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Assistant secretary level. >> bret: charles, this report says it went up to and including secretary clinton the democrats can say its a partisan attack. when you produce documentary evidence of a charge said when she addressed the congress that was not exactly right. that she was not aware of these security compland and threat. >> lets play that. it was going to be our bump in shot. go ahead. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know were handled by the security professi...

Participate in any sort of internal or interagency meeting before this attack with regard to the deteriorating security situation in libya? >> with specific security requests, they didnt come to me, i had no knowledge of them. >> for the most part, though, republicans seemed to obsess over the comments of the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice over double talk, alleged coverup and whether rice purposely underplayed the terrorist connection and underscored protests to an anti-muslim film. >> ...

Have had chance after chance to do the right thing here. the irony is just as thick as the walls of the united states congress, when you think that they stripped $300 million out of the secretarys security requests before benghazi. but it gets even worse, ed. after benghazi, the president and the secretary of state said listen, weve got to do better. so they put before congress a request to just move $1.3 billion of unallocated funds for iraq into security accounts to try to protect our embassie...

But yet the messages were being blocked. security requests were being denied. and today here we are four months later. and there really doesnt seem to be, for the american people and for those who died, justice. either with regard to the terrorists -- no ones been brought to justice for that. now we see the uprising in africa that continues. maybe emboldened by the fact that no terrorist was really brought to trial or brought to justice as a result of the attacks in benghazi. and then in the uni...

Your thoughts on it. >> well, listen, the republicans have had chance after chance to do the right thing here. the irony is just as thick as the walls of the united states congress, when you think that they stripped $300 million out of the secretarys security requests before benghazi. but it gets even worse, ed. after benghazi, the president and the secretary of state said listen, weve got to do better. so they put before congress a request to just move $1.3 billion of unallocated funds for iraq...

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, i didnt deny them. >> she captured offense in the findings of the independent review led by thomas pickering and admiral mike mullen countless times, but that wasnt good enough for many republicans. >> how can this review be considered thorough when the person at the top, the secretary of state, was...

Security and im just wondering if you might mention one reform that would be helpful, so that you would have known of the needs there of security that went undone? >> well, obviously i have thought about this almost constantly since that date, senator, because, you know, i do feel responsibility. i feel responsible for the nearly 70,000 people who work for the state department. i take it very seriously but the specific security requests pertaining to gauze dpauz -- benghazi, were handled by the ...

We can prevent some of this happening. i was curious about a number of things. first of all, were you ever asked to participate in any sort of internal or inner agency meeting before this attack with regard to the deteriorating security situation in libya? >> well, senator, you know, again, i appreciate your kind words, you know, and i reiterate my taking responsibility. and as i have already said, with specific security requests, they didnt come to me, i had no knowledge of them. with regard to...

Government and the libyan government. so i saw first-hand what ambassador pickering and former chairman mullen called, timely and exceptional coordination. no delays in decision-making. no denials of support from washington or from our military. >> reporter: she described in great detail what she was doing the day of the attack. she said she was at the state department today, closely monitoring the situation in cairo, egypt, where protesters were scaling the fence of the u.s. embassy there. in t...

Said steps were taken to discipline those state department officials when in fact no significant action had or has occurred. theres just been a shuffling of the deck chairs. do you find it acceptable that state officials responsible for this, the lack of leadership, and mismanagement, for ignoring security requests during the benghazi attack and before remain employed within the state department? also, the accountability report cites several systemic failures at the department that cannot be ove...