benghazi is a mix. but i think it's hard to say that whole group of the revolutionaries is part of this problem. they drove out isil, by the way, from darna and from benghazi as well. >> on the broader question about libya, this is what i hear from a lot of people. i'm simplifying it. gadhafi was a really bad person but he kept the country stable. he was overthrown and now all the islamists are there and it's a play ground. my counter to that argument has been, number one, the jihadists are not the people that overthrew gadhafi, it was the libyan people. he was gone one way or the other. the choice before us at the time was not whether or not gadhafi stayed but whether or not a vacuum would follow. is my assessment of what happened back in the beginning of the revolution accurate? and the reason why that's relevant is it is now being extrapolated to syria and to other parts of the world. the fact of the matter is that the uprising that led to the ousting of gadhafi was not led by the radical elements as

want to talk about the benghazi defense brigade.ibya has become a terrorist safe haven and organizations are fighting for control of the country. what are your views regarding cooperation between the benghazi defense brigade and elements like al qaeda? i know they have attempted to deny links to terrorism, is it not the fact that they are a well-known coalition of islamic militias and extremists? how would you characterize the bbb and in particular whether we believe the libyan national army has the capability to defeat them? >> at its core the bbb was formed by islamicist figures ejected from benghazi. many were leaders in benghazi, they came out and got support from the city, and from others sources, from tripoli and qatar as well. added its core is a symptom of the massive displacement from benghazi. the fact that their fighting to return families to benghazi, many of them have families, the al qaeda element, this is a small country of 6 million. if you go to any islam as leader chances are they will know someone in al qaeda and

with me now, benghazi attack survivor, author of new book. " the ranger way."have former obama cia director, saying that rice is benghazi's talking point crossed line between politics and national security. given who you hear about what she has been involved in now, what do you make of her credibility. >> she has no credibility, your previous guest, he is looking at the areas, woman is lying, she is lying again, like in benghazi. she has no credibility, for her to be considered still an ambassador is a joke, a joke to the real ambassadors that are out there working with the state department. liz: you know in 2014, under a year, to national security adviser position, rice found herself in headlines against this time, to anger of many offering what seemed to be kind worded for accused army deserter bo bur bo bergdahl. >> he served united states with honor and distinction. liz: i think he deserted his position, and 5 americans lost their lives, what do you think of those comments? >> i it was 6 americans, it is important, sold 6 soldiers that report to look for be

rob: rice was never punished for the misinformation regarding benghazi, house intelligence officialsutinize the michael flynn case. heather: north korea intensifying tensions overnight flexing its nuclear muscle. the communist country firing off another missile. the white house says it is done with provocative actions, and the top us general warning right now if they are not equipped to deal with an attack from our enemies. >> we don't have a significant phase intercepted. it is available and we address that for the first time but it is not in the near term. rob: the state department refusing to comment about the escalating aggression. the latest blast comes as president trump is expected to urge the president of china to step in during the first meeting tomorrow at marl lago in palm beach, florida. rob: the white house condemns the latest chemical weapons attack in syria. and 4 billion people injured, president from blaming the syrian president calling his actions say heinous and slamming president obama for saying he would establish a redline against the use of chemical weapons in

this is like benghazi when she went out on every american show and lied to the people about benghazi. now we have her on tape saying oh, gosh, did that really happen? now we have her saying maybe it did really happen. who is kidding who? she is once again lying to the american people. then you want to ask the final question, as the national security advisor i of the president of the united states. did all this really ham and barack obama didn't know about it? jesse: maybe president obama from that island in the south pacific will say he learned about it by watching the news. it happened with dianne feinstein, when the obama cia looked in her computer. congressmen say their phones were tapped when they were speaking with israelis in the run-up to the nuclear deal. when people say this could never have happened. look at the history. i don't know why people think this is so out of this world that this could have happened. >> it's very dangerous in a free society to have the government decide it can spy own and inform selectively certain key people, it's all outside the normal law and it'

armed men stormed the american consulate in benghazi, libya tonight. this is a horrible result of a day of violence against america in the middle east. - [kathleen] in 2012, the attack on a us consulate in benghazi reminded us of the risks our diplomats face. - we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars increasing the security at that compound but there are always events that you cannot foresee. - benghazi was a tragedy. there is just no way that i can say anything other than the fact that the loss of chris stevens and three other officers in benghazi was a failure. - what is most distressing is that chris was able to help in protecting our city, benghazi but benghazi was unable to protect him. - there was a belief that if we had a small enough presence, that we could fly underneath the radar and i think that that belief and that... i just think ultimately, they got it wrong. proved wrong and it was a tragic event. - benghazi and the way it has been politicized in our domestic debate has made washington, frankly, scared of taking any losses and i think

benghazi is a mix. they drove out isil from benghazi. ,> on the broader question gaddafi was a really bad person but at least he kept the country stable. he was overthrown and now islamists are there and it has become a playground. i counter to the argument is that the islamists are not the people who overtook gaddafi. it was the libyan people. the choice before us at the time was not whether or not he stayed at whether a vacuum would follow. is my assessment of what happened in the revolution accurate? it is not being strictly did to syria and other parts of the world. effect of the the fact of the matter is that the uprising that led to the ousting of gadhafi was not led by the radical elements as much it was under the libyan people that didn't want to live under this lunatic criminal. >> i think you're absolutely right, senator. but what happened was that immediately following the revolution it gets back to what we were saying before. the in fighting over control of the nation's assets have led to th

it began spontaneouslyit in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired from hours earlier in cairo, or of course as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video. what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. what happened this weekre in cairo, and benghazi, in many other parts of the region was the result -- a direct result of a heinous and offensive video. think about this. a complete 180, a history of wine,we and now some on capitol hill are trying to get the truth of what actually happened with the surveillance of donald trump and his team. senator rand paul will join us later wants susan rice to testify before congress and under oath. but rice, when asked about this today, she's not exactly jumping at the request. what a shock. >> you're being subpoenaed to testify. would you be willing to? >> andrea, let's see what comes. i'm not going to sit here and prejudge. >> sean: she is clearly dodging, but more congressman now on the hill are calling for her to test

i want to talk about the benghazi defense brigade.as you know libya has become a terrorist safe haven and an alphabet soup of organizations fighting for control of the country. what are your views regarding cooperation between the benghazi defense brigade and elements like al qaeda? i know they have attempted to deny links to terrorism. is it not the fact that they are a well-known coalition. how would you characterize them and in particular whether we believe the libyan national army has the capability to defeat them? >> he will know someone in al qaeda or be affiliated. there is a 6-degree of separation. is the group and al qaeda affiliate or organization? no. is its involvement helpful yes. i don't think they have the ability to fully defeat a force that could challenge it in the oil prices. that will be a site of contention for years it has been ever since 2015. >> i would only add that there were many who argued that when they engaged in benghazi, in fact he undid the work of parsing off the extremists from the core of some of th

just go back to the benghazi hearings and revisit all that.his is not someone the american public had trust in. there's already a distrust of her, what's coming out of her mouth. what she said on pbs contradicts what shed to andrea mitchell. there's a lot of smoke here, a lot of questions. she didn't do a good job of clarifying this yesterday. >> harris: i don't want to like semantics, but when she said, "i didn't leak anything" she's using that word deliberately, because that means something was done i don't remember. >> the relaxing of the laws that i mentioned, we'll maybe get into that on a different day, because we need to talk about what the obama administration did on its way out the door. charles krauthammer is not caught up in semantics or mincing words. >> she's not an investigator. she's a political operative. she works on behalf of the president. if it can be shown that this was a political fishing expedition, then she's in a world of hurt. >> harris: a world of hurt, charlie hurt. come on, i can't resist. >> not to be redundant, b

what happened in benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to what just transpired hours earlier before in cairo. what happened this week in cairo, in benghazi and many parts of the region was a result, a direct result of a heinous and offensive video -- >> sean: history of lying, complete 180 in just two short week. now some on capitol hill are trying to get the truth of what actually happened with the surveillance of donald trump and his team. rand paul wants susan rice to testify before congress and under oath. rice, when asked about this today, she's not exactly jumping at the request. what a shock. take a look. >> rand paul is suggesting that you be subpoenaed to testify. would you be willing to go to capitol hill? >> you know, andrea, let's see what comes. i'm not going to, you know, sit here and prejudge. >> sean: she's clearly dodging. but more congress men on the hill are calling for her to testify. it needs to be under oath. later tonight we're going to expose how the alt left trump media is doing everything they can to bury this incredible story. the moment this scandal was unma

and her narrative she tried to spin about the film being the reason behind the benghazi attack. now she's trying to spin something, one thing on pbs, she doesn't know what on earth anyone is talking about with nunes, et cetera, and yesterday afternoon she said basically, it was common practice to unmask names, i did that. what's going on here? why is she spinning two different tales? >> because she got caught. obviously when she was on television earlier and denied knowledge. i don't know what you are talking about, i had nothing to do with that. when it became evident she had something to do with that, she was clever and parsed her words, i unmasked them not for political purposes. that meant she would unmask them because of intelligent value. american actor who had incidental contact was somehow doing something inappropriate or wrong. i don't think that -- my sense is that determination would be made by the national security agency or the cia or the fbi long before this information got to the national security adviser, and if there had been something inappropriate in the commu

people, knowingly lied to the american people about benghazi.went out, and we have -- as you pointed out here a minute ago -- we have her on tape saying, oh, gosh, did that really happen? now we have her sort of saying, well, maybe it did happen. well, who's kidding who? she is once again lying to the american people. and then you want to ask the p final question which is as the national security adviser to the president of the united states in an office down the hall from the oval office, did all this really happen and barack obamama didn't know about it? jesse: maybe president obama, from that island in the south pacific, is going to say he learned about it watching the news, like he usually does. over to the history of the obama administration kicking surveillance on people, it happened with dianne feinstein when the obama cia looked in her computers. congressmen say their phones were tapped when they were speaking with israelis in the runup to the nuclear deal. is so when people say, you know, this could never have happened, look at the hist

she lied about benghazi. she lied to the mother of a fallen hero of benghazi. not one, not one democrat elected official said this is a bridge too far. i can't support this candidate. not one. and we brought this up in discussing the communist party because that's the way the communist party was really effective in political warfare. where everybody is in lock step. and that's the way the left behaves today. political correctness is like a zipper with all lock on it over everybody's lips. you just don't say anything. you don't say to a woman you're a liar and a crook. a former first lady,secretary of state . you do it to a male, but women are a protected species. all this baloneyabout being strong , strong women. elizabeth warren, character assassinating a decent human being spent 40 years in public life and dedicated public servant,a champion of civil rights, calling them a racist . reading a letter that was in essence repudiated by coretta scott king. violating the seventh rule. when o'connell says youcan't say that , oh, your silencing another woman.that is

i was dra gooned into service on the benghazi select committee. for two years, that committee's purpose was to take down hillary clinton's numbers. but one of the central figures about that today. i was dra gooned into service on the benghazi select committee. for two years, that committee's purpose was to take down hillary clinton's numbers. but one of the central figures the republicans went after and after and after was susan rice. and after two years they could find nothing that susan rice did wrong. in fact, the only thing susan rice did was go on sunday morning shows and repeat what the intelligence committee best assessment of the early hours of benghazi was. that was consistent with what we were hearing, what susan rice was hearing, and that's all they could find, which was perfectly appropriate on her part. so what it is they have about susan rice that they like to go after her, i don't know. but i do think you're right in your summation at the outset. this is yet another attempt to distract attention from the russia probe, which they obv

the media in the days following the benghazi incident. look at senator lindsey graham earlier today talking about this. >> susan rice misled the american people about the nature of the attack in benghazi. she appeared on fox sunday shows after the attack saying things that were completely false and untrue. in terms of political manipulate e las vegas of national security information, susan rice in my view has done it in the past. whether or not she did it this time, i don't know. it's something congress should look into. >> we heard from susan rice in the interview with andrea mitchell. said she didn't leak anything to anybody at any point. give examples of why as national security advisor she would need to unmask information. do you think that goes any distance to assuage anybody? you didn't trust her before, you don't trust her now? >> it's all referencing. it's past references. it's not anything to do with its current situation, and i myself am fresh off capitol hill where we were talking to a number of senators coming out of -- asking

they are trying to compare benghazi to where we are now.administration has done a very good job of conflating all threads. >> they are basing what she said publicly on benghazi which touched o turned out not to be true. >> go up to the congress ional committee and senate and do it behind closed doors. to try her in the court of public opinion right now is irresponsible. >> panel, thank you for all that. we will cover it throughout the program. >>> vice president pence is trying to restart health care we fo reform. is he making progress? we will have a live report next. kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. so you'rhow nice.a party? i'll be right there. and the butchery begins. what am i gonna wear? this party is super fancy. let's go. i'm ready. are you my uber? [ horn honks ] [ tires screech ] hold on. [ upbeat music ] the biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ]

it's hard to do that after benghazi. let's talk about something else that's happening right now including the effort to get judge neil gorsuch the supreme court justice. enough votes to stop this from happening and have to use the nuclear option. for some reason they think this is going to be a good idea. this is jeff merkley. ed: live right now. he was up all night. ainsley: not a filibuster. it's a talk-a-thon. green eggs and ham, remember ted cruz? ed: only in washington you could say only in washington we are filibuster. it's a talk-a-thon. basically filibusterer. delaying things. ainsley: why do you they say filibuster. ed: they don't want it to be seen as doing that chuck schumer said we are going to filibuster this. whether they reached that specific stage in the process. the point is they are allowing a vote to happen. ainsley: let's listen to what 6:10 on the east coast. >> would be considered. brian: i'm bored already. i got stuck on we the people. now let's go to senator chuck schumer. he blames mcconnell for

because i think it will come his embarrassment. >> sean: we know that she lied about benghazi, what hes false. they knew within a minutes and hours that it was a terrorist attack and she said that someday, this was a spontaneous demonstration. with all due respect, i don't know what spontaneous demonstrators that just happened to carry in their back pocket motors and rpgs. that never made sense, dr. bennett. >> its allies of misrepresentation. look at the total self-destruction of the media here. during the trump campaign and the now. i could not believe cnn can be played a lot of it saying that there is fox over there, don't look at fox, no what looked cute do, don't look at fox. it's unbelievable what's happening, the next person up will do the same thing. i think as the facts come forward, he should to be grilled, he should be interviewed. if he recuse himself, he disappears. don't let him disappear, keep them in the spotlight, i have confidence that we are right on this one. >> i agree with bill on this, there's a reason why congressman is out there trying to deflect from the real

not on did she lie about this crazy video during benghazi.he was asked on national tv about this and she lived about it. she has zero credibility. she has close ties to the white house. this is very damaging. lou: i think rachel said there is no video to incite the benghazi attacks. >> i'm not going to touch that one, it's up to you. lou: thank you for leaving me adrift as usual. nick adams, we'll invite you back anyway. rachel campos-duffy, we'll invite you back, too. i know you both have been overwhelmed, but we are delighted you are with us and look forward to seeing you again soon. lou: congressman mo brooks and laura ingraham will be with us tomorrow. good night from new york. [♪] >> battle royale on capitol hill as senators cast their votes on neil gorsuch. will republicans go nuclear to get it done. rand paul declaring the healthcare battle is not done yet. the panel is here. with all the optimism in the business world, why is the media selling such doom and gloom. all that and more tonight on "kennedy."

not on did she lie about this crazy video during benghazi.t this and she lived about it. she has zero credibility. she has close ties to the white house. this is very damaging. lou: i think rachel said there is no video to incite the benghazi attacks. >> i'm not going to touch that one, it's up to you. lou: thank you for leaving me adrift as usual. nick adams, we'll invite you back anyway. rachel campos-duffy, we'll invite you back, too. i know you both have been overwhelmed, but we are delighted you are with us and look forward to seeing you again soon. lou: congressman mo brooks and laura ininininin nicole: breaking news this morning. a bombshell in fox's earnings season rights requested the identities that trump officials be en masse in intelligence reporter. we will have the latest. good morning. i'm nicole petallides. lauren: good morning. i am lauren simonetti. senate judiciary cir chuck grassley ballet methods that so they can earn. nicole: u.s. stock starts a new chair. automakers posted disappointing march sales. s.

morninge shows and repeat what the intelligence committee best assessment of the early hours of benghazie hearing, what susan rice was hearing, that's all they could find which was perfectly appropriate on her part. what it is, they have about susan rice they like to go after her i don't know. >> sean: republicans made her into a villain, susan rice didn't lie about the unmasking two weeks ago on pbs. she said she knew nothing about it and then yesterday she admitted she knew everything about it, she also light back in 2012 on the five sunday shows after the benghazi terror attack. there's no need for the republicans to paint is everything, she's a known liar.. instead of focusing on her outright lies on the trump, surveillance, schiff is now changing the subject. maybe it's time for him, adam schiff to recuse himself from this russian investigation. that we as congressman shipped to be asked of this program, he hasn't responded yet, shocking. fox news contributor, the host of the bill bennett podcast, it seems like he already made his conclusion. >> don't you think it's curiousm that ch

being overrun in terms of a benghazi-style attack.comes from state propaganda outlets, rt, sputnik news simultaneously. within minutes you see amplifying accounts, we call gray accounts, very pro-russian accounts websites that take those conspiracies, spin them further and amplify those stories with bots. the goal is to get it into the top-trending stories on twitter such that mainstream media needs to react to it. the way they do that is use hashtags. they wanted to create panic with nuclear, and media, and the third was trump, to get trump supporters to use it and the fourth was benghazi. you're essentially communicating the story is another benghazi-style attack, trying to bring in real trump supporters into this story to further promote the conspiracy. >> so that started as a -- that started in terms of the way they created it, and then the trump campaign cited it as if it was a true story without reference to the origin of the news or without checking it with u.s. sources? >> right. and it wasn't even just that. the story was deb

communicate the story is another benghazi-style attack trying to bring real trump stops further promote the conspiracy. >> that started in terms of the way they created it, and then the trump campaign cited it as of it was a true story without reference to the origin of the news or without checking it with u.s. sources? >> right. it wasn't even just that. the story was debunked. it happened at the end of july. we published on the 8th of auchlgt 4th of august is when paul manafort cited that story whenever he was doing an interview. why would you take a russian progressed line to begin with and regurgitate that as your own talking point against the clinton campaign. >> clinton watts, would you mind sticking with us for one quick question? i'd like to ask you about how you feel about the state of the investigation. clinton watts who testified before the snats intelligence committee this week's former court terrorism expert. he'll be with us. stay with us. >>> we're back now with former fbi special agent clinton watts who testified at the senate intelligence committee about the russian att

but during the whole benghazi thing, nobody was concerned where obama was during benghazi. we still don't know. host: ok. let's go to port washington, maryland, says coverage is fair, hi. caller: good morning. i think coverage is really fair. the caller just talked about obama. they crucified obama, the news. they crucified him before he even got the presidency, they talked about what they weren't going to allow him to do. now trump is on board. he used the media to get elected, because he was on there all the time. now he's upset that the media is not covering him fairly? we're looking at exactly what he's putting out and we're speaking on it. so i'm not sure where people are calling to say that we're doing him unfair. he is putting out information. we are covering it. they wouldn't care -- the caller said that the taxes are not relevant. well, how relevant was obama to bring his birth certificate? is that the law that you have to show your birth certificate? i don't know, maybe it is. but again, no one is seeing the big picture here. strump leading the news, and we're jus

that's all she did and now you've got this entire thing and people are talking about benghazi and doing back flips because that's what they do when they want to talk about what who was unmasked but what was unmasked. there are russian villains playing footsys with the president's team. >> possibly. >> let's talk about that. >> here's your chance. sgl i think today's interview with susan rice was a complete disaster. i can't believe how unprepared ms. rice was and the base of questions that she wouldn't answer like would she testify. a couple weeks ago she said she knew nothing about the unmasking of names and it wasn't in generalty. >> today was a generalty. and she doesn't -- listen -- she doesn't know the information that devin nunes has so how would she know specifically what she's talking about. >> to nothing to sometimes it waus necessary. as if she found this unmasking document that would get pinned to her lapel before she left her house like mittens on a wintry morning. and when we talked about the unmasking, she was quick to say she wasn't doing any of the unmasking or the admin

a republican senator tonight called her typhoid mary because of her role in the benghazi case, a contributorfox news tonight accused her of surveilleding the trump campaign from the start. susan rice appeared on this network today to answer to her republican critics who say she used sensitive intelligence to monitor the trump campaign. >> the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. that's absolutely false. >> did you seek the names of people involved in -- to mask the names of people involved in the trump transition, the trump campaign, people surrounding the president-elect in order to spy on them, in order to expose them? >> absolutely not for any political purposes to spy, to expose anything. let me -- >> did you leak the name of mike flynn? >> i leaked nothing to nobody, never have and never would. >> andrea, to talk about the contents of a classified report, to talk about the individuals on the foreign side who were the targets of the report itself or any americans who may have been collected upon incidentally is to disclos

>> dana: it reminds me a lot of benghazi. why did she go on five sunday shows?he say this. then not too long after that, there was the bowe bergdahl situation where she basically became a lightning rod. for a national security advisor, that's pretty unusual, and then you didn't hear from her again after that for quite a while. she was probably one of the most invisible national security advisors after those incidents. she she already had a credibiliy problem with let's say half the country. the fact that she is trying to explain it and it doesn't quite make sense, why she said she didn't know anything about the reports. apparently she recently tweeted a moment ago saying "i did not know what reports nunes was referring to when he spoke to the press. i still do not for the full intelligence community needs to know." i knew she had to come out today to defend herself but i don't think she answered. >> greg: it is human nature, the longer you stink out of certain turf, though more investment you have minutes. cnn is investing a lot of their turf inclusion, so they

after the attack in benghazi, she went on the sunday talk shows and said based on the intelligence at that time, it looked like a spontaneous response to protests over an anti muslim video and not a terror attack. president trump now has referred to the unmasking as the real story on russia. democrats say it's a distraction from the bigger issue they argue about the investigations into team trump and potential collusion with the russian government. you got that? it's a mouthful. john roberts on fox's top story live at the white house. good day to you. so what else did susan rice said about this so-called unmasking? >> bill, when is it not a mouthful to digest everything that happened here daily? interesting to look as you point out, the difference between what she said today compared to the pbs interview on march 22 when there was an utter denial of anything that devin nunes was talking about. today no denial that she's the person that asked for the names to be unmasked in intelligence reports but that firm denial that any of this was done for political purposes or she leaked any one'

benghazi survivor chris back with his take on susan rice's deception. she made it earlier this year. she claimed the obama administration did get rid of all chemical weapons, despite numerous chemical attacks since 2013. even the washington post said susan rice is misleading here. and we've got an exclusive, a survivor of the 2013 chemical attack. he says he is now thankful for president trump. and he's blasting obama and his administration for not doing enough to stop the massacre of syrians that led to an explosive refugee crisis around the world. the uk leaving the eu and the eu now dangerously on the brink. welcome to risk and reward. i'm elizabeth macdonald in for deirdre bolton. secretary of state rex tillerson holding firm. he says u.s. quote will hold to account anyone who commits crimes against innocent anywhere around the world. this on the eve of tillerson's trip to moscow to turn up the heat for syrian dictator bashar al-assad. all important since president trump is restoring the red line against syria's chemical weapons that president obama

communicate the story is another benghazi-style attack trying to bring real trump supporters into thistory to further promote the conspiracy. >> that started in terms of the way they created it, and then the trump campaign cited it as of it was a true story without reference to the origin of the news or without checking it with u.s. sources? >> right. it wasn't even just that. the story was debunked. it happened at the end of july. we published on the 8th of august. the 14th of august is when paul manafort went back and cited that story whenever he was doing an interview. why would you take a russian progressed line to begin with and regurgitate that as your own talking point against the clinton campaign. >> clinton watts, would you mind sticking with us for one quick question? i'd like to ask you about how you feel about the state of the investigation. clinton watts who testified before the senate intelligence committee this week's former executive officer at counter terrorism center at west point. he'll be with us. stay with us. call geico and see how easy it is to switch d sa on hom

she lied repeatedly about benghazi. how could we trust her?> we are making some serious accusations here. you are correct on benghazi, stt video but i would go back and say i think at the beginning of this investigation, and what we may end up finding out is that the law that allows the u.s. government to collect all this information and share it within the government needs to seriously be reformed. it may turn out that all of what susan rice did was technically legal but improper if you will. in that case i think it would be a matter of reform. i would say this. i am surprised that more democrats and progressive have not taken this issue more seriously. because if barack obama can do this to the trump transition, then surely donald trump can do this to his own opposition and that something that auto wary all americans. >> sean: it goes even deeper, sara, because her unmasking it set the stage if you will for the leaking we know a felony was committed in the case of general flynn. why would they want to know all this and maybe this was the who

during the benghazi investigation, joe digeneva was back tedling claims the obam marg was intimidating witnesses. during the presidential campaign, joe digenova was back regularly citing supposed inside sources telling him that hillary clinton was definitely about to be indicted over her e-mails. she was guilty of several felonies. she couldn't be elected because she was definitely going to jail. and now act 17 in this life-long play. late last night a conservative website posted a story claiming that obama national security adviser susan rice ordered intelligence agencies to compile spreadsheets of intercepted communications between donald trump and his staffers for purely political purposes. their source for that info was? joe digenova. he said susan rice engaged in illegal activity. you just have to te his rd for it. d that was t latt evolution today of this alternate story line, this parallel republican-friendly universe in which the real scandal is not russia attacking our election, is not what anyone in the trump campaign might have been to potentially coordinate with russia to u

that was rewarding her to the extent they could after benghaz benghazi. i think credibility is supposed to be important in washington and i think you are right. where are the reporters? are they staking out her house? are they at the brookings institution trying to get more of an answer? there were occasions i would receive a report in which a u.s. person was referred to. how many occasions? to anyone direct you to do this? to the president know, did the vice president know, white house counsel's office? there is lot of questions unanswered here and it seems like there are a lot of reporters that should be asking these questions. >> bret: on the other investigation, the other track, "washington post" headline "blackwater founder held secret seychelles meeting." erik prince, head of blackwater, who happens to be the brother of education secretary betsy devos, tied treasury secretary steven mnuchin. held this meeting and met with russians, he says, in his statement, eric had no role in the transition team. complete fabrication, that the meeting had anything

you're essentially communicating the story is another benghazi-style attack trying to bring real trumpromote the conspiracy. >> that started in terms of the way they created it, and then the trump campaign cited it as if it was a true story without reference to the origin of the news or without checking it with u.s. sources? >> right. it wasn't even just that. the story was debunked. it happened at the end of july. we published on the 8th of august. on the 14th of august is when paul manafort went back and cited that story whenever he was doing an interview. why would you take a russian propaganda line to begin with and a story that had been clearly debunked in the days before and regurgitate that as your own talking point against the clinton campaign. >> clinton watts, would you mind sticking with us for one more quick question? i'd like to ask you about how you feel about the state of the investigation. to you find staying with us? >> yes. >> clinton watts who testified before the senate intelligence committee this week's former executive officer at counterterrorism center at west po

susan rice lied about benghazi, bowe bergdahl, knowing nothing about the unmasking of michael flynn andays later she admit she did unmask but it wasn't for political purposes. 2014 she says all chemical weapons stockpiled in syria removed. guess not. if you need more, rice was the director of african affairs during the genocide in rwanda and she objected to the word "genocide" because of the effect it might have on the democratic mid-term elections. the woman is a liar. these are liars with no shame, no remorse, no accountability, and no recusals. you republicans aloud it and now you are buckling to these partisan side shows, taking away from our president the support he needs to get the job done. he's shown you how to do it. so strap in, budge and start fighting like your leader. that's my open. tell me what you think on my facebook page or twitter #judgejeanine. kellyanne, i think america cheered off thursday night as we watched for the first time in state years it was like the america that we group with was back. a president in charge. never a politician. but a man who understood rig