I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through
I want to thank the panelists. I think it was an interesting discussion, and look forward to having many more today. Thank you very much. And were live on capitol hill this thursday morning as this wednesday morning as the House Select Committee on benghazi will hear testimony on the 2012 attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Greg starr will appear before the committee again today. And in testimony last september for the same committee he encouraged law enforcements to give the state department extra funding to increase embassy security. Now, also testifying today we expect to hear from steve linick, the Inspector General at the state department. As this hearing gets under way and for the rest of the day were asking should more resources be put togethers Diplomatic Security. Go to facebook. Com or tweet us using the hash tag, cspan chat. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Again, we are awaiting the start of this House Select Committee on benghazi attack hearings to get under
I thank mr. Morell for volunteering to testify once again. A terrorist attack against u. S. Facilities is a serious event and this committee has been conducting a thorough and detailed investigation for the last 19 months to understand exactly what happened. We have held over 17 member events reviewed thousands of documents mostly classified interviewed the men on the ground that night. I want to focus on how this Committee Received inaccurate talking points and how the administration used those talking points to perpetrate a false narrative about the attacks. After the attacks this committee immediately sought the truth. We received a closed briefing with nctc folks and then petraeus on september 1 and september 13 respectively. After the director then petraeus briefing some members of this committee sought guidance about what could be said publicly in an unclassified forum. We knew that our constituents the American People certainly needed to know the truth about the attacks. Unfortu
Romney has become the latest addition to the banks museum of president ial candidates who ran, but lost. That does it for me. Brooke baldwin takes it away from here. Brooke . An ambassador and three other americans killed after a breakdown in security. At this moment, Hillary Clinton comes face to face with lawmakers who want to know why. Im Brooke Baldwin. The news is now. New word of warnings that the u. S. Consulate in benghazi was not safe, and they come from one of the americans killed. Plus i put my arms around the mother and fathers, the sisters and brothers, the sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children. What today means for Hillary Clintons legacy. Welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im Brooke Baldwin at the cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. And im jake tapper in washington. Any minute inside this room on capitol hill testimony, four months in the making, secretary of state Hillary Clinton will testify before the House
Opening up in the street. Fox friends first starts right now. It is a fun friday. Fox friends first this friday morning. Thank you so much for starting your day with us also ending your week. Bombshell new benghazi testimony is what we begin with. A retired general says the military should have done more to help americans the night of the terrorist attack. This as the white house keeps trying to spin the smoking enmails. Doug zoo laluzader is live. He thinks the administration couldnt have done more to save the u. S. Ambassador to libya. Three other americans killed in the attack in benghazi. Why the white house blames it on a video caused so much anger in the islamic world when he says they knew that couldnt wasnt the case. Four individuals died. They are not responding time to get there. May have been able to. We will never know. Was it a video . No. Was it a video that sparked a protest . No, sir. The white house argues these are celted issues but they placed plenty of questions abo