chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge has highlights from today's contentious hearing. >> the former deputy cia director michael morrell's appearance, his first public testimony on the talking points was filled with awkward explanation, frustration, and pointed accusations. >> you made significant substantive changes for the white house, whether it was on behalf, we don't know. but we know you are the one who made those changes. >> ma'am, if you look at the record, what you will see is the changes i made were fully consistent with what our analysts believed at the time, period. >> morrell told the committee he gave more weight to the intelligence assessment at headquarters by analysts thousands of miles from benghazi than he did to the cia chief of station, the top intelligence officer in libya, who reported there was no protest. >> if i'm looking for the cia's judgment about what happened in a particular case, i would go to my analysts. >> it is a stunning statement because the cia is a human intelligence operation, and analysts in washington did not have access to the r

that's what catherine herridge reported. >> then we have the question of what happened that night andhy. all these forces we have. >> in between though september ath or 6th. president obama is at the convention saying that al qaeda is on the run. now we get to september 11th. >> okay. so it occurs we have the events of that night for which all of our forces in nato and all of our forces in europe nobody could get fast enough to launch a rescue mission for guys that were there. >> i understand that one. but go ahead. >> the explanation. on this channel, being systematically mislead. we understand there is confusion and changing situation. but as we look at that email progress. the explanation gets less and less accurate which is a really bizarre thing. >> actually though they start trying to step all over anyone who is trying to investigate. they excluded fox news to the state department briefing from the media and the cia because we kept pushing it, bob. >> it's not a phony scandal it's dangerous for the administration to do that four americans dead. one brought to justice. the real p

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with the latest. nk you, jon. the issue is whether the former acting deputy cia director's testimony about that november 2012 meeting with these three republican senators, ayote, gram and mccain about the benghazi talking points was in fact accurate. morell testified once he realized made a mistake blaming fbi for key changes he inin fact made. he corrected record. that is not how one senator remembered it and describing morell's testimony last week in front of the house intelligence committee as, deceptive. a republican said his employment by beacon global challenges a d.c. firm closely allied with the former secretary of state is a conflict. >> so now the person who is out testifying before our committee is getting paid by a very friendly to hillary rodham clinton consulting group. so what we saw is mike morell will take the fall for the state department. he is going to take fall for hillary clinton and say, look, i changed the talking points. >> reporter: this morning house democrats charging that r

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in our washington bureau with more. >> thank you, gretchen. this comes from the senate committee with oversight for homeland security and archly substantiates allegations that first surfaced about a year ago about the acting inspector general. whistlebloe whistleblowers alleges that charles edwards had ordered them to strike negative information about the secret service and evidence implicating a white house staff member that related to that 2012 investigation of secret service members accused of hiring prostitutes in colombia. more staff members then came forward to allege deletions and delays in other report, even the destruction of documents, claiming edwards routinely shared information with senior administration officials on secretary napolitano's watch to become the permanent inspector general. a watchdog group says they're questioning whether eric holder will take action in the edwards case. >> we have a very clear example of a federal employee who's engaged in overreach, in inappropriate activities and who's clearly viol

. >> catherine herridge in d.c., thank you. >>> we have a pension problem in this country. a recent survey by pew charitable trust fund find that the u.s. public pension gap widened to $1 trillion in 2012. that's a lot of zeros. but a partial bailout could be in the works for the bankrupt city of detroit. the obama administration considering freeing up to $100 million to give to the city's pensioners, money that would come from all of us. >>> joining me, the treasure for the state of ohio. great to see you, josh. how does this affect ohio? >> well, essentially the taxpayers of the state of ohio, hard working families in toledo and cleveland and dayton and cincinnati and throughout the state will be helping to foot the bill to bail out the city of detroit. unfortunately, over many decades, politicians in detroit made bad financial decisions and i personally believe it is wrong for taxpayers of ohio and the other states of america to bail out the politicians of detroit sglp it . >> it is so interesting, josh. when detroit's problems became very public and there was a lot of d

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge talks of what role politics play in the infamoushite house talking points. >> in his opening statement former cia deputy director michael morel claimed to be an intelligence professional who was willing to put out the facts, no matter how damaging. >> the ethical code under which intelligence officers carry out their responsibilities calls for total objectivity. >> reporter: but his testimony contradicted the claim. on the talking point morrell said he dropped the cia warnings which were factual and accurate because he thought it was unprofessional to embarrass hillary clinton's state department which knew about the warnings and did not act. ultimately leading to the deaths of four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. republicans pushed morrell to explain the contradictions. >> you take out everything that's even related to -- to warnings and a bunch of other stuff, too, and direct oor petraeus is concerned because he wanted more information about warnings in there, so i don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. >> i simply

>> how did that happen earlier tonight catherine herridge said on fox, made the excellent point that the station chief's word is gospel. why did they decide to take media reports on the in africa over what they were getting from their own station chief? you know, that's really raises very serious questions about this. >> panel, a lot of questions. tomorrow is a big hearing so we'll find out michael morell testifying. thank you, panel. >> now it's time to show what you we are watching. we put together the most riveting videos out there tonight. take a look. amazing ocean rescue caught on camera. a british sailor falling overboard during a clipper around the world yacht race. he was in the freezing pacific ocean for more than an hour. finally his teammates coming to the rescue and pulling the sailor back on board. and this morning, senator ted cruz stunning fox viewers when asked about a viewer that he got a tattoo, senator cruz rolling up his sleeve and answering. >> i'm proud to stand and i have got to say my wife was fairly astonished. >> wait a minute, you have a tattoo of winston

catherine herridge has the specifics. good evening. we have the cia station chief testify.do we know about the testimony? >> if there's one thing intelligence officials can agree on, their word is gospel. one former official said when he went to brief the president, the last call he made was to the chief of station. the allegation against the former acting director of the cia, michael morrell, is he dismissed or down played the reporting of the administration that there was no protest, and the key thing is the chief of station was in front of the house panel today. we're trying to get more information, because of the classified hearing enclosed to the media, but the question to morrell is what was this overwhelming and conclusive evidence that led him to override the reporter of his own people on the ground. >> morrell comes up tomorrow. what are the key questions for morrell that he needs to answer in. >> he really needs to deconflict three key episodes. in november of 2012, he was in front of the house intelligence committee, and he was asked in front of james clapper and

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catherine herridge uncovered it in february. but going back to the day before susan rice, the acting director of the cia, or the number two ignore what is they're saying on the ground in libya and goes analysts are and buries this email. go figure. >> well, look, this is a very disturbing testimony by mike morell. let's put this in context. he says that he relied upon the analysts in langley who did not talk to any of the people on the ground. they didn't talk to the cia chief of station. they didn't talk to the dcm, the deputy chief. the chief diplomat after the ambassador. they didn't talk to the cia and military and contractors who were on the site. they are sitting in langley and they come up with this. it's a demonstration. now, one interesting question is did mike morell pressure them to come to that conclusion? but it is astonishing to me they did not talk to the -- to their own lead guy there, the cia chief of station nor to the deputy chief of mission. more to the people on the ground cia or military. in fact, morell sa

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for that, we go to chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington. what do you know today? >> these new benghazi documents do lead directly to the white house. a senior adviser to president obama played a role when susan rice blamed an internet video for the terrorist attacks. among the 100 page us of documents released after a federal lawsuit is a september 14th e-mail from ben rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. this e-mail was sent three days after the attack and two days before rice went on the sunday talk shows. it says the goals include, quote, to underscore these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. the rhodes e-mail was sent to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle including key members of the white house communications team such as spokesman jay carney. it was sent at the same time on the ground reporting from u.s. personnel stated there was no protest in benghazi. the president of judicial watch says the documents rea

chief intelligence corresondent catherine herridge is live in washington this story. what more do we know about this operative. >> reporter: this operative is very open and public and has a twitter account with more than 14,000 followers. he tweeted information about key meetings between al qaeda senior operatives and al nusra front and used it to show martyrdom propraganda. he is known as a leading fighter in syria. he is wanted in saudi arabia on terrorism related charges and leads al qaeda so-called victory committee which is responsible for setting policy and setting the agenda for the terrorist network. counterterrorism officials sight nasr's pedigree and third cousin of usama bin laden. two of his brothers were picked up and held at guantanamo bay. nasr emergence in syria, that the network is sending senior core leadership to syria to build alignances with other groups. they suggest that al qaeda's presence in syria is not affiliate but a extension of core leadership in pakistan. >> we've seen them move into syria in significant numbers, it tells me that they act

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this story. >>hank you, jenna. many government official confirming to fox news a short time ago the recent propaganda video release by al qaeda in yemen last week was gold mine in naming operatives, identifying vehicles and license plates in the rugged mountains of southern yemen a area largely outside of the government control and similar to the lawless trial areas of pakistan. the yemeni government was a total miscalculation by al qaeda in yemen, helping security forces narrow focus of the operation which came in three waves over the weekened. this is the first time that yemeni security forces trained by u.s. counterterrorism teams have carried out night raids with the support of us air strikes. fox news has also told us this morning target was not leadership of al qaeda in yemen which includes a long time aide to usama bin laden. you see him there on the right. nor the bomb-maker, ibrahim who was behind the failed underwear bombing plot in 2009. they do not travel with large groups of recruits an

catherine her around has more -- herridge is live. >> what we understand from lawmakers who have beenplaces some blame on the russian government in 2011 russian officials warned the fbi and then the cia that tamerlan tsarnaev was a follower of radical is lamb and was preparing to travel to dagestan to meet with extremist groups but only after the bombing that russia provided the fbi with more information, including the contents of a phone call between tamerlan and his mother back in russia, where they talked openly about islamic jihad. the charm of the homeland security committee saying the fbi made mistakes. >> some things fell through the cracks.at it our job not to make people feel bad about that but see how we can do better in the future so we don't have one of these events again. these one or are or two-men operations are very difficult to detect and disrupt. >> mccall's homeland security commit career was the first to publicly confirm the fbi did not table local cops where tamerlan lived. >> what is with the foreign connection? >> federal authorities say they found very little e