. >> brandon webb is a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. and author of "benghazi: the definitive report." t me go to brandon first. this is the question that gets to me. if you're out there pinned down and the word gets back to washington in realtime at the national security agency or national security desk, why didn't we try to send somebody from somewhere? what happened? >> hi, chris. i think people need to understand this is a situation where as much as the people on the ground working with the state department in libya knew that the threat was there and requested security, the state department just wasn't prepared to deal with this situation. and by being prepared, you have a list of things that when something goes wrong like this you go down that list and make certain phone calls and notify certain people. and that just wasn't the case. they had numbers from the d.o.d. that had expired. then you run into a situation where these agencies, the cia, the state department, and the military don't necessarily talk to each other and are in communications as much as you'd think. >> you know, a

by the way, chris, less than a half hour ago on your network, not fox, on msnbc -- >> brandon webb was on chris matthews' show, yes, absolutely. i watched the interview. in fact, i know brandon quite well. >> raising, though, chris, legitimate questions about the issue. >> yes, look, right. so, the point, though, is, show me the other issues that lindsey graham had said he is going to put a hold on every single presidential nominee, including the federal reserve, which i imagine your clients in the financial services roundtable can't be crazy about, any other issue where he is going to put a hold on every nominee other than this one issue. >> well, i don't know of any others that he's done that, but i do believe he feels strongly about this. and just because he threatens to put a hold, or in fact, puts a hold on certain nominees, doesn't go to the issue of how long he will keep the hold on or under what circumstances he might release them. look, he's frustrated. he thinks this is an important issue. it has a lot of people on both sides of the aisle raising questions. usually when there