provided the local guards. a source of knowledge, one in june and a second in july, tells fox that the libyan contract holder felt that the security provided by blue mountain u.k. was, quote: sub standard, and the situation was unworkable. when the libyans tried to bring in a third party to improve security at the consulate, a state department contract officer apparently shut it down. quote: reporter: we are asking blue mountain u.k. to respond to those charges. alisyn: catherine herridge, thank you for that update and your excellent reporting throughout this entire situation. reporter: you re welcome. alisyn: so what do these new documents really tell us? our next guest is the author of known and unknown: a memoir. donald rumsfeld, former secretary of defense under president george w. bush. sedge tear rumsfeld secretary
alisyn: we re back now with former defense secretary donald rum fed, the author of known and unknown: a memoir. and we are talking about security concerns in libya ahead of the terror attack that killed four americans on 9/11. mr. secretary, you mentioned pram ma s trip president obama s trip to las vegas on september 12th. chief white house adviser david plouffe defended that decision this weekend, and he said that, basically, president obama is the president 24/7, he can multitask. what do you think of that? if you were secretary of defense today, what would you be advising the president to do about this benghazi situation? i think that the benghazi situation is a part of a pattern that we re seeing in the not just the arab world, but the islamic world. and it seems to me that the people in the white house including the president have a responsibility to the country to focus on what is apparently a very serious and broad, deep problem.