personally, i can only conclude that director clapper knew, general clapper knew. he could not not have known. megyn, it doesn't work like that. i worked in that world. you know, alphabet soup clearances. and he knew. he would have been briefed on it the first day. you can only conclude unless he produces mitigating evidence, you can only conclude this this was one more cover-up within the web of cover-ups the white house has produced about this. and by the way, i'm still waiting for president obama to call this an act of islamist terror. he won't because his whole narrative is he's mr. tough guy on al-qaeda, al-qaeda's broken. here we are four years later. at the end of the bush administration for all its faults, al-qaeda was on the ropes. al-qaeda is back bigtime, and the white house is lying. megyn: the president has removed that talking point from his stump speech about how al-qaeda's on the run and bin laden is dead, and, you know, that's not generally done accidentally. we're going to talk about that later in the show. ralph, thank you for your perspective. >

that was possibly a mistake. >> since 9/11, director clapper remained silent. however, on september 28, clapper spokesman sean turner issued a state in the his own name acknowledging only that the intelligence community at some unspecified point revived the assessment. privately intelligence veterans complain of being thrown under the bus. >> when people in consulate saw armed men attacking, there were no protesters. why did it go on? >> we were told by intelligence committee. >> kerry, the long island resident whose question about benghazi provoked intense exchange between president obama, mitt romney and moderator candy crowley later told greta van susteren the president spoke to him after the debate and confided that the administration hadn't officially branded benghazi terrorist attack more swiftly because the president feared harm premature, erroneous statement could do in mideast. >> i could only speculate to give himself time to try to uncover the information he needed to uncover. to find out who was responsible for the terrorist killings. other than tha

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and then general clapper came out and said no, wewrong, and here is what happened. once he did the administration changed the narrative. so what people are saying well you were wrong. well, yes, they were the intelligence was wrong in the beginning, but what was most disturbing about what congressman ryan was saying last night. is first of all he doesn't know the difference between an embassy and a consulate. marines don't provide security for ambassadors. we had another group, security group on call in -- in benghazi so this idea that somehow you would send more marines don't guard the ambassador. a counsel have the same amount of security as an embassy. and the request that he said was turned down, it was for triply. >> jennifer: so should the con console ate should have that type of support? >> guarding the embassy is the responsibility of the host country. marines don't stand outside the embassy. the libbians are very very very sensitive about hiring private security firms or bringing more armed people in given the fact they still have rebels around there that w

. >> eric: james clapper saying, oops.crewed up and he's the director of national intelligence. right? >> we still then have a problem with our intelligence gathering systems. but it still comes back to the president who is supposed to be getting these intelligence briefings and up with dates every single day and make the decisions. he's the commander in chief. there is a responsibility there. >> steve: does somebody need to be fired over this cover-up and debauchle? >> i think on 6 november, that person will be fired. >> steve: okay. >> eric: next topic, you have a new ad out. it's pretty darn good. let's take a listen to a piece of that ad. >> february 16, 2003, fort hood, texas, lieutenant colonel allen west had just received deployment orders and prepares his men to go to war. that night south beach, miami, patrick murphy is thrown out of a club for fighting, covered in alcohol and unable to stand. murphy then confronts and verbally assault has police officer. patrick murphy was arrested and taken to jail. two men, a c

clapper is the one. he's a nonpolitical guy. are you saying clapper is lying, rich?no. >> i'm saying if there was evidence there, you know it and i know it, the american people know it because it's come out. it's not come out -- >> it has come out now. it has come out. >> the administration stonewalling. the american people deserve some transparency. furthermore, the major -- >> one at a time, please. let ambassador williamson and we'll bring you back, larry, i promise. >> okay. >> the major issue is president obama thinks terrorism can be dealt with only by drones and focused killing. as governor romney said today, it's a broader struggle between the extremist islamists and moderate factions throughout the greater middle east. as long as the president thinks that the answer is targeted drone attacks aalone, we'll continue to fail. that's why you have this turmoil. you have the failure in iran, the failure in syria. these 20 embassies where there are demonstrations. this administration's middle east policy has failed. it's irrefutable. >> larry let me ask you -- >> s

it wasn't, in fact, signed by james clapper. it was his spokesman.of thought goes into whose name goes on memos and documents -- james clapper didn't put his name on that, that tells me something. >> greta: coming up, the vice-president said he always says what he means. sounds like a good thing for democrat, right? unfortunately, want so fast. they may have turned -- that may have turned out to be a bafd slip. two minutes in florida, it became steaming hot, the triple-x kind. what did governor rick scott do [ ryan ] it doesn't get any better than endless shrimp at red lobster. u can mix and match all day! [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's endless shrimp, just $14.99! try as mu as you like, an way you like! like parmesan crusted shrimp. hurry in, offer ends soon! i'm ryan isabell and i see food differently. sven's home security gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! how does this thinwork? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% casback on every purche, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that ten security gators, rig

>> i think clapper has been wrong on several occasions. so there's a scramble to protect this narrative. i think the other really damaging piece here that he doesn't confront is that the state department clearly knew from ambassador stevens's cable that is the threat was growing and that ambassador stevens himself was worried about his security. we need congressional oversight committee members to look at these cables. you don't have to release them to the public. they're classified. but congressional oversight members need to look at these cables. if ambassador stevens absolutely was clear about his concern that al qaeda was growing and the state department didn't do anything about it, we have a real trouble on our hands and the white house is downplaying this. gregg: that quote by the way was from clapper's spokesman speaking for hill. i want to play a clip now from the vice-presidential nominee paul ryan. take a listen. >> i mean, their response was slow. it was confused, it was inconsistent. they first said that it was a youtube video

david petraeus is growing scrutiny and james clapper. initial assessment that blame anti-islam video. the criticism comes from the senior republican senator. >> talking point came from the white house, but the white house clearly had to get their information from clapper and petraeus. that to me is beyond anything i imagined of these two individuals and their agencie agencies. if it's true. >> in a letter the speaker of the house john boehner is pressing obama to publicly address questions on benghazi, from the reluctance to provide security to consulate staff after a repeated request forto how and on what basis the administration changed the story from escalating protest from anti-islam video to terrorist attack. in simple terms the speaker of the house wants the president as commander in chief to explain the contradictory statements from the administration before the election. >> bret: thank you. we are reworking the hour special for this weekend. new revelations to the "special report" investigation in to benghazi. stay tuned for that

would be an intelligence problem. >> bret: that's what stephanie cutter tried to say. >> that's what clappert petraeus said and rice said and the under-secretary kennedy said yesterday. but you know there are examples of specific instances that you just cited, where individuals say you know what? we thought right from the start this was highly suspicious. in addition to which they could link the individual who had been at guantanamo who then became the poe cuss of investigative efforts. >> bret: charles? >> we know there was no demonstration. there was all a fiction. the question is when susan rice went out, did the white house know what she was going to say? did the secretary of state know? that i think is the ultimate question. who told her to stay those fictions? i think in the end, that is what is going to unravel. watergate scandal was about who knew up high and when. i'll remind you that nobody died in watergate. >> bret: the other thing to point out is the president is on david letterman two days after susan rice is on those five sunday talk shows linking those two things. this is a s

bret, every day, spokesman -- >> bret: spokesman put a statement out from clapper's office. >> clapperen i spoke at the spokesman i was spokesperson for president of the united states. he's spokesman for national intelligence. he said we put out the best information we had. do we learn more about what happens every day? absolutely. we do that with any terrorist attack. nobody wants to get the bottom more than the white house or the administration or the president. this president is committed to when we put people in harm's way, doing everything we can to protect them. i hope we talk about it tonight. we have to be diplomatically engaged in a dangerous world. >> bret: i want to ask on another topic. heard that answer on benghazi from a number of officials. i assume that is going to continue to be the answer. joe biden on national security was aggressive in his debate with congressman ryan. the president obviously agrees with the vice president biden about social security? >> what particularly? >> bret: he says that republicans' ideas are old, their ideas are bad. if we listened to romne

clapper or anybody else from intelligence talk about the movie or the trailer for the movie. heard the administration talking about that. >> geraldo: are you suggesting senator that the obama administration intentionally misled you all in the senate? >> i think there was a delay in us getting -- there still is a delay in us getting critical information and i understand the accountability review board. i understand the 60 day delay to get the evidence. i want the evidence. i want us to find out the facts but as senator corker and i have said if there are cables from chris stevens to the state department that reflected what was written in his diary then the state department knew or should have known he was in grave danger before the attack in benghazi and he was not protected. second, why was he in benghazi to begin with? our embassy is in tripoli. we only have a consulate in benghazi. there are unanswered questions we need answers to now that would not taint the overall investigation but would help to clear a lot of the misunderstandings up. >> geraldo: what is your prediction

kara clapper, abc7 news. >>> -- the trial is set to begin today for the woman charged with murderingnursing student michelle le. prosecutors say she killed le because she was jealous of le's relationship with her ex-boyfriend. le's body was found four months later in a remote area. le's family members say they will attend the trial which is expected to last about a month. >>> in oakland, pretrial hearing continues for a mandwaringed in one of the worst massacres in bay area history. he's accused of silling -- of killing and wounding several others -- investigators say he was upset in part about not getting a refund on his tuition when he withdrew from the school. >>> a gunman still on the loose after shooting shutdown a portion of a busy peninsula freeway 3:30 yesterday on southbound highway 101 near the holly street exit in san carlos. the big jam just after the highway patrol shutdown southbound lanes. red 2009 dodge charger ran off the road went into the bushes north of the holly street exit. the car had been shot multiple times one person inside was hit. police say the car was in

. >> i have my clappers, horns, and my ear rings. >> these are my playoff pans that i have 01. >> greens for the money, gold is for the hundred. >> they are in the sixth inning and they are down by two points. there is definitely still some hope out here in oakland. >> there is a lot of holes still just they would kron 4 tonight will have continuing coverage of the game. >> following the murder of a bay area teacher we do have to people that were arrested who may be connected to the murder. >> a crashed with a school bus shows how it ended up on its side. >> there are new street lights up and the city- state's that this will not only save the city money but it will make this area of the city safer. >> members of the community is holding a town house meeting. the most recent death of mario killed in front of his home. residents in vallejo are still upset about officer involved shooting. mario was 23 years old and he died september 22nd when an officer rolled up on him on the 100 block of pepper drive. they stated that he stepped outside of his car and pointed his gun at the officers and

on the other hand, i have to say that the director of national intelligence, james clapper, originallyd -- i have to quote here, in the immediate aftermath, there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously, following protests earlier that day at our embassy. we provided that initial assessment to the executive branch officials. so biden has backup there. on the question of we were not told, maybe biden wasn't told, maybe obama wasn't told, but in a hearing yesterday, it was made clear repeatedly that the state department was asked repeatedly more more forces on the ground. and one security official who had withdrawn said i was more frustrated with the state department that i came to feel i was dealing with the taliban inside the state department. no question that whether biden knew or not, the top state department officials knew that officials on the ground felt there was a security breach and a very dangerous situation, for our diplomats in libiasm. >> yeah. right, chris. you are exactly right. we reported that intelligence officials privately other than

in other words threw intelligence community under the bus and said top intelligence guys on clapper shopate and all of the rest of the them this is what they said. and this wasn't our fault. >> and there is testimony in the hearing one member in the state department says night it happened that first heard everything calm at 8:30 p.m. am was door walked outside said goodbye to a turkish diplomat. an explosion at the gate. then they had phone calls to the state department in realtime they're making phone calls state department well aware of what is going on. has there been protests state department would have heard about it. it's -- this is not, they knew it. >> there is one of two explanations. one is utter incompetence in getting intelligence to the people or second thing is deceit. >> greta: you can't be incompetent on this, there is never anything to sort of -- keep your eyes on. >> they did have intelligence and put out a false story. they're deceiving and lying to american people. >> greta: why? why? >> only reason i can understand they would do that this is why you send someone out.

he is one of the republican lawmakers who wrote james clapper calling for more answers about the attack. >>> 5 minutes after the hour. it is a time to look at who is talking. >> paul ryan sitting down with fox news sunday the up coming debates and the attack on the u.s. congs lat in libya, ryan slamming them saying it shows the weakness of the president's foreign policy. >> there are republicans and democrats calling for an investigation. the response was slow they were confused and inconsistent. first they awed it was a youtube video and spon tan yours mob we now know it was a planned terrorist attack. if it was one tragic incident that would be a tragedy in and of itself. it is a bigger picture of the fact of the foreign policy is unravelling before our eyes on the tv screen. what mitt romney is going to continue to do a land a vision for foreign policy one american strength verses what i would articulate the president's policy is one of weakness. we are seeing the ugly fruits of the obama foreign policy unravel around the world on our tv screens. >>> the vice presidential hopeful als

white house national security adviser tom donnelly, the director of national intelligence, james clapperite house counterterrorism adviser john brennan, cia director david betrayers. all directly in the loop. one e-mail clearly stating in the e-mail that an al qaeda affiliated group al sharia claimed responsibility on facebook and twitter and has called for an attack on embassy tripoli. seven days after the attacks, jay carney was denying any evidence of a terrorist attack, despite the real-time audio and video of the attack, despite the statement that the cia station chief, despite the statements from u.s. officials in libya and the libyan government statement from the very beginning that it was a terrorist attack. here is jay carney. >> i will tell you, based on the information, our initial information, and that includes all information, we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned were premeditated attack. but we saw evidence that it was sparked by the reaction to this video. lou: concrete evidence. well, the secretary of state hillary clinton returned to

the fact is what we know is that the director of national intelligence, more james clapper has said that was assessment that was given at the time. patrick kennedy at the hearing said that was assessment at the time. we know this. not only that david petraeus went before a committee and said the very same thing. you know, in terms of this question, was surprised it was the first question. i was surprised a little bit by martha's style. it struck me as more of an interview than a debate. it was a reaction what happened to jim lehrer last night because i think he or she was trying to assert herself more. >> jon: we're going to talk more a little later about the libya situation. let's focus bigger picture on the debate also. it was pretty clear that president obama lost the first debate to mitt romney. how did vice president biden do? >> frankly, i thought if he had handled sarah palin four years ago he would have been called a stalker and all kinds of other things. he was rude, as my mother used to say. he interrupted over and over again by one count, over 80 times. he even martha interrup

. >> the director of national intelligence james clapper says that's the assessment we gave the entire association. >> bill: who is the human being who told her. >> the human being in charge of the intelligence community. >> bill: juan, the intelligence community that doesn't cut it i want the name. >> of course it does. >> bill: i want the name of the person who said it? >> that's like saying to president bush, president bush give me the name of the person who said there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq. that's not fair, bill. >> bill: sure it is. give me the name of the person inside the white house that told ambassador rice to go out and blame it on a tape? >> the director of national intelligence says that, what's are you going to do with the director of national intelligence. >> bill: juan, we don't have a name. >> go ahead, mary catherine. there are things going. like to know day one within 24 hours that this was a planned terrorist attack with ties to al qaeda. the idea that it was based on some mob and a spontaneous thing is based on one phone call, cherry picked, famil

she got it from general clapper. should be general clapper who is the director of national intelligence on television. in fact she reports the state department. the state department employees themselves said there was no demonstration at the consulate. bill: in that case you need to talk to susan rice or hillary clinton or both. >> absolutely. bill: will that happen? >> i don't know before the election. it is going to happen. i know chairman issa said he does want to have susan rice in under oath. i'm sure he will try to expedite whether it will happen or not. it should happen. bill: do you think, 26 days to go before the official day on the 6th of november. do you think it is important to do this before america decides its next president. >> i think it is. we're not talking about a mistake. it appears a contrived cover-up by the administration trying to hide reality of what happened and doing that american lives that were lost and we saw with sean smith's mother this has human consequences. this isn't a political fi

is that something we should expect to see. >> yes, i have had a terse conversation with clapper.ry disappointing in the presentation that he made to senators on both sides of the aisle. again, martha. again, i want to go back to the administration. from day one, this administration has been all about blaming things on someone else. that has been this character of this administration. it has failed. they allow their investments go on five television programs on sunday morning to purposely mislead the american people. i am very upset about that. you would think that if they were not purposely leaving the american people, what they would've done would have done on the very first show she was on, someone would've said look, she is off base. they allow that go on. that speaks against this administration, politicizing this, not republicans, but this administration politicizing this effort. martha: senator corker, thank you so much. it is good to have you. bill: 10 minutes past the hour. now an obama official says that the presence policy has sent us back three years. martha: and the ro

feinstein also says it was probably a mistake by the director of national intelligence james clappero put out talking points on the initial assessment, which apparently implied that link to the video, jon. jon: still some questions left to be answered here. catherine herridge doing great work in washington thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jenna: 19 days left before the election and there ace brand-new gallop poll in a shows one candidate pulling six points ahead among likely voters. we'll tell you about that. plus the latest census that is playing a big role in local elections. why it could also change the balance of power on capitol hill. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. jenna: welcome back. national political

we now have written the intelligence community, meaning the director clapper and director people address and said what did you know and what did you tell her in but we have nut heard a response. it is important to get to the bottom of it because it is either deliberately misleading the american people or incompetence. >>neil: we do know enough about the late ambassador stevens' concern of increasing violence. he must have cabled this to the state department? you requested the cables to the state department? >>guest: i know that congressman issa's committee is trying to get the cables. that request has been made. the american people deserve to know the truth. one of the most troubling things is the changing stories we see from this administration about what happened in libya. it is really important we know. >>neil: how much of a focus should paul ryan make? unconscious obviously the economy is the foremost issue but there are two questions for the vice president. the first one is when the administration, when ambassador rice went on television and you have had all the conflicting stories

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told the white house this was -- >> eric: if you hang your hat, our intelligence on that guy, james clapperouble. >> bob: oh, i see. you want to talk about falsehoods but you don't agree with them? >> greg: obama's -- [ inaudible ] >> andrea: real quick, wouldn't you love to see bob at the state department working calling the countries two-bit country? you would have been an excellent diplomat. >> bob: i did. i got in trouble. >> andrea: i can't imagine. solve all of our problems. >> dana: coming up, we'll switch gears. arnold schwarzenegger talks to sean hannity about the affair that ruined his marriage. >> it just created a huge screwup. i you know, had this child. it destroyed my family. >> dana: is he really sorry? you'll hear more from that interview and greg's imitation next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back. former california governor arnold schwarzenegger's new memoir reveals the story behind the secret affair and the child that kept him from his family and his wife. sean hannity talked with him about it today. >> from your perspective, why? i mean, you have a beautiful wife, beaut