indeed that of his colleagues, glen dougherty, sean smith, tyrone woods. i know you all join me in honoring and appreciating their service and devotion as well. chris and i worked together for a time almost a dozen years ago. he was even then fully committed to his work. an authority already in the middle east. a fine student of arabic. much more. he gave me careful and cogent advice and council as we wrestled together with the many growing problems that even back then were en endemic to the country's work. i learned about benghazi, as the critical changes in libya began to unfold. his leadership there at a time of great importance and danger was a tribute to his courage and bravery. his skill and dedication as a diplomat. to his commitment to a new and better libya. benghazi in a real sense, as you have heard today, became his city. as it is with a deep sense of fate that in benghazi he and his colleagues gave that last full measure for his country and his many friends in the city where he died, continuing to defend and prosper their hopes and their aspir

explained why the military couldn't do more to save the lives of ambassador chris stevens, sean smith, tyrone woodsnd glenn dougherty in benghazi on september 11. >> united states military, as i've said, is not and frankly should not be a 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world. >> republican senators weren't satisfied. >> did you know how long the attack was going to last, secretary panetta? >> no idea. >> well, it could have lasted for two days. any airplane launched anywhere in the world before the attack was concluded? >> if you're talk being a aircraft, no, senator. >> your response, general dempsey, are very inadequate and in my opinion, the same kind of inadequacy for the security which you provided at that consulate. >> they wanted to know what the president knew and when he knew it. >> sew didn't ask you what ability we had in the area and what we could do? >> no. >> did you have any further communications with him that night? >> no. >> did he ever call you that night to say how are things going? what's going on? where is t

. >> we are particularly reminded by the stevens and authority and tyrone woods and sean smith, and nowy here still mourns that loss, and we will. so i pledge to you this. i will not let their patriotism and their bravery be obscured by politics. >> senior diplomatic sources tell fox news that secretary of state kerry went to walter reed national military hospital to talk to some of those wounded in the attacks. >> drivers parked their cars on top of a dead king. scientists confirmed that it beyond reasonable doubt that a 500 year old skeleton the found beneath a parking lot in a central british city belongs to richard iii. >> the analysis of the skeleton proves it was an adult mail with an unusually slender or almost feminine build of a main. this is in keeping with sources that say rich has a slender build. >> dna matched the same taken from a distant living relative of rich's sister. richard iii had a major thirst for power. apparently killing his young nephews to avoid rivalries. researches say the died in battle where his opponents stabbed him, strip him naked and throw him from th

the same indirect fire that killed former navy seal tyrone woods and glen doherty at the c.i.a.ex. in late 2011 he wrote to ayman al-zawahiri. to take advantage of the cans in libya after the revolution. to buy weapons and attract foreign fighters. >> he is clearly seeking additional support for operation going forward. a guy that is willing to take direction from him. >> he is denied access to a second suspect who was released by the tunisian authorities last month citing lack of evidence. the f.b.i. questioned him after republican senator lindsey graham intervened. during recent confirmation hearings the president pick to lead the c.i.a. deferred to the authority of foreign government when pressed on access to al harsi. >> they didn't give us access to him. we don't have information from him. >> we work with partners across the board. when they are able to detain vims according to their laws we work to see if we can have the ability to ask them questions, sometimes intrechtly and sometimes trechtly. >> asked if the state department raised "a"hmed to egypt -- >> these are quest

and benghazi we lost four fellow servants, chris stevens, sean smith, tyrone woods and glen doherty. we mourn their deaths even as we honor their service. we honor them most by taking what we learned from their loss to prepare for an uncertain future. thank you. >> thank you very much, general dempsey. let's have a seven-minute round for the first round to get everybody. if we need a second round we can do it. we've had a late start this morning. you ended with your plea on sequestration and your need to-- the need to avoid it. i totally agree with you. there is near universal agreement, perhaps universal on this panel, about the devastating impacts that sequestration is likely to have on the department of defense and on other federal agencies as well. i believe, as you do, that it is incumbent on congress and the executive branch to work together to avoid sequestration. toward that end, i, as one member of the senate, have advocated for a balanced solution to sequestration that includes both revenues and spending cuts. i suggested a specific proposal that would raise revenues by clo

foreign service officer sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen daughtery.ohn kerry paid tribute to the victims of benghazi attack today as he started his new job. >> i know everybody here still mourns that loss and why we will. i pledge to you this. i will not let their patriotism and their bravery be on secured by politics. [ applause ] >> shepard: secretary kerry plans to focus on security for staffers arranged the world. james rosen at the state department tonight. we are also learning that he met with survivors of the benghazi attack, yes? >> fox news has learned that secretary kerry carved out time on saturday of this past weekend to make a secret trip to walter reed national medical center. and there he visited with some of the security agents wounded in benghazi on 9/11. >> everything i do will be focused on security and safety of our people. we have tough decisions to make but i guarantee i will will do everything i can to live up to the high standers that secretary clinton and her team put in place. >> kerry's spokeswoman declined to say when i ask

tyrone woods and glen daughtery.n pointed out commanders didn't know how long the attack would last. >> was any airplane launched anywhere in the world to help these people? >> well, we ultimately did launch 130s to go in and rescue the people. >> when were they launched? >> they were launched in the period of time when the team went in there and when we concluded, the attack was concluded. we said we have got to get the people out of there. >> senator john mccain asked secretary panetta about syria and the idea of arming the opposition firefighters there. >> did -- fighters there. >> did you support the recommendation by secretary of state -- then secretary clinton and then head of cia general petraeus that we provide weapons to the resistance in syria? do you support that? >> we do. >> shepard: officials say the united states has not sent any weapons, at least not directly to the syrian rebels. there is a new sign of hope for the job market tonight. but our latest fox news poll shows americans may not be feeling so

has martha has been reporting after talking to senator graham it was a full seven hours before tyrone woods and glen doherty were killed. so a lot of questions for the military response, rick. rick: a lot of people have been asking about how much the pentagon knew, if anything about the cia's presence in benghazi and whether or not that may have played a role in the delay of any kind of a military response. is that likely to come up? >> reporter: i think it's very interesting in the statement department's arb report, the after action review, general carter hamm said that he wasn't aware that there was such a large group of americans operating out of benghazi. he is the head of africom, why did he not know that the cia had such a large presence there. what they were doing? i think senator rand paul was trying to get at that when he was questioning secretary of state hillary clinton last week. take a listen. >> my question is, is the u.s. involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, anyhow transferring weapons to turkey out of libya? >> to turkey? i will have

america's promise in benghazi we lost four fellow servant office the nation, christy ven, john smith, tyrone woods and gasoline dougherty to their family and friend is offer my personal condolences. we mourn their deaths as we honor their service. we honor them most by taking what we learned from their loss to prepare for an uncertain future. thank you. >> thank you very much, general dempsey. let's have a seven-minute round for the first round. and if we need a second round we can do that. we got a little bit of a hate start here this morning. secretary, you end up with your plea on sequestration, and the need to avoid it, and i totally agree with you. there is i think near universal agreement, perhaps universal on this panel -- about the devastating impact that sequestration is likely have to on the department of defense and on other federal agencies as well. i believe, as you do, that it is incumbent on congress and the executive branch to work together to avoid sequestration. toward that end, i, as one member of the senate, have advocated for a balanced solution to sequestration that includes

window between when the attack began and 5:15 in the morning when navy seals glen dowerity and tyrone woods loster that lives. roughly 7 1/2 hours there. and i recognize that in any mill tear conflict, one inevitably faces the proverbial fog of war. but what i'd like to ask you to do is use the 2020 -- use the 0/20 hindsight we have now. if you could go back -- use the 20/20 hindsight we have now. if you could go back in time and play it other again. if at 9:42 p.m. benghazi time when the first attack began, you knew that at 5:15 a.m., two former seals would be on the roof of that annex and would face mortar fire, what specifically could have been done if we had that knowledge and i recognize that is a hypothetical but if we had that knowledge, what military options would there have been to prevent that loss of life and stop that attack at the annex? >> senator, as you said, it's tough to respond to a hypothetical. as long as we're talking about hypotheticals, the best that would have happened here is that we would have had a heads up and we would have had troops on the ground to protect th