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His name is jeff porter. when i asked him why there was not enough manpower, ambassador stevens had requested multiple times to have teams in benghazi, to have more security and there was some money put into new guard gates but that was pretty much it. according to jeff porter, he thinks that the united states simply didn't even understand the scale of the problem. here's a little clip of what you'll hear from him. >> why was manpower so lacking in benghazi? >> what we're essentially talking about is a cia mission in benghazi, whose purpose was to collect information, to collect weapons potent...

Basically and that created a, you know, a security profile that was totally insufficient on september 11. >> but if i may, congressman, why is it we have not heard in public from a single person on the ground. in a congressional hearing? >> well, the republicans who control the house, we've had investigations. nordstrom came forward. we've had other witnesses. we've had hearings here prior to the recent elections. the house -- you could have mr. chafitz why they haven't brought up people, we don't have the ability to hold a maerpg the democrats have been kept out of this whole fro sesz. this h...

Hostage, a consulate officer when he was taken captain by militants that ran over the embassy there. don, 1979 was the year where we hadap ambassador killed, murdered in afghanistan. now we have that also happening in 2012, in benghazi. as you have watched this story in benghazi unfold, what goes through your mind? what are your thoughts? >> it was really very disappointing because one of the first thing i i heard was that the security in benghazi was limited because of considerations for foreign policy. we didn't want it to seem like an armed camp. we wanted to regularize our relationship. an...

Sources that the syrian military has deployed additional troops to that fight by some estimates as many as 30,000. so it is indeed a very difficult and bloody day in the city of aleppo and across syria. >> thanks to you, amman, for that report. and libya, the administration under fire increasing fire, from congress over its handling of the benghazi attack. new questions being raised about security and intelligence flail yours house republicans issa and chav fits. >> they diminished the security profile. it was not some spontaneous video out there that caused this. there were lots of signs ou...

Collaboration. i would imagine the chinese would muster similar concerns. how do you reconcile that? >> i think the avenue that most people would advocate, which i think is sensible, is you don't go straight into a collaboration where you're talking about a chinese astronaut and american astronaut flying to the the space station together. or sharing hugely-sensitive technologies. you talk about explorations that involve robots that don't involve astronauts that are more low-level. before this clause, there were low-level collaborative projects just to share scientific information on astronomic...