in? >> evidently...

Reconnaissance drone with a wing span of ten feet. we have quite a few of them. they launch from navy ships. you can bail them out of the water when they run out of fuel after about 20 hours or so just with a retrieval hook. infrared capability and best small radar. the whole thing is the size of a shoebox. there are a lot of them out there. if i were the american government, i'd deny it, too. so the first thing you do is deny it or you do like the israelis and you neither confirm or deny and let somebody else prove that they got it, they came by it like they said. >> all right. we'll wait to ...