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After that marathon benghazi committee hearing, democrats are arguing that the republican-led panel should be disbanded. elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on the committee, explained why to chuck on "meet the press." >> in many instances, we found ourselves having to not defend secretary clinton, but to make sure that the record was complete. when the families came in, many of them with tears in their eyes, they asked us to only do three things. make sure that we made sure that this did not ...

If you will at the state department, and thats why it didnt come to her. how satisfied are you with that explanation? >> lets just say im kind of middle of the road on that, because having served in these embassies, when we had a security concern and we sent these back to the state department -- and i was in the defense department, but we would go through the regional security officer and voice our concerns. for the most part, those were answered at the professional security officer level. but w...

Ran the risk of gadhafi regime forces regaining turf and possibly committing war crime against benghazi, a city of 700,000. days after the intervention was launched, if you recall, president obama gave a speech and mentioned and compared benghazi to charlotte, north carolina. a vibrant and vital city here in the united states, but obviously a huge population center. so the concerns again were that not enough was done in the aftermath of the intervention itself. but as the secretary mentioned tod...

And as ive said repeatedly throughout the day, no one ever recommended closing the post in benghazi. >> no one recommended closing, but you had two ambassadors that made several requests, and heres basically what happened to their requests. they were torn up. >> well, thats just not true, congressman. >> but in the end, did they just relitigate the whole thing? or did we hear anything new? josh roe gan is a cnn analyst and co-lumist. he joins us now from washington to get to the heart of it. >> ...

Week. not far west of aleppo, the same rescue group find what they say is an unexploded cluster bomb. markings visible. russia denied thursday using cluster munitions. it same and hit for the first time, it says. the war plane had cluster bombs. it came on to us. none of us were injured, but our neighbor abdul aziz bashir was injured and two women were killed. cnn southern turkey. >> more on the marathon benghazi. hearing including more on the

>> hours and hours and hours of questions, criticisms and rebuttals. hillary clintons congressional hearings ended just a short time ago. >> the marathon hearing was to investigate clintons actions before, during and after the attack on a diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya. the u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed in the september 1 1, 2012 attack. >> the former secretary of state took responsibility for the deaths, but forcibly denied she was to blame for any lapse in securi...

Of sidney bloomenthal. >> i second that emotion. >> motion has been seconded. if we want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. lets let the world see it. >> there were emotional, dramatic moments like this one youre about to see when a republican accused mrs. clinton of ignoring requests for increased security. >> whats your responsibility to benghazi? is thats my question. >> my responsibility was to be briefed and to discuss with the security experts and the policy experts whet...

So if clinton is saying today, it was thought the mission in benghazi was vitalle to u.s. national interest, do you agree with that assessment? >> yeah. this is the one question i have not heard an answer to yet. why was he in benghazi on september 1 1? this is the one day of the year, the one day in the middle east that you would think the ambassador to a middle eastern country would be in the most secure location in that country. that was in the tripoli in the embassy where they have real secu...

That have been blared on loud speakers, in the streets in terms of trucks and of course, radio, tv, all those kinds of messages have gotten out for folks to seek shelter and as far as i can tell, almost everyone has done so. >> a reuters correspondent in mexico in a shelter in puer puerta vallarta. well stay on top of the hurricane. more coming up but lets get to the presidential race now. right now hillary clinton is capping whats being called her best week yet of the 2016 presidential camp...

In benghazi, how do you see it? >> i have to say, i watched the whole thing from beginning to start, a long day, and she handled herself very well. i was really focused on the security aspects of this. i served at five american embassies in the middle east and i was concerned about the security aspect this. the diplomatic service ultimately does a great job. they respond as best they can. so i dont think we learned anything new in this that we didnt know. so ill give mrs. clinton a good job for ...