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using civilians as human shields. theyre hiding behind and among civilians. theyre putting rockets and other terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas. that creates an added burden for the israeli defense forces, but it does not lessen their responsible to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians and to protect the lives of innocent civilians as they conduct this military operation. thats true of striking from the air. it is true of going in on the ground. this is somethi...

And the First Lady Melania Trump receives an apology and damages from the daily mail over allegations about her work as a model. A meeting is underway in moscow between russian president Vladimir Putin and us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson just hours after President Putin claimed relations between the two countries was at its lowest ebb since the end of the cold war. Earlier Rex Tillerson held talks with his russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Rex tillerson wants russia to withdraw support for ...

Security both hard and soft. and resources. and we just have to ask you based on our best assessment about what we need to do our jobs. and sometimes, you know, youve got a budget process and nobody has predicted youre going to have a revolution against gadhafi. then you have to scramble. how do you figure out what to do in tripoli? and i could go down the line and tell you 10 or 20 of those examples we live with every day. so we -- its more of an art than a science, to be honest. because as of ...

And it is something we take seriously when we do it. you know, when we left benghazi on the night of 11th, 12th there were others still there. the italians were there. the turks were there. people evaluate risk over time. and i think its important to do what we can to minimize it. some of that will be done by technology. some of that will be done by hard security. and some of that will be done by what we call soft power. trying to get the balance right is very difficult. >> as we look forward to...

Ryan crocker one of our very best who would be very difficult to say you cant do this even though youve decide you should do it. but what were trying to do is to create a more ongoing discussion between our ambassadors who are our regional experts and our security people. so that at the very least, no ambassador is taking an unnecessary risk. however that is defined. >> with regard to ambassador stevens, certainly it was brave of him to go to benghazi on the days he did. i have to ask you honest...

To every high-risk post. part of what were trying to struggle through with is how do we make our facilities as secure as possible. because our diplomats are not soldiers. how do we have reliability security. the february 17th bring kad was a libyan militia that started defending chris stevens when he showed up before gadhafi fell. they had been reliable. they had been responsive. but they were not particularly available during those first minutes and hours of the attack on our compound. we also ...

And thank you very much, secretary clinton, for your contributions to securing americas place in the world for the past four years and for your contributions towards world peace. the first question id like to ask you has to do with the accountability review report. the report does identify specifically people who were found to have endangered in the department in systemic failures and inefficiencies. i want to be clear. you were not one of those people, is that correct? >> thats correct. >> now,...

Go to eastern libya knowing all these threats, knowing the memos are clear, and i think you misspoke earlier when you said requests were denied for more security. when he requested for one msd team or an additional msd team and the replay from john said unfortunately msd cannot support the request. there was a request made for more security. and it was denied on june 7th. and so madam secretary, the consulate became a death trap. thats malpractice. you said you take responsibility. what does res...

However, this flag was pointed out to be affiliated with al qaeda, terrorists who attack and kill united states citizens and other individuals around the world. do you -- did anyone in your department below you, were they aware of this report and these photos prior to? and dont you think they should have brought this to your attention? >> well, what im trying to say, congressman, is i am well aware that there were people claiming to be associated with al qaeda that were attempting to influence m...

As you close on your tenure, i was wondering if you might be willing to share some important lessons learned from the time you spent in this post. and enlighten us as to what congress can do to help respond and even get in front of these threats as we move forward. and related to that if i may, assuming that youre going to say what youve said a couple of times about increased engagement at the ground level, how do we do that in areas that are unstable? where we need to depend on local government...