0 >>steve: all i know is "fox & friends" for this monday starts right now. and that's where we'll roll the animation in the future. >>brian: let's take it from the top. >>elisabeth: i am not leaving. it took a long time to come 0 to this curvy couch. i'm not getting up. >>brian: can we do something? >>elisabeth: no. >>brian: you say no. let's do something i think is important. let's talk about where you've been and what brought you here today. first off, where you just left? you left some women, and there they are. >>elisabeth: oh. 1972, i'm not sure. a while ago. but those are my friends. >>steve: i read in one of the papers today that you loved sitting there at that table, and particularly watching barbara walters because it was like a masters course every day on how to do an interview. >>elisabeth: absolutely. 2012 coming under question by a house committee. they are questioning was it verifiable. were there worthwhile interviews that went down? were we left unprotected by an area? what was that authorized and by whom -- >>brian: that shows how little progress has been made. >>elisabeth: we know nothing. >>steve: keep in mind this particular report was leaked to the press by the republican side of the committee. what it shows is that essentially this a.r.b. review that was done by the state department protected the people at the state department, the higher up, in particular hillary clinton. extraordinarily if she's running the state department and, you know, this terrible benghazi tragedy happens, why would they never interview her? they never did. when they did interview people, they never recorded it. it was just sloppy the way they did it. >>brian: here's an example. one thing i hate in life is when you blame other people. you have charlene lamb, eric bosswell and raymond maxwell. they were blamed for what went wrong in benghazi when four americans lost their lives and dozens more were wounded and the president went out and campaigned the next morning. there's reports that he went to where the ambassador was. all of them are back on the job and people are saying just over a year later, what do we know and why don't we know it. this week we're going to have hearing again. benghazi back in the limelight. >>elisabeth: thursday we may know more. >>steve: this is almost amusing were it not for the fact that four americans lost their lives. there is a terrible conflict of interest. there is this fellow, under secretary, patrick kennedy, he works for the state department. he was in charge of staffing up the a.r.b. kind of a conflict of interest. i'm going to hire the people to investigate me and my bosses. as it turns out, it didn't blame the bosses for anything. >>elisabeth: in the meantime four lives are lost including our ambassador chris stevens. we will hope to find out more but i'm not confident yet that we will. >>brian: here's what the state department says, attacking the a.r.b. is an attack on the integrity of one of america's most respected diplomats, one of the nation's most respected leaders, both of whom spent their lives serving presidents of both parties. there is going to be a bit push back along partisan lines. >>elisabeth: for the rest of the headlines we're going to heather nauert. >> good morning, elisabeth. great to have you here. we've got headlines to bring you now. we are looking at new video coming in to "fox & friends" from italy. at this hour salvage crews are attempting to pull up the 114,000-ton costa concordia cruise ship. it is a massive undertaking. a ship this large and heavy has never been raised before. workers were waiting for better weather conditions to take place, and they fear if the ship isn't moved before the winter months it could deteriorate and further break apart releasing toxic substances into the sea. 32 people died when that ship crashed into the rocks off the coast of tuscany in 2012. a former college football player is dead and the police officer who shot him now faces manslaughter charges. officers say jonathan ferrell, a former safety for florida a&m university survived a car crash in north carolina and went looking for help in the middle of the night. a woman who was frightened heard him pounding on her door and called 911. when one of them showed up, he opened fire. we'll keep you posted on what happened. now to a fox news alert. a major air rescue expected to happen today in colorado this week for calling her predecessor molly hagan fat. but she wasn't always so trim herself. her trainer reveals she lost 53 pounds in the past two years. >>steve: that's not the only controversy from the miss america beauty pageant. for instance, keep in mind, you know the part where they ask the contestants questions. abc said that the questions would be equally difficult. all right? 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