catherine herridge, thank you so much. his latest e-mails raise a lot of questions about the administration's response to this attack. the president addressed at the it the next day in the white house rose garden. but he then proceeded to las vegas for a campaign event that very night. after now we know that in the situation room, the information coming into the white house is that we have been hit by a terrorist attack being claimed by an al qaeda affiliated group, which was claiming responsibility for it. days later, his ambassador to the united nations susan rice appeared on talk shows and said this about the attack. >> the best assessment that we have today is that, in fact, this was not a pre-planned, premeditated attack. but what happened initially was a spontaneous and reaction to what had just transpired in cairo, as a consequence of the video. >> for many days after that time i want you to listen to press secretary jake on it. he speaks for the president. this is the messaging. keep in mind that they have been tol

fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us from washington. catherine, we are hearing this evening that there is a new security camera that apparently survived the attack outside of the consulate in benghazi. what can you tell us about that? >> based on my reporting what we know is there is 50 minutes of security camera video that survived from the consulate. didn't come from a single camera. it comes from several cameras on the compound. i'm told that the most important element of the video is that it does show some of these islamists, these jihaddists into the compound and you can see them in profile and this data point shows that it is terrorism and that these faces are being matched to known jihaddists and i think the bottom line is that once again, this video shows that there was no demonstration outside of the consulate when the attack happened. therefore this idea that it was is a demonstration that was hijacked by terrorists or spun out of control and led to the assault again is false, judge. >> judge jeanine: was the white house seeing

>> eric: it will be pulitzer prize winning stuff for catherine herridge.i get one. >> kimberly: you won't. >> greg: just for being me. >> dana: for banned words? >> greg: twisted metaphors. for example, when -- this is how the media operates. when wower a teenager you'd pick up a girl on a date and park your car so the dent side wasn't facing her home. so when she came out, she saw a perfectly good nice of the car and didn't see all the dents on the other side. that is a media strategy with obama. they have been steering their hero so nobody sees the horrible, horrible dent in his administration, libya. >> bob: they still have to get in car with you. >> greg: true. >> kimberly: excellent. >> dana: i think if the obama administration and the intel community disrupted this attack and prevented it from happening, then this would have been on the front page of the "new york times" in a play-by-play story about how great they are to have saved the ambassador from an attack where his life was in danger. >> eric: what do you think? if you were at abc do you think

>> bob: jurisprudence -- >> dana: this is not just from catherine herridge who has broken a lot of thisk times." >> kimberly: main stream media even. liberal media. >> bob: can you take it to court and get conviction? >> kimberly: you're saying don't thereon what they say? disbelieve them because it's convenience of truth to get obama re-elected? >> bob: there is a lot of explaining to be done but there needs to be evidence. the idea to take dick cheney as an expert in to this who had the biggest coverup in iraq. >> dana: what is a better idea is let's take bob beckel's word for it. >> bob: i'm not asking you to take my word. >> dana: you attack the former vice president when he's saying what everybody else has been saying. >> kimberly: he's well respected nationally. they knew not to do anything on the watch of bush-cheney. now they think we're bunch of children saying please don't attack us. it's a joke. >> dana: a week from today the first hearing was going to be held in congress. intel committee could hear more and i think the secretary of state is right to cooperat cooperate. >> er

catherine herridge had this story tonight.ve the docking, documents, some 400-tons of cargo on board including large consignment of weapons. take a listen to this. >> so the ship came that way. all the way up to extend it to turkey. now, from the information available, there were eight material but also weapons. >> do you think we'll find out the weapons from libya made their way to syria? >> absolutely. >> no question. networking going on. we know it. >> bret: could this be a funneling effort to syria? >> absolutely. this is leading from behind. you overthrow dictator in unstable area and we have zero control, zero influence over anything happening here, which means you get the jihadist, escaping to mahli. half of that is al-qaeda state essentially. you have the al-qaeda camps all over north africa. we now know there are weapons going from syria from libya in to syria to the hands of the worst jihadist. and syria is the real strategic prize here. so it is jeopardizing all of our interest in the area. this is what happens when

kimberly, this report -- so, catherine herridge has certain sources telling her this.r griffin had sources telling her that. they stick by their sources, though there have been others that have said they're not accurate. if you are in a court of law an you look at this and this is different evidence, what is your sense of where the evidence is leading? >> kimberly: when you look at it, it appears that the majority. when you aggregate it, it points in one direction. the president, the administration, the state department, command centers, situation room, they were able to get streaming video. drones overhead and certain consistent facts that show they knew they were in loop. basically, the president within an hour or so of the attack was able to see everything, understand what was going on an quite clear it was an act of terrorism. by al-qaeda affiliateed group. so when you see that, they are trying to put it off after the election, because it's costly to him politically to have then made contradictory statements in weeks that follow. not only himself, but people in his

catherine herridge had early reporting on it. they know there is no protest.ve the e-mails now that there is at least one group claiming responsibility. we have seen the reports that tie ansar al-sharia to al-qaeda directly. yet, jay carney says this on the 18th. play this. >> the initial information, that includes all information, we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned or premeditated attack, that we saw evidence it was sparked by the reaction to this video. and that's what we know so far. based on the concrete evidence, not supposition but concrete evidence we have thus far. >> bret: there are five e-mails here and let alone e-mails we heard from ambassador stevens on the day he died even about the concern about al-qaeda in benghazi. concrete evidence? >> when you say there is no evidence you are telling a falsehood, if you had just said the weight of the evidence or we think "x," it's the video, that is one thing. if you say there was no evidence it was premeditated attack and we have the evidence we see in e-mail claim, a

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catherine herridge has this from washington tonight. >> the consulate in benghazi held an emergency meeting a month before that attack. 10 islamist militias benghazi security spinning out of control. cable reviewed by fox news. it reads in part: the state department's regional security officer expressed concerns with the ability to defend post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support and the overall size of the compound. well, the administration's public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, a summary of the emergency meeting was sent directly to secretary of state clinton's office. tonight a spokesman declined to comment bending outcome of the internal state department investigation. >> al qaeda in benghazi itself could only mean that all americans were in jeopardy. and, therefore, the notion that this attack had anything to do with the famous mohammed video, i think, falls further into disrepute. >> the details of the cable marked secret seemed to foreshadow the attack which was a co

cath -- catherine herridge is in the d.c. newsroom tonight. >> security video taken by cameras like this one you see here at the consulate also shows there was no demonstration when the attack unfolded at approximately 9:35 p.m. the surveillance video was character rised to fox news is quote limited, grainy and in places hard to make out. footage from the gates show men in profile and efforts are ongoing to match the faces to known i didn't -- jihadists. they are constantly frustrated with the lack of access. >> i would like this committee to have the 50 minute tape before the press has it quite frankly, we should have had it today to see it. >> fox news understands con -- there is dramatic video of the. >> shepard: catherine you have new information about the attack and the evacuation? >> on the evacuation, an intelligence source on the ground in libya tells fox, quote: the communications were a mess. this is an aerial photo showing the relationship between the consulate in the upper left and the annex on the left. security

catherine herridge with the news. she is live at guantanamo bay. catherine?shep, this is the first time that we have heard anything of substance from khalid sheikh mohammed since 2009. i was just 30 feet away when he said, quote: i don't think there is any justice in this court. one key issue was decided today and that's whether the five 9/11 suspects can waive their right to be in court which simply means they could skip this week's hearing all together. the prosecution said it's their choice. the defense says it's more evidence that appearances, not justice are all the government cares about in this case. >> what you saw today was exactly that. it was the prosecution fighting very hard to make sure that the defendants were required to come to court against their own will so that the process can seem to be fair. >> aside from the right to a trial and the right to counsel, and the right to a jury, impartial fact finder, the right to presence is the most fundamental. >> if there was a moment in court today it, belonged to the parents of andrea habberman, she w

catherine herridge with us live from d.c. tonight. catherine, you spoke to the republic chairman on the house republic committee how did he react. >> just a short time ago congressman mike rogers suggesting the obama administration politicized the intelligence in the immediate aftermath in the attack on the consulate in libya. spontaneous and not premeditated terrorism. >> i argue the administration made some serious mistakes when they highlighted the video, escalated its credibility to the presidential level and then took it on tv in pakistan with u.s. taxpayer dollars. >> rogers who told fox one day after the attack that it was indeed terrorism saying tonight that this statement from the director of national intelligence friday the nation's top intelligence official appeared to be an effort to object secure the facts. >> part of the problem is this circling of the wagons that is really concerning about. this again, americans need to understand the truth. and the facts are what the facts are. and the intelligence is what the intellige

catherine herridge is live in the d.c. newsroom this evening. therine, we are seeing a brand new email that i mentioned at the top of this newscast. that's right, shep. this latest email shows well into the night on september 11th, the white house national security staff was receiving updates that the second wave of the attack had begun with mortar strikes on the annex what we now know to be the cia outpost a mile from the consulate compound. the status reads in part quote d.s. reports the chief of mission personnel in benghazi is under attack by mortar fire. there are reports of injuries to come staff. military experts tell fox the mortar fire is literally the smoking gun piece of evidence that shows the attack was preplanned. mortar team needs distance, elevation, weather conditions and the weight of the shell to calculate the angle for a direct hit and aerial imagery is typically used to identify the target and launch site where metal plates are bolted into the ground from which this that mortar is fired, shep. >> shepard: clearly a lot of pla

our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live with the very latest in washington. catherine? >> reporter: megyn, thank you. two military sources tell fox news that a a the attack may hae been preemptive and specifically the growing cia presence at the annexment al-qaeda is capitalizing on the proliferate proliferate -- this attack on the consulate june 6th with an ied planted in the perimeter wall is described to fox as a probing attack to measure the u.s. response. there was nothing significant in response that attack. that incident coupled with attacks on the international red cross and this rpg attack on the british ambassador also in june, also in benghazi suggesting a pattern to drive western influence from that city. part of the broader effort by the al-qaeda affiliate to establish an islamic state in eastern libya. what do you think al-qaeda looks like today, especially in north africasome. >> it's much stronger, it's spreading out. it's sort of running across the map of northern africa, what they call the maghreb, the northern countries and libya. there are

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on all this. the catherine. >> reporter: good morning. on libya the vice president blamed the intelligence community for bad assessments that informed the administration public and controversyal statements about the attack and suggested the white house was unaware for more requests on the ground in libya. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security again. by the way, at the time we were told exactly, we said exactly what the intelligence community towed us. that they knew. that was the assessment. and as the intelligence community changed their view, we made it clear they changed their view. that's why i said we will get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: but during the four hour hearing wednesday before the house government oversight committee witnesses from the state department, diplomatic security division and the military team leader on the ground said there were repeated requests for assistance, a witness recounting one of many frustrating exchanges

bill: catherine herridge is in washington live with us. good morning to you. explain the significance of the e-mails we're now seeing. >> reporter: these new documents first on attend by fox appear to be the most significant we've seen to date on the libya scandal as e-mail traffic takes the real time information on the attack and of those suspected being responsible inside the white house situation room. this brings the national security advisor tom donnell lynn, the director of the national intelligence, senior intelligence official, james clapper and security advisor john brennan on the loop as they are cleared on the traffic. donilon, brennan and david petraeuses have been noticeably absent on the white house assessment of benghazi. four career military professionals would be the obvious choice, not ambassador rice to address the attack on sunday talk shows. one e-mail said the group ansar al-sharia was behind the attack. they claimed responsibility on facebook and twitter and called for an attack on the embassy in tripoli. the national security council re

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has all of the details from washington. reporter: well, thank you. in this letter to secretary of state clinton, the house oversight committee alleging 12 incidents that showed the deteriorating security situation before that consulate attack. the reported incidents include a libyan security force so afraid for its own safety that family members urged the guards to quit in the weeks leading up to the murder of four americans. also threats posted on facebook specifically targeting ambassador stevens. the letter reads in part, quote: >> reporter: the short time ago, the state department responding. >> i think it's fair to say that we are still working through what we have in this building in terms of documentation, in terms of information about what we knew, who knew it, when they knew it, and that's part of the process that we have to go through. >> reporter: separately, fox news has obtained letters that shows the state department refused to get involved in a dispute between the security license holder in libya and its oper

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here. tell us the most interesting things you have heard. >> we have had testimony that the consulate in been gatsy as well as at main embassy in tripoli did not meet what are called the inman standards. when you have a posting in an area with a high likelihood of a terrorist attack or civil unrest there is a classification in the state department. from that very specific physical security standards are set and what we heard at the hearing today which is something we previously reported here on fox september 28 is that the consulate did not meet those physical security standards and they are important because it's supposed to give the ambassador and his team a golden hour they can with stand an attack for an hour and in that time period they can burn the classified information and call in for an emergency evacuation. based on our reporting from what i understand the consulate in benghazi was only able to withstand an attack by four assailants for 15 minutes. that's why we saw the document l

. >> reporter: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live in washington. we know you've bati t r h oni t cma s ste dartmen in that late-day briefing to reporters made his position known drawing a sharp distinction from the white house narrative that was a demonstration that spun out of control. >> they hd a broad news confenceveheho thtevnar department's position, i repeat, never been the state department's position that in fact this assault was part of a row actio reaction to a s croray numous tnes ast-bwers. >> reporter: committee members told this morning in opening statements that there was a preoccupation in washington with reducing the number of american security personnel at the consulate and rlacing them with libyan guards, that there was a rusho move towards a durenc aer a sies ttacheai sainnemptt british ambassador. >> the secretary bombing was an improvised explosive device that was placed on the northgate breaching the wall. it was a test by tstnd ucnd w dn'tspul adequately. >>eporter: fox was first to report on september 17th based on an intel

. >> judge jeanine: fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins me. good evening. >> thank you for having me, judge. >> judge jeanine: good to have you on again. a lot going on tonight. talk of agreement between the white house and iran on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. or the agreement to not proliferate. and the white house coming out a few moments ago saying it's not true. what can you tell us? >> the story in the "new york times" saying the white house knocking it down and you have to ask about the timing here. this story surfacing two days before the final presidential debate on foreign policy. iran giving us some division between the two candidates. i would ask even if this was the case, the u.s. agreed to one-on-one talks with iran, whether it would be a double edge sword for the administration. many americans see any dealing with iran as weakness and naivety. >> judge jeanine: interestingly enough. here we are, just approaching the third debate. and we know that last week, right before the debate, hillary clinton comes out and takes one

catherine herridge is live in washington. catherine, tell us more what he learned yesterday. >> reporter: thank you, allison and good morning. lawmakers are questioning whether the president's political agenda drove to security situation on the ground that led to the death of four americans. i would note the seals were not there to protect the ambassador. they were there to on a separate mission. as fox reported there was no demonstration at the consulate in benghazi fanned youtube video was not the reason for. that point was made abundantly clear at hearing. >> there were no protest. state department and others have that video. speaking of video, the one in california made by an individual out there for a period of time also clearly had no direct effect on this attack. >> when i was in libya, a good part of the day, never once did a person ever mention a video. never. >> reporter: these these newt documents at hearing and four hours of testimony showed a pattern of significant threats at benghazi. lawmakers were told that the

but we begin wh chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on what went down today just behind me on capitol hill. good evening. laeresodwhr pren lil aahr security decisions on the ground in libya and assertions by the administration. >> there was no protest. ot hth veeparent, f.b he s dtm fi wti be usventversight committee confirmed he told lawmakers a day after this attack on the benghazi consulate that he believed it was terrorism. >> i belie it was the ne lthy i was complex attack. >> ambassador kennedy defended ambassador susan rice who five days after the attack made rounds on sunday talk shows as it was a demonstration, prompted by a youtube video for anti-islam film that sn f of t ininyeeffl, on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> challenged repeatedly by a republican who returned from the region. i was in libya and nobody mentiod a video. >> in the yeareading up to the attack, ied attack on the consulate in june, lawmakers reoldhaplou colmen re >>conoelnm for security, intelligence and law enforcement help to identify

the catherine herridge, reporter from washington. >> president obama and republican challenger mitt romney is going to be facing off for their first presidential debate. for undecided voters style might matter over substance. how a candidate might say something may have more impact than what he says. what does mitt romney need to say to get an edge with some of the voters. he prepared john mccain four years and ago and also worked with mitt romney. brett welcome to the show. it's to have you here. [ applause ] what would you say mitt romney has to do more than anything else in order to go into that debate and come out the winner? >> at the top of the list has to be governor romney has to tie the poor economic conditions we find ourselves in right now to the failure of the president's policies. he has to be able to litigate and make the case that the policies the president has put forward have caused the economy to continue to go down. folks believe the economy is bad right now but what they don't actually believe is it is the president's fault. he has to make that case in the debate with t

fox news's catherine herridge is following the story in washington. catherine?reporter: thank you, melissa. fox news was told the suspect in custody, ali ani al-harzi was a several suspects interviewed by fbi and intelligence community in connection with benghazi attacks. he also believed to fought in al qaeda in iraq also known as aqi. what we're being told the links between benghazi and aqi at this point are described as limited in the investigation but it is part of the broader jihadist stew which has emerged after the arab spring. separately the head of the house intelligence committee tells fox that he believes a second attack on the u.s. embassy in tunisia on september 14th, was the work of ansar al-sharia, the same islamist group blamed for benghazi. the u.s. embassy in tunisia was ransacked, windows smashed, rocks thrown and fires lit. also the american school in tunisia was targeted. >> same organization. might not have been the same people involved but same organization. clearly they decided to try to take advantage of the momentum of 9/11. clearly tha

fox news chief intelligence correspondent has been all over this story from the beginning, catherine herridgeas the very latest live in washington now. catherine? >> reporter: megyn, thank you. an interview with the head of the house intelligence committee, fox news was told the administration's leaking of intelligence to defend its position on benghazi was damaging to national security, and at the very least it was emboldening the enemy. >> now we have an intelligence and national security issue of epic proportions here. we had a successful attack by what we believe is an al-qaeda or al-qaeda affiliate, and we have no way forward here to try to hold them accountable. >> reporter: as you mentioned greg talcott reporting from benghazi says a credible eyewitness heard a mob chanting blood thirsty slogans less like a demonstration and more like a warm-up to battle. fox news has new information about the level of planning by the terrorists including blocking teams and then the secondary target, the annex, kill or capture teams and what was described to us as a reserve team to deal with supplement