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Let me show you this poll from real clear politics. it has taken a wide swath that time. according to this average, mitt romney is ahead in the state by five points. let s talk about somebody who really knows about this. jim rao is a reporter for the charlotte observer. what is this telling us, if anything about who has a leg up in the state? i think that early voting is up from four years ago. the numbers are higher for this. republicans are looking at this for good news. the expected democratic numbers to be high in early voting. but they are getting their people out, too, and republicans are feeling pretty good about this remark let s talk about what the democrats are doing as well. one democratic strategist this week said the obama campaign is pulling out of north carolina. ....
they were told to stand down. as you know, glen doherty and tyrone woods, the former navy seals were over at the cia annex at about 9:40 p.m. when the first shots were heard at the consulate where the ambassador and his team were taking fire. i m told that they radioed to their higher headquarters that they wanted permission to go and help the ambassador, help the ambassador s team. at that time they were told by their higher-ups, to quote, stand down. they waited approximately an hour. they requested again to send glen doherty, tyrone woods and other members of that team to help out at the consulate. they were again, for a second time told to stand down. they ignored those orders. they made their way over to the consulate against orders, and they helped rescue those who had survived at the consulate. they could not find the ambassador. they made their way back to the cia annex about one mile away at midnight. that is approximately, the firing started at 9:40 p.m. that ....
0 and 20 minutes. a final point, jon, we have confirmed there were two surveillance drones sent over benghazi. one of them was september into position. it was already in position over libya at the time, over eastern libya. it was positioned shortly after the firing began. it had to be replaced by a second drone later in the evening. so there was always one drone up above sending real-time video back to computers, back to computers that could be accessed at any of the agencies here in washington. anyone with a clearance at cia, pentagon, the white house situation room, or at the state department could be tapping into that real-time video from the drones up above benghazi, on that night of september 11th and 12th. jon? jon: jennifer griffin at the pentagon with some explosive information there. doherty and woods who gave their lives in this attack tried to rescue the others. in fact did rescue the others against orders you re saying. this thing could have been a lot worse had they not do ....