department and oversight of the response to the attack fell to security clinton and secretary of state patrick kennedyey were calling the shots multiple sources and kennedy was monitoring the radio traffic and distress call . shortly after the attack began at 9:40 p.m. special forces put out a call sign for all assets military and otherwise to be put in position to help. >> that is every asset and elementt to respond and it becomes a global priority. >> was that given? >> it was given and the only reason it was given because of the special operations pact. it has nothing to do with the agency. that has nothing to bothe department of state. >> special operations gave the call sign. >> yes. >> assets did not move. >> the failure of the state department or white house to give military permission to cross in libya to help shows the break down between the u.s. military and state department and white house and cia that cull - culminated in the lact of. >> the problem of the state department it is a diplomatic action and build commerce in a foreign affairs element that is related to it. the military specific

annex in benghazi about to face mortar fire, he wrote to patrick kennedy's deputy, wondering why the undersecretary swiftly rejected the option that the f.b.i. and the defense department special operations command had recommended that night. the deployment of the foreign emergency support team, or fest. >> you wrote, quote, i am told pat kennedy participated in a senior conference call with the white house and discouraged a fes option. when f.b.i. was contacted, they responded this situation would be better addressed via a fest response. why was that not called into action? >> i do not know. >> this week thompson's former boss, daniel benjamin, said the decision was the correct one. but the day after the attacks, thompson wrote in an e-mail to two colleagues, daniel benjamin on the phone this morning. he understands my fes points, concurs, but expressed his pessimism readying deployment and by extension, does not intend to lobby for our ininclusion, end quote. >> in a five-page rebuttal released tuesday, an official argued that fest could not have arrived in libya in time to help the

annexin mentaly facing mortar fire, thompson wrote to patrick kennedy's deputy wonder why the undersecretaryad swiftly rejected the possibity f and the defense department special operations command had recommended that make make the department of the foreign emergency defense team did >> you wrote at hendy reported in a conference call with the white house and discouraged the option. this option would be better addressed vi via a response didy would it not called into action? i do not know be at >> he said the decision was the correct one did for the day after the attacks thompson wrote in an e-mail to two colleagues. >> he understands the point concurs, but express his pessimismeflecting our pessimism and does not intend to lobby for our inclusion. >> in a five-page point for point rebuttal late tuesday night fro, senior official argud that they could not haverrived in libya in time to help the americans. that they would not, whichown leaves open the question which is pivotal, why they we not dispatched. james, further news made after the cmittee hearings today, tell us about that. >> so th

but that under secretary of state patrick kennedy advised against that to the white house. not have arrived in time of the also, one law maker read from a previously undisclosed e-mail that was sent to top aides to then secretary of state clinton, by beth jones, the acting atant secretary of state for the middle east, in which jones recounted her direct conversation with the libyan ambassador. >> this was sent on september 12, the day after benghazi and several days before ambassador rice's television appearance and i'll continue, when he said his government suspected that former gadhafi regime elements carried out the attacks, i told him, that the group that conducted the attacks is affiliated with islamic terrorists. >> that statement by beth jones flatly contradicted the false talking points that u.n. ambassador susan rice delivered on the 16th in which she spoke of a protesting mob that never existed. after greg hicks, the number two diplomat in libya under ambassador stevens provided a vivid account of his and others' heroic actions on 9-11, house oversight committee,

annex in benghazi about to face mortar fire, thompson wrote to patrick kennedy deputy wondering why the undersecretary had swiftly rejected the option that the fbi and the defense department special operations command had recommendeded that night, the deployme of the foreign emergency support team or fest. >> you wrote, quote, pat kennedy participated in a senior conference call withhthe white house and discouraged fest on option. the fbi responded this situation would be tter aressed via a fest response. why was fest not called into action? >> i do not know. >> reporter: this week, thompson's former boss, daniel benjamin, said the decision not to deploy fest was the correct one, but the day after the attacks thompson wrote in an e-mail to two colleagues -- >> daniel benjamin on the phone this morning, he understands my fest point, concurs, but expressed his pessimism regarding our deployment and by extension does not intend to lobby for our inclusion. end quote. >> reporter: in a five-page point by point rebuttal released late tuesday night, a senior state department official argued th

there's a local developer named patrick kennedy who -- maybe you have heard of these microunit developments going up. >> super small housing. >> patrick that is been a leader in that space and one of the things he pitched to the city here is i won't build any parking, we'll use car sharing so we'll have microspaces. >> these are housing that might fit into a parking space. >> true. we don't want people living in the car necessarily but it would be bigger than some those spaces. >> anything to add to that? >> i've been tracking this for a long time and i see developers getting on board with this because they can make better use of the space. >> parking is a selling point. when you go to a condo the owner is like what if there is not a place to park when i come home with my christmas tree or bhaffer. so this is one step further, right? >> in my cities and locally here, you have unbundled parking. so a condo must separate parking and you pay a separate amount for that. if you choose to go car free, you don't have to pay for that spot or even buy it. at least in urban environments that seems to

we'll hear allegations that then-secretary of state hillary clinton and undersecretary of state, patrick kennedyied to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decisionmaking on the night of the benghazi attacks. that charge will come from mark tom son. his former boss has already called the charge untrue, and the state department calls it 100% false. we also expect to hear.the process that yielded the now infamous talking points delivered by susan rice on september 16th. >> neil: tomorrow, putting the spotlight on former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> the fact is we had four dead americans because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decide they'd go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> neil: well could make a very big difference, especially for someone who could well be the democratic nominee the next go-round in 2016. with democrats circle the wagons to protect here? allen west on how he sees things. >> i think you have to be careful about playing a political game which is what you hear th

, our chief washington correspondent that secretary clinton and the under secretary of state, patrick kennedy tried to cut the department's counter terrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making after benghazi. we are back with the panel. james, we should point out, as well as steve, you have done some great reporting on this in the past few days. what do we make of all of these things? i mean, these are big developments ahead of this wednesday hearing. >> they are. i think that's really, in some ways, the story. can you go back to your conversation with brit. is this sort of critical mass where you get members, democratic members of congress like stephen lynch in effect the talking points were scrubbed. they were bogus, they were bad. the more you have of that the more difficult it will be more the mainstream media to stop paying attention to this. the what we have seen over the weekend with the story with the talking points and now with gregory hicks coming out is the administration's preferred narrative crumbling. and we knew all along that a lot of the things that the

annex in benghazi about to face mortar fire, he wrote to patrick kennedy's deputy, wondering why the undersecretary swiftly rejected the option that the f.b.i. and the defense department special operations command had recommended that night. the deployment of the foreign emergency support team, or fest. >> you wrote, quote, i am told pat kennedy participated in a senior conference call with the white house and discouraged a fes option. when f.b.i. was contacted, they responded this situation would be better addressed via a fest response. why was that not called into action? >> i do not know. >> this week thompson's former boss, daniel benjamin, said the decision was the correct one. but the day after the attacks, thompson wrote in an e-mail to two colleagues, daniel benjamin on the phone this morning. he understands my fes points, concurs, but expressed his pessimism readying deployment and by extension, does not intend to lobby for our ininclusion, end quote. >> in a five-page rebuttal released tuesday, an official argued that fest could not have arrived in libya in time to help the

his complaint about secretary of state clinton and under secretary of state for management patrick kennedyginalize the bureau during the early benghazi decision-making echoed that of a second official in that bureau who fox news has learned made the same charge back in october. the department's former counter terrorism chief daniel benjamin told fox news today, quote: i ran the bureau then and can i say now with certainty as the former coordinator for counter terrorism that this charge is simply untrue. at no time benjamin continued was the bureau sidelined or otherwise kept from carrying out its task. also, the number two u.s. diplomat in libya at the time greg hicks will testify that top obama aids knowingly lied about the benghazi attacks in their early public statements. >> can you just say are greg hicks and mark thompson credible people? are they not long standing career state department employees? are they not credible? >> again, i'm not going to assess one individual or another. these are some folks who have said they are going to come out and tell a story to congress and our messa

chairman ice zaps issa's -- deputy secretary of state bill burns under secretary patrick kennedy andictoria nuland also on the list. beth jones acting assistant secretary of state for the middle east, tom knives, the former deputy secretary of state and cheryl mills who was chief of staff to then secretary of state clinton. issa said the subpoena was necessary because the current secretary of state john kerry has not made good on promises to work with g.o.p. committee chair men. tonight his spokesman patrick ventricle tremendously told us and i quote the state department remains committed to working with congress and take stock and determine the appropriate next steps. kerry has tapped his chief of staff dave wade to serve as a point of contact with house republicans, jon. >> jon: james rosen in washington, thank you. somebody shot two officials from the u.s. embassy in venezuela. police say it happened early this morning in the capital of caracas after a brawl at a strip club. reporters tried to get the state department to confirm that today. listen to this. some sort of social spot

terrorism bureau will testify on 9/11 then secretary of state clinton and undersecretary of state patrick kennedy to cut the counter terrorism bureau out of the loop. a charge that spokesman for clinton and kennedy call 100% false. democrats on the house oversight committee say they have been cut out of the loop by the panel's republican majority. >> and what we have found is that while this is -- it should be a bipartisan situation, there is one witness that will be appearing tomorrow that we have had absolutely no access to. that's unprecedented. >> expect scrutiny of susan rice and false talking points she delivered about benghazi five days after the attacks. hicks will describe how his jaw quote hit the floor when he heard rice omit terrorism from narrative and speak instead about a protest outside of the consulate that hicks knew never occurred. >> even talks in his testimony about calling the state department and saying that what susan rice said couldn't have been true. how did they do it? and he said that his statements were unwanted. and that ever since then, it's been even harder on him.

undersecretary of state for management patrick kennedy and former state department spokeswoman victoria nuland, beth jones acting establishment secretary of say for the middle east. tom knives and sharon mills chief of staff to then secretary of state hillary clinton. issa said the subpoena was necessary because the curchted secretary of state john kerry has not made good on promises like this one made to the house foreign affairs committee last month. >> if we have got to find a way to make a judgment here about how much information we have and how much information is sort of somewhere out there. you know, that might contribute something further here constructively. i will work with you. mr. chairman. i do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about benghazi. >> a state department spokesman says it has already provided unprecedented cooperation on benghazi and will take stock of this demand before determining quote appropriate next steps. bret? >> bret: james, thank you. we will follow it some spectacular pictures tonight after cxx cargo train hit a crash truck and der

secretary of state hillary clinton and a key aide, the undersecretary of state for management, patrick kennedyctively tried to cut out the department's own counter terrorism bureau from the chain of reporting and decision-making on this crisis in the early hours after the attacks. that's according to one of the star witnesses at this hearing on thursday. mark thompson is a former marine, and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency's counterterrorism bureau. he considers himself a whistleblower. his attorney has charged that mr. thompson has faced threats of reprisal and intimidation in advance of his cooperation with congress. separately fox news has learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau independently of mark thompson also voiced the same complaint about secretary clinton and undersecretary kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in october. fox news has reached out to former secretary of state clinton and to undersecretary kennedy for comment but did not hear back from them immediately and for some hours now, so this is really going to be

and certainly patrick kennedy, a senate confirmed career professional, is, at a minimum, very much at the center of knowing everything either speaking to or not speak tock secretary clinton, but in testimony on october 10, he basically pushed back on everything, and even implied that somehow it was a lack of funding or other issues when in fact clearly he was at the table during what we believe at this point is a misinformation campaign at best, and a cover-up at worst. >> schieffer: so, mr. hicks will be your probably main witness when you open these hearings on wednesday. who else will be there? >> mark thompson is another career professional, former marine, counter-terrorism expert, who will testify more than anything else that shortly after this began, he got locked out of the room, even though he was the individual who was supposed to react to these kinds of things. again, part of some process of denial that it could be terrorism. and then eric nordstrom, who was the person who was the canary in the coal mine, if you will, that was pushing for more security, saying that this was

independently of thompson, voiced the same complaint about clinton and undersecretary for management patrick kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in october. extremists linked to al qaeda stormed the u.s. consulate and a nearby annex on september 11 in a heavily armed and well-coordinated assault that killed the u.s. ambassador to libya, chris stevens, and three other americans. thompson considers himself a whistleblower whose account was suppressed by the official panel clinton convened to review the episode. hompson's lawyer, joseph diginova alleged his client has been subject t.d. to threats by his yet unnamed superiors at state. down further it says, quote, you should have seen what, in parenthesis, clinton, tried to do to us that night, a second official in the counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in october. those comments would appear to be corroborated by thompson's forthcoming testimony. state department spokeswoman called the counterterrorism officials' allegations 100% false. a spokesman for the clin -- a spokesman for clinton said, tersely, the charge is not true.

will testify that then secretary of state clinton and undersecretary of state for management patrick kennedyall the state's operations sought to cut the counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of decision making on 9/11. a source from inside the same bureau voice he the same complaint back in october. >> what would have been her motivation for doing that do you believe? >> bill, i think that is an important question. if you wanted it to seem like it wasn't terrorism, keeping them out of the room allows you to play with this false truth that somehow it was a video, the same as the protest in egypt, which of course from the get go everyone knew just wasn't true. >> reporter: the man who headed the counterterrorism bureau on 9/11, daniel benjamin tells fox news this morning i can say now with certainty as the foamer coordinator for counterterrorism that this charge is simply untrue. though i was out of the country on official travel set at the time of the attack i was this frequent contact with the department. at no time did i feel that the bureau was in anyway being left out of deliberations

reverts back to the state department and directly to hillary clinton as well as the undersecretary patrick kennedy who we are told was in the operations center that night monitoring some of the calls coming in. more questions to go along with some of the other questions. we are getting some answers. this is the first source, weave talked to a number, the first one in toronto of a camera and it took incredible courage to do so, jon. jon: adam housley reporting. great work there from los angeles. thank you. jenna: right now in california a manhunt for the killer of an 8-year-old little girl. layla fowler was stabbed to death in her home over the weekend. there is no suspect, no motive yet. but police are looking into whether a man charged with an attempted kidnapping in the same region could be connected to the case. though right now investigators are calling this a shot in the dark. claudia cowan is live from san francisco with more. >> reporter: according to investigators it's most likely a bizarre coincidence that another attack on a little girl happened so close to where layla fowler was stabbed

undersecretary for management patrick kennedy and hillary clinton. the question is what did they know and did they get some of these call signs, these warning signs. our force says very likely they did. took a lot of courage to come forward. a whistle-blower to step in front. camera and still afraid what would come from this. he didn't give us classified information. he gave us information he feels is not being told. martha. martha: quite a moment that when he says the special forces did signal they wanted help and that help never came, adam. >> reporter: multiple times, martha. multiple times. martha: that is incredible story. we've got these hearings and hopefully this will trigger something that will spill into more information on all of this. this is so important. adam, thanks. great reporting. great to talk to you. bill: we'll talk to peter king later this hour about those hearings later today in fact. >>> on the jobs front. weekly unemployment claims falling to 324,000 this week. that is the lowest number we've seen in five years. fox business

there's a local developer named patrick kennedy who -- maybe you have heard of these microunit developments going up. >> super small housing. >> patrick that is been a leader in that space and one of the things he pitched to the city here is i won't build any parking, we'll use car sharing so we'll have microspaces. >> these are housing that might fit into a parking space. >> true. we don't want people living in the car necessarily but it would be bigger than some those spaces. >> anything to add to that? >> i've been tracking this for a long time and i see developers getting on board with this because they can make better use of the space. >> parking is a selling point. when you go to a condo the owner is like what if there is not a place to park when i come home with my christmas tree or bhaffer. so this is one step further, right? >> in my cities and locally here, you have unbundled parking. so a condo must separate parking and you pay a separate amount for that. if you choose to go car free, you don't have to pay for that spot or even buy it. at least in urban environments that seems to

patrick kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management and state, matthew olson, the national counterterrorism senator, the vice director of operations of joint staff, gary reed, the, and jenny lay, the assistant director at the f.b.i. on december 19 there was a high-level classified briefing with the accountability review board with ambassador pickering and admiral mullen. at his nomination hearing in january, senator kerry fully addressed this issue and again at the annual budget hearing this past april. last week the nominee to be our new ambassador to libya, deborah kay jones testified before the full committee, another opportunity for my friends on the other side to ask questions, to get the truth, not create their own truth for political purposes. that hearing was yet another opportunity to ask questions about the security situation on the ground. and yet republican participation was limited to just a handful of members. we have fully vetted this issue. we have held hearing after hearing. we have on both sides had the opportunity to have our questions answered. in fact, in total between

the table for the next round. 12th, 2012, did you receive an e-mail from beth copied victoria, patrick kennedy, and cheryl mills? you are on the distribution list. do you recall receiving that e- mail? >> i'm sorry. which e-mail? i was receiving a few hundred per day. >> that's fair. he said hisd, when government suspected that former gaddafi machine elements carried out the attack, i told him that the group that conducted the attacks, ansar al are related to his longest extremists? >> i do believe i remember that e-mail. >> thank you, mr. chair. as a veteran of vietnam and iran, and understand that boots on the ground are the closest to the truth in the situation. you know more about what happened in benghazi than any bureaucrat or politician can. being caught between the political dictates of superiors and the chain of command, doing what's necessary to protect our citizens abroad, and understand the risks to have taken by showing up here today as well. thank you for having the courage to testify before us. recount on you to reveal the truth about the failures of this government and to prote

there's a local developer named patrick kennedy who -- maybe you have heard of these microunit developments going up. >> super small housing. >> patrick that is been a leader in that space and one of the things he pitched to the city here is i won't build any parking, we'll use car sharing so we'll have microspaces. >> these are housing that might fit into a parking space. >> true. we don't want people living in the car necessarily but it would be bigger than some those spaces. >> anything to add to that? >> i've been tracking this for a long time and i see developers getting on board with this because they can make better use of the space. >> parking is a selling point. when you go to a condo the owner is like what if there is not a place to park when i come home with my christmas tree or bhaffer. so this is one step further, right? >> in my cities and locally here, you have unbundled parking. so a condo must separate parking and you pay a separate amount for that. if you choose to go car free, you don't have to pay for that spot or even buy it. at least in urban environments that seems to

there's a local developer named patrick kennedy who -- maybe you have heard of these microunit developments going up. >> super small housing. >> patrick that is been a leader in that space and one of the things he pitched to the city here is i won't build any parking, we'll use car sharing so we'll have microspaces. >> these are housing that might fit into a parking space. >> true. we don't want people living in the car necessarily but it would be bigger than some those spaces. >> anything to add to that? >> i've been tracking this for a long time and i see developers getting on board with this because they can make better use of the space. >> parking is a selling point. when you go to a condo the owner is like what if there is not a place to park when i come home with my christmas tree or bhaffer. so this is one step further, right? >> in my cities and locally here, you have unbundled parking. so a condo must separate parking and you pay a separate amount for that. if you choose to go car free, you don't have to pay for that spot or even buy it. at least in urban environments that seems to

september 12th, 2012, did you receive an e-mail from beth jones but also copied victoria, patrick kennedy and cheryl mills? you are on the distribution list. do you recall receiving that e- mail? >> i'm sorry. which e-mail? i was receiving a few hundred per day. >> that's fair. this one said, when he said his government suspected that former gaddafi machine elements carried out the attack, i told him that the group that conducted the attacks, ansar al sharia, are related to his longest extremists? >> i do believe i remember that e-mail. >> thank you, mr. chair. as a veteran of vietnam and iran, and understand that boots on the ground are the closest to the truth in the situation. you know more about what happened in benghazi than any bureaucrat or politician can. theg caught between political dictates of superiors and the chain of command, doing what's necessary to protect our citizens abroad, and understand the risks to have taken by showing up here today as well. thank you for having the courage to testify before us. recount on you to reveal the truth about the failures of this governme

september 12, 2012, did you receive an email from beth victoria also copied newland, william burns, patrick kennedy and cheryl mills, you're also in the distribution list. do you recall receiving that email? >> sorry, which email? i was receiving a couple hundred a day. >> that's fair and you had other things on your mind on september 12. this one said, when he said his government suspected that former gaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, i told him that the group that conducted the attacks is affiliated with islamic extremists. do you recall that email? >> i do believe i recall that email. >> ok. we'll now go to the gentleman from michigan who may want to yield more time to the gentleman from south carolina. [laughter] >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. as a veteran of vietnam and iraq, i understand that the boots on the ground are the closest to the truth in these situations. you know more about what happened in benghazi than any bureaucrat or politician can. the fog of battle is easily blamed when mistakes are made at the highest level. being caught between the political dictates

took a vacation, and she went to greece after the death of their child in august of 1963, little patrick kennedy. and the day she left washington, ellen lincoln called stanley and said the president says the coast is clear, and you better get over here. [laughter] so stanley arrived at the white house, and he waited. and i guess -- yes. this is probably the most iconic photograph taken of the president in the oval office. john john came over to say good night to his father, and he ran to play in his secret place which was under the president's desk. and he popped out, opened the door, and stanley knew that he had a photograph. and stanley said to me, he said i know when i shove off, that's the only picture anybody's or going to remember. -- anybody's ever going to remember. and it is quite true. in all of his obits, they did run this picture. this is caroline coming down to see her father before she started school up in the white house solarium. mrs. kennedy didn't want the children to be going out to school, so she started a school for her kids and for the kids of cabinet officials. so caroline