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testified and said to me and started to become pretty clear quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack, not just something sporadic check. i believe leon panetta was a part of this as well. again, there s been the response was not that this is a al qaeda attack but some blame on some video and a protest over what do you make of that? chair. a couple of things. the first is that it was obviously a terrorist attack, by any generally held definition of terrorism which is its use of violence to achieve a political end or convey a political message. these are people who are attacking the u.s. consulate in benghazi. they obviously were not there just have a good time or profess they did not like that the consulate was there. there were there to make a statement against america. classic terrorism. why there was a hesitancy to do that at the beginning, frankly even if it was as some white affected by the video which i ended up concluding that it was it was only that ....
are not even wanted. woodruff: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: our lead story tonight, it was a long day of wait-and-see, as the federal government headed toward potential shutdown. it remained unclear whether congress would pull back from the brink. house speaker boehner did speak tonight. democrats still insisted on the straightforward bill bill to fund the government. republicans kept demanding that any bill also target the president s health care law. the house ....
seize belongings. and japan reveals a controversial new sales tax to try to reinvigorate the economy. we open this news hour in syria, a new team of chemical weapons inspectors has arrived inside the country there 20 experts all crossed the border from lebanon to syria just a short while ago. the goal is to identify and withdrawal all chemical weapons. these pictures are showing opposition forces taking control of a check point. president bashar al-assad will stay in power and could run for again. he said it is up to the people to decide. young activists took to the streets in order to show their support for the presidents. we re not going to talk about election, we re going to talk about weapons inspectors. what do we know so far about the inspectors that are [ technical difficulties ] well, we do know steven that the mission they are about to embark on is an unprecedented one according to officials at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. ....
nationations meet. we re on canada s pacific coast and how scientists are using undersea cameras to live stream information about the ocean on the internet. we begin in egypt where security forces have come under attack in several locations across the country. the attack follows a day of demonstrations and counter demonstrations in which more than 50 people were killed. in one incident a car bomb exploded in sinai killing three people and injuring 47 others. the building is significantly damage. five egyptian soldiers were killed at the checkpoint near the suez canal. and the capital has reports of a rocket attack on a state-owned satellite station in cairo. the latest period of violence in egypt began in the build up to the 40th anniversary arab-israeli war. first pro military groups said they would be rallying at tahrir square. three days later the anti-coup protesters would march, and then within an hour security forces were firing tear gas and live ammunitio ....
[ technical difficulties ] have differences we re in a time of crisis that we ll sit down and at least have a conversation. really, mr. president, it s time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk. the speaker was referring to jean specirling, and what he wa saying is exactly what the president has said, that they are not going to respond to this hostage taking. a pew pole say four and ten americans say the federal government can go out that deadline without major economic problems, but 64% of conservatives that identify themselves as in the tea party agree the debt ceiling really doesn t matter. so, mike, we see that obviously congress is back to work. a number of furloughed employees might be wondering if congress will get to work on the idea of back pay. is that something that we can expect some action on? that is an interesting question, tony, because all along when the house has passed these piecemeal bills, nih, any number of ....