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Shot down of the government? >> the president is committed to making sure this happens and we're going to push forward. matthew? >> about a week ago on august 17, the president again referenced the fictitious story about general pershing committing a mass execution in the philippines. a couple questions. does the president know that the story is false and if so, why does he keep repeating it? why does the white house think it's appropriate for the president to perpetuate this false story if he hasn't been informed -- >> i haven't had a chance to ask him about that. i can't speak to it. >> the ...

Not until september 18 when the cia received the libyan government's assessment of video footage that showed the front of the facility with no sign of protesters that it became clear we needed to revisit our analysis and then after they looked at the video footage and fbi reporting from interviews of personnel on the ground in benghazi during the attacks the cia changed its assessment. and that was explained thoroughly in the bipartisan report issued on the committee on intelligence which did a very thorough job. >> i think we will take a quick ten-minute break. two colleagues have asked for t...

Cgi to cms. now, cms is the group that was charged with bringing the obama care website up and running. the group within obama care, the center for medicaid and medicare services. bear with me, one second. look, they told them that there -- this is august 17, six weeks before the launch, there were only 55% ready. they weren't even close for that thing to start. >> how do you find that in all those thingses that are wiped out? >> they just redacted napes. but it's cgi federal. this is going right to -- >> so they knew? but they didn't tell the president or they told him -- >> ard coulding to a...

Bankruptcy. and i think if the bankruptcy is transparent, we should be able to find that information. but we are thinking about asking solyndra themselves for a copy of t. obviously, they could turned it down. whether it's relevant to our investigation, i am not sure. but i think it goes to the larger message that they wasted so much money, they spent $2.5 million in a very short period of time to a law firm whose counsel was related to mr. stephen spinner who was pushing solyndra in the department of energy. so huthat conflict of interest and obviously, that's a good question -- what was the ...

Bankruptcy. i think if the bankruptcy is transparent, we should be able to find that information. but we are thinking about asking solyndra themselves for a copy of it. obviously, they could turn it down. whether it's -- shall we say, relevant to our investigation, i'm not sure. but i think it goes to the larger message that they wasted so much money, they spent $2.5 million in a very short period of time, to a law firm whose counsel was related to mr. stephen spinner, who was pushing solyndra in the department of energy. so you had that conflict of interest. obviously, that's a good question,...