administration s initial response to the murders of our four americans in libya. ambassador john bolton will be along to weigh in weigh in with his thoughts from you. you won t want to miss that
than that. the white house and state department look to be at odds as lawmakers push to find out what really happened, along with who knew what and then. you re taking in a live picture of what is about to happen on capitol hill, a hearing, we ll hear about that in a moment. welcome to happening now, i m jenna lee. bill: there are four dead americans at the center of what happened there. that s why the hearings are so information. i m jon scott. the first congressional hearing on the deadly terror attack in benghazi getting underway or about to on capitol hill. at first the obama administration said that deadly attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration and pointed to an anti-islamic video as fuel for the attack. one of the questions yet to be answered is, was there actually such a demonstration outside the benghazi compound? despite everything the administration said to the contrary there is evidence the state department never believed the video really had anything to do with it
makalovei said it s good to be loved and feared. if you have to pick one pick feared, and that is not his foreign policy. he would have to concede his foreign pal policy is a failure weeks before the election and i don t think that is a concession he wants to make. martha: they say this is how the situation developed, how information was collected and they caveated that statement saying they were trying to figure out exactly what happened. that is something that continues today, the investigation into exactly what type of attack this was and who is responsible. congressman i m curious. we understand there were other people inside the consulate when this attack happened and those folks were evacuated. have you had the opportunity to talk to any of them? do you know who they are? what kind of information they are providing as to what happened that night and in the days following? i do not. i know that congressman issa and congressman chaffetz went to libya. congressman chaffez has done
since the very earliest days of the revolution. routine civil unrest, militia on militia violence, general lawlessness and surprising motor vehicle accidents were the primary threats facing our mission and personnel during my time in libya. as colonel wood noted, in the spring of 2012 we noted an increasing number of attacks and incidents which appeared to target foreign-fill rated affiliated organizations. in response to these incidents we implemented a number of changes to our security posture designed to mitigate those threats and disrupt any planning which would-be attackers. the efforts included reviewing and practicing our emergency preparedness drills. most importantly we reiterated our request at all levels of government for a consistent, armed host nation security force to support . the house oversight committee trying to get to the bottom what happened outside our consulate in libya, the attack on september 11 this year that
yoeman s work on this. i m sure he has talked to them. my work is going to focus on the fault see explanation and why the american people sr-r misled. jason has done a phenomenal job of documenting the lead up to the murder of our four fell owe americans. martha: what would be next? let s say we are playing out the scenario. we understand there is cable talking about a deteriorating situation in libya, and the response to that will be one of the thins you ll be talking about in the hearing. when you find out the answers what is within your power in congress to do? what changes would you want to see made? how would you follow-up per se to what we re going to hear today? well, we are going to do things a little unlike the administration, we are going to get all of the answers and do our investigation before we make public pronouncements. we are not just going to guess at what needs to be done. you are correct that there were requests for additional security. not only was additional sec