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we have the latest from cairo. >> according to the police, this is made up of three men. two are arrested in alexandria, one in cairo. explosives were found in their possession. they were plotting to carry out attacks in cairo targeting key installations including a foreign embassy. the men are believed to be linked to international al qaeda figures, particularly in western asia. the news must be taken with a grain of salt given the fact that the police did not announce what concrete evidence they have linking these men to any terrorist or al qaeda activity. the men also have not been charged with anything and have still not been referred to trial. >> much more to come for you this half hour including iraq's presidential election get under way. political heavyweight enter the race. -- heavyweights enter the race. welcome back. let's read the top stories. people are dead, hundreds wounded after two car bombs exploded. the violence spilling over the borders of syriato blame. hosni mubar -- ak is back in court. boats are being counted in pakistan's the general election. the

embassy in cairo. it went on to say we know islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attacks. and the text pointedly referred to cia warnings. at least five other attacks against foreign interests in benghazi by unidentified assailants. that set off alarms at the state department. at 7:30 that night victoria nuland, a 30-year career diplomat objected e-mailing, why are we encouraging members of congress to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation? officials say she was trying to stop the cia from shifting the blame for not protecting benghazi where most of the personnel were attached to the cia. at white house meetings saturday, other officials further watered down the talking points. in all there were 12 separate drafts in the end eliminating all references to terrorism, but keeping the point about the cairo demonstration being the spark that set off the attack. on sunday, u.n. ambassador susan rice f

our correspondent is live in cairo for us. what did the court gave as reason for its decision today? >> the court's reasoning is not typically immediately released in egypt, but a lot of people will be waiting to hear what the appeals court's explanation is concerning those acquittal verdicts. we do know that the initial court that had rendered the first acquittal verdicts said at the time there was simply no sufficient evidence whatsoever, no communication records, no phone records inking these 24 defendants, who are keen members -- team members of closely mubarak's -- hosni .ubarak's government ,hey dismissed testimony saying that the testimony of political figures does not count because they have a history of rivalry with the former regime and that the testimony of the assailants themselves were dismissed because the court found they came under duress after those assailants were attacked by the protesters who were holding them and turning them into the military at the time. >> talk us through the significance of the decisio

reza sayah, cnn, cairo. >> big problem in cairo. >> very big problem in cairo. happening a lot.ng it an epidemic of sexual harassment. very physical stuff too, not just comments. we're going to switch gears. when we come back, we're going to take a look at one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it's bigger than the super bowl. and i'm going to call it football. it is. it's football. >> no. calling it soccer. >> all right. we'll be back. >>> all right. we got a quick quiz for you. what is the biggest sporting event of the year? is it the super bowl? >> no, no, it is not. the most watched -- this is the most watched game of the year. it's called football, here you say soccer. football for the rest of the world. here's amanda davis. >> the champions league final is big business in any language. there's big sporting events and then there's this. >> before the game you hear that music and from the very on edge it gives you goose bumps on the back of your neck. >> i was so proud to have the opportunity to present myself kind of to a whole new audience and play. and i dreamed

. >> cairo is one of the most relocked cities in the world. traffic is chaos and the subway overcrowded. some egyptian commuters have reverted to an ancient method of travel, the river nile. >> arriving in style. not your usual commute. dodging the city's notorious traffic, these pastors have spent an hour coming to work read cairo has not properly utilized a nile for passenger transport. the public river bus system offers limited services. private investors are trying to change that. >> i like that it is organized, it is clean. they are open to feedback. they are improving. it is a new idea so there are glitches now and then, but they are taking it and making improvements. >> it takes away all the stress. >> passengers say they get to enjoy the city sights and sounds and are appreciating its beauty for the first time. >> this is going to be a much more effective way to travel through cairo. in just two months, the number of people using the service went from six to 150. >> they want that daily average to 10,000 in a years time. they need supp

almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video. >> this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. what happened is it was a spontaneous reaction what had just transpired in cairo. >> she did not independently decide to appear on those shows nor did she come up with the youtube excuse. we now have prove her talking points were developed and edited by top administration officials for days. let's review the facts. now we know that on the day of the attack the state department operations center sent out two alerts. one came just after 4:00 p.m. eastern time stating that the consulate was under attack. the other was sent two hours later saying an al-qaeda-linked group already claimed credit for the attack. that was tuesday. but the talking points weren't sent out until just before 7:00 p.m. on friday night. the only draft accurately included references to jihadists, islamic extremists, experienced fighters and al-qaeda and details of five recent terror attacks in benghazi. take a look at your screen. on the left, that's d

embassy in cairo as did every other version of the memo. that does not help my argument. so forget that part. just remember this. they took out any mention of al qaeda and removed all the c.i.a. warnings of imminent threat. bottom line. susan rice went on the sunday shows and, for political reasons, was not completely accurate about something in the middle east. you would never see a republican do something like that. folks, benghazi isn't even the best. i mean, worst scandal to hit the administration today. >> the white house also had to respond today to another fire storm. the admission by the i.r.s. that it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the words, quote, tea party or, quote, patriot in their titles when they were applying for tax-exempt status. >> as early as march 2010 the cincinatti field office which was put in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status began searching for groups with politically identifiable names. according to the "washington post" of the 298 groups selected for special scrutiny 72 had the words "tea party" in their title

almost a copycat o"2,+t the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which werevvz prompted, of> what our assessment is at the presentj@upq is in fact it began spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in cairo. >> that was susan rice appearing on the sunday talk shows after the september 11th attack on#>e con benghazi, libya. well, it wasn't spontaneous, it wasn't related to a youtubeqxáz video. this was the twelfth that hire. without. >> one thing you didn't mention is the brits pulled out because of the threat. >> that's correct. >> and these people on the ground in benghazi requests additional security. and it was wasn't provided. first responsibility is if you are going to put people in place, you provide security for them. and if not you remove them. you don't have to keep them there. you can do something else like the britts did. i think the narrative that they -- that evolved, what happened on the ground didn't fit the narrative. and the narrative overcame the facts. >> why do i think if this was you and george w. bush, that leadin

said they initially reported they had warned everybody about cairo and causing trouble in cairo. point. >> dana: i want to get eric's point. >> eric: darrell issa is going subpoena ambassador pickering, thomas pick certifying going to have to testify on may 23rd. voluntarily or not he will get subpoenaed sheewlt question he needs. honestly at this point i don't care, all that matters is obama's legacy. that is kind of politics. i care about the time line of life. they wanted to go but i have to pointed this out. at 10:05 there were emails sent from benghazi, u.s. mission under attack. that is 1:00 a.m. in the morning. ambassador stevens is dead in the hospital with one other. at 4:00 a.m., two more died. whoever ambassador pickering tells us stand down and don't send help from tipoli or italy or wherever, that person needs to testify as to why they did that. >> dana: one other question as we leave here. we're talking about the irs, what did the white house know in terms of trying to protect the president in his reelection effort. was that consideration? that the is nub of who pus

he renders the common people of cairo with a maintenance and compassion. compassion. and we see him struggle with early newspaper gave in freelance pieces like some latter-day benjamin frankly. he finally wound up in jerusalem with abc news before nbc in 2003. his reporting from baghdad set the standard. he was the only american to cover it all. he tells this story and another book, which will be studied by historians decades from now. at one point he notes the four psychological stages that all reporters go through while covering war zones. these four stages seem particularly relevant and poignant. stage one, i am invincible. nothing can hurt me. i am superman. stage two, what i'm doing is dangerous. i might get hurt over here. i better be careful. stage three, what i'm doing is really dangerous. i am probably going to get hurt over here no matter how careful i am. stage four, i have been here too long. i am going to die over here. it is just a matter of time. i have played the game too long. last december the journalistic world held it's breath when brought word tha

in cairo, they met with president mohamed morsi. has been told that the military has agreed to review a number of the members of the group who have carried out the kidnapping. they are in prison for an 2011. may carried out in sources say the military will retry case of those men who have received the death penalty. >> let's look at pakistan. a court hearing a case against military a former leader has dismissed a plea for bail. the ruling relates to allegations he illegally detained supreme court judges during emergency rule that he imposed. heharraf is under arrest as fights three separate cases against him. he was accused of failing to theect the of -- assassinated former prime minister, ben is your bhutto -- the assassinated former prime minister. case, despiteular the fact that the lawyer who filed the charges against a former military ruler has withdrawn the case, it is still continuing because it also had an anti-terrorism charge under 780.on seven- -- section very seriousis charge, there can be no bail on this particular issu

we go live to cairo for the very late on that. guatemala's former military ruler sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and war crimes. >> in a burnt out muslim village in myanmar, people say they fear further attacks from their buddhist neighbors. >> it has been a long and bloody road to this day, but pakistan's historic elections are now taking place. it is a milestone in pakistani democracy because people are voting in an election where for the first time one civilian government is handing over to another. politicians and voters have been attacked in karachi and elsewhere. some have lost their lives, but voters continue to go vote, determined not to be intimidated. there are about 86 million registered voters that will be selected 342 members of the national assembly. the party with the biggest number of seats usually gets to pick the prime minister. he will also choose assembly leaders from the four provinces. the provincial and national will vote for a new president. we are going to get updates from around the country i

what happened was it was a spontaneous reaction to what just transpired in cairo.eo our current assessment is that what happened in benghazi was initially a spontaneous reaction to what just transpired hours before in cairo. almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo which were prompted by the video. what our assessment is as of the present is what began spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what transpired some hours earlier in cairo. >> susan rice appearing on sunday talk shows after the september 11th attack on our consulate in benghazi, libya. it wasn't spontaneous, wasn't related to a you tube video. this was the 12th, that we know of, edition of the talking points. it evolved into that lie. how big of a scandal is this? >> they say truth leads a horse back and are returns on foot. and it's damaging. the -- i haven't heard a person who had knowledge of the event who described it that way. nobody, nobody. nobody thought it's a demonstration i had heard, anyway z nobody thought that it was related to the you tube video. >> yes. >>

petraeus writes quote, no mention of the cable to cairo either? frankly, i'd just as soon not use them. this concern after his deputy scratched out mentions in a talking points mention of al qaeda, fighters in libya, a warning to the cairo embassy. u.s. officials meanwhile say a person who played a central role in the benghazi attack have been identified. federal criminal charges against that person will soon be made public. >>> in the third headline out of washington, attorney general eric holder says it was not him but his number two who made the call to subpoena phone records from the associated press. grilled on capitol hill yesterday, holder said deputy attorney general james cole made the decision in the investigation is into a plot to bomb a u.s. airliner. >> i'm not familiar with the reasons why the subpoena was constructed in the way that it was because i'm not a part of the case. >> the ap called the department of justice's action a serious interference with their right to gather and report the news. >>> to items of luck now. might be th

there is kind of a sound history for this not being very consistent in cairo. that said of course al qaeda is led by an egyptian. >> al zawari. >> yeah. >> what should we read into this attempted attack? is it comforting to know the egyptians are on the case? is al qaeda gaining strength in the region? what do you think? >> well, you know, i mean, in all of these countries that experienced the arab spring there is a lot of chaos. as you indicated, you know, they were run by repressive governments that had a pretty good handle on these groups so i think it is comforting this was discovered in time. but i don't think it is going to be the last time we see the u.s. embassey targeted in a major arab capital like this. >> all right. peter bergen, thank you so much. >>> coming up next, too often victims are forgotten but we aren't going to let that happen. one month after the boston marathon terror attacks we have an update on those who suffered some of the worst injuries. >>> plus, one senator is so disgusted by sexual assaults in the military that she is taking mat

the cia's first version blaming the incident on protests in cairo over an anti-islamic video and noting, we do know that islamic extremists with tie to alexander participated in the attack. the text made mefreverend to fi other attacks against foreign interests. spokesperson victoria nuland e-mailed that the mention of prior attacks could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings. so why would we want to feed that either. concerned. at white house meetings the following day, other officials further diluted the language eliminating the reference to terrorism and previous attacks. that sunday u.n. ambassador susan rice followed the talking points on all five talk shows. >> what happened in benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. >> reporter: once that assessment was discounted, the white house insisted it had only changed one word and on friday stood by its story. >> the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits -- i mean to the talking points and then

what it began spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in cairo. >> reporter: in the closing weeks of the presidential election, the obama administration appeared reluck land to admit that it had been hit by a terror attack. but it was pointed out that rice's statement directly contradicted the president of libya who appeared just before her on "face the nation."" >> there's no doubt this was preplanned, predetermined. >> reporter: hicks told committee investigators rice's words were an insult to the president of libya and may have toppled efforts to capture those responsible for the attack. i firmly believe that the reason it took us so long to get the fbi to benghazi is because of those sunday talk shows. hicks, a veteran of 22 years in the foreign service, has never spoken publicly about the attack. that will change this wednesday when he testifies before issa's committee. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> well, one of three men charged with trying to cover up the alleged boston marathon bombers is due in court today for a bail hearing.

more than 10,000 egyptians answer the call, filling cairo's tahrir square. >> and they started chantingnti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and say mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president, who's held power over the people for more than 30 years. images of the demonstrations and the police response flood the internet. >> mubarak basically unleashed his security forces all across egypt. so for four days he unleashed everything he had. >> four days into the uprising, hoping to stop the flow of information among the protesters, the government cuts off the internet. >> mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. >> nora younis is a reporter for the "egypt independent," an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square

story that the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to a video and to protests that were happening in cairo based on this anti-islamic video. and that this was a concocted story. furthermore, that part of the concocted story was that this was so spontaneous it had no connection to existing terrorist organizations. how did this story get put together? it got put together in talking points. 're all very familiar with. but these are the list of items that members of an administration or political allies go on tv and they're given talking points. talking points are not the product of sodium pentothal. they are usually -- they are usually the details are fuzzed down and usually all very kind of bland. so -- but in the construction of these talking points, we learned this last week that there were 12 iterations of the talking points. as the c.i.a. weighed in, as the state department weighed in and as the white house weighed in. and what we knew about this controversy is the white house had said that only one word had been changed in these talking points. now, these are the talking points that inf

what it began, spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in cairo. >> reporter: in the closing weeks of the presidential election the obama administration appeared reluctant to admit an american installation had been hit by a terrorist attack. but house oversite chairman darrell issa pointed out rice's statement directly contradicted the president of libya who had appeared just before her on "face the nation". >> this leaves us with no doubt that this was pre-planned, determined, predetermined. >> reporter: hicks told committee investigators rice's words were an insult to the president of libya and may have toppled efforts to capture those responsible for the attack. i firmly believe that the reason it took us so long to get the f.b.i. to benghazi is because of those sunday talk shows. hicks, a veteran of 22 years in the foreign service, has never spoken publicly about the attack. that will change this wednesday when he testifies before issa's committee. jeff? >> jeff: david martin, thank you. israeli jets again attack targets in syria overnight. th

cairo says it is withdrawing from a second week of the nonproliferation treaty talks in geneva in protest against what it is calling the failure to implement a one nine hundred ninety five resolution for a middle east free of nuclear weapons now the cairo argument is an implicit reference to israel that has never either confirmed or denied having nuclear arms and it is also not a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty arab states and iran say that israel's presumed nuclear arsenal poses a threat to peace in the middle east as well as security in a statement by the egyptian foreign ministry its it was pulling out of the talks to quote the same a strong message of non acceptance of the continued lack of seriousness dealing with the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the middle east we want to say that it cannot continue waiting forever for the implementation of this with a new show and knowledge options are calling on member states and international bodies to bear responsibility again quoting for implementing the legitimate international resolutions the argument however from the isra

to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video. >> reporter: what rice did not disclose is investigators suspected an al qaeda connected group, ansar al sharia was behind the attack. in an e-mail, state department spokesman wrote, "why do we want the hill fingering ansar al sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves. and the penultimate point could be abuseded to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings." nuland chimed in again, "these don't resolve all of my issues or those of my building's leadership. they are consulting with nss." then they warn the talking points shouldn't jeopardize the investigation and that the matter will be dealt with at a white house meeting the next day, when it appears the decision was made to drop the reference to the terror group. the end result, this e-mail to rice, "you are doing the sunday morning shows and need to be aware of the final posture these poin

trouble in cairo,.eric. >> look, here is what -- >> the c.i.a. said that. >> let me finish. >> go ahead. >> i want to make sure we have time to get eric's point. >> this came out this afternoon. darrell issa is now going to subpoena ambassador pickering. he's going to have to testify oy may 23, voluntary or not. here is the only question he needs. honestly at this point, i don't even care who pushed the video anymore. all ha matters is obama's legacy and that's it. o i care about the time line of life. they want to go, but i have toio point this out. at 10:05 p.m., there was e-mail sent to washington from benghazi. u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi under attack.n at 1:00 a.m. in the morning, ambassador stevens is dead, inhe hospital with one other and at : 4:00 a.m., two more died.d. whoever ambassador pickering tells us that said stand down and don't send help from tripoli or italy or fest or whomever,orw whoever, that person needs toee testify why they madeds that ca. that's all you need to know. >>

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embassy in cairo. that crucial phrase is here in every iteration. in these e-mails, no one questioned it. it is unclear if anyone questioned it separate from these e-mails that have been released. obviously, knowing the conversations around that designation is absolutely crucial. we do know, though, that initial version of the talking points stated, i want to quote it here, "we do know the islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack." now the final version of the talking points as we can see here in the e-mails a much shorter version, reads this way, "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations." those may sound similar to you. let me be clear about the difference. the word attack is now the word demonstrations which is obviously very different. and the words al qaeda are not there. now the white house has long maintained that it made only one edit which by the way it is very clear that edit main by ben rhodes is here. a stylistic change, not a substantive edit. they changed the word consu

embassy in cairo. >> that's right, wolf. pretty much everyone who we spoke to on the scene from security guards, libyan security guards to other individuals who happen to be at the consulate compound during the attack all said that it happened instantly and happened simultaneously from multiple different directions. there was no doubt in their mind that this was some sort of a coordinated complex attack. when we arrived on scene, of course, the consulate was burnt. it had been largely looted. it wasn't secured as a crime scene. we were able to spend a few hours on the ground there finding of course as you mentioned the ambassador's diary that was lying close to his bed along with other sensitive items as well. and journalists even days and weeks later were able to access the compound and also come up with other sensitive items. it took the fbi weeks to arrive on site and do whatever they could to salvage bits of information. it's also important to look back at the landscape of libya prior to this attack taking place. the con

until we saw the news about cairo.nding a text message to ambassador stevens saying chris, are you aware of what is going on in cairo? and he said, no. so i toll him that the embassy in another text, that the embassy had been stormed and they were trying to tear down our flag. and he said, thanks very much. and, then i went on with business. closed the day and i went back to my villa, was relaxing, watching a television show that i particularly like and at 9:45 p.m., all times will be libyan times, the six-hour time difference, the rso, john martin ran into my villa, yelling, greg, greg, the consulate is under attack. and i stood up and reached for my phone because i had an inkling or thought that perhaps the ambassador had tried to call me and relay the same message and you found two missed calls on the phone. one from the ambassador's phone. one from a phone number i didn't recognize. and i punched the phone number i didn't recognize and i got the ambassador an the other end and he said, greg, we're under attack! and

they won't let us add the cairo warning., national security staff's call. >> this is quite a window into what usually is a hush-hush process about how to deal with these types of attacks and the spin that irrevocably comes afterwards. kelly o'donnell thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. thank you for doing a lot on the run. >> a lot of detail i didn't mean to hit you with a firehose of info but we're working it out. >> i want to go to the panel real quick. politically this is not good for the white house right now. does it stick? >> sure, they look terrible. there have been comparisons to watergate. they did not try to kill people, get their staff killed. this was them trying to save face after something terrible had happened and try to prevent what looks like accurate perception that they had not been careful enough in benghazi, they had been sloppy about security and ignored warnings. as you read that, it sounds like the state department is very concerned about this. at one point reportedly the state department offi

they met at an emergency meeting in cairo. they discussed ways to help peace efforts to succeed. they did not provide any details. they said they'd submit their proposals to the u.n. security committee. they're willing to bring members of the government and opposition together at a conference. neither side has confirmed they'll participate in the talks. ncht t ncht. >>> the leaders of japan and thailand agreed to stay in talks. japanese prime minister abe met his thai counterpart on thursday in tokyo. abe described thailand as a key country in the association of southeast asia nations. he is eager to help with development in thailand. positive contributions to such developments will bring about prosperity for both nations. the offer was welcomed. she suggested that her government will give positive consideration to the matter and promote cooperation with japan in various fields. abe also requested that restrictions be relaxed for thai imports of food products from japan. restrictions were imposed two years ago following the fukushima power plant accident. she said she'll consider

for cairo being the inspiration. that is obviously wrong.hat was the cia that made that mistake. >> bill: they backed off it pretty quick i understand. the cia backed off that very, very fast. and rice didn't. i mean, they went out with the initial cia put it in and the cia backed off it, i think. correct me if i amcorrect me i. >> the cia did sign off at the end talking points given to susan rice. >> bill: did petraeus sign off on that. >> that's an interesting point. i have also obtained an email from pretty who was of course the cia director at the time. he was concerned that the things had been edited down to the point of uselessness. >> bill: i don't think petraeus signed off on that with all due within mr. karl. >> i have a direct quote iom petraeus' email would just as soon not use them. he didn't like these talking points. >> bill: that's right. you said february. that was september 15th. >> i'm sorry. >> bill: let's be clear. david petraeus the evidence the cia didn't sign off on this at all. >>. it was the white house and the state

more from cairo. >> one of the interesting names has been appointed as minister of legal affairs. this is significant because he is a key judge in the supreme constitutional court. the court as it is widely for issuing a verdict last year dissolving the parliament, and that was dominated by the islamic party. judge fromt to a this court could be seen as an interesting move, could be seen they aren'tt -- world and another confrontation with other branches of the government. judges have been up in arms over the past few weeks, saying there are renewed political .ttempts an interesting move at times. this reshuffle is not expected to satisfy. they say the prime minister must be replaced. save theing to the children, one million babies die every year on the day the herb or. thefirst 24 hours are riskiest time for mother and baby in almost every country. where is the safest place to give birth? and norway, the top of the list prayed the highest rates of newborn deaths is in africa. the highest number of newborn babies die in india. continuing our series looking .nto infant mortality, a

embassies in cairo as a consequence of this film. and nobody understood exactly what was taking place during the course of those first few days. the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. they reviewed them several months ago. they concluded that, in fact, there was nothing a file in terms of the process we had terms of thein process we had used. suddenly, three days ago this gets spun up as if there is something new to the story. there is nothing there. keep in mind, by the way, these so-called talking points that 5,e prepared for susan rice 6 days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that i was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing. two toep in mind, that three days after susan rice appeared on the sunday shows using these talking points, which had been the source of all of this contrary, i sent out the head of our national counterterrorism center, matt olson, up to capitol hill and specifically said it was an act and that extremist elements inside of

since then, the streets in downtown cairo have been all completely open. that poses a problem certainly for embassies in that area. it poses a security challenge. more importantly as they protests that have become so frequent, against all kinds of policies, both domestically and foreign, you see there's a challenge for embassies, western embassies to try and respect the democratic will of the people, but other than the maintain their vital security interests at many of these facilities. it's a scene that's repeat it hadself in libya and in tunisia. luke, before we let you go back to the hearing bob corker says -- i feel like i know what happened, i'm fairly safire, but look, if the house wants some hearings, i hope they're done in a respectful way. could this be the end of the benghazi chapped? >> that's a very good question. it all depends on what the red meat area of the house republican conference wants to do. one would suspect, though, that there would come a time when the leadership would try to move the focus back to issues they think he would do bet

embassy in cairo and evolved into a direct assault on the u.s. consulate and that quote, we do know that islamic he can supreme mists -- extremists anticipated in the attack. at least five others involving benghazi, and that quote, we cannot rule out that individuals previously surveyed the individuals and the final version of the talking points, after numerous revisions produced on september 15thth, removed all references to extremists or al qaeda or premeditated... >> benghazi was the result of a respond stain house in -- spontaneous addition five-days following -- five days following the attack. it was then done by the then cia director after a meeting at the white house. question, was there any foreign policy done by thish wants of the -- issuians of the furious talking points? >> this was the ultimate collapse of a conspiracy theory and the e-mails showed susan rice was not any part of the talking debate. the previous republican attacks have been proven to be spurious. it was the real leaking of the fabricated quotes of these e- mails by the

>> reporter: this hidden camera experiment was joint project by private tv channel ontv in cairo-based a group of egyptian activists and filmmakers. they say the toughest way to take on the toughest problems in post-revolution egypt is to do good old-fashioned investigative journalism and put it on tv. there television in egypt has only begun to scratch the surface 24 terms of content that's possible. >> reporter: they've tackled social issues and government corruption but none of their shows created more buzz than when they dressed a man as a woman. >> the target for us was what if men felt what women felt like. >> reporter: walid says the stress and fear he felt walking the streets as a woman -- >> i as a man, i can't imagine living my life like that every single day. >> reporter: -- is something he wouldn't wish on anyone. sexual harassment against women is technically against the law here but activists say authorities simply don't pay enough attention to it. with this television program, they hope both police and lawmakers start toeg taking it seriously. fred? >> thank you so much