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Democratic national committees leadership forum, and listen to this. >> i am absolutely delighted to be here as some of you may know, i had a pretty long day yesterday. [ applause ] but i finally got to answer question, and something that i have been pushing for literally a year. after my experience yesterday, i am just amazed that they are even talking about setting up another special investigative committee, and this time to investigate planned parenthood. and i think that we all know that by ...

The democrats did nothing but support hillary clinton. there were legitimate questions that the democrats have raised about libya policy, about security, and they didnt raise it today. they were there to support her and defend her, and republicans i think missed the opportunities to kind of hone in on some details, and instead, decided to kind of make political points with her, were you caring enough? right. did you, how long did it take you to talk to the families? when did you go home at night...

Not sure how many chances ill get. so two months before the end of the gadhafi regime and youre already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gains, isnt that right? >> congressman, i think that what we were trying to do was to keep the american people informed about this policy. it was, as you recall, somewhat controversial. now, there were republicans as well as democrats who advocated for it and there were republicans as well as democrats who were concerned abo...

Things, there was turmoil to be followed. >> expect more questions about the administrations libya policy. whether it was a contributing factor to the violence that killed four americans on september 11th, 2012 and if americas top diplomat, secretary of state hillary clinton, missed fuentes to avoid war. chris? still ahead, the media coming around to the idea that donald trump could be elected president. first, another new york city police officer is gunned down on the increasingly mean street...

Effort we made, the way we put together the coalition, the way i put together the coalition that imposed sanctions on iran, i think that theres a lot to talk about. i talked about smart power. youre talking about what i believe, i believe we have to use every tool at our disposal. lead with diplomacy, support with development and when necessary as a last e resort, not a first choice, defense. so yes, is that what i believe, it is what i believe and i think that libya was, to some extent, as exam...

Might make about libya. and so hillary clinton ultimately owns the libya policy. she doesnt. she cant. barack obama owns the libya policy. he used many more avenues of advice than even hillary clinton knows he used within the government. >> nicole wallace. >> well, listen, i want to take a shower sometimes when we impugn the motives of everybody involved. trey gowdys motive was to investigate and understand how four innocent people lost their life. let me tell you something about an ambassador l...

Together the coalition, the way i put together the coalition, that imposed sanctions on iran, think there is a lot of talk about. i talked about smart power. youre talking about what i believe. i believe we have to use every tool at our disposal. lead with diplomacy, support with development, and, when necessary, as a last resort, not a first choice, defend. so, yes, is that what i believe? it is what i believe, and i think that libya was to some extent an example of that. >> you were the author...

The least we could do would be to actually focus on the four brave americans who were killed, why they were killed and focus on benghazi. and we have not. mr. roskams questions were the most interesting. it was like he was running for president. he wanted to debate overall libya policy, why we got there in the first place. thats debatable. you will argue that quite well. thats not about the attack on benghazi. thats not about what we could have done in benghazi to better protect them. so, again,...

Pleased with the work that you did and the risks that you took, the leadership that you took, a couple of hours ago you told me im the diplomat here. im driving the policy. and isnt it true that you were thinking about getting political credit for months on this? >> no, congressman, if i could. we were trying to make sure that what was written because its not always accurate, in case you all havent noticed in your own careers. what was written about a very important foreign policy effort by this...

Dramatic. thats my hesitanchesitancy. two months before the end of the regime and youre already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gains. isnt that right? >> congressman, i think that what we were trying to do is to keep the american people informed about this policy. it was, as you recall, somewhat controversial. now, there were republicans as well as democrats who advocates for it and republicans and democrats concerned about it. so i think as secretary of st...