facility in benghazi.nd, frankly, without an adequate warning there was not enough time, given the speed of the ae attack, or armed military assets to respond. that is not just my view, or general dempsey's view, it was the view of the accountability review board that studied what happened on that day. in the months since the tragedy at the temporary mission facility, and the nearby annex in benghazi we've learned that there were actually two short duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart. and, again, there was no specific intelligence that indicated that a second attack would occur at the annex, which was located some two miles away. the bottom line is this. that we were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault which could have been brought to an end by a u.s. military response, very simply, although we had forces deployed to the region. time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response. despite the uncert

facility in benghazi. and frankly without an adequate warning, there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond. that's not just my view or general dempsey's view. it was the view of the accountability review board that studied what happened on that day. in the months since the tragedy at the temporary mission facility in the nearby annex in benghazi, we've learned that there were actually two short duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart. and again, there was no specific intelligence that indicated that a second attack would occur at the annex which was located some two miles away. the bottom line is this -- that we were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault, which could have been brought to an end by u.s. military response. very simply, although we had forces deployed to the region. time, distance, the lack of inadequate warning -- of an adequate warning prevented a more immediate response. despite the uncertainty at the time, the depar

facility in benghazi. and frankly, without an adequate warning, there was not enough time, given the speed of the attack, for armed military assets to respond. that's not just my view. or general dempsey's view. it was the view of the accountability review board that studied what happened on that day. in the months since the tragedy, at the temporary mission facility, and the nearby annex in benghazi, we've learned that there were actually two short duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart, and again, there was no specific intelligence that indicated that a second attack would occur at the annex, which was located some two miles away. the bottom line is this. we were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault, which could have been brought to an end by a u.s. military response. very simply, although we had fourses to deployed to the region, time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground, prevented a more immediate response. despite the uncer

facility in benghazi. and frankly without an adequate warning, there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond. that's not just my view or general dempsey's view. it was the view of the accountability review board that studied what happened on that day. in the months since the tragedy at the temporary mission facility in the nearby annex in benghazi, we've learned that there were actually two short duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart. and again, there was no specific intelligence that indicated that a second attack would occur at the annex which was located some two miles away. the bottom line is this -- that we were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault, which could have been brought to an end by u.s. military response. very simply, although we had forces deployed to the region. time, distance, the lack of inadequate warning -- of an adequate warning prevented a more immediate response. despite the uncertainty at the time, the depar

what were we're doing in benghazi? what was that cia really -- >> you say drilling down, i think that suggestion it was an arms deal for syria and rebels through turkey, you know, that may turn out to be the case. but the real issue for me is the fact that this, this government, basically was disinterested in the lives of 4 americans, that it refused to respond to in a moment of urgent help. >> don't you think what we were doing in be benghazi sets up reasons why,. lou: i think the reason they are disinterested -- >> jennifer griffin reported on, is that stuff what is happening in benghazi, who is that to have dis pose able people. lou: i think in musings and possibilities and imagings may turn out to be a reality, two brave cia operatives lost their lives trying to protect people who should never have been put in these kinds of risks and they did so with the full knowledge of the ambassador christopher stevens. and those two men should be i think, remembered. for their valor. >> could i add, we still, i would like to

benghazi by the way is not a good example of that.t was largely driven by campaign stuff because everything about that we have had more testimony and more paper provided to congress than ever before. congress is running out of things to ask. >> i want to play again, hillary clinton from her testimony. we have heard this before. listen again. i want you to react to it. >> with all due respect we have four dead americans. is it because of a protest or guys out for a walk who decided they would kill americans? what difference does it make? we have to do whatever we can to prevent it from happening again. >> bret: people say why is this important? why are you doing this? why is this important today? why are you holding up the nomination, not tenbially brennan's nomination? why? >> i hope the next president when there is an attack on the consulate or a foreign emergency, national security incident they will pick up the phone because they remember what happened when obama didn't. senator obama and senator clinton had no problem trying to fi

no vote for hagel until panetta answers questions about benghazi. [laughter] what happens when ten jews sit in a room and try to come up with puns really. starts that way every morning, actually. so two weeks ago lindsey rhett graham had his raisin -- whatever it's a play. >> did the president show any curiosity about how is this going? what kind of assets do you have helping these people? did he ever make that phonecall? >> look, there's no question in my mind the president of the united states was concerned about american lives. >> with all due respect i don't believe it's a credible statement. >> jon: oh, with all due respect, the president does not care for he is a cad and a scoundrel. [ laughter ] it's a plan as the alabaster tone in my creamy skin and as simple as my maid kicked in the head by a donkey. this president lies like all the other men who woo you with their lives and leave behind nothing but broken dreams and a torn cotton negligee you ordered special from a yankee catalog. [cheers and applause] [laughter] anyway, the point is he go

we've talked about benghazi in the past. i think it was critical that the administration came out like they did today when benghazi happened. we talked about all the motivations in the past, why they may have decided to parse words or quibble over definitions but i think it was very important what they did today and that's what i think they should have done regarding benghazi. unfortunately, they just didn't. we still don't have a lot of the answers about the tragic events in libya. >> rosa, we're getting new information in that i think is obviously relevant here. according to our reporting here at cnn, cnn's fran townsend saying, the suicide bomber that did this attack in turkey was known to american and other intelligence agencies. again, it seems that we have information and aren't always able to act on it in time. is this a sign of a failure on the part of the united states? >> there's no way to know. i think we've got to wait for the investigation to come out. i think one of the other lessons of benghazi is it's a reall

many things, hagel included, but also benghazi.le moment for a president who has just been re-elected, who has won legislative fights on things like the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling that he has not been able to get his picks through, and i think the longer the hagel thing sits out there, andrea, the more danger it is -- dangerous it is for chuck hagel's chances. >> can i just point out -- >> i'm being told that the white house council has sent a letter. >> i have the letter here. >> very good. tag teaming. >> the letter from katherine rumler, to senators mccain, graham, and ayotte says she is trying to address concerns that have been raised by you and the armed services committee in connection with the nomination. she quotes extensively from the review board, remember the review board from pickering and admiral mueller, which said that there simply was not enough time for a military response. then she says this intensive response, which was directedly the president, included 13 meetings of interagency principles and deputies withi

it's a kind of domestic version of the benghazi strategy.e can blame somebody with no proof at all and see if the american people will buy it and they won't. >> karen, just going back briefly to the great ted nugent. it's worth recalling this is a man who was investigated by the secret service for things that he said publicly about the president and now this representative decides to bring this individual with him to the state of the union. >> and this is also a man who has the lyrics shall we remember, wang, dang, sweet pootang. i don't know if this is the most appropriate guest to bring to the state of the union. i also think bringing someone like ted nugent, who as you point out is not only outrageous but actually threatened the president to the point that the secret service had to take that threat seriously, i mean, that shows the ongoing lack of respect for this president. it shows a lack of respect for the importance of the state of the union. we have seen it time and time and time again. every single time the president has gone to the

let's start with the benghazi hearing.tent in a at that said the pentagon didn't have the intelligence or the assets to get to benghazi in time to protect those four americans who were killed. let's take a look. >> you can't just willie nilly send f-16s there and blow the hell out of a place without knowing what's taking place. you can't send ac 130s there, blow the hell out of a target without knowing what's taking place. >> did you find panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs, did you find them persuasive on this point? >> not at all, chris. you know, to their credit, i understand this came about all of a sudden. but when i asked both of them, was this an intelligence failure, the response was interesting. what general dempsey said is, that there was an intelligence gap. i'm not sure i've ever heard that term in my 12 years of experience in intel world. certainly if they had had intelligence that this crowd was forming, that they had been planning this over a period of time, if the community had frankly done its job

i think the issues of benghazi are important. the report that ambassador pickering did was quite thorough, indicated the situation, the confusion. and i think something else that has to be recognized is that... there was attacks on our embassies in cairo. in fact mobes were storming the gates purpose there were threats throughout the region. the idea that the president was not engaged is, i think completely wrong. he directed the secretary of defense, as secretary panetta testified, to begin moving assets into the region to provide any response. ambassador pickering, admiral mullen concluded a response would be difficult if not impossible because of time and space. >> schieffer: a lot of people don't know want rules of the senate. senator graham said he's simply going to put a hold on these nominations. you say that's unwarranted. but what will happen next if he does that? >> well i would hope we would have in regular order a hearing and a vote on senator haig expel haig expel brennan and then we would bring it to the floor. i ca

benghazi in a real sense, as you have heard today, became his city. as it is with a deep sense of fate that in benghazi he and his colleagues gave that last full measure for his country and his many friends in the city where he died, continuing to defend and prosper their hopes and their aspirations for the future. many have commented since on chris's salient commitment to the people of benghazi. john thorn writing in the christian science monitor noted that when he passed in the street, the young men would call out, hello, chris. they knew his face. would laugh and say hello always. this is the right way to deal with our people, he said. libyan friends said he was always ready to put his country first. he shone by being himself, interested in the lives of ordinary people. his death was met with shock and sadness in libya. feelings with regard to americans that are rare in that part of the world these days. for me that judgment captures key characteristics of chris and his approach to life and work. secretary of state hillary clinton noted chris's swe

mission in benghazi is our topic. testimony on capitol hill has ignited a fresh round of debate today. what's not going away are questions about last year's terror attack in libya after panetta's final testimony yesterday. >> if i were a family member and one of my loved ones was killed in benghazi, i would be sick to my stomach. >> republican lindsey graham declared on twitter the president, quote, has to announce for his leadership on benghazi after panetta and general martin dempsey testified, they spoke to the president only once during the eight-hour attack. >> one time. >> right. >> you talked to him how many times? >> the same one time. >> graham and his republican colleagues repeatedly pressed panetta on why there was no direct follow up with mr. obama after they met in the oval office. >> are you surprised that the president of the united states never called you, secretary penta, and said how is it going? >> normally in these situations -- >> did he know the level of threat? >> let me wa finish the answer. we

according to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, benghazi wasn't the only problem popping up onhe radar. >> this deteriorating situation in libya wasn't unique. some will suggest it was the worst thing going on, it was among the worst things going on. so, in context the were equaled elsewhere with equally and threatening intelligence. >> heather: steve yates is a deputy assistant former for national security affairs. he served through the bush-cheney administration. thank you for joining us. what needs to keep from what happened in benghazi from happening again and how serious is the security problem overseas? >> if we take the inspector general at his word, the security weakness is significant. it's clear with other data points our chief executives was not doing what they needed to do to keep our diplomats safe. there is going to be an improvement in management. strategically we have to take more serious of the threat in the broader region. i think secretary clinton and panetta seemed to be overruled by the white house. >> heather: it boggles the mind, the threat streams in lib

benghazi, they used susan rice. they were trying to use hillary clinton to go after president obama. that's what this whole thing is about. so whether or not people went to the briefs or picked up phone calls, it was pretty obvious from the travesty that were those hearings that this was really about trying to come out with some got you information. but ultimately to go after her president that. >> is it, got you information. it would seem to me that rand paul would have picked up the phone and called secretary clinton, i don't want to make you look like a fool and i don't want to look like a fool, but i'm going to be very clear on this. this is what i'm going to be asking. you know what? we need to get to the truth of all this. that's really what the hearings are all about. >> it's still out thereby discovered. there are still a lot of questions that i think were missed completely in these hearings. >> i'll let it sit there. great to have you with me. remember to answer the question at the bottom of the screen. sha

they have filibusters chuck hagel over benghazi. and now mccain still claims there is a massive cover-up. what is going on here? >> i think what is going on is a bit strange, just as you've implied. let me tell you where i was on friday. i was out at the new naval complex, the bethesda walter reed medical complex, visiting with wounded warriors. these are people who paid almost the maximum price, some would say even more than the maximum price in iraq or afghanistan, triple amputees, double amputees. and we were talking about this. they brought the issue up of why mccain, graham, inhofe, cruz and others are opposing hagel, the real reason. and, you know, they dismissed inhofe. he never saw a foxhole in his life. they dismissed graham. he is an air force lawyer, never saw combat in his life. they dismissed cruz. they think he is an idiot. but when it came to john mccain, they shrugged their shoulders, and they looked at me and asked me why? this man is a veteran. this man was a prisoner of war. he showed a great deal of courage under

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they want to understand more about benghazi. at what point in your assessment your judgment,d does the white house begin to understand they can continue to nonsense of saying they are transparent, but offering no, no information what so ever, how long can they continue that, when they have senator feinstein demanding information? >> well, this is an indicator that really there is no consensus on national security if senators from both parties are questioning those issues issue the message is clear, we don't feel, senators do not feel, let alone majority in house do not feel that the obama administration is clear as to how to define a split -- threat, we failed in benghazi. i am concerned on the issue of iran, on one han, letters about engaging the iranian regime, and other hand reports saying that irannians are all over the place sending weapons to yemen and somalia and else where. >> the wheels are go to congress off the bus, seems to be in trouble. we can't seem to get anybody i think this a big mess it is going to get worse.

the whole benghazi business lasted at least seven hours.orts today that there was no hillary clinton from the state department, which is her jurisdiction. panetta didn't talk to the president, panetta didn't talk to hillary clinton. i don't know who he talked to. all i know is nobody saved the four people, we didn't see any american force. what's up with that? >> and it's long after the presidential election has run. i mean, you really wonder if democrats would win any elections if we had an honest media in this country. this is really getting to be a problem. the media is becoming a threat to democracy. the things that they went crazy over when bush was president, remember that video at the white house correspondents dinner, we found weapons of mass destruction in iraq but they were not the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, they had video of the dog looking for weapons of mass destruction under the white house furniture. it was a silly little furniture and you would think someone died. well, here in this case under obama, four peo

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that's shocking. >> if i were a family member and one of my loved ones was killed at benghazi, i wouldck to my stomach. the president of the united states talking to the secretary of defense for 15 minutes, never talked to the secretary of state until after the attack was over, never made a phone call saying how close are we to help these people? where is chris stevens? what did he do when he was told the ambassador was missing? we've had one ambassador killed in the last 30 years? the president of the united states has to account for his leadership here and i intend it hold him accountable. thus far the white house has delayed, denied, deceived and stonewalled and this has to come to an end. he has to account for his leadership. >> sean: this was an eight-hour ordeal and as you pointed out they didn't send in any help and now learning they could have. what was the the time frame. wasn't it early right after the attack started and panetta talked to obama, and eight hours went by and didn't talk to obama once. >> he talked to president obama for 30 minutes around five o'clock in the aft

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will get their chance to grill leon panetta about the deadly benghazi terror attack.ry panetta is not waiting, yesterday he took to the talk shows saying there wasn't enough time to respond. >> this is not 911. you cannot simply call and expected within two minutes to have a team in place. it takes time. that is nature of it. our people are there. they are in position to move, but we've got to have good intelligence that gives us a heads-up that something is going to happen. >> a lot of that is intelligence tells us we have a problem and gives us enough warnings that we can get to the place stow we can respond. >> did you have enough time to respond? >> no, we did not. >> greta: lindsay graham, what do you think of secretary panetta's explanation there was not enough time? >> we'll find more about it. i think he has done generally good job, seven hours on september 11th a day of heightened concern, name one place in the world where it was more dangerous than benghazi, libya. what better intelligence could you have about the threat in libya from the ambassador from lib

. -- in the bello benghazi outside of fox. obama administration does not either. i think that is an example where it the press was doing its job, wholesale, one standard for george bush, and one for barack obama, remember how craze everyone was over valerie plain where is the same for benghazi. lou: it is absent. we're going to take up the president's spending a good part of his day yesterday, with local television anchors, and talking about maybe intervening in possession 8 in california. we'll take that up with realm i and the rest of the pan -- remy and the a team, why does this president have so much time for state issues and not -- well, this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ female announcer ] some people like to p