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Continue on. >> at one point she said they were unsolicited. you can say over 11 hours youre going to get tripped up, but that seemed like an intention gnat misdirection and a lie at worst. then her ineptitude and inability to be a secretary of state who is paying attention to one of the most critical places in the world at that time. not just in tropical storms of it being a country we just t toppled, but also for her and the obama administration. libya was their decision and if you have the am...

Happened in benghazi and making sure it doesnt happen again? >> yes, that is an important question. as you said, these requests never came to the secretary. but i think the elephant in the room and secretary clinton did mention this in her testimony yesterday, was that you had a republican congress that wasnt willing to fund embassy security. and now i think its really hypocritical for them to come out and make a big issue of this when they in fact wouldnt fund it. theyve done better since. lear...

Call on the release, and certainly sidney blumenthal is not a government official, and release those and any other ones that can be -- >> at the end of the day i dont know where is sidney blumenthals, the an noig e-mails sent by somebody in the circle like people who send around joke e-mails or in this case serious or unwelcomed or tolera tolerated e-mails or was he playing some type of a role. my sense was that he didnt have any official role, and what do you make of it? >> apparently, hillary ...

Benghazi hearing. the former rhode island governor lincoln chafee announced he is dropping out of the race for the white house due to lack of interest. ed henry, whats the atmosphere after the hearing? im guessing people were pleased. >> they were pleased. the clinton camp feels like she did pretty well. she took some hits about the narrative, over benghazi, and about security requests that she denied but they feel like thats ground that has mostly been covered before. she had one of her largest...

Purposes. and im hoping that we can move forward together. we can start working together. we can start listening to each other. and i appreciate greatly what you said, ranking member cummings. >> and the afternoon session brought fireworks over clinton confidant sidney blumenthal. republicans on the committee repeatedly asked clinton about his e-mails. why, they wondered, did blumenthal have what they called unfettered access to her when security requests from ambassador chris stevens never seem...

I was not responsible for specific security requests and decisions. you remember that. what do you think of that comment? >> i was troubled by that because security should be the number one concern when the head of that department, the secretary of state is making decisions about where to send people. and what kind of anythings we should have. and while she talks about being responsible for policy, the policy need to take into consideration the security. and we know that there was not adequate s...

Incidents at your facility, state department facility in benghazi, libya. it shows increase in security being non-existence. i assume answer is the same we have increasing security incidents but no corresponding increase in the amount of security? >> congressman, i have to respectfully disagree. many security requests were fulfilled. we would be happy to get you that information for the record. so i cant really tell what it is youre putting on that poster but i know that a number of security req...

Start." >> 31 minutes past the hour. it all happen this is morning. in just hours, hillary clinton goes before the house benghazi committee. questions and answers that could last all day. eight hours. the committee says the focus will be the 2012 attack on the u.s. diplomatic compound in libya. the attacks that killed u.s. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. theyre to ask her about the security problems at the compound. >> im particularly focused on the security incidents and the...

Now. what needs to be done so that we can make sure that our four heroic dead did not lay down their lives in vain? >> before the attacks in benghazi, the congress never fully funded the security requests that the administration sent to congress. following benghazi, that has improved. but there are still areas where i think great eer funding and responsiveness would be helpful. it is unfortunate that we didnt get all the resources that might have enabled us to do more and all the high threat pos...

I see myself as maybe an entrepreneur. internet essentials from comcast. helping to bridge the digital divide. breaking news at this hour. secretary hillary clinton still testifying so is the presidential candidate defends her record in libya. "on the record" is monitoring the hearing. we will take you to the hearing live as news breaks. what is the clinton campaign saying right now? fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry has been following the campaign. ed, whats the campaign sayin...