this whole issue of benghazi gate, laura was to channel ed henry. the same way our white house correspondent was busting jay carney today at that press briefing. you know, when did you find out about the request for additional security there? are you saying that you were never briefed? i needed to see paul ryan advance that conversation. instead, the issue was raised, and it was almost as if it went in passing. it happened, there was the moment but i didn t see the congressman challenge the vice president on either the lack of security or more importantly, once he he had had that exchange on security, on what they knew and when they knew it about the true nature of those hideous attacks, laura. laura: and geraldo, joe biden getting back to my point did say the intel community had floated this idea that it was a protest. of course, the intel community
in fact, under testimony, we asked charlene lamb, who is in charge of the embassies and security, and we asked her, was there denial of more personnel in libya a result of a lack of funding? she said. no it s a red herring. something they put out there as a strawman to try to distract. when your budget is increased 118% over five years you have to make priorities, you have to make choices. we have over 6,000 private contractors in baghdad and, yet, we barely have two dozen in libya. laura: are you going to bring susan rice to capitol hill to testify. i want to hear from the president. i want to hear from secretary clinton. i want to hear from ambassador rice and i want the intelligence community to be able to voice this out because i think the administration should have known beforehand that this was going to happen. laura: congressman, thank you so much. directly ahead, things got prettied heated last night when the candidates discussed afghanistan. herald geraldo is going to
americans in to do the jobs you would rather americans be doing the job. we are already sending americans to do the job but fewer of them. that s right, we are sending in more afghans to do the job. laura: joining me now from new york is fox news anchor geraldo rivera. and geraldo, before we get to afghanistan, i want to get your take on the obama campaign s response first to the libya attack. we were just discussing that in the previous segment and now intelligence community folks, former cia director general hayden came out strong against biden throwing the intelligence community under the bus because the intel people said hey, don t look at us. we never said we never briefed congress on this idea it was spontaneous protest that went awry. last nighted by den actually said that at the debate. you know, i think that let s first of all put the focus on paul ryan because i really believe what paul ryan
priorities. in fact, under testimony, we asked charlene lamb, who is in charge of the embassies and security, and we asked her, was there denial of more personnel in libya a result of a lack of funding? she said. no it s a red herring. something they put out there as a strawman to try to distract. when your budget is increased 118% over five years you have to make priorities, you have to make choices. we have over 6,000 private contractors in baghdad and, yet, we barely have two dozen in libya. laura: are you going to bring susan rice to capitol hill to testify. i want to hear from the president. i want to hear from secretary clinton. i want to hear from ambassador rice and i want the intelligence community to be able to voice this out because i think the administration should have known beforehand that this was going to happen. laura: congressman, thank you so much. directly ahead, things got prettied heated last night when the candidates discussed afghanistan. herald geraldo
americans in to do the jobs you would rather americans be doing the job. we are already sending americans to do the job but fewer of them. that s right, we are sending in more afghans to do the job. laura: joining me now from new york is fox news anchor geraldo rivera. and geraldo, before we get to afghanistan, i want to get your take on the obama campaign s response first to the libya attack. we were just discussing that in the previous segment and now intelligence community folks, former cia director general hayden came out strong against biden throwing the intelligence community under the bus because the intel people said hey, don t look at us. we never said we never briefed congress on this idea it was spontaneous protest that went awry. last nighted by den actually said that at the debate. you know, i think that let s first of all put the focus on paul ryan because i really believe what paul ryan