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Of your e-mails because they were on a private server and not the government server. the other thing i like to say is to ms. duckworth, if you would read the testimony of the number of diplomat security agents that served in benghazi, most of them were temporary duty, 45, 60-day people that served. if you read that, i think you ll find that a lot of these things that the secretary said, as far as enhancements, was paid for by petty cash out of their own money and not really fulfilled or completed. the other thing i want to ask you, madam secretary will the gentleman yield for just 20 seconds? ....
Recall, was late in the evening, early the next morning, by our time around 5:00 a.m. or so in benghazi. did you meet with the president that night? i talked with the president. i did not meet with him. how many times did you talk with the president? i talked to the president that evening. that was the only time i talked with him on the 11th. then i went over to the white house the next morning. so once. do you recall what time you spoke to the president? you said that evening. do you recall more specifically what time? i think it was late in the evening. i don t know exactly when. what did you discuss? i m sorry. what? what specifically did you discuss with the president? well, i don t usually talk about my discussions with the president, but i can tell you we talked about what happened during the day. i thanked him for his very strong support because he made it absolutely clear that everyone was supposed to be doing all they could, particularly dod, to assist us ....
Officials on their dot gov accounts. later you revised that statement, and you said there was a fraction of e-mails with work related information sent to government officials on their personal accounts. i m sorry, but what does this have to do with what happened in benghazi? when are we going to get there? the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman from ohio controls the time. it has everything to do because we want the record so we can get to the truth. maybe if the gentleman from washington would have shown up for more than just one hour of one interview, we might know more about the situation as well and the lack of getting the record. the second statement, the revised statement was after this committee had contacted huma abedin, jake ryne nas, asking for their personal accounts which meant we would get their e-mails. and that first statement in march was not accurate. in march you said no classified information was september or ....
Transparent than anybody else ever has been. you didn t say more transparent than anybody. you said more transparent than anybody else ever. now, my definition of transparency includes being honest and straightforward, and being honest and transparent right from the start, right from the get-go. let s look at a few things you said. on march 10th you said this, you provided all work related e-mails, erring on anything might have been a federal record. you revised the statement and said mr. blumenthal had e-mails you didn t. the revised statement was after we interviewed mr. blumenthal about benghazi and found out we didn t receive from you and the state department the same information we received from hill. in march you said it was your practice to e-mail government ....
yeah. i think it s why it bee hooves us, they routinely get less than they need and i think americans in general would not be grudged for money to safeguard our diplomats but i agree the report does say that. reclaiming my time, there was $20 million she was going to send to libya for their security upgrades. you mentioned the sixth man that you had to wait on the sixth man the fifth man, i m sorry. the fifth man. all right. i was going to say there must have been somebody hiding in the closet or somebody that we didn t know about. you also said in one of the last things that the state department sent more security from tripoli to benghazi during the attack. uh-huh. there was not a state department person on that plane. there were four grs agents and two tdy dod people and an ....