those civilians who were at embassy and u.s. civilians within ukraine, it s very important that the u.s. government has a plan to help those people get to safety and i actually wrote a letter this week with one of my colleagues to the administration saying, you know, what is the plan? we have had briefings as congress from department of defense and i really want to make sure there is a good solid plan to be able to react and get those americans out if we have, you know, russia does decide to take this drastic measure. we keep hearing u.s. officials say that they are ready to impose severe consequences if russia moves in. but we have seen enough tick in activity from the u.s. in terms of giving aid to ukraine, now you have this move at the embassy there in ukraine. do you think we could see a change in the u.s. response to russia now that they ve scaled back personnel at their embassy in ukraine? well, what i say is that we need to provide the maximum security assistance as quickly
condoleezza rice. although i think inside the intelligence establishment in uk intelligence establishment in uk intelligence establishment is there was some knowledge that a big attack was coming up in the united states it was not something at the time of our four front of our concerns in the embassy. four front of our concerns in the embassy- embassy. intelligence sharing obviously became embassy. intelligence sharing obviously became paramount| embassy. intelligence sharing i obviously became paramount at embassy. intelligence sharing - obviously became paramount at this time and over the years we have just expected this was taking place automatically. how are we describing the state of intelligence today particularly after what we have seen in gunnison? peek the thing about intelligence agencies is they work secretly. i am no longer a member of the british diplomatic service. i am no longer a working british ambassador in the foreign office. i cannot tell you that i am privy to t
also going into jordan, but while these those marines and other u.s. forces are coming in, they are lessening the number of u.s. personnel at embassy. that s the first time they have done that since the initial invasion back in 2003. anderson, what are you hearing from the ground? do the folks here talk and say that the u.s. needs to come in, that u.s. air strikes are necessary in order to fight isis because it s as you re pointing out the iraqi the iraqi army, their capability at least right now is in question. do they see are they calling for the united states to help? reporter: look, it really depends who you talk to. there s certainly a lot of pride here. there s certainly a belief among a lot of people. you know, you talk to these volunteers and see these volunteers showing up in huge numbers really without in many cases without military training. they say they are willing to fight and willing to die and to fight isis and they say they are
the protesters were outside the embassy. i have a flag in cairo where demonstrations took place at the embassy. another picture in jordan of the united states embassy where protests took place. in bahrain over 2,000 protesters burned numerous united states and israeliing ins. again, at embassy. in kuwait, embassy 500 demonstrators chaned obama we are osama bin laden. the flag again and fineally in libya, the flag was blown and carried through the streets this, as well. my question, madam secretary, were you aware of the d.o.d. report prior to the terrorist attack in benghazi? i was certainly aware of a
and i think, you know, we but this argument that the republicans have tried to use that says, well, you know, like if we stay, if we leave, something bad s going to happen and therefore we have to keep troops there. they re just not hearing the fact that american people don t want that anymore. we don t want to be there anymore. and the iraqis don t want us there anymore. hey, we all agree, let s bring our troops home. the polls are very clear on this. they speak very clearly about the politics of it. republicans then are speaking an unpopular position. i want to listen to one, mitt romney, one of the front-runners speaking to the des moines register . they were unable to a lou 10,000 to 20,000 troops to remain which was a failure on the part of the administration. jon, was that a failure? look, it s a success of the administration. what was going on in iraq in the summer months is there was a tremendous amount of pressure from military leaders inside iraq and the pentagon.