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With that, mike, im certain that with your experience specifically with your involvement in the house select committee, benghazi, you understand how valuable intelligence can be to oversight. if asked by the committee, will you provide the raw intelligence and sourcing behind agency finished products and assessments if, in fact, this committee needs it to complete its job? >> it senator, i have been on the other side of this and i know how central it is to make sure you have all that you need to...

You have as cia director to keep this committee well informed. i expressed to you my frustration of questioning members of the intelligence committee, and then finding that there was more to the story, and that there were omissions at times. not deception, but omissions. and even more frustrating, reading in the papers the next day leaks that have come from the administration, not necessarily the cia. and i think that he erodes the trust that is essential for us to perform our oversight function...

You fully understood the role that you have as cia director to keep this committee well informedi expressed to you my frustration of questioning members of the intelligence committee and then finding that there was more to the story and that there were omissions at times, not deception but omissions. and even more frustrating reading in the paper the next day leaks that have come from the administration, not necessarily the cia. and i think that erodes the trust that is essential for us to perfo...

Chair of the senate intelligence committee is get the report out. it has been a long pain staking process. work that has gone on over a couple of years. the oversight function of congress where it is their job to look at what agencies of government are doing and to hold them accountable. much of the report wont be made public. its a limited portion but even within that there are a lot of questions and concerns about what it will say and what ramifications there could be things like inciting viol...

Congress are invigorated to go after this in part because they feel like the white house has not been honest with them in the past about other issues, whether has to do with some of the testimony eric holder has given in the past. whether it has to do with benghazi emails. there is whole litany of issues here where republicans see overreach by administration unwillingness to be overseen by congress. with this case in the irs, with technical issues byron was talk about there is legitimate ways an...

Now what you see is the ultimate dysfunction in washington. if they cant get together on veterans issues, they cant get together in anything. there will be a pox on all their houses because they all knew and theyre all responsible. and the oversight function was abdicated. they failed to execute their oversight function. >> jim vandehei, why do you have them holding back when the rest of washington is starting to call for shinsekis head? >> i think in pelosis case, shes trying to defend the pres...

Use particularly amongst the teens. and the money thing f a parent has something like this, does it reduce the cost of insurance for your teen driver which tends to be high, because they are new no the road? >> well, in some cases, it might, because there are some systems available through the insurance companies, but, you know, look at the various devices, or the various apps, we have not studied them to see if they have reduced crashes, but in looking at a at the ones on the market, we find th...

>> you should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. i think that it was inappropriate and unjust. never think that was not a big deal to me. dont ever think that. >> well, im just looking for evidence. we cant get the information to get to the bottom of that, so i dont need lectures from you about contempt. >> and i dont need lectures from you either. >> difficult to deal with asking questions -- >> the congressman is angry. the attorney general is indignant. >> yeah. the two of them are...

She is a government employee paid to do this job. she should be accountable for what happened there and answer the questions it seems like a no-brainer. for some reason this person is able to hide behind this claim that she has some fifth amendment protection that she waived. and i think shah she, you know, i would loo like to see the answers to the questions that they have for her. >> congress ability to compel testimony is absolutely essential, not just with legislative functions but to equall...

Obligation to speak up, i think as a public official, somebody entrusted and infused with the public trust, do you have an obligation to speak up to make the truth known. >> reporter: in may 2013 morel was asked to testify a second time before the house committee. sources say he then admitted changing the talking points but offered shifting explanations. among them, that exposing the failure of mrs. clintons state department to act on repeated security warnings seemed unprofessional. two sources...