michaels or his brother, jeff michaels who is a powerful lobbyist in new jersey who was also mentioned in steve s report. the executive director of the port authority has now asked the port authority inspector general and the port authority police chief to investigate the role of at least that one port authority police officer who apparently drove around david wildstein on the first morning of the closures. other reporting tonight suggests that the new internal port authority investigation may be broader than just that one officer, that it may be a wider look at the role of port authority police on the bridge that day and their role in the overall scheme. during the bridge lane closures, the mayor of ft. lee, this was on thursday of the week that the bridge lanes were shut down, so this is day four, on thursday the 9th of excuse me, the 12th of september, the mayor of ft. lee wrote to the port authority pleading for help. pleads. it has been four days of this in our town. we are tota
taken at 5:00. by 9:00 it was wrapped. amazing it was wrapped around the pole, the pictures we show on the show tonight, and then it disappeared by 10:30. there were pictures taken by other photographers. now, where did it go? wed gotten some leads already on the cnn.com, where people said, hey, we saw some people who set up lights, withes dispatched down from main, and it might be in our boss s office. somebody must have taken it down to protect it from the elements that night or they saw it was wrapped around. they might not even know they have the real flag, because it wasn t famous yet. in the first evening, that flag had not been published, it wasn t published until late late that night or early in the morning, didn t get known until the 12th of september. someone protected it for some reason, and we re already getting some leads. hopefully we ll find it.
of the state department officials last october. the cia also knew better because this station chief in tripoli on the 12th of september cabled back that this was a terrorist attack. perhaps the best that could be said for the inclusion of demonstrations and protests and even the early versions of the talking points was that there was perhaps an instance here of analytic laziness that is to say we observed a lot of protests outside u.s. installations around the world on the 10th of september. we have this situation on the 11th. it must be part and parcel of the same thing. james rosen, thank you. thank you. for more, we re joined by simon rosenberg, president of a left-leaning think tank. and mark tooesen, a former speechwriter for president george w. bush. your reaction to the report we went through, mark? well, it is shocking.
were all the security requests denied and how could she not know about it? this was an attack a long time in the making. al qaeda flags were flying across benghazi. ambassador stevens said in august we can t defend the consulate. now we have e-mail traffic about changing the talking points. we got e-mails coming from libya saying definitively on the 12th of september this was a terrorist attack and here the groups are responsible. how could she on the 14th of september tell a family member, charles wood, the father of ty woods, we ll get the guy who made that video? did she know about the intelligence coming from the state department in libya, from libya to the headquarters in the state department clearly saying from the people who lived through it this was a terrorist attack and here s who was involved? how could she not know that? cheryl mills needs to come and explain herself. i want to call sherman dempsey back, who said no one was told to stand down. now we know that lieutenant
been had he solved. we want to know why the race statement was made. the president we know had a one-hour conversation with netanyahu that night of september 11, the chairman of the joint chiefs and secretary of defense defend defense knew it was a terrorist attack that night because of the way the mortars his the annex. yet he said they didn t know. the president in in debate with mitt romney said i said it was a terrorist attack. he didn t. he gave an interview with cbs the night of the 12th of september that he said he didn t know what caused it. there are so many questions out there and we made two movies about how they got bin laden yet we cannot find out the barest fundamentals of what happened in benghazi. we night never. switching gears. what about a sequestration cut