lack of preparation and slow response that night, but we begin with chief washington correspondent james rosen, and previously secret information about that tragic night. >> good evening. fox news has gotten a first look at 450 pages of sworn testimony by america's highest ranking military officers that reveal what they and president obama knew about benghazi from the earliest moments. the assault on the u.s. consulate in benghazi began at 9:42 libya time on the night of september 11th, 2012, and within 20 minutes, general hamm was notified. he told the subcommittee on oversight and investigations said my first call was to general dempsey. i told him what i knew. we immediately walked upstairs to meet with secretary panetta. then defense secretary leon panetta and general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint

my colleague james rosen will have more on that tomorrow. bret. >> jennifer griffin pentagon. thank you. you can go to the fox news.com homepage for more details on jennifer and james' benghazi stories. >>> stocks took a tumble today. the dow lost 179 points. the s&p 500 was off 23. the nasdaq gave up 61. >> up next, president obama responds to criticism from his former defense chief, chief about his leadership. first, here's what some of our affiliates across the country are covering. fox 2 in st. louis, a southwest airlines plane lands at the wrong airport. the boeing 747 from chicago was supposed to touch down in branson, missouri. instead, it landed at a small county airport with a short runway. fox13 in tampa with a shooting in a movie theater. two people were hit, one dies. apparently grew out of an argue about cell phone texting before the movie started. moments ago, authorities said the shooter is a retired tampa police officer. >>> and this is a live look at new york from our affiliate there, fox5. the big story there tonight is yankees superstar alex rodriguez, ark-r

last night, fox's james rosen broke the news that president obama, the white house, and many obama senior advisers knew within minutes that the attack on the consulate in benghazi was terror, not a protest in response to the often cited video. 9:42 p.m. benghazi time, the benghazi consulate gets attacked. within 18 minutes, general de dempsey and leon panetta were told by general ham about the attack. within an hour, 11:00 p.m., there's a meeting with president obama, general dempsey, and secretary of defense, leon panetta, so obama is made aware of that at 11:00 p.m. benghazi time. 1:45 a.m., ambassador stevens is declared dead. two hours and 15 minutes later, woods and doherty are declared dead as well. 10:00 a.m., the bodies of ambassador stevens, shawn smith, tyrone woods, and glen doherty are flown from benghazi to andrews air force base. jay carney was asked about the new revelations in the briefing room a few hours ago. >> for many days hour, the president, but you specifically at the podium said we did not know if it was a terror attack. why if the military leaders testified to ca

chief washington correspondent james rosen has more. >> reporter: locked in a battle with law make aresng now sanctions, the white house deployed general james clapper, director of national intelligence. and declassified a letter that clapper support to the democratic chairs and banking and intelligence and weighing in on the sanctions debate on pehalf of the spy agencies. and the only evidence clapper cited was a statement by the foreign minister declaring the deal dead if new sanctions are imposed. >> this is the finding of the intelligence committee. it would under moipd the successful and comprehensive agreement with a iran. >> senators emerged from a briefing. the session hardened their view that more sanctions were needed to bolster the deal with iran. snshg everybody is nervous what they are negotiating toward. especially when you look at fine print. >> i am more disturbed after the briefing. end game comtemplating is not in the ballpark of what i consider an end game. >> while iran continues to enriching levels and the west will afford immediate sanction relief to the islamic re

our chief washington correspondent james rosen with a fox news exclusive now. ripts, james, take us to the earliest moments, the earliest minutes when the president and top military officers first learned about the attacks. what do they sew? >> reporter: you're right bill. they show the chain of reporting in early minutes right up to including the president of united states. general carter ham was head of africom, the combatant command with jurisdiction over libya. in top secret testimony ham told the house committee on oversight and investigation, he was notified of the assault on the compound in benghazi within 15 minutes at 9:42 libya time on 9/11/2012. he broke the news to the marten dimsy and defense secretary leon panetta within minutes of the assault commencing. my first call was to general dempsey's office ham testified to say, hey, i'm headed down the hall i need to see him right away. i told him what i knew. we immediately walked upstairs to meet with secretary panetta. of the ham further testified that the nature of the conversation he had with the na

james rosen live in washington with the details about what's to come, and the work day starts tomorrow. hi, james. >> eric and jamie, good morning to you. when president obama irives back at the white house here in the capital minutes from now, he'll find he has markedly less political capital than he enjoyed one year ago. the gallup poll fines only 4 in 10 americans giving the president's job a thumbs up. that was unchanged from november and down ten points from the start of his term. to regain the ground, he plans to pursue a populous tone and agenda in the cycle. his first push of the new year, including held in the democratic senate tomorrow night. as we look at the president and his daughters emerging from air force one at air force base andrews, this is tape, i should say, has him pushing for an extension of unemployment checks for about a million americans w whose checks ran out last month. the white house and democrats also plan to push for an increase to the minimum wage. the gallup pegged the president's low approval numbers to the fallout of the spying scandals and the rollo

jon: james rosen reporting from washington, thank you. big story, some brand new information from the white house showing obamacare enrollment off the mark by a wide margin, raising serious concerns among insurance companies. the department of health and human services says 18-34-year-olds account for just 24% of totallen rollment. the white house hoped that number would be closer to 40% because those so-called invincibles are needed to sustain the law financially. just over two million people have currently signed up for coverage, but the obama administration is aiming for seven million by the end of march. peter doocy's live at the white house with more on all these numbers. what does the white house have to say about enrollment? >> the word "solid" is how the administration is describing these numbers for the first half of the open enrollment period even though the largest part of that group are older people experts say more likely to get sick, just shy of medicaid eligibility. that would be the 33% aged 55-64 compared, of course, with

james rosen is live for us in washington with the very latest. james?tucker, anna, and clayton, good morning to you. when president obama touches down outside the capitol later this afternoon, he will confront a stark reality. the chief executive begins the new year after one the gallup poll saw his rate declining. unchanged from november and down about 10 points from the high of 51% recorded around his second inaugural. now the senate plans a vote monday night on a measure to reinstate unemployment checks for the long-term jobless for whom those benefits expired. in his weekly address, the president blamed those woes on the gop. >> just a few days after christmas more than 1 million of our fellow americans lost a vital life line. the temporary insurance that helps them make ends meet while they look for a job. republicans in congress went home for the holidays and let that life line expire. for many constituents who are unemployed through no fault of their own will suffer. >> such assistance was always intended to be temporary. gallup says the presiden

james rosen is live.he president making his on moral grounds or is there an economic case? >> the congressional budget office is scoring the total cost of this proposed three-month extension at $6.4 billion. they are stressing the damaging reports of continuing the status quo. failure to extend the benefits would cost $240,000 job this year. it sites other stories from studies saying that gross domestic product would drop. and they are not argue for an indefinite extension. >> up employment is running at under 7% but it is over 6.5%. i would say as the economy recovers and as we push down sort of toward six, we will have to start thinking about ending the extended benefits. >> jobless benefits ran out for 1.3 million lon' te adds to the. so one of the things goes up. but when they give that person the dollar, then they don't think about well, what about the person who has to give you the dollar and the negative impact on their behavior. >> qualified experts reaching opposite conclusions and this is why it

. >> bob, the biggest scandal besides the irs was spying on our own james rosen and his parents, the. as well. i think that was a big deal. >> how about the nsa altogether. >> and if it was a republican establishment that did it they would be freaking out, going crazy. >> we need a good political scandal, something salacious in 2014. >> but when it is not good enough, like weiner and ford, there is always the celebrities. ♪ and the home of the brave [ music playing ] ♪ blurred lines >> you almost hit my wife. do you want to -- i asked you a question. get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> what a jerk. >> i think he has to hideout until like halfway through 2014. and beyonce, really good at lip syncing, i couldn't tell. >> but that was the whole point. she was lip syncing there. >> i'm doing that right now. >> who cares if she was lip syncing, everybody knows she can sing well. >> was that her voice singing? >> yes. >> it was? >> but playing miley cyrus, it was her song and she was moving her lips, and i'm for beyonce because she helped the nice little girl who had cancer. >> most of them

jon: james rosen, thank you. well, the fate of nsa leaker edward snowden, why the case is sparking friendly fire inside the gop and how the media is covering it all. we're going to go in depth, next. >>'s this deep freeze everybody's talking about? >> down right balmy to me. >> we'll tell you where it is. >> how was your new year? >> london with the kids. >> oh, hoity toity. i was in times square. we've got so much to talk about, but -- >> we're out of time. >> we're out of time. >> you'll have to tune in. >> see you in couple minutes. bye-bye. ve symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ male announcer ] truth is not all flu products treat l your symptoms. what? [ ma announcer ] nope, they don't have an antihistamine. really? [ ma announcer ] reay. [ dog whine ] but alka-seltzer plus severe cold and flu speeds relief to these eight symptoms. [ breath of relief ] thanks. [ male announcer ] you're welcome. ready? go. get it [ male announcer ] can't find theflu, try alka-seltzer plus for fast liquid cold and flu relief. jenna: a quic

james rosen with more on this. james? >> harris, good evening. obama returned to the nation's capital with less political capital than he had a year ago. the gallup poll find out went in ten americans approve of his job and that is down from the start of his second term. to regain the ground, the president plans to pursue a populous tone and agenda in this cycle, including a push this week for extension of unemployment benefits. >> just a few days saver christmas, more than 1 million lost a lifeline, that helps folks meet ends meet while te look for a -- while they look for a job. >> gallup said the poor ratings were not due to the economy, but to the fallout due to the spying scandal and the rocky rollout of obamacare. the man who president obama defeated to win assailed the incumbent for dishonesty on the quote of obamacare. >> you will have people finding their premiums going through the roof and the -- they -- the doctor they had they can't keep, the policies they were promised they could have they aren't able to keep and the american people

last night, fox's james rosen broke the news that president obama, the white house, and many obama senior advisers knew within minutes that the attack

our chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in the d.c.ore on that. >> reporter: jenna, good afternoon. despite its image as monstrous beast with tentacles everywhere and countless means at its dispose aable to make your life miserable. the irs according to this report, agency overwhelmed by budget cuts, manpower challenge as execution of core functions. national taxpayer advocate nina olson says the irs could not answer 20 million of roughly 100 million calls it received. waiting times on hold averaged 18 minutes. and that even the agency's most feared and loathed product, its tax audits, fell to their lowest rate since 2005. the combination olson concluded of more work and less funding predictably has impaired the irs's ability to meet taxpayers needs and to improve tax compliance. olson said internal revenue was hit bad by forced budget cuts known as sequestration, simultaneously facing surge in identity theft crimes required allocation of 3,000 agents to tackle because of harm identity theft victims suffer olson said we believe that wa

let's get to ace correspondents carl cameron and james rosen in washington gaming reaction to last night's state of the union. rosen, give me inside stuff, something i don't know. >> the first inside information divulged in tonight's program was in the last segment when you told us that you used to work for car very well. did i not know. >> true. >> i did not know you that and fudgy the whale were personally acquainted. we will move past that. >> that's true. >> what was interesting to hear someone like chris matthews telling viewers on nbc this was masterful work of greatness. hall eye loose on the the hill. red state vulnerable this year. basically ran away from the speech. i will give you a couple examples mark baking given said he begich heard a lot of sound bites. he vowed in a statement that he won't sit back and watch any sort of power grab from an administration that has already demonstrated it does not understand values. mark prior said he was disappointed and said he continued to oppose the president's agenda when it's bad for arkansas and our country. colorado senator mark udall

james rosen tells us one gop hopeful or likely hopeful is reopening old wounds to make a point. >> twicen sunday, nbc news david gregory asked rand paul, the kentucky republican and 2016 prospect about last week's much paublicized comments by mike huckabee, the former governor and fox news personal in which he accused democrats of patronizing women. >> we didn't start this glossy and sometimes dumbed down debate on a war on women. i think the facts show that women are doing very well. >> but then gregory asked about the democrats leading 2016 pr prospect hillary clinton and remarks by paul's wife, kelly, who cited clinton's predatory affair with monica lewinsky which should preclude her return to the white house. >> someone who takes advantage of a young girl in the office and they have the gall to stand up and say republicans are having a war on women? so yes, i think it's a factor. it's not hillary's fault. >> it should be an issue? >> it's a factor in judging bill clinton. >> but is it somebody hillary clinton should be judged on? >> i'm not saying that. this is in regard to the clint

. >> absolutely true, so what we know for certain, thanks to james rosen reporting, he broke that story that the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs told barack obama minutes after the attack in benghazi started, that it was a terrorist attack. so what happened after that, as your montage showed. susan rice went out on all the talk shows and gave this fairy tale version that it was an anti--muslim video. we may have suspected that was not true. but barack obama knew it was not true. and they let her mislead the american people. that over the next two weeks, a variety of members of his administration use whatever verb you want, lied to the american people, misled the american people, told half-truths, he knew because leon panetta and general dempsey told him it was a terrorist attack. so how did the media cover this, right? 35 minutes on the networks on monday and tuesday when the story broke. 35 minutes on the george washington bridge traffic jam, and zero, zero time on benghazi. and no major newspaper covered it either. now, one thing i know for sure, even though

second, the issue of integrity, what came out of james rosen's reporting, they nu leon panetta sat with that colonel hamm, he told them, this is a terror attack. then they went to a meeting at the white house then denied two weeks it was a terror attack. these lying. those are two big issues she's going to have to answer for. >> maybe her biggest difficulty, she did plame it on the videotape days after that. i want to draw your attention to this "time" magazine cover that's about to come out. this shows hillary clinton and "can anyone stop hillary?" what do you make of the headline there. >> when you look at democratic nominees she's leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. if benghazi becomes an issue it will hurt her. i think it will. benghazi has been a complicated issue to understand. a lot of people don't pay tons of attention to foreign policy. you know what people do understand? lying. at the he said of the day for two weeks she said it was a video. when you boil it down to, why did you lie? i can't discuss it now for security reasons. a lot of people won't understand why she, st

troubles me is when this white house starts investigating journalists including our own fox news james rosen gets caught up in that. >> conservatives in hollywood appear to be the latest target now of this irs targeting investigation. the tax agency reportedly investigated a group known as the friends of aid. this comes on the hooems of the fbi report that there aren't going to be criminal charges. >> i love there's a friend of a. as someone who covered hollywood, it's a lonely place for anyone conservative. it does hurt your career. people who work in the industry say it hurts your career. they describe it as fellowship, a way they can talk about conservative ideas and bring in speakers. they are applying for a very specific tax exempt status that's tougher than the other ones targeted by irs. >> they want 501 3 c. the other was 4. they got a ten-point request of questions by the irs which included the irs wanted access to the group's security protected website to reveal members names. that is what got my attention. >> looks like they have once again overstepped bounds. whether they are doi

chief washington correspondent james rosen has an update. >> locked in a battle with lawmakers from both parties over whether congress should hold off imposing new sanctions on iran as a six-month nuclear accord with the country takes place monday, the white house deployed a new weapon, general james clapper, director of national intelligence. the administration declassified a letter clapper sent last month to the democratic chairs of the senate armed services, banking and intelligence communities weighing in on the sanctions on behalf of the 16 spying agencies, but the only cited document was a letter from the iranian foreign minister. >> new sanctions would undermine the prospects for a successful comprehensive nuclear agreement with iran. >> republican senators emerging late thursday from a classified briefing by the state department's number three official under secretary wendy sherman, maintained the session had only hardened their shoe that more sanctions, not fewer, are needed to bolster the west's nuclear diplomacy with iran. >> everybody is nervous about what they are negotiatin

don't forget fox's james rosen. with the irs scandal. we learned the government was possibly using the irs to intimidate and supress opposition voices. then we haven't apprehended the benghazi operatives. >> you're with the with huffington post? >> not anymore. >> so was this a good year for obama? >> i think when you talk about the collapse, i don't see the administration collapse at all. i see a health care roll out with bumps but now it is working. >> working? >> sure. >> half the website isn't built. he has the lowest approval rating at the end of a fifth year than any president since nixon. help me out. george w. bush had a higher approval rating after year five than obama. >> couldn't get health care ben affleck. >> you believe that. >> yes. >> really? >> of course. >> go ahead and finish. >> hang on. >> the fact that you are still justifying the irs scandal targeting conservatives is appalling. i'm not surprised. the president did it, too. he came out when the irs scandal came out and said, i think this is outrageous. no way shoul

tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen on what's taken the president so long. >> as president term national security adviser, tom dawn ln, shaped the administration's foreign policy, today at an aspen institute event in washington, he became the latest high-profile democrat to urge his old boss to approve the keystone pipeline, all be it grudgingly. more than five years after it first applied for a presidential permit to build its second keystone pipeline, snaking along a proposed 1700 mile route from the tar sands oil fields of alberta, canada, to the refineries of the american gulf coast, a final decision on the $5 billion project is still pending at the state department and white house. it's a top ten petroleum user who had planned to use the pipeline to ship its oil will now use rail lines instead. >> that production continues to come south via rail car. the canadium ambassador in a press conference reported by requiring it to move via rail, it adds an additional 9% of carbon emissions to the climate. >> they said president obama has, quote/unquote punted on the decision a

chief washington correspondent james rosen explains. >> reporter: no federal agency arouses as much fear and loathing in american taxpayers as the internal revenue service, but the latest annual report by nina olson, the national taxpayer advocate, depicts an irs struggling to get by, hobbled by the forced budget cuts known as sequestration. the agency couldn't answer 20 million of the roughly 100 million calls it received last year and extended its waiting times on hold to 18 minutes. even then, irs service reps will only answer basic questions, referring even marginally more complex ink rivers to the irs website, published manuals and outside firms and software. even irs audits, believe it or not, are suffering. down to less than 1% of individual filers, the lowest level since 2005. >> the government has saved $1 billion in cuts to the irs budget on an annual basis and lost $8 billion in compliance revenues. >> reporter: it's a sat state of affairs when the government writes tax laws as complex as ours and then is unable to answer any questions beyond basic ones from baffled citizens w

with leaking national defense information about north korea to our chief washington correspondent, james rosen. and lying to the fbi about it. documents published in may show the justice department had designated rosen a co-conspirator and flight risk. the first time an american journalist has been labeled a criminal by the federal government for doing his job. the justice department later changed its policies for such cases. kim has pleaded not guilty. his trial is set to begin april 28th. >>> up next, the obama administration is happily reported the latest obamacare enrollment numbers, but what about what they're not telling you? >> first, here's what some of our affiliates are covering. honolulu, waves reaching as high as 50 feet on the north shore. courtesy of a low-pressure system now heading for california. the waves reached their peak wednesday but surfers and bystanders were warned to stay away from the water for the entire week. >> fox 11 in los angeles with security camera video of a bear approaching an unaware couple in pasadena. the couple getting that close encounter, visiting fro

. >> and what about as we learned, fox news's james rosen's comment on this, that as relates to benghazi, the president's military people, the day of the attack while the attack was going on were informed this was a terrorist attack. that is what they were told and that is what they believed as they were going to see the president. so isn't it logical we can conclude the president knew while the attack was going on it was a terror attack? >> i think it is clear even after they knew it was linked to terrorist elements, and people linked to terrorists, they still continued to stay say it was an attack. from the very beginning that never made any sense. you don't bring shoulder-fired rockets, the kind of armaments -- >> you don't have shoulder-fired missiles when you go into a protest. good point. >> they knew it was a dangerous place, they had a steady stream of intelligence telling them this facility in benghazi is a very dangerous place. from that, they should have done one or two things, close it down like the brits had done, or provide more security, they didn't have military assets to

again, unlike irs, doj where we went after james rosen, unlike benghazi, people got fired quickly. >> if you say those aren't real, you're in the shared minority. >> truth will come out, whether we hear it today or in the future, but it will come out. i it will be interesting to look at the differences in leadership styles. the second topic, president obama speaking publicly now for the first time just moments away from now since an explosive new book by robert gates leaked out yesterday. when he comes to the order podium 10 minutes from now, should he address the allegations in the book. >> i don't think he's going to address. he was elected on mandate to he said the war in afghanistan. his strategy worked. thank god we're winding involvement there. >> cabinet members incredibly close said he did not believe in his own war strategy. >> his strategy worked. i think the record speaks for itself. we're getting out of afghanistan. >> the president did not believe in his own war strategy. should he address that? should he speak to the military families today? thousands of people have died

here's chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: having served as ambassador chris stevens deputy at the time of the benghazi attacks, whistleblower greg hicks riveted a house hearing last may with explosive and often emotional testimony. >> and i got the ambassador on the other end, and he said, greg, we're under attack. >> reporter: now in a "wall street journal" on-ep hicks is defending stevens against last week's senate intelligence committee report which said the slain ambassador twice turned down offers by general carter hamm of of a come to extend the tour of duty in libya of a 16-man special forces team. chris stevens was not responsible for the reduction in security personnel, hicks writes. his requests for additional security were denied or ignored. officials at the state and defense departments in washington made the decisions that resulted in reduced security. cables signed by stevens in the months leading up to attacks first disclosed by fox news show he had repeatedly warned washington about the deteriorating environm

here's chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> with the order from the u.s.ourt, utah's ban on same-sex marriages will stand for now as the state and gay rights activists head to the tenth circuit court of appeals in denver to continue litigating the issue. a ruling by a federal judgeige utah had struck down the ban on such marriages on december 20, and since then, some00reds of couples had tied the knot. the attorney general, in office for only a few weeks, vowed to fight for the ban, as he called it unfortunate the same-sex couples find themselves in legal limbo. >> we feel we're on solid ground because the stay is in place. in regard to the marriages that took place before the stay, we have not had a chance to evaluate and make a final conclusion on that. >> the utah case is on an expedited schedule for appellate briefs and oral argument and it's one of 42 such lawsuits currently snaking their way through state and federal courts. last june in a case triggered by a successful challenge to california's ban on same-sex marriages known as prop 8, they found t

james rosen was named as a co-conspirator for doing his job covering a national security issue. >> ifious president bashar al assad at his word, terrorists are a parasite on his country, but dig deeper and it seems assad and al qaeda have something of a symbiotic relationship. greg explains. >> the first round of geneva talks on syria has ended with little progress made. officials of the bashar al assad rejerusalgime claim their fight war on terror. they're cooperating with thousands of militants he says he's against. >> he himself has even been funding some of those extremists. even purposely ceding territory to them to make them more of a problem. >> syria's informal alliance with al qaeda groups is in part about oil. they have seized oil fields in the eastern part of syria. a key customer for terror oil is the energy-strapped terror regime. tanker trucks are allowed to cross the funt line, and cumasks is avoiding hitting the regions. >> when they attack some area in the north of syria, don't attack this, or we're going to raise the organization. >> according to experts, cooperation

chief washington correspondent james rosen with the fact and fiction behind wendy davis. >> after a filibuster against pro-life legislation in texas last summer vaulted her to the front ranks of pro-choice politicians in the democratic party, state senator wendy davis launched a gubernatorial bid facing off against greg abbott. >> she married young and by 19 was divorced and was raising me as a single mother. >> she's kind of capitalized on her harrowing story of the single mother struggling through law school and raising her daughters. and a lot of people have kind of sympathized with her over that, and now that it's come to light that, well, some of the details may not be totally correct, i think some voters or some people who were thinking of voting for her are going to have a problem with that. >> indeed, the dallas morning news disclosed on saturday that davis was 21 when she was officially divorced from the first of her two husbands, the second husband received custody of her daughters and paid for most of her college at harvard law. she said, my language should have been tighter. later,

tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen continues his reports on new information about the attack from the benghazi transcripts, top secret until monday afternoon. this evening, what the obama administration did and did not do to get ready for the 9/11 anniversary. >> on september 110th, 2012, th white house released a press release reading read-out of the president's meeting with senior officials on our preparedness and security posture on the anniversary of september 11th. it mentioned measures to protect people and facilities abroad. >> numerous steps were taken. >> in top secret testimony over the committee on oversight, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the meeting was a conference call and libya never came up. congresswoman martha roby chaired nine classified hearings examining u.s. forced posture on the day the press release went out. >> it was misleading and quite frankly as demonstrated on september 11th, it was wrong. >> using military lingo, congressman of georgia asked if the september 10th session triggered any moves to shorten response times? did

fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen. so is this as bad as it sounds, rosen?ll, speaking just as an honest broker of information here and i'm not someone who has any particular dog in this fight, yeah. this is another nail in the coffin of the idea that the obama administration was telling the people the truth in the days after 9/11. this is declassified, top secret testimony that was given to congress last year by the nation's top military officers. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and other key people at the pentagon. they gave this testimony in secret last year. now it's been declassified. >> i want to be very fair to president obama and to then defense secretary leon panetta, right? i want to be fair to both men. the testimony was given to congress by the pentagon chiefs, under low on panetta, correct? at the pa net that is the top goif. panetta himself did not testify, correct? >> not before this panel. he testified before the senate armed services committee last year. here is the point of this testimony, bill. >> let's say on panetta. >> yes, pl

i wanted to hear what james rosen had to say about the benghazi report, and you did hear what he hadd rosen to tell us while he had time to tell us what the big die guys were doin have limited time so i have to cut to the chase. bill, thanks for slowing rosen down, he seems to have 25 minute's worth of information to cram into five. and bill, you seem to have let hillary clinton off, after the five. that was that dempsey and leon panetta knew the information was false and didn't correct the record. secretary clinton was warned but did not respond with beefed up security. and joe, florida, why is christie done if he lied but not president obama if he misled us about health care? because the president already has executive power, joe, the governor may be seeking it. there is a huge difference. and good news for christie, at least he didn't blame bush. and warren, ohio, no one cares about christie except democratsdemocrat s. then why does he lead all the democratic polls? and getting your books from the library, on 232 on the list for killing jesus, 111 for killing kennedy, 90 for killi

at first i thought it this was going to hurt him politically but i talked to james rosen who lives inistrict this going to help him. they love his toughness. the new york press is different that the washington, d.c. press. >> they like violence by their representatives? >> is he a former fbi agent. >> he was undercover for the fbi. >> you have got to put it all in context. >> the problem is though it's caught on tape. >> it is. it doesn't sound good. >> is he in trouble, rick? >> focusing on the underlying investigation first time that's the eye reason here his no comments on that has got everyone to focus on the fact that there are serious impro-priorities with his top fundraisers. long boil for a long time. now going to be elevated and certainly political fodder. >> no one paid attention to it before. >> that's the frustration among republicans either when the party picks a bad candidate out of primary or something like this happens where it's a give away seat to the democrat. is this a give away seat now? >> i don't know what it will look like in six months. he will be more closely

chief washington correspondent james rosen has the story. >> reporter: when vice president biden visitedearly december, china had just capped a month in which it increased its holdings of u.s. treasuries by more than 12 billion, treasury department figures show. those moves helped china, already the largest foreign holder of american debt, reach a total stake worth $1.3 trillion. harder to quantify is whether all this is inhibiting the free exercise of u.s. foreign policy. >> china has been willing to lend us a lot of money over the last decade. so we are in a sense dependant on them to finance our shortfalls. on the other hand, if they started selling their treasuries on a large scale, the value of the treasuries would decline, and they would have a very large financial loss, so you might think they have got some leverage, but it's really hard to see how they are going to exercise it. >> reporter: most analysts agree china is using its foreign exchange reserves to manipulate its currency and thereby preserve a considerable trade advantage. >> china is an export powerhouse. the exporters

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chief washington correspondent james rosen following the story on this sunday. he's going to join us by foin. what will actually happen on day one, january 20th? >> for one thing, nuclear inspectors from the iaea will be showing up at iranian nuclear sites for the first of their more intrusive rounds of inspections. they will then make monthly reports on their findings. senior u.s. officials including secretary of state john kerry who announced the deal in a news conference in paris have been reminding listeners this is just an interim deal, that iran and the six world powers over the next six month must negotiate a final status agreement, including the thorny agreement of whether and what conditions iran may be permitted to use its stockpile of 5% enriched uranium, which will continue to grow through this period. >> the negotiations will be very difficult. but they are the best chance that we have to be able to resolve this critical national security issue peacefully and durably. >> as part of the deal, he mentioned sanctions relief. iran will gain access to an

chief washington correspondent james rosen is here tonight with our taxpayer calculator. >> appearing with unemployed americans who will be guested at the state of the union, house democrats again proposed renewing unemployment insurance benefits and framed it in moral terms. >> it's the right thing to do. it's the american thing to do. >> president obama held a similar event three weeks ago, but the white house is its allies in congress are also pressing a statistical argument. this month, the counsel of economic advisers and the labor department issued a report that said failure to extend the benefits would cause the loss of 240,000 jobs this year and could drive down gdp by 4%. >> we're at a time of unprecedently low interest rates. if the government borrows this money, it would come at a low cost, and you're putting it out to people who are going to spend it, and give that little bit of extra support. >> house republicans cite a recent paper by the nonpartisan national bureau of economic research that found that it has fueled long term unemployment, not decreased it. they also poi

debate on how to solve poverty in america, on this, the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, james rosen in president lyndon b. johnson's first state of the union address delivered in the wake of his predecessor's assassination that the federal government launched what lbj called an unconditional war on poverty in america. >> it will not be a short or easy struggle. >> back in 1964, 36 million americans lived in poverty. today, it's close to 47 million. but the u.s. population has grown dramatically over the last 50 years and the percentage of americans in poverty has declined in that timespan from 19% to 15%. still, that's higher than in any point in the first decade of this millennium and far from the record low of 11.1% achieved under president nixon in 1973. what's more, the percentage of children living in poverty is essentially unchanged since 1964. >> i think there's no question that the war on poverty that lyndon johnson declared 50 years ago wednesday has made very important advances. there's just no question. i mean, 1963, 51% of african-americans were in poverty and about 25%

this magic moment ♪ >>> washington beat segment tonight, reaction to the gates book joining us is james rosennry. henry you are our eyes and ears in the white house does the president care about what gates wrote. >> i think he does. he kept him on the job because he was a rookie commander and chief. he needed to show that he could bring in someone with those credentials to give him the gravitas on national security and in the end he kind of turns on him a bit and suggests that his leadership is wanting. i think the other problem for the white house is that vice president biden comes under such heavy fire that they have almost had a very defensive panicky response, specifically to the comments about the vice president, perhaps they are worried about his chances in 2016. specifically in the biden office. >> what was the panicky response? as i said in the talking points memo? who is surprised? biden didn't want to go after bin laden. >> last night this book first comes out us and others we are all trying to get response to these allegations about the president, for example, not believing alleged