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." >> michael morrell is here. director ofeputy the cia from 2010-2013. twice he served as acting director. he was president george w. bush posher briefer in the 9/11 attacks. yesterday, he testified before the house intelligence committee about his role in creating the cia talking point following the benghazi consulate attacks. >> i believe the facts in my written statement that neither i nor anyone else at the cia work to alter the analysis or the talking points in a way that compromised our responsibility to the american people. we did not deliberate downplay the role of terrorists in the benghazi attack in our analysis or in the talking points. and neither i nor i at the agency -- nor anyone at the agency downplayed any aspect of the tragedy of the attack at benghazi. none of what i just said should be interpreted to mean that we at the cia did everything right. the organization ever does. pleased to have michael morrell at the table for the first time. i also take note of the fact that he is in interpreting -- a contributing at cbs where i work. i am

former acting cia director michael morrell was called to the hill for a third time today.stified about the now debunked theory that the benghazi talking points given to susan right rice soon after the attack were deliberatery doctored. >> we did not deliberately downplay the role of terrorists in the benghazi attack in our analysis or in the talking points. >> in response to a democratic inquiry, the pentagon now says that at least six congressional investigations of the benghazi disaster have cost americans an unspecified millions of dollars a and thousands of hours of personnel time. here's the thing, the truth is already out there, there is no evidence of any kind of alleged cover-up, coercion or conspiracy and yet the investigations continuing. in 2016 a certain former secretary of state will be looking to kick off her presidential campaign. congressman adam smith, the ranking democrat on the house armed as much ass committee. last month, you asked the pentagon to estimate the cost of the countless benghazi investigations and based in part on that investigation, you're

. >>> former cia deputy director michael morrell told congress this week he changed the talking pointsused by administration official after the benghazi terror attack. joining us now to discuss this and more, former director of the cia and nsa, general michael hayden. general, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks, chris. >> i want to talk first about the testimony from mike morrell, who you work with at the time to time up to 2009. he -- at the cia up to the time in 2009. he said in the days after benghazi, the station chief in libya repeatedly told him this was a terror attack. but, he says, he overruled the chief and went with analysts at cia headquarters in langley who said, no, it was a protest that spou spun out of control. question -- how unusual is it to disregard your own man in the field? >> you give a lot of weight to your man in the field. keep in mind, our man in the field was more than 500 miles away from the incident, as well. >> he was in tripoli, not benghazi. >> that's right. michael's view is the totality of information that analysts had tilted it toward the a

. >>> michael morrell told congress this week he changed the talking points used by administration officials after the benghazi terror attack. joining us now to discuss this and more former directorst cia and nsa general michael hayden. general, welcome back to "fox news sunday." i want to talk to you first about the testimony from mike morrell who you worked with at the cia up to 2009. he says in the days after benghazi the station chief in libya repeatedly told him that this was a terror attack but he says he overruled the station chief and went with the analyst back at cia headquarters in langley who said, no, it was a protest that spun out of control. question, how unusual is that to disregard your own man in the field? >> look, you give a lot of weight to your man in the field. keep in mind, our man in the field was more than 500 miles away from the incident as well. >> he was in tripoli, not benghazi. >> exactly right. so michael knew the ftotality o the information the analyst had turned him to the station version. chris, michael mentioned something very important he left the white ho

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. >> for the first time ex cia boss michael morrell faces the house intelligence committee and admitshe ignored key reports in the benghazi terror attack. elizabeth is breaking it down for us. >> rather than listening to the cia's top intelligence officer in libya who reported there were no protests the former cia deputy mike morell told lawmakers i gave more consideration to the intelligence analysts were assessing at the headquarters here in the states saying the ground report was not as compelling and was based on lose evidence. >> iffism looking for the cia judgment about what happened in a particular case i would go to my analyst not to people on the ground. >> susan rice rehearsed days after the attack rice down-played his roll in editing that. specifically why he took the word islamic out of the bullet points even saying the state department at the end was still unhappy with his contributions. >> the last thing i wanted to do was to do anything to further inflame those passions. that's why i took the word islamic out. it was a judgment. the second reason ill took it out is what

>> we can expect michael morrell will face tough questions they woefully disregarded on the ground in benghazi. it killed four americans including ambassador stevens was planned and coordinated. morrell will have to explain why that information was dismissed and why he was given talking points. it was over a p controversial video about mohammed. >> obviously there's disagreement between what mr. morrell has told the committee in the past and what the station chief brown has said. we interviewed nine people on the ground that day. not one of them said it was a protest or they had heard anything about some video. just the sheer volume of evidence saying they believed this was in fact sponsored by a protest. >> morrell must explain what evidence he has over the top office on the ground in libya. morrell says he welcomes the opportunity to testify today. >> kelly write, live for us this morning. >>> the botched fast and furious scandal still have jobs. lawmakers ex cementing questions to that answer and more. he will testify for the first time in front of the house over site committee. it

. >> the former deputy cia director michael morrell's appearance, his first public testimony on the talking points was filled with awkward explanation, frustration, and pointed accusations. >> 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, period. >> morrell told the committee he gave more weight to the intelligence assessment at headquarters by analysts thousands of miles from benghazi than he did to the cia chief of station, the top intelligence officer in libya, who reported there was no protest. >> if i'm looking for the cia's judgment about what happened in a particular case, i would go to my analysts. >> it is a stunning statement because the cia is a human intelligence operation, and analysts in washington did not have access to the reporting of u.s. personnel on the ground. >> they were not aware of the eyewitness accounts. >> on why h

. >>> plus new questions about the benghazi terror attacks and role then director michael morrell played in crafting controversial talking points. we have a preview of his testimony on capitol hill. >>> tiger woods making a huge announcement. why he won't be playing in the masters tournament next week. be right back. i'm nathan and i quit smoking with chantix. when my son was born, i remember, you know, picking him up and holding him against me. it wasn't just about me anymore. i had to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven o help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. chantix didn't have nicotine in it, and that was important to me. [ male aouncer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal tughts or action while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which uld get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a seris allergic or s

. >> facts justin, maybe getting into the weeds is that michael morrell is out of the cia. is he partners in an -- the beacon global strategy communications group which has panetta's former jeremy bash. michael allen is going to appear before. and philip who is close to sect hillary clinton. this is a really coasty thing what's morrell going to do tomorrow. >> one group not represented in that. the white house. some indication they might be going around the duck goose and they are the ones that get hit. >> maybe they are the ones that deserve it i mean, rice comes out of the white house shoonks she got directed by the white house to do this. it's tricky for the white house. either what's going to come out is that they did have information saying that this didn't develop out of a protest. questions why very pertinent information from the cia didn't make its way into the white house. a lot of really weird things happened after that state department. pushing it it then the cia had an in person briefing made it out like we were a bunch of lunatics because we didn't buy that sto

this after lawmakers grilled former acting cia director michael morrell at a hearing last week. >> anutstanding officer who this committee knows well wrote the first draft of the unclassified talking points, neither the white house, the state department nor i did so as some have alleged. >> former u.s. attorney general michael mukasey says a hearing with a witness delivering prepared remarks isn't the best way to get to the truth. michael mukasey joins me exclusively. you where this outpatient in an op-ed of sorts and you basically say, we can keep having all these hearings but we're never getting the answers. why? >> witnesses come in and deliver a prepared statement. usually the chair and the senior ranking member on the other side of the aisle deliver prepared statements. then each member gets five minutes, usually part of that is a statement by that member because they're conscious of the tv cameras in their districts. by the time they get to a question, the witness has maybe a minute and a half to answer it. if the witness wants to stall, he can very easily stall. and you don't r

the deputy director of the cia at the time, michael morrell, who admitted his analyst made a mistake from afar about a protest that never happened. he relied on the analyst here as opposed to people on the ground in system. in that same testimony just recently, mike morel was asked, when you saw susan rice go out on those shows, what did you think? and he essentially said -- i'm paraphrasing here -- that he was surprised about the reliance on the video because that did not come from us, meaning that did not come from the intelligence community. >> right. >> and that is the key here, that he says, we didn't have anything to do with the video. and here's this e-mail, ben rhodes referencing the video in a political sense. now the white house is trying to tell us it has nothing to do with benghazi. >> seems to me like a lot of people are pointing fingers in a bunch of different directions. first you have people saying the cia did the talking points then mike morel says he did -- seems to me like jay carney has a new line of defense. when he's going to get peppered with questions about be

the allegation against the former acting director of the cia, michael morrell, is he dismissed or downd the reporting of the administration that there was no protest, and the key thing is the chief of station was in front of the house panel today. we're trying to get more information, because of the classified hearing enclosed to the media, but the question to morrell is what was this overwhelming and conclusive evidence that led him to override the reporter of his own people on the ground. >> morrell comes up tomorrow. what are the key questions for morrell that he needs to answer in. >> he really needs to deconflict three key episodes. in november of 2012, he was in front of the house intelligence committee, and he was asked in front of james clapper and matt olson, who was behind the talking points? and clapper said i have no idea, and morrell, who cut 50% of the talking points text himself remained silent. that same month, he went up to the hill with susan rice and meant with senators ayotte, mccain, and he said morrell changed it, and when they called the fbi, the bureau went ball

but former cia deputy director michael morrell today denied any kind of cover-up or political influenceow infamous talking points used by the white house. yet he claims he was not the one who removed the reference to al qaeda. republicans on the house intelligence committee remain suspicious that the white house was pulling morrell's strings at the time. >> you made significant substantive changes for the white house, whether it was on bee half, 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. >> four americans were killed in the september 11th, 2012, attacks in benghazi including ambassador chris stephens. for days afterward the administration blamed a spontaneous protest over an anti-muslim video which turned out to be false. up next on "the lead," he has a duty to contribute to peace, security, and human rights. but has hostage-taker on his iranian resume. now the white house is under pressure from people on both sides of th

bill: an investigation into the role michael morrell played in crafting the talking points. the station chief told him ... john bolton is with us. is this the hearing we have been waiting for? >> it depend on whether members of congress bear down in their questioning. i think the fact that the cia chief said there was no demonstration. this is the top guy in libya looking at testimony by state department employees and local source, from the media and you name it. in this judgment the guy on the ground is no demonstration. and that gets ignored. bill: so the station chief writes morell and says there is no evidence of these street protests. who does the station chief report to in washington? >> he reports back up to the cia bureaucracy. there is no dplowt my mind whether on secure phones or open phones, state department and cia and probably military personnel in libya were talking to their counterparts back in washington. the on people who thought that attack on the consulate came from this who hammed a video were people back -- on this mohammed video were people back in wash

112012 attacks against facilities and libya with the testimony from the former deputy director 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 committe

director michael morrell will speak about the 2012 attack in libya.e will testify before the house intelligence committee. four men were killed in the attack, including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. >> palestine president mahmoud abbas is in egypt. they are discussing the impasse over talks between the israelis and palestinians. on tuesday secretary of state john kerry said israel had taken steps pushing the talk back. >> australian search crews say their ship has detected two new pings consistent with the black boxes from missing malaysia airlines flight mh370. the signals were found then lost. the data may be used to direct a small submarine used to look for the plane. >> the ascertain for the missing plane cost $44 million. as one correspondent reports, it may be the most expensive. >> the air crafts deployed by the united states, china and vietnam - the pentagon setting aside $4 million. 3.2 was spent last week. the u.s. will double it. >> half has been contributed by australia. china hasn't said how much it spent. beijing sent 18 ships, 8 helico

director michael morrell tell the president this?ct to grill him tomorrow about this during a house intelligence hearing. more on this as we get it. >>> breaking overnight, phraeubgs -- malaysian officials just admitted they were wrong about the last words spoken by the pilot. initially they claimed all right good night was the pilot's final message but it turns out the message was actually this good night malaysian 370 which is a routine statement. officials said they aren't sure who said thoseç words, the copilot or the pilot. >>> a hitting coach taking a hit that would break his leg and the video is a bit tough to watch. don baylor was about to catch the ceremonial first pitch. as he reached for the ball he hyperextended his leg and then broke his leg. he will have surgery later today to repair his right femur. to add insult to injury, yeah, the mariners beat the angels 10-3. >>> senator marco rubio talks about a party flip-flop. >> [inaudible] he used to be independent as you well know for a brief period of time and now of cours

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. now to ukraine, on edge this morning after a new warning from the top nato general about the potential for