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Politics to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand whats on their minds, and hes been a friend of mine for a long time. he sent me unsolicited e-mails which i passed on in some instances and -- and i see that thats just part of the give and take. when youre in -- when youre in the public eye, when youre in an official position, i think you do have to work to make sure youre not caught in the bubble and you only hear from a certain small group of people and im going to...

Secretary of state he played a role of sort albeit from the outside and he sent clinton a series of 25 memos from libya a country where he had dealings. anyway according to "times" mrs. clinton took mr. blumenthals advice seriously forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in washington and at times asked him to respond. plsz mrs. clinton continued to pass along the memos and much of the intelligence passed on appears to come from a group of business associates he was advising as they ...

grip on the iraqi city. we want to start here at home with hillary clinton where the candidate took questions from reporters for the first time in weeks. kristin welker asked hillary clinton about paid speeches about conflict of interests and use of private e-mail while secretary of state. >> was there conflict of interest in giving paid speeches into the runup of your announcement youre running for president? >> the answer to the second is no. the answer to first is i have said repe...

ability to deliver it over vast stretches of territory. we know why they made that claim, why they said saddam had a nuclear weapon. they knew that a nuclear weapon in the hands of saddam was something no one could have the nerve to defend, and so they made the claim. they did what it took to make their case for the united states to invade iraq. hes author of a great new book with lots to talk about, "the great war of our time." >> look, i know that there have been a lot of questions a...

Federal government. its moving security documents on to a private server. but her own people. shes relieved herself of the charge of perjury. she didnt sign the document under oath and she cant be accused of lying under oath. she is still exposed to the same crime that general petraeus is about to plead guilty to, which is taking classified materials on to a non-classified site. she says she was never hacked. >> how does she know? ? >> people she communicated with were hacked. sid blumenthal was...

Press miss this giant story about her e-mails? it was hidden in plain sight. she was e-mailing people from a private account. did all of us miss it. >> its hidden in plain sight if you have access to her server. not many reporters would be e-mailing her directly or them directly. sid blumenthal former reporter e-mailing her about what was going on in libya. maybe he counts. this is a situation where you couldnt possibly know without being on the inside that she had set up this system. look there...

Intelligence any did not know that these private emails existed. that tells you about how bad their investigations were. how unprofessional their investigations were and how truly they were not interested in getting to the facts about benghazi. >> obviously now the benghazi select committee has now subpoenaed these new emails, this server used by hillary clinton but pointing out there that all these investigations that there was zero emails from the secretary of state and none of them said anyth...

Information about georgia bank. carried titles like comprehensive intel report on libya, included all cap warnings that the following information comes from extremely sensitive sources and should be handled with care. each memo included a note on the sources of intelligence included in the document. one typical memo included sources highest level. brotherhood in egypt. the leadership of the armed forces in western intelligence, diplomatic and security services. a january 15th, 2013 memo on libya...

issued subpoenas for all communications of former secretary of state hillary clinton related to libya and state department for other individuals who have the information pertinent into investigation. the committee sent preservation letters to internet firms informing of all legal obligations. a day after the house select committee confirmed that former secretary of state hillary clinton used a private e-mail account and the associated press revealed she used a private server registered...

To read exactly what bob meant there when he says the clinton people are talking this up. >> right. >> the clinton people see it on the table. the clinton people see it as a real possibility. they dont make this call. i mean, if sid blumenthal or fred, one of the guys over there that would like to see this happen is talking this up, it has no consequence, does it? >> no, it doesnt. i mean, look, theres hillary people always go through a lot of what if? what if it had been us? >> yeah. >> no shor...