well-informed and knew that our intelligence community felt that there were ties to al qaeda affiliates that were involved in the attack. >> earlier this week, democrats defended rice, questioning whyed tike so long for the intelligent community to assess there was no demonstration, setting two critical pieces of data. >> the people on the ground and video evidence. that took time, in some cases days, in some cases more than a week. and that accounted for a lot of the inaccurate information initially. and one of the questions i've asked is, why did it take as long as it did. >> aside from the benghazi controversy, a new report focuses on rice's holdings. they hold hold stock in royal dutch shell, and a company that did business with iran. a spokeswoman for ambassador rice said she has fully complied