informed and knew that our intelligence community felt that there were ties to al-qaeda affiliates that were involved in the attacks. >> reporter: earlier this week, democrats defended rice, questioning whys it took so long for the intelligence community to assess there was no demonstration,s citing two critical pieces of data. >> the interview with the people on the ground as well as the video evidence. that took time, in some cases, days, in some cases more than a week, and that accounted for a lotnt of the inaccurate information initially, and one of the questions that i've asked is why did it take as long as it did. >> reporter: aside from the benghazi controversy, a new report focuses on rice's financial holdings along with her husband. the couple owns stock in two overseas conglomerates, royal dutch shell and a company that until recently did business with iran. a spokeswoman for ambassador rice said she's fully complied with financial disclosure rules adding, quote, with respect to