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Offend inning out what happened at benghazi. >> it does not. the exchange we had over blumenthal was very interest because the question was about whether she vetted his sources, whether she knew where he was getting his information from as he was giving it to her, secretary ode state. she said no, she didnt know that but was very careful to take his name off the e-mail when she passed them on, which shows she way concern about source and validity. itself goes to decisionmaking and she will every...

Heroic dead did not lay down their lives in vain? vç attacks in benghazi, the congress never fully funded the security requests that the administration sent to congress. following benghazi that has improved but there are still areas where i think greater funding and responsive responsiveness would be helpful. it was unfortunate we didnt get all the resources thats might havable -- have enabled us to do more but i appreciate what the congress has done since. the one specific recommendation that ...

Deliberations today, lengthy deliberations in which she sat there and answered a lot of questions, dot the voter say ive met if my mine benghazi. im moving on. >> this is not a mover. this is just -- this doesnt change anybodys work at the ever. >> i suspect not. thats my calculation. >> i wonder if its only we here watching. its sometimes tedious. you have to wait for the fight to breck out to keep you with it. >> i do think there were some substance of exchange that were important ump agree, t...

Political event and could be mind changing and politically motivating? >> no. i go back to what we talk about earlier. in the middle of oing their i got e-mails from two people who watch politics closely, and one said, wow, this committee ills not the church committee, theyre really blowing it. and another guy who said, simply, trey gowdy for president. you took out of this what you went into it with, and i think we exited exactly where we entered. she has her supporters, she has got her dry tra...

Order five, that was the province, as it should have been, of the professionals. >> heres another one from the 1998. arb. the secretary should take a personal and active role in carrying out the responsibilities and ensuring the security of u.s. diplomatic personnel abroad do you believe you complied with that? >> yes, iu&cyy i believe i established a process and i said earlier today, state department and our security professionals have to be 100% right and i think that what happen in benghazi w...

Were you briefed, the answer is -- >> we dont know anything about so it how could i be briefed about something we know nothing about? >> thank you. are all arbs created equal? >> well, there have been 19, including the one that we empanelled after benghazi. theyve all been led by distinguished americans. theyve all been set up in accordance with the laws and rules that the congress established when they created the legislation to establish arbs. so i assume in those respects they are created equ...

Was done. so i want to look at some of the findings from the arb and specific he he failures me blue mountain libya security guards and the militia on that september 11, 2012. my understanding is in pentagon benning, -- in benghazi neither the militia forces nor the state department private local guards were capable of defending our personnel. these poorly trained forces either did not show up, retreated in the face of danger or lacked the necessary fools to fight back. i want to learn the lesso...

>> they certainly are worthy of followup by the department, and i believe that they have been. >> it was an arb -- police put up the poster please -- an arb in 1998, to 200 folks were killed. heres what its recommendation said: quote, special 1ç this is from the most recent one. special mission security posture was inadequate for benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attacks. >> acceptedded the recommendations derek injury madam secretary, my question is if you agree with it. >> i do...

>> there you go. thats close to six hours, i believe, six hours of hillary clinton talking about benghazi. lets bring in steven dynan, the political editor for the "washington times" newspaper. one of the goals as stated has been to drive down her politically. and if that it is one goal, has that been today successful? >> oh, i dont think so. look, i think at this point, everybody essentially has their opinion about benghazi. this may get at some of the questions on the sidelines and on the peri...

Additional efforts by the officers and then the cia reinforcements that arrived, find his body or to find him hopefully were unsuccessful. and they had to withdraw because of the continuing attack back to the cia annex before we knew what happened to the ambassador. we were desperate, and we were trying to call everybody we knew in benghazi and libya, get additional help. what appears to have happened at some point later is that libyans found ambassador stevens. and they carried him to the hospi...