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The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting syrian rebels. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program we are looking at different ways to achieve basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, to enable capable, motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremism. Tom ackermann join...

Of libya. Plus, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to t tunisians who helped pull their country back from the brink of civil war. And liverpools new manager promises trophies but insists hes not special. Im a to believ totally normal guy. Jurgen klopp promises to deliver the league title after 25 years. Hello a warm welcome to the news hour. In gaza, its been a day of violence and death. At least Six Palestinians were killed when Israel Forces open fires along the gaza strip. First we have this re...

We are back live now with the special hearing but by the Benghazi Committee former secretary of state Hillary Clinton sitting there listening to congresswoman robi who had several rounds today challenging secretary clinton and im in with david and karen director of National Security so what could they possibly find out in the next round of questioning that they dont already know . Can they get to the substance . Can they get to more of the substance . Can they move away from emails . Can they no...

Of the administration. He has been a little bit more aggressive, little bit more outspoken in the past and i think thats more his character to be more pointed and to be more pointed i guess. Martha roby has been very stick to the facts and i think im hitting everybody but a mix of folks that are hoping to represent the full crosssection of the house and also there was some controversy and there were some criticism from people like therell issa who is a relatively controversial member of the hous...

Posture that was inadequate for benghazi this is from the most recent one. I want to know if you agree with this. Inadequate for benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place. Do you agree with the statement from the current arb . I accepted the recommendations of the current arb. My question is if you agree with it. I dont think thats a relevant question, congressman. I think the question is, i accepted their recommendations, and obviously their recommendations were ba...

So theres were trying to have more preexisting arrangements like that, and that goes to your question. If there are assets in the region, how do we plan for contingencies so that they can be immediately triggered and try to respond. I obviously spoke to the white house, i spoke to general petraeus, i spoke to lots of other people that evening trying to get whatever help we could get. We did get a surveillance plane above the location, but it took some time to get there. It had to be diverted it ...

Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But ...

Time has gone by, wouldnt you say . I had read from the book by gene Edwards Smith he would have easily gone to the u. S. Naval academy, but he was accepted at west point. He graduated 61st in a class of 164, so this is really openended to any one of you. He was a pretty average student. This is what made getting an aminus very difficult. Now we know the rest of the story. I do know he attended the general Staff Command College at leavenworth and he graduated first in his class on that one. He s...

You who served in world war ii who are with us here this evening, and i have to tell youa that i have some sense of what it was like to have a ut his relationship with your supreme o commander. After we put his body on the train that went from washington out to abilene, kansas, and mary and anne can tell each tell their own story on this, the thing i remember most is that we stopped in every little town along the way and at about 2 00 in the morning, because, you ju know, we couldnt sleep at all...

Ambassador stevens after we dont know the answer. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in this may . Yes or no, please. Yes, i believe i did. And when was that . I dont recall. And i want to clarify for the record that this document is about all of libya, not just benghazi. I dont want anybody 77 are about benghazi. Congresswoman, look. I appreciate it and i really do the passion and the intense interof your feelings about this. We have diplomatic facilities in war zones. We ...