department. this suggested they were directed by washington to normalize conditions on the ground so, in other words, it appeared that the security was being driven by political factors, jon. bill: so what is our state department saying about the attack now? has the story in essence changed? reporter: well, it has. for reporters in advance of the hearing the briefers confirmed who was first reported by fox news on september 17th, six days after the attack that there was no demonstration at the consulate when the attack unfolded at 9:340 in the evening local time. we are learning for the first time that the ambassador moved to a safe room in the main building of the consulate. separately fox news is told that ambassador stevens followed the dictated evacuation and emergency plan that came from washington. after the fall of the libyan dictator gadhafi fox news is told that the state department did an assessment con khraougd the consulate could withstand an assault of only 15 minutes an
regular diplomatic security personnel. the security in benghazi was a struggle and remained a struggle throughout my time there. the situation remained uncertain and reports from some libyans indicated it was getting worse. diplomatic security remained weak. in april there was only one u.s. diplomatic security agent stationed there. the rso struggled to obtain additional personnel but there was never, but was never able to@taken the numbers he felt comfortable with. i hope the information i provide will be put together with data points from others. so an accurate picture can be obtained. we need to be dedicated to the understanding to understanding the problems that surrounded this attack in order to find a solution. our failure to do so will result in repeated instances that allow our adversaries to take an advantage over us. my purpose in conveying this information is to prevent their ability to take the life of another ambassador. or kill another valuable and
democrat, said romney seems as if starting to make some inroads on foreign policy and is seen as an area that can. that is why you saw this beach earlier this week at the virginia military institute and why he likely will continue to hammer the libya thing, even though, again, we don t know the facts of the case, but it just looks bad. so he wants to take advantage of it. jon: there is a story saying that he is going after counties that voted for barack obama the last time around because they had a real weakness on the part of the president and a lot of people have been persuaded by the debate and will be willing to cast a vote for the republican candidate the map i think that s right. it looks at the state department susan rice and others were definitely covering them up about a week and a half. that is one of the reasons, and i think that will continue to come out and you you ll continue to learn the real facts. the combination of the two are not good for the president. as you said,
decision not to extend sst security work beyond the fifth of august terminated our security work in this capacity. military members of my team were in the process of changing status from title 22 back to title 10 shortly before my departure. the situation on the ground was continuously updated with reports that i sent to my military chain of command and cc d the rso on. rso sent information on security and threats of similar manner up his chain of command. while the sound of gunfire in and around tripoli subsided february and april, the situation was unstable. libyans struggled with the transitional government hess indicated tated to make decisions and were forced to rely on local and tribal militias with varying degrees of loyalty. late february police were allowed to return to traffic. fighting among militias was common when i departed. militias appeared to be disintegrating organizations representing freelance
whether the u.s. should actually launch strikes in that region. critics say the meetings are just politics as usual. there is this circling of the wagons that is really concerning about this. again, americans need to understand the truth. we ve got to avoid this notion of any political convenience. gretchen: the white house discussions reportedly began the u.s. consulate attack in benghazi, libya. all right. now it s time to bring in the two guests. bill and laura. bill o reilly and laura ingraham, together. usually we see them on the o reilly factor . what kind of deals did you make with each other? i just go where i m told. [ laughter ] i m here. i don t know what s going on. steve: we re going to talk about your brand-new book, comes out tomorrow killing kennedy. today, doocy. it comes out today. steve: that s not the data that i ve got. who do you believe, me or