indeed that of his colleagues, glen dougherty, sean smith, tyrone woods. i know you all join me in honoring and appreciating their service and devotion as well. chris and i worked together for a time almost a dozen years ago. he was even then fully committed to his work. an authority already in the middle east. a fine student of arabic. much more. he gave me careful and cogent advice and council as we wrestled together with the many growing problems that even back then were en endemic to the country's work. i learned about benghazi, as the critical changes in libya began to unfold. his leadership there at a time of great importance and danger was a tribute to his courage and bravery. his skill and dedication as a diplomat. to his commitment to a new and better libya. benghazi in a real sense, as you have heard today, became his city. as it is with a deep sense of fate that in benghazi he and his colleagues gave that last full measure for his country and his many friends in the city where he died, continuing to defend and prosper their hopes and their aspir

that people watched as he pointed his laser on the very mortars that ultimately killed him and glen dougherty? and leon panetta ... >> there is a lot of monday morning quarterbacking going on here. basic principle is you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what is going on. without having some real time information about what is taking place. >> judge jeanine: what is better than a live feed of what is taking place? the audio, the visual? and harm's way? what do you think war is? my god, you the president and the vice president were in the white house as the e-mail and live feed were coming in. there was no problem with communication. delta force was on the ready. f-16s. ac-130s were waiting. but it all happened too fast? the fight went on from 9:40 at night to 4:00 in the morning. and, mr. president, you show up at a campaign rally this week with all of your power and might with air force one as a backdrop for votes. why couldn't you send an ac-130 or f-16 as a backdrop to protect american lives? and mr. president, with all due respect to the office you hold, you call your op

romney had been telling voters of sharing a christmas dinner with the former s.e.a.l., glen dougherty, two or three years ago. but his mother called on romney to stop making his death, her words, part of his political agenda. >>> last month, the embassy attack in libya that killed four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. department officials say they rejected requests for increased security based on intelligence they had at the time. but a former officer complained his concerns were ignored. he suggested politics made a role, that didn't want to make libya seem more unstable. >>> tensions between turkey and syria have reached a dangerous level. yesterday, a passenger jet had to land on suspicion it had military cargo onboard. the plane was allowed to continue its journey. but turkey kept the cargo without saying exactly what was found. >>> there are details about the man arrested at l.a.x. wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying weapons. abc news has learned he told detectives and the fbi, quote, hey, this is a game. however, officials are puzzled whether he meant the ques

this comes after the mother of glen dougherty, the ex-navy s.e.a.l.illed in bengha asked hit romney to stop mentions her son on the campaign trail. it all spilled over into a bitter exchange between obama and romney campaign advisers. >> there are inconsistencies here. what we're saying is that, you know, as americans, we deserve to know what really happened going into this attack and what did the administration to after. because we want to learn from them, obviously. we want to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> we don't need wingtip cowboys. we don't need shoot from the hip diplomacy. when mitt romney first responded to what was going on in libya his own party called him out for sensitivity. he's done nothing but politicize this issue when what we need to do is find out what happened, and do that as americans, not as democrats and republicans. >> you could argue both sides are doing their very best to do that very thing. politicize the tragedy in libya. after all, congressional republicans interrupted their recess not to talk about jobs, but to

one of those killed glen dougherty directly. another one hit there was a machine gun position on the roof tyrone woods was hit at that time. but what i'm told by sources who were in benghazi the night of the attack that they did have laser pointers on the mortar fire team and if special operations gunships had been september in and some were on standby and teams were on stand by just a few hour's flight away that they could have possibly prevented those mortars that struck the compound. they felt that help was not sent when they requested it. >> sean: tyrone woods risked his mill tar arery career and his life and ultimately gave his life, ignoring orders from superiors to help save the lives of others and what degette in return when asked our government for help that was watching in real time? nothing. and the cia is rejecting the notion that requests for help were denied by them. now, according to a spokesman we can say with confidence that the agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that evening in benghazi. no one

today about glen dougherty, a navy s.e.a.l. romney met at a party. >> you can imagine how i felt when i found out he was one of the two form he s.e.a.l.s killed in bell gazay on september 11th. and it touched me, obviously. >> reporter: after the debate in denver, romney soared to a lead over president obama nationally among likely voters. in the pugh poll and the gallup survey. but they are seeing his numbers go down. >> definitely he got a bump but as we track it friday, saturday, sunday, we think some of that is dissipati dissipating. >> reporter: today as president obama traveled to ohio, gallup put him behind by just two points. last night in san francisco, the president mocked romney. >> somebody is cracking down on big bird. >> reporter: he put up a cable tv ad. >> it's me. big bird. >> big. yellow. a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about. it's sesame street. >> reporter: team obama even flew the message over romney today who mocked the president's move to save a tv charac

glen dougherty's mother asked mitt romney to stop invoking her son's name on the campaign trail. "i don't trust romney, she said. he should not make my son's death part of his agenda. pat smith did not speak about anyone's political agenda tonight. she is, however, bitter ly disappointed with the state department, the defense department and the white house tonight. we'll talk to you about what the state department has said. first more of my conversation with pat smith starting with her, as yet, until filled search for answers. who told you that they would give you information? >> you will love this. obama told me, hillary promised me. joe biden -- joe biden is a treasure. he is a real sweetheart. they all told me that -- they promised me. i told them please, tell me what happened. just tell me what happened. >> so you, are still waiting to hear from somebody about what happened to your son? about what they know or even what they don't know? >> right. officially yes. i told them don't give me any baloney that comes through with this political stuff. i don't want political stuff. y

he became emotional when he recounted a chance meeting with glen dougherty. a massachusetts mative. he was killed last month in benghazi. >>> meanwhile, president obama's campaign is using big bird to child romney for saying he'll end federal funding for public broadcasting. the satirical ad shows images of the convicted financiers including bernie madoff and it suggested that romney thinks it is more important to worry about sesame street than wall street. the republicans say that obama is focusing on inconsequential matters, rather than urge enissues like the economy and the middle east. the producer of sesame street have asked the obama campaign to stop using big bird. calling themselves a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. >>> first lady michelle obama is getting ready to speak to supporters in loudoun county right now. this come a day after anne romney's visit to the richmond area. julie carey is live with a look at the fight for women voters in that battle ground state. julie? >> reporter: you can see the stage is emright now. the first lady is special to take the stage any

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. >> glen dougherty's mother had something to say, sowhething, please stop using a story about her soncampaign trail. >> 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, and -- it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i thought was so impressive, had lost his life in the service of his fellow men and women. >> barbara dougherty said enough is enough and we should remember that her son was trying to bring freedom to that part of the world. the romney campaign will stop telling that story on the trail. there you have it. grieving family whose want angsangst answers from democrats and republicans. i suppose the first question, elise, did we get anywhere with this hearing? achieve or learn anything? >> well, ashleigh, it's hard to see that with all the grand standing that went on yesterday and a lot of people did think that it was more about pointing fingers and trying to score points on the political trail than it was about getting answers. it kind of seemed a little bit more like "l.a.

former navy seals tyrone woods and glen dougherty are killed. soon after all of the main personnel evacuated the annex. former assistant secretary of defense and author of the book "into the fire" joins us. good evening, bing. >> good evening, greta. >> greta: i know you have been critical of how the government handled this. tell me. >> i think today a good a lot worse. the situation is very serious and most of the press doesn't want to touch it because many of them are cheerleaders for president obama. beyond that you valu have to lt what is going on and that is that president obama today said that he gave an order to everyone while the attack was going on to do everything they could to secure the personnel. that is really big because that means that those who were turning down ty woods when was asking for the help were going against the orders of the president of the united states. and a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff doesn't take an order from the president when says do everything and not put that in writing and send it out to the chai

now mitt romney again said something on the campaign trail today about his brief encounter with glen dougherty one of the former navy s.e.a.l.s. who died in benghazi and said yesterday he met him at a christmas party that he they had something in common, went to the same places to ski, that he admired him, spoke of doherty's commitment to the middle east, love for the region and public service. we talked to his sister katie yesterday and she was okay with that but maybe second thoughts on the family different family members have a different reaction. 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

glen dougherty. and we chatted for a while. >> reporter: at three events in the last two days romney has gotten choked up. >> it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i thought was so impressive had lost his life. >> reporter: as he hailed the bravery of navy s.e.a.l.s. glen dougherty who died in last month's attack in libya. >> when they heard that the consulate was under attack, they went to the attack. they didn't hunker down and hide themselves. no, they went there. that's what americans do. >> reporter: but within hour of romney's last telling of the story, his aides confirmed to cnn the gop nominee is dropping the anecdote after what the navy s.e.a.l.s. mother told boston tv station whdh. she said "i don't trust romney, he shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda. it's wrong to use these brave young men who wanted freedom for all to degrade obama. governor romney was inspired by the memory of meeting glenn dougherty and shared his story in that memory. but

chris stevens's information specialist sean smith and glen dougherty and tyrone woods.eep folks safe at the consulate. he said it's unbelievable to him the state department decreased security in libya when they did because he says he showed them how dangerous and volatile and unpredictable the environment in libya was with at least 13 security incidents before september 11 backing up his case. this is all part of a u.s. government wide investigation into the terror attack. we heard from the secretary of defense about the status of that investigation and about the arrests of two tunisian men in turkey in connection with the attack. he said yesterday it's too soon so tell if these arrests, these men, are connected to al-qaeda. >> we're doing everything possible to make sure that we go after those who were involved in the attack in libya. as the president has said, our goal is to make sure we bring those involved to justice. >> we expect to hear a lot more details about this security failure in libya as these congressional hearings kick off in a few days. >> absolutely. th