John McCain

The DNI is saying one thing, the State -- the other -- CIA station chief within 24 hours said it was an al Qaeda affiliated attack. Didn't she have that information? The White House gave the talking points, the president incredibly over…

Well, first of all, talking points came from the White House not from the DNI. But second of all, it was obvious within 24 hours that the station chief from the CIA had said that this was a terrorist attack.

I will not vote and I will not agree to her appointment as secretary of state.

Four Americans died and there was overwhelming evidence to the contrary that this was clearly an al Qaeda-affiliated attack that murdered four Americans that didn't need to happen.

I think she should have known. She has never yet at this point declared that she was wrong. And the president is the one who is ultimately responsible, but that is not an acceptable person in my view to be secretary of state.

Her talking points came from the White House, not from the DNI. But, second of all, it was obvious within 24 hours that the station chief from the CIA had said this was a terrorist attack.

Mr. President, four brave Americans died. It has now been eight weeks, and the American people have received nothing but contradictory statements from all levels of our government. This president and this administration has either been…

The degree of incompetence and lack of acting on existing information such as the previous attacks on the consulate in Benghazi, for example, is absolute and total incompetence.

I'm all for a thorough and complete investigation but certain facts are known and there continues to be contradictions within the government.

It was very clear that that organization which is al Qaeda affiliated were the orchestrators of the attack.

Mourdock should apologize and whether or not he's in his corner depends on whether he apologizes.

It depends on what he does. If he apologizes and says he misspoke and he was wrong and he asks the people to forgive him, then obviously I would be the first -- you know, as I said, I'm not sure how big mistakes that I have made, but, you…

I think it's either willfully misleading the American people, to interrupt the narrative we got bin Laden and al Qaeda's on the run -- by the way, al Qaeda is not on the run.

Facts are stubborn things. There are certain facts that we know. We know that there were attacks on the consulate in April and June.

It is very clear that that organization, which is al Qaeda-affiliated, were the orchestrators of attack.

The president needs to go and talk to the American people. He need talk to the American people and tell them exactly what happened. There's huge confusion and contradictions.

Well, the thing I think of interesting news today is that e-mails were going back to the State Department and being distributed throughout the upper levels of government that this attack was taking place and it was probably by al Qaeda.

It is a failure of American leadership.

Shouldn't he have been briefed about the deteriorating situation in Benghazi where it was obvious that al Qaeda were coming in across the border?

But we knew within hours, Anderson, that this was a coordinated attack with heavy weapons and we now know that one of the leaders of the one of the al Qaeda related groups was even there.

I think so in a way he did because I think that when you look at the president's Rose Garden statement that it really wasn't talking about that act.

We should play a much greater and stronger role in making sure that those weapons go to the right people.

I support strongly providing them with weapons.

It's a failure of American leadership.

What did the president know? When did he know it? And what did he do about it? Obviously not much.