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Administration. i think the, look, she's -- >> she did. >> right. i think it's not going to be that credible. she has -- she's going to have to run the campaign being linked to the iraq war and the libya war. both wars that have turned out very badly. i think that's going to be tough. >> and obama's foreign policy -- >> let paul -- paul, i want to remind viewers, you support a pro-hillary clinton super pac. >> i'm for -- i'd be for hillary if nobody paid me. okay? i'm for hillary. i love her. i think she'd be a terrific president. with the debate will go in the general, peter, is the next iraq...

E-mail. she gave 55,000 pages worth. is it security accountability? what is it for you? >> the politics of it is interesting to me. it's beside the point. i'm a national security guy. i have been worried about benghazi from the start. i think it's a bipartisan scandal that goes back to the libya war, which was not just an obama initiative. he was pushed into it by high ranking republicans who wanted it as well. this was a policy decision that was made to abandon a counterterrorism alliance we had with the gadhafi regime that went back a number of years and basically switched sides knowing a lo...

Losing the focus of our system and becoming less formal. we went from presidential orders to memorandau. >> and the president has been very blunt, if you don't do what i want, i will act unilaterally. with the new majority, they should be able to use that, in my opinion too, stop a lot of what the president wants to do. right? >> many of the changes that he ordered were ordered by him unilaterally. he did not get appropriations or approval. the libya war was funded entirely out of discretionary fund. so that's what makes this so

It's mind-boggling because, if you, separate out whatever intelligence we may have had, we knew during the libya war, because the defense department made this known, that libya per capita, sent more jihadists to iraq than any other country in the world to fight against american soldiers. martha: yeah. >> and the capital of the jihad in libya is benghazi. in fact, we brought qaddafi in from the cold so to speak not only because of his abandoning the nuclear weapons program but because he was giving us valuable intelligence on jihadists in his own country. now, you know, for whatever reason we j...

this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, every minute of every day. the end came today when a cnn producer persuaded the local commander that...