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And mr. knight, both deputy secretaries of state. at the time we got to them, as with secretary clinton, we had very clear evidence, full and complete to our information, that the authority and responsibility and accountable arrested with the people we identified. >> and there is still focus that is share penning on the undersecretary of management, patrick kennedy, who testified on the hill yesterday. at times it seemed like members of the accountability review board were splitting hairs to let kennedy off the hook. they said when he signed the agreement or the memo nine months before the att...

Left off the hook in that conclusion. martha: big questions there. we'll start with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. she joins us live from washington. what are we expecting to learn from this hearing today, catherine. >> reporter: good morning a year after the benghazi terrorist attack congressional investigators are honing in on the central question, who set the policy that allowed the benghazi operation to go forward with substandard security? based on the congressional investigations the paper trail leads directly to the undersecretary of management patrick kennedy, who...

Administration and how are they reacting? >> well, we have only had a response so far from the state department, but just for some context, from the white house and the state department, when the arb was released last september, it was promoted as an ing a gr aggressive investigation that left no stone unturned and in fact, all of the reports' 29 findings were accepted. today fox news asked the state department to respond to the draft report claims and specifically that the blame was not properly affix ed at the mot senior levels of the state department including undersecretary patrick kennedy...

With deputy secretary byrnes and i feel for a place as sensitive as libya with secretary clinton directly and many others within the building. >> according to ambassador stevens deputy greg hicks, clinton also wanted the benghazi operation to be permanent. and that second stephens was under pressure to pull together a list of upgrades before the end of the budget year. mrs. clinton's goal to make benghazi permanent was not shared with ambassador thomas pickerring who co-chaired the state department investigation. mrs. clinton was never interviewed. fox first asked the department of state in ju...

>> that's true. in cairo and other places. right. there was an american restaurant in beirut that was attacked. but that doesn't necessarily mean -- >> of course -- >> that the benghazi operation was -- >> but the sources at that moment, intelligence sources on the ground, did not think that it was in response to that anti-muslim video. >> right. >> but completely noncontroversial at that time to assume it might have had something to do with this at that particular moment in time. >> five days later they knew pretty much what was going on. >> as it turns out i think the question will still be ...