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The ground asked for it. it was denied. don't you want to know who denied that? >> yes. >> sean: okay. >> if that's exactly what happened. >> sean: that is what happened. >> you are more of an expert about it, following it closely, and i have no . it is my understanding that there was significant disagreement between the cia, the fbi, and several other groups, and that's what's bounced around in the talking points. >> sean: multiple requests, they were denied. during the attack, we still don't know where the president of the united states was after he was told about it at 4:00 in the afternoon...

Ground, i think we could have gotten them there in five or six hours. if we had really scrambled, thrown caution to the wind and made all out effort to get boots on the ground to save these people and if we couldn't save them to bring their bodies home. talk about the department. embassy is under attack. who makes the call to the military to say help us. come get us. do something? >> well, primary lay military decision there are only two civilians in the chain of command the president and the secretary of defense. you have something called chief of mission authority where the ambassador in a c...

>> well, stewart, i think it's very important to point out, in are and foremost, that the hearings yesterday were not about politics. they were not about hillary clinton and they were certainly not about 2016. the republicans could have show-boated and done some grand standing and they didn't. they asked focused questions and got some real new, usable, interesting, relevant information. so, the people who were bringing up hillary clinton and the politics and the people still who keep focusing on 2016, are democrats, primarily, who accuse republicans of politicizing the issue but they themselve...

Commander-in-chief and secretary of state, the two leaders of the u.s. government that night, they are unaccounted for that night. we have no narrative what they were or what they were doing. those questions need to be answered. who gave those stand-down orders that general hayden is referring to that we heard last night? there may have been multiple standdown orders for military assets in the region. who gave those orders? after hearing the testimony yesterday, bill, how did we get that truth what happened last night to a fiction about a video, a big lie per pit -- perpetuated by everyone fro...

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