People who perpetrated are brought to justice. Host the latest round of charges from senator john mccain and other leading republicans on the attack in benghazi that resulted in the death of a u. S. Ambassador and three other americans. Now, nearly two years later, this issue isnt going away on capitol hill, in part because of the newly released email. Also, a congressional hearing yesterday in washington. Good morning, it is friday, may the second ver2. Mainly, we want to know if the investigation is important to you. Meanwhile, at the white house the president will be meeting with the german chancellor Angela Merkel. His issues likely to come up in a News Conference with reporters. The president is hosting the german chancellor for a working lunch and an oval office meeting. Those nsa phone taps the situation in ukraine are also subject to dominate the conversation. We want to begin with the issue of benghazi because it has come front and center yet again. This morning inside the the wall street journal meanwhile, the hill newspaper has an item. One of the emails Details National security advisor senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina calls roads email a smoking gun that proves the white house tried to spin the facts at of the president ial election. That email just part of the story. Course hearing by House Republicans and the House Oversight committee. Overseeing what was happening in north africa and the middle east. This is part of the opening statement. The chairman of that Committee California republican darrell issa. Some of the documents which were brought to light only days ago through a fouryear request by an organization known as Judicial Watch, show a direct white house role outside, i am going to repeat this, the documents from Judicial Watch which were pursuant to our request more than a year and half ago, show a direct white house role outside of talking points prepared by the intelligence community. The white house produced the talking points that ambassador rice used, not intelligence community. In pushing the false narrative that Youtube Video was responsible for the deaths of for brave americans. His sister and perhaps criminal that these documents were hidden by the Obama Administration from congress and the public alike particularly after secretary kerry pledged cooperation and the president himself told the American People in november of 2012 that every bit of information we have on benghazi has been provided. This committees job has been to get to the facts and the truth. I, for one, will continue to chip away at this until we get the whole truth. Host congressman darrell issa yesterday. Also the speaker of the house on john kerry. The speaker calls on john kerry to testify on benghazi. John boehner says, someone needs to answer why this administration hid these documents until you American People what else is being concealed. The house used its subpoena power to obtain documents, including emails last year, but these emails did not show up until now after Court Ordered their release to and outside watchdog group. We want to get your calls and comments and the question of whether or not you think this investigation is important. Jean is joining us from the democrats line from arizona. Caller in the big picture, i think the trend put all this on Hillary Clinton. God bless ones a died in benghazi, but the republicans have nothing else to bring to the table. I think it is that important. God bless all the activeduty personnel. God bless america. Host we want to hear from bill joining us from texas. Caller good morning to all the listeners. I want to state that this is a cover upon behalf of Hillary Clinton and the department of justices failure to follow through on their investigation. Thank you. Host carol makes this point. You can send in your tweet. Our next call is jack, joining us this morning from new york. On the independent line. Caller i think it is very important that the american individuals were murdered on the National Press doesnt much want to cover. The networks seem to be given surpassed. I think in honor of those people they should be covered and not covered up. Host thank you for your call. The benghazi story is on the websites, but not a hard copy of the washington edition of both of those newspapers. Roll call does have the headline quoting benghazi, benghazi, benghazi, and then asking the question, why arent we talking about Something Else . We will more from leader pelosi in just a moment. Caller is not important to me not the fact that we lost americans, but senator mccain is talking about he wont rest until these people are captured. He seems to forget how long it took us to capture bin laden. The point i want to make is, i dont recall senator mccain or senator graham or congressman issa insisting that we have hearings on the loss of several thousand americans in iraq, or investigating what happened and who did it during the bush and Cheney Administration where it is clear they lied to us about going into iraq. And understand how we lost 3000 and no one seems to be concerned about those individuals. Host that you are much for the call. Thank you very much for the call. Meanwhile, the president hosts chancellor Angela Merkel for a morning session in the oval office followed by a news briefing with reporters. He leads the questions from german and american reporters, followed by a luncheon at the white house. Live coverage here on cspan also on cspan radio getting underway at 11 40 eastern time. Our next call is don from fairborn ohio on the republican line. Caller it has been avenged and president obama learned his lesson on writing on it. He is not bragging on at this time. The Muslim Brotherhood were in cairo. This is not hocuspocus. Revelation 19 11. They brought down the Muslim Brotherhood. They will be executed for killing our fellow americans. Our fellow americans rest with jesus in heaven above. Host thanks for the call. This morning, tom coburn we sat down with them for cspans q a program. It is available on a website and the Oklahoma Republican calling it porkys 2 the earmark ers strike back. Next is mavis joining us from fort lauderdale, florida on the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am doing well. At this point, i call it a which hunt. Mr. Issa has spent millions of our tax dollars on this. I mean, it is what it is now. Why arent we investigating mr. Bush and cheney for thousands of americans who have died in iraq and iran. If you want to get a bottom of something, lets get to the bottom of why we were taken to war in iraq and afghanistan . Host mavis thank you very much for the call. Meanwhile, this mornings cnn. Com with this question few issues reveal the hyper person policies and politics of washington more than the ongoing debate over an issue now known simply as benghazi. In responding to this yesterday is a Houston Chronicle eater former speaker, nancy pelosi. I will say this again diversion, subterfuge. Why arent we talking about Something Else . What are no of what i read in the press about those emails were very consistent what was put out there. I dont see theres anything new there. Host the comments of the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, yesterday. Caller good morning. I spent nearly eight years in the marine corps. One of those years i served in vietnam. These republicans make it hard for me to be proud to be an american. This is one of the most asinine things ive ever seen in my life. We went to serve. The ambassador went to serve. We are hated all over the world. People are trying to kill us as americans all over the world. You want an investigation . Investigate why we are so hated. What is it that we are doing to people throughout the world that causes them to hate us so much . Is nothing to do with being a muslim. That muslims a live in this country and love america. The problem is the politics of it all. It is just power. All it takes is power. The republicans up there, all they want is power. They dont want to do anything for the poor person, they just want the power, the strength, to be in charge. Right now people are saying, investigate why we were in iraq. Investigate why the embassy in tanzania was blown up. Theres always someone after an american each and every day, especially those on embassy duties. Host d says i call it a distraction so you wont notice a trade deal they want to push through to send more of your jobs overseas. A lot of comment on her Facebook Page. Let me share just a few of them. Our next caller is michael joining us from new jersey, the republican line. Caller i just have a comment. It seems that democrats and republicans are from two different countries. I would like to say we are from the same country and i wish we would all want the same thing, which is the truth, spoken from our government. I dont understand why some people seem to think it is a political issue, when maybe it possibly is. Joey really wanted truthful answer from a government that seems to lie every time they want an answer to be given among us who are the same, republican or democrat. We just want to. People who accept lies and then tell us were supposed to accept lies they seem to be coming from a democratic side. At understand why they dont want the truth is much of the rest of us do. Independent, democrat, republican. This is america. We are americans. We all need to stick together. What we need, another 9 11 to make a stick together . I think we need to get together now and to all want the same thing for our country and our children. Host michael, thanks for the call. Susan has this point. Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham in the hill newspaper. Here is a portion of a question during the hearings. Sorry for your loss and your sacrifice. We should have done more whether it was in preparation prior to or execution at the time. Even if we simply just burned gas and airplanes moving people. We have to have the American People that provide us with their sons and daughters brothers and sisters, moms and dads, and continue to fill uniforms and to fill the civilian positions or so key and so brave as well out there in harms way. We have to be sure we rebuild the trust. This is bob lovell talking to now. We have to rebuild the trust. We need to say to them, we should have done more. We owe to the memory of those four people that are fallen and to those that were hurt and wounded. Could we have done more . Host former retired british general bob lovell. This is the story this morning from usa today. Reyes joining us from clinton, pennsylvania, on the independent line. Caller good morning. I think were are missing a huge point here. It is important to me because Hillary Clinton is preparing to declare her intention to run for president. I would like to know when she was notified. She was ahead of the state department. When was she notified, what was she doing and what did she do about it. She should be held accountable on those three questions until she answers what she was doing. She is the head of the state department. You need to tell me one even notified . If you were, there has to be a plan. That is what has to be gotten to the bottom of their view on her and in a leadership position . When she doesnt handle what is going on in her own state department . How can you leave people out there for five or six hours in a running gun battle. This is absolutely if the Bush Administration had done it it would be a whole different story. I wish you would conduct a Program Summaries people to find out the answers to some of those questions. Host the question were are asking if youre just tuning in or listening on cspan radio the benghazi investigation, is it important to you . From our Facebook Page, more of your comments. Kevin drum has a piece that he posted overnight from mother jones magazine. Exes bonnie joining us from middletown, new jersey. Good morning. Caller is nothing more than smoke screens, distractions and distractions to how miserable your life really is. It is the same thing with darrell issa, the car thief spent so much time on trying to repeal the health care act. The situation in libya was a tinderbox. Those brave people who volunteer to work for our safety and our security understood this. It is not the same thing as im not a crook. It is not the same thing as aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds. This is always a risk area when people go into a country to try to make peace or solve problems in a dysfunctional government and people are rebelling. Yes, that film did have something do with it and there was coverage of it. It was two weeks in the New York Times and the Washington Post that showed that it was already a very dangerous situation and this horrific, and moronic film that came out that degraded their god and their religion was all it took for them from situation to explode. I think it is time for us to move on and stop with the distractions and all of the division because that is what this party always does. They point the finger at the women, fear the enemy. Upon the finger at the minority, theyre are the enemy. They want to divide us. We have to start thinking for ourselves and realize that if we dont come together as a nation and fight for the rights we deserve, are of course, not the voice of money, we are never going to get our situation any better. This country is never going to become whole. Host bonnie, thank you very much, from new jersey. Some of the headlines on this friday morning. The president is meeting with the german president. Ukraine is likely to be part of the conversations morning. Headline from the financial times. Inside the New York Times, often a photo is enough to tell a story. You can see a scene outside deal meant to school in south korea to pay tribute to those who died when the ferry went down late last month. Tim from hollister, Missouri Republican line. Caller my question is, our embassies are an extension of american soil. Why is it that they just say it is not a big deal, to send anyone to protect our interest. It happened in washington, do you think that Hillary Clinton would say does it matter now . I really dont think so. Our administration doesnt seem to do that for some reason. Thank you very much. Host from the front page of the usa today. Back to the story on benghazi. The full testimony is Available Online. James from munford, tennessee. Caller good morning, sir. I guess im a bit older than most people calling in, but nobody died in the watergate episode, and he was lying, and he was forced out. He decided he better leave. You know what . During the hearings, do you know who asked the question, what did you know and when did you know what . That was a republican. It seems of their having these hearings that both parties should be trying to get to the bottom line truth of the lies, but it seems like the democrats are defense lawyers defending this administration. This administration has lied to us about benghazi. By the way, for people did get killed there. It lied to us about fast and furious and the obamacare. Theyre just a bunch of lies. We need to get to the bottom of this thing. Host good morning. Another viewer sang thing ghazi is all politics push for the gop to smear Hillary Clinton before possible president ial campaign. The secretary of state john kerry is in sudan. Again, hes wanting a fando warning about famine and genocide. On his asian tour, the president would have to reassure japan that he could count on america. As Vladimir Putin writes the economist disrupts ukraine come europeans fret about whether they are next. Each situation is different, but the echo chamber of Global Politics reinforce each other. Together, these retreats by a nagging suspicion among friends and foes that on a big day america simply might not turn up. This is the cover story of the economist here t. Caller i have a wholly different perspective here. I want to know how it did mitt romney notice emphatically and so well . Prior to september 11, he spent two weeks in israel fundraising to become president and stayed with benjamin netanyahu. Who told him there that theres going to be a terrorist attack . The second question i have is the republicans are solely focused on process. Theyre focused on who actually committed crimes, who killed these people. When his investigation to actually find out to who committed the crimes and bring them to justice. This is the first time he had the military murder were no one cares about who did it, but theyre just concerned with process. I have another question. For it to be such a hostile area, where did this High Definition protection style video come out to look like a propaganda film from the beginning. Who shot that . How did they get into that hostile territory echo . This is high def video equipment. I believe this was a september surprise that went awry. They probably thought this would put romney in as president and it failed. Host the naacp is scrutinizing a Los Angeles Branch over its honor for dollar four donald sterling. The owner of the clippers in the news over the last week. Next is paul, joining us from oliver springs, tennessee. Caller good morning, i want to thank you for taking my call. This is very important to me. This happened on september 11, 9 11. That date is very important to us republicans. Is that for important to them stinking democrats who