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October 12, 2000. so there is some blame -- blame is the wrong word. more could have been done by both administrations. but the bush administration was in office nine months and really their concerns were antiballistic missile defense which of course does nothing to stop terrorists. their concerns were iraq. their concerns were china and they had a cold war mind set where they didn't see al qaeda as the problem. >> let's look forward now. does any candidate out there have a plan that would prevent such an attack in the future? deal withiasisis? deal with al qaeda. does anybody have that plan? ...

We need to deconflict them by time. what we want in the near term is prevent isis from taking over the entire country of iraq. we are unclear of what we want for syria and that will affect our ability to build a coalition of iraq and unclear of the larger question of role of islamism and governorance in the middle east. >> those are big topics and it would be helpful. kori, i hope to have you back on the program so we could talk about that which is perhaps the bigger story today. >> we just got word today that the u.s. picked up a top terror suspect. many of the other suspects, including the a...

Explanations provided by the administration in the two weeks following the attack? and so i'm hopeful too that we will work on a bipartisan basis. if we do this in a stovepipe fashion, i think we need to look at what, when we've had prior experiences, what is it that we took from 9/11? when we do things in a stovepipe fashion we have people going across in different ways but we don't have the complete picture. that is why this particular set of events, given what has happened, given the importance of this to the american people, warrants this type of committee, and i'm hopeful that my colleagu...

Relations committee would want to hear from secretary clinton and all those who are responsible for consulate security. the problem is that the three committees will not be able to hear what the other groups are saying. i'd like to ask general petraeus some questions. and i'm sure there are people on the intel committee would like to hear what the department of defense has to say about their handling of the benghazi attack. and when it comes to the state department all of us would like to know why were there so many, so many requests for additional security denied? in the august 15th cable bac...

Committee because three important committees of this body have very clear jurisdiction over this. certainly the senate foreign relations committee. certainly if you look at the senate armed services committee and the intelligence committee, all of the questions that senator mccain outlined before, after and during, they intersect in some way in those three committees and if we don't bring this investigation together, the american people are going to still continue to ask these very important questions and we owe it to the american people to make sure that we understand exactly what happened, w...