they, scott attempted to lead the ambassador and sean smith out of the burning building. make it out. he tried repeatedly to go back into try to rescue sean and the ambassador but had to stop due to exposure to smoke. the response team from the annex in benghazi, six individuals, drove the attackers out of our compound and secured it temporarily. there have been estimates as high as 60 attackers were in the compound at one particular time. there were repeated attempts by all of the rsoes and by the response team from the annex to go into the burning building and recover or try to save sean and the ambassador. they found sean's body and pulled it out but he was no longer responsive. they did not find the ambassador. i spoke with a medical officer, one our medical officers after the attack and the heroism of these individuals in repeatedly going into petroleum-based fire can not be understated. according to our regional medical officer, petrol yum -- petroleum-based fires emit enormous amounts cyanide gas. he told me that one fulleath ofd incapacitate and kill a person. if e

[clearing throat] >> of ambassador sean stephens, sean smith, glen doherty and tyrone woods who were rdered on september 11th, 2012. >> governor huckabee: sean's mother pat was at the hearings. this is the first mother's day she won't have sean to talk to. pat, i appreciate so much you being here on what i know is a very very tough weekend for you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> governor huckabee: pat, you were at the hearings, did you hear anything that brought closure or that gave you a new level of comfort regarding the death of your son? >> absolutely not. i'm still waiting for estate answers to just about everything. i do want to say one thing though. i want to wish hillary a happy mother's day. she has her child. i don't have mine. because of her. >> governor huckabee: have you been very clear that you believe that hillary is at least y in part responsible for what happened that night. you talked to her face-to-face when your son's body was brought back. >> yes, did i. >> what did she-t y say to you? >> she said that -- she blamed the video just like all the rest of them did. and

. >> sean smith's mother pat was in the hearing. this is the first mother's day that show will not have sean to talk to. she joins me. pat, i appreciate you being here for a tough weekend. pat, you were in the hearings. did you hear anything that brought closure or gave you a new level of comfort regarding the death of your son? >> absolutely not. i am still waiting to answers to just about everything. i want to say one thing though. i want to wish hillary a happy mother's day. show has her child. i don't have mine because of her. >> you have been clear that you believe that hillary is in part responsible for what happened that night. you talked to her face-to-face, when your son's body was brought back. what did she say to you? >> she said show blamed the video just like all of the rest of them did, and she also told me she would get back and cope on checking on it and get back to me with answers. she has not. >> you heard from her? >> neither has combn any one else. >> no one contacted you in dell care since that day? >> only one

and there ace a picture of sean smith. he was one of the four americans who was killed that night. te department security information officer. his mother, patricia smith, who has joined us before, joins us once again this morning. mrs. smith, welcome, thank you very much for being with us today. >> hello, there. martha: talk to me about your reaction to what you heard the president just say. >> well, as far as i could tell he is the one politicizing everything. my son was, as he described himself, as a flaming liberal and we chatted all the time about that and i'm an independent. where does it say anywhere that we're republican and we're doing this? the only one mentioning this is the president. martha: you know, what he is saying is politicized were these talking points that were put out by the cia which basically said that they were concerned that there could have been al qaeda involvement in this attack. that was removed from the talking points and then susan rice went on all the sunday shows to begin talking about this and basically said it was all about a video. what is your re

christopher stevens, sean patrick smith tyrone woods, and glenn doherty. they were servants of the public. they like their whistleblowers, or people who dedicated their lives to making a difference and they saw the world as bigger than just them. there were the ones who were often unseen, and noticed unappreciated, and applauded. -- unnoticed unapplauded. we have seen that with regard to some public employees in this congress, yet they after day, they went out there and did their jobs. on behalf of this congress and a grateful nation, i say thank you. i am glad the whistle-blowers are here. i will do every single thing in my power to protect the whistle- blowers. as a matter of fact just on may 7th, i sent a letter to john kerry and i sat in that letter that despite the highly partisan nature of the committee's actions, it nevertheless remains very important and this is a quotation, "to me personally to remain clear to all employees to choose to come forward to congress that their interest will be protected. for these reasons, i request that the department

. >> sean smith's mother pat was in the hearing.s is the first mother's day that show will not have sean to talk to. she joins me. pat, i appreciate you being here for a tough weekend. pat, you were in the hearings. did you hear anything that brought closure or gave you a new level of comfort regarding the death of your son? >> absolutely not. i am still waiting to answers to just about everything. i want to say one thing though. i want to wish hillary a happy mother's day. show has her child. i don't have mine because of her. >> you have been clear that you believe that hillary is in part responsible for what happened that night. you talked to her face-to-face, when your son's body was brought back. what did she say to you? >> she said show blamed the video just like all of the rest of them did, and she also told me she would get back and cope on checking on it and get back to me with answers. she has not. >> you heard from her? >> neither has combn any one else. >> no one contacted you in dell care since that day? >> only one pers

christopher stevens, sean patrick smith, tyrone woods, and glenn doherty. they were servants of the public. they, like their whistleblowers, or people who dedicated their lives to making a difference and they saw the world as bigger than just them. there were the ones who were often unseen, and noticed, unappreciated, and applauded. -- unnoticed, unapplauded. we toe seen that with regard some public employees in this congress, yet they after day, they went out there and did their jobs. on behalf of this congress and a grateful nation, i say thank you. blowersad the whistle- are here. i will do every single thing in my power to protect the whistle- blowers. as a matter of fact, just on may 7th, i sent a letter to john kerry and i sat in that letter that despite the highly partisan nature of the committee's actions, it nevertheless remains very important, and this is a quotation, "to me personally to remain clear to all employees choose to come forward to congress that their interest will be protected. requeste reasons, i that the department remind its employ

we want to point out that sean hannity did help mrs. smith with some of her expenses in the situation. >> because they told me that i was not part of the immediate family so they are not going to help me. >> bill: right and sean did and we want everybody to know that all right, ms. smith, thanks very much. charles krauthammer's reaction to the importance to benghazi. next on the run down, bernie goldberg on how the network news covered the benghazi hearings hearings >> bill: impact segment tonight. we asked bernie goldberg to watch how the benghazi hearings were covered by the network news. on cable we can tell you that the live hearings were carried for one hour:48 minutes on fox news. 17 minutes on cnn. and zero minutes, nothing on msnbc. one footnote i'm not surprised by msnbc. what does surprise me is that nbc doesn't just spin off that channel. make it a liberal concern, take it out of the news division because it obviously doesn't do news. on the network news front. nbc, abc, and cbs did not lead with benghazi last night as the factor d

. >> bill: did you happen to see my interview last night with pat smith the mother of sean smith. >> t that particular one i have interviewed pat smith myself. >> bill: she told me and millions of viewers that both president obama and secretary of state clinton told her eye to eye, face to face, the video was responsible. >> and leon panetta as well and secretary of state hillary clinton. they told pat smith shelled get the people who did this and 8 months later they still have not. >> bill: how could you possibly do that if you were the president of the united states and you were seen with the cia answered he gets a briefing every morning from the cia. the president gets a direct briefing. how could you possibly do that when the cia is raising flags all over the place about al qaeda? >> because it is easy. because it is a fluid, easy, simple, mindless explanation. >> bill: it's not honest that. >> should solve everyone's anxiety. when did honesty and politics become hand in hand? >> bill: i assume that our presidents, barack obama, george w. bush, i assume think are honest. i don't c

we want to point out that sean hannity did help mrs. smith with some of her expenses in the situation. >> because they told me that i was not part of the immediate family so they are not going to help me. >> bill: right and sean did and we want everybody to know that all right, ms. smith, thanks very much. charles krauthammer's reaction to the importance to benghazi. next on the run down, bernie goldberg on how the network news covered the network news covered the benghazi hearings hearings woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. clusters of pustules, pimples. i had this shingle rash right next to my spine

. >> geraldo: when did you last speak with sean smith your son? >> on the day that he died. you --ldo: and could cow >> that is when called me to say he saw them taking pictures. >> geraldo: what else besides the fact that he saw people outside the come punt walls taking pictures? >> he didn't say much else because he couldn't tell me very much. >> geraldo: did he tell you he was frightened and feel the people were suspicious? did he feel he was in hostile territory? yes. >> knew that in advance. he knew that before he went there. that was the kind of job it was and he was very, very proud of his job and doing a good job at it. it was well beyond the pale of what he was expecting -- he expected to be protected. he was not. >> geraldo: is one of the most frustrating things in this case that it has been so long and no suspects have been killed or captured? >> he don't know anything about suspects. all i know is that they had video of everybody that did all this. a lot of those video cameras weren't even operable. they didn't even work. they weren't even installed yet. >> do yo

my next guest is also remembering her son, terrorists murdered sean smith september 11 last year. ate when it came-under attack. today sean's mom is still searching for answers. can we thank you and your family for your service. talk to us about what you have learned in the months since the benghazi terror attack. what are we looking for answers for? >> i would like to have someone get back to me as to what exactly happened and why, and who made the decisions. so far, no one, not -- no one at all, has gotten back to me. everything i learn i learned from the media and from outside sources. they don't bother getting back to me and talking to me as they promised. >> mrs. smith appears there's two major questions that need to be answered. the biggest one, for me, who give the standdown order, who said, with seven hours between the initial attack and the final attack that killed two more of our american guys there, who said, don't go send help? that is one question that needs answering. the other one is who actually changed the talking points, from what it was, terror attack to make it

sean smith and three former seals tyrone woods and glen dorty. obama administration that played politics when it changed the talking points that u.n. ambassador susan rice used on sunday shows five days after the attacks. james rosen with the story live in washington tonight. hello, james. >> shep, good evening. today's news conference marked president obama's most extensive comments on benghazi in six months. retelling of the story was highly selective. weighs responsible for the matt olsen the head of the national terrorism center whose testimony on that occasion that benghazi was a terrorist attack large li largely ended 8 days of speculation about videos and protests. three days after u.n. ambassador pressed the false narrative what we have been very clear about throughout is immediately after this event happened we were not clear who exactly carried it out. how it had occurred what the motivations were. it happened at the same time we had seen attacks on u.s. embassies in cairo as a consequence of this film and nobody understood exactly what

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her son state department information officer sean smith was one of the four americans killed. for being here. i know this is not an easy time. how are you holding up? >> terrible. i cry every night. i don't sleep at night. i need answers. >> what do you want answers to? what do you not know? >> why was there no security for him? when they were supposed to have security. and the security that they did have was called back. it just -- things do not add up and i'm just told lies. >> last week you heard this in the piece the white house press secretary jay carney said that benghazi happened a long time ago. >> yes, it did. >> eight months ago. >> yes. >> what is your reaction to nah? >> why don't they have answers by now? they've had plenty of time to come up with something other than the things they have not told me. >> are you concerned at all that the hearings and benghazi that has become a political issue, the republicans have turned it into a political issue, democrats have turned it into a political issue as opposed to being a scandal and a tragedy apart from politics? >> of

by 3:00 in the morning ambassador chris stevens and information officer sean smith were dead. two other americans former navy s.e.a.l.s working as security contractors did not die until a second full assault at 5:15 a.m. on a cia annex several miles away. six special forces commandos flew in from tripoli but couldn't stop the onslaught. house republicans released an interview with gregory hicks the deputy chief of mission at the time and said he called for military help from four more special forces operatives in tripoli but was overruled. hicks a diplomat not a military officer said, i believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because i believe the libyans would have split. the pentagon said commandos had to stay and defend the embassy and were not prepared for a combat assault mission. as for buzzing the benghazi consulate with fighter jets to scatter the attackers, the closest f-16s were in italy or at least five ho

. >> it matters to the friends and family] choking up] master stephens, sean smith, glen doherty andon september 11th, 2012. >> benghazi victim sean smith's mother on why she blames the former secretary of state. plus, will the fallout from benghazi blow hillary's

state department in charge of the mission where ambassador chris stevens and information specialist sean smith died. and the cia which ran a separate outpost where woods and doherty were killed later. three days later at 11:15 a.m. the cia circulated the first draft of talking points requested by the house intelligence committee. it blamed the attack on protests in cairo over an anti-islamic video saying based on currently available information that the attacks in benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the u.s. embassy in cairo. it went on to say we know islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attacks. and the text pointedly referred to cia warnings. at least five other attacks against foreign interests in benghazi by unidentified assailants. that set off alarms at the state department. at 7:30 that night victoria nuland, a 30-year career diplomat objected e-mailing, why are we encouraging members of congress to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation? officials say she was

by 3:00 in the morning, ambassador chris stevens and sean smith were dead but two other americans, former navy s.e.a.l.s did not die until a second full assault at 5:15 am on a cia annex several miles away. six special forces commandos flew in from tripoli but couldn't stop the onslaught. now an interview with gregory hicks has been released, deputy chief of mission who says he called for military help from four more forces operatives in tripoli but was overruled. a dploeiplomat, not a military officer said i believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning, because i believe the libyans would have split. they were not prepared for a combat assault mission. as far as buzzing the consulate to scatter fighters, they were in italy, at least five hours away. for months, republicans have charged cover-up. last january hillary clinton took the blame but also pushed back. >> what difference, at this point, does it make? it is our job to figure

by 3:00 in the morning ambassador chris stevens and information officer sean smith were dead. but two other americans, former navy seals working as security contractors, did not die until a second full assault at 5:15 a.m. on a cia annex several miles away. six special forces commandos flew in from tripoli but couldn't stop the onslaught. now house republicans have released an interview with gregory hicks, at the time the deputy chief of missions, who said he called for military help from four more special forces operatives in tripoli but was overruled. hicks, a diplomat, not a military officer, said i believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because i believe the libyans would have split. the pentagon said the commandos had to stay and defend the embassy in tripoli and were not prepared for a combat assault mission. as for buzzing the benghazi consulate with fighter jets to scatter the attackers, the closest f-16s we

it matters to the friends and family of -- ambassador stevens, sean smith, glen doherty and tyrone woods who were murdered on september 11, 2012. >> reporter: after hearings last fall and winter a damning report by an independent review board hillary clinton took the blame in january. >> i take responsibility. >> reporter: today house republicans said clinton and the review board didn't go far enough with that admission. >> i find it stunning that four and a half months after the attack secretary clinton still has the gall to say it wasn't us. >> reporter: as the attack raged on and a second assault on a cia outpost hicks testified he and a defense attache tried to send four more special forces to benghazi and pleaded for air support, but the pentagon told them to stand down. >> i will quote lieutenant colonel gibson. he said it was the first time in my career that a diplomat has more [ bleep ] than somebody in the military. >> reporter: the pentagon says f-16s were hours away and couldn't have gotten there in time, say democrats. >> of all the irresponsible allegations levelled over the

first in was sean smith. he joined the state department in 2002. he was in libya on a temporary assignment when he was killed. but he had a throng career serving in benghazi. glenn doherty was part of a reinforcement team that arrived at the annex in benghazi 7 hours after the initial attack began. tyrone woods was a former navy seal working at the consulate in benghazi. here is his father on hannity last night. >> the most important question is why? we need to know why the decision was made so this won't happen in the future again. of course you need to know who so you can ask the why question. but the why question for the benefit of americans. alisyn: ambassador chris stevens is the first u.s. diplomat to be killed in a violent overseas attack since 1979. he arrived in may of 2012. less than a month before the benghazi attack. he send the a cable expressing concern the consulate could not be defended in the event of a coordinated attack. bill: who airbrushed references to al qaeda and terrorism from the original talking points? congressman jason

. >> the attack on september 11 that year killed sean smith, two former navy seals, tyrone woods andlen doherty. gregory hicks told the house committee until the aftermath of benghazi i loved every day of my job. mike, witnesses confirmed it looked like a terror attack. >> a lot of talk about that. gregory hicks was asked if there was ever talk from a top libyan official about anti-muslim video perhaps the cause of the benghazi attack. he said no, sir. then this exchange. >> when embassador stevens talked to you perhaps minutes before he died, as a dying declaration, what precisely did he say to you? >> he said, greg, we're under attack. >> would a highly decorated career diplomat have told i or washington, had there been a demonstration outside his facility that day? >> yes, sir, he would have. >> did he mention one word about a protest or a demonstration? >> no, sir, he did not. >> the recounting of a conversation from september 11, 2012, then five days later susan rice went on five talk shows and talked about the video possibly being the cause, not wanting to say it's terrorism. >

>> the mother of sean smith, one of the four americans killed, says her handling of the response cost her son's life, quote, why wouldn't she do something about it? i blame her. such sentiments make definite stating political attack ads, but without indisputable proof of deception or cover-up, democrats predict she will be fine politically. that assumes clinton runs and her democratic white house rivals back her up when they'll be running against her, when super pac ads are questioning her record. this is going to come up and the democrats all know it and if they don't raise it, republicans will if she becomes the nominee. brett? >> bret: thank you. what do you think? do you think benghazi will hurt clinton's presidential chances? let me know on twitter. follow me at bret baier. political redemption for mark sanford, the former south carolina governor defeated elizabeth colbert bush to win back his old seat in congress. the republican took 54% of the vote for all the talk before election day really was not very close when all the polls were closed. special election drew extensive medi

scott attempted to lead the ambassador and sean smith out of the burning building. he managed to make it out. he tried repeatedly to go back in to try to rescue sean and the ambassador but had to stop due to exposure to smoke. the response team from the annex in benghazi, six individuals drove the attackers out of our compound and secured it temporarily. there have been estimates there were 60 attackers were in the compound at one particular time. there were repeated attempts by all the rfs and response team from the annex to go into the burning building and recover or try to save sean and the ambassador. they found sean's body and pulled it out, but he was no longer responsive. they did not find the ambassador. i received a call from the prime minister of libya, i think it's the saddest phone call i've ever had in my life. he told me that ambassador stevens had passed away. >> megyn: joining me is bret baier. anchor of special report. thank you for being here. we're monitoring the hearing right now. there is a lawmaker i'm told who is giving a speech and not engagi

former navy seal sean smith was killed in that attack.he answers she was looking for. let's ask pat, who joins us now from washington. good morning, pat. >> hi there. >> gretchen: did you feel like you got the answers that you've been seeking? i know you've wanted more answers from secretary of state hillary clinton. did you get them yesterday? >> no, i didn't. but my son was not a seal. he was a diplomat. >> gretchen: sorry for that. thank you for the correction. so what were you looking for as far as the answers? >> i was looking to find out why this happened when they kept asking for security and got none and they got turned down and security was taken away from them. thereby abandoning him and the other guys. >> gretchen: so we did hear from gregory hicks that exchange that he had with congressman chaffetz that security was turned down. i want you to listen to that and maybe what you were looking for is what i was looking for, too, as well as is who gave that order. listen to this. >> were any of these u.s. military personnel not perm

all the families, that is, including the mother of information management officer sean smith who voices her frustration on tonight's episode of huckabee. take a listen. >> i'm still waiting for answers to just about everything. i do want to say one thing, though. i want to wish hillary a happy mother's day. she's got her child. i don't have mine because of her. >> rick: powerful interview. you can watch it tonight on "huckabee" tonight and tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. eastern time only on fox news channel. >> arthel: we have new developments in the investigation into the deadly plant explosion in texas. word today that a paramedic who treated victims at the scene will plead not guilty to possessing bomb making materials. the attorney for bryce reed says his client had nothing to do with the blast and that he looks forward to his day in court. police arrested reed last week, but so far have not linked him to their ongoing investigation into that explosion at the fertilizer plant in west. the blast killed 14 people and injured hundreds more. >> rick: stand-off in new jersey stretching past t

>> the mother of sean smith, one of the four americans killed, says her handling of the response cost son's life, quote, why wouldn't she do something about it? i blame her. such sentiments make definite stating political attack ads, but without indisputable proof of deception or cover-up, democrats predict she will be fine politically. that assumes clinton runs and her democratic white house rivals back her up when they'll be running against her, when super pac ads are questioning her record. this is going to come up and the democrats all know it and if they don't raise it, republicans will if she becomes the nominee. brett? >> bret: thank you. what do you think? do you think benghazi will hurt clinton's presidential chances? let me know on twitter. follow me at bret baier. political redemption for mark sanford, the former south carolina governor defeated elizabeth colbert bush to win back his old seat in congress. the republican took 54% of the vote for all the talk before election day really was not very close when all the polls were closed. special election drew extensive media at

ambassador chris stevens, state department officer sean smith and two former navy seals.yrone woods and glen doherty. james rosen, live in washington tonight. james? >> jon, good evening. house oversight committee chairman darrell issa, republican of california said the subpoena is narrowly tailored to obtain documents related to those now infamous talking points on benghazi. u.n. season rice dispensed those points when she told the five sunday talking shows five days after the killing of benghazi outgrowth over protest video and not a premeditated terrorist attack. emails leading up to rice's appearances made clear that other top officials at the state, the white house and cia already knew that islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack a sentence that was scrubbed from the talking points. chairman ice zaps issa's -- deputy secretary of state bill burns under secretary patrick kennedy and victoria 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 chery

sean smith's mom, listen to what she hadot to say about what she expected to hear from secretary of state hillary clinton and the president. >> what did you want secretary of state clinton and the president to do? >> ipr wanted somebody to tell e why this was done. i wanted to know why there was w no security there when it was asked for. ithe was begged. they begged them. how come somebody has not owned up to their decisions? i'm so afraid, so very afraid that other people that are serving our country are going to be treated the same way. >> eric, a quick comment then dana. >> quickly, here is the accountability research -- i'm sorry, review board. >> i don't think i can read it. >> 39 pages. it blames security. doesn't once blame the terrorist attack and part of the problem is it doesn't interview hillary clinton. it also doesn't interview gregory hicks, the number one in charge when ambassador stevens went down. how was this document any good now? how is this -- they relied a lot of the testimony on this document. it's useless. honestly, pickerring and mullen, they should be shamed of t

it matters to the friends and family of ambassador stevens, sean smith, glen doherty and tyrone woods who were murdered on september 11th, 2012. >> emotional testimony. hillary clinton opened that were wt testimony before a committee. the question in my mind is going to run for president in 2016. with a implications does it have? >> she says does it make. you have imagine republicans are going use this against her. also, who is running against her in a democratic primary they are going use it, as well. in my opinion, a tape like that and after what we heard it was clear-cut terrorism immediately after the attack and they weren't ready despite numerous warnings and three previous attacks on the same consulate she should be blown out. water. however, the media today, yawning away again. so hillary clinton has more than nine lives. if the media would stay on it. maybe she has a chance. you never know, politician she could come back. >> kimberly: the question is are they going to be able to do damage control too attenuate this. this is really bad. the testimony was compelling. these are w

state department officer sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen doherty.mportant dates to know about. catherine herridge live at the state department. catherine? >> thank you, hairs. today the house government oversight committee issued a subpoena to ambassador thomas pickerring. the co-chair of the state department's internal review or the accountability review board to appear on capitol hill next week for a deposition. the republican chairman of the oversight committee congressman darrell issa wrote, quote: your refusal to it allow state investigators to interview you is inconsistent with your commitment to be tough and transpaint. i hope you will consider. the senior democrat issuing his own statement, quote: today's subpoena is a stark example of extreme republican overreach and shameful politicization of this tragedy. republicans are also keying in on a significant gap between the attack on 9/11 and the first emails released by the white house this week on the talking points. the email trailer runs from september 14 through september 15th. one day bef

ambassador chris stevens, the state department official sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woodslen dority. -- five page prebuttle testimony we are supposed to hear at the scorcher of the hearing tomorrow. greg hix the number two diplomat under ambassador stevens. he will testify about his pleas in vain for military intervention. mark thompson of the state department's counter terrorism bureau will testify on 9/11 then secretary of state clinton and undersecretary of state patrick kennedy tried 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 h

accusations are just political hit pieces, but grieving family members such as pat smith, mother of sean smith who was killed at benghazi, have no horse in the race and have now gone eight agonizing months without answers. >> i wish you had gotten answers. >> so do i. i begged for answers. when i was there at the casket ceremony, obama and hillary and biden and panetta and several more said that they would check into it and let me know. not one of them has called me -- none. they don't care. i'm not important to them. >> house speaker john boehner wants president obama to release e-mails that boehner says show how the white house tried to change the story on what happened at benghazi. we asked the white house today to answer some of our questions on the issue but they declined. cnn also asked the ranking democrat on the house oversight committee but he also declined. i welcome congressman jim jordan a republican from ohio who is a member of the house oversight committee. congressman, thanks for being here. you heard jay carney earlier today talking about this issue. what is your response? what

it matters to the friends and family of ambassador stevens, sean smith, glenn doherty and tyrone woods, who were murdered on september 11, 2012. in addition to my testimony before this committee in october 2012, i also met with the fbi, senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee. the department's accountability review board and i've discussed my experience in libya with all of them. i'm proud of the work that our team accomplished in libya under extraordinarily difficult circumstances, the projection of our nation's diplomats and the work produced there is deserving of the time this committee, other congressional committees and the accountability review board and no doubt future review efforts will invest in making sure we get this process right. thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee to appear before you today. i stand ready to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you. i'll now recognize myself for a quick round of questioning. mr. thompson -- mr. thompson, you went through a process of things that you observed and how you tried to activate your

state department officer sean smith and two former navy seals. tyrone woods and glen dorty. the rnc reports it's filed a freedom of information request for emails between the state department and president obama's re-election campaign. it is asking for all messages that mentions libya or benghazi from september the 11th, the day of the attack, until november the 7th, the day after the election. rnc officials say they want to know whether campaign staffers helped edit the so-called talking points about the attack. the once u.n. ambassador susan rice used on sunday shows five days later. political detractors say is little more than a fishing expedition. waiting for confirmation on fbi threatening letter somebody went to the contained the poison ricin. mail screeners intercepted the letter and similar to letters addressed to the new york city mayor mike bloomberg and to his gun control group in d.c. officials say those letters did test positive for ricin, which is a poison found in caster beans and the new york city police commissioner ray kelly confirms tonight the letters thr

ambassadors to libya, chris steves, the information officer, sean smith, and two members of the embassyy personnel, glenn dor tee and siren woods. james rosen is live at the state department. we learned more today about what the government knew about the benghazi attacks early on. >> that's right, shep. a new report in the weekly standard by fox news contributor steve hayes includes excerpts of the early drafts of those infamous talking points that senior administration officials used to describe benghazi as a spontaneous protest gone awry and not a terrorist event. but just 72 hours after the attacks, the documents show c.i.a. stated, quote, the crowd almost certainly was a mix of individuals from across many sectors of libyan society. that being said, we do know that islamic extremists with ties to al-qaeda participated in the attack. >> we continue to be transparent with the congress and have been and shared thousands of documents. the talk points has been something they've looked into and so we're not going to get into individual documents one way or another. >> white house press se

. >>> ambassador chris stephens, information officer sean smith and two security officers died in theer 11th attack. >>> the fbi says it has previce presidented a terrorist attack in western minnesota. this is 24-year-old buford rogers. he is under arrest. investigators say they found molotov cocktail, suspected pipe bombs, and firearms in a raid on a mobile home. an fbi spokesman they they believe he was planning to attack in that area. >>> the death toll in the bangladesh factory collapse continues to climb, now reaching 705. hundreds of survivors protested today demanding to be paid at least four months' salary and benefits. more than 2,500 people were rescued when the building collapsed last month. >>> the white house says it will veto a republican-sponsored bill currently in the house thats workers the option to get paid comp time instead of overtime. republicans say it provides choices. obama administration says it could end up cutting overtime pay working families dpebd on, plus there's no guarantee in the bill that workers can use the comp time that they earn. >>> which athlet

state department official sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen doherty. our james rosen live in our d.c. newsroom with more on this. james? >> pretty rough day for jay carney at the white house. >> that's right, harris. his was to be sure uninvisible duty today. the white house press secretary struggling to explain why interagency team labor day through 12 versions of the now infamous talking points that u.n. ambassador susan rice delivered on the sunday shows september 16th, five days after the attacks. spontaneous protest gone awry and later shown to be false never more so than now when the drafts of the talking points and emails regarding them are appearing in the "weekly standard" and on abc news and show how multiple early references to involvement by terrorist groups were were deleted. >> we knew that -- we believed, based on the intelligence assessment that extremists were involved and there were suspicions about what affiliations those extreme i.ists might have. there was not hard, concrete evidence. >> september 14, however, the first cia draft o

ambassador, chris stephens died along with information officer sean smith and former navy steels gleny and tyrone woods. many questions have been raised and will be front and center today. the hearing has begun. the opening statements are now out of the way. the chairman, daryl issa has asked the first witness to testify. let's listen mark thompson, the counterterrorism acting deputy assista assistant. >> the night i was involved in this incident, i was at my desk at the end of the day when the first reports came in that indicated that we had an attack going on at our diplomatic facility in benghazi. in that facility we knew we had our ambassador and we had his security personnel. later, when i heard that the situation had evolved to them going to a safe haven and then the fact we could not find the ambassador, i alerted my leadership indicating that we needed to go forward and consider the deployment of the foreign emergency support team. that particular team is an interagency team. it's been represented as something that the state department deploys. it does not -- the deputies comm

it matters to the friends and family of ambassador stevens, sean smith, glenn doherty and tyrone woodsho were murdered on september 11th, 2012. >> susan rice originally suggested it was sparked by protesters online video mocking the prophet muhammad. >> so fast forward, mr. hicks, to the sunday talk shows and ambassador suture rice. she blamed this attack on a video. in fact, she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped. and i was embarrassed. >> hicks, who served as ambassador stevens second in command said he was demoted for questioning the administration's actions. he referenced an angry phone call he received from the chief of staff to then secretary of state hillary clinton who, according to him, was upset that he spoke with a republican congressman without a state department lawyer present at the meeting. >> what did she have to say to you? >> she demanded a report on the visit. >> was she upset by the fact this lawyer -- this -- >> was upset. >> this baby-sitter was not allowed to happen? was sheup set about that fact? >> she

added to the list, ambassador chris stevens, glen doherty, ty woods, and sean smith. the union representing the foreign service also has questions about how these deaths could have been carried. they'll honor others aet a ceremony held here tomorrow. >> all right. margaret brennan, thank you. >>> and several wildfires are burning in california. much of southern california is under a red flag warning. that's because of wind, heat, and low humidity. one of the fires is in banning, eight miles east of los angeles. carter evans is there. carter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. the evacuation order for this area has been lifted, but so far at last check this fire has consume third degree,000 acres and it is only 35% contained. tonight there are 425 firefighters trying to hold the line because the winds today are even worse than they were yesterday. the fire started around 12:30 wednesday afternoon, and within just a few hours, it had spread to thousands of acres of tinder dry brush. you have the wind and the dry grass so it burns very quickly, and then thos

diplomatic post was overrun and set ablaze that night, killing stevens and foreign service officer sean smith, the survivors took refuge in a nearby c.i.a. building called the annex. that building was in turn attacked at dawn on september 12 when a mortar barrage killed ormer seals glen daugherty and tyrone woods. quote, if we had gotten clearance from the libyan military from an american plane to fly over libyan air space, if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over benghazi as quickly as possible, after the attack commenced, i believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because i believe the libyans would have split, mr. icks told house investigators. another article from fox news says, clinton sought end run around counterterrorism bureau on the night of benghazi attack, witness will say at hearing. also dated may 6, 2013. on the night of september 11, as the obama administration scrambled to responds to the benghazi terror attacks, then secretary of state hint -- hillary clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department'