professor doherty, who was packard bell? >> guest: very good question. first, thanks for having me on. i might be in your program. pat caddell was an adviser to president-elect jimmy carter and he is noted for coining that transition memo he wrote to then president-elect carter, in which he said the key to being effective as president is a continuing political campaign. the notion was born man and popularized by book on political consultants when a teen 80s that has since become part of the common lexicon. >> host: how it should defend campaign? >> guest: it can be defined broadly or narrowly. the way i define as the extent to which a president focuses on electoral concerns throughout his term in office. by focusing the same presidential fundraising, and dedication to key electoral states to register them in office and the nature of electoral decision-making within the white house itself in recent administration. some people look at the campaign more broadly. the coupling operations, public opinion, but my focus is on the electoral questions the presiden

(thomas doherty) these films often incorporate some newsreel footage. (gunfire and explosions) (leonard fribourg) i received orders to report to the studios. they'd made arrangements with the marine corps to get all the footage out here that they could look at that had been taken during combat in world war ii. we watched the film 5 to 7 hours a day. they were looking for combat and for things that were real that they could use in the movie. (explosion) (dramatic music playing) (whistling of bomb) (explosion) now, the closest i could think of making a real war movie is to have a couple of riflemen behind the screen and during a firefight on the screen. people in the audience aren't killed, but are wounded. (sam fuller) that's the only way i can see makin' a legitimate war movie. (explosions) (narrator) many people felt combat footage revealed the reality of war, but some combat veterans thought differently. when sam fuller made a film about the korean war, he questioned the moral clarity of a ww ii victory parade. americans' mixed feelings about race and

doherty gave an interview saying what glenn doherty's take was on that meeting with mr. romney. mr. romney kept introducing himself to doherty over and over again and he thought that pathetic. >> the ultimate count by the end of the night was four times. romney actually approached him using this private gathering as a political venture to further his image and glen just believed it to be very insincere and stale. you know, he said it was pathetic and comical to have the same person come up to you within only, you know, a half hour reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago and did not even recognize glen's face, whether it be republican, democrat, it doesn't make a difference. this guy is using our great friend, our humble and honorable great friend that we know is just a regular guy who is truly larger than life. he has become an actual part of the soap box routine for politics in a presidential race. i think glen would feel almost embarrassed for romney. i think he would feel pity for him. >> glen doherty's mother barbara

glen doherty moving from tripoli would not survive. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is alive. jennifer, what can you tell us? >> let me clarify two things. first, there were three separate requests to begin starting around 9:40 p.m. from the cia annex. first, there was a team of operators who are at the compound. they requested a clear chain of command to be sent over to help when they started hearing gunfire at the consulate. they knew that the consulate was under fire and that the ambassador needed help. they were told to stand down twice. once around 9:40 p.m. they asked an hour later. at that point, he disregarded orders and they made their way from a small reaction rescue team from the cia annex, about a mile away, at that point, it was too late. he made some heroic efforts to rescue those and they brought them back to the annex and made it back to the cia annex at 12 midnight. at that point, another request for help. military help for some sort of coverage. but no help was sent. during that time, a quick reaction

. >> brendan doherty come he was sworn in in 2009. when did he start holding fund-raisers? >> that jerry springer was just a few months in. about april but it could have been may or march. they started fund-raising earlier and earlier in their terms as well and fund-raising not just for themselves but fellow party members about four to five presidential fund-raisers over the past three and a half decades has been offered the president of the committee that a fellow democrat or fellow republican. and the same pressures that apply to the presidential campaigns rising costs and relatively low contribution limits apply to congressional campaigns as well. so the members of congress feel compelled to spend so much time raising money in the small increments prescribed by the campaign finance laws and the presidents are party leaders, the party builder of chief as they say in the book. and they start earlier and earlier raising money for their fellow party members as well as for themselves. >> is this a bad thing? >> nope. it cuts both ways. it is certainly -- a presi

how long did you know glen doherty? >> i have known him for ten years when we met at seal team three in coronado. >> judge jeanine: can you tell me when you met, what was your response and your reaction to him? how did you connect for so many years? >> our against came when we both as new guys were selected to go to navy seal sniper school. as a shooting pair in that program. >> stressful course. we both had gotten out. >> judge jeanine: brandon, i understand that you were in communication with him in weeks before he died. how often would you speak to him? >> we spoke weekly. i was talking to him about going flying. we're both private pilots and we had to renew our instrument approach, certification. we had written a book together and done revision. we went flying together, surfing together. my kids went flying with us. a great guy. >> judge jeanine: all right. brandon, i understand that you are concerned and more than concerned, angry about the fact that your friend is being referred to as security for diplomats in lib

but barbara doherty, glen doherty's mother in massachusetts spoke to our nbc boston affiliate whdh and said -- now this is a very difficult moment, but maybe the romney campaign might want to rethink his commenting about this two days in a row on the campaign. >> no question. i would say look, andrea, this is the danger when you start getting into the loss of lives, and politics. i would say everything is fret with politics this close to the election. i can't imagine the romney campaign greeted that statement from his -- mr. doherty's mother with a thrilled reaction. it's hard when you're talking about people who lost their lives. why domestic affairs broadly is a little bit easier in the political realm, less risk talking about it than foreign policy of we've seen this play with kelly o'donnell in her report about libya. we've seen this play out for both sides in that regard. it's just such dangerous territory. >> we're seeing on capitol hill today it's very clear, ruth, that politics is not completely enveloping the benghazi story. >> forget about the water's edge stuff. it is envelo

speech, saying that romney had forgotten meeting doherty several times at the event and that's dohertyad found him to be insincere and stale. >> he approached of using his private gathering as basically a political venture to further his image. glen believed it to be very insincere and stale. >> is supreme court has heard arguments in a case challenging affirmative action in college admissions. a white student who says she was rejected from the university of texas because of her ethnicity brought the case, alleging she's the victim of discrimination. the challenge threatens an earlier decision that allowed public colleges and universities to consider race in order to improve diversity. the 2003 grutter v. bollinger ruling banned the use of point systems, but allowed for less direct methods of affirmative action. justice elena kagan has recused herself from the case, leaving it in the hands of the remaining eight justices. in yemen, the yemeni head of security at the u.s. embassy in sanaa has been assassinated. qassem aqlani was killed by an unknown assailant earlier today on his way to

. >> we know from witnesses and sources that spoke to those witnesses that glen doherty and the machine gun they were sharing on the roof was caked in blood. it was said they continued firing and they continued fighting after they were hit. >> a decision is made to evacuate the whole enterprise. >> libyan militia make a convoy to escorted them to the airport. september 12th, the americans evacuate on two flights. it leaves with the remaining americans on board and bodies of stevens, smith and agents doherty and woods. >> bret: chris steechx was the first u.s. ambassador killed on duty in more than three decades. the story moves back to washington. up next, new details on the obama administration's reaction. was it the following of war? was it an attempted cover-up or something else? special reports investigates after the break. cash rewards cad gives you a 50% annual bonus. and everyone, but her... likes 50% more cash. but, i have an idea. do you want a princess dress? yes how about some cupcakes? yes lollipop? yes! do you want an etch a sketch? yes! do you want 50% more cash? no you go

it's bad for glen doherty. it's bad for tyone woods. they're dead.ng. >> another reason i think i'm here. giving a voice to those who don't have a voice anymore. >> bret: brings us back to lieutenant colonel wood who saw the deadly debacle at benghazi coming. >> i can tell you are emotional about it. this ambassador was killed, the first one since 1979. he was your friend. >> it's a huge thing to have a loss like that. i grieve for his loss. i grieve for the loss that we'veed the nation, our job to defend the compound. >> i wish we could have been there. >> bret: the benghazi attack staggered america. we now have another reason to mourn on 9/11. a new unmistakable warning. the islamic terrorist who brutalized our citizens in libya well-trained well-armed killers intent on doing us great harm. the brave beleaguered americans in libya knew that long before they died. the rest of us owe it to them to understand that, too. that is our program. i'm bret baier. i'm bret baier. thanks for [ male announcer ] how do you turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a h

doherty, though." elifson remembered the meeting to be very different. >> he said it was pathetic and comicical to have the same person come up to you within only a half hour, reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago, and did not even recognize glen's face. >> governor romney, who doesn't have any credibility on foreign policy, chooses to politicize the death of this american hero. and to make this story fit his agenda, he apparently had to lie. >>> tonight in our survey, i asked, can voters trust mitt romney? 9% of you say yes, 91% of you say no. >>> coming up, congressman joe walsh desperately tries to hold on to his seat against iraq war veteran tammy duckworth. >>> and tea party mt. rushmore is under threat. karen finney joins me for the discussion. stay with us. begin. tomato, obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a d

glen doherty's mother said he shouldn't make that a part of the political agenda. tonight, they accused them of misleading, and demanded straight answers, the white house is trying to find answers with both the state department and the review board, now both investigating what went wrong. >> andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> and the supreme court today takes on a question of race, and the question, has affirmative action run its course? the justice department is looking into the case, deciding whether or not they can take racial background into account as colleges decide who to admit. our justice correspondent, pete williams with more. >> reporter: brian, 30 years ago, in a case called bachi, the supreme court said that a college can take a person's race into account when providing admissions, because it provides better diversity. now the question seems to be, how much diversity is enough? like nearly all american colleges, the university of texas at austin tries for racial diversity, but the way they did it was challenged by a senior, abby fisher. >> the race should

. >> former combat decorated navy seal, paramedic, sniper, glen doherty is beginning a three-month stint with benghazi in the deadly 9/11 attacks. >> tell me about the company he worked for. how did he get the job and hook up with them? >> glen was a private security contractor. still under the government equilibrium. a loequilibrium -- government umbrella. you are still working for government of the united states of america. >> 4 #-year-old soldier of fortune has 17 years military experience serving in iraq and afghanistan. in 2003, glen was positioned as a rooftop schneider when the u.s. commandos rescued the captured g.i. jessica lynch. katie is glen's sister. >> in libya, he went there to collect weapon tas were left over from the war. in any small country, when something happens, you know, these guys will be called in for backup. it wasn't his job to answer the call. >> he worked for a little flown security firm according to the testimony hired based on expendency. katie told me how glen, civilian, nevertheless gave his life for his country. >> he was not there working for the consu

glenn doher doherty. >> you can imagine how i felt when i found out he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. >> reporter: doherty's family confirmed the two met at a neighborhood christmas party a few years ago. this as republicans accuse the state department for rejecting the request for more security for ambassador chris stevens, slain in the attacks, so washington could say libya was becoming more peaceful. investigators say two months before the attacks, the state department concluded the risk to u.s. personnel was high. republican congressman jason chaffetz is just back from tripoli. >> twice in the six-month leadup, you had bombings at our compound in benghazi, and it's 9/11 in libya. what other warnings do you need? >> reporter: there were two assassination attempts against the ambassador in recent months. state department documents obtained by nbc news list 230 separate security interests in libya in 2011 and 2012. according to former resident security officer eric nordstrom, these incidents paint a clear picture that the environment in

that's glen doherty the other navy seal. they go after -- link up with libyan militia they get to the cia annex. that's where woods and doherty are killed when a mortar hits. it's unclear how sustained the attack was on the annex when the evening progressed. but i think that when you put it in that context, that the cia was secret and they tried to do things within their own chain of command, the state department was totally different from them, and the military in europe is refusing to send in any assets, because they are not sure what the hell is going on. so i think there is a fog of war aspect. there is a division. >> bill: i'm not going to second guess the cia or anything else. here is the thing. the president of the united states is the bottom line guy here. all right? and right now, six weeks, we're not getting -- we're getting stonewalled. his answers, barack obama's answers are stonewalled. and all i do is break it down. he he has got to know as i said in the talking points, who told carney and rice to say what they

one killing doherty and woods while they manned a gun position on the roof. they had the coordinates of those firing mortars but no air support was sent. in a radio interview, president obama said he was unaware of any request to increase security around benghazi before the attack occurred. >> my biggest priority right now is bringing the folks to justice. the american people have seen that is a commitment i always keep. >> the president was asked about the administration's shifting story on the origin of the attack. >> what is true is that intelligence was coming in and evolving as more information came up. what is true and this is something that the american people can take to the bank. is that my administration plays this stuff straight. we don't play politics when it comes to american national security. >> late today the c.i.a. responded, "we can say with confidence that the agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues in the terrible evening in benghazi. moreover, anyone at any level in the c.i.a. told anybody not to help those in need. claims to the con

glen doherty and tyrone woods were killed at 4:00 a.m. by a mortar shell. that is six hours and 20 minutes after the fighting at the consulate began. my source also tells me that one of the team was on the roof with a laser pointer with eyes on the mortar attack team, the libyan mortar, the people who were shelling. that laser could have helped guide in any spectre gunship or any other form of military help if it had been sent. jon: or an armed drone even. jennifer griffin. we'll bet back to you. thank you so much. jenna: more on that throughout the day today, certainly. this fox news alert. the east coast bracing for hurricane sandy as it barrels you there the atlantic. the storm leaving 29 people dead as it barreled through the caribbean and sandy's path looking more ominous by the hour. forecasters predict it will collide with an arctic blast when it reaches the northeast, bringing a so-called perfect storm from the mid-atlantic to maine early next week. florida is already feeling some of the hurricane's wrath. tropical storm warnings in effect as the st