have to invei gle when writing to the factor. you don't have to invei gle when writing to us. the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. i'm martha in for megyn kelly live in new york city and tonig tonight. >> why did it take a court case for you to release this? >> the white house taking major new fire on benghazi after an e-mail surfaces that leaves them with a lot of explaining to do. but that's just the start. wait until you see the new document that we have tonight. plus, some of america's top democrats meeting with some of america's wealthiest liberal donors, but when the cameras showed up, nobody wanted to talk. why was that? and then -- ♪ ♪ rock you like a hurricane

>> the drummer for a classic '80s act is locked up for insulting islam? more cow bell, "the kelly file" starts now. breaking news on two big items, as smoking gun e-mails surface involving the white house's response to the terror attack in benghazi that left four americans dead as president obama was fighting for his reelection. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm in tonight for megan, i'm ma that maccallum. it was in 2012, four americans die in a vicious attack. in the days that follow, administration repeatedly plays up the story that it was a video that sparked this string of spontaneous protests across the middle east and plays down the idea that it was any sort of well-planned terror attack. now, thanks to an e-mail that just surfaced today, we now know

how the white house political team drove that narrative. just two days later on the 13th of september, 2012, media outlets including fox were reporting on protests in cairo at the embassy there. there were reports benghazi was a coordinated attack and what turned out to be false reports from the independent suggesting that the government was warned of the diplomatic posts. that very night, there is an e-mail exchange between an associated press reporter and then state department spokesman victoria new land and an unidentified person discussing the reporting and the nature of this story. so matthew lee about this story saying bs all over this. don't quote. the director of national intelligence is batting this down. replying, i know it's bs but this is killing you guys, been watching fox news and the amount of misinformation, disinformation including

repeated references to the "guardian story" he meant the independent story is frankly shocking. this is an ap reporter speaking in the crisis. nuland says sending the line to the intel correspondent. nuland says the utter bs is being spread around on fox including the guardian, he meant the independent. it's unbelievable, said this reporter. you should know i'm not a fan of any particular administration and policy but this is shocking he writes. nuland responds mike alan on judge now rebutting. so what have we learned? the president of the media research center. a former federal prosecutor and edit tore and begin with brett. brett, what do we learn from this? >> well, what we learn is that a

reporter during the obama administration and obama administration official are indistinguishable. they both sound like political operatives, which is what they were. the media's role is supposed to be a watchdog on power, and what you've got in the obama years is a press that is blatantly supporting this administration and blatantly taking the side and becoming the mouthpiece for this administration. it doesn't matter whether that story was true or not, but it matters in this case is that this reporter from the ap immediately took administration's position and immediately wanted to go after fox because of a dislike for the fox news. >> you know, we looked because of this, we went back and said what was being said that night on fox he is calling utter bs? going back over it, there wasn't a whole lot to be honest, but there was some coverage that

night on o'reilly. o'reilly said it was likely a coordinated attack in his opinion. he said the film was being used as an excuse, both of which turned out to be true. laura ingram raised the question, where was the president during the attack? we still haven't found the answer to that. it's hard to find out what was so antiinflammatory to be called utter bs by this reporter -- >> if you -- >> go ahead -- >> well, if you look at the e-mail string, they happen between 9:19 and 9:57 during the o'reilly show. what o'reilly was saying in that show to laura video story is not going to sale. this is a coordinated attack. somehow that became something irrational that had to be disputed. it's important to note this reporter from the ap didn't know what bill o'reilly was saying was untrue.

he simply acre cementcepted it untrue. >> as a reporter you look at this, it's not unusual to try to sort of, you know, warm up to your source so that when they do start to have more details, they will say look, we can trust this guy. he's written, reported on this accurately. let's go back to him when we get more. is this an example of that or something more in your opinion? >> i think a reporter needs to ask questions. this man is not asking questions. he is saying in effect, to victoria, how can i help you? how can i put forward this administration's position as best i can? he's not asking questions. he's declaring his intent to help. >> you know, we should point out that the independent report he was referring to, it asserted the u.s. knew of this attack in advance, which turned out to be false. on that count, he's correct. that was false. but the other part of what he was saying is that it was well-orchestrated and done by a team of militants who knew what they were doing and carried out

the attack. that part of independent report was actually accurate but you're right, he hopped immediately and called it utter bs. >> which is what bill o'reilly was saying. bill o'reilly was not saying bs but tells the truth. he was having a reasonable, truthful conversation with laura ingram and for that being salin vajed. >> thank you. let's go to the other document you've heard about, despite the loss of claims to the contrary, a newliiry leased e-mail show that the white house played a central role in prepping former un ambassador susan rice as she played down the possibility of a benghazi terror attack with the president -- with the election weeks away. on friday, september 14th, just three days after this attack on our consulate, ben rodes says to under score that these protests

are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy and to reinforce the president and administration strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges but remember jay carney suggested that the white house's involvement in this was minimal. >> these were intelligence community talking points that the intelligence community led by the cia -- >> objection -- >> you had a long time there, that the intelligence community has to sign off on and believe represent what they knew at that time about what happened. >> given what we know about an e-mail the white house tried to keep from congress through the course of five hearings held and numerous requests for documents, was the white house's role in all of this really minimal and non-s non-substantive? i want to play a little bit of something that has really made the rounds today, which was an

eight-minute back and forth between carney and jonathan karl from abc news. let's listen to a piece of that and i'll get your thoughts on it. >> why did it take a court case for you to release this? >> john, i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking it again and again. this document was not about benghazi. >> it was her press -- >> it wasn't her only press, john. she relied for her answers on the document prepared by the cia, as did members of congress. >> of all the insults to the intelligence that we've heard from that podium, that may be the worst one in five or six years, however long its been. anyone involved in government where they are going to make a presentation, whether to the press or to congress, knows that they do kind of a murder board, prep hearing and for him to say that it had nothing to do with benghazi when the only reason rice was chosen in the first place to be given to the nation-wide television shows to

appear on sunday and the on reason she was actually appearing was because of the benghazi massacre. had that not happened, she would not have been offered and those tv programs -- >> i mean, there was coverage of what was going on across the middle east, that there was dustup, more than that really and also in cairo, the breaching of the embassy walls. he's trying to say this is the larger picture that we were concerned with. you're right, that benbenghazi, four people lost their lives in that situation. when you look at the fact that judicial watch, took judicial watch and democrats scream from the raft tors, there are hearings and documents turned over, enough, let it go. when they got their hands on the real documents and looked at the unredacted, this is what was in that. >> right, because a lawyer can prosecute an actual case to try to get to the bottom of what actually happened where as five

different congressional committees coming at it are not equipped to conduct what needs to be conducted here, which is something like a criminal investigation, and if the justice department won't do it, they obviously won't, it's got to be done by a select committee with subpoena power -- >> do you think john boehner will call for that? >> i don't understand why he hasn't called for it already. if he doesn't do it now, it's unexplicable. >> you said even egypt had nothing to do with this video. >> the video is a fraud through and through. the video had nothing to do with benghazi and it's unfortunate the people accepted it had something to do with cairo. what was actually violent rioting, happened on the circumstances of where al qaeda elements were threatening the embassy for weeks to try to get actually the freedom of the guy i prosecuted in the '90s, which

is a big deal in egypt. that was mainly going on in egypt. the video thing was a side show. the state department put out tweets to try to spin the trouble in cairo as attributable to the video but actually, it was al qaeda elements but if they admitted that. >> no video could ignite something that doesn't have embers burning all around the place underneath it. there has to be an underlying policy issue. >> he said he decimated al qaeda. it would have been clear he didn't. >> thank you very much. pleasure. some of america's top democrats are meeting this week with some of america's wealthiest liberal donors but when the cameras showed up, everybody got camera shy. they didn't want to talk at all. why? we'll investigate. a report that china's economy will soon by pass the united states of america. we'll show you exactly what that

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so, we have new details tonight from a secret meeting between some of america's top democrats and some of the wealthiest liberal political donors, secretive because reporter have been barred from

the meetings. in fact, when they tried to get in and the camera showed up, suddenly nobody wanted to talk. the conservative political action group managed to get this video of alison grams running against mitch mcconnell at the annual democracy alliance meeting. that was about all they got. mark is the former chief speech writer for president george w bush and fellow at the american enterprise institute and robert zipp zimmerman. welcome. good to have you here. mark, tell us about this meeting. what is it about? >> it's a group called the democracy alliance, which was a secretive club of wealthy liberals. it's a group that raised over $500 million for liberal causes and candidates. it doesn't disclose the dow narcotic list and raises money for packs as well as liberal groups like media matters and packs for obama, nancy reepa lo

see. locations are kept secret. reporters are not allowed to attend and members are prohibited from discussing meetings. what is wrong with that? nothing. unless you're a party that made the central issue of the campaign in 2014, there is something wrong with billionaires buying our democracy and that's somehow unameric unamerican. they are completely hypocritical to attack conservatives. >> we just showed a picture of some people there. maybe we can put that back up. but this reporter talks about how, you know, like somebody put their body in between, you know, him and bill de blasio, that valley wanted to make eye contact with anybody during the course of the meeting and says his efforts were met with recriminations or a gentle physical force at some point. >> if you are shocked by the

idea of having private strategy sessions and not sharing wit press, you got to get out more. whether it's the republican party, democratic, liberal, of course they will not share strategies. they are private meetings. you speak about hypocrisy. the issue if this process of super packs is so help prehenceble, they should join with the democrats in the house and senate trying to change the system there are 15 pieces of legislation the house and senate members introduced and there is a constitutional amendment senator udal introduced -- >> you can't stand up there with one side of your mouth calling the koch brothers unamerican. there is a feeling the democrats doing it is beyond reproach because they are trying to better the system. >> i don't know how you do sports or mark how you do

politics, this is one set of rules for both sides. >> thank you for making my point. >> as long as they are under the law super packs. >> they are unamerican, too -- >> let me finish my point. democrats are not going to disarm. they will step up and follow the rules of the process. the difference here, martha, while the republicans say they don't agree with super packs, they are doing nothing but going to the highest bidder because he pledges to put $100 million -- >> so tom and george and those guys are beyond reproach but -- >> no, it's a very -- >> hold on. >> let me -- >> robert -- >> let me let mark get in here. go ahead, mark. >> first of all, harry reid said what is unamerican is when shadowing billionaires pour unlimited money into the democracy. they are holding a meeting begging them to pour billions of dollars into the democracy. that's hypocritical. that's the exact quote from harry reid. >> but --

>> i'm going to talk. can i please get my word in here? >> okay. >> the people you are talking here so beyond report, george surros made money from investing in companies funded by the obama administration and tom steyer fighting the case to an excel pipeline making billions of dollars from those decisions. >> mark -- >> i got to break in. thank you very much. >> can we try a quick fact check here? if clean energy programs keep you up at night, i'm sorry, mark. if you're offended by this, the system has to change. democrats are trying to do it and republicans going up for action. >> thank you. robert, mark, good to see you both. >> thank you. >> so from the white house to the front pages of america's newspapers, there were hundreds, maybe thousands of stories today about yesterday's botched execution. of this convicted murderer of a majority of them left out one important detail. we'll show you what that is. plus, the scorpions are

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>> from the world headquarters of fox >?ñnews, it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. a new report suggests that china will surpass in spending power a lot earlier than anybody expected. and while some analysts are throwing some cold water on that report, others say that the news should come as no surprise and serves as a warning. remember this ad from back inñf 2010?=[fip [speaking foreign language] >> pretty clear in anyn3bç lang, right?

i mean, that is chilling. >> yes. >> you look back at that, few years back and many of the subtitles in that appear to be happening. >> that was 2010, fast forward to today and what you see is china catching up very, veryí4a rapidly with the united states in terms of the overall size of our economy. thereppa statistics and the rew?d: are somewhat misleading but the bottom line is, they are growing very, very fast and we are not. they are catching up. >> we have a number from fsbr20 xjq china na's growth at 24% and compare that to the united states' growth, it's 7.6%. no comparison. trillion a year, their economy is roughly 8 or $9 trillion. their growth rate iss that they catch up and over take us within about four or five years.

oevbujjz at the report tha}$qw got today, our economy isn onl growing at 0 .1%. that's virtually no growth at all. >> flat lining. >> the things that we have done to stimulate the economy and to stimulate the economy and haven't done andqñ keysuyu to mind because everybody says, on't pipeline that oil through the united states, youp know, china will end up with it. >> our failure to grow's policy failure. we have taxed, regulated, failed and don't have growth. if we reverse those rú)p$sr(rqáe could probably havew> when you look at the way the president approaches this issue. about competing with china and what we need to do to catch up or to

so we can stay number one. we were number one until 1872 united kingdom were number one and been long haulg%% and every wants to hold onto the number one spot. >> america has been number one since 1872. >> i don't want to be number two. >> and yet, you're still number one but only just, they are catching up very, very+aóç qui >> what does the united states need to do? >> in my opinion, cut taxes, cut regulation, stop spending so much money, exploit the>÷i%m en that's a whole bunch ofi> i suspect our friend in that commercial wouldn't like to see those things happen. >> no, no, no. >> thank you. always a pleasure. >> sure. all right. so this story developingovty tonight, growing&a(÷ controvers over what is being described as the%z)ñ botched execution of convicted killer clayton locket

in oklahoma state penitentiary last night. locket was on death row for the murder of 19-year-old stephanie neman. he shot her and)1ñ watched as a 4j+$s(lices >+ 1999. trace gallagher is live with this. >> it was 33 minutes between the time the first drug was injected and he died of a heart attack. his 19-year-old victim, stephanie neman endured hours of unthinkable agony on th night she died, june 3rd, 1999 stephanie neman was driven in area.anie neman was driven in beaten, reportedly raped and forced to watch her own grave being dug and pushed into that hole and when she told her attacker that she would go to police, clayton locket put a shotgun to her head and pulled

the trigger. that gun jammed. locket walked back to her truck, cleared the weapon, and despite stephanie neman's screams, he shot her in the head. locket was told by an accomplish neman was stillaccomplice to bury her anyway. her family said every day we are left wi.enrrific images of the last days of her life. we're left with the images that she needed us and were not aware &háhp &hc% released this n statement last night, apparently, written before the execution saying again, quoting, she was the joy of our life. we are thankful this day has finally arrived and justice will finally be served.;+szz neman was an only child. >> tragic, what a sad story. thank you. we saw literally hundreds of

stories today about the botched execution, the 45 minutes or 43 minutes of torture supposedly that this man suffered before he died. the daily mail/h writing killer dies of heart attack after 40 minutes in aggie and sitting up to say something is wrong. when the experimental drug execution causes his veins to explode. botch first and ask questions later. in the ño guardian, oklahoma execution riding on gurney and botched procedure. what about the victim? stephanie neman was 19 years old when he ordered her to be buried alive. she did not pñ much attention all. a conservative radio talk show host and host dana on "the blaze." >> thanks, martha. >> if nothing else, it's

important to remember stephanie as we watch the headlines and think about her parents and the message they gave# torture they went through when they thought about her final for help. we're supposed to muster up a lot of concern over what happened on this table today. what do you think? >> martha, i don't ever want to hear another leftiest organization, politician, liberal talking head ever accuse the right of being soft on rape again. i don't know how anyone can hear this story about this 19-year-old one month after she graduated from @3bkj school, martha, and she had her mouth duck taped. she was beaten in the head with a gun. she was shot in the head, raped, her friend was raped. she was left to die in a shallow grave. i don't -- i can't seem to muster up any sympathy at all for a rapist and murderer and that she has been forgotten in the story makes me physically ill,nd3zóreally.

>> yeah, i understand. you know, when you go through these stories, they talk about the drugs and thety3ñu problems lethal injection drugs and, you know, it's not fair to put people to death this way. do you think that they have, you know, is there merit to that? is there something to be evaluated in that situation? ñ cases if those -- if people who are against the death penalty want to advocate for that.-rb there are better cases to use. the case of clayton locket is definitely not one of them. his punishment was light. it's not just my estimation. one of the three victims also made a statement about this saying that they thought he was basically getting off light compared to what happened to stephanie neman. you mentioned hours that she basically laid there in the shallow grave, and it's appalling that, i don't understand what kind of society v÷ -- what the victim endured is completely forgotten and instead, we have

to consider about humanity. oc, martha of being a rapist and murderer. 4;z5o1999ution may not go off as >> good point. you havedl$ social contract and all bets are off in many ways when that 4m,l happens. when you look at this, though, you have to wonder because i watch people all7,ñ afternoon, know, in my office on all the different channels just sort of, you know, with sad faces and just hearts breaking. >> right. >> for this situation, and forr this man and, you know,xip i t that we do need,p+r/ñobviously, want to be humane. we're a humane society, but to tell that part&izs of the stor( not to tell stephanie's part of the story, there ish0wx someth wrong here. >> right. well, and he wasn]3 treated humanely. he got three hots and a cot. he was safe in a a prison, and he waited for ten years after this and then he was given this lethal injection, this cocktail, which by the gl?way, if peoplet

party to push that. he was treated in a very humane fashion. i think afcw)ing squad would more human when you contrast what he has enjoyed in the past ten years since he committed this crime to what his victim went t64yy when i read that handwritten(qá[ note, the impa statement from the family, my heart broke. it broke. that was this family's only child and where is the concern for the family and the victim? >> as you point out, she had been out of highb(=] month. worked at vacation bible school, in the band, as you can see and suffered a horrific, horrific lot of attention for 43 minutes in his execution today. >> yeah, and why isn't -- really quickly to add, why isn't it a local crime story. not this one. i hope people support it. >> thank you very much. >> thanks, martha. so former indiana governor

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a quick audition to the top story tonight, we reported about the e-mail exchange between the associated press and state department on the terror attack in benghazi and how fox news was reporting the story four days after americans were murdered. we didn't get a chance to share the ap's take. reporter matt lee is one of the more aggressive reporters covering the state department and always tough when it comes to questioning victoria nuland and says the bs is ref prances to the british paper, the independent. part of that turned out not to be true. we want to make sure we got their statement on, as well and we'll cover this story again tomorrow. more on that coming up. so there are new calls tonight for accountability in a "kelly file" followup. three republican congressman are demanding the veterans affairs

secretary remove the leadership of the phoenix va medical center aftershocking allegations that delayed medical care and secret waiting lists may have led to the death of 40 americans. veteran of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and a fox news contributor. good to have you. >> thank you. >> the under secretary of the va, robert pessel testified and said there is no evidence there is a secret list or that 40 of these veterans were adversely affected. >> of course the va is going to say there is no secret list. it was a two-day internal investigation of the va by the va. oj simpson is looking for the killer too. there is a pending ig report. there is multiple whistle-blowers whose stories are collaborate and he had mails between the director of the

phoenix va and others acknowledging the existence of a second list. these allegations are serious and substantive. the va admitted already to 23 deaths across seven states in va facilitie facilities, preventable deaths due to waiting for care. there is no accountability. there never has been at va. so it's no surprise to hear them denying it. the truth will bear out when the real investigation is brought to light. >> where is the va secretary on this? why have we not heard -- why is he not outraged and testifying in front of the panels. where is he? >> good question. where is he? i e-mailed friends of mine in washington dc, no one heard from him privately, publicly, nothing. if you're a leader, you should

be out front -- >> especially as a military man. >> in general, yes. >> these -- >> he's a former general in the military with a respected military career who unfortunately had subpar performance. our organization called for him to step down a year ago. we remain committed to the cause. the problem is he couldn't even fire the director of the phoenix va if he wanted to -- >> how do they get away with it? this is one of the largest bureaucracies in the federal government. >> second largest. >> the irs pled the fifth but they had to come and sit at the table. they started the process perhaps today and maybe that's a good sign. how is it they are not accountable and the president of the united states doesn't say we need to know, people need to be fired if these case, any of those these stories are true and 23 of them are documented. >> they documented them in serious allegations. the president mentioned it. the problem is the secretary couldn't fire hsheron helman if

they wanted to. more importantly, leadership requires leading in good times and bad. the secretary is a wall for veterans and been so for a long time. organizations like ours are sick and tired of it. you need to stand up and take ownership. the secretary has not done that and we plead him, urge him to take a leadership role to deliver better care because vets are waiting and dying and it's a shame. >> it is. pete, thank you. >> thank you. >> we got to go. >> coming up, he left a lot of folks disappointed when he chose not to run in 2012 but we asked mitch daniels if he could consider that this time around. that interview is next. >> you broke a lot of hearts in the republican party when you decided not to run. >> yeah, well, i held out and

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>> former supreme court justice is now saying that the constitution should be changed. today on capitol hill john paul stevens suggested that new amendment may be the way to go. >> the interest in creating a level playing field justifies regulation of campaign speech that does not apply to speech about general issues that is not designed to affect the outcome of elections. >> stevens was widely considered to be one of the more liberal

justices. some conservatives argue that campaign finance limits are meant to silence citizens. and despite many folks calling for him to run back in 2012 for the is the si, mitch mitch daniels made the decision not to. he wanted to have more time with his family but the perdue university president will have a hand in the 2016 race as part of the commission on presidential debates. megyn spoke with him earlier this week about his decision and the role he plays now, listen. >> great to see you governor. >> like-wise. >> you broke a lot of hearts in the republican party when you decided not to run. >> i held out and got a better job. >> is there any chance you're kicking that around for 2016? >> no i took a vow of political celibacy. on to something new. >> you don't shy away from a challenge despite the fact you didn't run for president. it's not so easy to run a university. you have lofty goals for doing

that, including when it comes to tuition. you managed to stop tuition hikes. how on earth have you done that? >> just really told everybody that i thought we could do it. let's try to adjust after 36 years of tuition increases and by the way, that was typical. perdue is not unusual. i said let's try something different. instead of asking students and families to adjust their budget to our spending, let's adjust our spending to their budget. turned out not to be that hard to do. the campus really rallied around it. >> what if anything are you going to do about a perceived liberal bias at the university level? because we get a lot of e-mail from the viewers that detect it. >> i get protests and complaints from students and parents, but, you know, i think what you do is simply insist in a very even-handed way on academic freedom and on the freedom to speak, we talk a lot about diversity on campus and we mean it, but the -- an important part

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we would love to hear your thoughts on the story of the newly released e-mails on benghazi. go the facebook.com. thanks for watching tonight. i'm martha mcelderry cullen in for megyn kelly. y. welcome to "hannity." we have an explosive news development linking the benghazi coverup to the white house and that's the beginning of a very, very busy news night. america, are you ready? it's time to roll. tonight. >> there is pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job. >> former cbs news reporter cheryl atkinson opens up. >> the implication we were