Get a deputy confirmed, hopefully soon, to take to heart what Jane Holl Lute used to be. Im sure Janet Napolitano who was secretary did as well. Without with that having been said let me ask you what you believe to be some of the Major Management challenges in the department. And what do you see your role as the secretary in adjusting addressing those management challenges . Ive read that gao report. I saw the 31 issues that gao identified. I was pleased to see that, according to gao, dhs is moving in the right direction with respect to these issues and resolving a number of them. In terms of management issues, vacancies, ensuring an efficient procurement process, getting an unqualified audited Financial Statement and dealing with some of the internal controls issues that lead to an unqualified opinion, i also think that with six different Accounting Systems we need to be sure we have what the financial people call this is intelligence so you can identify things like im obligated funds
We begin with the Obama Administrations latest attempt to explain the misleading information given out in the days after the september 11th attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Four americans including the u. S. Ambassador to libya died in what we now know was a terrorist attack. But that isnt what the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations susan rice said when she went on National Television five days after the attack. Today rice is up on capitol hill. Shes explaining what happened and some bigname republicans clearly are not very happy with her answers. Our senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash is following whats become a pretty long day a tiring day for the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Whats the latest, dana . Reporter wolf, the three republican senators who had vowed to block susan rice from being secretary of state if the president nominates her had really softened the rhetoric in recent days. Im told the reason for that was because it was a curtesy in order f
if it weren t for that stupid door, his words, they would have had the element of surprise. it could have the raid could have gone in a much different way. instead, he said almost instantly is shots were fired by the people inside. he said that first initial gun battle lasted 30 to 45 minutes, an incredibly intense gun battle. he sid there were snipers posted at different spots. he said they used everything in their arsenal, drones to look inside, robots to look inside, of course the police dog who was killed in the operation, and he said if it hadn t been for losing that element of surprise, he said, it could have gone differently. erica? such an intense description and such phenomenal details they were giving so quickly. kelley, thank you.
very intense investigations over the past several days, three of the attackers, including the ringleader carried belgian citizenship, and the others live there. as one european official said these were designed in syria, planned in belgium, but executed in france. you can understand why belgium is such a critical part of the investigation. absolutely and why there is such a focus. tonight news that he was in fact kin, in the raids in sanity-denis. kell kelley, good evening. good evening, erica. we ll tart with the new raid. it sharls in charlil, will 145