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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...

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 abou...

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 ben...

>> 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...

Going battle that was ready to go, sitting there but you know what? it never got -- that plane never got out of the hanger. those people never got aassembld and we've got a chain of e-mails the first recommendation came back from your own people and then the fbi told your employees that the best way to handle the situation was to send the fest team, and that was the way it had always been done so did you make the decision not to send the fest team? >> congressman, first, let me say that it's important to recognize that our deputy chief of mission greg hicks was fully engaged in helping to putt...