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Committee investigating the benghazi terror attack. joining me now is mr. bernard goldberg. do you think my analysis in the talking points and catherine heritage reportage in the a block was fair? >> yeah, i do. i do. you made a point in the talking points that she didnt take -- mrs. clinton didnt take a full control of security requests for added security and yet the number of security people on the ground in benghazi was the same before the requests were made as after the requests were made. s...

>> youre telling me you had no authority to take anyones paycheck, to cause anyone to be fired? you are telling me you were legally prohibited from doing that? is that your position here this morning? >> it is my position that in the absence of finding dereliction or breach of duty there could not be immediate action taken but there was a process that was immediately instituted and which led to decisions being made. >> yes, maam. the decision was to put in fullback pay and keep them on as employ...

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I felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department and usd. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them. >> this pile represents the emails that you sent or received about libya in 2011 from february through dec...

President. >> hearing 600 -- >> no. >> hearing that 600 separate security requests were made and they were denied, do you blame them for what happened? >> absolutely. i blame them for instituting an illegal regime change, for running guns, for lying about it, for not protecting our people. thats the first rule of thumb for military protocol. you never leave anyone behind. and if you cant rescue them and keep them whole, you at least bring home the body. and its just horrific that we have this wo...

Lost four brave americans. she is one very important fact witness and thats what were trying to get to. were trying to get to all of the facts. thats what our committee has been focused on from the beginning. so we will be asking her questions about the hundreds of e-mails that we have received from the state department about the security requests that have been made. and about mentions about the security pasture in benghazi and libya. there was a lot of violence going on in libya and in benghaz...

Previous conclusions, they confirm them. they corroborate them. weve reviewed e-mails from ambassador stevens, and they show that he asked charlene lamb for more security. nothing we have obtained, not the new interviews or the new e-mails, changes the basic facts we have known for three years. secretary clinton, let me ask one final question and, please, take as much time as you want to answer this. theres no evidence to support the republican claims that you personally rejected security reques...

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