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we saw office workers running for their lives, as a cloud of toxic dust enveloped new york city. we witnessed a commander in chief take on the role of comforter in chief, as we stood atop a ruinous heap and united a grieving nation. more than 14 years have past since september 11, 2001, just weeks ago the families gathered once more for a ceremony that's become a tragic tradition in lower manhattan. [ bell tolls ] still the tears fall for the children, the brothers, the sisters, for the parents who would never see their child graduate for high school or get married. that is one of th...

Aides and non-aides? why have you focused so much on e-mails and not on the central question of why was the security failure at that consulate? >> well, we have focused on the central failure. we have focused on the security issues, and you'll see lots of questions about that on thursday. let me speak to mr. blumenthal. it goes directly to the security issue. we see now the former secretary relied on mr. blumenthal for most of her intelligence. she was relying -- >> that is factually not correct. >> that is correct. >> relied on mr. blumenthal for most of her intelligence? >> ms. mitchell, loo...

Partisan committee, but your party is admitting it was partisan. >> i couldn't disagree with you more. i think folks will see that on thursday, and i think they'll see in the the final report as well. they'll see chairman gowdy and our committee has run a fact-centric effort to do the mission, to hold someone accountable for what happened -- >> congressman, how long for this final report? is it going to be in the middle of 2016? is it going to be after the election? >> that's a great question, andrea. maybe mr. schiff can answer that for you. we'll complete our task -- >> let me just follow up...

Decided that the chain of command in terms of security at the embassies and consular facilities did not rise to the secretary of state. that the secretary of state was not involved in the micromanagement of security. >> shouldn't she have been? why wasn't she? >> i don't know that we want the secretary of state making security decisions at particular facilities around the world. that's a big job, secretary of state, and i don't know that we want her micromanaging security. >> if the secretary of state is not responsible for the security of the facility, what is it that they do? >> they are res...

To be able to fund raise and say they were attacking me the entire time and it looks like they are attacking her, it's going to be good for her. >> john, a lot of people think this is about the email. the email investigations over here would the fbi. this is the benghazi investigation. and what i assume is whether or not the whole point of it is to see how secure the benghazi consulate was and whether we can learn something from it in the future so we don't put our diplomats at risk that, i assume, is the point of it. >> definitely there are multiple aspects of the benghazi scandal. they immed...