This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," September 27, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: The White House is engulfed in a scandal as there's shocking new evidence proving that you, the American people, were lied to by the president, by the secretary of state, and other senior members of the Obama administration.

Now, Fox News can in fact confirm that within 24 hours of the assault on the Benghazi Consulate, the Obama administration in fact knew with certainty that this was indeed a terrorist attack.

Now, two sources also tell Fox that U.S. intelligence officials were even aware that the assault was coordinated by Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives. Again, all of this was verified on September the 12th, less than a day after ambassador Stevens, two Navy SEALs and one other American were assassinated.

But rather than tell the truth and acknowledge that the Al Qaeda link existed and admit that the president's triumphant killing of bin Laden was by no means marking the end of international terrorism, members of the administration chose to lie and initiate what appears to be a widespread cover-up about what they knew and when they knew it.

Now it's obvious they want us to all to think that Al Qaeda is no longer a clear threat to America. And so, what do they do? They blame the so-called spontaneous event on a YouTube trailer.

Now, let's take a look back at the campaign of misinformation that was waged in all the days following this attack.

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HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE, SEPT. 14: We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video.

JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, SEPT. 14: This is under investigation.

The unrest around the region has been in response to this video.

We were not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.

SUSAN RICE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., SEPT. 16, "FACE THE NATION"/CBS: It began spontaneously in Benghazi.

RICE, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY," SEPT: 16: It was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video.

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HANNITY: Now, that was their lie. That was their story for an entire week.

Also tonight, we have learned that the filmmaker has reportedly been arrested, but for what? According to reports, authorities are claiming that he violated his parole for quote, "Accessing the Internet without proper authorization." Now, that sounds pretty fishy to me.

Yet the first tick-up in their narrative came when a non-political intelligence appointee actually had courage, and he said this.

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MATTHEW OLSEN, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER, SEPT. 19: I would say, yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.

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HANNITY: Now, again, that was the first time that the words "terrorist attack" were actually uttered by a government official, and it came a week after they had already confirmed Al Qaeda's involvement. And it was that statement that boxed the White House into a bit of a corner.

Now, the next day, Jay Carney reluctantly had to say this.

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CARNEY: It is, I think self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.

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HANNITY: OK. So, mark it down, September the 20th was the day that everyone got on the same page and finally acknowledged what we all knew to be true, that this was not about a YouTube video or movie trailer.

Well, not exactly. The confusion, the lies from the White House, they continued.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SEPT. 20, UNIVISION: We don't know yet. And so, we're going to continue to investigate this.

CLINTON, SEPT. 21: What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.

JOY BEHAR, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW"/ABC, SEPT. 25: Then I heard Hillary Clinton say that it was an act of terrorism. Is it? What do you say?

OBAMA: Well, we're still doing an investigation.

OBAMA: It was a crude and disgusting video, sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.

LEON PANETTA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: It was a terrorist attack.

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HANNITY: Now, when we first began our investigation right here on this program into the so-called mixed messages, I said they were the result of one of three things -- stupidity, a cover-up or just bad intelligence. Well, now that Fox News has in fact confirmed that the intelligence community, they got it right on day one of this investigation. Well, that leaves two other options. That's either stupidity or a cover-up. Neither of which should be acceptable to the American people. They deserve the truth. And so do the families of these four dead Americans.

Now, joining me in studio with reaction to today's developments, the former mayor of the city of New York, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. How are you sir? Good to see you.

FMR. MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI, R-NEW YORK CITY: Hi, Sean. How are you?