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Democrats on the committee and better than the republicans. >> clearly measured and different from the sound bite that got a lot of pick-up last time. what difference does it make in the exchange. but the sid blumenthals emails, what difference does that make. is this not a rabbit hole they're going down. but in the context of chris stevens whose emails a lot of them arrived at the committee this week, he did not have direct access to hillary clinton. asking for security improvements, but sid blumenthal did. >> i think that's a fair point. but i think the committee spent, republicans on the co...

For misleading congress as well as for lying to congress. she is under oath this is not a political rally. she's also being investigated by the fbi for at least four crimes, espionage. failure to secure government secrets, destruction of property, wiping the server clean. lying under oath to a federal judge, when she said she gave the government everything. and i think the fbi has a lot more to go on today as a result of the testimony. because she forget about that third and hidden audience. >> a.b. to hear a lot of people talk about this, they say there's an overabundance of focus and coverag...

Blumenthal. always sid blumenthal. i don't know if it was mentioned 200 times today as if we know who he is. nobody outside of the washington media list has any idea who we are talking about? >> they are obsessed with him. i think it is all part of the broader effort to embarrass secretary clinton politically. chairman goudy said he doesn't want to talk about the clinton foundation and then he does. then he focuses on that and focuses on the fact that sydney blumenthal worked for media map. what happened in benghazi was incredibly serious and deserved a thorough investigation. i've never denie...

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 -- >> we'll get to that. >> so i think that there were -- 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 the government as well as the white house ...

Really questioned. that is the heart of the charge against her. they never really challenged that. >> the problem with that charge is it is completely untrue as those previous reports indicated. they responded as quickly and tried to do everything they could under the circumstances. so there was nothing there. that is why they didn't go after that. they had to sort of circle around the issue all trying to criticize the secretary. this shouldn't primarily be about secretary clinton. i think one of the most damming things about this where is the then-secretary of defense? where is the then-cia d...