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Security was because of funding. i don't know why democrats brought that in there. it wasn't like the security requests were denied because of funding saying we're not sending security to benghazi because we don't have the money, the united states of america. that never happened. that's a false narrative put out by the democrats. >> you're saying we don't know why -- we still don't know why they were declined? >> what's the answer? what's the answer? >> i would love for hillary clinton since she's in charge of the state department at the time to try to figure that out. >> we already heard -- w...

Taken to improve security. so frankly i thought she was impressive. i thought she was honest an straightforward and comported her swfl a lot of dignity. >> one of the areas that's been under question since 2012 is why requests for more security in benghazi, why these requests were not granted. this was asked in different ways repeatedly to the former secretary of state yesterday. she faced questions from representative peter roscom about her personal responsibility for the diplomatic outpost in benghazi listen to this exchange. >> what's your responsibility to benghazi? that's my question. >> ...

Happened in benghazi and making sure it doesn't happen again? >> yes, that is an important question. as you said, these requests never came to the secretary. but i think the elephant in the room and secretary clinton did mention this in her testimony yesterday, was that you had a republican congress that wasn't willing to fund embassy security. and now i think it's really hypocritical for them to come out and make a big issue of this when they in fact wouldn't fund it. they've done better since. learning the lesson of benghazi, which we all should, but that was a big problem back then for sure...

Decision it was to hire them in the first place it was an awful decision. you had a grood group that was ill trained, ill equipped. they were having work problems. i mean, sometimes they would show up. sometimes they wouldn't. sometimes their weapons would be in working order. this was not an organized, trained militia that would have any notion about how to provide security. the thought that anyone would hire them to be security is a problem in the first place. so that was -- it was just such a compounding of problems in a you have to understand the culture here, and i saw one of the recommen...

Deteriorating, and they knew it, and so the folks there at the special mission were asking for help and asking for higher security. we know that tripoli asked. the report said they didn't ask hard enough. it's really not their responsibility. so what happened was they had all this information, and they processed it through the state department, and that leadership just failed to note the security around that -- around the ambassador when he traveled to benghazi, and a security of the special mission. not that they had to have it as a standard mission security status because it was a temporary ...