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Madeleine albright. i worked for her before but i didn't routinely send her e-mails. we have a classified system in the state department. when i was in greece as ambassador, i would send classified cables to the state department intending for, sometimes the secretary of state to reed them, but more often than not, since the secretary can't read every cable that every ambassador sends, you send it for the assistant secretary or undersecretary of state. i think these questions completely missed the reality of how, in a modern bureaucratic complex, people communicate with the secretary of state. ...

Overseas. you don't just drop by the house of the secretary of state. you don't just send off an e-mail. what you do is report through channels, even ambassadors that are senior officials. send a cable to the secretary of state whenever you want but ordinarily, an ambassador will communicate lower down the chain, the undersecretary of state, the assistant secretary of state, the secretary of state is, of course, available to ambassadors when they want to speak to him or her directly, any secretary of state. but it's not usual for an american ambassador to be sending off e-mails to the secretar...

Republican party. instead of a really serious debate over the policies of the obama presidency, of her as secretary of state. they've tried to hang her. >> yes. >> it's not very smart. >> matt? >> i think one of the real problems, honestly, is optics. you have a southern white man like trey gowdy who's essentially asking, interrogating hillary clinton. i felt when it was martha roby or some of the remail republife republicans asking her questions, it was much more effective. >> or tammy duckworth. >> thank you. coming up on "new day," we'll speak with presidential candidate rand paul about h...

Taken to improve security. so frankly i thought she was impressive. i thought she was honest an straightforward and comported her swfl a lot of dignity. >> one of the areas that's been under question since 2012 is why requests for more security in benghazi, why these requests were not granted. this was asked in different ways repeatedly to the former secretary of state yesterday. she faced questions from representative peter roscom about her personal responsibility for the diplomatic outpost in benghazi listen to this exchange. >> what's your responsibility to benghazi? that's my question. >> ...

So i think that's part of the answer there. the other part of the answer is, you remember what happened that week in september of 2012? there were protests and violent incidents at a multitude of american embassy that week in the arab world. so our state department was juggling a very dangerous situation in benghazi, certainly, and also in other posts. so i think it's unfair for the critics to say that secretary clinton had personal responsibility to make all these individual decisions. that's not how a large organization of 50,000 employees works. >> again, that seems to be a separate questio...