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. >> i think mike morrell has had a distinguished political career, but many of the comments he's made about especially in the last decade at the agency, are inconsistent with most of what he said while he was a cia representative and coming before the committee. >> now a private citizen in an interview with 60 minutes, morrell seemed to distance himself from his years at the cia under president bush and from the water boarding of 9/11 suspect khalid sheikh mohammed. >> my view is that the coercive techniques were the wrong thing to do. my view was that those techniques were inconsistent with american values. and for that reason, i don't think they should have been done. >> in addition to joining beacon global strategies, a firm founded by someone recently described by the "new york times" magazine as, quote, clinton's principle gate keeper, he is now a paid tv commentator on national security for cbs news and he's got a book deal. morrell declined fox's office to speak on camera about the senate report and his decisions before, during, and after this controversy episode. we asked him

and what was the role of mike morrel. >> i want to play this comment chris made in the reaction that susan rice went on all five chose not to this time >> fox led the way in questions the benghazi situation and perhaps rice didn't want to handle the tough questions we would ask. >> i would imagine one of them would be let's talk about when you went to talk to mccain and graham and the fbi came and said they changed the talking points and the fbi said absolutely not. >> mike morrel turned out to be one of the sources of, catherine hegrity has done convincing reporting on this, mike morrel went to work for a firm run by hilary clinton. what does that say about what he was doing to protect the secretary of state? and what role did he play in fashioning the talking points that were at odds with everyone else's thought >> and she wasn't asked why the cia's station chief said this wasn't a spontaneous demonstration the day before rice went on the programs. and catherine heritage said there was a video conference between mike morrel, greg hick and the survivors, so those who had a better ta

community and was not forthcometic about his meeting one day before rise went on television. >> it was mike morrelllking points. he said at an effort to appease everybody who sat around the table, meaning all the different agencies, and the national security staff. >> morrell did not respond to specific allegations but said in a recent statement to fox, he insists there was nothing suspicious about the editing of the talking points. >> thank you. >> the pentagon wants to take drastic cutbacks to the military. is it worth the risk? we'll talk about it all and get reaction from the fox all-stars when we come back. >>> reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioritize and make difficult choices. some of those choices we must make now. for other choices, particularly those involving the size of our armed forces, we have built decision points into our budget plan. >> well, long detailed news conference tonight, defense secretary chuck hagel laying out a plan to draw down nearly all of its combat forces from afghanistan this year, and also cut the

>> as a witness and mike morrell the number two at the it cia who actually changed the talking points do you know what i would do? i would issue. >> he. >> i would issue a subpoena and i would demand that documents that are classified, because i think we overclassify. >> overclassify. >> i would demand all those classified documents be reviewed so see if they're really classified or hide things from the american people. >> mike morrell lied about changing the talking points on two different occasions. to me, senator mccain. and he blamed the fbi. and later in may of 2013, in november of 2012. >> there is no consequence. >> none. >> james clapper lied to senator biden in the u.s. senate and there is nothing on that. do you know what happens if you lie in traffic court? can you get in trouble. you can go up on capitol hill. senator, nice to see you, sir. >> thank you. okay, we want to hash it out. president george w. bush is in the news tonight. politico tweeting former president george w. bush to make his formal debut as an artist this spring. president bush takes painting lessons once

. >>> republican allegations that former acting and deputy cia director mike morrell misled congress over the white house role crafting the flawed benghazi talking points took a dramatic turn today. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been reporting on the morrell story for weeks and is here with the latest. good evening. >> reporter: the republican chairman of the powerful house intelligence committee told fox news that it is likely mike morrell will be recalled to testify, and investigators are also reviewing the testimony of his boss, former cia director david petraeus, to assess whether he should be recalled as well. >> we're looking at director petraeus' transcripts and reviews and looking at what information we now have available. sometimes that second interview can be equally important, and it is likely we will have director morrell up to testify before the commity. >> since retiring from the cia, morrell has taken on high-profile assignments for the obama administration and works for beacon global strategies, a d.c. firm founded by a longtime aide to hilla

clinton. >> i think it is important that mike morrell, who was at the cia, be called to testify publicly before the congress because as you know, there are a number of discrepancies out there. i think he should be called back, not inession, but in public session whereby members of congress from both sides of the aisle can ask him questions. >> reporter: in late 2012 republicans on the senate intelligence committee say morrell testified that the talking points were sent to the white house for informational purposes not for input which has power to influence and veto language. quote, no effort was made to corrected record. the director's testimony that the perpetuated the myth that the white house played no part in editing the talking points. >> we found there was actual coordination which could influence then and did influence what cia conveyed to the committees what happened. >> reporter: once the talking points emails were released republican lawmakers say the conflict with morell's testimony was clear. he was at the heart of the process cutting 50% of the text and white house coordinat

house lawmakers are now poised to recall former cia deputy director mike morrell in an effort to getthe bottom of whether he gave misleading testimony on the white house's role in crafting those flawed talking points in the wake of the deadly attack that claimed the lives of four americans including ambassador chris stevens. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is following the story from washington. >> reporter: republican allegations that the former acting and deputy director of the cia misled congress over the white house's role crafting the talking points is taking a significant turn with mike rogers of the house intelligence committee telling fox news it's likely he will be called to testify, and investigators are also reviewing the testimony of his former boss, david petraeus, to assess whether he should be recalled as well. >> we're looking at director petraeus' transcripts and reviews, looking what information we have now available. sometimes that second interview can be equally important, and it is likely we will have director morrell up to testify before

the former cia chief mike morrell that he misled the congress.hose claiming the attack were sprung out of contest over anti islam film. he welcomes an investigation to testify once again. the old boss former cia director david petraeus could be called to testify again. we will keep you posted on all of the details. >>> an october 15th trial date has been set for the aurora murder trial. they have murder and attempted murder with the massacre. he has pleaded not guilty because of reasons of insanity. november's deadly shooting at the los angeles airport. an airport dispatcher couldn't because the phone system didn't provide a location from where that call was coming. it took 90 seconds until after the shooting started. it killed tsa officer gerardo hernandez and injured three others and a passenger. >> robin smithick and his wife split and now their 3-year-old son is in the hospital. julianne was in the back seat of paula's range rover. her mother and assistant were also inside the car. no one was hurt. >>> hours from now thousands of top secret d

mike morrell who was a big shot at the c.i.a. at that point massaged the talking points and took out any mention of terror. nonetheless in a big exclusive yesterday on "meet the press" susan rice sat down for a softball interview with david gregory and he asked her if she had any regrets -- remember she could have had a big job as secretary of state and instead she's working at the white house as national security advisor. any regrets? here's what she said. >> do you have regrets? >> david no because what i said to you that morning and what i did every day since was to share the best information we had at the time. the information i provided, which i explained to you was what we had at the moment, it could change, i commented that this was based on what we knew on that morning, was provided to me and my colleague and indeed to congress by the intelligence community. and that's been well validated in many different ways since. and that information turned out in some respects not to be 100% correct. but the notion that somehow i or

in response to fox's reporting, the former acting and deputy director of the cia mike morrell wrote a letter to the house intelligence committee mike rogers. according to the text, he said he would embrace the chance to testify again and he called on the house and senate intelligence committee to declassify his earlier testimony where he's accused of misleading lawmakers over the white house's role. i have always valued the oversight responsibilities of the congress. i look forward to the opportunity to publicly answer any and all questions you and your members have on this very important issue. in response, senator lindsey graham who said morrell misled him and at least two other senators is calling on the sdagz to release more documents beyond the 100 pages of e-mails made public in may. quote, i believe we need to declassify his previous testimony and release all communications, written, recorded, audio, and video, involving mr. morrell's discussions. it's likely he will be recalled to testify, and the house committee is also considering whether his boss, david petraeus, will also

the former acting cia director mike morrell is specifically worried about this target as they have figured out a way around the screening. what's your take? >> well, they are getting better. the first attempting were amateurish. they were missing a detonator, including with the underwear. they need practice and they seem to be getting that. he planted explosives on his brother and that's troubling. they've had a lot of practice and they are using a particularly effective explosive called pten. if placed in an airplane, it could do major damage, at least kill people if not cut a hole in the skin. >> how hard is it to bring down a plane? you light it and it blows up and that's it? >> no. it's hard to do. you look at pan am 103, they have to get it against the skin, use a lot of explosives. a korean airline was brought down by the north korean and it's complicated. there's a technology out there and what frankly scares me is that they are not bad intelligence. some of these palestinian bomb makers have showed up in yemen where al seri is located. if you combine the two groups, they might get

this is now happening after a report came out that said that maybe the former cia director mike morrellbe the one who changed those original talking points that we heard about and that susan rice went out on five sunday talk shows and blamed it on the video. what would be the motivation -- if this is true, what would be the motivation for morrell to do that? >> there was a political motivation. remember, this attack happened five days, five days after the democrat national convention where president obama famously said al qaeda was on the run and things were getting better in this situation, then we had this terrorist attack. when you have the cia station chief -- this the allegation -- cia station chief inform d.c. it was not protest and couple that with the state department knew it was ansar al sharia, a terror behind this, in fact the state department told libyans ansar al sharia, totally different from what president obama said all along, including his interview with bill o'reilly. the president continues on this narrative that we released to american people as we got it. that was n

. >> he said mike morrell would not share that information because there was an ongoing criminal investigation. my mouth dropped. when the meeting was over i ran back to my office. i called the fbi. they also denied that their agents ever with held information from the cia. >> in a letter to congressman rogers morrell said he would welcome the chance to testify and wants his previous testimony to be declassified. in a letter, he said i hope you agree that a session fully open at the cia and throughout the intelligence community operated proper properly. there was no immediate response. >>> also, senator rand paul is blocking obama's nominee to be surgeon general, saying he is out to get americans' guns. earlier today i spoke with some paul on capitol hill. thank you so much for your time today. i want to talk about your objection to the president's nominee for surgeon general. you have placed a hold which is not extremely rare, but it doesn't happen a lot. what does it mean? >> my concern is that it is a concern for health, do we want a guy who ir is going to be calling for an assault ban weap

. >> mike morrell is no longer the deputy director of the cia. by all accounts he is the guy who actually made a lot of the edits to the famous talking points that were used to mislead the american people there are now evidence that fox news has developed showing that mr. morrell was more involved in developing the whole false narrative of benghazi about their having been a video and demonstration. demonstrations that never occurred from which the attack supposedly grew out of it and we have evidence now that he was involved in as much earlier than he has been willing to admit. >> okay. but who got those talking points, that morrell allegedly falsified? who got them? well we know that members of congress did and susan rice who went on television famously on the 16th of september in 2012 did five sunday shows and mislead the country let me just say about some of the points that president obama made in that interview which did you with him which i thought was tough and substantive and far-ranging specifically on benghazi. the president says the vid