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Kansas, denies access to records that the committee needs to complete its investigation. he says thats why the committee is taking so long, 17 months so far. your response to that? >> well, i think its a bunch of hooey. its taken time to respond to the ever-changing document request they have gotten from the majority. the scope of the committee started with benghazi, and then went with all of libya, and started with a time period and then became a much broader time period. those complaints dont ...

Trying to transform foreign countries into democratic why havent you decided, you utopias, trying to turn iraq know what, i dont like what theyre doing? into switzerland. but i do think it is the job of our military to protect this if you think the investigation country. needs to go in a more serious to hunt down and kill jihadists who would murder us. direction, you can do it, and >> syria. you havent done it. >> chuck, i have and ive tried. in fact, the first two hearings priority, assad out o...

Folks that you identified there. we still have many witness, many documents that we havent seen. as recently as last thursday we received christopher stevens e-mails. how on earth could other committees have worked effectively when they didnt even have those e-mails? we dont have them. no thanks to the democrats on the committee who opposed us all along the way. >> congressman schiff, when you joined the committee you said you were willing to look at this in the big picture. you have accused the...

Accusations from both sides of the aisle that the committee was set up to go after hillary clinton. >> theres no evidence. there are three people who dont have any idea what theyre talking about. two of my colleagues, the two republican members of the congress, have never asked for an update on our economy. they couldnt name three witnesses weve talked to. they couldnt tell you a single document production weve received. and the former staffer left in june. he has no idea what weve done since ju...

In the big picture, you have accused the republicans of not take it seriously. its in your power. if you dont think theyre doing it seriously, why havent you come up with a witness list? why havent you decided i dont like what theyre doing? its if in your power if you think the investigation needs to go in a more serious direction, you can do it and you havent done it. >> chuck, i have and ive tried. in fact, the first two hearings this committee had were hearings i proposed to look at the arb r...

Repeatedly insisting its turned over all of her benghazi-related emails to republican trey gowdy. fox has confirmed the department found new clinton emails related to libya and is in the process of turning them over to the house select committee on benghazi just weeks before clintons october 22nd public testimony. committee staffers have not seen the content of the new e-mails and the friday revelation buried amid other major stories like pope franciss visit and the resignation of speaker john b...

With document production. when that key individual was there at the irs when that scandal was unfolding and we were trying to get documents from lois lerner 422 tapes destroyed and now she is here. judicial watch filled and they have had success and the judge is now demanding these documents within a week. will it happen? >> the courts have been helpful in the foyer request and times we have been trying to get information. it has been an outside group demanding it going to the judge, and the jud...

>> goodness. theres still huge gaps in the materials we have received today. we seen a couple of hundred e-mails so far. she said yesterday theres thousands. the state department says the total will take months to review. we still have a lot of questions that need to be answered both about this document production which we were told is complete only to find out it is not. lots of questions remain about how to do this. were going to ask the secretary to come to our committee and explain all the p...

Congressman jason chaffetz. why should we care about these e-mails? >> she is subject to the federal record act. president obama, im told issued a directive not to use personal e-mail. the state department handbook says dont use personal e-mail. the reason is the federal records act is subject to the freedom of information act so judicial watch and outside groups and individuals can ask for these e-mails. but if youre using a personal e-mail they will not be in that mix. congress is also asked f...

Records act is subject to requests the freedom of information act. the judicial watch outside groups can ask for these e-mails. if youre using a personal e-mail theyre not going to be in that mix. congress is also asked for these in light of againbenghazi. evidently those e-mails were not included in the document production. so to maximize transparency theyre supposed to adhere to the law. for her, means complying with the federal records act. >> think about this, youre doing the benghazi invest...