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Of organized terrorist activity subverted. >> senator cardin, is there any question in your mind that there was an al qaeda connection to attacks in benghazi, if not the consulate than at least the annex at senator inhoff is suggesting? >> you know, my focus is to use what happened in benghazi to make sure that we keep our personnel and our embassies as safe as we possibly can. >> understood. but do you believe there was an al qaeda connection there with the attack? >> you know, there's been a lot of studies that have been done. i think there was a multiple factors. it wasn't just one episode ...

Believe she probably won't. but to be politically motivated to make those very significant decisions i think is going to be very damaging to her. >> senator cardin, do you agree? >> no. this is the type of talk -- after the fact president obama was opposed to us entering the war in iraq as i was opposed to it. secretary clinton as a senator voted for that. i think they were talking about the primary elections where issues get talked about but i don't think anyone questions the sincerity of secretary clinton. in fact, secretary gates was extremely complimentary of the role that secretary clinto...

But i think it's unfortunate we now see it in the book, it looks like in an effort to make the book more popular on the newsstands. >> senator inhoff, you said late last week you were not a fan of robert gates but you're becoming one now. >> that's right. first of all, to me the most revealing thing was the exchange that hillary clinton and obama had when they each one admitted to the other one that during the surge in iraq, both of them had their decisions made through a political -- for political motivation. i think that was really revealing. to me, that draws a distinction. because, you kno...

I think it's going to come back and hurt her. >> senator inhoff, bob gates also said that vice president joe biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the last four decades. you served with him in the u.s. senate as a colleague for a number of years. do you think that bob gates is correct on that point? >> well, you know, he's a real gracious person. i had a long conversation with the vice president the other day when i had a loss in my family. we talked for over an hour. now, i have debated him in years past on foreign -- on issues where i have disagreed with him. and so i don't ...

Here. i think candid discussions with the president are important. i think reading about it in a book can only harm those types of discussions in the future. in regards to vice president biden, i served with vice president biden. i still do. he's still the president of the senate. so he is -- his views are widely respected in the united states senate and among the people in washington. i think about new start and the ability of getting that agreement with russia, we would not have gotten it but with the hard work of vice president biden. so he's been a trusted adviser and person i think is ver...