patrick kennedy at the hearing said that was assessment at the time. we know this. not only that david petraeus went before a committee and said the very same thing. you know, in terms of this question, was surprised it was the first question. i was surprised a little bit by martha's style. it struck me as more of an interview than a debate. it was a reaction what happened to jim lehrer last night because i think he or she was trying to assert herself more. >> jon: we're going to talk more a little later about the libya situation. let's focus bigger picture on the debate also. it was pretty clear that president obama lost the first debate to mitt romney. how did vice president biden do? >> frankly, i thought if he had handled sarah palin four years ago he would have been called a stalker and all kinds of other things. he was rude, as my mother used to say. he interrupted over and over again by one count, over 80 times. he even martha interrupted paul ryan on several occasions. i just thought it was the worst examples of personal misbehavior i have ever seen. it was

>> reporter: as testimony continues today we'll hear more from eric nordstrom and ambassador patrick kennedy and charlene lamb on behalf of the state department. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> mike any more showers or thunderstorms? >> definitely a possibility not a great possibility but unsettled pattern will continue today, tomorrow and end friday afternoon. cooler than average weather until then. >>> also, massive recall involving more than seven million vehicles. the problem that could cause a big scare. >>> playoff frenzy dripping both sides of the bay it is not too late to get tickets >>> new, more trouble for lance armstrong stripped of his titles and banned from competitive cycling. the anti-doping agency says 26 people have testified against armstrong, including 11 former teammates. members of the team admitted to doping and claim armstrong encouraged them to do it. the agency says it is the most sophisticated professional and successful doping perhaps the sport has seen. >> former nfl football star turned actor alex karras has died he starred in the hit sitcom webster in the 80s an

ambassador, susan rice, and in the testimony by ambassador patrick kennedy, which we expect to hear, he says that any official who was in -- was testifying at that particular time that she did, which was on the 16th five days later, the 16th of september, five days after the attack, would have said the very same thing. it was based on the information that was known at that particular moment. you are already setting up, you know, some would say that the administration lied. in fact, chairman isa said that the administration misled people. now, patrick kennedy from the state department, he is the under secretary for management, and he is saying no, that is what we knew at that particular point. there are some other interesting moments, fred, as we go through this. we can discuss it if you want, but i think that's one of the key things. >> it is, indeed. so we also just learned information that the white house has sent john brennan to libya. he has been meeting with senior libyan officials there as well. brennan, the assistant to president obama for homeland security and counterterroris

. >> reporter: as testimony continues today we'llhear more from eric nordstrom and ambassador patrick kennedy and charlene lamb on behalf of the state department. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> mike any more showers or thunderstorms? >> definitely a possibility not a great possibility but unsettled pattern will continue today, tomorrow and end friday afternoon. cooler than average weather until then. >>> also, massive recall involvin mor than seven million vehicles. the problem that could cause a big scare. >>> playoff frenzy dripping both sides of the bay it is both sides of the bay it is not too late to [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on. introducing at&t u-verse high speed internet wi more speeoptions, reliability and wi-fi hot spots than ever. call at&t now to get u-verse high speed internet for as little as $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. it's the fastest internet for the price. our newly expanded advanced digital network gives you more of what you enjoy onlin

. >> ambassador patrick kennedy says officials didn't try to mislead the public but reported with a new time. >> if any official including a career official were on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> the committthe state department for coming clean but insisted the administration failed to answer requests for security at the compound, putting lives at risk. he confronted a security expert. >> to start off by saying you had the correct number and three others and our ambassador and that are others are recovering the catholic moment to breach the facility, somehow doesn't seem to ring true to the american people. >> congressman elijah cummings urged them not to use the death of four americans to make a political point less than a month before the election. >> my goal is to try to put this toxic partisanship behind us and focus on the security of our personnel. >> there seem to be agreement the embassy was outgunned. the only question is whether or not reasonable security measures could have saved lives. >> next how much more you can expe

>> well, patrick kennedy, the other state official who testified, said that he had gotten the same briefingt he said the same thing they were saying. but the night before this hearing, state win out there and put out a very different story an the administration had pedaled in the first week. >> right. but the benghazi story is a piece of the administration's larger strategy, which is so long as we have an election on, the rest of the world may as well not exist. iran doesn't exist, syria doesn't exist, the syria rebuffs from russia don't exist and a terrorist attack in benghazi sure as heck doesn't exist until it becomes a problem for us. >> where is secretary of state clinton in this? she's out of the picture. >> look for the next job or keeping a low profile. they put out susan rice, who is a leading candidate for that job if obama wins a second term. >> u.s. ambassador? >> she went on the talk shows after the attack to try to explain what happened, it was the fault of the video and spontaneous demonstrations. >> we will learn a lot more about what happened in benghazi. this issue isn't g

. >> reporter: state department under secretary patrick kennedy said there was no pressure to spin the event, not at the state department and not from the white house. sharyl attkisson, cbs news, capitol hill. >> the supreme court took up the use of race in college admissions. it's a case that could have a significant impact on affirmative action. abigail fisher is suing the university of texas. she claims she was denied admission four years ago partly because she's white. the university claims using race as one factor in determining admissions is necessary to improve diversity. >> i think most americans would like a day when we don't need to take race and ethnicity into account in admissions. we are not to that day. >> i hope the court rules that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> most student are admitted to the university of texas based on their high school rank. a ruling expected next year. cbs moneywatch. spain's credit rating gets slashed and the end of the line for coca-cola's returnable glass bottles. ashley morr

fox news learning that a top aid to the secretary of ste hillary clinton, patrick kennedy is his nameonal aids the day after the attack, september 12th calling it sophisticated and complex. u.s. ambassador chris stevens among four americans killed in the attack on 9/11. a hearing on what happened in benghazi scheduled for the hill tomorrow. we will talk this morning to one of the congressmen who will ask the questions at that hearing. south carolina congressman tr erbs y gowdy is coming up in about 25 minutes. stay tuned for that. martha: this is interesting this morning, it's an ominous warning that comes from cbs news correspondent lara logan. she is voicing her concern about come place sans see in the battle between the taliban and al-qaida. she says think are a poor, gentler kindler taliban. it is just nonsense when it comes to the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. she called for exact revenge and let the world know that the united states will not be attacked on its own soil, that its ambassadors will not be murdered and that the united states will not standby and do nothi

>> reporter: state department undersecretary patrick kennedy said there was no pressure to spin the events, scott, not at the state department and not at the white house. >> pelley: thank you, sharyl. president obama's counterterrorism advisor john brennan was in tripoli today. he asked libya's president to help find those who murdered the four americans. elizabeth palmer is in benghazi, piecing together for us what happened that night. >> reporter: tomorrow marks one month since two americans died in the smoke and fire of the attack on the u.s. consulate's main building. but about two dozen others escaped that night under armed escort to another house nearby rented by the u.s. government. the americans evacuated from the consulate about a mile away would have come along this road and up to this gate, thinking they were coming to a safe refuge, never dreaming that it, too, was about to come under attack from mortars aimed with pinpoint accuracy-- so accurate that two more americans then died. security officials say the skill of that assault suggests a well- organized extremist group was re

. >> brian: patrick kennedy said flat out. terror attack and coordinate was a terrorist attack and he pull would the behest kado kaylen. if i was susan rice i would have said it was i don't know it could have been a spontanous attack. you are congressman from idaho this same kennedy under secretary could say one thing on september 11th -- 12th or say something different six days later to five national audiences. >> steve: it is clear if you are paying attention and bret baier had a great time line that there is a cover up and now the administration is stone walling. and so yesterday when one of the guys in charge of the security in libya went up and testified, he made it clear that the most trouble they had regarding security was getting washington d.c. to give them what they needed. here's eric nordstrom. >> it is not the hardships and gunfire and threats, it is dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel that are supposed to supporting me. and i add for me, for me, the taliban is on the inside of the buil

we're awaiting the secretary of state ambassador, patrick kennedy. representatives meeting about the killing of the ambassador in libya. lots of acrimony exchanged. all of a sudden a suddenly called briefing, statement by kennedy, and questions, i'm anxious to hear what they have to say, stand by for that. in the meantime, let's look at this hour's hot shots in indonesia. police hold a role call. a storekeeper sorts garlands, in germany, a baker presents the first loaves for the holiday season. the vice presidential debate, and over the years, they have sometimes turned into bruising battles. here is anderson cooper on what we might expect. >> nice to meet you. >> it started with a warm handshake and smiles all around. a friendly start to a vice presidential debate bens governor sarah palin. >> john mccain said at 9:00 in the morning that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. 11:00 that same day he said we have an economic crisis. >> we're tired of politics as usual, and that's why with all due respect, i think americans are craving something

let's discuss this further now with geo political analyst patrick kennedy good to see you today thanks for coming on r.t. the siege of bani walid actually started because the government wants to arrest the suspected murderers of the man who's thought to have captured colonel gadhafi the town failed to hand them over but is this to you an appropriate response do you think. well not nice in a civilized sort of normally formed country it's not but as we know libya is anything but civilized and formed in a normal organic fashion just as the ruling party that you have been in libya right now is this amateur government it's an artificial. creation of the west in the post gadhafi regime change plan so this gives you an indication of how they're governing in this country and certainly that there is no stability in libya compared to before the nato bombing and destruction of their country my party as you say it's a very much a government of the moment i said a moment ago and many would agree with you on that i know that the residents of the besieged bani walid town are appealing to the united n

patrick kennedy from the state department briefed congressional staffers the day after the attack saying it was a terrorist attack. the next day, after she was on your show, the counter-terrorism deputy said it was a terrorist attack. and the president after that went on national tv "the view" and david letterman talking about we're not sure if this was inspired by a video, a hateful video. the reason they're trying to sell this, if it is true it was an al qaeda-inspired attack that was coordinated involving heavy weapons that lasted six to eight hours and our embassy consulate was so exposed and they had denied numerous requests to reinforce it, is exhibit a of a failed foreign policy. i have seen this movie before. i went to iraq in 2004 and everybody told me things are going fine. iraq was falling apart, and you couldn't get the truth from the busk administration. the middle east is falling apart, and they're trying to spin what happened in libya because the truth of the matter is, al qaeda is alive and well, and counter-attacking. iraq there has been a doubling of al qaeda operatives

. >> eliot: a notion reiterated by ambassador patrick kennedy testifying today before the house oversight committee. >> no one in the administration has claimed to know all the answers. we've always made clear we're giving the best information that we have at the time and that information has evolved. for example, if any administration official, including any career official were on television on sunday, september 16th, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> eliot: joining me now p.j. crowley, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs for president obama as well as former special assistant for president clinton for national security affairs. now a professor at george washington university. thank you for joining us tonight. >> appreciate it eliot. >> working for ambassador rice, the state department, what appears to be evolving understanding about the awful story of what happened in bengahzi. why did ambassador rice make statements so quickly if there was such fluid information flow at the time? why not just remain quiet at that point? >> well any of us who are in

but under-secretary of state patrick kennedy denied the request and the state department maintains the decision has no bearing on security. this evening, the state department issued a statement, calling this plane issue irrelevant to the issue of what happened at benghazi and there's no evidence that had the plane been there, any lives would have been saved. but diane, what critics suggest is that this denial by the state department reveals a mindset that was not on top of how bad things were getting in libya and not on top of the security needs of the americans in that country. diane? >> all right, jake, thank you so much. >>> and now we move onto a new report tonight about that shootout near the mexican border this week, the one that killed a u.s. border patrol agent. sources now say they suspect that agent, nicholas ivy, was killed by friendly fire. authorities tell abc news ivy and two other american agents, one of whom was wounded, may have accidentally fired at each other in the dark of night. the agents were reacting to a motion sensor that sounded an alert in the arizona desert

last year's uprising resulted in the ousting and death of moammar gadhafi geo political blogger patrick kennedy says libya is far from gaining any stability whatsoever. but as we know libya is anything but civilized and formed in a normal organic fashion as the ruling party that you have been in libya right now was a is amateur government it's an artificial. creation of the west in the photos to gadhafi regime change plan so this gives you an indication of how their governing in this country and certainly that there is no stability in libya compared to before the nato bombing and destruction of their country they've got serious problems in libya there's no legitimacy really with just posted off the government makes no market off its government look like a beacon of light in this shining city on the hill in comparison in syria it could be much worse because in syria we're looking at a protracted civil war now in the making or something even worse. now as it look at some other stories from around the world north korea says it has been listing missiles capable of hitting u.s. bases not only on the

patrick kennedy determined they would normalize the situation there. regardless of what happened on the ground. regardless on who from the ground was saying please don't pull the extra security out. they determined they were going to normalize, pull all the d.o.d. folks out. we had video surveillance. intel from the cia. coverageman, i'll go to you. congressman nunez, what do you think should happen to the people? >> look, there needs to be a full investigation. the administration needs to come clean. the house intelligence committee knew 12 hours after the attack that it was indeed an attack. days following, many of us asked the question to the intelligence community and the white house, say if there was a spontaneous eruption, if there was video of some type of protest. we'd like to see the video. we never got that video. we never got pictures. why? there never was a protest. this was an attack. >> judge jeanine: we know that. congressman, excuse me for interrupting. we know that is the case. it was a lie. so my question is, the question that i belie

fox news learning patrick kennedy aid of secretary of state hillary clinton calls it a sophisticated complicated attack. bob corker is searching for answers for the attack. corker revealing they are examining security camera footage from that compound. stick around because republican congressman who got back from a fact finding mission in libya will be on "fox & friends" this morning. >>> iran making newer layer bomb materials. that's the warning from national signs and security. there would be engineering challenges and longer delays before they could make the other parts needed for a capable war head. benjamin netanyahu has urged the u.s. to draw a red line to make sure iran doesn't build a nuclear weapon. >> california gas prices rising to a new high record. the average hitting $4.67 yesterday. the national average is $3.81. a whole lot are selling gas for a lot higher prices. like this one in san diego selling for almost $6 as gallon for premium gasoline. california senator demanding a federal investigation into whether or not gas companies are illegally coordinating this hike in

department official denied the video had ever been part of their assessment, clinton's undersecretary, patrick kennedy, tried to rationalize the words and actions of the administration end of the u.n. ambassador come susan rice. rice famously appeared on five talkshows the sunday after that attack and asserted the link between the anti-mohammed video and the benghazi attack. kennedy appeared in front of an oversight committee, attacking the intelligence community and blaming the intelligence community for ambassador rice is false statements to the american people. >> we have always made clear that we were giving the best information we had at the time. that information has evolved. if any career official would've said something, they would have said something from the intelligence community. lou: fox news said two weeks ago that the obama administration knew within 24 hours that the events of september 11 in benghazi were coordinated and premeditated attacks by terrorists with ties to al qaeda. >> the security and benghazi was a struggle. the situation remains uncertain and reports from some indicated

the day after the attack, patrick kennedy, who briefed the hill, th thought it was a geg po a sgeeedy ce t w w dtl h, who want to. so when you say, where is this problem coming from? it all points to th president. you can criticize susan rice all you want. i knowome republicans have called for her to recipe, it is not he f - saatt' tsi looric mg this up, since there is no facts to suggest it -- >> the war on terrorism is over, al qaeda's been defeated. sweetness and light have broken out in libya -- >> greta: no, no,o. beee s ahe cr convention, essentially al qaeda isurn control and to the fund-raisers in san francisco a couple of nights ago that al qaeda is on its heel, he want its to look like for the election that he is winning the war on terrorism. i wouldatve st eo. teonda one of the witnesses that said that al qaeda's in libya and it's growing. >> yeah. i don't think he can process that reality. i take a different view. i would rather it was a coverup becausthat indicates a greater wo that as gene kirkpatrick once said, the blame america first mentality. it was that video. we pr

fox news learning patrick f. kennedyate hillary clinton, gave a briefing to congressional aides calling it a sophisticated and complex attack. >>> overnight, north korea warning the united states, you are within range of our missiles. this in response to a deal south korea made with america. it allows south korea to nearly triple the range of its missiles. north korea says it's prepared to counter any threat. >>> new developments in the case of that murdered american jet skier. mexican marines arrested this man, salvador martinez, escovedo, alleged drug cartel leader, believed to be responsible for the death of david hartley. he was killed in 2010 while jet skiing with his wife on falcon lake. she says the arrest raises even more questions about his death. >> i don't believe that he pulled the trigger. i believe it's probably he either said yes, go ahead, or he had something to do with the guys who are behind it. >> gretchen: it's believed he killed 50 people with his own hands and ordered hundreds more dead. >>> well, w

reporter: the official is undersecretary of state for management, patrick kennedy, who has been in hist since 2007. fox news has learned that on this evening of september 12, kennedy privately briefed senate staffers and told them that benghazi appeared to be a high sophisticated attack. kennedy indicated that this was fairly complex and not like a protest that havgotten out of hand. >> we don't see at this point signs that this was a coordinated plan, premeditated attack. >> .divergent narrative was offered four days later, not for another three days that a senior u.s. official state publicly what undersecretary kennedy had told congress privately. >> they were killed in thh course of a terrorist attack on the embassy. >> there was a decision made at that time as to what happens and what the story was going to be that was inconsistent with the facts, even as we knew it, on the ground. i think what you're finding is that his wife there is ths -- there is this rift inside the intelligence community. reporter: fox news has confirmed that white house counterterrorism adviser john brennan

way back in december of 2011, under-secretary of state patrick kennedy signed off on a memo that extended america's presence in benghazi through 2012. he did so even though the memo stated, "because of budget constraints and the reduced footprint, diplomatic securities current presence consists of two special agents with an additional three slots currently unfilled. now the same document also reports that the compound itself unsafe. the electrical, plumbing and physical security work needed to bring the facility to an acceptable standard would negate any cost savings of the move. june 2012 memo from tem bass dore himself is ominously titled libya's fragile security deteriorates, as tribal rivalries, power plays and extremism intensifies. then in august, presiden approxy one month before he was killedsteins personally e-mailed the state department writing, "what we have not seen are random crimes of opportunity but rather targeted an discriminant attacks." what was likely the last e-mail he would ever pen on september 11. stevens eerily warned at great length about the "growing problems" w

>> reporter: chairman daryl issa and other members grilled patrick kennedy and others from the state department in what turned out to be a fiery hearing hearing. >> administration officials, including any career official, were on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> reporter: the committee also accused the administration of failing to provide adequate security at the embassy. the finger pointing is split down political lines, something elijah cummings of maryland warned about. >> my goal is to try in some way to put this partisan behind us and focus on the security of our personnel. >> reporter: press he dense candidate mit -- presidential candidate mitt romney has used this attack to criticize president obama's foreign policy. democrats are pointing fingers at darrell issa accusing him of playing partisan politics. >>> daily deals time. i've been combing through the daily deals, e-mails and retailer websites to find you deep discounts. a deal for andrea's kiwi and lohi. pay $25, get $50 to spend on dog outfits just in time for hallow