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More than 100 interviews, identifies specific employee -- specific employee at the state department who denied these requests. it was deputy assistant secretary of the bureau of diplomatic security charlene lamb. again, she did come before the oversight company. the arb report was very critical of her. it was also critical of her two supervisors, principle deputy assistant secretary and the assistant secretary for diplomatic security. the oversight committee found the same answer as the arb. it ...

Inhalation. and one of the recommendations in this arb report is that when we have safe havens, we need to have equipment that will enable people that are safe within them to withstand what happened in benghazi. the lead did you wantic security officer who was with both the ambassador and shawn smith endeavored to lead them to safety through a wall of black smoke. he wanted to get them out of the compound up to the roof where they could be out of the fire and also out of the attackers assault. h...

Seeing all this controversy about hillary clintons e-mails do you believe you had all the information at the time to make the assessment that you made at that time with that arb report? >> im very comfortable, chuck. i stated this several times with the arb and what we reviewed and the conclusions that we reached in that regard. and ill certainly let those who are continuing to investigate get to the details of what has recently occurred, but again im comfortable with time pickering and myself a...

And really she is secretary of state at the time? that would seem to be a bank shot. >> we know that because the state department has assured us thats not the case that she has turned over the relevant emails and everyone should butt out. what i find is astonishing relying on sydney blumenthal he is a conspiracy theirist. if you look at the benghazi select committee when it started all of the questions about benghazi had been answered. that apparently is not true. we learned through this investi...

Defender of the truth, and somebody has to challenge the untruths in a very effective way, and so although it may -- we may not like the idea that its going on, we have to be in the room. im still trying to figure out what the purpose of it is, this special committee, because we have had now an arb report, weve had two bipartisan senate reports, weve had the four reports coming out of the house, and even the armed services ranking member said, basically, enough is enough. >> the democrats decisi...

The untruths in a very effective way. and so although it may -- we may not like the idea that its going on, we have to be in the room. i think the american people want us to have a transparent, fair, evaluation of the situation. and thats what we intend to do, to hold the republicans to a standard. i still trying to figure out what the purpose of it is, this special committee, because we have had now an arb report. weve had two bipartisan senate reports, weve had the four reports coming out of t...

Yesterday there was revelation after revelation, after revelation about this arb report, what was covered, what wasnt covered. the way they operated. how independent they were or non-independent as the case may be. bill: they gave leading members of the state department a chance to look at the report. they gave leading members of the state department to appoint people leading investigation. this is charles woods, father of tyrone woods, what he had to say after his son was killed. >> there are p...

Defending the arb report, defending the administration. republicans raising questions and appearing quite skeptical. bill: why dont people cover this? you know, i mean why dont democrats care? why, is this part of the whole phony scandal line? >> i think thats right. i think for democratic partisans thats why. your first question really asked me sort of befuddled. i dont know why people dont cover this i have a theory, if you go back to the time right after the benghazi attacks happened and medi...

Democratic walkout or failure to walk back in after a break? >> i can not imagine, honestly. it was really bad form. obviously they owe it to her to be at least present if not ask questions or help her try to find answers to the questions she still has more than a year after the attacks in benghazi. bill: it is a remarkable thing to see the background when theyre during the testimony of her and another gentleman well hear in a moment whose son was killed because the rooms empty. darrell issa sen...

Great job pointing it out. do you know why chris stephens was in benghazi? havent been told that? i want this story out. hillary clinton on the day he was sworn in as ambassador said i want you to make this your priority to have benghazi be a permanent outpost. he had to be there in mid september because he needed to get a report out by the end of september because that was the end of the fiscal year. >> the only place u.s. had any serious diplomatic outpost was where she had been wanting to exp...