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Shinseki firing seem less and you will see the attention shift to this. and like governor richardson said, the disagreement of tom donlan said. and i think that there are a number of questions that jay carney is going to have to answer in the briefing in an hour. and this is a legitimate debate on both sides. the president, we are hearing the argument from the white house is that they had to act. the congress said that even though the president needed to noti notify them in 30 days, he issued a signed statement saying that he would not go by that, and this is a prime example of why you have to...

They are absolutely terrified because they've never been through anything like this before. ukraine has never faced this kind of a crisis since it was established as an independent nation and no one at this stage knows what is going to happen next. wolf? >> arwa damon reporting from donetsk, thank you. joining is tom donlan. thanks for coming in. is this definitive proof that the russians are responsible for the unrest in eastern ukraine right now? >> i don't think there's any question that they have engaged in the destabilization in ukraine and in fact all of the evidence put together reall...

Washington that there was a protest in connection to a youtube video? >> no. the only report that our mission made through every channel was that there had been an attack on a consulate. >> 4:05 p.m. washington time. an internal state department ops alert reports that the benghazi special mission is under attack. >> i was notified of the attack shortly after 4:00 p.m. i spoke to the national security adviser, tom donlan. he was my first call. i instructed our senior department officials to consider every option to just break down the doors of the libyan officials to get as much security suppor...

>> did you report to anyone in washington there was a protest in connection to a youtube video? >> no, the only report that our mission made through every channel was there was an attack on the consulate. >> reporter: 4:05 p.m. reports that benghazi special alert mission was your honounde. >> i was notified of the attack shortly before 4:00 p.m. tom donlan was my first call. i instructed our senior department officials to consider every option to just break down the doors of the libyan officials to get as much security support as we possibly could. >> reporter: state department counterterroris...

Security adviser, at least in terms of its proximity to the president, is a more powerful job. >> absolutely. >> given her background, what we've seen both at her time in the clinton administration, her time at the u.n., the way that she handled the whole benghazi controversy, deserved or not, do you think that substantively we should expect a shift in national security strategy and approach with having susan rice there as opposed to having donlan there? >> the interesting thing, she has been in the past more interventionist in sort of her dna and the way she approaches policies, such as libya...