Bradley shear Worker Rights in the workplace. As secretary i have no greater priority responsibility. As i have said many times, i take responsibility. Nobody is more committed to getting this right. I am determined to be the state department to leave the state department safer and more secure. It meant moving quickly to respond to the immediate crisis, but also to further protect our people in high threat areas across the region and the world. Host we will get your reaction this morning to Hillary Clintons testimony yesterday. We do expect misses clinton on capitol hill again today as john kerry has his hearing to replace her. For the first 45 minutes, we will get your reaction to the testimony. Whats being written and on television. This is your chance to weigh in on what happened yesterday. Democ here is the front page of the Washington Times. The headline says tears and rage on benghazi. We begin with an exchange between the secretary and senator ron johnson. [video clip]journal do you agree that a simple phone call that was a piece of information that could have been easily obtained within hours if not days. When you are in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process. No. Two, i would recommend you read what they said about it because even today, there are questions being raised. We have no doubt they were terrorists, they killed our people. What was going on and why they were doing what they were doing there were supposedly protests and something sprung out of that. That was easily ascertained that was not the fact. The American People could have done that within days. The fact is we have four dead americans. Whether it was a protest our guys out for a walk to decided to kill some americans, what difference at this point does it make . It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again. Host senator johnson responded this morning. Yes, secretary clinton, it does make a difference. It is the opposing view. The American Public to know whether or not their president and members of the administration are on top of a crisis and telling them the truth. You can read more of that in usa today. Some early facebook postings on all of this. Our first phone call is from chris in port jefferson, new york who is a democrat. Caller good morning. I think they put on a show. I think what they should do is how can you just write off the bat know exactly what is going on right away that far away from here . They need to get all the answers at one time and say what has happened. If you start off immediately you will never get the facts of the bat. Host john from arlington, virginia. A republican. Caller in the european system, somebody generally resigns, but we do not have that system. What they did not go into that meeting yesterday was the fact that our actions in actionsin support of the people overthrowing khaddafi destroyed a Security State that allow these guys to get weapons and to do whatever else they were doing. Secondly, we are in bed with the algerians. How the people not read their history on this government there . A lot of people were killed for the same reasons we are criticizing the Syrian Government for. There are a lot of things they should have covered that they did not cover. If we do not cover it we will be drawn into something nobody will like. Host that was john from virginia. From twitter here is the front page of the wall street journal. If you look at the jump peace, here. The New York Times here is more from the secretary yesterday. [video clip] for me it is not just policy, it is personal. I stood next to president obama as the marines carried the flag draped caskets off of the plane at andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, the sisters and brothers, the sons and daughters, and the wives left alone to raise their children. It has been one of the grade honors of my life to lead the men and women of the state department and u. S. A id. Nearly 70,000 serving here in washington, more than 270 posts around the world, they get up and go to work every day often in difficult and dangerous circumstances because they believe as we believe the United States is the most extraordinary force for peace and progress the world has ever known. Back to your calls. Scott, good morning. Caller i think Hillary Clinton is very intelligent and smart. Publicly she is very smart. However, when you look at the history, when she was the wife of clinton and they bombed us in kenya, nothing was done because she had a political agenda to be president. So she kept pushing it off, her husband to fight the war until they get out of office so they would not have that under them. Because she does that, she would not have it on her resume, people are blindsided to what is going on. 911, five years and office, this is part of her problem. Now they tested her, she is not president. Put her into the secretary of state. She is a complete failure. Look at what she did it again. She tried to blindside us while the president was being inaugurated. Host thank you. Caller i just wanted to call. Rand paul ron johnson, come on people. They never mention four americans died in bang gauzy and they are making such a big deal of it. Benghazi and they never even mention iraq weapons of mass destruction. The thousands of people dead guy over there. You cannot plan these terrorist attacks or however you want to classify these attacks. Look at all the attacks in iraq that have happened. They are saying you can plan these and you know they are coming. Come on. Get real. What is going on here . [video clip] had i been president at the time and i found the did not read the cables, you did not read the cables, i would have relieved you of your post. I think it is inexcusable. We can understand you are not reading every cable. Maybe you are not aware of the cable from the ambassador in vienna that asks for 100,000 for an electrical charging station. Maybe you are not aware your Department Spent 100,000 on three comediennes who went to india on a promotional tour. I think you might be able to understand and might be aware of the 80 million spent on a consulate that will never be built. I think it is inexcusable you did not know about this and he did not read the cables. I would think by anybodys estimation libya has to be one of the hottest of hot spots to run the world. Not to know of the request for securities, really i think it cost these people their lives. They could have been saved if somebody had been more available. And somebody was aware of these things. Host you can watch all of the Senate Hearings on our web site, cspan. Org. It is all there for you. The next call is from jason. Good morning. Caller good morning. G is, as i was listening to the testimony, i thought from a Police Officers perspective, even after a crime, they actually sit and wait days and days before the question, lets say a murder victims family in order to catch the killer or whatever perpetrator there was. Then release false information to the public in that area. That is basically what happened with mrs. Clinton. She said there were all of these demonstrations going on. It just escalated. But mr. Johnson said, why did you not make a phone call . I think it is a little more devious than that. I think they knew it was not a demonstration going on. I think they do the whole time and were trying to mislead the American People to take the heat of the administration as she has done throughout her role the whole testimony, sidestep any and all negativity on the president s position. Host here is the opposite view. Here is an exchange between the secretary and john mccain yesterday. [video clip] why is it the Administration Still refuses to provide the full text with the deletion of terrorism in the talking points . Why do we care . Because of the classified ever mission had been included, it is an entirely different version of events to the American People. Going to the American People to tell them what happened, then you ought to have your facts al qaeda iscluding a decimated and our embassies are secure. Here we are four months later and we still do not have the basic information. If you want to go out and tell the American People what happened, you should at least have interviewed the people who were there. Instead of saying, no we cannot talk to them because an fbi investigation was going on. Host front page. Our next call is an independent from ohio. Caller good morning. I have two. First, there is no doubt in my mind what happened was muddied for political reasons. If you refuse to associate with a government that plays politics when their allies in the balance of decisions, everybody lies, but the question i asked is who gets the worst results. The second is on the kind of language used in the inquiries. The state department dropped the ball on libya. Nobody asked a simple direct question, why did you deny repeated requests for more protection. By giving a tirade, they dilute the force of the simple question. The hardest and most useful question to answer is a simple direct one. Host thank you for calling. A couple of facebook comments. We have plenty more time for your postings and phone calls. We do want to spend a couple of minutes with eight journalists talking about another huge story. It started yesterday and will continue today with a News Conference by the defense secretary. The headline in politico says leon panetta to lift the ban on women in combat. Guest good morning, thank you for having me. How did this story come about and what has been the reaction around town and elsewhere . Caller unlike the days of old when a decision like this to allow women to serve in combat would have sparked resistance, you are not hearing a lot about that, not even from the president s opponents on the other side of the aisle. He said they support this move. There are only a couple of people here on the other side of the aisle who oppose this decision to allow women in combat and some of those who does support things so publicly. That represents quite a change. This is another trend where the outgoing defense secretary has work to make the military more progressive on the heels of dont ask, dont tell. They are seeing this as a major victory. Host some are stunned according to press reports. Can you tell us more . Caller this is something if you are an old hen in the military, you never saw this coming to not allow these women to have front line roles. I think it is important that while leon panetta has said it will be lifted, that does not mean things will change overnight. This just means it is the start of a conversation. There is a certain process and review the needs to happen. We do have a long way to go here still. Host a lot of reports suggest not a lot of details out yet. We will be covering a News Conference this afternoon, which you can watch here on cspan. What will you be looking for in terms of details . Caller we want to hear how exactly this will work. This will obviously change a longstanding position in the military. While this is obviously a lot for the administration, how do you get there is the big question. One thing you are hearing resistance from is the fact this announcement leads a lot of leaders have not been briefed including those who lead the Armed Services committee. Theyre not happy about that. Host do we know how chuck hegel feels about this . Caller we do not actually. He does not have a stated position on this. I think it is something we will be trying to catch on in the days ahead. Host how does this work in terms of congress and the white house itself . Is any approval needed . Caller he will have to send a report about this change within the next 30 days, if i am not mistaken. That will have to detail what changes there would be to the service act. That war that will be something we will look for and review. This could open the door on whether or not women should be included in a draft if that happens again. Host juana summers, defense reporter for politico. We look forward to reading more of your pieces. We are going to have a News Conference by the defense secretary at 1 30 eastern time. This will be about half of an hour after the john kerry confirmation hearing. It is making a ton of headlines here in washington. Here is the front page of the Washington Post. Elsewhere on the front page of the Washington Post. We have been taking your calls to get your reaction. We have richard from louisville, ky. Caller thank you for taking my call. Hillary clinton was in front of the House Senate Committee and the House Committee and the Senate Committee yesterday for 5. 5 hours. I thought she did a great job. I think those who attacked her instead of trying to get to the point of asking questions of what happened, you had a lot of grandstanding by the republicans, especially rand paul. Rand paul is using the state of kentucky as a stepping stone. People knew it years ago to run for president. That is all he did yesterday. I think he looks small. I think marco rubio i thought he asked his questions with respect to the secretary of the state of the United States of america. To those men who felt attacking Hillary Clinton was the best way to go, i think they lost a great opportunity to try to help to get to the point of where we are at, what we need to do, and how we can go forward to protecting our people overseas. Host we have louis. Caller i personally do not believe i do not agree with the kentucky caller. I thought secretary clinton was arrogant as usual. She dodged a lot of questions. She is exactly like her husband, spout out a bunch of percentages and things like that that nobody checks the facts. I think the media is beyond belief. That is beside the point. Hillary clinton is absolutely without a doubt a bipolar. She travels a lot. She never stays in one place. What good has she actually done a in the four years she has been in power . I think she is an absolute horrible person. When she got on tv and said, we came, we saw, and killed like a crazy person, i thought if george bush would have done that or any other man would have done that, they would have kicked him out then. Host that was louis. Via twitter [video clip] the two hardest calls i made were to ambassador stevens and sean smith. I have to say they were extraordinary in their responses and their understanding of pride we had in both men. Gratitude we had for their service. I would also just add that while will while this was going on and we were trying to understand it, get on top of it, we were continuing to face protests, of violence across the region and as far as india and indonesia. There were so many protests happening and thousands of people were putting our facilities at risk. We were certainly very determined to do what ever we could about and benghazi. We were really going to get the last of the americans out of benghazi. Then we were dealing with the threats facing so many of our other facilities. Host facebook. Com cspan is one place to post your comments about all of this. Hurrah. Lintons last he writes randy has been hanging on from pennsylvania, an independent. Caller good morning. I have been on hold for a while but listening to the program. The gentleman from kentucky who called in, i am changing my thought plan, but there was no direct question asked of her who was in charge of getting the e mails about security. I know she has a Big Department to handle and a lot of people working for her, but that is the person that ought to be on their asking them why did you not notify Hillary Clinton . I know she had a lot of responsibility. Another thing that she said, all the embassies over in that area according to her were under attack at the same time. I never heard that in the news. What i am saying is if you cannot dazzle them with finesse. Caller thank you for taking my call. My question is my concern about the hillary testimony yesterday was that they covered a lot of stuff. They never once mentioned that mitt romney was the first to say that it was an uprising because of the movie at benghazi. Why was he not asking why was he not asked where he got his information from . Nobody has ever asked where he got his information. If they were looking for the truth, they should question everyone. Not just the democrats. The man from kentucky, he had it exactly right. They are making fools of themselves in order to try to make the president look incompetent. Thank you for taking my call. Host lets hear from ned. She did not she did nothing but dance all day trying to cover up for the administration. That is all she had done. I watched this hearing and i watch the one about gun running. And the attorney general. All of these Democratic Senators and representatives, they always try to cover up. They do not ask the question. They tried to give the answer they want them to say. This administration, i do not know about it. What kind of idiot would give the moslem brotherhood all of these f16s, 20 of them and 200 tanks like they are doing right now . We will have to end up destroying them one of these days. Good morning. Host thank youned. This comment this is about two minutes long. We will come back and take your calls. It has to do with questioning over whether there was a video in real time durin gthe attack. [video clip] you tell the senate this morning that you learned of the attack around 4 00 p. M. On that day. You were involved widely in the coordinated response, which included the department of defense and the white house but did not speak to the president until later that evening. When did you talk to the president . We did find budget issues were at stake. That is why you have independent groups, that is why it was created to look at everything. Everybody has their own i would urge how about when you saw the president . I talked to the president at the end of the day, but i had been in constant communication with the