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With the benghazi survivors. how many have you talked with? >> none. a year later only one survivor in benghazi has been interviewed by the congress and that person was subpoenaed. why do i want to talk to them? i want to know from their mouth -- not anybody else's, no spokesman, no british contractor, americans on the ground in benghazi did you see a protest? did you ever report a protest? did you complain before the attack that al qaeda was growing in strength in libya? did you make security requests? did anybody try to help you enhance security? >> when you and other senators -- because you...

Testimony of 13 different congressional hearings and participation in 40 staff briefings and the provision of over 25,000 pages of documents. >> is administration correct in -- >> candy -- >> go ahead. >> well, i'll tell you right now, i pamean, jay carney, well over a week well after that had said this was not preplanned or meditated and blamed this on the video and we still don't have answers why that information came out the way it did and the misrepresentations were made to the american people. but there is much information that has been brought forward including why were security requests...

And participation in 40 staff briefings, and the provision of over 25,000 pages of documents. >> is the administration correct in what is -- >> candy? >> go ahead. >> i'll tell you right now. i mean, jay carney, well over a week, well after that had said this was not preplanned or premeditated, still blamed this on the video. so we still don't have answers why that information came out the way it did and the misrepresentations were made to the american people. but there's much information that hasn't come forward including why were security requests denied. provided access to these survivors. ...

Republicans and democrats to make determinations as to what actually had been communicated at the time. and that is a disgrace more than a year after the attack took place. >> is it possible that the security requests did stop with patrick kennedy, that they didn't go higher? >> it is possible. they say even if it was largely a cia secretary of state, this was a new facility. you have testimony from hicks saying that they wanted the secretary of state to have a robust presence in benghazi. it would seem to me that it would be unlikely that she didn't know.

Request. >> right. bill: now do you know the answer yet? >> well, we certainly know the security requests were made and that they were denied. i mean that we know. one of the points i was making, because this with us a budget hearing is we had a number of democrats senators point to republicans that, hey we are cutting the budget so the state department didn't have the fund. the fact of the matter is the department of defense, upon request by the state department will provide that security. and i will bill, we are not talk that many people, a full-time staff of 16 security members basically wi...