the dinosaurs extinction. got you outnumbered. don t listen to them. not appropriate. now i m mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter. why don t you sit over here. something for everyone is awesome. find your awesome with the xfinity stream app. more to stream to every screen. so mika, somebody on the set whet break said things are screwed up right now that even leon panetta could not fix that and everybody laughed because he could fix anything. panetta can fix it. he can fix anything but it s getting bad. let s call panetta. joining us now is former secretary of defense and former director of the california, lee on panetta and co-chair of the
russia now is a coalition of two, iran and russia supporting assad. russia s the outlier. reporter: both leaders called for greater intelligence sharing to prevent future terrorist attacks but president obama added candidly, what happened in paris is very hard to stop. you have eight individuals with light weapons, that s a hard thing to track. reporter: no question which side the u.s. come down on in the shooting of the russian fighter jet by turkey. one senior administration official noted, the longstanding u.s. support for our ally turkey, quote/unquote, still exists. the white house is hopeful the incident won t impact with moscows. they feel that is the key to everything in the battle against isis. joinings now, lee on panetta,
command, i personally, and i think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack, he s asked by one of the congressmen, you would have advised as much if asked. would that be correct? he was going to a meeting with general dempsey and lee on panetta. that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir. and after general ham had that conversation with mr. panetta and mr. dempsey, they met moments later with the president of the united states. we re to believe now based on these documents that this was the military consensus. this had been a terrorist attack, and, of course, famously
command, i personally, and i think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack, he s asked by one of the congressmen, you would have advised as much if asked. would that be correct? he was going to a meeting with general dempsey and lee on panetta. that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir. and after general ham had that conversation with mr. panetta and mr. dempsey, they met moments later with the president of the united states. we re to believe now based on these documents that this was the military consensus. this had been a terrorist attack, and, of course, famously
what do we know about this warning to the state department before the attack? reporter: the other thing to watch for at this hearing, fox news was told that there will be very aggressive questioning about an emergency meeting that was held in benghazi in august one month before the attack where they essentially predicted how they would die in a month later in a coordinated assault. this was like a red flare or a red flag and it went directly to washington. what we now know is that this warning from people on the ground in benghazi was considered so significant that several other top administration officials were read in on that emergency meeting classified cable and they include then secretary of defense lee on panetta, the chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey and then also carter ham who at that time was the head of the africa command but significantly when mrs. clinton was questioned in january about that classified cable and the warning that the benghazi operation could no