Hope. Not guilty. Thats what the libyans suspected of leading the american consulate on benghazi pleaded. He is being charged in the attack that took place on september 11th, 2012, which killed 4 americans including ambassador Chris Stevens. He was captured south of benghazi. He arrived in washington, d. C. Aboard a Navy Helicopter this morning. John terrett has more. According to multiple sources, he was apprehended in a fight two weeks ago with u. S. Commanders and f. B. I. Agents in libyas second city benghazi. He has been intear gated from the f. B. I. , cia and Defense Intelligence agency. As the ship neared at a time u. S. Coastline, he was transferred by aircraft to an undisclosed location. He is facing a string of charges including killing a person in the course of an attack on a federal facility with the use of a firearm and dangerous weapons as well as attempting and conspireing to provide Material Support to terrorists resulting in death. More charges against him are expecte
On authorizing military force soon after lawmakers return. They are still on summer recess until september 9th. There are washington heavyweights who are getting on the record early on this. Peter doocy is joining us live on capitol hill for the latest from there. Peter . Thats right, jaime. President obama announced yesterday the United States needs to use military force against syria for moral reasons and also for National Security reasons to prevent future chemical weapons use possibly he says against american interests. But he wants the folks here in congress on his side. He wants them to vote in favor of authorizing that military force first. Now he has a little more than a week to try to make them fall in line. This case is going to build stronger and stronger and the president believes the United States of america for a decision like this is stronger when you have the time to be able to have the support of the United States congress and obviously the support of the American Peop
Right now. Eric you know something . I was on the day the book dropped and it immediately went to the New York Times bestseller. Harris we gave her lots of love. Rachel i got stopped by someone in wisconsin who set im reading erics book. Eric she fired the first shot. Before he came on, someone tweeted jillian and said feel free to smack him. Harris lets begin with the news. As we await possible remarks from lawmakers, Jared Kushner spending a second straight day on capitol hill. This time, and front of house intelligence, answering questions about russian meddling and the truth about moscow campaign. Yesterday, the president s soninlaw was adamant that neither he nor anyone else did anything wrong and he took a shot at critics who believe that the president did not win fair and square. Watch. Let me be very clear. I did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. I had no improper contacts. Donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campa
Well, White House Correspondent kevin cork has it all live from his now West Palm Beach florida near the president s maralago estate. What are you hearing from there . This was not a rare moment of bipartisanship when were talking about the president of the United States actually agreeing with adam schiff the california congressman. Instead what we heard from the president s tweet storm if you will call it that was an acknowledgment that finally adam schiff and others are admitting that the Obama Administration missed a lot of the signals and if they received the signals they did relatively little about it when it came to russian meddling in the 2016 election. Now, before we get too far ahead and show what the president tweeted about this, let me first share what the california congressman had to say. Ive said it all along that i thought the Obama Administration should have done more and indeed when we discovered and we could attribute the conduct of russia, senator feinstein and i too
doing everything we d ever been trained to do to defeat this insurgency. the way they were using land mines and ieds was tactically correct. so we knew there was a degree of professionalism we were facing and it was deadly. the iraqi battle space was a complex environment, learning the human terrain was as important if not more important than understanding the physical terrain. the key to understanding the area was to maintain a relationship with the local inhabitants. spend time with them, gather information. every individual can give you something you didn t know. that was a trick eric figured out. that everybody you talk to has a piece of information that you may not have known, that if you can store it, it can become value later. there s no way to know how