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result of a terrorist attack. >> you have said two officers were killed today in benghazi by an al qaeda-like group. then you had a conversation with the egyptian prime minister. you told him this. we note attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. it was a planned attack, not a protest. you knew the truth. but that's not what the american people got. >> if you look at the statement i made i clearly said it was an attack and i said there were some who tried to justify it on the basis of the video, congressman. >> calling it an attack is like saying the sky is blue. of course, i...

the information that we had at the time. >> in this pile in 2011 i see daily updates. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful v e-mails to you and i can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in libya in 2012. >> no one ever came to me and said we should shut down our compound in benghazi. >> well, i'm not saying shut it down. i'm saying protect it. >> republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail secretary clinton's presidential campaign. >> there's no evidence for a video inspired protest, then ...

the time. >> in this pile in 2011 i see daily updates. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful v e-mails to you and i can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in libya in 2012. >> no one ever came to me and said we should shut down our compound in benghazi. >> well, i'm not saying shut it down. i'm saying protect it. >> republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail secretary clinton's presidential campaign. >> there's no evidence for a video inspired protest, then where did the false narrative s...

and that was the night of the attack. but let me just go a little further. you said that you found out in october that your attorneys met with the state department, i believe it was in august. now, from that time you said you turned over everything and that your lawyers went through this, and i believe it was in november after finding out in october that they had reviewed all these e-mails. now, the state department hadn't been able to give us all those e-mails in two years, but your attorneys -- you must have some of the fastest-reading attorneys in the world to go through that. i k...

Information. i made a lot of secure phone calls. i was in and out of the white house all the time. there were a lot of things that happened that i was aware of and that i was reacting to. if you were to be in my office in the state department, i didn't have a computer. i did not do the vast majority of my work on e-mail. and i bet there's a lot of sid blumenthal's e-mails from 2011, too. i don't want you to have a mistaken impression about what i did and how i did it. most of my work was not done on e-mails with my closest aides, with officials in the state department, officials in the rest of...