here is michael morell : >> my reaction was two-fold. what she said about the attacks evolving from a protest was what the talking points said and what the community analyst believed. when she talks about the video my reaction was that is not something they said it was attributed. >> you said it was based on reports. how many? numerous? >> roughly a dozen. i think about half and half. the committee has the documents >> when you finally read ambassador rice's sunday morning transcript or however you found out about it, did you complain? >> i didn't complain to anybody, sir. >> you stated you noted there was a conflict between the cos and the analyst and you immediately addressed it once you noticed. and that way was appropriate. how quick and what do you consider appropriate? >> i addressed it very quickly. sir, i was the one who spotted what the cos said. it was in the bottom of an e-mail. it was 3-4 sentences. i spotted it saying this is not consistent and we need to dig into this and resolve it. i was the one to do that and that was ap

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michael morell is going to testify on the hill.be peppered with tough questionings on his role in the talking points pointing to a protest as the flict. and this is conflicting from the cia station chief in libya who said there were no protest before the attack. that starts in 30 minutes. >>> republican lawmakers are crying foul as the president is malaysiai praising the administration for signing up 7.1 million. mccain and marco rubio are among them saying the problems have nothing to do with the top number >> you have to get people who make their payment and once people realize what they are paying for comes with a high deductible and they cannot start using it for until then they will realize they are not in r slr -- insured -- >> the average policy is going to be costing 40% more for a policies that is not like the one you had and you don't like it as well and doesn't give you the same access you had. >> alan combs and brad blakeman are here. welcome. right now, you have this rock in a hard place in many ways. they were able to

and michael morel took the helm and it appears that this guy was crucial to the white house twisting everything. elizabeth. the key point for me here. is that the cia station chief. that is the top intelligence dog in libya said it was not about a demonstration and the spin from the administration and mike morel and others. we had to weigh conflicting reports and claims. no. the cia station chief on the ground is the guy who knows. he knows better than the people back in washington eating popcorn and watching a miniseries. it is a real danger here. we made a big thing about the nsa political scandal. and this was clearly to me, a politicalization of skewing intelligence to promote the president's reelection campaign and that is a big, bad dangerous no, no. >> and we don't have a lot of time. you expanded and brought up poet petraeus. said to say. they have got to call petraeus and put him under oath and do the right thing with his country and tell the entire truth. the key is, you can't respect rank or service when it comes to testimony. you put him under oath and if they lie. you ge

. >> charlie: michael morell is here, he was the deputy director of the cia from 2010 to 2013. twice during that period, he served as acting director, george w. bush es briefer during the 9/11 attacks and nearly ten years later a key player in the successful mission to kill osama bin laden. yesterday he testified before the house intelligence committee about his role in creating the cia talking points following the benghazi attacks. >> i believe the facts in my written statement make clear that neither i nor anyone else at the cia worked to alter the analysis or the talking points in a way that compromised our responsibility to the american people. we did not deliberately downplay the role of terrorists in the benghazi attack in our analysis or in the talking points, and neither i nor anyone else at the agency deliberately misled anyone in congress about any aspect of the tragedy in benghazi. mr. chairman, none of what i just said should be interpreted to mean that we at the cia did everything right. no organization ever does. >> charlie: i am pleased to have michael morell at

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acting director michael morell dismissed the report.consulting group alongside hillary clinton aides and mike rodgers chief of staff will publicly testify for the first time today. what can he expect? lieutenant colonel tony shaffer who was with the c.i.a. joins us live now. good morning. the c.i.a. chief from libya finally appeared from washington yesterday behind closed doors and said, hey, wait a minute, i told mike morell, the deputy director of the c.i.a., i saidç it wasn't a protest. >> all the leadership, and what's most notable is the clip you just ran of susan rice, within less than 24 hours of that clip being aired, the chief of station came back again and said for the third time i'm telling you there is no protest. so it was very clear, very clear in the field. let me be very clear, the chief of station is the most senior intelligence officer in the country. for your audience to understand and understand this clearly, what he says is gospel. nobody goes against him. i've had to fight with chief of station over stuff before.

michael morell testified it was rice who linked video to the benghazi attack, morell said that videoas not part of the cia, analysis. how do you square that up? how can that be squared up? >> well, i don't see how you can, it will take to us continue to persist too find out wha happened there, is say void in knowing what actually happened that night, what was said, then what tran powered. it is -- transpireed it amazing that suzanne rice is later elevateed to national security advise oar, if be if we have soe in this position is sends that message out, we have issues to deal with. lou: you have a lot of issues to deal with, with this administration, american people want and deserve, let me under line deserve the truth from any administration. the congress has been i think relentless in the search for that truth for various committees. but at the same time uunsuccessfully, we have watched a stone wall of 18 months since that benghazi attack across a array of scandals whether irs targets or "fast and furious" or benghazi. the others as well. this dang has successfully -- administration

he will explain michael morel's testimony. what could be the black box of the missing malaysian airplane. and the nine-year-old told he couldn't read the bible in an after school program. you will not believe who is coming to his defense. ni don't care who will be fired. i want to know who is going to jail? the fact is, that the irs, there are specific laws that protect taxpayers and force the irs to comply with the law. somebody in the irs violated the law, whether it is lois lerner or not we'll find out. >> there is joan boehner making the case on why a criminal investigation is so important. andrew napolitano is with us. how are you, judge? >> good, bill. >> tomorrow there will be a letter to be given to eric holder with three charges. violating constitutional rights of americans, giving misleading information to investigators and inappropriately releasing private taxpayer information. that goes to holder and what happens then? >> probably nothing, bill. the decision on whether or not to prosecute her is his. and there is n

strategic administrations advisor and then deputy cia director michael morel.ox news report that said u.s. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours it was a terrorism attack and this one incomplete conflict with the narrative given out by the white house. they reinforce the message by the leadership on the night of the attack. at 10:00 p.m. on september 11, 2012, when the attack is not even over and the cia annex was still threatened, mrs. clinton's office issued a press statement reading in part we condemn the attack on a mission in benghazi. they have it as a response or inflammatory material posted on the internet. but me be clear, there is never any justification for violent acts of this kind. we don't know if the e-mail was following the state department's lead or vice versa. the administration has never offered the specific intelligence was that asked them to connect the video to benghazi. jenna: the timing of it all is significant. thank you. jon: in the meantime have a clinton's replacement, secretary of state john kerry weighing in on escorting cris

and the former cia director michael morell recently testified that it was rice who made the connection. >> whafles your reaction when you saw her explanation about what happened? >> when she talked about the video, my reaction was that's not something that the analysts have attributed this attack to. >> and there are new allegations that other documents are being delayed, blocked or unnecessarily redacted. >> now the state department is trying to retroactively go back and say oh, no, these should be classified which prohibits us and limits us to be able to show them to the american people. >> the whitehouse press corps skepticism came to a head. >> why did it take a court case for you to release this -- >> john, i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking again and again, this do you mean was not about benghazi. >> it was your prep for the sunday show. >> it was not her only prep, john. she relied fon her answers on benghazi on the documents prepared by the cia as did members of congress. >> two congressional sources tell fox news that house speaker john boehner wants t

michael morell testified to is that the buck stops with me on the talking points. i was responsible for the changing. there was no outside political interest. but this explanation just did not seem to hold water for a number of members, rather. listen to this exchange with congressman bachmann. >> you made significant, substantive changes for the white house. whether it was on behalf. we don't know, but we know you are the one who made those changes. >> ma'am, if you look at the record, what you will see is the changes i made were fully consistent with what our analysts believed at the time, perio period. >> one of the extraordinary headlines we had in the last few minutes was also from morell and his pretty stunning statement. what he said was that the analysts -- and we heard this consistently -- he relied on the findings of the analysts in washington, who were thousands of miles away from the scene of the attack, and he also testified that those analysts did not have access to eye witness accounts on the ground when they said they believed the attacks came out o

. >> in his opening statement former cia deputy director michael morel claimed to be an intelligencerofessional who was willing to put out the facts, no matter how damaging. >> the ethical code under which intelligence officers carry out their responsibilities calls for total objectivity. >> reporter: but his testimony contradicted the claim. on the talking point morrell said he dropped the cia warnings which were factual and accurate because he thought it was unprofessional to embarrass hillary clinton's state department which knew about the warnings and did not act. ultimately leading to the deaths of four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. republicans pushed morrell to explain the contradictions. >> you take out everything that's even related to -- to warnings and a bunch of other stuff, too, and direct oor petraeus is concerned because he wanted more information about warnings in there, so i don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. >> i simply saw this as a way for cia to pound its chest and say, look, we warned, therefore laying all the blame on the state department.

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straight ahead the benghazi showdown what was cia acting >>> why does former scri acting director michael morell ignore his libyan station chief's email. the station chief one day before susan rice went on five sunday morning shows emailed him telling him it was not protests. on capitol hill yesterday houserepublicans hammering the former cia chief benghazi and the infamous talking points. >> the white house used your talking points to perpetrate its own misguided political agenda. >> the house did not make any substantive changes to the talking points. nor did they ask me to make any substantive changes. >> you were sitting at the table along with the other intelligence officials when we were trying to find out who changed the talking points. that was at best, it's misleading biomission what you did that day and continue or at worst lying biomission. >> this is a false narrative. this is why this is not a small issue, this is a big issue. >> let me actually give you the facts. first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in front of the word embassy for the sake of clarity. second thing

here's republican michele bachmann, of course, accusing former cia deputy director michael morel of lyingamerican people. >> what's really odd here is that the false narrative that was given on sunday morning, on the sunday morning shows, somehow strangely added up with the view of the white house six weeks before the presidential election. that was the narrative of the white house in the run-up to the presidential election. how weird that that ultimately was reflected in the talking points against all knowledge from people on the ground and knowledge that this committee had? that's why we're upset. because the american people, from my perspective, were intentionally misled by this administration as to what happened in benghazi. >> i done think people like bachmann even keep up with stories. that's evidence of it. she doesn't know what she's talking about. the bipartisan intelligence committee completely cleared the behavior by the odd station. there was no bs involved in the reporting. bachmann was one of many on the committee to take a swipe at morel and obama administration generally.

lawmakers raising more questions after testimony by the former acting cia director, michael morell onlking points. those talking points blamed the death of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans on protests over a video mocking islam. now at least three republican lawmakers say they were misled back in 2012. they are calling once again for a select committee to investigate. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with the latest. catherine. >> reporter: well, thank you, jon. the issue is whether the former acting deputy cia director's testimony about that november 2012 meeting with these three republican senators, ayote, gram and mccain about the benghazi talking points was in fact accurate. morell testified once he realized made a mistake blaming fbi for key changes he inin fact made. he corrected record. that is not how one senator remembered it and describing morell's testimony last week in front of the house intelligence committee as, deceptive. a republican said his employment by beacon global challenges a d.c. firm closely allied wit

. >>> former cia deputy director michael morell insists politics played no role in revisions to talking points about the consulate attack in benghazi, libya. during a three-hour grilling on capitol hill, morrell said he deleted references to advance terror warnings because analysts still wrongly thought a protest against an anti-islamic video was to blame. four americans, including u.s. ambassador chris stevens, died in that attack. >>> also focus on russia and ukraine this morning. questions about whether we will see another russian invasion of ukraine. a new warning this morning on how fast troops could flood into that country. we'll take you live with the latest, next. [ female announcer ] take skincare to the next level with roc multi correxion 5 in 1. hydrate dryness, illuminate dullness, lift sagging, diminish the look of dark spots, and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. roc® multi correxion 5 in 1. high performance skincare™. now for a flawless look, roc perfecting cream. the only bb cream with the wrinkle fighting power of roc retinol. new from roc. >>> 24 minutes past the hour

with the testimony from c.i.a.s former deputy director michael morell. the committee has heard from mr. morell on these attacks several times before, but in closed session. his testimonyve in open session so the american people can hear directly from one of the most senior officials involved in the leadup in response to those attacks. interested in mr. morell's role in developing the talking points that shaped inaccuratetration's narrative about the attackses. we expect he will explain for how this controversy developed. i understand you'll do some of that in your opening statement as well. i want to first acknowledge the courageous american heros on the benghazi, both those who lost their lives, ambassador chris stevens, and information sean smith, and security officers greg doherty and tyrone woods. livesose who risked their to save their colleagues. each of these brave americans lines on the front defending americans' interest so the rest of us could sleep safely at night. we lost some of the best among us on that terrible night. who of the brave offi

michael's story, visit lyrica.com. >>> former c.i.a. deputy director, mike morelllay the role of terrorists in the benghazi attack in our analysis or in the talking points. the changes i made were fully consistent with what our analysts believed at the time, period. >> so why did the white house continue to blame a youtube video for weeks when the station chief in libya said that was not true? and why did he go with analysts instead of eyewitnesses? sean smith was one of four americans killed in that attack. his uncle, michael, joins us again. michael, you watched michael morell speak. he wanted to defend himself in open court, open forum. what do you think of his performance and explanation? >> i'll give him a d minus. >> what bothers you most? >> what bothers me most in the sense that it's like -- well, let's articulate it in the sense that he said, well, it could have been a protest and it could have been a terrorist attack. it's like -- come on. i just looked at it with a great deal of cynicism, brian. >> right. a couple things that stood out. one, he took out

director michael morell tell the president about this report?rs to that. >>> supervisors at the atf are in the hot seat for allowing a former official who approved the fast and furious gun running operation to double dip on his salary. a report says william mcmahon's supervisors exercised poor judgment in allowing him to collect his government salary even as he worked full time for jpmorgan. this move created potential conflict of interests for the agency's financial investigation. what do you think of that? >>> a cloud of ethics is once again handing over the race for mayor in the capitol. the -- federal prosecutors allege gray took part in illegal fundraising that pumped more than half a million dollars into his campaign. gray has denied any involvement, but his number dropped. his running against seven other candidates. we'll be watching that. >>> historians claim they have found the holy grail in spain. they say the cup that jesus christ drank from at the last supper was fused into this ornate chalice. carbon dating traces it back to the tim

michael morrell. the committee has heard from esther morel on these attacks several times before but in closed session today we've received his testimony in open sessions of the american people can hear directly from one of the most senior intelligence officials involved in the lead up and response to those attacks. we are interested in his role in developing the talking points that shaped the administration's inaccurate narrative about the attack. we expect he will explain for the public how this controversy developed. i understand you will do some of that in your opening statement. i want to acknowledge the courageous american heroes on the ground in chantal benghazi into the security officers. those that risk their lives to save their colleagues each served on the front lines defending america's interests of the rest of us can sleep safely at night. we lost some of the best among us on that terrible night. many of the officers that came to the rescue testified in closed session before the committee. these men took measures to save their fellow americans without their courage, their skill the terror

s former deputy director michael morell. the committee has heard from mr. morell on these attacks several times before but in closed session. today we receive his testimony in open session so the american people can hear directly from one of the most senior intelligence officials involved in the leadup and response to those attacks. we are all interested in mr. morell's role in in developing the talking points that shaped the administration's inaccurate narrative about the attacks. we expect he will explain for the public how this controversy developed. i understand you will do some of that in your opening statement as well. i want to first acknowledge the courageous american heroes on the ground in benghazi both those who lost their lives -- and that's chris stevens information officer, shawn smith security officers greg dougherty and tyrone woods. and those who risked their lives to save their colleagues. each of these brave americans served on the front lines defending americans' interests so the rest of us can sleep safely at night. we lost some of the