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September 18th the president was on david letterman and said the extremists used the video to aeu tact embassy. the attack on september 25 this as terrorism. in the debate the president referred to comments in the rose garden to acts of terror and said he always called it. special report investigates death and deceit in libya. tomorrow night at 0:00 eastern time you can see it right here on the fox news channel. martha: congressman paul ryan campaigning in the state of ohio with former secretary of state condoleezzaa rice. ryan and rice spoke to the crowds outside of shrefd. cleveland. ryan is...

Afghanistan and we are. [cheers and applause] i said we would refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 and today al qaeda's on the run and usama bin laden is dead. bill: now however he is saying something else. john roberts has it live from our new york city newsroom. john what is happening there? >> reporter: good morning bill. this is change happened in the past 24 hours after the debate in hofstra university and all in reaction to what's happened in libya, what happened in the wake of the arab spring where the president used to say al qaeda is on the run. the big suggestion th...

Standby and allow acts of terror like this to take place. he said it -- martha: he didn't say like this. in fairness -- >> you can split hairs on this. there is a big debate going on and we need to point out to folks at home there is a debate going on whether or not he took credit for a very general comment at end of it, and yes he was talking about benghazi. you know as well as i do if he wanted to come out here and say, this was a terrorist attack and we know it which they did know 24 hours after he would have said it in that way and said it clear leave. there were reasons why they were purp...

Beforehand. there had been more than a dozen attacks on western interests from benghazi as we know from the hearing last week. security officials on the ground say we need more security for u.s. interests in libya, and they were turned down by the state department. it's impossible to believe, i'm not saying that the president decides how much security they are going to have at the consulate in benghazi, it's impossible to believe that the president was unaware of these security threats, however in libya. martha: yeah, and then you've got this interesting issue of a line that has been altered i...

Afghanistan, iraq and syria, that's 11 countries. >> right. bill: what are we missing? >> libya. that was september 11th that was al qaeda affiliate. what al qaeda does, think about it as you're setting up a mcdonald's franchise. they go into a country. the first stage is to organize. they get the real estate. they have got the training camps. they set up shop. then they start recruiting locally. once they have recruited then they go operational. that is the stage that al qaeda in libya was this summer. there was a report, in fact a defense department report prepared by the library of congress...