Protest. footage to the gates of the consulate show men in profile. efforts are trying to match them to known jihadists. the attack was considered terrorism. the video supports the view that there was no evidence of a protest before the attack. a point reinforced by the chairman of the government oversight committee on wednesday. contrary to early assertions by the administration, let s understand, there was no protest, and cameras reveal that the state department, the fbi and others have that video. reporter: we first reported on september 17th that there was no demonstration at that consulate. therefore the narrative that it was somehow a demonstration that was hijacked by militants or that it spun out of control is just incorrect. jenna. jenna: more on this as we get it, catherine. thank you very much. reporter: you re welcome. jenna: certainly more to this story. of course libya was not the only issue discussed in a debate weighted heavily toward foreign policy as we knew it
Department. you can see this issue is rapidly reaching the poeul boiling point. the white house spokesman there on the defensive about what the president and vice president knew about requests for greater security and our diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya. this of course in the aftermath of those awful murders of our ambassador and three other americans one month ago. we are still monitoring jay carney s briefing at the white house. if he makes more news we ll bring it to you. jenna: they are still exploring the question. why did this happen, who is responsible? how do we prevent it from happening again. all of those questions unanswered four weeks after the event in benghazi. it s something we are watching closely as it develops. the race for the white house is kicking into high gear and that adds a twist to awful this. you have a jam-packed week of new job numbers and a vice presidental debate. we are going to be told who won the week. jon: the war in afghanistan a key topic l
And vice-presidential debate since the first four kennedy-nixon debates in 1960, thinking back over the last few minutes i don t believe i have ever seen a debate in which one participant was openly disrespectful of the other as biden was to paul ryan tonight. that s what it was. you can talk about the smirks, smiles, head shaking, the mugging, it was openly, contemptuous and disrespectful. jon: ben, chris wallace has been in washington a long time. as he said, covered a lot of these races. what is your response? you know, governor romney has spent the entire campaign saying that he would stand up to china and apparently now governor romney and congressman ryan can t handle a little bit of laughing an smiling? that seems preposterous to me. jon: all right. ben labolt, campaign secretary, i m sorry press secretary for obama for america campaign. ben, thank you very much. thanks for having me. jon: we ll have the romney side in just a moment.
Jenna: plenty of fireworks along with lots of tkpwreupls an grins and grimacess. who won? and does style trump substance. we ll tell you how workers could be affected by who wins the white house. and talk about passionate political debates, this one way over-the-top, sherman versus berman. i ain t making that up. the whole story and breaking on news on a whole brand-new hour of happening now. both candidates coming out swinging, both sides claim a victory. the two campaigns set their sights on key battleground states after last night s heated vice presidental debate. hi, everyone, i m jenna lee. it s grit to have you today. both sides say they won.
By 50-32% margin, those voters believed joe biden won the debate. that is something very key. except there were four or five other snap polls. not of undecided voters. undecided voters cnn. cnn had totality of voters. the problem gets to what we re talking about what biden s mission was last night. if you re incumbent party and you re still worried about the base with three weeks to go before the general election you re in really tough shape. i m not sure he was worried about the base. you just said that was the whole show last night. no. no. energizing the base. wasn t getting the base to exactly support, wasn t worried about the base not dropping off and coming out to vote. the base was dispirited because president obama, i thought president obama did not come out and defend in full throated way what the debase wanted to defend you concluding myself. doesn t mean the base is staying home or dispirited. today the base is not dispirited the by what joe biden did.