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Of questioning recently has been basically implying that you dont care. theres no other way to interpret what we just heard, is to say you didnt make this phone call. what month, what day, what time? did you really care? did you visit them three times or just two? the line of questioning is implying that you dont care. there are two things that are troubling about that. first of all, you do or you wouldnt be doing this, or you wouldnt be representing the people that you do and doing the jobs tha...

The americans? and we were also still unsure of where our ambassador was, which made all of this in incredibly difficult for everybody in the state department. we didnt know where he was. we didnt know whether he was alive. it was shortly after that in the evening that we found out he was not. >> your chief of staff also explained to the committee that you were concerned not only for the safety of your teams in benghazi but your teams in tripoli and elsewhere. she said this about you, quote, she...

And his colleagues were behind that and we were very appreciative. they, as you know, didnt get there in time because the attack on the compound was very swift. it was over in less than an hour, but they did help eventually to evacuate and it was just an additional tragedy that mr. doherty lost his life in attempting to stave off the attack on the cia annex. with regard to the fest recommendation, everything you read was no longer applicable to our compound in benghazi unlike the fest team respo...

Implement in the state department even before the arb completed its work? >> well, although the arb had not completed its own investigation, clearly in the aftermath of benghazi we were doing our own evaluation of what had happened, what we knew about the circumstances and what we needed to do to try to get ahead of any other potential problems. one of the decisions that i made and discussed with general dempsey and secretary panetta was how we could get more assistance from the department of de...

Thought it was important to speak with our team in tripoli directly so they knew we were trying as best we could from so far away to help them and to help their colleagues. we also had pushed to have an additional team of security officers fly from tripoli and really the embassy in tripoli just took that on. they, in fact, probably came up with the idea and put it together and got the plane and sent more help on the way to benghazi. but it was a very personal conversation between me and those wh...

Little more about a round of questions in the first round. i asked about what you were doing on the night of the attacks in benghazi. i want to continue that a little more. you said previously you had spoken with the white house that evening, with the cia, the defense department and the state department. you also spoke directly with people on the ground at the embassy in tripoli that night at around 7:00 p.m., and ki tell from the documents that weve seen that you asked to speak tripoli.puty chi...

Rolling stone said that the potential release of this soldier would help an election. likely, democrats agreed, including bob, that politically playing down benghazi in 2012 helped win an election. so thats how it works here. whatever is politically expedient is what is solved first. >> were not talking about leaving veterans to die with the v.a. scandal today are we? were talking about what happened here, its also to move it off the page. bob. >> i dont talk about benghazi. >> ever. >> nope. >>...

Rolling stone said that the potential release of this soldier would help an election. likely, democrats agreed, including bob, that politically playing down benghazi in 2012 helped win an election. so thats how it works here. whatever is politically expedient is what is solved first. >> were not talking about leaving veterans to die with the v.a. scandal today are we? were talking about what happened here, its also to move it off the page. bob. >> i dont talk about benghazi. >> ever. >> nope. >>...