megyn: joining me by phone, charles woods, the father of former navy seal tie reason woods who was one of the four americans killed in that attacks and was a hero trying to save the lives of the am bass deern others on that fateful evening. i apologize, the cell phone connection is a little sketchy. by want to get your response to the president s comments. thank you very much, megyn. i haven t really had a chance to listen to this interview. i lilsenned to about two minutes of it yesterday. i was too busy being mr. mom over here, my two dmairts hawaii. but i did write down statement that was made here. and that was apparently the president said i did whatever was needed to protect the lives of those people that i sent. and i really would consider that to be a disingenuous remark.
ed henry is here to take us through what happened at the white house press briefing this morning. is that the distinct they were trying to draw? i tried to fin jay carney down on whether he s saying with absolute certainty that the president and vice president were never briefed in recent weeks or months about the security problems around the consulate in benghazi. but as we know now it had been targeted several times. the am bass deern others had been asking for more security, they were concerned about it. jay carney hernlgd on whether they were ever briefed. he said they never got any actionable intelligence about an impending terror attack at that consulate. that leaves the door open to other briefings about security issues there. i pressed jay on that point. does this mean that the president and vice president are sort of passing things over to the state department? take a listen.