barricaded him in his factory holding him hostage. dozens of workers at specialty medical supplies china say they re mad about pay. the man tells cnn the whole situation is a misunderstanding. but our david mckenzie is in beijing following the story. and i asked him what is happening. erin, this is where this bizarre story is unfolding. u.s. businessman, chip stang in the factory. he says workers in china are holding him hostage. he has been in there more than five days. it all started because of a labor dispute. they re moving some of the operations into mumbai, india. some of the workers panicked saying they want their severance. he has been trying to negotiate. thank you, david. now to egypt. forcing the american embassy in cairo to close. worried that anti-government protests could turn violent. and i asked how serious it is
the special forces helicopter, before we got to the talking points, the first scandal was susan rice protesting about the video. what i find fascinating about the points today is that the first item in the talking points basically says that. it says this came about from spontaneous protest inspired by the u.s. embassy protests in cairo. and that one element which was agreed to by everyone internally never gets denied by anyone, right? so that actually lets off the hook the first theory of what the scandal was here. just to be clear. fair enough, but i have a question. why did the cia or whoever wrote that first briefing say that when it looks like nobody in libya thought that there was ever a protest and nobody in libya believed that this was anything but a terrorist attack, and in the original reports, you know, were murky, and i agree, there is a fog of terrorism, but
told, it seemed to me each one pointing the finger@othe at the other. pointing fingers is a fairly mundane and common quality. it s common, but it also reflects a basic truth, and that is that the fog of terrorism is as bad as the fog of war. to expect within fife days to have all the answers of what happened in benghazi, who was responsible, was totally unrealistic. this did happen in the climate of other attacks first at the american embassy in cairo and later in the same period. this seemed part and parcel of the controversy over a film by an egyptian who was living in the united states that was particularly controversial in the eyes of muslims. and so in trying to sort out what happened, what was different, who was responsible for each of the specific attacks, benghazi got lumped in with the broader kind of crisis, the alienation over this film. and then it played out as well
the german generals thought they could control him. when you have autocratic governments like this, you re not going to control an individual like morsi. i think it s very important we have a national discussion on it. sean: liz, would this be any different than giving the planes to ahmadinejad in iran? why do i not see a difference? is it the same? i don t think it s exactly the same, sean, but i think you clearly have a situation the message this president sent there are no consequences to crossing the united states. there are no consequences, you overrun our consulate in benghazi, kill americans and no one is held to account. in this particular case, president morsi allowed members of al-qaeda to overrun the american embassy in cairo and allowed them to rip down our flag and fly the al-qaeda
the german generals thought they could control him. when you have autocratic governments like this, you re not going to control an individual like morsi. i think it s very important we have a national discussion on it. sean: liz, would this be any different than giving the planes to ahmadinejad in iran? why do i not see a difference? is it the same? i don t think it s exactly the same, sean, but i think you clearly have a situation the message this president sent there are no consequences to crossing the united states. there are no consequences, you overrun our consulate in benghazi, kill americans and no one is held to account. in this particular case, president morsi allowed members of al-qaeda to overrun the american embassy in cairo and allowed them to rip down our flag and fly the al-qaeda