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Didn't e-mail about it? >> yes, i was aware. >> and that i think sort of points out, after 17 months and $4.7 million, as the ranking member pointed out in his opening statements, and as we've seen today, you know, this committee is simply not doing its job. and i don't really think it should have been formed in the first place. what we heard here -- well, first of all, an obsession with the e-mail. the idea that two fairly junior-level staffers might not have gotten something wrong in what they heard or the information in an e-mail might, in fact, not be accurate are certainly not things that...

Staffer for the benghazi committee, he had no problem looking at clinton but also wanted to look at cia and national security council and the defense department. and point of fact neither -- >> the tragedy is not solely hillary clinton's responsibility. as secretary of state she has a lot of responsibility for it. hold president obama, vice president biden, and ambassador rice, hillary clinton, everyone made a decision to go into benghazi. nobody understands why. and we know as you've mentioned several times there were many requests for more security and we don't know why that -- those weren't...

More than 100 interviews identified specific employee, significant employee at the state department who denied these requests. it was deputy assistant secretary of the bureau of diplomatic security, colleen lamb. and, again, she did come before the oversight committee. the arb report was very critical of her. it was also critical two supervisors, principal deputy assistant secretary and the assistant secretary for diplomatic security. the oversight committee found the same answer as the arb. it found that this official denied these requests, and it found no evidence that you approved or denied...

Aware of those two attacks on our compounds even though you didn't e-mail about it. >> yes, i was aware. >> and that, i think, you know, sort of points out, after 17 months and $4.7 million as the ranking member pointed out in his opening statements and then as we've seen today, you know, this committee is simply not doing its job. and i don't really think it should have been formed in the first place, but what we've heard here is, first of all, the obsession with e-mail, the idea that two fairly junior-level staffers might not have gotten something wrong and what they heard or the information...

In this first round. in particular, comment on where this began with the chairman's statement. the chairman said at the outset of the hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi, the truth about the security there, the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don't know the truth, that this is the first investigation we have ever had. the reality is we have had eight investigations. we have gone through this endlessly. and if you just look at the document, we have the a.r....