the president is not done with ben ghazi because here is why. he is demanded of us since that night to find out exactly what happened and then to make every reform needed to ensure it does not happen again. the president of the united states sends these diplomats, our military overseas to these tough spots and not send them and have them be exposed and he's made darn certain that we are doing everything we can to enassure this doesn't happen again. >> let's talk about the spending fight. the reality is the debt is a huge issue that the president faces. this is the fact about it. when he came into office, the debt was 10.6 trillion and now the debt today is 16.5 trillion. we need to separate the debt from when we talk about the deficit. automatic spending cuts happen in a couple of weeks. it was very interesting. speaker boehner said to a group of us before the president's state of the union address, the president simply doesn't have the guts to take on spending, doesn't have the courage to take on liberals in his own party. it's gotten that bad.

. >> what about ben ghazi and the attack? they said they want to get additional information about what the president about the night of the attack. some of the advice he was given and talking points and what not. has the president finished on the ben ghazi matter or anything else he has concluded should have been done that was not done? >> just the other day our council sentextensive letter. 10,000 pages of documents we provided. but here is the question, david. the president is not done with ben ghazi because here is why. he is demanded of us since that night to find out exactly what happened and then to make every reform needed to enassure it does not happen again. the president of the united states sends these diplomats our military overseas to these tough spots and not send them and have them be exposed and making certain we have done everything we can to make sure is didn't happen again. >> the reality is the debt is a huge issue that the president faces. this is the fact about it. when he came into office, the debt was

you had to go on the sunday shows on i guess it was september 16, after the september 11 attack in ben ghazizi. why did you have to do that? you are the ambassador of the united nationses? shouldn't it be someone else? >> actually, jon i spent maybe a sunday doing the shows. secretary clinton was asked to do it. having been through quite a pretty intense week with the loss of our colleagues in benghazi, the violence against our embassies all over the arab and muslim world and that friday having to join president obama in grieving the families of fallen colleagues and bringing their bodies back. i was asked as i've been in the past and i said i would. >> jon: they hand you a -- they give you a sheet and say this is what happened? >> what happened in this particular instance is -- in all instances when you prepare you go through the background materials ant prep tory process. >> jon: so you prepare for the sunday shows? >> yes. >> jon: i've seen the sunday shows. [laughter] so what was the -- on that day, the basic point was as far as we know this is related to demonstration based on ape -- on

>> analysts say in the wake of the ben ghazi attacks, there is greater focus on what the u.s. can and can't do in protecting its diplomats. >> if someone wants to take their life to take yours, there's very little that can be done. >> lew coffee is a security expert at the heritage foundation. he says keeping the bomber from entering the embassy play add key role in reducing the casualties. >> he exploded himself outside. >> what remains to be seen is friday's attack was an isolated to send a message to the start of a new wave of violence in u.s. facilities in turkey. >> this is not, however, the first time u.s. diplomatic facilities in turkey have been targeted previously by terrorists back in 2008, the attack blamed an affiliate outside the u.s. consulate. three assay lents and three policemen dead. will. >> certainly a lot of unanswered questions. tom fitzgerald in the newsroom. thank you. >>> new york mayor has died. he passed away this morning at a new york hospital. koch was larger than life and the first celebrity mayor. he is credited with saving the financial disaster

consulate in ben ghazi, libya. they want that before they will confirm hagel. the next vote is likely to happen on february 25th. that's when congress returns from a resist. >>> prince george's county got a boost in its ever to have the fbi move its headquartered to green belt. metto says it has about 88 acres that could benefit from a federal agency locating there. no firm decision has been made about moving the fbi anywhere just yesterday. leaders in d.c. and virginia say they're putting proposals together. they wanted new fbi headquarters too. >>> a really nice day out there today, doug. i think we'll have more tomorrow, but look at that sunset. beautiful. this has been about as good as it gets. that's not going to be the case over the next 24 hours or so. article hyattsville, this is where you're going to be seeing temperatures falling down. tomorrow morning looking okay. tomorrow night, a different story. we'll talk about it coming up. >>> part of downtown silver spring could be getting a major facelith. a massive overhaul could transform the area into a b

more insight into what's happening on the ground now let's talk to ben ghazi she's a local journalist who's been following developments today since protests broke out on wednesday if you can hear us how flammable is the situation in the capital now are we likely to see a fresh outburst of violence do you think. at all from my. police. yet you came in march if you crowd came in the morning. i mean chased away by the police now there is a lot of. call these. what exactly are people on the streets demanding now while the slogans you hear right now with this. week we can and. minister of interior resign. mainly asking for the government to go away. and how do you assess the authorities response to the crisis what have they been doing. that prime minister to. you government. has been. initiated but it was refused by now. extremists but it's not. yesterday international consistory. division it's the opposition taking the side their membership. and trying to find. it. we'll leave it there i think about you can hear us thanks for joining us local journalist and guardian live from tunis thank

mission on ben ghazi, libya. >>> time now for a quick look at the stories you'll find in the baltimoresun. 12 things to help you survive the last month of winter. >>> reviews of this week's new movies. and more reports from the orioles spring training camp, in sunny sarasota. for these stories and more, read tomorrow's baltimore sun. and remember, you can look for the updated forecast, from wjz's first warning weather team. >>> a mother's plea for help echoes around the world. now, one columbia family is swamped with letters for noah. the cards and well wishes are designed to end bullying. >> reporter: in month, she learned that noah was cutting himself and had posted a suicide note online. she needed to do something fast. >> i put it out there. i was desperate. it was a survival plea. >> she came up with the idea in her head to like maybe have her friends send letters of encouragement to me to make me feel better. >> reporter: and they passed the cry for help along to thousands of others, just in time for her son's 13th birth last week. noah has a favorite letter. it's from his fourth

about an hour and 20 minutes after the first attack on ben ghazi, secretary pineda, you, and chairman dempsey were at the white house for a prescheduled meeting on a different topic at that time. i think that is when tom donnellan came in and informed all of you and the president about what happened. is that the right timeframe? >> i think we have regular meetings with the president. this is one of our weekly meetings with the president. i should tell you that just before i went into that meeting, i got an update that there had been the attack there. something i introduced to the president. >> let me do this in the interest of time. i want to make two definitions here. one would be the definition, i call it the compound. some call it the temporary mission facility. it does not matter what you call it. that is what would be comparable to an embassy, but it was a compound. the other is on the annex. that was an hour later, a mile away. those two things, we want to clarify. i think both of you would agree those are two perhaps separate attacks that took place. the other definition i woul

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released a time -- the department of defense released a timeline of september 11 and 12 in ben ghazi including the deployment. a copy of this timeline is in front of us. i think we will each have it and it will be included in the record. according to the timeline, the temporary mission filt, the department of defense's first action was to re-- facility, the department of defense's first reaction was to react on a mission of libya to provide better awareness of the events of the events in benghazi. there were a series of meetings in the pentagon for expanding the department of defense's response as well as to prepare for the potential outbreak of further violence throughout the region. during these meetings, secretary panetta authorized a number of deployments. i hope that secretary panetta and the chairman will provide the committee with detail on the circumstances that led them to these decisions. since september, there's been a great deal of focus on the supporting role that the marine corps guards played -- play in many u.s. diplomatic missions abroad. the marine corps did not hav