drink, i think, mojitos and listen to music and had no idea the neighbors that there were at least three women and a child living in the house trapped in the house. unbelievable. there s so many unanswered questions. we ll be following every part of this and as soon as we bring in information, we ll bring it to you. turning now to other news. the ongoing investigation into the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. according to excerpts released by house republicans, a u.s. diplomat who was in tripoli on the night of the attack, told investigators that u.s. special forces were prepared to fly to the consulate but were told to stand down by regional commanders. gregory hicks at the time the deputy chief mission said he called for military help for more special forces operatives in tripoli but was overruled. he told house republicans, quote, i believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter air or aircraft or two over benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced,
when we started honey boo boo. you haven t seen honey boo boo? all i know because i caught a little piece of it you can t just get a little. can t just get a little. can t just get a little. and we re not going to talk about it any more. and here s msnbc political analyst steve schmidt. you ve seen honey boo boo before. i ve seen it one time. i couldn t take my eyes away. it s amazing. it drew me in and leigh gallagher s here. fortune 500, who is number one? number one is walmart with $469 billion in revenue. yeah. that s great. yeah. we re going to be talking about that and we re going to see have you seen duck dynasty? no, i have not. you need to see duck dynasty. compelling tv. we re going to start. can we please, to the news? i m begging you. we re going to talk about
yeah, talk to the police when they get there. okay. are they on the road right now? we re going to send them as soon as we get a car open. no, i need them now before he gets back. how old is he? he s like 52. all right. and i m amanda berry, i ve been on the news for the last ten years. oh, my gosh. imagine getting that call. i know that 911 operators get tons of crazy calls and this one must have sounded crazy. but if you re amanda berry and they say, when we get a car open, we ll stop by. are you kidding me? i don t think so. she was like, no. the headline. she s like, look at the news. unbelievable. everything she said was absolutely true. who was behind this? well, there s three brothers as far as police know at this point. all in their 50s, in police custody right now awaiting charges. two of the young women were in their teens as we mentioned when they went missing, the third was 20 years old. the neighbor who came to the rescue was as surprised
anonymous claims they were sexually assaulted skyrocketed from 19,000 to 26,000 between 2011 and 2012. and mika, a number you don t see there tragically, the number of women that decide they need to just say nothing. exactly. because they re in the military and afraid they ll face retribution. if there s ever an example as to why we need more women i think you would need a woman in charge of the sexual assault units. that s a good point, actually. that s a good point. that might be a good point to look at moving forward. okay. jim vandehei joins us, and you ve got bloomberg topping the politico news this morning. take it away. yeah, in the past you ve talked about republicans voting against the gun bill.