third, those famous susan rice talking points were inaccurate but not deliberately misleading. senator graham, the report says the misinformation was flawed, yes, but no political cover-up by susan rice or anyone else. so, does this exonerate the administration? >> in my view, tray gouding and elijah cummings are doing a good job at looking at benghazi as a whole. the state department has -- >> yes or no? >> no. no. i think the report is full of crap. >> why? >> quite frankly. >> why? >> the deputy director of the cia when i ask him, do you know who changed the talking points with senator ayotte and mccain and susan rice sitting by his side said the fbi changed the talking points. only later did we find out through a lawsuit that mike more rel was deeply involved in changing the talking points. the deputy director of the fbi when he was sitting in front of a congressional panel and he was asked, does anybody here know who changed the talking points? he sat silent. so the intel community through him lied. >> so you're saying the intel community is lying to the house intelligence

and when susan rice said i have no regrets and i gave the american people the best evidence that is a bald-faced lie. >> so this report says no one lied, period. that they were receiving bad information but no -- >> that's a bunch of garbage. that's a complete bunch of garbage. who told susan rice -- >> so why is the republican chair on the house intelligence committee buying a bunch of garbage? >> good question. >> answer it. yeah. >> that's a -- yeah. i don't believe that the report is accurate, given the role that mike morrell played in misleading the congress on two different occasions. why didn't the report say that? here's my point, when susan rice was on television after the attack, she said on three different occasions that the consulate was strongly, substanti substantially and significantly secured. and nothing was further from the truth, and there is nothing in the talking points about the level of security. she gave the impression to the american people that these folks were well taken care of, and when it was in fact a death trap. who told her to say that ben rhodes came

>> that's a bunch of garbage. >> so why is the -- >> who told susan rice -- >> why is the republican chair -- >> that's why you need -- >> why are they buying a bunch of garbage? >> good question. >> answer it. >> i don't believe that the report is accurate, given the role that mike played in misleading the congress on two occasions. why didn't the report say that? when susan rice was on television she said three different times the kons late was strongly and significantly secured. nothing could be further from the ruth. she gave an impression to the american people that these folks were well taken care of. >> all right. so some pretty strong language there. good to see you senator. >> do you agree that that report is a bunch of garbage? >> that was with gloria but i was having a good time watching it. >> what is it that you agree with him on? all of it? or just some? >> i think given the house committee what it was doing would try to protect its own way the way lindsay describes, i think lindsay is right on target there. >> his view is that the deputy director of the cia and others

he but theed heads with susan rice, and they are regarding gitmo releases and rear admiral john kirby insists that hagel was not fired. >> secretary hagel accomplished things. he issued dozen reforms and managed the rebalance to the asian positive pacific and draw down the mission afghanistan and

he was denied meetings with both john kerry and susan rice and vice president joe biden.nn's senior political analyst david gergen he is back with us. and, david, does israel feel that it's simply being taken for granted? >> i'm worried about the relationship a lot, deb. i don't know quite what they feel. i'm sorry we lost signal there just momentarily. but let's come back to this. the -- look, the president should find out who said these things and somewhere near the top of his administration or anywhere the person should be removed from the case, removed from the administration. it's extraordinarily unhelpful when you engage in personal attacks. you can disagree on policy, on principles, but not personal attacks. it's just not done especially in diplomacy, especially not with the israelis who have been such close friends for all these years. what happens in this situation is that our adversaries like iran can see maybe they can play off the two sides from each other or, you know, or maybe others in -- around israel, enemies from israel can play off. it's really, really.

hillary clinton, then secretary of state, including leon panetta, then defense secretary, clear where susan rice, who was then the u.n. ambassador rice must have on that issue. he is the one who is deciding i will get involved in a very minimalist way, but that is all. of obama'seflection known views. i do think you want to go only so far as questioning the effectiveness of his national security team because it may well be that what we are seeing right now from chuck hagel, from susan rice is just purely a reflection of the president's own views. host: is there any consideration within the president's team to remove bashar al-assad from syria? guest: i think that is a secondary goal at this point. it is not something that is practical -- host: the key to -- guest: right. aere were those who argued in sort of strange bedfellows way, the enemy of my enemy is my friend way, that we should have worked with a thought. the agonist ration not want to do that, even though -- worked with assad. the administration did not want to do that. but it looks like they are simply setting aside the assad issue and

. >> when susan rice said i have no regrets, i gave the american people the best evidence available,ld-faced lie. >> this report says no one lied, period that, they were receiving bad information, but no -- or -- >> that's a bunch of garbage. that's a complete bunch of garbage. who told susan rice -- >> why is the republican chairwoman of the house intelligence committee buying a bunch of garbage? >> good question. >> answer it. yeah. >> why -- that's -- yeah, i don't believe that the report is accurate given the role that mike morrell played in misleading the congress on two occasions. why didn't the report say that? here's my point. when susan rice was on television after the attack, she said on three different occasions the consulate was strongly, substantially, and significantly secured. nothing could have been further from that -- from the truth, and there's nothing in the talking points about the level of security. she gave an impression to the american people that these folks were well taken care of when it was, in fact, a death trap. who told her to say that? ben rhodes came

i don't think we're going to see susan rice replaced. you know, tony lincoln who is the deputy national security adviser is going over to become deputy secretary of state. um, but -- but obama has proved to be a president who does not like to fire people at all. i mean, really even less than other previous presidents. so, no, i don't expect that we will see that. but there have been, you know, calls around town, if you will, columnists like david ignatius, the "washington post," suggesting there's going to be some fresh blood. we don't know it hasn't played out yet. still only a few weeks away from the election loss. but i think obama probably feels since then that he has done pretty well and he immediately went off to china, he signed this climate deal with the chinese. there is a sense that isis at least is being contained now, they are not doing as well in terms of their military advances they were and it may well be the president saying to himself, the criticism was way over the top. i think my team's doing okay now. we may not see t

hillary clinton, then secretary of state, including leon panetta, then defense secretary, clear where susan ricewho was then the u.n. ambassador rice must have on that issue. he is the one who is deciding i will get involved in a very minimalist way, but that is all. of obama'seflection known views. i do think you want to go only so far as questioning the effectiveness of his national security team because it may well be that what we are seeing right now from chuck hagel, from susan rice is just purely a reflection of the president's own views. host: is there any consideration within the president's team to remove bashar al-assad from syria? guest: i think that is a secondary goal at this point. it is not something that is practical -- host: the key to -- guest: right. aere were those who argued in sort of strange bedfellows way, the enemy of my enemy is my friend way, that we should have worked with a thought. the agonist ration not want to do that, even though -- worked with assad. the administration did not want to do that. but it looks like they are simply setting aside the assad issue and l

when i asked him do you know who changed the talking points with senator ayotte and mccain and susan rice sitting by his side said the fbi changed the talking points when it came to references to al-qaeda. only later did we find out through a lawsuit that mike morrell was deeply involved in changing the talking points. >> so, okay -- >> the intel community through him lied. bill: the report also says there was no standdown order from the state department that night. several people who were in benghazi say a cia response team was ordered to stand down while the attack was underway. martha: all right. this fox news alert now, a case of lost and found in the irs targeting scandal. an irs watchdog group recovered as many as 30,000 e-mails -- how about that? -- that reportedly belonged to lois lerner. this after the urs insisted for months that technology experts just simply could not find any of those e-mails which were specifically requested by congressional investigators. so some lawmakers think that the e-mails contain evidence. the irs unfairly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exe

. >> even as the white house confirms the letter went out, security adviser susan rice is saying the u.s. is not trying to make a separate deal with iran. let's hear what she's saying this week. >> with respect to potential presidential correspondence, i think you know that i'm not going to comment on any private communication between the president and any world leader. but i will say this, first of all, as i've said repeatedly in public and others have too, we are in no way engaged in any coordination, military coordination, with iran on countering isil. >> what's your reaction to her response? >> seeing susan rice running this policy really makes me worry, given her past record on coming clean on the national tv shows on benghazi. i would say in this case we should make sure we treat our friends well and our allies the best and not deal so closely with iran in such an idealistic way -- >> what's the senate going to do about it going forward? we've got a gop controlled -- >> now that we have a republican senate -- >> what are you going to do? >> now that we have a republican senate

what you have is an intellectual moat run by susan rice and ben rhodes, these are the ones who were always stopping information from getting in there and it's not just chuck haling whole has been complaining. i talked to other senior officials who have briefed the president directly on the current quote unquotes debacles and it becomes inorder natalie hard to get the facts through to the decisionmaker and even when you do, people like ben rhodess are always raising the bar a little more so basically you almost have a 21st century version of lbj from vietnam calling the shots. that's why people like chuck haigle and others are very frustrated. >> you mentioned others. the third defense secretary to leave the administration. and you have to wonder what this is doing within and outside the defense department. what are you hearing? >> the word today was, this was meant as a shot across the bow. the real reason he is leaving right now is because of the august briefing me and general dempsey gave when they talked about the real threat of isis. and so what we have seen here is basically you need

there's a disconnect between the obama administration and susan rice and that departments, isis has been a failure, syria is a failure. >> i'm grad to hear you talk about virgins on sunday morning. >> i love the volcano thing, but on a larger bases, it's almost if there's a small circle that's trusted by president obama and personality that's trusted by president obama and he wasn't in it. >> and when there are clashes they are gone. >> we'll leave it at that. inside story continues right after this. >> welcome back to inside story, philadelphia will soon have a second casino, it was a 2 1/2 year selection process, a gaming decision came recently, they decided it was going to be in south philadelphia close to all the sports venue, the logic was they go to 400 sports events for a year, why not keep them there, it was the lowest range on projections on renews, it didn't have the big upside and downside that many casinos have. is it right for folks in south philadelphia jobs versus quality of life. >> i think the folks in south philadelphia are tired of these amenities coming into their nai

recently he sent a letter to susan rice on another topic. there were some questions within the administration why he did that. if that should have been done. he was brought in, really, to look at winding down the wars in afghanistan and iraq. in fact, now there's a whole different set of circumstances on the ground there. new national security crises have come to the forefront. foremost of which is isis but ebola and others. they didn't feel like he was the person to do it. he never really got into the president's inner circle, either. inspite the fact that he and president obama had a good working relationship when they were in the senate. i'm told the two of them began what were a series of conversations back in october. came to the decision it was time for new leadership at the pentagon, and this morning he formally offered his resignation. >> i want to play a little bit of what secretary hagel said when he was speaking of his first day on the job. let's play that. >> you always know that you have a secretary of defense that will deal str

and security at state department facilities inadequate, and some of the talk thing points that susan rice used were wrong, and no wrong dogs, and none of the conspiracies found, and is it time for the republicans to drop the benghazi conspiracy theory? >> i always thought that the benghazi problem was the way it was cast by the administration, and the remarks of susan rice flew in the face of what we knew was going on, but with regard to other things going on that were addressed with the report, yes, i thought that for a long time we should move e beyond that. >> and senator menendez, the president has said that he will be expanding the troops in afghanistan beyond 2014, and president joe biden famously said in 2011, they are getting out of there in 2014 come hell or highwater, and that is not go going to happen. are you comfortable with the president's decision? >> well, look, we have to preserve the essence of what we a achieved in afghanistan in pursuit of our own national interests and national security which means making sure that the taliban is not resurgent, and along the afghanist

ambassador susan rice. let's get your reaction, first of all, to this house intelligence committee report. >> this is now the third major report on the benghazi attacks, right? first -- there was a democratic controlled senate committee on intelligence, five found the same conclusion. there was an independent accountability review board chaired by the joint chairman chiefs of staff and it found the same thing. now a republican-led committee, two-year investigation, hearings, access to classified information, full investigative powers of the house of representatives and they find the same thing. so i think we can say case closed now. there was something like ten attacks like this when president bush -- w. bush was president and there were no investigations like this. so there's partisanship behind this but at least now we have a tri-partisanship consensus that the conspiracy theories are nuts. >> the report says there was a lot of confusion out there but no deliberate attempt to mislead the american public o

. >> john kerry of state, susan rice seems like is going to stay and put as the national security advisor. also in the obama administration, i keep hearing washington. >> insider. >> clearly not worked for them. if you worked on a team when things are not working out, even president obama might have -- this is not what have the dog and pony show, shook hands in the white house. this was several weeks in the making. this didn't just happen overnight. the president didn't wake up and decide to fire chuck hagel. what b i don't is why don't they have a replacement? that's not an office you want to leave unfilled. >> but who would want to take the job. >> you can't unless you're willing to be a yes man. do what the president wants you to do. john kerry got that climate deal with china. he's now pursuing the agreement with iran. chuck hagel started to push back, he was out of there. who were they going to find who just says yes? >> michelle flournoy was one of the favorites. she took herself out i think for precisely that reason. it would not be a job that would be easy to take. problem is, we'

>> the national security advisor, susan rice, has briefed president obama on air force one about the16-minute video. while the u.s. intelligence community is working to

susan rice briefed president obama on the video board ifers ah 1. parents released a statement said we are incredibly proud of our son, we will work every day to keep his legacy alive as best we can. i.s.i.s. revealed they kassig in october following the beheading of allen henning. kassig was abducted delivering aid to syrian brutalized by the civil war. he converted to islam while in captivity. he spent the last seven months pleading for his release. in an interview from margaret brennan they shared a letter from their son. >> he said if i go down for this, i want everyone to know i went down for a good cause. what more can you ask? >> the video was released the day after the chairman joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey made a secret knowledge visit to iran. y jeff. >> julianna, thank you. we turn to juan zarate. this video is different than the ones we've seen before why is that? >> adding to the number of beheadings that are portrayed. it may also be that mr. kassig refused to go on camera and propound the propaganda that others had before their

remember he wrote that memo to national security advisor susan rice sharply criticizing the white house strategy. there was this two-page memo it detailed concern about the overall serious strategy and called for a more defined plan for handing the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. i could go on, but hagel did push back. wouldn't you want a member of your cabinet to do such things, colonel? >> that's his job. he's -- he and the chairman both are to provide that military advice to the president and give the president his options. evidentedly president didn't like those options but on that one particular point the secretary was right. but i think he was reflecting the views of the military leadership of the pentagon and going to the president. it was the generals who said "we have to address the syria part of this and we're not doing this. you have to look at isis as one target, not a target in iraq and a target in syria," which is what the administration wanted to do at the beginning. so it looks like the president is going to put somebody in who follows his thinking. >> i'm go

let's now get their responses because just now national security adviser susan rice has spoken up.atch. >> with respect to potential presidential correspondence, i think you know that i'm not going to comment on any private communication between the president and any world leader. but i will say this: first of all, as i've said repeatedly in prick and others have to be -- in public and others have to, we are in no way engaged in military coordination on countering isil. >> we won't tell you if there's a letter, but we're not really talking to them about this. >> foxnews.com is confirming this is allegedly the fourth letter that the president has sent, even though they're not confirming it. so he's done the dear ayatollah, love barack letter before. i think it's misguided for the united states of america to try to align with isis. what does it say about the president that he's reaching out to iran for help defeating isis? we need -- >> let me finish. >> clear deal with them? >> i think it's very naive for them to reach out and think that somehow we need them to defeat isis. also i h

you see susan rice there. you see the attorney general there, dennis mcdonough the white house chief of staff. the president speaking for about nine minutes, the secretary of defense speaking for about five minutes. the secretary of defense after nearly two years stepping down. he says he will stay as the secretary of defense until a successor emerges. confirmed by the senate let's go to our pentagon correspondent. i know there are names out there already. we're hearing several names, potential candidates to succeed chuck hagel. what are you hearing? >> well, wolf, you know, the usual cast of names already circulating around washington, i think it's very early at this point to perhaps highlight any one of them. i want to go back to what we just saw. that was a very important optic that you saw. the secretary of defense also a vietnam veteran, sergeant chuck hagel and this time getting a very dignified sendoff from the white house very deliberatedly sending out a message to the troops that hagel will have a dig

they went out of their way to praise john kerry and susan rice will stay put as national security adviserthe crisis of confidence is also in the obama administration. i keep saying -- >> you mean inside? >> clearly not worked for them. if you're working on a team where things are not working out, even president obama might have self-doubts. >> that's why you have some of this sniping as hagel goes out the door, most unseemly, this is not what -- had that dog and pony show where they shook hands in the white house -- >> this was several weeks in the making. this didn't just happen overnight, what i don't understand, why don't they have a replacement ready to go right away? we're living in a period of serious national security crises, that's not an awful you want to leave unfilled. >> who would want to take the job? unless you're willing to be a yes man as matt suggested. do what the president wants you to do. john kerry got the climate deal with china and pursuing the agreement with iran. chuck hagel started to push back on guantanamo and middle east and he was out of there. who will they

susan rice is helping to lay the groundwork. she's been talking to human rights campaigners to learn about the situation in china. white house officials say rice met chinese and american activists. they say she spoke with them about the role the u.s. can play to improve human rights conditions in china. they report she expressed deep concern about the government's treatment of campaigners and they quote her as saying that respect for human rights is vital for china's stability and prosperity. the campaigners asked for president obama to make a public male for the re -- appeal for two prisoners. several u.s. government officials have said obama will take up human rights issues when he talks one on one with chinese president xi jinping. >>> chinese officials have been working to polish and shine beijing ahead of the apec summit and undertaken an aggressive campaign to cut down the smog before international leaders arrive. but they are finding the cleanup effort is no easy task. nhk world reports. >> reporter: it is about 9:30 a.m.

susan rice's comments came after the wall street journal reported that obama wrote a letter to iran'sme leader. we spoke to a professor at tehran university. >> i think that the iranians would obviously like to see a deal, but the iranians also have their red lines that basically are linked to iran's sovereignty. they recognize that the united states globally is in a much weaker position than before, the united states through its conflict with russia, the chinese over the south china sea, and also the general decline in the economy in europe and the united states makes it more difficult for the united states to sustain its hed hedgeonmy that it had before. and now the iranians unz that the americans need a deal, but the iranians say that the litmus test comes at the nuclear negotiations. the united states has to recognize iran's sovereign rights if the americans act on that fact front then i think the iranians will believe the americans are serious and they can move gradually forward. >>> engineers are planning an upgrade of the biggest hydro electric plant in afghanistan. it was supp

. >> it led susan rice to say it was an attack as a result of someone who posted an anti-muslim video on life. they say no one intentionally mislead the public about the nature of the attack. after six government reports now, this is still not the last word about benghazi. there's another investigation going. they say that one will be the final definitive accounting of what happened. anne-marie? >> thank you, susan. >>> coming up on the "morning news," rape allegations shut down a greek fraternity. and the gas prices at the pump. this is the "cbs morning news." from flu symptoms.ld and e (vo) theraflu. serious power. up to 27% more brush movements. patented sonic technology with get healthier gums in two weeks. innovation and you philips sonicare save when you give philips sonicare this holiday season. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-d

national security advisor susan rice briefed president obama on the video board air force one.eturned home from australia. the 26-year-old's parents released a statement saying they were heartbroken. isis had revealed that they had kassig in october following the beheading of british aid worker allen henning. kassig was an army ranger in iraq and then turned to humanitarian work. he was abducted delivering aid to syrian brutalized by the civil war. he converted to islam while in captivity and changed his name abdul rachman. his parents spent the last several weeks pleading for his release. in an interview from margaret t senan, they shared a letter from their son given to them by a released hostage. >> he said if i go down for this, i want everyone to know i went down for a good cause. what more can you ask? >> reporter: the video was released the day after the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, made a surprise visit to iraq. he thanked troops and told them the battle against isis was starting to turn but it would be a drawn out campaign lasting seve

. >> absolutely, susan rice going to benghazi is a problem. >> it's not going to happen. >> it's not going to happen. he showed a reluctance to get rid of aids he was close with. some were surprised about him getting rid of chuck hagel, because they had a friendship, personal relationship. i don't think you will see a lot of shake-up. you'll see people leaving that have been frustrated. always towards a lame duck presidency you'll have departures. >> the president needs someone to tell him the full story, the full truth. if there's one thing that one of a number of things lacking with the presidency, that is it. among the inner circle, which is small, no one will say, mr president, and lay it out there. let's switch gears. and a bigger voice in the democrat party. talking about senator chuck schumer, kind of going after the white house. >> after patsing the stimulus, democrats should have continued to pose middle class programs and built on the partial success of the stimulus. unfortunately democrats blue the opportunity the american people gave them. we took their pan date and p

he met with susan rice, the national security advisor, more than once a week.e had private sessions with the president's chief of staff on a frequent basis. he had more than enough opportunity to have his voice get heard and to be a part of the decision making process and he feels very comfortable with the relationships that he has at the white house. >> ok. who's your new boss going to be? >> that's -- >> i'm sure you'd like to know. >> that's up to the president to decide. >> do you think we'll get a decision fairly soon? >> i don't know. i honestly don't know what timing the white house is going to be on for determining who the successor will be, who they'll nominate. of course after the nomination is made, there's a confirmation process that has to be undertaken as well. that could take some time. >> ok, thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> a quick look at other news now from around the world. the turkish president has said that women are not equal to men because of their different natures. he's a devout muslim and he told a women's conference in i

me is that after the-- the weekend after the attack, the then-ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, went on the sunday shows, many viewers may remember, and said that the attack had evolved from a peaceful protest. that turned out to be wrong, and she and the administration took a lot of flak as a result of that error. this report by the house intelligence committee, which say republican-controlled committee, essentially said saiz that rice was relying on intelligence that was provided to her from the c.i.a. and other intelligence agencies, and in fact, points out that there were 21 intelligence reports that said that there had been a protest at this diplomatic facility. those turned out to be wrong, but the intelligence picture was incredibly confused. and so the report found there was no intent to mislead by anybody in the government about what happened here. >> sreenivasan: so what makes this particular committee or this particular finding different? there have been previous investigations, right? >> yeah, this is the seventh congressional investigation, i believe, and the eight

in october, he penned a letter to national security adviser susan rice urging a more defined strategyinst syria bashar al-assad as the conflict with isil raged. it was in october that discussions began between hagel and the president about him moving on. today president obama praised hagel's leadership on afghanistan. >> as secretary chuck has helped transition our military and bolstered america's leadership around the world. during his tenure afghan forces took the lead for security in afghanistan, our forces have drawn down, our combat mission there end next month and will partner with afghans to preserve the gains that we have made. >> but american policy on afghanistan is still in flux, combat troops were scheduled to be out by the end of this year, but over the weekend the afghan parliament ex-tinnedded the military agreement, allowing u.s. and nato force to his stay on through 2015. president obama has approved new tactical guidelines allowing direct attacks on taliban fight works air support if necessary. on sunday, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a volleyball tournament,

. >> what about susan rice? >> i wouldn't agree with that as well. and she is not going anywhere either. [ laughter ] >> the economic anxiety is the top concern in tuesday's elections. unemployment, 5.8%. the lowest since 2008. october jobs, 214,000 jobs. the healthiest in eight years. the labor department added 31,000 jobs. total jobs, nine straight months. exports in september widening the trade deficit. 60% of voters thought the economy was stagnating. one-third thought it was approving. 60% of people thought it was worsening. one-third that it was improving. federal reserve will end the bond purchases program. average hourly pay rose 0.3% benefiting the wealthiest. average income grew 10% for the wealthiest. the rest, income stagnated or declined. u.s. manufacturers are expanding at the fastest pace in three years. >> are we going to be tested on this? [ laughter ] >> there were a lot of good numbers there, but the problem is that ordinary people are not feeling it in their evidence lives. these are stagnating wages. a gap between what the ceo ma

susan rice? his new national security advise adviser adviser? samantha power? you know, no. at the white house. chuck hagel was probably in their cross hairs for some time. >> and, jim, then there's the issue of -- and you talked about this in the last hour the fact that even starting with his conformation hearings in the process, he didn't really shine many times. >>well you know, some people talk about losing confidence in chuck hagel. here at the pentagon many in people here that i've worked with over the years lost confidence in hagel at the conformation hearing before the senate. he went up there with standard pro forma answers. didn't appear to be able to articulate any of the current policies on the part of the u.s. and certainly didn't -- if you go back and look at the hearing it could be described as disastrous. he was ill prepared apparently and thrown to the wolfes at the hearing. that the time the confidence level in chuck hagel and in this building had already begun to decline. >> jim miklaszewski, thank you so much from the pentagon. i'm sure i'll be checking b

force one as he traveled back from the g20 summit in australia by his national security adviser susan ricewhite house also issuing a paper statement from the national security spokesman, spokeswomen rather person dead in which she says the white house is appalled at the murder of a u.s. aid worker and the white house is offering condolences to the family. of course we saw the family there of of peter kassig in zeina's report. they too have issued a statement saying that they want their son to be remembered for his humanitarian efforts. of course he did go there to the region initially as a u.s. soldier in 2007. but he was captured while he was working as a hugh narron vinnie aid worker. and that he had established his own relief organization. so they have made an appeal to the news media to not broadcast 30 pictures or any of the video harassed been released by isil. they say, in factor they not want the media to play in the hostage taker's hands, that's something that here at al jazerra are respecting he want they want their son to be remembered instead for his works as really did passion

you see valerie jarrett, ben rhodes, others -- i would put susan rice in there.you remember, susan rice was the 2008 obama campaign foreign policy spokeswoman. she was speaking on the campaign and knifing hillary clinton all along the way. she was promoted into a national security job. now she's our national security adviser. the political team has stayed intact. the political team needs a rest, i have to tell you. if you're going to try to be managing 24 hours a day, seven days a week inside the white house you continue do it for six years. we have seen hagel and hillary clinton and leon panetta and bob gates all really saying, you know, this political team is too powerful. they're not letting the other voices get to the president so that we can have some sort of -- >> well, to your point, none of the folks really paint a rosy picture of working inside the administration and now we have john kerry, obviously a lot of criticism and to your point, so what does the president do? he has the option of continuing along the course now. is there a chance he goes outside

and it makes it clear, susan rice did, in fact, lie, and did not tell the truth. >> so you don't thinkts your standing or corrects the standing of many critics, that the obama administration was hiding something, intentionally misled -- >> what clarifies it -- >> it has no value, is that what you're saying? >> what it clarifies is that the cia was not pressured to cover it up. it also makes it very clear, there was no spontaneous protests, which was the narrative of the obama administration put out when this attack happened. and this report stands by, in a bipartisan way, and says that, in fact, it was a terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11. there was no protest. these were accurate, trained individuals who attacked the compound on the anniversary of 9/11. the report blatantly says that. so, again, susan rice, yes, she went out on tv and lied to the american people. >> so maria, why would that make a difference in the outcome of this report in your view? >> because, it outright proves that the republicans were absolutely wrong. and when they continue to try to push these myths a

. >> susan rice walked out of the u.n. when netanyahu was about to give the speech and someone in the administration called him chicken (bleep), why would they do that? >> they don't like him and don't like israel. i speak to my jewish friends. how do you support them. what is going to happen, iran will have a nuclear weapon. and it is close. as soon as that happens it is a new ball game. >> where is the united states? >> they have no idea what is going on. the united states is so poorly run. what is positive in and you look at our relations with other countries, in history it is never like this. not one country do we-uirÑ get with anymore. it is not like we are taking advantage. we don't get along and they take advantage of us. >> you have strong opinions on military and economy and health care. 2016, there is not a front runner. >> wait and see what happens. people talk about mitt romney and he ran and lost and he is have won. i don't know what happened. i supported him. i liked him. but he shouldn't run and i hope he do