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Did and the risks you took, the leadership you took. a couple of hours ago you told he i'm the diplomat here. i'm driving the policy. isn't it true you had been think about getting political credit for months on in this? >> no. >> well-that's that your answer, let me draw your -- mad dynamic. >> congressman, let me please, if i could -- were trying to make sure that what was written, because it's not always accurate, in case you all haven't noticed in your own careers -- what was written about a very important foreign policy effort by this administration was accurate. this was all in response,...

Pleased with the work that you did and the risks that you took, the leadership that you took -- you know, a couple of hours ago you toemd me, hey, i'm the diplomat here, i'm driving the policy. and isn't it true ta you'd been thinking about getting political credit actually for months on this? >> no. >> well, if that's your attention -- >> but congressman, please, if i could. >> sure. >> we were trying to make sure that what was written because it's not always accurate, in case you all haven't noticed in your own careers, what was written about a very important foreign policy effort by this ad...

Senior staff, you were not happy about it. and the part that you weren't happy about wasn't that you were the focal point. is that it didn't include enough. so you said, this is your e-mail, what bothers me is that the policy office prepared the timeline but it doesn't include much of what i did. another time you said the timeline is totally inadequate. which bothers me about our record keeping. i'll come back to that in a minute, madam secretary. i was in paris 3/19 when attack started. it's not on the timeline. what else is missing? go over as soon as possible. now, this timeline was put tog...

Hearings. >> if joe biden announced he was running, there would be a different set of eye balls. there's two serious inquiries that are worth asking the secretary about. number one is this issue of embassy security. there was the exact same recommendations essentially given in 1998. 1999 after the embassy attacks that took place in east africa. so none of them, four secretaries of state failed to do this. you could start with al bright through powell, rice and clinton on that front. and the second is libya policy. the decision going in the first place. if the republicans concentrate on that, t...

In 2009 about a month after someone shot a grenade through the front door. the security situation there is incredibly serious as well as it is in a whole lot of other places. and those are difficult decisions, but the effort here today seems to be that somehow you personally decided not to do your job in libya. you were apparently the advocate of the policy in libya. apparently passionate about it, but not passionate enough to care about the security situation. chris stevens was incredibly passionate about libya and wanted to make that country work. it's proven very difficult. do we want to go...