we have to support them in any way we, and keep working on a very, very difficult problem. shannon: we do have reports that there are negotiations with egypt, trying to broker a cease-fire and indications that israel is preparing to prepare for a ground war offensive. how worried are you about that step playing out? well, very worried. the president said it best in the clips you were showing, we need to try to avoid that. israel has to defend itself. hopefully, we work with the egypts to broker the cease-fire. if there is a ground invasion, that will increase the violence and make it that much more difficult to get to a peaceful situation. israel has to do what it can to disop the rockets from raining down on the citizens. shannon: i want to turn to libya, benghazi, with the testimony from general petraeus and others, there are several g.o.p. senator who is have said that ambassador rice in the version that she gave, several days after the initial deadly
table, do you know how many days that pays for the federal government? not 8 days. want 8 months, not 8 week, 8 days. reporter: last night in a fopped raisener iowa, republican senator marco rubio talked about the fiscal cliff and made clear that congress created the cliff and that goes to show how dysfunctional the process of legislating in the united states is. shannon: several republicans want u.n. ambassador susan rice held accountable for comments she made days after the attack in libya. we will talk to adam smith who is defending ambassador rice. a lot of folks are still in desperate need after hurricane sandy. later in the show, we will show you how you can help with these efforts and about many other worthy causes as well. people have doubts about taking aspirin for pain.
playing out right now in israel? it s a sad situation. but i defend israel s right to defend itself when have you hundreds and hundreds of rockets coming in. iran seems to be funding some of this, ultimately. israel has a right to self defense. fortunately, the iron dome system is having a 90% success rate, if the rocket is going to an inhabited area. the iron dome, developed by the israelis and funded by the u.s. to some extent, is working. shannon: we just had one of your colleagues on, adam smith. i wanted to talk about the things coming up, benghazi, libya and ap ambassador rice. as i read his comments to him, between the interim of the attack and when susan rice made the rounds on the sunday shows, he said himself this, wasn t just a mab that got out of control. there is a growing consensus.
coming in five at a time. not just randomly one and two over there all over the southern region. five and five and ten. as i speak to you right now, jeff head near the border i can hear israeli military aircraft. they have been targeting militant sites throughout the day. we re told now that the death toll is 22. 11 people were killed. all of the same family. five women an four children in the figure. the latest is that the diplomatic thought in cairo continued to take place. back to you. shannon: david lee miller live on the border between gaza and israel. thank you. new calls for susan rice to testify against the attack in benghazi, libya. they tackled the closed door talks on capitol hill. doug mckelway has been
all right, here with his reaction to the israel and libya situations, homeland security chair and intelligence committee member pete king. thank you. thank you very much. shannon: start with pennington libya. what we do know and benghazi libya. what we know and don t know. there is a great number of talking points that it seems from when they left the c.i.a. or left with general petraeus seen of them, to when they ultimately got to ambassador rice there was a change. i don t know what the democrats in the white house are trying to hide. it s not what they are saying. they both said the intelligence community in its entirety signed off on talking points. they went to the administration. come back and the key language was changed. whether it was the white house or the pentagon. or the national security council, someone in the administration changed those talking points. only the administration can tell that. the white house said they