. >> congressman patrick meehan on the administration's failure to fail to protect americans in hostile territory. and-- >> we did not know they wanted more security. what did joe know and what was so funny at thursday's debate. >> and former house speaker newt gingrich with his take on vice-presidential showdown and what he expects from obama versus romney round two. >> ladies and gentlemen, mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. just days after the uprising at the egyptian embassy and the trerrorist attack in benghazi, four americans, including an ambassador was murdered i looked you in the eye and said, your government lied to you. the reaction from the left was swift and brutal. accusing me of playing loose with the facts. and of politicizing a tragedy. well, i said then and i continue to say, our government has lied to us and has engaged in a systematic and deliberate coverup. while i do have friends in the intelligence community and military, it wasn't those relationships that gave that thoug

pennsylvania congressman and former federal prosecutor patrick eman i meehan is on the oversight committee and was asking questions at the hearing and joins us now. congressman, thanks for being with us today. >> nice to be with you, governor. >> mike: when you were in the hearings i know you there were as a congressman but you had years of distinguished service record as a federal prosecutor. you are used to interrogating people. what is your assessment of how high up this whole information chain goes? >> well, it goes very high. to the highest levels of the state department. what you you have a the unusual circumstance in which you have a strong misrepresentations on both sides of an incident. on the front end whether or not they were aware about the dire situation and unsafety in libya and benghazi in particular. and there was clear and uncontroverted testimony that not only were they aware, the reports were going up and they were being told effectively to stifle stem, don't request for more security because you are not going to get it. on the back end the gross misrepresentations in th

pennsylvania congressman and former federal prosecutor patrick eman i meehan is on the oversight committee and was asking questions at the hearing and joins us now. congressman, thanks for being with us today. >> nice to be with you, governor. >> mike: when you were in the hearings i know you there were as a congressman but you had years of distinguished service record as a federal prosecutor. you are used to interrogating people. what is your assessment of how high up this whole information chain goes? >> well, it goes very high. to the highest levels of the state department. what you you have a the unusual circumstance in which you have a strong misrepresentations on both sides of an incident. on the front end whether or not they were aware about the dire situation and unsafety in libya and benghazi in particular. and there was clear and uncontroverted testimony that not only were they aware, the reports were going up and they were being told effectively to stifle stem, don't request for more security because you are not going to get it. on the back end the gross misrepresentations in th

. >> reporter: rick meehan is ocean city's mayor. what is your biggest worry about this storm? >> well, we have concerns about the intensity of the storm, what the wind levels are going to be when the storm actually gets here and we have concerns of some of the effects of the storm, mostly, i think, the possibility of flooding in some of the low-lying areas of town. >> reporter: off cape cod, coast guard planes directed fishing boats back to port. on shore, 20,000 utility workers have been put on stand by to repair outages along the eastern sea board. last year, hurricane irene caused a loss of power for more than six million households in this region, some were in the dark for weeks. raffle larossa is president of new jersey's largest electric company. >> when you're facing 50 to 60 miles an hour winds with all the leaves still on the trees and a soaking rain for a long period of time, we're going to see trees come over, we'll see branches come down. so it's going to have an impact on us and, again, patience and working together will be able to come through this like we always

. >> reporter: mayor rick meehan says last year ocean city got lucky, for the most part, dodging hurricane irene. >> do you expect that this time around? >> no, i don't. at this think we're probably already further along in this storm than we were with irene. the ocean is angry right now. and we're going to see a storm surge. >> reporter: a surge that could raise sea level up to eight feet above normal, enough to flood much of this city. police are urging but not forcing people in the evacuation zone to leave. most here are heeding their advice. the boardwalk is all but abandoned. but some like brian have decided to stay. >> got everything pretty well situated, bunkered down, generator is ready to rock. hang out, ride it out, road out irene last year, wasn't that bad. >> reporter: but the experts say this storm could be much worse than irene. here in maryland and farther up the coast including in new jersey. and that's where elaine quijano is, elaine? >> reporter: well, chip, we're in the town of bayhead, new jersey, which is especially vulnerable it sits just ten feet above sea level and

on the phone with me now is the mayor of ocean city, mayor rick meehan.me -- i know you are inside this emergency operations center where i'm sure people are gearing up for a long couple of days. tell me what is your concern, number one, right now. >> our biggest concern for from the beginning was the storm surge. wy knew we were going to experience extremely high tides on the bay side as well as storm surge on the ocean front. so that's been our primary concern. and the storm surge we've gotten is exactly what was projected, probably the highest storm surge we had in ocean city since hurricane gloria in 1985. and we are experiencing flooding in our downtown area, which would be south of our 17th street, and also some beach erosion along the ocean. >> were you in ocean city in '85? do you remember that? >> i was in ocean city in '85. so i do remember that. and similar in many ways, it's a slow-moving storm. at least the speed has picked up. that's gooder us. the longer it sits off the coast and in the atlantic and more tide cycles that affects us, the wor

beccy meehan has been at that conference and she caught up with george osbourne and asked him if more austerity would impress the financial markets. >> what they'll see is a country attacking its problems head on. we're one of those western countries getting on top of debt problems. we have an incredible plan to reduce their budget deficit delivering very low interest rates for you us in the markets at the moment. and so that is the proof that there are international parliaments in the plan, but what i'm saying is we have to stick with the plan and setting out new ideas for example in our welfare system to make sure this country continues to live within its means and at the same time has a tax system that attracts international businesses to britain p. and one of the encouraging stories is 20 of the largest companies are moving some of their head quarters to the uk. >> but low yields aren't giving us growth. >> all western countries are facing the issue of how they pay their way in the world and how they grow. if you look at the uk, a million jobs in the private sector over the last c

bob dudley has been talking to beccy meehan. she jones us onset. >> rush back from the interview. >> literally just brushing my hair, trying to get myself organized. i have literally just walked back in and bob dudley was pleased with the shares. the stock up by 3.5% or so and he said about time. so he was pretty happy that the shares were moving higher. i asked about several elements of the story, as well, including of course the fact that they have increased the dividend. let's listen to what he had to say about that dividend policy and if we should get used to these high dividends. >> we're working to get it closed through the normal processes on a steady pace. rosneff is a great company and we look forward to that relationship. obviously the relationship with btp wasn't efficient. and if this is good. >> how does the timing look right now? you say you're progressing well. >> we have a 90 day exclusivity and then 30 day regulatory approval process followed by another one. so i think the earliest could be sometime in the first

i'm beccy meehan. these are your headlines. aggressive mitt romney comes out swinging in his first debate with president obama with the two men sparring over how to fix the u.s. economy. waiting on spain, the ecb expected to hold steady on rates. country's president tells cnbc that europe's policymakers must remain focused. >> if we get bogged down into what was meant by the june agreements and waste time on this kind of discussions, then it's much less likely that a coherent system will emerge. >> madrid continues to put faith in the hands of private investors while finance minister heads to london to raise funds for the country's bad bank. and india's crucial services sector grows at its fastest rate in seven months, while the government gets set to take another swing at boosting it through foreign investments. thanks very much for joining me. anyone that's missing ross, he'll be back in tomorrow. but for now, you're all mine. . plenty to come on the next couple hours of the show. lots of guests to help us figure out what's g

oversight committee member congressman patrick meehan joins us live.e will have both sides of the aisle on the debate. i want to get your ar reactiono the news that we have lost arlen specter. >> very sad. i got to serve as senior counsel to arlen and work with him for almost three years. he is a man who did very important work and did it very well. he is one of the giants of pennsylvania government history and he will be sadly missed. >> shannon: he will. he lived a long legacy of a lot of work on capitol hill and a lot of service to your state, to pennsylvania. yes, go ahead. i'm sorry. >> just i just found out. it is sort of one of those things that the word is circulating quickly and while people were aware that he had been quite sick the fact that he has passed is just beginning to hit and i know many who are close to him and his family will be touched by the news and have lost a good friend. >> shannon: all right. and now moving on to the news of libya. and the hearing that we heard on wednesday there was a lot of new information that at least th

pennsylvania congressman pat meehan sits on the homeland security and oversight government reform committee and joins us from philadelphia. good evening, congressman. >> good evening, judge. nice to be with you. >> judge jeanine: nice to have you with us tonight. one of the issues the committee he is going to be looking into are the reports that as many as 60 prior violent assaults may have preceded this actual property attack in benghazi. could you tell us anything about this? >> judge, of course, you know from your experience one of the things is when you have whistle blowers who are are insiders that bring information and that has motivated the activities of this committee and information which suggests that there were numerous opportunities for a prudent department to be looking at the activities including as you identified attacks on the british interests there, actual attacks including ones with i.e.d.s itself, thelatity st. louis, american consulate in june. an awareness there should have been a much higher appreciation for the risk and those are the facts that we like to try to have

meehan does the mexican job looking for fresh water. the a does the avalanche and child murdered in his own crib being run over by a boiler because the land was destabilized. no one deserves a tragedy. we are virginia tech. the hopi nation embraces us. to those that offer their hearts and minds, we are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. we are better than we think and not quite what we want to be. we are alive to the imagination and the possibility. we will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all the sadness. we are the hokies. we will prevail, we will prevail, we will prevail. we are virginia tech. >> i sat down with nikki giovanni at her offices at the genentech where she is a distinguished university professor. i asked her about the shooter seung-hui cho whom she taught in a coach class. she rarely talks about him. >> you taught him. you wanted him out of your class. >> he had to leave, i did not want him to leave. what ever it was, i was not tied to judge him, i am just a writing teacher. >> a

and michael meehan, former senior advisor for senator john kerry suggesting it is actually a record breakingiewership that watched last night, more than the first debate in 2008. there were huge, huge numbers of people watching last night. today we have seen the obama team come out and first, they tried to say mitt romney was testy. then they tried to say it was just a performance. now they have come out with an ad suggesting that he was rude. and question, ed, whether, a, that is the best we're going to see from the team, and b, does that have an impact on what we saw last night? >> nothing has an impact on the 55 million people who watched it or anybody who picked up a newspaper today other than the fact that the projection is that romney did a very effective job and he won by all determinations, exit polls, any rest of it. he basically came in with a real gameplan. he laid out in a very gentle way, not a harsh way, all the things he thinks is wrong with the president and the president's plans. the president for whatever reason was not able to defend himself and didn't choose to defend him

one of them was education, and at one point the president but did meehan said -- looked at me and said we have not discussed education at all, and i said in my head, sorry, he spent the first 20 minutes of the first debate talking about education. we knew -- remember, the first questions all came from the town hall, so i could not just come off with a question that was not represented in their questions. we knew that syria, iran and israel would be thoroughly covered. >> but immigration and gun control might not. >> it might not. >> you would assume that would be the last chance. >> prepare for the debates -- i assume each of you have an individual method. >> i make myself insane. i shut myself off in the house with a lot of cards, read books the candidates have written, stump speeches, right about 100 questions, knowing that i might get about 20 in, and i do not think i got that many then i rehearsed. -- many. then i rehearse. then, after all of the, you have to stop. you have to know it well enough that you can't stand to we have the conversation. it is a debate, but it is a conversa

one of them was education, and at one point the president but did meehan said -- looked at me and said we have not discussed education at all, and i said in my head, sorry, he spent the first 20 minutes of the first debate talking about education. we knew -- remember, the first questions all came from the town hall, so i could not just come off with a question that was not represented in their questions. we knew that syria, iran and israel would be thoroughly covered. we didn't feel the need to fill the hole. >> but immigration and gun control might not. >> it might not. >> you would assume that would be the last chance. >> how do you prepare assume each of you have an individual method. >> i make myself insane. i shut myself off in the house with a lot of cards, read books the candidates have written, stump speeches, right about 100 questions, knowing that i might get about 20 in, and i do not think i got that many then i rehearsed. -- many. then i rehearse. then, after all of the, you have to stop. you have to know it well enough that you can't stand to we have the conversation. it i

one was the environment every time we tried to do a prime-time special meehan leonardo dicaprio interviewpresident clinton and i was killed for it. we did the prime-time special he was the chairman of earth day i thought he would make an appearance be interviewed the president. that was the attempt. but we did more tears them coverage before 9/11. we did a prime-time special but the military said the biggest concern it is enacted of terrorism of. i wish we had done more. education is not covered in the depth that it should be. some of our difficult to do with television. >> host: how much pressure is there to do entertainment as news? lindsay lohan or the superficiality? to seem that journalism has gone down is there pressure what is the news? >> there was the disagreement with princess diana coverage after she died and peter said it was a terrible idea but then came around. it was a constant battle within myself and is a line it has moved the cronkite book those issues have been around even walter cronkite did things that today you say you're on the entertainment side. but the real dange