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Clinton will testify about the attack in benghazi and libya, left four americans dead and left a can of political worms no one could have predicted. the thursday appearance on benghazi comes at a time when there are serious accusations about the intentions, whether it wants the truth or to take down clintons presidential campaign. john dickerson asked the committee chairman what he wants to know from clinton when she testifies. >> what i want to know is while violence was going up in libya, why ...

On the investigation into hurricane katrina, after 17 months there hasnt been any new information about what happened that evening or in the immediate aftermath. >> how about this. because the chairman said yesterday that yours actually is the first committee to get a hold of u.s. ambassador chris stevens sp stevens e-mails and shows the ambassador was pleading for more security and that his mes were ignored. lets listen to what he said. >> what i want to know is while violence was going up in l...

>> three days ago the benghazi committee received chris steven and this morning on "face the nation," congressman tray goudy reiterated. she is just one part of this investigation. gowdy said the ambassadors e-mails are much more interesting to him than clintons. >> while violence was going up in libya, why was our security profile going down? it wasnt even staying the same. it was going down. i want to know why certain things made it to our inbox but pleadings that you put in place for more sec...

Representative trey gowdy of south carolina said his committee is only interested in clinton as a witness because she was secretary of state when the attack happened. >> what i want to know is, while violence was going off in libya, why was our security profile going down? it wasnt even staying the same. it was going down. in the past, john, shed said that she had people and processes in place to handle that. you also had people and processes in place to handle the drivel by people like sidney b...

Committee, richard hanna of new york, said, quote, a big part of the benghazi investigation was set up to go after clinton. but today the chairman of the benghazi committee fired back at the critics saying they, quote, dont have any idea what the facts are, enquote. representative trey gowdy of south carolina says his committee is only interested in clinton as a witness because she was secretary of state when the attacks happened. >> what i want to know is while violence was going up in libya, w...

Could it be we are electing a president next year? this is outrageous and i hope many people are upset as many of us are. >> i did ask the chair of that committee who is considered to become majority leader about a possible political motivation. this is back on august 12th. and he did push back hard on all of this speculation. what do you say to those in her corner who say shes answered all these questions about ben a benghazi and that this is a political motivated witch hunt? >> well, i have ab...

Possibly say that. she wasnt interviewed by the arb. she appeared before one house committee and one senate committee and you and i have followed congress enough tow. >> the arb being the state department review board. im just making that clear. >> thats right. and they didnt even bother to interview her. then you had the house and the senate where she made a single appearance. but you have five minutes and, frankly, theyre not the best questioners in the world. so i dont think its asking too mu...

People the mentally deranged the ideologues and the terrorists. terrorists are everywhere in the world. and none of us is safe from the threat. we have to do everything we can to protect it. but its a pretty dangerous part of the world. americans sometimes dont often comprehend that. but you have a situation with north koreans who have tried to blow up the south korean cabinet in the past. you have just kind of garden variety extremists. and a lot is going on in that part of the world. its very ...

Agencies in addressing the threat as to whether its credible or not. but i can guarantee you that they will not relax what they are doing and that security is there. in most countries, certainly in japan and in australia where i served the security that i received was the same as what the prime minister of the country had. i had much more security in both places than people like the foreign ministers or the defense ministers. i would also add that the israeli ambassador receives the same kind of...

I think it seems very very clear at this point that it could not at all look like something north korea would be involved in. this guy seems to be a loan operator. im not suggesting theres any north korean involvement. s in terms of a security profile and the security picture, i would mention that is something that also has to be taken into account. >> theres no question. and, in fact it is a lot of around the residents in seoul, but this is an event across the street from the american embassy. ...