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>> how do you know that? >> i know that because there was an exhaustive search done under the supervision of my attorneys and that is exactly the outcome. we turned over every work-related e-mail. in fact, as somebody referred to earlier, we turned over too many. the state department and the national archives said there were 1246 out of the 30,000 plus that theyve already determined did not need to be turned over. >> and you have a -- >> point of order, mr. chairman. >> -- really good group of a...

Course know very well tied to this administration said benghazi was clearly a failure in terms of security. i just wonder whether they handled these hard questions well in this panel. i mean, there are still substantive questions, i mean chief among them why didnt this facility have better security? that seemed to be buried in the 11 hours of testimony. >> look, i think there are some legitimate questions out there that will be asked throughout the life of this campaign and beyond. and shes goin...

Ought to call to release certainly sid blumenthal to release without endangering national secrets. >> at the end of day of watching this, i dont know where sydney blumenthals e-mails the annoying e-mails like jokes but in this case very serious but kind of unwelcomed or just tolerated e-mails or was he playing some sort of a role? my sense was he didnt have any official role. what do you make of it? >> apparently, hillary clinton did find them important enough to forward on for other people to r...

Now suing new jersey governor chris christie. the suits seeks at least $250,000 in damages and claims the decision was politically motivated and driven by fear. now back to "hannity." there was no balance. there was two pages out of 270 pages. you talked about a lot of things in there that didnt have anything to do with diplomatic security in any material way in that report. >> you need to make sure the entire record is correct. >> thats exactly what i want to do! >> then go ahead. >> im abo...

Gave on the issue of the bin laden raid. then shes equally accountable. the whole issue -- 600 individual separate requests for additional security as you pointed out. they had outsourced it to the libyan mall is a which i think is insane. we know the ambassador sent a cable saying that al qaeda training camps were right there in benghazi. the question is she got sid blumenthals e-mails. she responded to them. how could she not get 600 separate requests for additional security because theyre con...

result of a terrorist attack. >> you have said two officers were killed today in benghazi by an al qaeda-like group. then you had a conversation with the egyptian prime minister. you told him this. we note attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. it was a planned attack, not a protest. you knew the truth. but thats not what the american people got. >> if you look at the statement i made i clearly said it was an attack and i said there were some who tried to justify it on the ba...

the information that we had at the time. >> in this pile in 2011 i see daily updates. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful v e-mails to you and i can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in libya in 2012. >> no one ever came to me and said we should shut down our compound in benghazi. >> well, im not saying shut it down. im saying protect it. >> republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail sec...

the time. >> in this pile in 2011 i see daily updates. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful v e-mails to you and i can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in libya in 2012. >> no one ever came to me and said we should shut down our compound in benghazi. >> well, im not saying shut it down. im saying protect it. >> republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail secretary clintons presidential ca...

and that was the night of the attack. but let me just go a little further. you said that you found out in october that your attorneys met with the state department, i believe it was in august. now, from that time you said you turned over everything and that your lawyers went through this, and i believe it was in november after finding out in october that they had reviewed all these e-mails. now, the state department hadnt been able to give us all those e-mails in two years, but your at...

Information. i made a lot of secure phone calls. i was in and out of the white house all the time. there were a lot of things that happened that i was aware of and that i was reacting to. if you were to be in my office in the state department, i didnt have a computer. i did not do the vast majority of my work on e-mail. and i bet theres a lot of sid blumenthals e-mails from 2011, too. i dont want you to have a mistaken impression about what i did and how i did it. most of my work was not done on...