and, you know, frankly anderson this compound was underprotected in that sort of situation.e served in places like this. and, you know, there was watchtowers, sandbags machine guns, and a safe room is really truly a safe roo. and if this was just a residential compound, it was underprotected. >> fran, what do you make of it? it sounds like if they were warned three days before that's pretty damning, no? >> it is anderson. and there's a couple of points to be made here. first of all, who did they speak to at the consulate? and what did those u.s. consulate employees do with that information? did they pass it on? did it get to the regional security officer who would have been in position to give additional resources d protection to both the compound and to the ambassador? second, anderson as you recall i was there in libya in tripoli august 28th and 29th. i had breakfast with ambassador stevens on august 28th and 29th and talked to him about my own observations about the increased presence of militias and the increased presence of the extremist presence in the east libya. i kn

day, that poor ambassador stevens understood he was in serious trouble there, that we left him underprotected, and that the assault was not a demonstration -- >> we didn't know any of that. >> -- the assault was not a demonstration, but a well-planned military movement attacking on three sides with rocket-propelled grenades, and it was deliberately designed to be a september 11th assault. it had nothing to do with the video. shame on this president for going back, trying to hide the facts by saying it over and over again in new york. >> we don't know any of that. we may know that when all the facts are in and it's all investigated, and it will be, but at the time this happened that is not what we knew. >> bill: joe, stop for a second. >> they admitted it yesterday, and the day before, and now he's retreating again. look, let me tell you what the big problem with this president is, in my opinion. he's absolutely lazy and detached from his job. when he doesn't go and attend 60% of the detailed presidential daily briefings that come from the cia and thinks he can just skim it, skim the summery p