Congressional process could go forward. But im told by boehners aides that he reversed course because he was frustrated that this ben rose email had come out. Republicans believe because of subpoenas already issued, that subpoena and other documents should have been turned over months ago. So boehner now pushing ahead there. What also piqued republican interest in the past 24 hours is tommy vietor appearing on fox news last night and he called him dude, basically move on. This has already been investigated and people are still talking about talking points two years after the fact. But basically, Something Else tommy vietor set caught republican interest for potential investigations by this special committee. Vietor said he was in the situation room on the night of the terror attacks, but the president was not. That led republicans today to press for information on exactly what the president was doing on the night of the attacks while democrats within the administration say that republicans are wasting time and just reinvestigating stuff that has already been investigated. Listen. The president all the president s men and women in the white house worried not about how to save those americans on the ground in benghazi but putting priority on saving the president s campaign for reelection. I am confident that what the republicans allege, that there was some attempt by this administration to cover up or spin what happened is 100 false. Now, you heard marie harf there at the end. She works for secretary of state john kerry pushing back hard on this new Republican Special committee. She also her boss received a subpoena today for secretary kerry to testify on capitol hill on may 21st as to why this ben rhodes email was not turned over sooner by the state department and whether there are other documents that may need to be turned over. Kerry is already scheduled to be in mexico on that day so they may have to find some other time to deal with this, sean. Let me ask you. It was a couple of pretty ugly exchanges with jay carney this week, specifically over the rhodes email memo, and whether or not this in fact was related to benghazi, considering it was released three days after. Preparation for susan rices five sunday show appearances, and it got very, very testy in that room. Bring us inside the room. What was going on there . You got attacked personally by him this week. Sure. I mean, well, jay carney said, look, i know you, pointing at me and your bosses are disappointed that the talking points are involved here really came from the cia and not the white house, suggesting that i was hoping that there would be some evidence that the white house was to blame. For me as a reporter, im just trying to get the facts. I think there obviously are some lingering questions. There is no doubt republicans on the hill have been pushing this politically because they think this is going to harm the president. Objectively you have to say there are lingering questions here. The new email did raise some questions. I think thats why youre seeing the pressure from some republicans. They think Speaker Boehner is going to fire up their base. Conservatives want more information heading into the midterm elections. On the other hand, the white house beliefs it could backfire because theyre going to go to the voters and say they should be talking about the economy and health care, not investigating. What about november 28th, 2012, jay carney said during a press briefing that the white house and state department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to the talking points by either of those two institutions he said was changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility because consulate was inaccurate. So he said that a number of times. Does this memo contradict that . Well, the white house insists it doesnt because if you look at it, the memo only sort of briefly mentions benghazi, instead talks more broadly about the violence in the muslim world that was going on. And there was a broader context as you know beyond just benghazi as to what was happening with protests around the world. Look, they know theyre going to keep getting these questions. But they didnt get questions today in the rose garden, it was interesting, because the president has a News Conference with the german chancellor angela merkel. You mentioned there was some testy briefs this weekend you. Thought maybe there would be questions about that. There were two american reporters, two german reporters called on. The american reporters asked about the crisis in ukraine as well as the Death Penalty in the botched execution in oklahoma this week. Big issues, but no doubt being front and center this week, you would have thought maybe somebody would have asked about it. Its a free country. They can choose to ask or not. But certainly there is a lot of people who have been wondering, you know, when the president is going to be asked about it more. He wasnt candidate about it today in the rose garden. Big news. Ed henry at the white house tonight, thank you, ed. And while republicans continue to press for answers regarding the administrations massive coverup of the benghazi coverup, democrats now attempting to move away from the conversation and are doing so in some pretty insensitive ways. For starters, former nfc spokesman tommy vietor made headlines for his language. Watch this. Did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points . Maybe. I dont really remember. You dont remember . Dude, this was like two years ago. Were still talking about dude it is something everybody is talking about. Were talking about the process of editing talking points. Thats what bureaucrats do all day long. Your producers added scripts multiple times. Really, dude, are you kidding me . Now sadly, that remark came just hours after the top democrat in the house, nancy pelosi, made this outrageous comment. And also tried to dismiss any and all benghazi talk. Watch this. What i will say is again, diversion, subterfuge. Benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. Why arent we talking about Something Else . Whatever was in that what i know is what ive read in the press about the the emails very, very consistent with what what is put out there before. I dont think there is anything new there. All right. Here with reaction to this unbelievable insensitivity is someone who definitely does care about what happened two years ago. Thats the father of ty woods. He was a hero that day on september 11th, 2012. He saved a lot of peoples lives, and he was killed for his efforts. Charles woods, the father of ty. Thanks for being back with the program. What is your reaction to dude, thats like two years ago, and Nancy Pelosis comments. What is your reaction to that . First of all, sean, i want to thank you for not allowing the benghazi betrayal to be swept under the rug. The good news is what we heard this morning, and that is that there is going to be a select committee. And that is an answer to prayer. The people of the United States, as well as the families need to know what actually happened. Yeah. Now, they have claimed, and jay carney all this week said the ben rhodes memo had nothing to do with benghazi, but yet it was three days after your son was killed and three other people were killed. Do you buy that explanation . Oh, no, of course not. This was about benghazi. And that was why it was released. The court said it was about benghazi because this was a courtordered document that had to be released. I actually looked at that and basically, the smoking gun of this document was where they said emphasize that the protests were rooted in the internet video and that it was not a broader failure of Foreign Policy. Yeah. And the Foreign Policy of obama that failed was this. Gadhafi was an enemy of al qaeda. He tried to get rid of al qaeda. When obama decided to get rid of gadhafi, obama sent millions of dollars worth of weapons to al qaedarelated terrorist groups in libya. They used those americanprovided weapons to get rid of gadhafi. And then the bloodshed didnt discontinue, but it culminated in the attack upon the consulate in benghazi which resulted in the death of american heroes. So the failure of obamas policy was that the weapons and the material aid that was given to al qaeda resulted in the death of these four american heroes. Let me play for you, and i mention november 28th of 2012. This is a similar statement made by jay carney may 8th, 2013 saying that the white houses only involvement with the talking points and the state departments only involvement in the talking points was just changing in the name consulate. Let me play this for you in light of the rhodes memo and what it means for you. Cia drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points. The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this. But the only edits made by anyone here at the white house were stylistic and nonsubstantive. They corrected the description of the building where the facility in benghazi from consulate to diplomatic facility. What is your reaction to that . Do you feel you were lied to, in other words . Do you feel they have purposefully lied to you . You met the president. You met the secretary of state, then secretary of state Hillary Clinton. You looked them in the eye. Thats exactly right. This memo, it came out on the 12th im sorry, on the 14th. This was about the same time that i met Hillary Clinton when the bodies came in to Andrews Air Force base. And i think i mentioned this to you before. Hillary clinton came up to me and i gave her a handshake and a hug. And when i shook her hand, she said to me, we are going to have the filmmaker arrested. Even at that time she was trying to place a spin on what happened. It wasnt a result of a video. They had two drones above the battle in benghazi feeding realtime video to the situation room in the white house. They could see as it was happening on september 11th and september 12th for seven or eight hours, they watched this battle happen. They didnt watch a video protest. They watched a battle with militants that were associated with al qaeda. Yeah. Now earlier this week we had testimony, Brigadier General retired Brigadier General lovell testified the military should have tried to intervene. Now, we have talked to you about your son, and he was told to stand down, was he not . I have actually talked to the reporter on the ground that talked to tys friend who was there who said yes, ty was told on more than one occasion to stand down and not to go rescue. And as far as you know, he disobeyed orders and went to fight. And as a result, lost his life trying to save other peoples lives. As a matter of fact, successfully saving other peoples lives. That was your son, right . That was the type of hero ty was. He was going to jeopardize his life as well as his military career so he could do the right thing and rescue. And when he went to rescue, he knew that his life was in jeopardy because he wasnt going to be rescued if he got in trouble if they werent going to go ahead and rescue the 30some people at the consulate. All right. Let me play Brigadier General robert lovell. He testified the military should have tried to intervene. Because this went on for hours. It took a while. I want to get your reaction to what he said this week. There are accounts of time, space and capability, discussions of the question could we have gotten there in time to make a difference. Well, the discussion is not could or could not of time, space and capability. The point is we should have tried. We should have tried. This went on for hours. And there was no attempt made. As many military people have said, within an hour to an hour and a half, they could have had jets from italy above the battle at benghazi. Whether they were armed or not, at least they could have broken the sound barrier. They could have dispersed and caused confusion on the battlefield. Even that was not done. No attempt was made. We learned that mr. Vietor was on with bret baier making a fool of himself saying dude, that was two years last night. We learned he was in the situation room. President obama was not in the situation room. What would you like to ask the president if you had a chance . Well, i did ask this question of the president last september. I sent a letter to him. And i said if this had been a member of your family, mr. President , would your rescue attempts have been more aggressive . And his response to me lacked credibility. He said if it had been a member of my family, i would have basically done nothing different. And i i have a hard time believing that, because i know personally as a father if my son had cried out for help, i would have done everything in my ability to do that. I wouldnt have gone upstairs and gone to bed. I wouldnt have gone raising Campaign Funds the next day. I would not have rested until the maximum effort had been done by our military, which is the greatest military in the world, to make sure that there was a rescue attempt. Do we even know definitively where the president was that night . We dont know. It would be nice to know where he was and where Hillary Clinton was as well. Yeah, all right. Thank you, charles. It seems like were going to get to the bottom of this. Well stay on it, i promise. Thank you. Thank you very much, sean. And coming up, oliver north. Hell join me next from our nations capital. Well get his take from the developments surrounding the benghazi terror attack that left four americans dead, as we continue. [ laughter ] smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. 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First, congressman darrell issa has issued a subpoena for secretary of state john kerry to testify before the House Oversight committee on may 21st. Second, House Speaker john boehner announced a special committee to further investigate what really happened that night. So will republicans ever get the answers . Will the families ever get the answer that theyve been waiting for regarding the terror attack that killed four americans . Here with reaction, the host of war stories colonel oliver north. One thing i know, there is a videotape of what happened there. Sure. By the way, sean wouldnt that have answered a lot of questions a year and a half ago . Of course it would have. And of course what you just said. The question you just asked, whether they ever get answers . Yes, now that there is a special committee. I happy to know something about special select committees in congress, and im glad that the speaker of the house has finally decided to do one. Look, all of this is because of tenacious reporting by one of our own. We know that the tenacious reporting that Katherine Herridge has been doing led to this lawsuit. And we finally know that the talking points prepared at the white house werent spin, they were lies. And we know why they lied. We know they lied in order to perpetrate the myth that somehow or another al qaeda was on the ropes. But what we still dont know is why the u. S. Government did nothing to prepare for or react to the attack. And now that that special committee has been convened, we ought to be able to get the answers to that, sean. We need that answer. I also want another answer. This could have been prevented had the requested security been granted. I mean, we spend money, millions of dollars on chandeliers, we do, for alcohol, for bars, for parties, for dinners. You know, the state department spends all sorts of money. Why didnt they give the security that they needed in anticipation of september 11ths anniversary . Precisely the question that needs to be asked right up front. We need to understand, Everybody Needs to understand, 9 11 will always be a terror anniversary for radical islamists. Its not going to change because you and i get older. Everything that they didnt do needs to be known. What was, for example, the cia and dia estimate of risk posed to u. S. Personnel and interest by islam. Did the cia or dia increase collection on radical islamic groups in the leadup to that anniversary . Why didnt our military preposition assets in the area, Quick Response forces that could respond to something bad happening out there . And if they proposed such a thing, who was it that said no . What response was there to the constant requests by ambassador stevens that went unheeded at the state department . Who vetoed those . All of those are important not just to find out what happened and get justice for the four who were killed and for men like Charles Woods you just had on. Its also important because in the days ahead of this administration, there have to be steps to get ready for next 9 11, sean. I think thats well said. All right. But heres the next question here. What did they know at the white house . They originally said at the white house, jay carney said it many, many times that the white house had nothing to do with the talking points. Now, you know a thing or two about troubled hot spots in the world. Why would the