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Then on august 2011, you received an e-mail from sidney blumenthal, thats tab 11, in which he wrote this to you. this is a historic moment and you will be credited for realizing it. when gadhafi himself is finally removed, you should, of course, make a public statement before the cameras wherever you are even if the driveway of your vacation home. you must go on camera. that was blumenthals admonishment to you. >> and i dont recall doing that, just in case youre going to ask me. >> look, the tim...

Use of private security guards. my understanding is that the country of libya, is host nation in this case did not allow your security contractors to carry firearms. the blue mountain guards. i think the blue mountain guards were not allow to carry firearms, is that right? >> blue mountain was not. certainly our diplomat security officers were. the militia members who were supposed to be providing din etic help for us were. so it was only the static guards that were not. now, i will say that som...

Im not sure in thats case an air strike would have saved anybodys life and might have cost some more. there was one critical flaw, when you talk to people in the pentagon, brian, they identified after this, which was that the rescue squads that would go in to get an ambassador, nearest one was basically on the continental united states, on as you say the anniversary of september 11th. there are now such squads, a whole lot closer, including some in europe. unclear they ever could have got tonigh...

Pleased with the work that you did and the risks that you took, the leadership that you took -- you know, a couple of hours ago you toemd me, hey, im the diplomat here, im driving the policy. and isnt it true ta youd been thinking about getting political credit actually for months on this? >> no. >> well, if thats your attention -- >> but congressman, please, if i could. >> sure. >> we were trying to make sure that what was written because its not always accurate, in case you all havent noticed ...

Video of her saying, what difference does it make, was the compelling trumping case that she wasnt really coming clear in terms of the horror of this thing. now she has. and i think it was great for her that she got it on the record today and it makes it available, i think, possibly to be used by her campaign for president. i wouldnt be surprised, her testimony in this regard could be pretty strong. >> chris matthews who predicted today would be about changing soundbyte, changing the quote, in e...