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CNNW Early Start With John Berman And Christine Romans June 28, 2016

Killed four americans including the ambassador. During Hillary Clintons time as secretary of state. Cnn given exclusive advance access to part of the report. Chief Political Correspondent dana bash has gone over that section. She has it in her hands. She joins us now. Dana, the house created this select committee more than two years ago. Finally this morning, this morning this report is coming out, you have seen some 200 pages of this document. What can you tell us about what is in there . We were given advanced exclusive access to a little more than 200 pages and were told the full report is 802 pages. So the section we have seen describes the events leading up to the deadly attack on benghazi and the compound there. And the committee uses what they say are 75,000 new documents, 81 witnesses never questioned before congress. With the report we have seen paints a narrative of the benghazi outpost as a bureaucratic and diplomatic nomansland, which made it unnecessarily hard to get funding and security, even especially as things became so dangerous and the situation really deteriorated on the ground. But in what we have reviewed, there doesnt seem to be a smoking gun when it comes to Hillary Clinton, who, of course, was the secretary of state at her time and her culpability. But it does conclude the former secretary and her top aides had the intelligence to realize how high of a risk benghazi was for her personnel. This is one quote from the report we have. It says it is not clear what additional intelligence would have satisfied kennedy or the secretary in understanding the Benghazi Mission compound was at risk, short of an attack. One of the questions about that night in benghazi, a question around for years, why was ambassador Chris Stevens even in benghazi on september 11th, 2012, when he knew it was so violent and when his security for u. S. Personnel was so limited . Did the committee shed any light on why he was there that day . This is the part where i think we learn a little bit more new information based on emails that they got for the first time from the late ambassador, other sources. The report says that ambassador stevens saw benghazi as a really crucial part of libya, wanted to make a permanent u. S. Diplomatic consulate there. And what stevens learned was that funding would be available to make that happen, but only through the end of the fiscal year, september 30th at that time 2012. He had to act fast to make the case to secure the funding. And stevens is described as somebody who is really tenacious and took too many risks but this report actually notes he canceled a trip to benghazi a month earlier because it was too dangerous and there was one other thing. That is they were apparently preparing for Hillary Clinton to come the next month, so in october of 2012, in this report says that aides wanted to give her a deliverable when she did that. Deliverable. Democrats, though, dana, released their own minority report preemptively yesterday and accused republicans of basically this entire process of political witchhunt of Hillary Clinton. Does it look that way to you . From the section that we have seen, the majority report doesnt draw any conclusions at all. In fact, trey gowdy, the chairman, who well hear from later this morning, he wanted to release a lengthy narrative of events based on all of the interviews and the hearings they have conducted over the past two years, but not draw any conclusions as a way to prove this was if his perspective a fair investigation aimed at detailing a picture for the public so that they know what happened and it can be corrected for the future. Two republicans on the committee dont think that that is sufficient. So they have written their own 42 page report, where they do draw conclusions, including about secretary clintons role in all of this. A lot to go through here this morning. Stick with us, dana. Were going to continue to unpack what we know about these 200 pages that we have seen of this House Committee on benghazi. While dana stays with us, we want to break down the politics of the benghazi report and the effect on the 2016 race. Lets go to josh rogan, a columnist for the Washington Post. Good morning to you. I understand that dana got 200 of the 802 pages. Did the Washington Post get a different portion of those 800 pages as well . Just to speak for myself, i did not get any pages. I did a bunch of reporting and i did read the summary that dana mentioned by mike pompeiio and jim jordan which represents a narrative based on the 800 pages. You had four sections, the section on what happened before the attack, why was the security not up to snuff, then a section on what happened during the attack where the Committee Seeks to present evidence that the response, while the attack was going on, was insufficient and senior officials didnt communicate and didnt know what was going on and didnt talk to each other, and then a section about after the attack, the talking points, how it was spun and all this stuff about how the administration claimed there was a protest but there was no protest, then the Fourth Section about compliance, section all about how the administration didnt really cooperate with the benghazi investigation. And what all of that adds up to is a lot of new details about what happened before, during and after the benghazi attack, but not a lot of exculpatory damming information that will change anyones mind. So it doesnt give the scathing indictment of Hillary Clinton, but it does argue that intelligence was available suggesting an attack was possible and clinton and kennedy, a top aide, should have realized the risks posed to the Benghazi Mission by extremist groups. Thats one finding. Once again, this is not the outcome that republicans had been necessarily looking for. Right. You gotit exactly right. There is a lot of evidence to show there were a lot of warnings about how dangerous the facility was, there were requests for security that were denied or ignored, and, you know, it seems clear that we left our diplomats in harms way, without adequate protection and our nation suffered a dear price. Now, all of that has already been out there. There have been seven investigations and what happened here is that this whole investigation is sort of become part and parcel of the bitter partisan debate over the benghazi issue that has gotten wrapped up with the president ial campaign. Because republicans and democrats were so split on this committee, and were just at war with each other, as much as they were trying to investigate the facts, it is really difficult to pick out what the committee came up with, that we didnt know already that is new and interesting from the sort of partisan plight over what was the money well spent and should Hillary Clinton really be held up for scrutiny. Two years. Lets look, dana, at what the democrats said, even before this was released. And i found this kind of their own indictment of the whole process. Decades in the future, i had storians will look back on the investigation as a case study in how not to conduct a credible investigation and will showcase the proliferation of republican abuses as a chief example of what happens when politicians are allowed to use unlimited taxpayer dollars and the formidable power of congress to. Trey gowdy saying the state department wasnt cooperative for us. You still have this same lines drawn, political battle lines drawn in the whole benghazi nightmare. My sense, youre right, christine. My sense is the democrats expected this to be much more of a political document. Obviously inherently you have the person who is the head of this department, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, running for president , just a few months before an election to put this report out, the whole thing is inherently political. And it has the narrative and the discussion about what happened when she was at the helm of this department. Having said that, when you look at the details, democrats, my sense is, expected it to be a lot tougher as josh was saying. And a lot more blalantblatantly partisan. There are two republicans who thought it should be go further than the chairman was determined it do. But when it comes to politics, maybe not so much. But i do have to say that, you know, in reading at least the part leading up to the attack, it is kind of mind numbing for people to really wrap their heads around the kind of bureaucratic mess that was the simple requests for security. And the fact that they approved, again, on secretary clintons watch, whether or not she knew about all the details, they approved extending this mission in benghazi for an aentire year without giving the security and personnel needed to go along with that. We have so many more questions. Were going to bring you back later in the show to talk about it more. Thanks so much, dane wa and jos donald trump campaigning in pennsylvania, ohio and west virginia. Hes expected to deliver an economy speech, an Economic Policy speech, as his campaign readies a policy memo walking back his signature proposal banning muslims from entering the United States. Walking back that proposal that launched him on to the national stage. This as trump hires a Top Communications aide from ted cruzs president ial campaign. Taken together, these two moves seen as a sign perhaps trump may be finally shifting toward a softer tone for the general election. Lets turn to phil mattingly. It is the tale of two Donald Trumps. There is the donald trump we have seen repeatedly on the campaign trail, on the attack, whether it is Hillary Clinton or Hillary Clintons top surrogates. Then the donald trump who is watching a campaign to prepare for the general election and that strategy now involves a policy paper that will ratchet back his muslim ban. Now, it pertains according to advisers to just people coming from terrorist states, not all muslims. Another sign that at least on the campaign side of things everybody is focused on the general election. But where is donald trump . That remains the question. Off the campaign trail yesterday, back on it today. Two very important appearances in battleground states, pennsylvania and ohio. But no question, donald trump is not going to pull off his attacks. Neither is his surrogates. Listen to what former massachusetts senator scott brown had to say when it came to elizabeth warren. Shes not native american. Shes not 1 32, no native american background except for what her family told her. The easy answer on that is you all know is that harvard can release the records, she can authorize the release of those records, she can take a dna test, release the records herself and there never has been any effort. Browns attack mimicking what trump said. Hes going to continue to be himself. People told him to change since the primaries, he hasnt. And he won the republican nomination. Now, the big question becomes going forward, are these just small changes on the campaign side of things or is this a full blown strategic shift . Well have to wait and see as that plays out. Alison and christine. 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British lawmakers meeting today to deal with the fallout from brexit. So much uncertainty now facing the country, the pound, its currency, plunging. What will happen to the uk economy . And who will replace Prime Minister David Cameron come september . He says britain will not start the official withdrawal process until his successor is in place. That means more uncertainty, right. As cameron meets today with european leaders at a summit in brussels, theyll urge the uk to get the ball rolling sooner. For the latest, i want to bring in Nic Robertson live in brussels. You just have a moment to pause and reflect here for a moment. I mean, the beginning of my career, it was about getting rid of all of the european curren currencies, one currency, to one economic zone, to unity, together stronger, together rich, together happier. Here were in this unbelievable position where were talking about retreating from that. Just remarkable. You have all these leaders who work so hard to stitch this together over all those years and decades and worried that britain will unravel all of that. Now, you got David Cameron arriving here today, and, you know, for him, arriving to European Union that will be sort of embarrassing, will try to explain what happened in britain and at the same time lay out why this is relevant for the european leaders. Theyre with him arriving here, they laid out clear red lines, no negotiation before you trigger this article 50, the only way to negotiate out of the European Union. No side deals, no saying you want a little bit of business here and dont want the migrants here, thats another red light if they said, if you want access to the european markets, then youre going to have to allow freedom of movement and travel to people, to britain, which is what essentially so many people in britain voted to reject that notion. Thats what David Cameron will face here. Back home, of course, leaving his own party in disarray, they dont have a leader, dont have a strategy for moving forward. The Opposition Party is in absolute disarray, a vote of no confidence in their leader and scotland as well, looking like it will break away. What a legacy for David Cameron. As a political leader to walk in a room packed with political leaders here, somewhat of an embarrassment. Just really something, really something to watch and this is only the early innings of whatever this game is going to look like. Thank you for that, Nic Robertson. Early start on your money. That brexit gloom giving way to a brexit bounce. Most asian markets closed higher. European markets trading higher. Thats decent, two almost 3 bounce in paris. But it comes after two very devastating days of losses. Make no mistake, the damage the last two days has been significant and historic. More than 3 trillion in global stock market value erased. 3 trillion after the uk vote to exit the European Union. The fallout just beginning of uks perfect Credit Rating downgraded two notches by standard poors, the pound near a 30year low. Want to check u. S. Futures quickly. They suggest a triple digit bounce today, but look at the last three months for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Yesterday, the dow lost 261 points. Lowest level in more than three months. Add in fridays 610 point loss, alison, talking about 900 points wiped away, wiped away from the dow. 900 points in two days. Those two days and those traders are exhausted, but as much as were going to see a bounce today, it may not stick around. A warning. I think it is going to be a crazy summer, between the election and the brexit of limitation, a crazy summer for investors. With the cubs looking to get back on track, one of their stars h

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