He doesn t deny he opened fire with two hand dunnes on people before their deployment to afghanistan, killing 13 and wounding more than 30. he says he committed one of the worst mass shootings in american history in defense of taliban terrorists. the obama administration characterizes the attack as workplace violence, not an act of terrorism. they say by calling it terrorism it would jeopardize hasan s right to fair trial. that means victims of the rampage cannot receive purple hurts or receive combat ant statuses. staff sergeant shaun manning was shot six times at ft. hood. i think the fact that the government has tried to downplay this all along, hasan is openly admitting it makes me angry, makes me disgusted.
0 back to you. steve secentanni from our washington bureau. congressman, what can you tell us so far? well, the reporting that we ve heard today has been fairly accurate as far as what we can say, but it is it is true that this specific threat has been brought to the intelligence committee s attention over the last several weeks, and it isn t something that we see on our regular briefings. it s something very specific and something that if i had plans to travel to certain places in the middle east, i would probably go ahead and such. it s that dire. it s that dire. we have signals intelligence as well as human intelligence which boston or benghazi where things we should have known or should have done, we made huge mistakes in benghazi when it came to protecting our ambassador and the consulate. but in the grand scheme of things with regard to the things we ve been able to do in the intelligence world in stopping threats, it s been very successful. so you brought up benghazi
Bill: a knocks news investigation into the massacre at fort hood, fox news found multiple email exchanges between the shooter nadal hasan and the american cleric anwar al-awlaki. for the first time some of the victims are going public and wondering how this could be classified as a work-place shooting. [sirens ] november 5th, 2009, after being shot by fellow soldier nadal hasan private george stratton and staff sergeant shaun manning had only one thought, how to escape alive. as soon as i got out the first set of doors i got off of my knees, i pushed the tkaourp door open, i went around the corner of the building someone yelled, he s coming around the
asking them, telling them, get a plan together in case you go over that cliff. president obama wants that plan to proceed. he does not want to see europe crash. bill: how dire is this? because it is not just greece, right? it is spain too? let me give you a example. in greece over the last few days they have been stocking up on emergency food and fuel is up price. they have been taking money out of the banks. this is greece, a country of 11 million people. they re taking $800 million euro as day out of their banks. they don t like the banks. the spaniards are doing the same thing. that is an indicator of crisis that is right there, right now. bill: what you re watching on your screen is protests from earlier in the year. there is a vote on sunday in athens, throughout the country of greece. that decides whether they re in or out of the euro. bill: okay. if that is the case, depending on the outcome, can all of this be avoided yes or no? if there is massive bailout, a hu
bill: stuart varney, anchor of varney & company from the fox business network. good morning to you, my friend. what in the world is going on here? you remember september 2008 in the united states of america? the money dried up, lehman went bankrupt. it was a crisis. europe is exactly in that situation right now. greece in fact is the lehman of europe. so all the big banks all around the world, the central banks of this world are getting a lan ready to create, as you said, bill the mother of all bailouts. stick in a ton of money. print a ton of money into the system so that it doesn t clog up. the british have already announced they are going to flood their banks with cash. the central banks say they are standing ready to intervene if it s necessary in europe and the federal reserve, bill, would almost certainly be would a part of that massive bailout effort. bill: so the u.s. is going to put american dollars on the line here? almost certainly. there is no formal announc