. >> can you speak with us briefly about the attack in benghazi? >> we are in a stronger position today. than we were four years ago. >> did the obama administration have problem calling the threat by its name? >> suggestion that anybody in my team would play politics to mislead is offensive. >> could you protect ambassador stevens? >> announcer: "special report investigates: death & deceit in benghazi." from washington, d.c., here is bret baier. >> bret: it looked like this election was all about the economy. but that changed when terrorist murdered four americans at the united states consulate in benghazi, libya, on the anniversary of 9/11. americans had questions. who did this? how? should our government have seen it coming? did president obama try to hide the truth? is this a huge scand that exposes a failed obama foreign policy? or is mitt romney just saying it is? tonight, we'll try to give you answers. we'll walk you step by step through the terror that unfolded that day. we'll break down the political maneuvering that followed. but we begin

he will come to benghazi often. the state department upgrades the physical security at that property. charlene lamb of the state department. >> we extended the height of the owed outer wall with mason ry concrete barbed wire. >> inside the large residents fortified safe haven is built. you enter through a heavy metal grill with several locks on it. >> tell me about the safe haven. >> bars on the windows. building a jail cell you are going to get inside. it's a delay until you can get some relief to get out of there. >> after the bombing in beirut decades ago we created a minimum standard for facilities across the world. >> utah republican congressman serves on the subcommittee of crime terrorism and homeland security. >> this facility didn't meet the minimum standards and didn't meet the number of standards for personnel. >> security on the compound consists of five diplomatic security special agents and four members of the liberty government security force called the 17th february brigade. there is another called t

all is quiet at the compound in benghazi.till sometime before 6:00 p.m., ambassador stevens sends another cable to the state department reporting, quote, growing problems with security in benghazi. growing frustration on part of the residents with libyan police and security forces. these forces, the ambassador writes, are two awake to keep the country secure. few hours later he would be murdered. >> we weren't there. >> if you were, could you have protected ambassador stevens. sometimes in a firefight. >> bret: what exact happened in benghazi? greg palkot has been on the scene. up next, a timeline of heroism and disaster with no details you haven't heard before. what makes the sleep number store different? you walk into conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. we have so much technology in our store to really show the customers what's going on with their bodies. this is your body there. you can see a little more pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. ... now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep

embassy building in tripoli but he comes to benghazi often. the state department upgrades physical security at the property. >> he extended the height of the outer wall. >> charlene lamb of the state department. >> barbed wire. razor wire. >> inside the large residence a fortified safe haven is built. you enter through a heavy metal grill with several locks on it. >> tell me about the safe haven. >> bars on windows. bars -- building a jail cell. you are going to get inside. it's a delay. until you can get some relief. to get out of there. >> it consists of special agents and four member of the libyan government security force called the 17th february brigade. former u.n. ambassador john bolton. >> it is the responsibility of host governments to provide for security for all diplomatic establishments within their territory. from the u.s. point of view, we have to recognize that some countries are better able to do that than others. when you are in a high threat environment, we have to do what is necessary to protect our personnel on the ground.

several blocks away they hit more traffic and a busy benghazi neighborhood. car careens over the middle divider and pushes forward and finally makes it to the annex and again hope for safety. midnight some two hours after the attack begin, a quick reaction force from embassy leaves for benghazi on a chartered aircraft. on that plane is former navy seal glen do her at this will be fending off highway heavy fire. the battle is on again. they are hitting with fire and rocket propelled grenades, forcing them to retreat further back. yet another call is made for military back-up. they say their requests is refused. special forth are ready in italy but pentagon officials later express concern by putting them in harms away. stationed thousand miles away are attack helicopters. strafing the street was not an option for fear of civilian casualties. back at the mission, they enter the building and find the body of stevens slumped on the floor. >> they don't know who he is. they drag him out threw a window. his eyes are did a dazed. someone says she is breathing. crowd

mission walls in benghazi.e takes his last meeting in the large drentz building with the turkish consulate general. he takes him to the main gate makes small talk in arabic with the guard and returns inside. >> at this point outside of the main gate in the compound on the other side of the u.s. mission walls in this benghazi neighborhood all is quiet. no stirings of any protests no sign of the real hill about to unfold. the am brabassador decides to t in for the night. >> 9:00 p.m. still no sign of any spontaneous demonstration. a protest the obama administration would later suggest escalated into a deadly riot. joining stevens in the main residence building is information management officer smaun smith and four diplomatic security special agents. another agent is at the nearby tact kel operation center. all of these agents are armed with pistols. 9:40 p.m. this amateur video captures the first movement outside of the compound. >> the mad mob of attackers break through here the main gate a weak point in the def

greg palkot went to benghazi himself. there he talked to eyewitnesses and scoured the abandoned compound for additional clues. now, he pulls it all together and walks you through a timeline of terror you won't soon forget. >> september 11th, 2012, morning the u.s. ambassador chris stevens has a full day of meetings ahead of him. since this is 11th anniversary of al-qaeda attacks he schedules all of them inside the mission walls in benghazi. he takes his last meeting with the turkish consul general. 8:30 p.m. he escorts him to main gate. he returns inside. >> at this point, outside the main gate of the compound on the other side of the u.s. mission walls in benghazi neighborhood all is quiet. no stirring of any protests. no sign of the real hell about to unfold. >> in fact the ambassador decides to turn in for the night. 9:00 p.m., no sign of any spontaneous demonstration over that web video. a protest the obama administration would later suggest escalade in a deadly riot. joining stevens in the main building is informatio

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all is quiet at the compound in benghazi. sometime before 6:00 p.m., ambassador stevens sends another cable to the state department reporting, quote, growing problems with security in benghazi. growing frustration on part of the residents with libyan police and security forces. these forces, the ambassador writes, are two awake to keep the country secure. few hours later he would be murdered. >> we weren't there. >> if you were, could you have protected ambassador stevens. sometimes in a firefight. >> bret: what exact happened in benghazi? greg palkot has been on the scene. up next, a timeline of heroism and disaster with no details you haven't heard before. in america tay we're running out of a vital resource we need to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the know-ho

that was not my question for benghazi. that cable detailing the future of operations in benghazi. that cable was drafted in the department. i had at no time an opportunity to add or comment on that, however, the principle officer in benghazi had an opportunity to comment on than. it was that number five that d.s. committed to that we continued to ask them to meet throughout my time there. >> we reviewed that july cable and it states further anticipates supporting the operations in benghazi with at least one criminally assigned r.s.o. from tripoli, however, would request continued tv wide support to fill a minimum of three security positions in benghazi. so that would be a total of four, is that right? >> that's correct. >> i understand you left libya before the attacks, is that right? >> that's correct. >> we have now been told there were, in fact, five special agents in benghazi the night of the attack, contrary to the press reports. can you verify whether there were five special agents in benghazi on the night of the attack. and were there any additional armed guards on that nig

greg palkot went to benghazi himself.here he talked to eyewitnesses and scoured the abandoned compound for additional clues. now, he pulls it all together and walks you through a timeline of terror you won't soon forget. >> september 11th, 2012, morning the u.s. ambassador chris stevens has a full day of meetings ahead of him. since this is 11th anniversary of al-qaeda attacks he schedules all of them inside the mission walls in benghazi. he takes his last meeting with the turkish consul general. 8:30 p.m. he escorts him to main gate. he returns inside. >> at this point, outside the main gate of the compound on the other side of the u.s. mission walls in benghazi neighborhood all is quiet. no stirring of any protests. no sign of the real hell about to unfold. >> in fact the ambassador decides to turn in for the night. 9:00 p.m., no sign of any spontaneous demonstration over that web video. a protest the obama administration would later suggest escalade in a deadly riot. joining stevens in the main building is information

nordstrom distrust of the duties of the agents in benghazi -- discussed the duties of the ages in benghazi, we were using an agent to -- agents in benghazi, we were using an agent to monitor classified communications. these are not normally duties assigned to a ds agent. i asked him to review that. when another rso went to benghazi, that rso was asked to review the numbers. a driver was hired, trained and the driver took the place of what the ds agent was doing. they came up through technical security means around the need to half the 24-7 coverage. >> one last question. when the ambassador to travel to benghazi before the attack, could bthe security team in tripoli send additional security with him if it was necessary? >> absolutely. >> or any of those five ds agents with the ambassador in tripoli come down from benghazi? >> yes. >> that is not the same as by being in benghazi ordinarily. the still would have been two more coming down with the ambassador for a total of 7. >> we agreed that three was a sufficient number to have on the ground. one question. -- >> the cable we talked about a

benghazi was the cradle of the revolution. there is, essentially, two major parts of libya, east and west. in order to help the libyans move forward, to help the libyans take advantage of their newfound freedom and to build the democratic strategy, we all wish for any nation to have, we could not hupger down, we could not say out. as i mentioned earlier, the state department has to go into harm's way. if we're going to advance u.s. national security interests, we cannot retreat. we have to go, to use a colloquialism, we have to go where the action is. we will take every step we can to mitigate the risks to our personnel abroad, but we cannot end those risks. we cannot stay out of the action. we have to go there. and because as you correctly posit, sir, because of the importance of benghazi in the development of the new libya, we had to have a forward operating location there, and we had to have visits there by ambassador stevens. >> thank you very much. mr. nordstrom, on the ore side of this -- other side of this, can you desc

say benghazi was a triff strike timed to september 11th. then the president opened his appearance wit the mention of the attack after spending the restof the evening campaigning. >> i want to say a few words about a tough day that we had today. we lost four americans last night who wereilled when they were attacked added diplomatic post in india. -- libya. they were serving overseas on our behalf. because you are a battleground state you realize we have an election going on. >> the following day the state department fielded questions about security on the gund. >> we did evaluate the threat to and determined the security that benghazi was appropriate for what we knew it. lou: secretary of state clinton continue to try the video, fabricated demonstrations to thos attacks and murders. >> there is no justification, none at all. to respond with violence. lou: september 14th jay carney insist the attack was spurred by the patio, the denstrations and it was spontaneous nothing to do with terrorism. >> these protestswere in reaction to a video tha

predator drone positioned over benghazi. hours and 20 minutes after the attack started, former seals tyrone woods and glen doherty were killed at the c.i.a. annex a mile from the consulate by a mortar shell at 4:00 a.m. local time. the president met his defense secretary and vice president in the oval office within an hour of the attacks on set. the pentagon began moving military assets. eight special operators sent from tripoli, a fast team of marines from spain were sent to guard the embassy but remained in the capital. special operations force was moved from central europe to the air base in southern italy. 480-miles from benghazi. a-16 and apache helicopters were unused at an air base in northern italy. two navy destroyers in the mediterranean moved off the coast of libya on the day of the attack and were never used. some former defense officials say it was too little, too late. >> from the united states military to say they were 480 miles away and they could don't anything and they couldn't move one aircraft in eight ho

megyn: but not in benghazi. hold on!sador susan rice, here's susan rice five days after the president now claims -- >> i want to respond. i want to get a chance to respond to this. >> that we have today is that, in fact, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack, that what happened initially was it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. our current -- megyn: last word, simon. i've got to go in 30 seconds. >> so if you finish that video, what she says is that then guys with big guns and military strikes came in and left, a military strike against our embassy. there was never confusion, there was never confusion about the military nature of the strike. what there was confusion of in benghazi was the role of the video. megyn: okay. thank you both. >> sure. [laughter] megyn: coming up, obama campaign co-chair eva longoria taking serious fire for a very ugly tweet about mitt romney. ♪ peg mg my twitter feed is lighting up over that last segment. follow me on twitter

up next we will hear from both congress people on benghazi-gate and senator john mccain as well on benghazi-gateess join the debate which may determine who wins the white house. we'll be right back. this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh yeah!! well that was uncalled for. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagher at a farmers' market. get happy. get geico. >>> are you disappointed even with the damning cables showing what the white house knew and what he they knew it the issue apparently not gaining the traction perhapses it should with the american people? >> i have been deeply disappointed. it is like a lot of the scandals that you and i have tracked over the years the initial problem if there is a coverup becomes much, much worse and i don't have to tell you that there were signs of the problem, our consulate was attacked in april and june as you know. there were pleas for additional security. the

consulate in benghazi. using the ship records, fox news confirmed the victory received on september 6. this is five days before ambassador stevens and sean smith and former seal tyrone woods and glen doherty killed in an extended terrorist assault by 125 members of the militia. on the night of the attack in benghazi, ambassador stevens just finished dinner with a turkish diplomat. according to that initial september 14 report by the times of london, 400-tons of cargo was on board. some humanitarians but also the largest consignment of weapons headed for syrian rebels on the front line. >> this is a ship by the name of victory carrying weapons that are found in libya. >> he is a middle east and terrorism expert for fox news. >> the ship came that way, all the way up to extend it in turkey. s. >> now the information available there were weapons. a lot of weapons. >> it included surface to air antiaircraft missiles like these. rpgs. russian designed man portable air defense systems known as man-pad. the ship c

let me on a personal note start with what happened in benghazi. no one wants to find out exactly what happened more than i do. i have appointed an accountability review board that has already started examining whether our security procedures were appropriate, whether they were properly implemented and what lessons we can and must learn for the future. we are working as thoroughly and expeditiously as possible, knowing that we cannot afford to sacrifice accuracy to speed and of course our government is sparing no effort tracking down the terrorists who perpetrated this attack. and we are focused as we must on what needs to be done to protect our people and our facilities. we had another terrible attack yesterday. i strongly condemn the killing of a long time yemeni employee at our embassy. we are working with yemeni authorities to investigate this and bring those responsible to justice as well but throughout all of this we must not only focus on the headlines. we have to keep in mind the trend lines and remain focused on the broader strategic quest

>> the entire benghazi question.n david axelrod went on fox and said it was the state department's responsibility, and therefore hillary clinton's. she even told the white house she was thinking of resigning. it got to that point. ultimately, they decided that this legal team not to go that way after they reviewed the cable traffic to and from benghazi, and this is what i discover. the cable traffic, and i'm careful about this because i took notes when i was speaking to a member of the legal team, the cable traffic will ultimately show that hillary clinton gave specific orders, and if the orders were carried out, which they weren't, they could have conceivably avoided this disaster. lou: and yet, ed, secretary state clinton taking at least broad responsibility for what happened last night, but then very carefully not accepting responsibility for which was a lack of security as they were killed, and in terrorist attacks on that date. why does she step forward just about 24 hours ago? >> you know, beyond the human trag

consulate in benghazi. elise, last night you learned more detail including the attackers could get into stephens safe room and set it on fire. what happened next? >> that's right, john. ambassador stephens, another gentleman shaun smith who died in there and another security officer. as smoke filled up into the room, they couldn't get out and felt the window was unsafe. they made it to a bathroom where there was another window. the regional security officer tried to get both of those gentlemen out. proper procedure is that he gets out first and then brings the two people that he's guarding, turned around and found that ambassador stephens was not there. so what happened was this officer, other officers took turns going in to this burning building, heavy smoke, wasn't able to find ambassador stephens. did find shawn smith. hours later we understand people at the hospital, we are not sure really how ambassador stephens made it to the hospital, but we understand the hospital fished out a cell phone from his po

to me benghazi let's face it.e and tragically four americans dying it is in the middle of an election and no doubt we are going to deal with many of the policies. to me the very nature of all of this speaks to central elements to the way the administration has been. yes, i wish it could have been taken up a little more fully in the second debate. that's when i thought the opportunity existed more greatly more fully. because by the time a third debate came around the administration was able to put some things out to try to -- there were curve balls they sort of made things less clear. to me they are not less clear they are very clear. that is there is no question within 24-hours this administration knew this was a terrorist attack. it did not emanate out of any protests that took place in front of the consulate. to me it was a deliberate brat process of misleading us so people would not think this kind of terrorism is taking place in parts of the world except that it was created some film by some toxic christian in

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senator corker who just returned from benghazi says u.s. ambassador susan rice insisted for too long the attack came from a breast. >> i look at susan rice, five days later, there is no question, no question beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was known differently that this was not about any film. she candidly, my theory, and i don't know, we will find out, someone will write a book about this, but she was then under the bus. >>reporter: democrats expect the hearing was to make the administration look bad. republicans argue maps of the compound available in google should not be shown in opposition. >>shepard: it may have made the administration look bad. we have learned the terrorists attacked the consulate long before this and they warned us on facebook they would do it again. they difficulty. they murdered our ambassador. the first american ambassador murdered overseas since 1979. right before america was held hostage. they did not even tell us about the first strike. we will speak with an expert on this and try to get to the bottom of it

mission in benghazi.we need to carefully, very carefully, investigate allegations that have been made over the past week. and we need to run them to the ground before we jump to conclusions. we should not be about the business of drawing conclusions and then looking for the facts. let me start by thanking secretary clinton and the state department for cooperating fully with this committee. they agreed to all of our witness requests. they offered additional witnesses beyond those requested. they promptly organized interviews with the department officials. they have been collecting documents saw by the committee. today there are several specific allegations i would like to ask the witness is about. for example, \ mr. nordstrom, former regional secretary officer in tripoli, he told a committee there should have been five diplomatic security agents in benghazi. in other interviews we conducted yesterday, we learned that there were five agents in benghazi on the day of the attacked. should there have been even

the benghazi-lib libya license consulate was a death trap. we asked additional security and was denied because we wanted to normalize relationships with a nonexistent government. we should have closed that consulate long before september 11 or heavily reinforced it and i put that on the president of the united states. this was a national security break down before, during and after the attack. >> senator durbin, we agree the president doesn't get into the weeds and decide the security level in benghazi but given all these warnings why didn't he and his administration do more, whether beef up security or close the consulate? why didn't it do more to protect those four americans who were killed? >> senator graham and i were in a classified briefing just i guess two weeks ago in washington when we came together with secretary clinton, the c.i.a. and others. they are engaged in a comprehensive investigation of what occurred here. that's what we've got to have. think back at history. it hasn't been that long ago we lost over 230 marines in the bar

very quick on benghazi. the president did mention terror in the rose garden. >> yes. >> the president did not say this was a terror attack. when he was asked on september 20th "i don't want to speak on something until we have all of the information." our intelligence knew that night it was a terrorist attack. on september 25th -- this happened on september 11th. he said "we are still doing an investigation." he would not admit it was a terrorist attack. >> so that same night he spoke in the well of the united nations that same day. he mentioned the youtube video six times. he didn't call it an act of terror. he didn't say it was a terrorist attack. that was two weeks after the attack. his u.n ambassadors went on the shows and said it was a result of a mob reacting to the youtube video and his press secretary said we don't have the information to determine whether or not this was a terrorist attack. >> if we fact check this tomorrow night we will show you some of these cuts. it is going to become very clear t

dreadful night, in benghazi.about this is, the woman at the state department who made the call acted within the framework of policy and the policy toward libya was, attitude was, this is now a country of friendlies, and helped them depose the hated dictator and we're normalizing the situation there and we have good ties. libya is one of the success stories. so, the idea of sending in extra security, because the place is in bad shape, would be against that story line. so, one can understand how a senior official of state would be hesitant to do that and, resist doing that. now, it has been said that the failure was not -- did not have to do with a lack of money. there was testimony to that effect. so, you know, the attempts to blame this on stinginess in congress i don't think worked well. this was a major security -- and i think intelligence failure, and it grows to some extent, i think out of the attitude embodied in the administration policy. >> chris: there was a specific memo in march from the security person

benghazi?k the obama campaign manager, stephanie cutter, she thinks it's because mitt romney is making it an issue. it has nothing to do with the fact they lied to us. can somebody remind her four americans are dead? their families have no answers in and her comments are insane and ridiculous. she is almost biden-lik >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." time for media mash, the ways that the mainstream media tries to spin the liberal news. brent bozel is here. i don't think it gets any worse than a debate moderator that let's see -- goes barack obama, goes to her wedding. paul ryan should learn. go to the wedding of any reporter that will moderate a debate. let's show how many times she interrupts paul ryan when he is about to make a great point of the timing was amazing. >> that means successful -- >> no specifics. >> what we are saying, lower tax rate, 20 percent, start with the wealthy -- >> you guarantee this math will add up. >> six studies have verified that this math adds up. >> vice-pres

it was our job to defend the compound. >> bret: benghazi attacks staggered america. we now have another reason to mourn on 9/11. a new unmistakable warning. islamic terrorists that brutalized our citizens were well armed killers intent on doing us great harm. the brave americans in libya knew that long before we died. the rest of us owe it on to them to under that, too. that is our program. i'm bret baier. thanks for watching. card gives you a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more [ russian accent ] rubles. eh, eheh, eh, eh. [ brooklyn accent ] 50% more simoleons. [ western accent ] 50% more sawbucks. ♪ [ maine accent ] 50% more clams. it's a lobster, either way. [ male annncer ] the capital one cash rewards card. with a 50% annual cash bonus, it's the card for people who like more cash. [ italian accent ] 50% more dough! what's in your wallet? i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka

and another assassination attempt in the libya city of benghazi.fficials say a home made bomb was hidden under a police colonels car and no one was exploded because the colonel went back in the house after cranking up the heat of his car to keep it warm. >> endeavor is on a journey. space shuttle is crawling through the streets of los angeles being to yoed to youed to the science center. it is going at a top speed of two miles per hour. and td banks is notifying customers from maine to florida they may be victims of a data breach. unencrypted back up tapes were misplaced. and those are the top stories right now. back to you. >> peter thank you very much. the obama administration is taking heat for the handling of the terror attack in benghazi and lawmakers are determine to get to the bottom of what happened in libya. here's more in washington with the latest to get those answers. >> they started to investigate the lib raattack. the republican senator who lead the security committee said there is a full acting. and they say in a statement we intend