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I think the talking points should not be written by the intelligence community. i think the intelligence community should not be doing talking points for members of congress and our report will in essence say that. talking points can't be done by committee either. and these were. they were passed from one to the other to the other. and changes were made. the white house made virtually no changes. the word consulate was changed to mission and john brennan made a change in syntax of one sentence. that was it. >> but you had the state department pushing back on what the talking points were, and t...

I -- i was fearful of congressional intrusion into my e-mails. so -- which is kind of sad, really, because a lot of history is lost when presidents are nervous about their personal papers being subpoenaed. >> that was a couple of weeks ago. congressional intrusion was his fear. now, what we're talking about with regard to benghazi does not involve a president's e-mail, but it involves e-mails in what's called the interagency process, and what your critics have asked is, are you reading into something that is not there? discussions about what happened, about what the various inputs of informati...

Changes, these were content changes. so, again, what role did the white house play, not just in making but directing changes? >> well, thank you for that question. the way to look at this, i think is to start from that week and understand that in the wake of the attacks in benghazi, an effort was under way to find out what happened, who was responsible. in response to a request from the house permanent select committee on intelligence, two of the cia -- the cia began a process of developing points that could be used in public by members of congress, by members of that committee. and that proce...

Prior to that, had very few inputs on it. the other discussions that went on prior to this, in an interagency process, reflected the concerns of a variety of agencies, who had a stake in this issue, both the fbi, because it was investigating, cia, and other intelligence agencies, and the state department because an ambassador had been killed, a diplomatic facility had been attacked. and what i think the concern was is that these points not provide information that was speculative in terms of whether it was relevant to what happened. and the -- and what, you know, could not be known at that tim...

Congress. and that information was available, again, in late february to members of congress, and through march and once that information was reviewed, in the case of the senate, senate republicans, a number of whom went on record saying i feel like i know what i need to know, then allowed the process for the confirmation of john brennan to go forward and he was confirmed in early march. >> why were those e-mails provided in a legal fashion? >> it is a standard procedure for administrations of both parties going back decades that internal deliberations are generally protected. it is generally ...