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Week on benghazi offered her no new details. >> i got a lot of answers but not the ones i really wanted. >> you want to know what? >> i want to know why there was no security there and the security that was there got pulled. and who is the one that told the military to stand down? basically. >> thats where you think the investigation needs to follow, who in the state department denied security requests in the months leading up to september 11, 2012, and what happened that night, why the military...

Were all the security requests denied and how could she not know about it? this was an attack a long time in the making. al qaeda flags were flying across benghazi. ambassador stevens said in august we cant defend the consulate. now we have e-mail traffic about changing the talking points. we got e-mails coming from libya saying definitively on the 12th of september this was a terrorist attack and here the groups are responsible. how could she on the 14th of september tell a family member, charl...

Patricia smith joins me now. thanks for being here. >> hello. >> congressman issa started off the hearing by pledging to get to the bottom of what happened in benghazi. >> our goal in this investigation is to get answers because their families deserve answers. they were promised answers at the highest level when their bodies came home. >> mrs. smith did you get the answers you were looking for at this hearing? >> no. >> did you get any answers? >> i got a lot of answers but not the ones i really...

Ranking officer, if you will, americas representative in libya. mr. eric nordstrom is a former regional security officer in libya. and perhaps, the foremost in the most knowledgeable person about security requests that were made and denied to the u.s. diplomatic mission in libya and also in benghazi, ultimately in benghazi. mr. cummings, we will have, from time to time, our disagreement. but i know that for all the members of this committee, we understand that these disagreements must be kept on...

Committee, and i will agree with congressman limpbl here, just the republicans, not the democrats, issued an interim report charging that then secretary of state clinton misled congress when she said that she had never seen any request for more security in libya. lets take a look at what she said. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didnt see those requests. they didnt come to me. i didnt approve them...

Republican chairs of five house committee, and i will agree with congressman limpbl here, just the republicans, not the democrats, issued an interim report charging that then secretary of state clinton misled congress when she said that she had never seen any request for more security in libya. lets take a look at what she said. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didnt see those requests. they didnt ...

Committee, and i will agree with congressman limpbl here, just the republicans, not the democrats, issued an interim report charging that then secretary of state clinton misled congress when she said that she had never seen any request for more security in libya. lets take a look at what she said. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didnt see those requests. they didnt come to me. i didnt approve them...

State said she had zero knowledge before the attacks in benghazi. >> specific security requests pertaining to benghazi were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didnt see those requests. they didnt come to me. i didnt approve them. i didnt deny them. >>gretchen: that was back in january but a scathing new report by the house contradicts that testimony. it finds repeated requests for security were made by the state department and clinton was aware that security was being red...

As we all learn it is harder and harder to know whats true and whats not but i think there was a deliberate attempt to at least skew the facts and make it more politically the way they wanted it to be and we have specific e-mails, specific changes that were made in the talking points and other communications that specific, evidence. i think it is important for people to look at these changes and they can reach that ultimate conclusion themselves. bill: secretary state hillary clinton testimony j...

The people that make mesh. >> steve: and sun screen. >> gretchen: all right. well debate that a little bit. weve got headlines. one of the men accused of working with al-qaeda to plot a terrorist attack in canada back in court today. he has refused a court-appointed attorney and is claiming the charges are unfair. the second suspect pleaded not guilty. theyre accused of conspiring with al-qaeda in iran to blow up a bridge that a passenger train from new york passes by. hillary clinton said she...