[applause] thank you, mark, for those kind words. Thank you david for this invitation. It is a pleasure to be back here again in this gathering. Benghazi was a night of heroes of heroism, and it was a night of cowardice. The heroes were the navy seals, former navy seals, ty woods, glen doherty, who put their lives on the line to save their fellow americans that night. Those who acted with cowardice did so far away from benghazi, in washington, d. C. Failing to live up, in my opinion, to their legal, moral, and also political responsibilities. The two people in washington who i believe have the greatest responsibility for what happened that night are of course the president of the United States, who was simply absent without leave. And the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who was on the contrary, very present, very active, very engaged and very wrong. I want to go through a little bit in my remarks before we open this up to questions. I want to tell you a bit, in detail, the story o
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Nothing. When you realize theyre dead, what do you do . I just kind of said a prayer over each one of them. I grew up out on the farm, rode horses as much as i could. And worked with cattle. My mom had a book that what your career would be what you wanted to grow up to be. Mine was always a police officer, firefighter or a soldier. It was december of 1982 i wanted to be in the infantry because thats where you get to do the fun stuff. When i got out of the military i started working as a police officer. And after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. And then moved onto contract. When i got to benghazi, i was going to be there for 60 days. It was my first time into libya. I remember walking through our university and there was an Army Recruiter and he picked me out of the crowd and he said, hey, what are you going to do after college . I said that looks pretty tough. Pretty tough to get in. A lot of people cant do it. I want to do that. In 2003 i was medically disch
The 2012 president ial election. When it was all over, four americans had lost their lives. But if not for the men who say they defied direct orders to stand down and not help, even more could have died. Here is an exclusive clip new from the just released film. How many . [ gunfire ] hello, hello its going to be a peaceful night. We need more information than that. How many . 20 to 40 attackers, separated in several areas. Listen up. None of you have to go. We are the only hope they have. Two vehicles ready, lets go, move, move. Tonight, you will hear directly from three of the reallife american heroes who say this story is not about politics, its about the truth of what really happened on the ground in benghazi, libya. Its about a band of brothers willing to die so that their fellow americans light live. Our exclusive sitdown with them is moments away. But we begin with Trace Gallagher reporting from los angeles on what those seeing the film now are saying about this extraordinary pi
The 2012 president ial election. When it was all over, four americans had lost their lives. But if not for the men who say they defied direct orders to stand down and not help, even more could have died. Here is an exclusive clip new from the just released film. How many . [ gunfire ] hello, hello its going to be a peaceful night. We need more information than that. How many . 20 to 40 attackers, separated in several areas. Listen up. None of you have to go. We are the only hope they have. Two vehicles ready, lets go, move, move. Tonight, you will hear directly from three of the reallife american heroes who say this story is not about politics, its about the truth of what really happened on the ground in benghazi, libya. Its about a band of brothers willing to die so that their fellow americans light live. Our exclusive sitdown with them is moments away. But we begin with Trace Gallagher reporting from los angeles on what those seeing the film now are saying about this extraordinary pi