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So were they not speaking basically in the same way? >> well, first of all, why are we doing the investigation? i think that's important. so our job as chairman of the intelligence committee is make sure we did not have an intelligence failure. was there an intelligence failure on that day? that's the first question we have to get right. and i'll tell you, i am with a high degree of confidence today will tell you that there was not an intelligence failure. the intelligence community had it right, and had it right early. what happened was it worked its way up through the system of the so-called...

Day. the attorney general said that the state department -- excuse me -- the department of justice did not notify the president. but we don't know if the attorney general did. >> you think the president knew? that's news. that the president knew before election day. >> i didn't say that. i said i don't know. >> there is no evidence of that. >> the attorney general knew months before this. there was no formal notice to both congress or the intelligence community. >> right. >> i find it -- we just have to ask the question. i hope he'll come out and talk to us about it. >> i spoke to the attorney...

Something -- a different than what the intelligence community was telling her. >> again, i think that will not stand without being pushed -- rebutted, particularly this issue of if she was working off talking points where the terror element was taken out. why was that the case? and the intelligence chairs do not agree with the assessment that somehow she was misleading. and i think that's important for people watching this this morning, that that debate will continue. and of course it's adamantly denied by the president and others that she would willfully mislead or what senator graham said, w...

I believe that the security aspect of this is one of the biggest things. i went through hundreds of threat warnings. threat warning after threat warning after threat warning over the last six months. and also the prior events that had taken place. there is no question that benghazi was one of the most difficult places. it should have had much better security, and no one should believe that these militias, who are unarmed, stationed in front of security, are going to do anything other than run when they see people approaching them with guns. >> i want to return to david petraeus, who had to res...

Friday that he believed all along that the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya was a terrorist strike, even though that wasn't how the obama administration initially described it publicly. representative peter king of new york said petraeus had briefed the house intelligence committee on september 14, and he does not recall petraeus being so positive at the time that it was a terrorist attack. he thought all along that he made it clear there was terrorist involvement, king said. that was not my recollection. so senator feinstien, did petraeus contradict himself or has he contradicted ...