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

somehow holding back information when, in fact, we were saying what we thought was right. >> and how they are still trying to coverup what happened in benghazi. race disgrace. >> it's ridiculous. it's disgraceful. >> steven a. smith says the naacp must be held accountable over the donald sterling mess. why? he's here to tell you. plus a murderer's execution gets botched, but where is the sympathy for his young victim? and betraying our veterans. >> there are so many beautiful people dying for no reason. i can't afford to have tony die on me, i can't. >> ainsley earhardt's interviews will make you think. this is a fox news alert, the smoking gun is out when it comes to the obama administration's coverup on the benghazi attack that killed four sneinnocent americans in 2. there was an e-mail written by ben rhodes.

in it he provides talking points. the document reads quote to under score these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader internet policy. and there you go. cold, hard evidence proving that a high-level white house aid instructed rice to instruct benghazi on a youtube video. jay carney stepped in front of reporters and actually, with a straight face, said this. >> that document that we're talking about today was about the overall environment in the muslim world. i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking it again and again, this document was not about benghazi. >> sadly, that's how administration attempted to dismiss the smoking gun e-mail written by ben rhodes, it wasn't about benghazi but referenced by rice on the sunday shows which is why carney's explanation did

not sit well with reporters, including abc's jonathan karl. let's take a look. >> why were you holding this information back? why was it not released with the other e-mails? this is directly relevant. why did you hold it back? >> john, again. >> why did it take a court case? >> john, i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking again and again, this document was not about benghazi. >> it was the prep for the sunday show. >> not her only prep, john she relied on her answers for benghazi on the document prepared by the cia. >> we're supposed to believe jay carney who informed us today the rhodes he met was not about bengha benghazi. it was designed to enlighten ambassador rice about other hot spots in the muslim world.

there is one problem when rice blamed a youtube video during these appearances she wasn't asked about iran or egypt when she pointed the finger at causing the death of four americans. she was asked about one place and one place only, benghazi. >> what is the latest you can tell us on who the attackers were at the embassy? >> let's talk about the attack on the u.s. consulate that killed four americans including chris stevens. >> you talk about this is spontaneous. can you see definitively that the attacks on the consulate, their security personnel was spontaneous? >> our current assessment is that what happened in benghazi was a spontaneous result of what happened in cairo. almost a copy cat of the demonstrations in cairo which were prompted by the video. >> make no mistake about it,

susan rice got her accused from this e-mail and not written by the central intelligence agency, it was written by a top white house aid about benghazi and it was designed to provide political cover for an embattled politician ahead in a presidential election. here with reaction to the developing story, investigative journalist cheryl atkinson and the host of special report brett bear. guys, welcome to the program. glad you're with us. >> thanks, sean. >> let me start with you. you are objective reporters. i come at this a little differently. i have a political point of view. i want to make sure the audience has the facts. your reaction to the news conference. is this plausible considering the data? this is three days after the attack. >> if you were to believe, sean, what jay carney said today, they are saying that ben rhodes was prepping susan rice for the sunday shows and was typing up an e-mail memo that dealt with other places and not benghazi,

specifically not benghazi. he doesn't reference that in the e-mail by the way, but she's going on the sunday shows just days after the attack. now, the key to this whole thing is that the deputy director of the cia at the time, mike morrell, in recent weeks testified on capitol hill. it was in the talking points. when she mentioned the video he testified on the hill, that caught him by surprise. because that was not in anything that the cia had produced. he said the video caught him by surprise. now, it's strange as we watched a lot of reporters today ask these questions to jay carney. abc, cbs, the new york times,

pressing him on this for many, many months. jay carney has said they didn't have any guidance. one more thing. this e-mail was classified at first. it was classified, so it didn't go up to the hill originally. then it was declassified and put up there redacted, so they couldn't see who sent it and who received it. the judicial watch request was for benghazi e-mails or documents. nothing else. and the judge ordered that they had to comply. this is an e-mail that came out and jay carney says it is not a benghazi e-mail. >> this is what i believe is a smoking gun. do you think it's a smoking gun? do you think jay carney's explanation was plausible? >> i don't know if it's a smoking gun. i'll let that be for others to decide. it's clear when you look at the narrative by multiple obama

administration officials they were all reading from the same page. whether or not carney is correct that that particular e-mail dealt with benghazi or did not deal with benghazi, it was the message that was put out by hillary clinton when she smoke to t -- spoke to families upon return of the bodies. >> you mentioned the others that made the same argument. we have a montage of what they were saying and telling us. we have to see this through the prism. >> some thought to justify this vicious behavior along with the protests that took place at our embassy in cairo yesterday as a response to antiinflammatory material posted on the internet. >> we can all condemn this

reprehensible video. >> we find the video that has been so offensive to muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible. >> although we have nothing to do with the video, we find it offensive. it's not representative of america's views. >> it's a cruel and disgusting video that sparked outrage through the muslim world. now i have made it clear that the united states government had nothing to do with this video. >> let me go back to you. that was september 25. when we look at the original talking points, which we now have access to, and we also know there was a previously scheduled meeting with the chairman of the joint chiefs, they saw the president on september 11th while the attack was going on. do you think that things changed and can be provably on paper can

be shown to be changed? >> i think this is going to produce more questions on capitol hill. it's important to point out to be fair, there were protests other places that they did believe were tied to this video or at least they said that but on the benghazi situation, everyone through the chain, on the ground, said this was not a protest. there was no protest. it was a terrorist attack. the military was sending it up their chain. the intelligence community was sending it up their chain. we've heard testimony specifically about this. three, four, five days later they know there was no protest and this was an organized terrorist attack and many times after that when referencing benghazi, the video comes up in discussion. >> there was also the conscious decision that was made not to take the word of eyewitnesss on

the ground and the station chief and others but rather go with an interpretation from langeley? >> i would argue you're left with two scenarios. one is they took the wrong information and put out the misinformation. and the other is a political motivation. let's accept their explanation, they were wrong and that stands out as one of the most terrible mistakes in intelligence that has been made in recent memory that i've heard of. in other words, they took all the evidence, someone who collected and analyzed it drew the wrong conclusion of a tiny slice that somebody said ignoring that and intelligence reports and prior warnings, that in itself should be alarming. >> i don't have time to play a

montage here. cheryl, let me ask you about your situation, comments you made when you left cbs. there was this reluctance, resistance to go deep into some of the more controversial issues coming before the obama administration and you've come under heavy fire for that. do you stand by your original comments? >> well, sure i'm under fire for those surrogates accused or representing those who believe they've been accused in the reporting, so that's expected. i accept that and i don't pay much attention to it. >> brad, i never miss the special report. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, sean. coming up, what i believe is the smoking gun of benghazi and the coverup is now out in the open for all to see. what is hillary's infamous testimony and the new evidence mean for her 2016 presidential

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welcome back to "hannity," in light of the e-mails, we must not forget when 2016 hillary clinton said this during her testimony on capitol hill. take a look. >> the fact is, we had four dead americans. was it because of a protest or guys out for a walk one night that decided they would go kill americans? what difference does it make at this point? >> what difference does it make? with more political fallout, david limbaugh and steven hays. it makes a lot of difference if they lied purposely to the american people to coverup the failure, don't you think, david? >> yes, in fact, hilary knew the whole time.

obama knew the whole time. david knew the whole time. jay carney knew. it was not the result of a video. the attacks were planned by al qaeda. the cia never said that it was a video, in fact, said it wasn't. they altered the talking point. this e-mail from september 14th is a smoking gun because it reveals that the white house knew it and they wanted to prep susan rice to go on these sunday shows to say that it was the video. and they were clearly covering obama for reelection. it had a potentially substantial effect on his reelection because if it would have shown that it was a result of an al qaeda attack, it could have cost obama the election because he said he had al qaeda on the run. instead they prepped susan rice to say, we're doing everything we can to protect our facilities and to protect the american people. we're bringing all these people to justice. this wasn't caused by terrorism,

but a video. three of the four bulletins were outright lies. the administration is only concerned about covering its own you know what and it's own pr like it was in the gulf oil spill. it's never concerned about the american interest and this is outrageous and i really believe and i'll shut up in a second. i believe this would be an impeachable offense if any other president were in office beside president obama. >> steven hays, do you agree with that? >> let me start by defending hillary clinton, which i don't do often in the context of benghazi. that sound byte is misinterpreted by some to be a declaration of her indifference of what happened on the ground in benghazi. she wasn't saying basically, i don't care, we're beyond it, it doesn't matter. what she was saying was, it doesn't matter how it happened. i think she was profoundly mistaken to make that claim. >> but a big difference they

lied to us like the irs and keeping your health care plan and paying less and keeping your doctor when they knew otherwise. >> absolutely. it's a narrow defense, but it's important to be precise as we can on what she actually meant. on the broader question, there's no disputing the fact that the white house misled the american people whether you're talking about the original claims that came out of the white house in the aftermath of the benghazi attacks or jay carneyis press briefings, that the white house has no substantive role in making changes to the talking points when we have 100 pages of e-mails that show that they did. the white house played a big role in shaping the response to that. >> david, what should the consequences be and what impact on hillary before we go?

>> i think that they should form a select committee, congressional committee, because they're not going to get a special prosecutor. i'm not sure i would be in favor of that anyway. steve said we already knew this was a fabrication. of course we knew, but the white house has never admitted and now they have to admit it, even though they're still not admitting. it i don't deny that her statement in that limited context was, somebody died. quit worrying about why, but she knew when she made that when she was trying to distract and deflect it wasn't a video. she was part of that coverup. she does not deserve to be defended on the broader point and i know you're not. >> we've been lied to about the irs rogue agents, lied about health care when they knew better, a lot of lies. we'll see what the consequences are. guys, good to see you. thank you. coming up next, we exam the

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welcome back to "hannity." the nba banned donald sterling for life after hearing his r racist rant that went viral this weekend. as we reported last night, this is not the first time sterling made racist disgusting comments which is why a lot of people are scratching their heads as to why the naacp chose to honor this man back in 2009 and was about to do it again. my next guest is just as outraged as i am, friend of the program, personal friend, espn analyst. watch him all the time. he doesn't like my buddy tim tebow. what is up? >> what's going on, sean, how are you doing? >> when you go after tebow, stop, you're killing me.

this is a serious matter. let's start with why did they honor him? now that we know so much about his history, the nba had to know, the naacp had to know. why would they give him an honor? i think the nba handled it perfectly, but why the naacp? >> it's inexplicable. there was a racial discrimination case brought against donald sterling by the department of justice. their local chapter in los angeles was fully aware of that when they decided to give a lifetime achievement award in 2009. one of the quotes on the record was that he does a lot for the youth in the community, particularly giving tickets to games for the clippers, and that was the excuse. that was their justification. we all know that doesn't hold water. that doesn't make any sense w t

whatsoever. it needs to be an investigation as to what possibly warranted him receiving a lifetime achievement award. >> i don't think the nba handled this properly, are you happy with it? >> yes, i am. >> or do you have a problem with the fact they probably knew it ten years ago? >> he was an owner in the league. you can sit there and be accused of a lot of things. if he lost a case against the department of justice, if he had lost a case against his former vp for basketball operations, that would be different. but considering the fact he didn't lose in any of the cases, what jurisdiction would the nba have to get rid of him? we can understand how to frown upon it but plausibly speaking, they couldn't get rid of him as an owner. >> let me ask about the naacp

we're going honor sterling and reverend sharpton. for those of you that didn't hear comments over the years, here is just a small sampling. >> you ain't nothing. you a punk [ bleep ]. come and do something. >> then the most recent development is that videotape of a younger al sharpton, heavier al sharpton with the deal and cocaine. we got the video. why are they honoring him? >> listen, that's for the naacp to answer. i'm certainly not here to judge al sharpton. we can look at a lot of things in his past. i know him personally and know as an african american, even though you can pull out tape, which i didn't know you were

going to do, you can pull out tape for some of the things al sharpton has said and done. he's a black activist that speaks from a very emotional perspective about the plight of the african-american community. >> wait a minute -- >> that's -- >> you might not have heard it -- >> let me finish. >> there is gay slurs in there, he called the first mayor of new york the "n" word and a -- >> listen, i'm certainly not going to condone such things like that. >> i know you wouldn't. that's not a question. i know you wouldn't. >> i understand that. what i'm saying to you is that's a conversation for al sharpton to have. i don't support or condone anything like that but at the same time i'm simply trying to tell you how different it's looked upon when you ask that question and oppose it to donald sterling. when you look at al sharpton, a black activist coming from a position of anger, not that it excuses anything, but then you talk about a guy like donald sterling being honored by the naacp when he is literally talking about black people as if

they're second-class citizens and the role they have in our society as a subservient nation. >> he was saying those things about the first black mayor of new york city. >> again, i would have to educate myself, i couldn't understand the tape and i'm just learning of it. i didn't know. >> love watching your show. thanks for being with us. coming up tonight right here on "hannity". >> it's almost to the point to say this man doesn't even like black people. he doesn't like being black. >> that language stoops to an all new low, but will this rhetoric be met with the same outrage that greeted donald sterling's racist comments and

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welcome back to "hannity." while donald sterling is being punished for his racist comments, there are many other examples of hatefully charged speech, but they're not being met with the same outrage. listen to benny thompson attacking senator mitch mcconnell referring to justice clarence thomas as an uncle tom. take a listen. >> i've never been treated like this, with such disrespect. mitch mcconnell had told the president of the united states, i don't care what you come up, we going to be against it. now, if that's not a racist statement, i don't know what is.

clarence thomas, it's almost to the point to say this man doesn't even like black people. he doesn't like being black because every decision where color had something to do with it, he went against it. >> now, we reached out to the congressman's office for a statement and waiting to hear back. will the naacp have the moral courage to stand up and denounce this kind of shameful rhetoric? joining us now, fox news political analysts, they are honoring al sharpton, i think that answers the question. what is your reaction? >> let's say he went to the alvin home school of calling clarence thomas an uncle tom. the naacp is for sale because they were going to honor a black

and white, the national islam radio, beyond playing to the base. this is flat out calling mcconnell racist and clarence thomas an uncle tom. he's a biggot that frankly, shouldn't be in office. >> he's a friend of mine so -- >> yeah, aren't you sick of the way this man is treated constantly -- >> clearance thomas doesn't like black people. that's pretty strange. evidence that he really doesn't have any idea what he is talking about. he doesn't like clarence thomas, conservative. he can't say that -- >> it's a slur. >> the thing here is this is not of the magnitude of what donald sterling had to say. we should not confuse it. that's not it. >> i'm not trying to do anything. i'm trying to talk about a double standard. we play al sharpton using slurs against gay people. >> homos, that was al sharpton. there is no equate -- magnitude is not the issue.

the fact that america rejected this behavior, we need to reject it because the organizations like the naacp won't. they'll only reject the ones that will serve their purpose, not the people that keep their money flowing in. >> remember joe biden about obama. he's articulate, he's bright, he's clean. you can't work at a 7-eleven unless you have a slight indian accent. there is a double standard. >> i don't think there is a double standard. people got called out for it. i will say this, you have got to, on the left and people on the left seem to be tone deaf or blind when people say outrageous

things. things that i think are worthy of their condemnation. >> and black conservatives. >> need to speak out about -- >> black conservatives are attacked universally like -- >> they won't do it for a simple reason because sean, they need to use it. racism, the behavior is about power and control. it's about telling people you're on their side while attacking everyone you want to paint as someone to run away from. >> real quick, i got to go. >> remember the nba players? they use the "n" word all the time. the rappers love it, we're making big bank. they are glad to say the commissioner did the right thing on sterling. why don't they do the right thing and act like men? >> i'm not disagreeing with you. good to see you both. >> you're doing a good job every day. sandra, bernard, gerardo sound off tonight on "hannity." or would you rather have a new caaaaaar!!!! say hello to the season's hottest convertible... ohhh....and say goodbye to samantha. [ male announcer ] geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more.

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geraldo rivera is here. >> don't say on the day. perfect. >> i don't know the day. >> it's the big reveal. >> no, i love the new show. i watched, you were fantastic. >> i agree. terrific. >> i can't care this execution was botched. i don't care that he died of a heart attack. look at him. >> are you for torture? is that what we're for? this is a guy richly deserving of capital punishment. are we iraq now? please. >> they didn't do it on purpose. >> they were experimenting with drugs. they should have had this. why don't we kill him with little knives.

>> that 19-year-old high school graduate didn't have a say. >> we have no beef about the guy deserving capital punishment. the beef is in a civilized society where cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited -- >> what about the media's responsibility here? we just highlighted the fact that at times this has been reported. i saw it this morning where they didn't even mention the victim's name. she was brutally beaten, bound by duct tape, and buried alive by this man. >> do we become what he was? >> i don't understand your point. are you against capital punishment? >> i'm against -- >> why did they keep the drug secret? they didn't know how it works. >> let's go to a firing squad. >> are you okay with that? >> i'm down with that. >> in utah for the guy -- >> andrea is not down for that. >> the governor of oklahoma -- twitter lit up with this and for the most part, it's the death

penalty should not be, not about the victim and how we should be talking about her and her family. marry fallon in oklahoma, there are calling for her to step down. she had to open up an investigation. >> let me go to geraldo. what happened after 9/11, here is my question to you, imagine a scenario, you have children, three guys grab your kids, two of them run away, you tackle the third one. you want to know where your kids are. what are you going to do to the guy you have in front of you because if it means beating him to an inch of his life, i'm going to beat the crap out of him. >> me, too. >> you'll torture him? >> then let's say that's where we are as a society -- >> i'm fine with that. >> the provision in the united states constitution, let's get rid of that. >> wait a minute, you see three guys taking your kids -- >> sean, we can't become them. >> what would you do then if you had one of the three guys? >> he's -- >> you go -- >> this is the case we're talking about. >> stick with my hypothetical -- >> you're talking hypothetical.

i'm a dad, i would kill anybody that had any information. >> you're in my camp. >> the state is not the dad. the state -- >> outraged that the networks ignored the fact this lady was -- i mean, shot and buried alive. they ignored that fact and hyped up the fact the state botched the execution. >> you're talking about a media story, bernard, and a media story is one level of a discussion. you're talking about the state torturing someone. >> we're talking about it now. they ignored it. to further their agenda. >> you destroy the argument for capitol punishment by supporting what happened to that man in oklahoma. >> let's go to another story. we got this minnesota homeowner killed two teens during a break in in his house, convicted, now he's going to spend life in prison without parole. apparently the judge in the case didn't give all the facts to the jury and anyway, we have audio of this guy talking about, calling them vermin.

here's what he said. >> i felt like i was cleaning up a mess, not like spilled food, not like vomit, not even like, not even like diarrhea. the worst mess possible, and i was stuck with it. they weren't human. i don't see them as human. i see them as vermin. >> i don't like what he said. they broke into the guy's house. >> there is a big difference. there is no question whether he did this and killed these teenagers, it's whether it was premeditated. there were things like he moved. >> how can it be premeditated if they broke into his house? >> to indicate there was nobody there for when people burglarize you. they are not going to burglarize you if your car is in the driveway. the guy should get a medal of freedom for what he did.

he protected himself. he had been victimized before. >> whoa, whoa. >> he walked over to the girl, puts the gun under her chin and blows her head off. >> what if somebody breaks into geraldo's house? what are you going to do? >> am i going to shoot the kid, the girl under the chin? am i going to do that? >> it's easy to say after the fact. i wouldn't. >> coming into your house and go and they are laying there, dying anyway, the teenage girl and puts the gun under her chin. >> you would shoot, wouldn't you? >> if someone came into my house, dang right i would shoot. >> you're becoming a right winger. you are becoming a right winger. [ laughter ] >> we got to roll. this is like my favorite panel. you guys and deirdre --

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installment. >> reporter: they were married in 2009 and life couldn't have been any better. >> it was beautiful. the weather. it was like a dream come true for both of us. >> how did you meet him? >> 1991, we were working together and he made a promise to me that we would get married in 2009 we got married. >> reporter: just two short years later, a trip to a va hospital in phoenix for a routine mri set in motion a chain of events that would change her life forever. >> what happened? >> he went in for an mri on april 8th 2011. he came back a kwquadropalegic.

he opened his eyes and said he felt frozen. i said, are you cold? he said, no. he said, get me out of here. i don't think i'm going to make it. those were his exact words. >> when you asked the nurses and doctors, what did they say? >> they won't talk to me. >> they transported your husband to a trauma hospital. >> yes. >> he had emergency surgery. >> his chest and his lungs weren't working. he started with pneumonia. when they found out he had a living will through the va, the doctors there said we can't go through with anymore of the procedures because wayne did

specify that if he was not able to do things and function on his own, he didn't want to live. so i had to let him go six days later. i couldn't fight for him anymore. >> they're not giving you any answers? >> nope. i never got an answer from the doctors. had to sit there for two, three hours and watch him go. there was nothing i could do and that's something nobody should ever go through. >> were you holding his hand -- >> yes. >> talking to him? >> yes. the hospital allowed us to bring one of the little girls in. we brought little chloe in. he said she used to tug at his heart. she was with him when he passed away. >> if you could go back, would you do anything differently? >> i would never take him back

there. they took my life. they took my best friend. >> yeah. >> and the guilt that i've been carrying around because i brought him there. >> and back again to explain. you're getting emotional. this is horrible. >> i love her. i love them all. their stories are awful. i have a soft spot for this family. >> he went in because he had a back issue. >> yep. he had back problems, a disc in his back that was giving him trouble. he went in for an mri because he was in pain. he goes in for an mri. he's supposed to be back there for 30 minutes. she goes and gets food. he's back there for hours. he's a kwau dquadrapolegic at t

point. >> you have to record everything that happens. and they wouldn't even give her the records? >> she still to this day years later has no clue what happened inside that room when he went in to get an mri. >> this is spread -- this is institutionally spread throughout the va, right? >> that's what we're hearing. sean hasn't been throwing the football at the end of the segments. through the football in honor of wayne because he played football in high school. >> it's so serious to me. i just didn't feel right about it. but for connie and for wayne, this is for you. we're going to try and help get to the bottom of this.

we'll be back tomorrow night with the next report. before we go, set your dvr. record "hannity" the series each weeknight. thanks for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night and this is for connie and wayne. email exposing a direct link between the white house and the controversial benghazi talking points. and now other news organizations joining fox and demanding answers. >> it just seems that there is a political calculation that was being made in these emails. >> tried very hard this morning to distance the white house from the ambassador's remarks on the sunday shows. >> is there a suggestion she got confused. >> you knew full well that these sunday show appearances were going to be dominated by the attack on benghazi. >> relied on points about the benghazi attack that were produced by the cia. >> it did not come from the cia. now we see a