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They would go kill some americans? >> reporter: that anger and frustration palpable for hillary clinton two years ago. >> what difference at this point does it make. >> reporter:? a moment likely still fresh in the minds of republican led committee members. >> madam secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap. >> reporter: yet after three years of investigations, seven investigations, thousands of pages of e-mail, and hours of testimony, republicans say they still have unanswered questi...

>> no, i do not. >> maam, there were 172ish. might have been 171 or 173. how many were there in july and august and then in that week, a few days before the attacks, do you know? >> there were a number of them, i know that. >> yes, maam, 83, by our count. that is over 600 requests. youve testified here this morning that you had none of those reach your desk? >> thats correct. >> madam secretary, mr. blumenthal wrote you 150 e-mails. appears from materials all of those reached your desk. can you ...

The great attributes that chris stevens had was a really good sense of humor, and i see him smiling as he is typing this because it is clearly in response to the e-mail down below, talking about picking up a few, quote, fire sale items fr^jq britts -- >> those fire sale items are barricades -- >> thats right. >> additional -- >> thats right. >> -- requests for security for the compound. >> thats right. >> thats what the fire sale was, because we werent providing enough physical security for the ...

The end of the gadhafi regime. i was responsible for quite a bit, congressman. i was not responsible for specific security requests and decisions. that is not something i was responsible for. >> time has expired. chairman recognize gentleman from california mr. schiff. >> thank you, mr. chairman. may d madame secretary, were now almost to the end of second round of questions and i admit something i said after the first round is i dont understand the core theory of this case. i thought i did, but...

How is that possible? >> well, congresswoman, one of the great attributes that chris stevens had was a good sense of humor. i see him smiling as hes typing this because it is clearly in response to the e-mail down below talking about pick up a few, quote, fire sale items from the brits. >> those fire side items, by the way, are barricades. >> thats right. >> they are additional request for security for the compound. thats what the fire sale was because we werent providing enough physical securit...

Reviewed these e-mails, and they dont contradict 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 republican claims t...

This morning, hillary clinton goes before the house benghazi committee. this will be a long day. the committee says the focus will be the 201 attacks in libya. the attacks that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. theyre to ask then secretary of state hillary clinton what she knew. >> im particularly focused on the the security incidents and the posture of the state department with respect to the security requests. we have learned that there were hundreds of mentions about ...

Tell you that i know a number of requests were fulfilled and some were not. but from my perspective again, these were handled by the people that were assigned the task of evaluating them, and you know, i think its important to again reiterate that although there were problems and deficiencies discovered by the accountability review board, the general approach to have security professionals handle security requests i think still stands. >> yes, maam. i wish you had listened to those security prof...

And some were not. but from my perspective, again, these were handled by the people that were assigned the task of evaluating them. you know, i think its important to again reiterate that although there were problems and deficiencies discovered by the accountability review board, the general approach to have security professionals handle security requests i think still stands. >> yes, maam, i want you to listen ton those security professionals. you described mr. stevens as having the best knowle...

State department facility, in benghazi, libya. and then again it shows the increase in security being nonexist nonexistent. i expect your answer is the same, no corresponding increase in the amount of security? >> congressman, i just have to respectfully disagree. many security requests were fulfilled. wed be happy to get 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 the security requests were fulfilled for benghazi. >...