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i want to bring in utah congressman jason chaffetz, a member of the oversight panel.d just got back from libya after spending the weekend there on a fact finding mission. welcome back to the show. let's just begin with where specifically in libya did you go and what did you find? >> could not get into benghazi, still too dangerous. the first thing we did is i got emotional and talking to the people there on the ground. they lost four loved ones. their ambassador, they're away from their families, they're serving their country, and after we did that, we toured the embassy itself, looked at what was going on with the security and had some good lengthy discussions about what did and did not happen leading up to the event on 9/11. >> what was your biggest takeaway from the trip, biggest takeaway, biggest frustration. >> upon reflection, there was not a single person that ever mentioned this video that the obama administration claims sparked the whole thing. nobody on the ground ever mentioned that as one of the issues there on the ground. i also walked away with my own pe

tonight we have jason chaffetz of utah. great to have you. governor romney, we are fascinated by what he will lay out. what will he say? >> we will talk about china and the economic impact. when we deficit spend $3 billion per day, there's the economic impact. mitt romney has a stronger vision. dealing with china, making ourselves more globally competitive also libya libya, israel, syria, iran and the explosion of terrorism we have seen recently. i look forward to the discussion on china. gerri: net romney famously said he would take a survey of all the departments in the federal government any fed did not have an obvious reason for being he does not want to borrow money from china to pay for the agency. moving on, real concerns about libya. the president, the administration might have known and not tell the american people. gerri: net romney was criticczed for not hitting that hard enough last time. >> for mitt romney to talk about his vision for the country but obama has created a narrative that is totally inconsistent. i want to hear obama

jason chaffetz just got back from libya.y person mentioned this video to him, not one in the entire time he was there. there was a rock that sat on the desk of a judge i used to work for that said the government speaks with one voice. this administration would do well to put that same rock on their desk. you can't have multiple explanations and just hope that one happens to be the truth, and we ignore the others. susan rice was either misinformed, which i'm inclined to give her the ben fifth the doubt or she intentionally misled, you, me and others and we are going to find out what happened starting tomorrow. bill: trey gowdy in south carolina, thank you for your time. we'll be watching the hearing from here. >> thank you. martha: in the meantime, authorities in mexico say this a dangerous cartel leader accused of murdering and american tourist has now been captured. he is alphonso martinez escobedo the suspected leader of the most violent cartel in mexico. he's believed to be behind the murders of hundreds of people, includ

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stay tuned for this evening. >> this is jason chaffetz.re, that hiding from positions. >> i'm not surprised you would take issue. >> yeah. i mean, the vision for america, i think, mitt romney has laid out. also talking about what's happened the last four years. you can't ignore that we are in a stagnant economy and that under president obama the economy has failed. >> well, look, with all due respect what i'm referring to specifically is mitt romney and paul ryan's recent denial, as if they forgot their own plans, that they have a $5 trillion tax cut plan. >> they do not have -- >> to help millionaires and billionaires. >> no, no, no, no. >> last debate romney said his plan would cover pre-existing conditions. so we know they're not comfortable with their plans. i understand why. i'm not comfortable with their plans either. we're happy to keep pointing out what's true and what's not. >> can i ask you about the other side of the equation there? two prominent pollsters yesterday both released memos based on focus groups after the first debat

letter today from darrell issa and jason chaffetz was delivered to the white house. ten-page document has comprehensive list of warning signs that this president either missed or flat-out ignored in the months leading up to the assassination of ambassador chrissteins and his three colleagues. now more importantly, a companying that -- accompanying that let rer 100 memos, horse, cable, e-mail sent by the ambassador and the security team alerting washington about the rise of radical extremism in libya. now today, we dug very deep in to each and every one of the haunting documents. we reached this conclusion. the four americans that were killed in that orchestrated terror attack on 9/11 knew they were in grave danger. they reported their concerns to government officials. and nothing was done to save them in addition to the release of this information it proves we have been lied to and lied to repeatedly by numerous members of this administration. including, well, the vice president himself. do you remember him this? >> they wanted more security there. >> we weren't told

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tripoli would have meant more guards traveling with stevens to benghazi, but republican congressman jason chaffetzenghazi consulate not to conform with some physical security requirements. chaffetz visited the site over the weekend, another law maker, tennessee senator bob corker was there just yesterday. it was just st week that the f.b.i. managed to get a team investigators to the site for the first time since the september 11 attack. chaffetz said on this program a short while ago, there were other security problems before the attack in benghazi that should have served as a warning. >> twice in the lead up tohe attack on 9-11, our compound in benghazi was bombed. twice the british ambassador had an assassination attempt. we were moving into 9-11 and now the white house wants to say, well, we had no direct information, no actionable intelligence. are you kidding me? where else in the world was their consulate bombed twice and now we got four dead americans. >> the state department says the 16 member security team that was withdrawn in august was based in the embassy in tripoli and operated almos

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jason chaffetz of utah said that he had to step in to ensure that more security was in benghazi for diplomatic missions. >> i believe personally we could have and should have saved the life of ambassador stevens. >> you should also know that this is jason chaffetz, the same guy speaking to you on cnn. watch. >> is it true that you voted to cut the funding for embassy security? >> absolutely. we have to make choices in this country. we have -- think about this -- 15,000 contractors in iraq. we have 6,000 contractors, private army of president obama in baghdad. and we're talking about can we get two dozen people or so in libya in when you're in tough economic times, you have to prioritize things. >> okay. so you're prioritizing. so when there are complaints that, in fact, that there was not enough security, you've just said absolutely, that you cut -- you were the one to vote against, you know -- to increase security for the state department which would lead directly to benghazi. that seems like you are saying that you have a hand in the responsibility of this, right? the funding of the security

congressman jason chaffetz chairs the house subcommittee on national security and has returned from aing mission in benghazi. thank you, congressman, very good to see you. first, i wanted to share something with you because governor romney just at a campaign appearance in iowa shared a story of having met one of the navy s.e.a.l.s., since he refers to it to him as a massachusetts resident, massachusetts native, we think that he's talking about glen doherty, let me play them. >> one of them was a guy from my home state of massachusetts and relatively young guy compared to me and he was a former navy s.e.a.l. living in san diego and learned about him, talked about his life, he skied a lot, in some of the places i had and we had a lot of things in common, he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east, he cares very deeply about the people there. he served in the military there. went back from time to time to offer security services and so forth to people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s. killed in benghazi on sep

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 libya was fragile at best and could degrade quickly. tonight four republican senators led by john mccain are demanding answers from the cia director and other top intelligence officials in what is becoming an explosive campaign issue. the state department denies it rejected requests for more security, but says house republicans cut $300 million from their security budget. tonight four weeks after the attack, the department gave its first blow by blow account of what was clearly a well organized assault, never a spontaneous demonstration as officials first claimed. b

we had utah congressman jason chaffetz on the show.ere is what he had to say about his conversation with commander of the u.s. africa command about requests for cia operatives for help during the benghazi assault. >> ky tell you on a first hand account in my meeting i dissed specifically did we have resources in the area the answer is, yes. did we have proximity and the answer is, yes. asked why we didn't send in the assets the general said he was not requested to do so meaning that somebody higher up than him. he is a four star general which there aren't a whole lot of people between him and the president did not request him to take action and that is what is so concerning. did requests per collate up from the ground for the people there? we'll have to see what the answer to those questions are. but was he directed by the president or the secretary of defense? he said no. >> shannon: the attack on the u.s. consulate and annex was a hot topic on the sunday shows. chris wallace sat down with two senators from the homeland security commi

going to talk to congressman jason chaffetz. he's at the forefront of the benghazi discussion. and dr. sanjay gupta will join us and singer sarah brightman is our guest. our starting point is piecing together what happened in benghazi. thstate department now giving a very detailed account of last month's attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi in libya. the house oversight committee will weigh in on security failings during a hearing that's happening later today. and the state department is now saying that the attack was not a spontaneous off shoot of protests. they say u.s. and libyan security personnel in benghazi were out manned, a reasonable security presence would not have fended off the assault. u.s. ambassador cyst center stevens and three other americans were killed in that attack. senior international correspondent arwa damon went to the consulate ruins to help piece together exactly what happened. >> reporter: amid the ashes, soot, and debris, remnants of the life that was. it's all that remained in the unguarded u.s. consulate compound in benghazi when cnn arrived o

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we'll get a preview with republican congressman jason chaffetz of utah and republican strategist ed rollinss. have a great night, and we'll see you right back here next week. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. with 18 days until the presidential election, governor romney is maintaining his slight lead in the national polls over president obama. the republican nominee has moved above 50% in key polls, maintaining that level with just over two weeks from election day. and that is historically a strong indicator of victory in november. the polls turned positive for governor romney quickly after the first debate and have strengthened since. th

our end point will go to congressman jason chaffetz.for me. >> the country recognizes this is off track, wants to get back on track. mitt romney/paul ryan offer a solution, contrasting vision for america that will get this economy moving again, get jobs back on track. i think he did so well in the first debate, did so well in the second debate and why mitt romney and paul ryan will be the next president, vice president of the united states. >> he lost last night. >> no, no. >> he did. >> guys, gentlemen, stop. next show. thank you for being with us, congressman. we appreciate it. let's get right to cnn "newsroom" with carol costello. don't laugh at them, carol. >> no, i really do. thank you, soledad. >>> round two in the bag, in your face and personal. >> i don't think anyone really bloevs that you're a person who will be pushing for oil and gas

let's talk about what going on right now with jason chaffetz. congressman, thanks for coming in. you have a problem with the senate beginning it's on inquiry, do you? >> no, i applaud it, i think it needs to be investigating because there's more unanswered questions than when we started. >> the ranking democrat, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, now says that you and your republicans on your committee released sensitive classified information. "sentive and potentially classified information was passed around and discussed openly in the hearing room without the prop security review. it is of great concern when classified information is exposed, it puts americans around the world at risk." a very serious charge levelled against the chairman of your committee, and you, one of the chairman of a sub committee, what do you want to say to them? >> i'm ready to go through it document by document if there is something specific, but we were a tra sentive about this. the documents that we did enter into the congressional record, right at

. >> two members of congress are darrell issa and jason chaffetz. they released scores of state department documents related to the attack and wrote in a letter to president obama that the documents show that not only do the administration repeatedly reject requests for increased security, despite escalating violence but it systemically decreased the existing security to dangerous and ineffective levels. we have been told repeatedly that the administration did this to effectuate a policy of normalization in libya. after the conclusion of its civil war. the obama administration said there is no actionable intelligence suggesting an attack was imminent. some democrats on capitol hill say republicans are trying to take political advantage of the attack. >> do you think it's a coincidence two days before national debate foreign policy, congressman issa releases the documents in this is pure politics, pure and simple. the american people deserve better. >> also g.o.p. senators mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte sent a second letter to the nation's i

joining me now, jason chaffetz. he just returned from a fact finding mission from libya.essman, welcome back to the program. there is obviously a security lapse because we have four dead americans in libya. but this morning on fox you made news by suggesting you believe there was a coordinated effort went white house and the state department to scale down security in libya? on what do you base that? >> clearly they wanted to have the appearance of normalization in libya sooner rather than later. i went to libya, i was there most all the day saturday. not a single person on the ground did they ever mention a video or talk about some sort of riot or protest or anything like that. to the contrary i think what you are going to see in the hearing is a series of requests from security professionals on the ground asking for physical resources to protect the facilities and more american personnel in order to help secure things. not on did they not get american personnel, they reduced the american personnel. what they told them was hire more libyans. megyn: on what do you base the

we're back with republican congressman, jason chaffetz of utah, democratic strategist bill burton.uld have thought. >> congressman, the big bird comment has gotten a lot of attention. was it a mistake for mitt romney to target big bird? because he's taking a lot of heat for it now from the obama campaign? >> look, what mitt romney is trying to highlight is the fact that we've got to make some financial decisions on what the priorities of this nation are. under president obama, we have put up $1 trillion deficits year after year. we spend more than $600 million a day in interest on our national debt -- >> but what people here say is that he's attacking big bird. you know we work in sound bite society these days. >> that would be an oversimplificati oversimplification. what people do hear, what mitt romney trailed off with is, every financial decision we make in this country should be one, is it worth going to china to borrow money to pay for it? we'll have to make some decisions and prioritize things in order to get our financial footing back in order. >> you've seen these polls tha