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Really capture that. >> we have now, in the media, more benghazi fatigue or more on snegs obsession? >> fatigue, for sure. i think it is -- i dont think that it did establish she was a passive leader. i think it established there are maybe some things that need to be revamped. and i think, but if -- >> leaders want -- >> this is the thing that republicans keep saying thats not true. she didnt ignore the security request. >> it didnt come to her. >> okay. >> buried in the hearing was the fact tha...

Ought to call to release certainly sid blumenthal to release without endangering national secrets. >> at the end of day of watching this, i dont know where sydney blumenthals e-mails the annoying e-mails like jokes but in this case very serious but kind of unwelcomed or just tolerated e-mails or was he playing some sort of a role? my sense was he didnt have any official role. what do you make of it? >> apparently, hillary clinton did find them important enough to forward on for other people to r...

This, congressman. first, i made a number of decisions to close embassy chanceries and other official premises based on security. i closed the embase in tripoli april. had to evacuate all of the meshes out of libya. we lad to lease ferries that came from malta. we closed embassies and other facilities when we had a strong recommendation that it was necessary to do. secretarial responsibility. now, with respect to looking at every security request, how high should the wall be, whether there shoul...

>> well, there are a couple of important point it is to make about this, congressman. first, i made a number of decisions to close embassies and other official premises based on security. i closed the embassy in tripoli. i had to evacuate all of the americans out of libya. we had to lease ferries that came from malta. we closed embassies and other facilities when we had a strong consensus recommendation that it was necessary to do. so that is a statement of secretarial responsibility. now with r...

How do you square that? >> well, there are a couple of important points to make about this, congressman. first, i made a number of decisions to close embassy, chanceries and other. and i had to evacuate all the americans out of libya. we had to lease ferries that came from malta. we closed embassies and other facilities when we had a strong consensus recommendation that it was necessary to do. so that is a statement, secretarial responsibility. now, with respect to looking at every security requ...

Regional director who said he was asking for the sun, the moon and the stars. it got so bad, nordstrom said, that he was fighting members of the state department, it was like having the taliban on the inside of the building. >> well, the accountability review board that i commissioned went into this in great detail. and they made some recommendations. >> i know, but the question is why, though? why didnt the security request, why werent they made? >> that was left to the security professionals, ...

Blame the person who is asking legitimate questions. let me tell you, secretary clinton, you did play party politics with national security - when you and susan rice and everybody else tried to make the american people believe that benghazi was a protest caused by hateful video. theres not one ounce of evidence coming from libya there was a protest outside the consulate. what bothers me the most about her and the obama administration is how these misled the american people after the attack how s...

>> it is -- >> actually, the security drawn down. they reduced, jonah. >> in benghazi. >> looking at the -- >> jonah? >> mike -- >> penny, let jonah get in. you are not answering the question. >> no. he will absolutely -- >> why did she -- >> absolutely say that was not the truth. >> pay attention to sidney blumenthal and ignore the request of someone who worked for her? blumenthal sort of did for the foundation. why did she do that? >> why she ignored or allegedly ignored the security request, ...

Or allegedly ignored the security request, you know i think is a perfectly legitimate thing. i think in her testimony, she essentially stonewalled the issue. but it seems to me that pennys position is the reason why hillary clinton participated in a deliberate lie about the role of the video, is because she was simply bleeding her good soldier barack obama. that is not exoneration for hillary clinton when shes now claiming she wants to be commander in chief. the fact shes involved with sidney bl...

Difference at this point does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. >> joining us now is republican senator ron johnson, the man doing that questioning that led to that infamous sound byte from mrs. clinton who many believe would like to be the next president of the united states. senator, good of you to be here tonight. what were you driving at in that exchange? >> administration mislead the american public ...