al qaeda hasn t been decimated. they are on the rise, all over iraq. they are training camps, in libbia. they are all over sirria. they are on the rise everywhere in the middle-east. eric: could the controversy derail ambassador rice s possible nomination as the next secretary of state? ford and joe, welcome this morning. thank you. eric: ford, that s your old boss, highly critical of miss rice. she has a long history with the president. do you expect him to nominate her? she should get a confrimplation hearing. blaming the intel is a cop-out and the head in the sand defense won t work. why did she allow herself to be a pawn for the administration, when it is clear within hours or a day, erch close to the matter
attack in benghazi, they have called her unqofl qualified, untrustworthy and they would block her nomination as secretary of state. you have defended her. but i want to read something you said between the time of the attack and when she when she made the rounds on the sunday shows. right. shannon: in the interim day, you said this was not just a mob that got out of hand. mobs don t attack guns blazing, i think there was a growing consensus it was preplanned. if you had that estimation a couple of days before he went on the sunday shows, why should she get a pass on saying something different. there is a quote that i have from her sunday interview where she said, it was initially a demonstration, then other extremist individuals with heavy weapons of kind that are regrettably readily available in libbia, launched the attack. susan rite rice didn t say this was a bunch of demonstrators who
trigger. never gave the authorization, never told the military to engage in the fire fight, protect the americans and extract them. he did not do that. greta: someone tried to ask him at the press conference, did you give the authority? i don t think there was a complete answer, i didn t walk away, knowing if we had the answer, did pee pull the trigir he may have, i didn t get. i went to libbia. they had proximity, they had the capability, they were never given the order to do that. they contradicts what the president has said publicly about what he asked the military to do and not do. that s a hiewmg question that needs to be answered by the president. greta: we keep talk about this four who were murdered as the catalyst for the investigation. there are a lot of reasons. but we often overlook, the people were hurt. yeah. to me, this is one of the national tragedies, nobody s talked about this yet. but if you look at that timeline this, fire fight starts at 9:40
never gave the authorization, never told the military to engage in the fire fight, protect the americans and extract them. he did not do that. greta: someone tried to ask him at the press conference, did you give the authority? i don t think there was a complete answer, i didn t walk away, knowing if we had the answer, did pee pull the trigir he may have, i didn t get. i went to libbia. they had proximity, they had the capability, they were never given the order to do that. they contradicts what the president has said publicly about what he asked the military to do and not do. that s a hiewmg question that needs to be answered by the president. greta: we keep talk about this four who were murdered as the catalyst for the investigation. there are a lot of reasons. but we often overlook, the people were hurt. yeah. to me, this is one of the national tragedies, nobody s talked about this yet. but if you look at that timeline this, fire fight starts at 9:40
career, risked his life and gave his life because he was told to stand down at the cia annex, which is a mile away from the consulate. wait a minute. this story in the washington post tonight contradicts everything they said. now, i believe it s because if they had used this csg, they would have had to admit it s terror. two weeks later, the president wasn t saying it was a terror attack. the answer to this is pretty clear. it s been going on six or seven months. i think president obama and his administration wanted a big victory in libbia. they overthrough qaddafi, a moderate government a moderate, incompetent government was elected. everything s nice in libya. he did a great job. he got bin laden and libya wow, he did a great job. they discounted this because they didn t want to focus on the fact that libya is a disaster, all kinds of attacks going on in benghazi, consulate hit twice. the british consulate attack.