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Recall, was late in the evening, early the next morning, by our time around 5:00 a.m. or so in benghazi. >> did you meet with the president that night? >> i talked with the president. i did not meet with him. >> how many times did you talk with the president? >> i talked to the president that evening. that was the only time i talked with him on the 11th. then i went over to the white house the next morning. >> so once. do you recall what time you spoke to the president? you said that evening. do...

Officials on their dot gov accounts. later you revised that statement, and you said there was a fraction of e-mails with work related information sent to government officials on their personal accounts. >> im sorry, but what does this have to do with what happened in benghazi? when are we going to get there? >> the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman from ohio controls the time. >> it has everything to do because we want the record so we can get to the truth. maybe if the gentleman from w...

Transparent than anybody else ever has been. you didnt say more transparent than anybody. you said more transparent than anybody else ever. now, my definition of transparency includes being honest and straightforward, and being honest and transparent right from the start, right from the get-go. lets look at a few things you said. on march 10th you said this, you provided all work related e-mails, erring on anything might have been a federal record. you revised the statement and said mr. blumenth...

>> yeah. >> i think its why it bee hooves us, they routinely get less than they need and i think americans in general would not be grudged for money to safeguard our diplomats but i agree the report does say that. >> reclaiming my time, there was $20 million she was going to send to libya for their security upgrades. you mentioned the sixth man that you had to wait on the sixth man -- >> the fifth man, im sorry. the fifth man. >> all right. i was going to say there must have been somebody hiding...

Going battle that was ready to go, sitting there but you know what? it never got -- that plane never got out of the hanger. those people never got aassembld and weve got a chain of e-mails the first recommendation came back from your own people and then the fbi told your employees that the best way to handle the situation was to send the fest team, and that was the way it had always been done so did you make the decision not to send the fest team? >> congressman, first, let me say that its impor...

Literally begin to get the embassy function again despite many staff had been murdered in the terrorist attack. it was our judge the fest team was not needed, was not appropriate for benghazi. >> but you really didnt know what was going on at that point when you could have pulled -- >> we did know. we knew from the reports we were getting back from the diplomatic security officers they had to abandon the facility, that it had been set on fire. and it was -- they were forced to take refuge with o...

Wherever possible, and im sure i thanked him for that. >> what did he say to you? >> again, i dont talk about the conversations i have with the president. we talked about the events of the day and his determination to do everything he could to try to help our people in benghazi. >> did you meet with secretary panetta? >> no, did not. >> did you speak to secretary panetta? >> the next day. >> not on the 11th? >> no. >> did you talk with general dempsey? >> the next morning i did. >> you did not m...

From the president on down. >> what about petraeus, when did you speak to him? >> i spoke to petraeus that afternoon because i knew we had an agreement with the cia annex, and i spoke with him about an hour after finding out about the attack and after gathering information about what we thought was happening in benghazi. >> did you -- your surviving agents were evacuated to tripoli the morning of the 12th. did you talk to the survivors either that night or once they arrived in tripoli? >> we did...

Ambassador stevens -- we dont know the answer. did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in in may? yes or no, please. >> yes, i believe i did. >> when was that? >> i dont recall, and i want to clarify for the record that this document is about all of libya, not just benghazi. i dont want anybody -- >> absolutely, 77 are about benghazi. >> congresswoman, look, i appreciate, and i really do, the passion and the intensity of your feelings about this. we have diplomatic facilities in...

>> the people who were there were part of the operational decision making, and i wanted to know firsthand from them what they were trying to do to help us, particularly dod, also the intelligence community because at that time, as i recall, the cia annex had not yet come under attack, and we were trying to get all americans out of benghazi. we were trying to provide planes for evacuation. so there was a lot of detail that was being worked out, and i wanted to be as hands on as i could be to know...