was her friend, i thought he would have an e-mail for her. were you surprised at all? >> i was not, jake. i would assume a lot of the communications he would send to washington, d.c. would be classified thus he used cabling system or call securely to one of the senior aides to secretary clinton. that's really the best way to get a message to a secretary. so, no, i was not surprised by that. >> what's your impression of the hearing so far? obviously you're biased, clinton supporter and former member of the obama administration. >> yeah. >> has anything come up that you thought has been interesting or worth exploring? >> i mean, i think that my impression of this seems secretary clinton is the only person who really cares and understands about the substance. i think this hearing could have been an important discussion about whether or not we're doing enough to keep our diplomats safe abroad. i think that's a discussion where secretary kerry, the obama administration should have their feet held to the fire and make sure we're implementing the arb report. it's disheartening you're hearing about sid blumenthal's