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The preparedness, and all you get from the white house and you see it is a theme through all of this, including the talking points, is trying to make the appearances look good, trying to explain all of the behavior of the administration, why would you cover up, why would you tell a story. they want it to look as if they were not responsible, everything had been done because it was an election year. that i think is the root of all of the distortions analyze. >> carter hamm also said behind closed doors that there was no stand down order, there was a stay there order for special forces in tripol...

Timeline. 5:00 p.m. over there. our guys e-mailed washington and said we are under attack. seven hours later two more americans were killed. at 1:00 in the morning stevens and smith were killed. seven hours later two more americans were killed and in between that time. gregory hicks testified there was a stand down order give ton all of the assets in the area, tripoli, italy, everywhere else and the left is trying to say that never happened about you tu did. >> that is murder. >> are you suggesting there were italian assets that could have got ton -- >> american assets in italy. seven hours aw...

Somebody told them to stand down. the question is who was it? that's the key. >> absolutely. who gave the stand down order is very important? hillary clinton called at 2 a.m. at 3 a.m. mr. hicks found out there was a stand down order and they wasn't -- there was going to be no help sent to benghazi. think of this for one second, if it was alex or your daughter or malia or sasha or chelsea clinton in benghazi pinned down with mortars coming in and there's a five hour difference between when they first learned, when the e-mail came out that said benghazi under fire or four hour difference when o...

Somebody told them to stand down. the question is who was it? that's the key. >> absolutely. who gave the stand down order is very important? hillary clinton called at 2 a.m. at 3 a.m. mr. hicks found out there was a stand down order and they wasn't -- there was going to be no help sent to benghazi. think of this for one second, if it was alex or your daughter or malia or sasha or chelsea clinton in benghazi pinned down with mortars coming in and there's a five hour difference between when they first learned, when the e-mail came out that said benghazi under fire or four hour difference when o...

Military. >> so the military is told to stand down, not engage in the fight. these are the kind of people willing to engage. what did that message come down and where did the stand down order came from? >> i believe it came from either africa or south africa. >> and general hamm but he was in washington, d.c., is that correct? >> i don't know the whereabouts the general on that night. >> mr. chairman, this is something we're going to continue to explore. i kneed to move to mr. thompson. you were the leader within the state department. according to the state department, it's the foreign emergen...