so sad to think of the people whose lives were snuffed out because terrorist thought they could bring down america. >> we'll remember all of the babies born and the hope out there and this day is very special. thanks, everybody. >> america lives starts right now. >> a fox news alert. the white house holding a briefing at this hour as we await president obama's next move on syria. i am martha mccowan in for megyn kelliy. the white house is weighing a russian plan to have the syrian regime to hand over chemical weapons without u.s. military intervention. in a rare prime time address to the nation president obama argued that a military strike is in our best national int interest he believes but he said the russian plan has a chance and he asked congress to postpone the vote and critics

fear this could make the rebels feel abandoned by the west. arizona septemberor john mccain who met with some in the moderate opposition and a believer in their ability to topple assad. he had a warning quote. there will be nothing to drive the syrians in the hand fz extremist but to feel they are abandoned by the west. this comes as we mark a somber day in our nation's history. 12 years since terrorist hijacked passenger jets and killed throw hundred people on u.s. soil. right now a ceremony underway in the pentagon and the scene of one of the september 11th attacks. we saw the president laying a wreth and now top military brass cause to remember those who we have lost. current threat to the nation weigh heavyy on our minds at

this day. and reporting live from the pentagon national security correspondent jennifer griffin. a day to remember that was lost. we remember this day. but we look forward because threats continue. >> this is the service here in the pentagon today. the pentagon put forces on high alert overseas standing ready to help should there be an attack in u.s. facilities abroad. there are 250 marine necessitily in theentious ven they are needed. something they did not do a year ago. just a day after the president made a case for an unpopular military strike against syria, he and the secretary of defense at the point of impact where the american airlines struck the pentagon 12 years ago today.

184 people died in the attack. pentagon memorial built in the point of impact is open 365 days a year. he addressed the family and made reference to the other september 11th terrorist attack a year ago. >> we prayed for all of those who stepped forward in the years of war. diplomats who served in the post in benghazi. intelligence professionals unseen and unheralded and protect us and the men and women in uniform who protect this country that we love. >> there is still 56,000 troops in afghanistan and the sailors on board of the destroyers out in the mediterranean should the u.s. call for a strike on syria. they are all trig are ready at this moment in time. we are told by u.s. defense officials that there are no

concrete credible warnings of potential terrorist attacks and they are high alert today learning the lessons was a year ago. >> a reminder of the human toll on september 11th. 3,000 people lost their lives. 2000 of the victims in the world trade center. and 140 people lost their lives in the pentagon and others killed on flight 93 and that plane crashed in a pennsylvania field in shanksville. right now, we want to get you to breaking news from syria. a rebel group with al-qaeda linked militants are warning residents of a christian village to convert to islam or face beheading. they grasped control in the

afternoonient christian site just outside of the syrian capitol. this is never seen of the jihadi fighters given tours of the site. >> there is a difficult turn of evens. >> we have heard that there is executions inside of ma uloola and they are important villages that the syrian army lost control of. and the jihaddist have strong to al-qaeda sippedicate groups. and not only view the christians and the nuns and monks as heretics and also as traitors for supporting president assad's regime. >> once a home to century's old monast ary. they are victims of the syrian

war. she hed the orphans in caves. now we are in front of this church and the families of ma uloola. god is great said a rebel from the back of the pick up. they showed the monument filled with holes. this is rebels lighting them ablaze and destroying the religious symbols. most of the kristyaps fled the fighting early on and leaving the hillside village a ghost town. those who stayed face an uncertain fate. their ranks filled with foreign fighters looking to turn syria in a islamic state. god is great cried the rebels after the fighters took the village. automatic weapon's fire pierced

the air. that is the assad regime firing on the village explained the photographer. >> it is too early to tell if the syrian army will retake the village. and the brutality of the rebels and jihaddist leanings is setting up an awful choice between a regime and dictator who is willing to gas his own people and rebels and jihaddist are willing to behead those who don't give up the christian faith. >> so much mis ary in syria. what an incredible video leland. such an important element in the story what is happening in the christian communities in syria. you have new negotiations in syria after the president turns to russia and un security council where we were told it was a dead-end, apparently it is

no longer that way. the new polls show that the syrian crisis is damaging the president. facing back to june 10th, '47 percent of the americans were slit and compared to today. he has a 51 percent disapproval number and 43 percent approved. that is not a number that the west wing would like to see. chris, is host of power play on fox news opinion com. chris, these have to be tense times within the administration begin what they are seeing with the numbers and all of the charges of incoherrence on the foreign policy? >> and the two are a vicious cycle, they feed on each other. vladimar putin knows, for example, that the president was mrufing when he was thinking of getting congressional approval for a strike on syria there was no way.

and it was evident even before the president retracted it that congress was going to authorize it. the weaker the president is at home politically, the weaker he is as he tries to gain authorization from putin for moving a head and securing the chemical weapons. weakness beghats weakness. the numbers are dropping. >> when you look at putin sequence of evens and he called secretary of state john kerry a liar. he called him a liar and days later, the president was off to the g- 20 and i remember speaking to john bolton. in his opinion your secretary of state is called a liar, you don't shake hands with that person the next day. he encouraged that person not to attend the g- 20. he had no illusions that the president would take him up on that idea.

this putin thing, chris is undermining is it not? >> when you think about it this way. one of the lone stars of american foreign policy is to avoid being in a position where the russians make any demand of us. it was true in the soviet era and may do deals with them but being in a subordinate position and needing their say so to go a head americans have tried to avoid. they have armed iran and syria in their clientitate and protecting the assad regime and the president finds himself to try to solve a domestic situation getting in hock to vladimar putin. >> putin feels emboldened by the things that tock place and to the point where as you mentioned, they are selling s300. surface to air missiles to iran,

with no excuses or apologies to anybody on that front. it is clear they are arming our enemies and they are intensifying that effort, right? >> why not. it is good politics for putin at home and just as it is bad for the president here. it is good politics in russia for vladimar putin and flouting the united states and embarrass the american president. president obama got himself in a jam because he decided not to strike syria and putin pounced. >> lots to think about and think that thanks for weighing in. >> and you can get the latest development, visit fox nows.com/fox news first and sign up for the fox first note. simply put your e-mail in and hit the sign up button and you will receive the e-mails that are helpful as you move

throughout the day and get up dates on a fast- moving situation. >> the nation today marks 12 years sense the september 11th terrorist attacks. we have brand new details on the prosecution of some of those responsible. the breaking news from gitmo, the next hour. >> the newlywed bride is now admitting to her husband's murder. she rrjally suggested it was a late- night accident and those who anyhow the victim say this is no surprise. >> voters in one state just fired two law makers who helped to pass through new run roles in their state. the question is the governor next up for a recall. >> 15 or 20 years, when people look back at this, they are going to say, when your rights

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>> what is going on and this one is getting a lot of questions. a major victory for second amendment supporters after a historic recall scomplekz likely implications for gun control debates in the country. and two democratic state law makers have been booted from office. elected office after they backed strict new gun control measures and alicia has the story from denver. >> hi, they are the first

legislators here to be recalled from office. this is the result. that's okay. we'll fight another day. they may have won the battle but they will not win the war. people are dying for real and we need to stop that. >> we will win in the end because we are on the right side, we care and was compassionate and we love people. that always wins out, right. i love you. >> the ousting came after they voted for limits on ammunition magazines and expanded background checks and colorado governor signed the bills in a law in a statement, he said voters in two senate districts have spoken. we are disappointed by the outcome of the elections. the national rifle helped to fund the recall. of last night's success.

the people of colorado springs is not a clear message to the senate leader his primary job was to defend their rights and freedoms and he is ultimately accountable to them and not the anti- gun billionaires. that is a strike at mayor bloomberg who donated money to fight the recall effort. the organization mayors against illegal guns said they do not change the facts that coloradoans are safer today because of the leadership demonstrated by septemberor moran and the rest of the colcalifornia law makers who voted for the bill. the gun laws remain on the books. >> indeed they do. >> one of the two winners last night was quick to point out that the recall vote reflected what he called the will of the people, listen. >> by your vote, you have is not

a loud and clear message that we will no longer tolerate elected officials that refuse to listen to the constituents and trampled on their rights. the people have spoken. >> we may be seeing the sentiment in the polls for colorado's democratic governor. it is falling approval ratings. and could he be the next one to pay a political price. mike galla gher explains it now. and that is original theater in south carolina. >> and playing warbucks on the weekend. >> it sounds great. in the meantime when you are not daddy warbucks. you are on the hour and spent an hour talking to the viewers about the topic today. what are they saying? >> they are fired up. this stunning over who lost as who won. this was a big defeat for mayor

bloomberg and the effort to pour money in out of the state races. this is the mayor in new york who is follow-upping it. mayors against illegal guns that is like saying mayors against panda bears. we are all against illegal guns, but there is a fierce drive to protect the second amendment and the message here is clear. if you are a politician on any side of the aisle who messes with the second amendment you will lose your job. two prominent democrats who did and the people spoke. they are not insignificant democrats. one was a september president and a large democratic district. two republicans are taking over because it is the only way to preserve the constitution to have politicians who adhere to the u.s. constitution. politicians should be warned if you mess with it, you will lose your job.

>> john lost by 334 votes and it was a hot topic and got a lot of input on both sides from the folks who got involved and bloomberg, obviously 350,000 probably a drop in his pocket. but he did lose this. and there are questions about the governor, is he in jeopardy? >> listeners who are following this closely in colorado, one of the problems was not just the legislation they supported, they were not opening to listening to the people. they wouldn't have meetings and had a closed door policy. the governor better heed that warning and at least hear the other side and understand there are millions of coloradoans and americans who want to cope their jobs. >> let that be a lesson. >> it will tomorrow. >> and thank you very much.

>> yes, ma'am. >> and so this story got our attention this week. horror on a honeymoon and now the blushing broid may pay a big price in the death of her husband. this is a big story. we'll be right back. fighting constipation by eating healthier, drinking plenty of water, but still not getting relief? try dulcolax laxative tablets. dulcolax is comfort-coated for gentle, over-night relief. dulcolax. predictable over-night

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second thoughts you might say could land a new bride in prison for murder after she allegedly pushed her husband off of a cliff in the honeymoon. and they were on a hike back in july and eight days after they got married the wife thought the marriage was in trouble. he grabbed her and she got so mad she pushed him off of the mountain. and she is in a heap of trouble

and his family obviously grieving. >> keep in mind her story changed three times and may change again. she is jordan graham and first she told investigators that she was not home when her husband went missing and then she changed her story that she got a text he was going hiking with friends and she did see him get in a dark colored vehicle and then the plot thickened and someone called the park rangers and said they found a body. that someone was the wife, jordan graham who said to the park rangers quoting here. it was a place he wanted to so before he died. and he would come up here to drive fast and when his friends visited from out of state. they pushed her a bit. and she finally admitted that she and the husband were hiking and they got into an argument

and he grabbed her remember and instead of walking away she pushed him in the back and he tumbled face first over the cliff. why she killed him is a mystery. but friends of the couple sgloold the glooifrjtsdz that the sglooifrjtsdz sghftsdz having second thoughts. >> the sglooifrjtsdz and others said it was not a loving relationship. jordan dpra ham is charged with second-degree murder and in the county jail. if this does turn out to be a murder it would be the first ever in the history of glacier national park, but investigators have a long way to go to tie it together. second-degree murder for now. >> quite a story, trace, thank you. >> despite the scandals that drove them out of the jobs and former congressman weiner and elliott spitzer led in the polls at one point. but neither one of them manageed

to pull out a win. we'll look at the real message at their attempts of redemption. and this, president obama turning to the united nations and russia to deal with syria's chemical weapons attack. horrific pictures caught the attention of the entire world. but some are now asking is the united states outsourcing our foreign policy. and 12 years after 9/11 and hard to believe it is that long. arrest are made and the key co-conspirators are waiting for their trial this day. today, we are going to ask loved ones what they make of that. and we will ask one victim's sister why she is promising to fight until she sees justice officially done. 9 o'clock that morning and told me dad, i am down here, i can't

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alert. fox news can confirm a significant un meeting is set to take place on the issue of syria and five members of the security council are supposed to attend and that is the united states and good friend russia and china and england and russia are all intricately involved in the issue of syria and russia was objecting to an issue of syria and the threat of military force. we'll see how things are going in the un and not a good history of these. we'll talk to casy mcfar land and see what she makes of today's meeting. >> come back kids, they are not. new york city voters said no thank you. former congressman weiner and former governor spitxer. they went down in defeat in the primaries. weiner running for new york city mayor and he worked hard at it

and spitxer running for city comp troller. and both of these men had been a head at one time or the other as they tried to overcome sex scandals and reclaim the political office. and so what is the big message in the losses of spitwrer and weiner. monic and kristin, you know them well. they are fox news contributors. the biggest loss is the new york post. and perhaps there is some you know, justice in the end in these situations. what do you make of it, christen. >> i think a lot of people are comparing it to mark sanford. and he won his race. understandably it was a weak field and let's face it. the fold in the mayorial race was not strong either. i don't think it is necessarily the sex scandal.

it has to do with the way the sex scandals are handled and both weiner and spitxer really lacked humility. and there was a sense of a rrobegans and in the weiner case, voters felt they were solid a story that was not true. he was so again lacking in humility as to understanding why people were upset at that. and there was a big people magazine spread and appearances with his wife who stood by his side in the whole thing. looking at the anthony weiner case on its own. it is laughable issue here. carlos danger. and the people of new york city want mr. mayor. mr. mayor to be known as carlos danger in their life. there was a lot of discussion about how his offenses in his marriage were strange and odd and not the kind of thing that

people say these things sometimes happen. nine in a deep blue city like new york that is libberin. that was a bridge too far for most new yorkers. the american people are generally forgiving. but the extent has to go along with the extent of the crime and trespass and whether or not the person involved in the crime or trespass shoes authentic remorse and asks for forgiveness and doesn't lie to the people they are appealing to votes. in the spitxer case it was not the sex but a guy who went after prostitution and he was transferring hookers overitate lines. he abused his power and in the weiner case. i think people may have been able to forgive them, but he continued to lie about it, martha.

he was continuing the behavior after he resigned from congress. a lot of people are willing to forgive you once but not made fools of twice. >> ego in the end can get the best of some people. and in a perfect world and we know we don't live in one. we want public officials and municipalities to put them above their own interest. it turned out it was about them and that may be what people rejected in the end? >> i am cynical about politicians and i tend to think they are doing it because they are narscitiowa c and they put themselves in the limelight. it is more about the i didn't

follow the spitxer race close. but in the weiner case it is the lying and mistreating of his wife and family and dragging them into this. i guess she wanted him to run. but then going and bringing all of this out and you know, exposing his family this way and having his wife come up and defend it, it was just too much. >> i think we understand that you are ambitious, right, and lacking in humility sometimes, but it was too far. >> there is a likeability problem. to you look at bill clinton who had his own issues was fedellity. but he was a magnetic figure who people wanting to forgive. that doesn't seem to apply in these cases. >> and bill clinton had a booming economy, too. likeability is huge and elliott spitxer and anthony weiner are

epic jerks, martha and that meant when the crap came down the pike and put themselves up for election at this time, there was resvorof good will. they had no body to speak for them and their character. people expect politicians to be ambitious, that's true. but we like to see the ambitious dressed up and not so naked so to speak. no pun intended. >> definitely not that naked. that was way, way more than we needed. >> and thank you, kriowa stin and monica. >> that's how the story ends for now. again, we have breaking news from the united nations. in an effort to find an answer on syria we'll have that in three minutes and along with the look that the u.s. is

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will need russia to make it happen. and jay carney's comments. >> it is not only the un but what is happening in un and washington and russia. there is a reversal in the super power state. within 48 hours. the united states went to being the pour in the middle east and the one country that is no longer essential. it turns that leading from behin has consequences. the russians pilled the power vacum and this is what they have done. >> president obama drew the box and president obama tried to talk to congress and the american people are against it and the russians knew it and offered hymn a lifeline saying we'll work with the syrians and

get them to dismantled the chemical weapons. the fine print is the russians said while we are getting syria to dismantled the chemical weapons, we want to make sure you promise never to use military force against syria and what they did, the russians have said they will meet with the new iranian leader coming to moscow and they are giving him the s- 300 and state-of-the-art missile defense system and once the iranians have that they are invulnerable to the attack. the russians are flipping it up and down in the middle east and it is stunning. and when you think about the fact that the story about that out of the white house, we planned it all a long and planned the ground work and john kerry said it was an offhanded remark.

and we will not hit them with a missile strike if they turn over the chemical weapons. that is not going to happen obviously. and now this is all part of my plan and we were laying the ground work for this and they said it is the threat of the military strike that brought us to this point and we are willing to turn it over. and you erase the threat of the military strike what is the motivation for syria to say sure, russia we'll turn them over to you now. >> we gave up the leverage and that is a critical issue with regard to russia. we'll stay our stay and put everything on pause. what you told the russians and the syrians. take your time and we'll never do going to push you. and martha, i saw this firsthand in 1972, henry kissinger was in the middle of the veitnam

campaign and kissinger was close to the peace agreement and north vietnama mese heard that and they started back tracking and it was not until richard nixon and bombed north vietnam in christmas of 1972 that the north vietnamese settled quickly. what did obama do? no christmas bombing and he gave up the leverage. >> and he said in my second term when it comes to missile defense. i will have more flexibility. it is possible that some of that is playing out in a different way with iran. thank you very much. see you next time. >> and so we are also getting breaking news on benghazi as we mark 12 months since the day that that attacked killed four americans and that story is just a head.

and so stay with us for that. and plus, there were countless services coast to coast in the days and months after the attacks was 9/11. up next, pastor max luca d o on terror and america's soul 12 years later.

♪ >> so we are all really reflecting today on a day that was at first, defined solely by pain and by enormous fear in this country. but it is worth while to take a

moment to look at what has changed since then and what has stayed with us since that experience. pastor max lucado is bringing a good message today. you list in your piece you look at newtown and 9/11 and hurricane sandy and katrina, we have been really put through the wringer and i think a lot of questions have been raised about faith and about god. but have we lost that connection over the last 12 years that we may have had? >> something happened to us on 9/11 our soul as a country was

wounded. that day we were attacked and ever since that day, when ever we have these terrible reminders whether it be in a denver movie theater or the boston bombing it is like that sore is opened again. >> there has been a nervousness and anxiety since then. i remember thinking nothing is ever going to be the same again. having an attacks on our soil. it rocked us. >> it did. >> but my question is, have we gotten away from it in terms of the religious observance and the swirt wall si

spiritual side of it that did bring people together? remember how the churches filled all over the country? >> i was in new york a few days later doing a book signing in barnes and noble and i offered to pray and the place filled up. i think that beneath the surface of all of us is an awareness that we need god's presence to get us through tough times. we've had enough experience to know that they can only do so much. we need god's help to get us through this. we all came out and acknowledged that we need god's help to get us through this.

every single one of us has this desire to connect with god. >> you do that signing and you might have people with you still. but you can't get that back. and you don't want to get it back. what do you tell children? my kids were very, very young when this happened. >> that is important to do. we have our national 9/11 and personal 9/11's. it is important to equip our children for the tragedy before it happens. the message of the bible is that god can get us through tough times. we need to link with him through prayer, and letting him guide us

through tough times. the mistake is giving into despair. saying there is no solution or end to my problem and that is when we get into the position where we make mistakes that make the problems worse. >> you have to let go and let god as they say. >> exactly. left trust him to get us through the tough times. >> very good advice for everybody. thank you so much pastor. pleasure to meet you today. thank you for coming in. something to think about right? >> it has been a year since the attack on our u.s. consulate in benghazi. that night ambassador chris stephens and three others were killed. today another blast in that city. new developments that you may not have heard yet. stay around for that. it is co

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brand new hour now of america live. despite the fact that the administration has filed charges in that assault no one has been taken into custody. and we are hearing frustration and outrage from the uncle of one of those americans who was killed. adding to that frustration. no one in the administration no

one has been called to task and now an in terrible investigation shows that decisions were made high up in the state department. and that is where we stand as we go live. one year after benghazi kathrine. >> thank you martha. this action memo signed by patrick kennedy clearly shows that the decision to have a presence in libya was green lighted at the top levels of the state department. we were told that he would not have acted without consulting with mrs. clinton. >> i would be amazed if he had not consulted secretary burns

and a place as sensitive as libya. i don't think he would have made what is a fundamentally pl politically decision on his own grounds. >> as well as mrs. clinton's expedited policy goals were laid bare. according to one of ambassador stephen's deputies in that conversation, mrs. clinton made clear that she wanted to have a permanent operation in benghazi. and this may explain why ambassador tstephens was in benghazi on 9/11. he had to face a september 30th

deadli deadline. mrs. clinton's policy goals in eastern labibya were never made plain into the benghazi terrorist attack. also this morning a leading republican was speaking out. >> the bep benghazi facility should have been closed until security was strengthened or the threat abated. >> we asked the state department to explain who was responsible for this policy decision. and repeatedly we were told that this was dealt with the internal review board. we found no specific references nor a decision by patrick kennedy or mrs. clinton and to

underscore the fact that neither of them have taken the blame. >> thank you very much. agai again, despite a swift call for justice by president obama, the families are no closer today to answers about what happened to their loved ones than they were 12 months ago when their worlds were rocked. on this day a year later no one is in custody and much of the team that was accept to libya to hunt down those responsible has now left. leaving only two members in the country. >> reporter: as we heard about the lead up to the benghazi attack we are learning more about what has been happening since then. >> administrative members are there and there are some contractors as well but they are

not in benghazi. they are in tripoli. we have heard why this team that went in, they were there to train lyibyans we have learned why the team was mostly pulled. the camp where they train was raided twice overnight. the americans would go back to a security villa overnight. but yet that camp was attacked in late july and early august and because of that attack. a number of highly sensitive u.s. military weaponry was stolen. m-4 rifles and night vision technology and lasers. this stuff was stolen by groups they believe are aligned with people that are terrorist groups and trying to over throw the libyan government. this comes from state department

sources. again, this coming from multiple state department sources. the weaponry was taken. non of it has been recovered. not one piece has been recovered by u.s. forces and once this happened the state department got skiddish with the team being there and put a lot of pressure to pull the team out. we have reached out to a number of agencies within the pentagon and no one has yet commented about this report that these

weapons were stolen. >> amazing. there is so much that we don't know and so much that we have learned from this kind of reporting. thank you. very much so we are hearing today that the survivors of that attack may finally break their eye lense. silence. cia director wrote a letter to congress. joining me now is virginia congressman, frank wolfe, congressman welcome good to have you here today. >> thank you. >> let's take a look at this. this letter was sent to the chairman of the house permanent select committee on intel mike rogers at the last part of the letter is perhaps one of the most interesting parts. it says you have asked that the

cia provide a list of the officers in libya and arrange for the committee to speak to those officers and he said the information is classified. we will work with the committee to provide relevant information. what is your understanding of what is going to happen now? >> i have little confidence in john brennan. he was at the white house when all of this took place. he is partially responsible for this. quite frankly the process up there on the hill is flawed. the congress and the administration has failed. we have asked for a select committee with public hearings. keep in mind, the cia is in my district. >> this -- i'm sorry to

interrupt you, i want you to back that up. this letter from john brennan says that that never happened. no one in the cia was told not to talk. that they were never told to sign non disclosure agreements about what happened. >> some have gone to their lawyers and we have been in touch with law firms. we are getting reports that they are polygraphing people. now they are doing it several times a month. they are not sharing the information. we should have public hearings and john brennan should testify. he was at the white house when this happened. unless you have a select committee. you will never find out what happened. it was on a private session and he flew out at an event where they charged $1200 a ticket.

you need public hearings if it is not public and you need to subpoena the people. so i have little confidence in this at all. they will say this and do the opposite. many employees of the cia live in fear. a couple of kids in college own a house in virginia. you are not going to risk your career. unless you are brought in and john brennan helped put together this policy. one year has gone by. ty w5oods family wants the selet committee. all of the military, did you see the letter yesterday? >> former military general, did you see the judge, a group of

leading military people say there out to be a select committee with public hearings. i have no confidence in this that congress to date has failed and they allowed the administration to cover up on this. >> this is done folks so move along. there is nothing to see in this situation. the president has folked about phony scandals. let me if you this. you are passionate about this issue. you have worked hard on it to get the select committee. would you be doing this if the cia was not among your constit wants in your district? if langley wasn't there would you be at into this as you are? >> yes, i would. i was on the commission on terror that we established. yes, i would be.

my committee funds the fbi. the fbi didn't get to the crime scene for weeks. they sent a team out to tunisia that the government wouldn't allow. this is a criminal investigation. the fbi is not in benghazi. the fbi is in tlritripopli you public hearings. you have to talk to the families. last week i talked to somebody who was on the scene. they would like to be called. there ought to be public hearings. >> we would like to hear from them. and we are glad to hear from you. we spoke to pat smith as well. thank you sir for your time today. we'll be right back. hey linda!

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cousin, a man who had nothing standing in his way. i love you and god bless. >> so much emotion all these years later and it is completely understandable. when you listen to the people who spendp this day at ground zero and at the pentagon and their emotion and pain is so raw 12 years after that day when nearly 3,000 people were murdered in the 9/11 terror attacks and the trial has yet to again. the confessed mastermind of 9/11

are still held today at gitmo and just today, we are learning about a secret pretrial hearing last month when a military judge turned down a request to with hold the information from the defense. still unclear what that information was. joe connor lost this brother in the world trade center attack and deborah's brother was the pilot of the plane that was sent crashing into the pentagon. i'm sorry for your loss. i know that it remains very fresh for all of you. and today is hard? >> it is. but 12 years, a lot of the families have learned to live with this and our focus is on

this day it goes back and it is pretty hard. >> joe, talk to me a little bit about your loss and your thoughts on this day. >> sure, steve was my cousin. i commuted through the world trade center with my brother and saw the attacks from my office. steve was a great guy and was a father of three and lived in franklin lakes, new jersey. he was my father's godson and my father was killed in a separate terrorist attack a generation before. you never get over it. >> indeed we do. >> and deborah when you look at the fact that there has been no justice yet from those helded at guantanamo bay, who would have thought that we would be having this conversation in 2013?

>> i was at my brother's grave this morning and i said out loud you won't believe that these guys are still sitting there untried. the hanson families lost their son peter and his entire family. they are in their 80s and they are worried that they will not see justice for their son and his family. >> joe, what is your understanding of that. we have seen the legal back and forth and it is shocking that it isn't something that you hear more about. >> sadly, you are right. it seems like it has and people have moved on. we go from one crisis to another in this country. and we focus on the important thing. it brings justice to steve and

to chick and to the other 3,000 people that were killed. we have seen it before. my father's case the terrorists who killed him were released by eric holder and the clintons in the 1990s. we need to try these people and keep them in prison for the rest of their lives. >> this is the top of the list. you want to see this trial happen. there has been so much along the way with the memorial and the museum. how do you feel the response is with the administration? >> i know that you have tried sometimes in vein to get their attention. >> i think they pay lip service denial of the families. i know they do. and they want to move on. they are checking the box on anything 9/11. it is something that they don't want to remember and are forced to remember in terms of national

security issues. what do you think is at the heart of it? >> i think they think it is the previous administration they made this and the obama administration when he came into office he was interested in a domestic agenda. as you recall, he wanted to close guantanamo and try these guys in federal court even though a couple months before he was sworn into office kalid shake mohammad said they wanted to plead guilty and be executed. that was years ago. and now we have an army of defense attorneys that are litigating everything. this tlrial i have heard maybe won't happen until 2015. >> deborah and joe, thank you for being with us today and we all think about you and the other families who lost their loved ones on this day.

>> i know you do. thank you so much. >> same to you joe. >> all the best to you and your family. >> same to you. >> okay. >> all right we are going to take a quick break and we will be right back with more. stay with us.

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confronting us. >> if the city go as head with eminent domain the banks could sue the city and that could force richmond to go bankrupt. here is another downside, listen. >> as long as this city has the potential eminent domain we are not going to get financial institutions willing to lend us city money. one expert said that the other downside is that no one who lives in the city would be able to qualify for a mortgage because the bank would never go in there. and other yits cities may soonw suit. we will find out. >> thank you. >> so the pentagon has so far

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fox news alert now. we are getting our first pictures of the big bike rally in dc. they say they are riding for 9/11. the parks department refused to give them any rights. we are watching the story and we

know a lot of the folks have been sweeting about it. and here is a look at it as it makes its way through difficult traffic situations we are learning. but none the less folks chi s g them on. bikers in washington to honor 9/11 victims. back to this story there is word from russia that moscow that has given the united states it's plan. to place chemical weapons under international control. the white house has sent john kerry to meet with them tomorrow. as congress considers another track to use deadly force. wendel joins me live now from the north lawn with the latest.

good afternoon. >> martha officials here say secretary of state kerry and his russian counter part will go over the nuts and boults and th security council will begin in the afternoon. while he admits the reasons to be skeptical, he says he has put his prestige on the line. >> russia has played the role of blocking international efforts thus far to hold assad accountable. and the prop sosition they put forward presents a real opportunity if it were to be successf successful. >> carney concedes the effort will take some time.

while the president has asked for a delay from using military force from congress. west virginia senator seems to be moving ahead with the push to give mr. obama that authority. >> we said at the end of the 45 days that we reaffirm the war powers that the president already has. if he thinks that still, but we are hope that go we kca can res that prior to that. >> lawmakers were leaning against giving the president that authority in the house and it would be awkward for mr. obama to begin lobbies for the authority in the midst of the issues. that too may be difficult for the president to give. >> that would be problem attic

for the united states to take military action off the table. thank you very much. >> so as the white house considers diplomatic solutions and military options our next guest says this is a war that they do not want. they say there is no clear direction. and nobody knows what the president wants to do on the use of force in syria. >> what is it you are seeking? >> i can't answer that. >> lieutenant general tom mcinerney good to have you with us, general. >> thank you martha. >> so a war that the pentagon does not want. >> you wonder what the reaction from the pentagon is to the speech that they heard last night. a lot of people felt there was a lot of in coherence there.

and now you have this new plan that kerry and the russian foreign fminister are going to come up with. there is no clear guidance. but let's take it a step further. let's say that the russians are going to be able to get assad to secure those weapons or at least identify where they are. that means you are going to have to put russian forces probably u.s. and nato forces to secure those sites and once you have secured them then you are going to have to go through a laborious process of shipping them somewhere or destroying them on location. this is a complicated time consuming six to ten year operation. you have heard the one number to secure the sites that the u.s. military has thrown out before and that is 70,000.

but it becomes complicated and the pentagon is spending most of their time not on this preparation for the strike, but on drawing down through s sequestrati sequestration. every day they look at ways of saving money and what they have got to cut. there is a huge tension between a military response and trying to go forward with the force trues? >> where do you see this going? you are describing something that is very long and drawn out and difficult given the fact that there is a civil war going on, on the ground. is this a lot of talk and not a lot of action in the end? >> i think they are going to have to declare a cease fire which stimies the rebels, gives assad credibility and you have the un in there because they

want to take the security council resolution to get rid of the weapons. you have the world's governing body if you will behind assad. it changes the complexity and puts the drivers in the drivary's seat. >> it is disturbing. >> why he would decide that he would be willing to give them up and putin said that he believes he didn't use chemical weapons. thank you, sir, good to see you. >> so a powerful documentary offers unique perspectives on what president bush experienced in 2001 from a man who was at his side. three minutes from now we will hear what randy told the

discovery channel and where we are now 12 years later. >> we were flying a ser ppantin way waiting for fighter jets to protect us. and the president is telling me we could go back there and the secret service is telling me we can't go back there until we know what is happening.

a powerful new documentary is shedding light on some of the lesser known moments of what happened on september 11th. who could forget that moment and that famous historic photograph. for the first time he is tells his version of events as experienced right at the president's side that day. watch this. >> get ready. get ready.

give your selves a pat on the back. >> yeah. >> a routine visit to a florida school is about to become the defining moment of george w. bush's presidency. but first comes a moment of truth for andrew. >> i wanted to be the chief of staff when nobody knew my name but that all changed on that day on september 11th, 2001. he is outside the classroom organizing the president's schedule when the aid brings startling news. >> a nano second later, that same person came to me and said oh my gosh another plane hit the other power at the world trade center. my first thought was actually ubl.

osama bin laden. and then i knew i had to perform a testify test does the president need to know? this time it was easy to pass the test, yes. and i made a decision that i would pass on two facts and make one editorial comment and i would do nothing to start a question or dialogue. i opened the door to the classroom and i saw these very young innocent second graders. i walked up to the president and leaned over and whispered into his right ear. a second plane hit the second power america was under attack and then i stood back from him so that he couldn't ask me a question. it wasn't the place to have a conversation. >> the president sits in place for nearly 7 minutes.

minutes that seem like an eternity. but they are an opportunity for carr to take action. i was pleased that he stayed in the classroom. >> everybody would have gone to him and he would have been barking out ordered. instead i could say get the fbi director on the phone and get a line open to the vice president and the situation room. get back on air force one and to the secret service turn the motorcade around. >> when the president did come into that holding room, sure enough everyone gravitated to him. he says get the fbi director on the phone. we could say he is right here mr. president. >> what an incredible series of moment that is none of us will never forget. former white house chief of

staff andy card. it gives me chills when i watch that and no doubt it comes flooding back to you from that day at well. what goes through your mind. on this day of remembrance i'm compelled to remind people that september 11th, happened and we promised that we would never forget. and yes, it is a flashback for me. but i have a responsibility to tell my story but because we promised that we would never forget and honor those whose lives were taken and celebrate the heros that day and many of them are nameless. >> i spoke minutes ago to deborah and joe who lost people that day and they are so upset that there has not been a trial yet. what do you think about that? >> i'm just as upset as they are. i want those that perpetrated

this horrible crime to be brought to justice. this was an act of terror. it resulted in innocent people being murdered for no good reason and they haven't been brought to justice and we should be able to have trials and military tribune nals. i wish that justice could be done. president bush wanted justice to be done. and it didn't happen then. we have to bring these people to justice. we have to bring closure to those families that lost loved ones out there. >> that is one piece of business that is still lingering out there all of these years later. when you move to the situation on the plane. you and president bush got into it over him wanting very much to go back to washington. tell us about that moment, andy. >> well, when president bush was

at the booker school and addressed the people in the jim nace yum after i had told him about the attacks. he told the audience he was on his way back to washington d.c. >> he said we were going back to washington dc, i said the secret service is not recommending it we can't do that and the pilot did not want to take the plane back to the base. he kept telling me no. he was saying i'm the president of the united states we are going back to washington d.c. i said mr. president, i don't think you want to make that decision right now. i tried to be cool, calm, collective and not emotional. he did get pretty upset with me. but i asked him to think about the squenconsequence of getting there and not being able to get

to the white house safely. the president's demands were met after the secret service could assure us of expectation of getting back. and then the air command in nebraska, and we worked our way back to d.c. and landed about i'm guessing 7:30 that evening and he addressed the american people that evening from the oval office. >> during your time in the air >> during your time in the air because we're going to learn how president bush responded to those pivotal moments that day and how andy card helped to

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>> we're back now with former white house chief of staff andy card. we were speaking during the break. you told me what it was like to be on air force 1 as the buildings started to crumble. what was it like for the president and for you? >> as we're flying from the air force base to andrews air force base in washington, d.c. we watched on the television on the plane. we witnessed the towers completely collapsing and the horror and -- it just caused us all literally to be silent.

we stood in silence and offered quiet prayers. there were tears and there were resolves to bring the people to justice that did this. i was so impressed with how the president was the president and commander in chief. he understood his responsibilities and was committing himself to meet those responsibilities. that would be the paramount interest of his presidency, keep america safe and bring people to justice and make sure it didn't happen again. he understood in order for him to keep his oath he would have to call others to keep their oath and cause them to make sacrifices he wouldn't invite on them. he understood the magnitude of the challenge and the awesome responsibility a president has. we don't think about it during campaigns. we tend to think campaigns about the issues argued over cutting taxes or paying for education or

housing or whatever. the truth is the ultimate responsibility for the president is to protect us, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. that's what the oath of office says. i think president bush understood that september 11, 2001 and kept his oath. >> and it changed him forever, did it not? >> it changed the president, it changed all of us that worked for the president. it changed america. he brought we solve to work every day he was president of the united states. i remember he challenged the fbi. this was on the friday after the attack, to september 14, 2001. when the president was getting a briefing from the fbi about what had happened on that day, and i remember the president interrupting saying i'm very interested in the investigation but what is the fbi doing to prevent the next attack? >> right. >> and there was no good answer and the fbi director said,

mr. president, we'll have to get back to you. the fbi director changed the mission of the fbi that day so the number ane mission was to prevent the next attack. >> andy, i'm sorry. thank you so much for being with us. everybody at home, we'll be right back after this break. wisest kid in the whole world?

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>> i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith and this is "studio b." another day of huge developments concerning syria. the united nation security council meeting today. secretary of state john kerry is about to leave for a trip to meet the russians and now, new warnings that a strike on syria could lead to an arms race with iran. americans across the nation today remembering those lost in the september 11th attacks on new york, at the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania. even after 12 years, tears show the healing isn't over.