is this all they got on hillary down the road is to say benghazi, benghazi, benghazi? is it all to claim that these people didn't just make a mistake, they're traitors, they're evil. they kill their friends. it's like the ultimate evil. your thoughts. why are they hanging on this thing. >> i think rove's motivation is different than mccain's. mccain is intent on lodging a broader inverdictive against this administration on foreign policy. he sees them as inept and sees himself as sort of the last lion in the senate that can speak intelligently in his mind towards war, foreign policy, international engagement. and i think he is incredibly frustrated by the fact he is not pulling the levers on foreign policy and national security. >> do you think he thinks he should be president? >> absolutely. thing is residual the ghost of mccain's future. and on rove's's count, if you notice the vocabulary he is using, he talks about arrogance and stubbornness of this administration that is part of a broader concerted republican effort to say that this president is overreaching, to sa

if his plans are real life, benghazi would be a part of baka. but for now, libya's second largest city and the so-called cradle of its revolution are slipping into lawlessness, along with the rest of the country. the last time i was here was two years ago, just before the fall of gadhafi, form of jubilant supporters of the revolution, celebrating the liberation of their city. now you can see the blast scars from a bomb that went off devastating this entire area and we're hearing it's something that's happening now with increasing frequency. >> what is the difference between his earmt an army and ae other militias of the country. what gives them any more legitimate meas tha cy that any of the other militias that we are hearing about? >> that libya has one of the largest weapons arsenal that fell into the hands of adrenalin pumped revolutionaries. >> it is a charge that is firmly rejected by america's ambassador here. the u.s. holds no responsibility she told us to helping power the militias that help plant the libyan government's authority. >> th

president obama is totally out of sync with his benghazi cover-up script. he's now getting caught in his own lies. senator james inhaofe is taking on the president and he joins me now. thank you, senator, for joining us. what the president said last sunday in the bill o'reilly interview, you say, was an outrageous lie. why do you say that? >> well, first of all, you know what evidence is with your background. the president has four advisers on things having to do with intelligence or defense. that is the cia director and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. when you have all of the advisers appointed by the president, answerable to the president telling the president that it was an organized terrorist attack -- >> senator, i don't mean to interrupt. i agree with you. everyone said it was an organized attack. five days later susan rice is sent out. without going into the whole scenario, how did this administration benefit? and we know it's right before an election but how did they benefit from saying it was not an organized terrorist attack? i mean, why is

the second item is benghazi. most people are leaving out the bi-citizen report where she refused security from august 16th until september 11th when the commander offered it. and the situation in syria, where russia is intervening, why don't we offer them the warm water port, the only one they have, and say if they run it the way britain did hong kong for 50 years and we could settle the problem. >> scandal versus accusations. >> we are hearing monica's name coming up and there is difficulty in how to handle it in the republican party. you have rove saying there is no such we can focusing on, why are we dredging up the past. so they have to decide how to handle that. but i don't think you will hear a peep on the clintons from this. and here is a tweet from the viewer that says benghazi disequalifies hilary clinton as commander in chief in her words get over it. >> i think the book has the most serious, independent, non-partisan, if i am bias i missed it, description of what happened in benghazi and the decision t

the benghazi video.was a movingk it target at that point, they were trying to figure out what was happening. trying to piece together what was happening. they might have erred into doing that. host: did she refused to go on sunday talk shows? put on?susan wrighrice guest: hillary clinton goes on when she needs to. when she is trailing in a campaign and needs a moment, she will do it. generally speaking, her bent is to stay away unless there is a compelling reason. there was other stuff to do, i think she recognized the potential political danger. this is me-- speculating -- maybe felt it was inappropriate for her to be on television when there was so much to do in terms of trying to figure out what happened. know, once she was not available and bookers for the tv shows have gone through the state department and the white house asking for her, they quickly moved to susan rice, susan rice use talking points that had been negotiated. one out beyond what some of those talking points said. ambers of congress

first we light the candles and then we begin to pray, irs, doj, nsa, benghazi, irs, doj, benghazi, irs, doj, nsa benghazi. [ laughter ] if there's one thing obama has been trying to squirrel us for his entire term it's got to be the economy. this say desperate political ploy by the white house to distract attention from the failed economic policy. >> today we're addressing the nsa. why aren't we talking about the economy. we have definitive proof that was obama obama. when dough were the -- it was osama bin laden. when do we start talking about the exe again. >> jon: really, even killing bin laden was a part of the master distraction plan. really? you think he went dun there hey, look, owe psalma, we -- osama, we boys but have you seen my jobs numbers. sorry, bro i have to take you out. there's only so many portuguese water dogs can i adopt. at long last, president obama, is there nothing you won't do to distract us from the economy? >> another day another so-called major address from president obama. this was at knox college in illinois on the economy hoping to distract attention away

>> i think benghazi will come back. her own qualifies for president is secretary of state and that is not a qualification given her lack of achievement. i think it will be the subject of intense discussion if she runs. >> ambassador bolton, great to have you here. thank you for responding. >>> oh, ran claims to be sending war ships to our eastern border. >> and thousands on edge as a wildfires threatens everything they own. >> and a new report said an alarming number of airplanes are not landing where they are supposed to land. what? what are the chances that your pilots could get it wrong like today? ♪ chances are your chances are awfully good... ♪ but chance. >>> new insight in a recent string of airplanes landing in the wrong airport. not cool. a new report suggested it may happen more than you might think. in november a plane did the same thing in kansas. and now the report said on 150 flights since 1990s, pilots landed at the wrong airport or realized their mistake in time to correct it. >> i'm better. >> like you

now, benghazi is a by-word for political scandal, after the murder of an american ambassador in 2012. >> i cannot imagine sending folks out to benghazi, after what we saw, from the security cameras and the drones. >> mistakes were made. >> and i said that what benghazi is worse than watergate. >> meanwhile on the ground, a country is unraveling, torn apardon by the militia the u.s. helps to support. fault lines is here to find out what went wrong. >> on november the 16th after friday prayers, a peaceful demonstration formed in a neighborhood, in west tripoli. local proteste protesters were met by machine gun fire. when the shooting stopped, dozens lay dead, many others were injured. the last kerr took place the day we arrived in libya. by the time we reached the scene, the men there told us the killers had left. the militiamen who took over the area were from the libya shield, the shield that was set up by the libyan government last year but largely decommissioned in june 2013, killing more than 30 people. some of the libya shield fighters said they had been present when the shooting

she also, on at least two occasions that i can recall, has called benghazi her greatest regret. so i think that's why a lot of people today are saying, all right, so we take that at face value, but then you have general david petraeus, arguably a republican, who's now saying that benghazi will be her greatest strength in running for president? >> i think this is why america hates the beltway sometimes and hates washington, d.c. because this looks like a purely political move by david petraeus. listen, i have so much respect for him. he saved so many american lives when he was in iraq. i would rather not criticize him about this. but i would like to focus on hillary clinton and this presumption she was a great leader and resolute after benghazi. it's the opposite of the case. she was on the phone with gregory hicks that night and showed no leadership at all. for the week afterwards, she was resolute in telling america that a youtube video was responsible for this when she knew otherwise. david petraeus has to answer for this himself. hooi i'm not going to question him. >> benghaz

benghazi doesn't mean benghazi. >> no. >> it means something -- because the bipartisan intelligence committeeties said everything susan rice said was accurate. it was caused by that crazy move in california which caused the craziness in cairo which was copyrighted in benghazi. that's what we knew then and now. nothing has changed. the president was telling the truth and so was susan rice. why do they keep saying this stuff? >> benghazi means i hate president obama, i hate hillary clinton, and i hate susan rice. >> just like you. >> that's what it says. >> just like you. so i'm okay on that one? >> yeah. >> that's what it means. why lindsey graham, who has a brain? >> we can set jim inhofe aside. >> i really like the guy. i'm watching him, i'm thinking p.o.w. he has to read the statement. >> so inhofe says whenever it snows that's proof that there is no global warming. >> i don't really like him that much. >> lindsey graham has -- he is likely to have a difficult primary challenge. >> seven people running against him. >> and he just gets something stuck in his craw here. the odd thing, though,

blamed that on a video and sent their folks all over the country blaming benghazi on a video.i thought that was a little strange that you would make that comment and also in rec sing -- researching your book did you read a book called ron brown's body by jack cashill published in 2004? it's a very insightful book on the history that you talked about this morning with both of the clintons. i would strongly recommend anybody to read it and as i say it was published in 2004 by wnd books. >> host: okay john, the benghazi video? >> guest: i think it was a moving target at that point. they were all trying to figure out what was happening and yeah they were just trying to piece together what was happening. >> host: why did she refuse or did she refuse to go on the sunday talk shows and why was susan rice put on the sunday talk shows? >> guest: first of all hillary clinton goes on the sunday shows when she needs to and does not if there is not a politically compelling reason for her too. when she needs that good moment on face the nation she will do it but generally speaking her denti

we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever.verify that there is a location there that needs to be hit, send a tornado at nato and then it's gone. >> really? >> yeah. >> how does that feel knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> it's out of the movies. >> did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see the end of this son of a bitch? most people are telling me they never dreamed. >> i don't know if you call them dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky, something i look at every night. >> right. >> but when i hit that point and got into misrata and stood on gadhafi's body, any dream will come true. >> what's the situation now? >> it's fluid. it can swing any direction. >> well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mean, what does this mean to the country? >> i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn't like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these concerns are slowly getting diminished. it is a m

so we did no fewer than fifty three pages on benghazi it's the night itself of benghazi basically is one entire chapter of the maybe the biggest chapter of the book then there's a second chapter that deals with the hearings in order to introduction to the book we talk about a scene in the state department in one of their video a quick conference rooms in two thousand and ten were were hillary clinton showed a screening of an attack on the consulate in peshawar pakistan you know sort of a precursor another of another attack on another consulate to show that this is something that the state department was aware of was aware of the danger of some of these outposts in the wildest parts of the world and then so i mean i think there we deal very very diligently and thoroughly with not just the big guys the attack itself but the philosophy of having diplomats out there in dangerous places trying to sell the american brand without the benefit of a military presence backing them up why folks in the state department thought that was important to not just do diplomacy by camouflage but also to

let's take benghazi. the president flat out said he did not mislead the nation and he believes the issue is frumped up by the fox news channel and others. but even more importantly, more importantly, the president doesn't see benghazi or the irs situation or the obamacare screw ups as important in the long run. he sees them as mistakes. believes she should all move on and support his goal of social justifiable. it's the same thing that happened in the beginning of the watergate situation when supporters of richard nixon attacked his critics saying it was quote a third rate burg about glare. it's the same thing as president clinton supporter who's said over and over and over it just about sex. to knicksen and clinton themselves, their troubles were rather inconsequential because those men believe that what they were doing for this country was far more important. are we all getting this? talking points believes and clearly stated in yesterday's memo that the benghazi irs, and obamacare stories are very impo

he has not had a full-fledged press conference on benghazi.efense he -- i think the answer to this was that fox news has been consistently put pressure on obama and i don't think unfairly. he never recognizes there people like me who feel like orphan annie defending him. we have a lot of the liberals and contributors on this station. i think that does not get recognized. though i get an invitation to the christmas parties, the rest of you probably don't. >> mine gets lost in the mail. >> yours and sean hannitys. if itch were the political director of the white house i would say do you want to put bill o'reilly together with this guy with 100 million people watching? are you kidding? >> he has a national audience. he's going to launch an attack to fox news. he's going to change the definition of liberal to sensible. now bob beckel is the most sensible man in the building because liberal equals sensible. if he would have said benghazi or the irs scandal he opened with you are unfair because you are asking me about healthcare.gov. he had an oppor

oh, poor hillary. >> that's before she presided over the benghazi debacle. fox news is the only one who has stayed on this story, has not let go of it. everyone else in the country moved on. the questions haven't been answered, they're legitimate questions and fox is the only one pushing. >> it's so aggravating to have these questions persist about benghazi, about the i.r.s. it not like only fox covers the i.r.s. scandal and so on. does that make them, what, go to the polls and vote for democrats in the 2014 mid term? >> i think it's a very feeble attempt to restore liberals. they have to start somewhere. when you're the president of the united states and your base only gives you 62% support, you need your base support to be in the 80s and 90s. when you're at 62% among self-described liberals, you're in real, real deep trouble. >> so your solution is to give an interview to bill o'reilly and try to challenge bill? >> you know, they're struggling over there is all i can say. they're looking for ways to rally the base. if you want to change the subject, move o

what about benghazi?president obama has never ever come out and said something was a huge mistake until he admitted after the launch of the affordable care act that the web site wasn't working well and it was true that he had not been truthful to the american people about their ability to keep their doctor or their plan if they liked it. he has never in his presidency said i want to come out and come clean about this. he has said he doesn't know many times. he is not going to change his tune on that. that's the way that he has behaved the entire time. >> byron, still defending healthcare.gov last night and problem with the appeals. not even built. >> amazing about his defense of that last night he essentially said everything is going fine now. of course, there were people. >> do people believe that. >> there are problems in the first month and now that's taken care of and everything going fine. cited the number of people signed up. you got the impression that everything was going well. is he not going to,

and, of course, there is also benghazi where even on the day that the four americans, dead americans from benghazi were returned to andrews air force base, clinton seemed to say that the attack was related to that anti-islam video. take a look. >> we've seen the heavy assault on our post in benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. we've seen rage and violence directed at american embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. >> karl, how big a deal will benghazi be for hillary clinton over the next two plus years? >> i think it will be a big deal for two reasons. first of all, there are a lot of unanswered questions. why did they ignore the demands for security and request for security in our facilities in libya? why did the united states government, the state department specifically ignore the actions of other governments like the united kingdom and removing their diplomats from benghazi? who is responsible for sending out susan rice to tell the american people this was all about an internet video in th? e there are lots of unanswered questions and t

let's go to benghazi and rosen. so, rosen, there is an assistant c. ia chief. deputy director mike morel. i never heard of him. is he a controversial guy, why. >> mike morrell is no longer the deputy director of the cia. by all accounts he is the guy who actually made a lot of the edits to the famous talking points that were used to mislead the american people there are now evidence that fox news has developed showing that mr. morrell was more involved in developing the whole false narrative of benghazi about their having been a video and demonstration. demonstrations that never occurred from which the attack supposedly grew out of it and we have evidence now that he was involved in as much earlier than he has been willing to admit. >> okay. but who got those talking points, that morrell allegedly falsified? who got them? well we know that members of congress did and susan rice who went on television famously on the 16th of september in 2012 did five sunday shows and mislead the country let me just say about some of the points that president obama made in that

benghazi is a piece of it. rather than what they did in the past, what would she be like as president? if one of the things she used to advocate in her private moments, that she wanted a single-payer system, let's have her argue that. stand up and make the case to the american people that's the kind of health care system we want. >> that would be insightful. >> she went on record saying this. her feelings have evolved. that was 20 years ago. >> do you think they have evolved back now? >> i wish they would. >> don't you think it's politically expedient? >> no, i think back then, she believed it, and now she doesn't think it would work. i happen to think it would. >> did she not say it at the time? >> yes, she did. >> not now, but 20 years ago. >> when you were 19. >> but my point is, while she's telling the media one thing, she's telling her best friend the exact opposite the way i understand it. >> let me bring up one other tidbit. how about general petraeus, dana, our friend, the comments he had about hillary

. >>> almost 17 months after the benghazi terror attacks, a look at a key behind the scenes player in the administration's response. and how president obama continues to push a version many democrats no longer believe. this is "special report." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier. we have new information tonight on the extraordinary level of involvement of one of the key players in the administration's reaction to the benghazi attacks of september 11th, 2012. meanwhile, the parsing of words over the assault that claimed four american lives has reached new levels here in washington. president obama still clings in part to his initial statement, downplaying the level of organization by the attackers. this was the president with bill o'reilly yesterday. >> and when you look at the videotape of this whole thing unfolding, this is not some systematic, well-organized process. you see -- >> heavy weapons used. heavy weapons. >> bill, bill, listen, i've gone through this, and we have had multiple hearings on it. what happens is you have an attack like this taking place. and you have a mix of fol

how does hillary overcome benghazi after her unanswered phone commercial in 2008?ch she used to show that she could respond to a crisis but barack obama couldn't. how do you answer karen? >> i think it's a great question because you could almost see the 30-second commercial the republicans would make. they would take her commercial from 2008 and put it together with maybe her testimony at benghazi when she said, oh, what is the big deal here? all this illustrates is a funny thing that hillary and christie have in common. you know, robert penn wrote "in all the king's men" there is always something, every politician has something in their closet. these two had a lot of somethings because -- there's something spilling out of there. >> they have been around a long time. they have long records, and in chris christie's case, a long record in a state notorious for being kind of a political swamp. so what we're seeing here is on both sides it's -- they are being set up already three years ahead of 2016, even before either has been declared as the opposition sort of rummag

>> the main conclusion we were not prepared for benghazi despite intelligence that there were dangersd american personnel in specific were in danger. our deployments of our military forces were not sufficient in order to come to their rescue, and even today, we are better prepared than we were and the risks have also grown. this focuses on the military part and based on the transcripts from military leaders and people on the ground. >> to reiterate, your report found out the state department nor the white house did not beef up security before september 11th, even though the conditions on the ground in benghazi were deteriorating, and we have long known that, congressman. did your report find out why we didn't beef up security? >> we went through specific testimony and released the testimony of the key military decision makers as well as the folks on the ground. going what they knew ahead of time and comparing that to the intelligence community assessment. and the white house was saying we are prepared and taking all reasonable action and the fact is, they didn't. and u.s. personnel we

look, benghazi is a disaster. it sits at his door and secretary clinton's door. he knows that.t you know they were straight with us. it's just simply not true. you know? the fact that a week after it happened, he is on the view and he pretends they're still looking into this to see whether it's an out of control demonstration is shocking. >> yes. >> you believe pen yetta told him what general hamm told them? do you believe that? >> we'll never know. of course he told them. >> tell folks why you believe that. >> because, look. general in charge said within 15 minutes he knew it's a terrorist attack. hicks, our guy in tripoli said he knew immediately it's a terrorist attack. all of the evidence and people on the ground, our security guards at the benghazi consulate knew immediately. obama said to you in the interview it wasn't well organized in the bipartisan report from the senate, democrats and republicans they say in that report it was organized. >> one more question because i'm running out of time here, do you believe as i told the president the reason he won't say right away

the drones. >> mistakes were made. >> and i said that what benghazi

that is still a live wire story even more so than benghazi. rise of al qaeda and syria and iraq. then you have this president in an interview just a few weeks ago saying that those cells are actually j.d. he literally said it's like trying to be -- you can't put on a lakers jersey and pretend you are kobe bryant. he is underestimating the threat when you have counter intelligence officials saying that these terrorists are potentially going to use syria as a base from which to attack the united states. >> ed? >> i would say whether or not the network is fair to him it was a very good interview in that it got the president talking about some things that he doesn't normally talk about probably doesn't want to talk about. it was a spirited exchange. and i think i learned some things throughout the two different segment. the one i heard sunday and the one i heard last night that we don't hear him talk about. the only thing i would say, look, bill o'reilly is a great broadcaster, done great things for this network. the institution of the presidency