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Help himself get reelected. it is not just here. look at the reporting that the washington post did about the border wall. he diverted money, and he reached out in the process and told people to seize eminent domain laws. he said to ignore the federal contracting rules. he said if you break the law, i will pardon you, and you're seeing a president that will use every lever of government, and feels completely unconstrained by rules and law and he doesn't think anyone can stop him. if you think -- you know we still have over a year to go until the election. it is a very, very dangerous time and ...

Issue. and that deals with this report that paul manafort commissioned on behalf of his client the former president of ukraine, victor yanokovich, the russia-aligned president of ukraine. that this lawyer that was indicted today was involved in. that essentially sought to whitewash the role of yanukovych and yanukovych's government in prosecuting a former rival, at that point current rival, who was convicted of corruption charges, yulia timonchenkovich, the former president of ukraine. so manafort got this report, saying no, essentially, there were no political motivations here. he also averag...

Enough time. steve: that was actually two weeks before it happened. they realized in benghazi they had a problem. so they called up this security group and said, hey, can you come back? we know you lost the bid by 4%. can you come back? because we feel we are not safe. they said well, you know, it's gtion to take more than a week or two. maybe we could be there in a month. chris stevens was dead just 12 days later. and then after that, they were pressured by hillary clinton's state department to keep quiet and the preservation of the company is the reason they did that. ainsley: that was then....

And the department have embraced and agreed to embrace all 29 of the administrative review board's recommendations, and today we'll hear more about the progress the department has already made towards implementation of many of the recommendations. but i would add that congress is not without responsibility here. we also have an obligation to do our part to comply with the administrative review board's recommendations. it is my intention to work with the members of the committee and the department in the coming months on legislation that will improve security and better protect our employees. o...

You made reference in your testimony about best value contracts and you mentioned several nations where best value contracts are not used. thinking about africa and what we are dealing with are those nations subject to the contracts and should we have waivers. >> thank now your emphasis on africa which will be increasingly important. there are only three nations where the state department has an exemption by congress for using different contracting rules in order to get the best value for our country. that is iraq, afghanistan, and pakistan. every other country in the world we are under the ki...