The one. And said to myself is why the president put you here. So i recognized common even with the large staffs that we have around us that we surround ourselves with, every once in a while you have to take an independent look at something and not be afraid to realize that maybe they bureaucracy has got this wrong and you happen to be right. And i did that on a number of occasions at the pentagon. Okay. As i prepared to yield to dr. Coburn im reminded of the many definitional issue. One of my favorite, it goes Something Like this. Leadership whenever else is marching to the wrong tune. Leadership also requires folks to lead. And help you leave the department. My colleagues and i know that we, as you said his position has been vacant for months. The deputy position, deputy secretary for over half a year and there are a number of positions they need to be filtered the administration has obligation to nominate many people and we have an obligation to act on them. I hope we will probably
what a sad story. bill: new details now on the american teacher gunned down in benghazi yesterday. ronnie smith, shown here, getting ready to spend christmas back in austin, texas, with his wife and young son, sending them home ahead of him while staying back to help his students with their exams. a man of faith. he saw what he was doing in libya as part of god s mission for him. no one claiming responsibility for smith s murder but just days before an al qaeda spokesman, adam gadd dan, american, calling libyans to attack westerners. lieutenant colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst and military analyst as well. colonel, good morning to you. great to have you back. i want to get to his vocation in a moment. adam gadan, mentioned a few moments ago, al qaeda propogandist, mention to militants in libya, rise up and take vaning against america. that was his message. we don t have a link.
0 greg palkot leading coverage. greg, you were in south africa six months ago. how are people reacting there? reporter: that s right, bill. we were outside the pretoria hospital whereenelson mandela laid gravely ill couple months ago. we saw the outpouring. the scenes we re looking at now from south africa is just the beginning. it will continue. crowds are gathering outside of the johannesburg house where mandela spent last troubling weeks and months. they re marking the passing of the person they can the father of their country. they re mourning and also celebrating the man. his body was taken overnight to a nearby morgue in preparation for the week-long morning period starting with a national day of prayer this coming sunday and ending with burial in the following sunday in the home village. probably no stronger tribute we ve heard today from the one-time nemesis of mandel last, f.w. de klerk. he was the last president of south africa under the hated apartheid system but also one
your homes to relax, your guard can be let down. you can ease up and then the shots started firing up. within just the last half hour or so, we re told better than 30 shots fired. and within the last five minutes or so we re told at least three large explosions heard. eric sawn? sean in boston with the very latest. do we know in fact that the suspect hiding in that boat backyard is dzhokhar tsarnaev? reporter: we only know from reports and from sources it is believed that it is the suspect number two who was, reportedly inside that boat. we heard some of those bangs just a few minutes ago, and neil, this is a very dramatic turn of events this evening. this appears this is a standoff. reports say he is alive and surrounded. those bangs could potentially have an like, perhaps those flash bangs police sometimes use in hostage negotiating and standoffs with armed suspects to try to rattle them and this sort of thing. what we do know is this. this happened very suddenly this e
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