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Democrats on the committee and better than the republicans. >> clearly measured and different from the sound bite that got a lot of pick-up last time. what difference does it make in the exchange. but the sid blumenthals emails, what difference does that make. is this not a rabbit hole theyre going down. but in the context of chris stevens whose emails a lot of them arrived at the committee this week, he did not have direct access to hillary clinton. asking for security improvements, but sid blu...

For misleading congress as well as for lying to congress. she is under oath this is not a political rally. shes also being investigated by the fbi for at least four crimes, espionage. failure to secure government secrets, destruction of property, wiping the server clean. lying under oath to a federal judge, when she said she gave the government everything. and i think the fbi has a lot more to go on today as a result of the testimony. because she forget about that third and hidden audience. >> a...

Blumenthal. always sid blumenthal. i dont know if it was mentioned 200 times today as if we know who he is. nobody outside of the washington media list has any idea who we are talking about? >> they are obsessed with him. i think it is all part of the broader effort to embarrass secretary clinton politically. chairman goudy said he doesnt want to talk about the clinton foundation and then he does. then he focuses on that and focuses on the fact that sydney blumenthal worked for media map. what h...

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 -- >> well get to that. >> so i think that there were -- 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 e-mails with my closest aides, with officia...

Really questioned. that is the heart of the charge against her. they never really challenged that. >> the problem with that charge is it is completely untrue as those previous reports indicated. they responded as quickly and tried to do everything they could under the circumstances. so there was nothing there. that is why they didnt go after that. they had to sort of circle around the issue all trying to criticize the secretary. this shouldnt primarily be about secretary clinton. i think one of ...

unsolicited e-mails which you passed on in some instances because you wanted to hear from people outside what you called the bubble. we will ignore for a second whether or not sidney blumenthal is outside the bubble but i do want to ask you about a couple of those other comments because what you left out was that he was an old friend who knew absolutely nothing about libya, was critical of president obama and others that you work with, loved to send you political and image advice, had ...

to go to libya. >> former secretary of state and current presidential candidate hillary clinton testified before the select committee looking into the incident which ended with the death of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. republican chairman trey gowdy said the focus was on the americans killed and not on campaign politics. >> there are people frankly in both parties who have suggested that this investigation is about you. let me assure you it is not. this investiga...

carney saying this was no way a pre-planned attack and the experts in libya talking greg hicks saying it was a well-planned attack. the talking points that gets susan rice ready for sunday shows. make sure wrou foyou focus on t video. we have an selection coming. >> i believe the video played a role. i believe the person we have. there were many experts. if you look you probably havent had an opportunity to read the excellent report issued by the democrats. on september 13 the intellig...

more than 100 interviews identified specific employee, significant employee at the state department who denied these requests. it was deputy assistant secretary of the bureau of diplomatic security, colleen lamb. and, again, she did come before the oversight committee. the arb report was very critical of her. it was also critical two supervisors, principal deputy assistant secretary and the assistant secretary for diplomatic security. the oversight committee found the same answer as th...

Everyone knows said blumenthal in this town. i would think they are old friends. i wasnt sure she wasnt just forwarding saids emails. im not sure how serious. >> all the emails that say please print in response to what said blumenthal was sending her. this committee unearthed the fact that she had other email accounts. they have done some damage. unfortunately for trey gowdy all the damage that has been -- most of the damage thats been done from his committee has come from the outside on his own...