the ten year of the secretary of the state and moved over to attack lines by republicans on the came pain trail. this is not the first time that she will be testifying about beng benghazi. she defended herself saying that she had no role in the skurlt decisions. the committee in the meantime have been going over some of the release e-mails from the state department and looking at anything that she had and leading up to the attack and as you rightly point out this is now in the spotlight and yesterday when the inspector general was saying that some fof the e-mails found on the serve er contained some classified information. now, it was not marked as such. it was not clear if she was aware that it was classified information or not. this just sets the stage up for a fire intense and has major
have been this cover-up? and peggy noonan in the wall street journal today put it better than others. the inconvenient truth about benghazi, the genesis of the scandal, it looks to me like this. the obama white house sees every event as a political event. it could not tolerate the idea that the armed assault on the ben g benghazi consulate was a premeditated act of islamist terrorism. that would carry a whole world of political implications and demand certain actions and the american presidential election was only eight weeks away. they wanted this problem to go away or at least to bleed the meaning from it. governor, why is that not a convincing way to analyze benghazi? no, i think that s right. i think that the obama white house wanted to spin this in the least damaging way possible. but i think you made it a very good point when you said, look, let s look at what happened that led to the deaths of the american people. i think the spin post incident, the american people, aren t g
maybe once every four years or once every two years, now, and you re likely a gop voter, you re the voter that we re going after in this period of time. whereas you look at barack obama s campaign, they re trying to put all four of you in the basket whereas we re trying to get the low propensity voters in the polls now knowing that our voters that vote every single election are going to be there on election day. that s generally the difference in philosophy. you know, there are things that get microtargeted differently in different states, but that s the overall philosophy on the ground. we mourn the loss of life in libya, but based on the facts we know how the administration handled what went on in ben g benghazi, why should that be an issue? well, i think it s the 3:00 a.m. call, the buck stops at the white house. that s what hillary clinton said
consequence of the video that, people gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary libya and that then spun out of control. martha: well that clearly just not jibe with everything else we re hearing from the president of libya onward. john bolton joins me now, former u.n. ambassador and fox news contributor. good to have you here. good morning, martha. glad to be with you. martha: sort of parsing these words but it does matter in terms of understanding what s going on in the middle east in these capitals and in these major cities because the report was there was no significant demonstration going on outside that consulate area in benghazi. so she is making it sound if the extremists who were heavily armed came in and joined a ongoing big demonstration that got
somewhat dead horse already, it wasn t so much did they miss evidence of an attack. my five-year-old kid could have figured out with 9/11 being there with benghazi being essentially a war zone with knowing that we had al-qaida associates there, and knowing that the state department s responsible for providing security, it s simple negligence on the part of those inside the state department who have responsibility for securing the personnel and facilities overseas. these decisions should have been taken a year ago and we wouldn t i suspect not be talking about this. bill: they failed to assess the risk properly then in benghazi is what you re leveling. absolutely, absolutely. this facility probably should have been conducted from the ground up. we do this all the time in areas where we believe we will have a permanent presence of officials and yet it s in a hostile environment. that wasn t done here. the attackers, i would bet my month s salary and more than that, and it doesn t amoun