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How is that possible? >> well, congresswoman, one of the great attributes that chris stevens had was a good sense of humor. i see him smiling as he's typing this because it is clearly in response to the e-mail down below talking about pick up a few, quote, fire sale items from the brits. >> those fire side items, by the way, are barricades. >> that's right. >> they are additional request for security for the compound. that's what the fire sale was because we weren't providing enough physical security for the compou compound. . isn't that right? so they are picking up a fire sale because other ...

To threats and then we took him out. we did not close the embassy at that time. so he had returned to finish out his time and we were in the process of moving him to another indictment and fom nating chris stevens to replace him. >> you didn't talk to chris stevens? >> while i was in libya, i don't recall. of course, we consulted with him as to who we would meet with, what we would ask for. we were trying hard to get the people in positions of authority at that time in libya to let us work with them on border security to collecting weapons and trying to disarm the militias. we had a lot of bus...

Investigation is all about? you let the facts lead you. >> ideally an investigation you know what your object is in the sense you want to know what you want to find out. is this about determining whether there was gun running or a stand down order or whether there were interferences of security. . what are we going to be looking for? what's the scope? they could never say. that's the kwint sensual definition of a fishing expedition. >> i don't think anybody heard the fact that the secretary had e-mailed the egyptian prime minister the day after the attack saying that she was sure it was not ba...

There were protests at the consulate of the diplomatic facility and the assessment of the intelligence agencies thereafter until we got the video from the compound itself was there was a protest. if you look at the secretary's comments to the prime minister, at the time she made those, that was the intel she received. if you look at later when she knew more, she was able to say more. but that just tracked the flow of intelligence as we were getting it and the secretary was getting it. >> thank you so much for coming over. i appreciate it. i'm actually going to turn now to our republican and le...

To happen next. the fact that we targeted his compound to take out what was perceived to be a command of control, he should be getting uneasy now. hopefully, we have a diplomatic line to convince him to leave. >> very quickly. the president and military officials said we are taking the lead in days, not weeks. our role is going to be pulled back. can they guarantee that to the american people? do we have assurances at all? >> i think that's their intent. remember, the enmy has a vote. the first thing to change when you go to war is the plan. the plan never survived contact with the enemy. it's...