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>> adam schiff, thank you very much, congressman, always great to talk to you. the talking points did include in the early stage when the cia handed them for edits, a fairly detailed description with the mention of involvement of al qaeda and warnings of a possible terror attack in benghazi. all of these were taken out. it is still unclear at this point by whom, whether the state department or the white house or somewhere else. how can you defend the administration for such substantial edits to those talking points? >> well, the key thing on the talking points is most fundamental error in them...

Their lives. >> not a single person died. >> tell me about what you wrote on your body. uncommon valor with a common virtue. >> we were decitrying to decidet to write. people wanted to say hopeful stuff, which is good. i was thinking back to the night of hurricane sandy, the night of the fire, on a couple of situations we should have all died three or four times, and we kept going, and and i wanted to say something about bravery. and i was thinking back to the history books and i remember admiral nimitz used that quote to describe the war in the pacific and the war who fought there. so i thoug...

In terms of the public format they were concerned about getting situation where you are in an investigation and you create potential for a false confirmation. so if you say it's al qaeda and you are not 100% sure within 72 hours or so, at least by their logic they are saying they didn't want to put that out in the public so people wouldn't come back and say i heard it was al qaeda that's points number one. because clearp is the director of national intelligence. he's technically in charge of that process it got garbled. but this was done in the editing process. i heard clearp and his staff wil...

Had the language changed and drafts including al-qaeda in a later draft extremists, republicans say it was an effort to downplay or minimize the role of al-qaeda in the benghazi attacks, and no one in the u.s. intelligence community could say for sure who is responsible for the change. >> the initial talking points which were put together in an unclassified format at the house of the intelligence committee did initially state that al-qaeda-affiliated groups were involved, however, by the time we understand that went through its editing process after it left langley, that reference was taken ou...

Shoot your mouth out in front of a microphone. >> we showed a democrat. >> and he tried to correct the republican had leaked and frankly against house rules, but they of course-- and also didn't find out anything. >> the truth. >> and finish here for a second. >> no, okay, fine. >> and there are, in all of my years of government i've never seen talking points that have not been through an editing process and change, number one. number two. >> changed wrong? >> no, they go through it, a series of people look at them and they make change in talking points, it happened all the time. but they made...