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Continue on. >> at one point she said they were unsolicited. you can say over 11 hours you're going to get tripped up, but that seemed like an intention gnat misdirection and a lie at worst. then her ineptitude and inability to be a secretary of state who is paying attention to one of the most critical places in the world at that time. not just in tropical storms of it being a country we just t toppled, but also for her and the obama administration. libya was their decision and if you have the ambassador there sending hundreds of requests for more security unanswered, that's dereliction of dut...

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...

Call on the release, and certainly sidney blumenthal is not a government official, and release those and any other ones that can be -- >> at the end of the day i don't know where is sidney blumenthal's, the an noig e-mails sent by somebody in the circle like people who send around joke e-mails or in this case serious or unwelcomed or tolera tolerated e-mails or was he playing some type of a role. my sense was that he didn't have any official role, and what do you make of it? >> apparently, hillary clinton did find them important enough for other people to are view, and the point that the repub...

Benghazi hearing. the former rhode island governor lincoln chafee announced he is dropping out of the race for the white house due to lack of interest. ed henry, what's the atmosphere after the hearing? i'm guessing people were pleased. >> they were pleased. the clinton camp feels like she did pretty well. she took some hits about the narrative, over benghazi, and about security requests that she denied but they feel like that's ground that has mostly been covered before. she had one of her largest rallies of the entire cam people here in alexandria, northern virginia is fertile democratic ter...

Purposes. and i'm hoping that we can move forward together. we can start working together. we can start listening to each other. and i appreciate greatly what you said, ranking member cummings. >> and the afternoon session brought fireworks over clinton confidant sidney blumenthal. republicans on the committee repeatedly asked clinton about his e-mails. why, they wondered, did blumenthal have what they called unfettered access to her when security requests from ambassador chris stevens never seemed to reach her desk. here's nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell with more...