details about the raid are being revealed in a new book. gretchen: it s called under fire, the untold story of the attack in benghazi. the authors join us to tell us more about what they uncovered. good morning to both of you gentlemen. one of you is in texas and one is here on the set. brian: first, what do you think we still need to know? we need to know who planned it, who financed it, and who executed it. brian: yesterday the new york times said, libya itself is thwarting arrests in the benghazi attack. so we might be getting close. that poor excuse for a government is stopping us from arresting people that killed americans? why would that shock any of us? the north africa has become hostile ground to the united states and it is not in their best interest brian: the same way we killed bin laden, we should be killing them, don t you think? absolutely. people should be brought to justice. both fred and i don t believe that they ll end up in a court in the lower di
the story or not explain the story. one is the state department is not a security service in trying to move on after benghazi and the other is the c.i.a. that is trying to keep its activities in libya secret. brian: when we saw gregory hicks last, he said that he did believe that they could have been saved, at least help could have been sent on the way sometime in the hours of the attack that went on. what did your research reveal? help did go to benghazi and i think one of the untold stories of the attack in benghazi a year ago today was the fact that when word hit the embassy in trip apply, the c.i.a. staff, didn t hesitate for a moment. they grabbed their gear and volunteered to go to benghazi and save their comrades. they made it there under libyan circumstances, as quickly as humanly possible. the embassy relentlessly tried to figure out transportation. they used a libyan air force
gretchen: thank you. when a woman takes all the time and effort in the world to look as beautiful as she can so that the rest of us knuckle heads can bask in your glory brian: all right. gretchen: wow. brian: very well put. steve: i need some hip waders in here. brian: coming up, imagine sitting in your home and you see this happen. (scream). brian: what set off the massive explosion? the story coming up. gretchen: then he was the man who helped bring a city together after september 11. what does he think america will be now that rudy guiliani coming up next what makes your family smile? backflips and cartwheels.
in afghanistan he ended the surge as heñi started the surge making it more dangerous for the people on the ground. for this con tpheubgt in libya con tpheubgt in libya, there is still chaos there. now this conflict in syria is something he adçó libbed in august.ñrçó steve: 23 minutes before theñixd top ofçó theñrçó. action in syria but without speaking on theçó middle class first. did y]u hear this? i know americans want all of us inñi washington, especially me, to concentrate on the task of building our nation here at home. putting people back to work, educating our kids. growing our middle class. brian: how could action in syria impact our bottom line? stuart varney lives on the bottom lineçó but he s here on our top-line couch. first off, i think oil
17-minute speech trying to pitch why we need to do something in libya, even 4%qtiuut on it and then asked congress not to vote on it, to postpone. and we re apparently now weighing this russian proposal that john kerry ad libb@ ago. brian: we re also talking about how many re normally in the president s camp andçóñ helped him get elected are not there for even joe trippy weighed in on what he saw last night. he said repeatedly during this speech that he had beenñi fighting the whole four and a half years to end wars, not start one, wasn t really interested in doing one now, was much more interested in diplomacy. i don t see how the speech helped him withñi the left in the democraticñi party and a lot of antiwarñi votes in theñi congress to move to his side. i mean, first of all, there