What really happened in Benghazi? Journalist and author Mitchell Zukoff says he knows. In his extraordinary book 13 HOURS, THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI, co-written with the surviving American security operators who fought that fateful night September 11, 2012, against the attack by Islamic militants on the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya, Zuckoff presented for the first time ever the true account of the events and offered a step by step look at how they unfolded. The basis for the blockbuster film, 13 HOURS, the author of the book joins Halli at her table on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show for an in-depth conversation, Wednesday, January 20, 3 pm ET.

Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. His books include FROZEN IN TIME: AN EPIC STORY OF SURVIVAL about a US military airplane that crashed on the Greenland glacier during WWII, the subsequent hunt for the plane and Zuckoff’s own role in helping to find the plane buried in the ice decades later and LOST IN SHANGRI-LA. Zuckoff received a master’s degree from the University of Missouri and was a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Zuckoff’s magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune and elsewhere.

Written from the perspective of the surviving members of the security team who were involved in the fighting, Zuckoff insists the Benghazi contractor’s story is credible. You decide when Mitchell Zuckoff, bestselling author of 13 HOURS, the basis for director Michael Bay’s new controversial film, 13 HOURS, talks with Halli on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, January 20, 3 pm ET. For more information visit Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Wednesday, December 17, 3 pm ET The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine takes a comprehensive look at 13 HOURS, THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI. Joining Halli at her table is journalist and author of the book of the same title, Mitchell Zuckoff.

In 13 HOURS: THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI, co-written with the surviving American security operators who fought that fateful night in the 2012 attack by Islamic militants on the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya, Zuckoff presents for the first time ever, the true account of the events and offers a step by step look at how they unfolded. The account in 13 HOURS “is not about what officials in the U.S. government knew, said, or did before or after the attack”, but is instead about the 13-hour Benghazi incident from the perspective of the surviving members of the security team who were involved in the fighting.

Bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. His books include FROZEN IN TIME: AN EPIC STORY OF SURVIVAL about a US military airplane that crashed on the Greenland glacier during WWII, the subsequent hunt for the plane and Zuckoff’s own role in helping to find the plane buried in the ice decades later and LOST IN SHANGRI-LA. Zuckoff received a master’s degree from the University of Missouri and was a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Zuckoff’s magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune and elsewhere.

The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi with bestselling author of 13 HOURS, Mitchell Zuckoff. For more information visit Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Let me start here: I haven’t decided yet whether I’m for Hillary or against her, on that decision, I’ll let you know. But here’s something I am against: the theater and self-aggrandizement of gotcha journalism. And that is what NPR’s Terry Gross was doing in her recent interview with the former First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State and possible presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

National Public Radio’s Terry Gross has been around for a long time. In a medium that chews the successful up and spits them out faster than you can say the same, there is no question that Ms. Gross is smarter, better prepared than most talk radio hosts, clearly intelligent, and quick on her feet, all admirable qualities.

But she is considered part of the liberal echo chamber and Clinton is one of her own. So why was she pecking away at her guest, Ms. Clinton, she the host of public radio’s “Fresh Air” broadcast on the network considered the darling of the left?

Was she trying to prove a lack of partisanship? Trying to prove she was a tough journalist? Really, what was it she was trying to prove? Because, had she grilled the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton on say, Benghazi, perhaps that would have been justified. Instead, what she went after Ms. Clinton for was not the issue of gay marriage, but something ridiculous.

Hillary Clinton, like many Americans of a certain age, was against gay marriage before she was for it. And yet Gross, as I said, no dummy, decided to use the fact to goad (who invented that word?) her guest, if not corner her. Gross was like a buzzard picking at its prey, picking, picking, picking at Ms. Clinton, obviously trying to get her to admit (as if she evah would) that the only reason she was now for gay marriage was for political gain. Even if partly true, would that make Clinton different than any other politician? Relentless, Gross sought carnage, and failed to listen to the former Senator’s consistently honest and direct answers to Gross’ unyielding and absurd line of questioning.

Of course, when a journalist is looking for theater and self-aggrandizement there is no listening, nor stopping them, and no matter what Clinton answered, Gross was not interested in hearing, proving even the best of us can fall prey to our own ambitions from time to time.

And in this talk radio hosts opinion, that is exactly what happened to Terry Gross when she engaged in gotcha journalism with the presumed presidential candidate, the same Mrs. Clinton.

Unlike the scribes of the right wing media who went all goo-goo, ga-ga crazy, I cannot characterize Clinton’s response to Gross’ peck, peck, peck as “testy” or say she “snapped” or “lost her cool.” In fact, the reality was that Ms. Clinton was the model for poise under fire. I did not, in fact, detect so much as a note of defensiveness in Clinton’s voice, as many of us would have been reduced to under Gross’ cawing. Rather, I detected a note of surprise in Ms Clinton’s tone. Clearly, she expected more from the Queen of Public Radio and the liberal echo chamber, Ms. Gross.

I know I did.

Peck…peck…peck.

Good morning, my friends,

Today is all about Hillary, Clinton, that is. The women with the new glasses is headlining again after making her long-awaited testimony yesterday on Benghazi. “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar” would have been the headline that I picked. Boy, did she let those bozos have it. Of course, not everyone agrees with me, i.e. the Right-wing. But do they even count anymore?

HILLARY CLINTON STORMS CAPITOL HILL

HILLARY CLINTON, YOU FAILED

BLUSTER OVER BENGHAZI

WHERE’S THE BENGHAZI JUSTICE?

HILLARY, HILLARY, HILLARY, SHE NEVER LOOKED BETTER

RON JOHNSON: HILLARY PLANNED TO GET EMOTIONAL TO EVADE QUESTIONS

THE CLEANSING OF MRS. CLINTON’S RECORD

Have a great day!

Halli