lovell testified that the state department did not respond quickly that night. >> it's not what they did in that particular situation. it's what they didn't do. they didn't come forward with stronger requests for action. >> what was the mood in the room? what was the feeling? was it to save our people? >> it was desperation there to be able to -- >> it was what? >> desperation there to gain situational awareness and be able to do something. >> lovell was not in the operational chain of command, a point emphasized by one committee democrat. >> there might be some who, for various reasons, would like to distort your testimony and suggest that you're testifying that we could have, should have done a lot more than we did because we had capabilities we simply didn't utilize. >> that is not my testimony. >> thank you very much. >> but lovell said repeatedly it's about the future and rebuilding the trust lost in benghazi. >> we should have done more, and we owe it to the memory of those four people that are fallen. >> the house speaker issued a statement today that secretary kerry should co

lovell was in the u.s.perations center in substitute gather monitoring the attack in realtime. >> it was desperation to be able to -- >> it was what? >> desperation there to gain situational awareness and to be able to do something to save people's lives. >> did they actually do it? we had dead people, we had wounded people, and our military didn't try to engage in that fight. would you disagree with that? >> four individuals died. sir, we obviously did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have? >> we may have been able to, but we'll never know. >> reporter: in his testimony, he echoes a contention made by republicans that part of why our mission in benghazi was so vulnerable was because of administration policy, a premature push to normalize relations with the libyans. >> basically, there's a lot of looking to the state department for what it was that they wanted. >> reporter: that push for normalization may have spread beyond the borders with libya, leading to a military force woefully unready to

what general lovell was saying.ou: by the way no one knew at that time how many waves or how long the attack would go. >> a big outstanding question is, was there a stand down order given, if show, wh so who gave . lou: brad address the same question but also issue of stand down order. give us your reaction. >> my reaction is, that a terrorist attack on american personnel, and our consulate in benghazi deserve presidential attention, what we have yet on to do, is what the president did. where was he? did he give a stand down order? was he properly briefed? was he engaged. we don't know what happened. but one thing for sure, when america is under attack we run to the fire, we muster, we attempt to do something, the fact that nothing was done when we did not know what ultimate outcome would be, it tells you what you need to know, somebody, i believe, it would have to be the president for a decision like this, where was he, what did he do. >> i have more questions, first why were we not on alert there at that consulate

but your thoughts on lovell and how that affects this. >> well, the arb didn't talk to general lovelle involved in the decision. including hillary clinton and others. so i don't see the arb as anything near definitive on these matters. i think what we heard from general lovell as george says was terribly affecting, he was a voluntary witness, this was something who wanted to come and unburden himself. he was there on the ground, he was the director of intelligence, his job was to have knowledge. he dismissed right away the claims that this was some sort of video. the most troubling thing he said was when he was asked about whether it would have made a difference if the united states military had rushed to the people who were under attack in benghazi, and after a long pause he said we don't know. that is a terrible thing for a senior military officer, somebody who has been in for 30 years, to say about his country. >> was he also pressed to say were there some resources that were not used, and he said no. the fact there was not enough protection in the embassy, the fact there was not p

but in testimony before the house oversight committee thursday, retired robert lovell disputed that.> what we did know quite early on was that this was a hostile action. this was no demonstration gone terribly awry. to the point of what happened, the facts led to the conclusion of a terrorist attack. >> general lovell also said the military should have tried to react to the attack those u.s. forces were not in a position to immediately respond and that the state department delayed the ultimate decision to deploy deploy. armed services schmidt chairman buck mckean disagreed with general lovell's testimony adding, we have no evidence that terror. >> a just-released talking points e-mail prepared for then u.n. ambassador susan rice to use on sunday talk shows following the attacks proved the white house had tried to spin the story to its advantage. among the points, rice was to convey that the u.s. is doing everything we can to product our people and facilities abroad and more controversially though underscore these protests are rooted in an internet video an polipolicy. darrell isa bla

where did you get the number, lovell was there with 1200 people? are you suggesting that 1200 people actually watched what was going on in benghazi in realtime? >> yeah, that's a minimum. there were over 15 organizations or headquarters like the fbi, the cia, military, et cetera. and at least 100 staff in each one of those places that were watching in realtime and listening to what was going on in benghazi. lovell testified that by 3:00 a.m., everybody knew this was a coordinated attack, period. >> all right. so it's a coordinated attack. so why, if we know it's a coordinated attack, you say there was a mobilization order, why didn't we, if the attack went on for eight hours, get there? aren't there emergency forces that are prepared for this? >> we have an organization in europe called charlie first italian special forces that was four hours away in croatia. the answer is we were never given the order. we could have been there easily within four hours to affect that battle, and we did not get the order from the president of the united states, who

t but your thoughts on lovell and how that affects this. >> well, the arb didn't talk too general lovell people who were involved in this decision.nv ry >> hillary clinton? and >> including hillary clinton and others. so i don't see the arb as anything near definitive on these matters. i think what we heard from general lovell as george says hs was terribly affecting. he was voluntary witness. this is somebody who wanted to come and sort of unburden thnd. himself, because he was there on the ground.nce he was the deputy intelligence director. his job was to have knowledge. he dismissed right away the ut claims that this was about a video or that this had e originated in some protests. that evening he dismissed thosee claims. and i think the most troubling thing he said is when he was pl asked about whether it would tti have made a difference if the h united states military had long rushed to the aid of the people who were under attack in ow. benghazi, and after a long pause he said we don't know. that's a terrible thing for a so senior military officer, somebody who has been in for 33t y

general lovell was in germany awaiting orders to strike at the terrorists, orders that never came. >> what we did know quite early on is that this was a hostile action. this was no demonstration gone terribly awry. to the point of what happened, the facts led to the conclusion of a terrorist attack. the afri-con j 2 was focused on attribution. the attacks became attributable very soon after the event. >> so that means the u.s. military, the cia on the ground in libya, and pretty much everyone else directly involved with the benghazi attack knew it was not a spontaneous demonstration within hours. yet, as we proved yesterday, the obama administration created a fiction that the attack was a reaction to an anti-muslim videotape. the cover was blown off that deception this week when a memo by white house advisor ben rhodes was released through the freedom of information act. the memo clearly says that ambassador susan rice was prepped to tell the world on television that a videotape incited the murders in benghazi. incredibly, incredibly, even after the memo became public, white house spo

when did they learn what general lovell said? we need answers. there has to be a paper trail. >> they came out perpetuating this lie that it had something to do with a video when they knew it didn't. youd the secretary of state telling this lie to the faces of the victims' families. how hillary clinton could stand there and watch the casket.come in and fake this emotional response while lying to their faces is outrageous. the fact that the press weren't following up. they weren't asking questions. fox news was reporting the truth and we were roundly mocked and attacked. all this is being corroborate. i think fox deserves an award for their coverage, not to be mocked. >> let us have now a select committee with subpoena power to get people like tom donolon under oath. let's put aside the rhetoric and put aside the posturing and get the facts. 180 republican members of the house. we need the republicans like eric cantor and john boehner to step forward and not hide. martha: jay carney has been at the podium saying we had five hearings on this. we tu

another american hero their, jim lovell. go have to you.nterprise to get us back in space? albeit with some assistance. >> i think it's probably a good idea if we can get away with it. when you really look at it he'll go to the faa to ask permission so he is bypassing nasa completely and we can put nasa to bed except for the unmanned explorers. >> talking about the tesla designer and other things that are visionaries about but bypassing nasa, does that rattle washington? bus they say nasa is the way we do this stuff. >> well, nasa, of course, is controlled by congress, and the president so that's the way we have done it in the past. although obama kept saying that, let's go commercial, and it's like anything else, instead of having a government airplane, we would have a private airplane. >> sounds like a dream to me. when we last spoke, person-to-person, putting this space special together you lamented the fact we have given up something we did ourselves, you proved in apollo 13, took what looked like certain disaster and made an achievemen

i have one more question for general lovell. the u.s. intervention in libya was constrained by the prohibition by boots on the ground. you think that puts on the ground and that policy might have been one of the driving forces in the fact that we did not send a response there to benghazi? >> well, i would say if there were boots on the ground and there were marines in uniform, as far as a security team that was around a state department facility, i would say that would intimidate most that were going to try to make an attack. and boots on the ground are the best and only way to hold ground, if that is what you are looking to do. >> thank you very much. i want to point out that as we investigate embassy security and other key factors are the willingness and the ability of the host country to provide security, and i think that is a common understanding at the state department. anytime a government is undergoing change, both the ability and willingness to provide security for embassies should be severely aggressive, and that should we shoul

have you the j-2 brigadier general lovell. state department that can override a military response when there are five different assets within reach. >> you're getting complicated. hold on a second. >> told the white house this wasn't an attack. >> this goes to they lied to get elected and keep power. >> and we -- yes. and lying is a very strong accusation. >> they lied. >> we do know that both sides of the aisle, all people have in a political situation, use an election to say we're going to cover this up, we're going to shade this. we're going to obfuscate the fact. that's why people are so cynical about politics. >> you're right. >> we need to -- that's an integrity issue. >> made it up. >> to be on the talk shows and have this conversation. >> 14 hours later. >> and they very well may have. but to say that they lied, i'm not ready to go that far. >> wait a minute. why would you take -- tell me where this makes sense. we have station chiefs on the ground. we have the libyan ambassador telling us it was terror attack. we have

i have one more question for general lovell. the u.s.ntervention in libya was constrained by the prohibition by boots on the ground. you think that puts on the ground and that policy might have been one of the driving forces in the fact that we did not send a response there to benghazi? >> well, i would say if there were boots on the ground and there were marines in uniform, as far as a security team that was around a state department facility, i would say that would intimidate most that were going to try to make an attack. and boots on the ground are the best and only way to hold ground, if that is what you are looking to do. >> thank you very much. i want to point out that as we investigate embassy security and other key factors are the willingness and the ability of the host country to provide security, and i think that is a common understanding at the state department. anytime a government is ndergoing change, both the ability and willingness to provide security for embassies should be severely aggressive, and that should we should i

witnesses, robert lovell brings with him firsthand knowledge of u.s. military , as he servedya at u.s./african command. u.s./african command is africom. thised effor is the organization that had responsibility not just for libya but for the entire continent of africa. this unit's mission included and the libyan revolution the september 11 2012 terrorist attack on a diplomatic compound in benghazi. at the u.s. african command, general lovell served as the deputy director for service and and asge development commanding general of joint task odys on the seat guard -- sey guard. we appreciate all of our witnesses taking time to testify and enlighten the public about the situation in libya and the effects of u.s. decisions. to pursuing the relevant information about the military's involvement in libya, we continue to receive documents from the state department. alone, we haveh received over 3200 new documents , many of which have never been outside of by anyone the administration. all of which should've been turned over more than one year and a half ago whe

not the five-minute question-and-answer sessions we saw earlier this week with retired general lovell. you mentioned a select committee because it crosses all jurisdictions, could have at the same table former secretary of state hillary clinton and next to her, the former cia director david petraeus who remains under investigation. the question really is what was this week's tipping point? the house speaker's statement strongly hints that it was these new documents from judicial watch that lead directly into the white house. the statement reads in part, quote, the administration's withholding of documents, e-mails showing greater white house involvement and misleading the american people is a flagrant violation of trust and undermines the basic principles of oversight, upon which our system of government is built. we also understand that fox news' recent reporting on the d.c. consulting firm beacon global strategies was of particular interest to the house leadership. fox showed that so many key players in the benghazi scandal are now employed by a firm friendly to mrs. clinton. >> int

i want to play for you first of all some sound this morning from brigadier general robert lovell. he was in charge of intelligence in africa on the night benghazi came under attack. he said something off the bat may have changed the equation how the whole thing is looked at in the light of history. i want to play that for you right now. >> in the hours that ensued after the attack on our consulate compound in benghazi, did you hear youtube video? >> briefly discussed but not from any serious standpoint. >> you heard about this early on and you, as the deputy and the highest ranking person that moment working these issues, you dismissed the idea that this attack was in fact a demonstration that went awry and was based on a youtube video out of los angeles? >> yes, sir, short answer. jon: so the top intelligence official covering africa, jonah, said there was really, essentially no discussion of the attack that night having been prompted by a youtube video. why did the secretary of state, why did national security advisor susan rice, why did the president continue to hammer that vid

general lovell was the deputy commanding general of joint task force odyssey guard. in this assignment he was tasked with helping the state department reopened the u.s. embassy in tripoli after the fall of gaddafi. we appreciate all of our witnesses taking time to testify and enlighten the public about the situation in libya and the effects of u.s. decisions. in addition to pursuing the relevant information about the military's involvement in libya, we continue to receive documents from the state department. since late march alone, we have received over 3200 new documents, many of which have never been seen before by anyone outside of the administration, and all of which -- and i repeat -- all of which should have been turned over more than a year and a half ago when the committee launched its investigation. some of these documents, which were brought to light only days ago three request through a request by the organization called judicial watch, show a direct white house role outside -- i will repeat this -- the documents from judicial watch which were pursuant to

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. >> i think that's the point, brigadier general robert lovell said there wasn't a military response to try to help these guys that were under attack. >> the memo was directed to -- basically this brings her into all of this, the spin control at the time, is that she's running for president. #. >> i think it's really ---on september 11, she attributed it to the video, she's in public on video on september 12, and september 13 saying this was undoubtedly resulting from this islamic video. i think those public statements are going to be used against her if she runs for president. because her statements are so soft soaping of what's going on, we're investigating. it sounds terrible. so i think it's going to be a huge problem. >> will it matter if the press corps doesn't care about this? the fact of the matter is that most of the media says we don't care. >> i think it's going to come back on her, her testimony in congress, why does it matter, she got very emotional in the senate. why does it matter what really happens? for many americans actually it does really matter what happened and

let me play brigadier general robert lovell. he testified the military should have tried to intervene. because this went on for hours. it took a while. i want to get your reaction to what he said this week. >> there are accounts of time, space and capability, discussions of the question could we have gotten there in time to make a difference. well, the discussion is not could or could not of time, space and capability. the point is we should have tried. >> we should have tried. this went on for hours. >> and there was no attempt made. as many military people have said, within an hour to an hour and a half, they could have had jets from italy above the battle at benghazi. whether they were armed or not, at least they could have broken the sound barrier. they could have dispersed and caused confusion on the battlefield. even that was not done. no attempt was made. >> we learned that mr. vietor was on with bret baier making a fool of himself saying dude, that was two years last night. we learned he was in the situation room. presid

so -- >> putting aside republican darrell issa, retired brigadier general robert lovell testified todaystified under oath that by 3:15 after the 9/11/2012 attack they dismissed the video and very quickly identified this as a terrorist attack. by 3:15 he testifies, under oath. in light of that, why on 9/14, two and a half days later, was ben rhodes writing an e-mail about the general state of affairs, as you say, highlighting the video and not highlighting terror? >> ed, the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today -- >> [inaudible] benghazi was part of it, right? >> right. and i would refer you to the cia-produced talking points on that that referred at the time to currently-available information suggesting that the protests, there were protests outside of the facility in benghazi inspired by demonstrations outside of cairo. what inspired those demonstrations outside of our embassy in cairo, do you even remember? >> cairo i don't remember specifically. there was -- >> does anybody -- >> a flag being burned. >> they were trying to get the blind sheikh out

general lovell was the deputy commanding general of joint task force odyssey guard. in this assignment he was tasked with helping the state department reopened the u.s. embassy in tripoli after the fall of gaddafi. we appreciate all of our witnesses taking time to testify and enlighten the public about the situation in libya and the effects of u.s. decisions. in addition to pursuing the relevant information about the military's involvement in libya, we continue to receive documents from the state department. since late march alone, we have received over 3200 new documents, many of which have never been seen before by anyone outside of the administration, and all of which -- and i repeat -- all of which should have been turned over more than a year and a half ago when the committee launched its investigation. some of these documents, which were brought to light only days ago three request through a request by the organization called judicial watch, show a direct white house role outside -- i will repeat this -- the documents from judicial watch which were pursuant to

my gosh lovely 3 day holiday weekend and today was maybe the lovel loveliest of them all. here's clear skies writ now. one wren it's so clear at this hour is that the wind are so strong blowing away any little patches of low clouds that could the cling to the coast line. so the coast is clear you might say. we still have some gust. up to 30 miles per hour at sfo. 16 miles per hour at san carlos rate now. winds inland fairfield but not gusty. much remain customer of the area away from the coast is fairly calm at the moment but change overnight. here's roof top camera across embarcadero 56 in san francisco. upper 50's at oakland. san carlos. 65 rather at oakland. 64 morgan hill. half moon bay. beautiful view over san francisco from our sutro towercam. temperatures in the low 60's at santa rosa napa no have the 0mid 60's at fairfield concord and livermore and one more live view from the emeryville camera west across the bay. forecast future mostly clear breezy, breezy again tomorrow as well and cooler than today. we have 2 day warm-up at midweek. now satellite radar composite

my gosh lovely 3 day holiday weekend and today was maybe the lovel loveliest of them all. here's clear skies writ now. one wren it's so clear at this hour is that the wind are so strong blowing away any little patches of low clouds that could the cling to the coast line. so the coast is clear you might say. we still have some gust. up to 30 miles per hour at sfo. 16 miles per hour at san carlos rate now. winds inland fairfield but not gusty. much remain customer of the area away from the coast is fairly calm at the moment but change overnight. here's roof top camera across embarcadero 56 in san francisco. upper 50's at oakland. san carlos. 65 rather at oakland. 64 morgan hill. half moon bay. beautiful view over san francisco from our sutro towercam. temperatures in the low 60's at santa rosa napa no have the 0mid 60's at fairfield concord and livermore and one more live view from the emeryville camera west across the bay. forecast future mostly clear breezy, breezy again tomorrow as well and cooler than today. we have 2 day warm-up at midweek. now satellite radar composite

saying that he doesn't believe brigadier general robert lovell had a role to which he could speak to any authority on what transpired in the attack and then copy, saying that he wasn't serving in the capacity they gave him reliable insight into operational options available to commanders. echoing a talking point of the democrats. what do you interpret the chairman is trying to say there? >> i think both of them are right. i listen to the generals testimony and he has admitted that he's an intel officer that was not involved in the operational options are being discussed that night. as well as what options were executed. he had no hand in it. he was able to identify as others said that there was no demonstration that this was actually an attack and he expressed emotion and frustration that we could not have done something about it. but chairman mckeon said he had done an investigation of those who had a hand in this. he started out thinking he had something. the president authorized all forces to be available and that was the pentagon's decision. there was no delay in the use of any o

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the e-mails that were released today -- i'm sorry, last week -- are the questions raised by general lovellhe response of the state department and the response of the u.s. government immediately after the attack on benghazi became clear. we need to figure out where the talking points came from. we need to figure out why the white house did not see this immediately as the terrorist attack that almost certainly was. we need to know who was doing what and when -- where was the president and what was the role of the national security advisor, tom donnellan. >> you pointed out key questions that the committee might try to discover from mr. kerry's testimony, that perhaps may not have been uncovered during the extensive and sometimes heated hearings with then secretary clinton. do you feel that there will be some actual answers this time? >> i don't know if there will be answers, but the same questions that existed literally a couple of days after this tragedy still exist. i think most people of both parties -- look, i'm a democrat -- believe answers are more important than partisan receipts rick

we he have had multiple people testifying, whether it's mike morell or general lovell or all these peopleo were right there at the time saying no analysts were saying that it was the video. you know. >> kirsten, i never saw tommy veert the other night. so arrogant and cavalier. he is the guy in the situation room? i'm scandalized that he didn't seem to care. i mean he said he did but he would didn't seem to. >> bret prepped him on on where best information is available a guy in the newspaper quoted as saying this. what does that mean. >> no doubt that tommy cares. good american that cares about his country and people who serve our country interest. >> and getting president obama reelected. >> put politics first though that's where you get sarcastic and dismissive and look like you don't care at all. >> i have done too many murder cases to feel. to me it's astounding. anyway, i'm going to take the last word on that. panel, thank you. a u.s. marine says he just made a wrong turn the marine sergeant landing in a mexican jail. you will hear from him from we've never sold a house before. (agen

army brigadier robert lovell from the u.s. military's africa command who was directly involved in dealing with this at the time. listen to this. >> we didn't run to the sound of the guns. they were issuing press releases. we had americans dying. we had dead people. we had wounded people and our military didn't try to engage in that fight. would you disagree with that? >> four individuals died, sir, we obviously did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have? >> the gentleman's time is expired. go ahead. >> we may have been able to but we'll never know. >> he's a retired u.s. marine -- underscores the tension that was obviously very evident during this hearing. >> absolutely. republicans are highlighting this testimony, brought him on in order to try to make the point that military was taking orders or at least was deferential to the state department at a time this was something the military should have been focused on as an attack not something a diplomatic measure. this is the first military personnel, retired now, wh

residents feared it would be harmful to their health and to protection in the city of it yohan the lovell government says all work on the incinerator has stopped and it would consult the public on whether it should go ahead. >> in southwest china, fire fighters re present people from the city of gerlin. days of heavy rain caused the yang river to overflow in scenic spots leaving visitors stranded. let's find out about the weather in china. will it get better? >> it's going to take quite some time. we are getting to the tyime of year. in fact, you see the rain all the way north across the far north of china. weather systems pushing in earlier on -- high fresh there but over the course of friday into the weekend, we had some quite stormy skies over japan. we had some signature hailstorms developing there saz this next system begins to push in. and that's going to be heading in across the korean peninsula toward japan as we move through from monday into tuesday. so some pretty stormy weather there. as we have seen, stormy weather further toward the southwest it has disrupted transport throug

we said generally lovell that was on the stand last week confirmed that night they knew it was not a video attack. we also know that there was not coordination happening between the state department and the department of defense. we've got to be able to resolve that. we had personnel that was in that facility that didn't meet the minimum standards for our facility and we didn't have the minimum amount of security there. a lot of mistakes were made here. it's reasonable for us to resolve that. >> a lot of unanswered questions. let's move on to another scandal that rocked this nation. and that was the irs targeting of tea parties. now lois lerner going to be held in contempt. and democratses like steny hoyer saying the contempt effort is all about political messaging. are they right? >> no. they're not right. again, whether you're conservative or whether you're liberal progressive, it shouldn't matter what the irs has an opinion about you. the irs is a tax collection agency and should be neutral to every american, regardless of religious or political preference. we have a situation whe

retired generally robert lovell making it clear he never doubted it was a terror attack and telling lawmakers there should have been a military response. listen to this. >> did they ever tell you to go -- >> not to my knowledge, sir. >> we didn't run to the sound of the guns. they were issuing press releases. >> four individuals died, sir, we obviously did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have? >> we may have been able to, but we'll never know. >> republican congressman jason chaffetz of utah sits on the oversight committee, obviously you were in that hearing today. congressman, great to see you again. he looked emotional when you were asking him about that because, lest we forget that four americans died in this attack. >> and that was the key point. i appreciate the general 33 years of service. he was heading up a group that was military intelligence too looking at the assets that were there and the perpetrators there. but he was in the room. it's the first time we've heard from somebody like this in a public setting. they moved some people forward but they weren't directed to

general lovell was in the information and intelligence on this, he testified today within hours he knew there was no protest and this was a terrorist attack. we know jeff acting cia director at the time informed the white house before susan rice went on the cia station chief on the ground descented from the protesting. there is a document, there is one other document that we do not have or a series of documents that we do not have that can get answers for this, which is let's get the presidential daily briefs for that week after the benghazi attack. president bush after 9/11 showed the cia warned ben laden was planning to attack america. why doesn't to release the brief that will tell us exactly what the intelligence community told him about the pro -- whether there was a protest, how high a level of conference they had in that and whether there were descenting views and when they told him that. >> as for the spin that's in this document where the white house is telling people it's all about the video, the white house today seems to be saying i'm telling you even though there are refere

among those whotestified, general robert lovell and not only said the video narrative should never haveshed by anyone, he also said this. >> there are accounts of time, space and capability, discussions of the question could we have gotten there in time to make a difference? the discussion is not could or could not of time, space and capability. the point is we should have tried. >> while the general was declaring under row that the military should have intervened that night, nancy pelosi was trying to dismiss any and all benghazi conversation, take a look. >> i'll say again, diversion subdiffusion, agabenghazi, benghazi, why aren't we talk about something else? i know what i read in the press about those e-mails that were consistent with what is put out there before. i don't think there is anything new there. >> i can name four reasons why we're talking about this and they are the victims, the people that lost their lives that night. here to respond the mother of sean smith, one of those killed, pat smith, great to see you again. i wish as always under better circumstances, what is you

the-minute question and answer sessions we sauce this week during the tim of retired brigadier general lovelllect committee covers all juice disks and allows them to have sitting at the same witness stable the former secretary of state hillary clinton and former cia director david petraeus, to cross-reference their testimony about the night of the attacks and how the state department and the cia were working together in benghazi. the question today is what was this week's tipping point to call for a select committee, and the speaker's statement hinted very strongly that it was these new documents as ed mentioned, that lead directly into the white house, quote, the administration's withholding of documents, e-mails showing greater white house involvement, in the misleading of the american people, is a fragrant violation of trust and undermines the principles of overslight upon which our system of government is built. we understand fox's recent reporting on a d.c. firm was of great interest to the speaker's office because it showed that many of the key players in the benghazi scandal are now em

nobody held accountable, and at the end -- >> well, in the point of fairness brigadier general robert lovell asked if he agreed with the chairman of the armed services committee e report that there was not more done in benghazi. >> i totally disagree with thatment. i totally disagree with that and i have been to three posts in the mediterranean where we have that capability, and i interviewed and mr. issa interviewed in benghazi some of the individuals in the military, and they were never given the order. we did have the capability, and i was assured at the briefing at one of those posts, pre-benghazi, that we had the ca capability to go in and rescue not only in north africa, but deeper into the continent, and so to me, that is baloney. >> and congress mman john mica, thank you for coming into the program. and now let me bring in keith boykin and joe, and what the congressman said contradicts what the brigadier general said. what do you think? >> well, the republicans are grasping at the straws, and john mica should be concerned about the issues of the unmoment imt in florida or the climate

. >> brigadier general lovell said despite his wish to get there, they would not have been able to get there in time. that's what official reports have determine as well. >> this raises again, the critical issue of security. you went behind the scenes so see what more is being done to protect our diplomats. >> i did. diplomatic security never wants another benghazi. they gave us special access to see what they're doing in hopes such a tragedy never happens again. >> hallway down here. >> reporter: in the fictional country of erehwon, that's nowhere spelled backwards. >> all vehicles down, all vehicles down. >> reporter: these diplomatic security agents are h their tenth and final week of hostile environment training. even though this is an exercise, the memory of benghazi hangs over it all. the training is challenging. physically and mentally. agents must prove themselves in 160 essential tasks. from the hard skills like shooting. and driving. to the soft skills, communication. >> go for concert. >> reporter: planning and preparing for every possible threat. >> guys, we gotta move. >>

>> well, first of all -- general lovell said we should have tried. so that's part of his written testimony. be glad to produce that, for you. or for any of the viewers, he said, "we should have tried." we did not. i believe we had that capability. we had that capability. could have used that. no one gave the order. and no one should have died because this was one of a high risk boast. it was listed specifically as a post that we had. we had people at risk in. resources wear available. we had testimony, there were fund available. not a matter of fund or resources that were not applied to that. so in the beginning. people shouldn't have been killed in the first place. the second part. no one gave the order. it's important to know where and when the secretary of state acted. more specifically. i think it is important to know when the commander-in-chief acted or didn't act. and, again, how much -- they both knew and when they knew it within the time frame. this wasn't the 3:00 in the -- in the morning call. that was brought up in the campaign. no one had