democrats calling the gop led hearings on the benghazi terror attacks a waste of taxpayers' money. someone here says can you say hypocrisy? >>> the same week we see the terror attack, house republicans releasing the report on the benghazi attack that killed a u.s. ambassador and three u.s. americans. democrats saying the $7 million spent on the probe were wasted. but democrats dished out $8 million on global warming hearings and since when did democrats give a hoot about spending? >> yeah, look, there's politics in washington. and this is where i think that the media has to be able to understand that the democrats from the very beginning, eric, from the moment that mitt romney called out the fact that there wasn't enough action in benghazi and in cairo and talking about this as terrorism, from that moment on, the -- the white house and all of their democratic friends in the media jumped on mitt romney and the republicans to -- saying that we were turning benghazi into a political issue. and you know, they were successful in making this a political issue but the media has got to look

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that is the scandal of benghazi. the thing i take away is this jarring contrast between the ingenuity and heroism and initiative that was taking place in benghazi. you can read the communications and understand the urgency of what they were dealing with. the overwhelming sense of responsibility to rescue other americans. across the ocean, almost a disposition of near fecklessness. the summary of the white house meeting that the chairman mentioned that took place at 7:30, half the discussion of that meeting suggested that they were talking about a video. when you read this information, you come to the conclusion that there is concern -- more concern -- about whether they will be defending the libyan government by how this rescue is supposed to take place and whether the rescue is successful. marinate in that for a second. they are worried about approvals and how this will come off. it is clear that they were worried previously to that about the notion of pulling back from benghazi, because an early exit would have done

so that by the time benghazi happened, it wasn't going to happen. because that decision was made early on. sharyl: if so, why why isn't clear. but the attacks came eight weeks before the 2012 elections. president obama had campaigned on the idea that he'd sent terrorists running. >> al qaeda is on the path to defeat and sam: is dead. -- and osama bin ladson dead. sharyl: it could have been viewed as more harm gl to the campaign than the incorrect explanation the administration gave that protesters attacked after being whipped up by an anti-islamic youtube video. >> i understand, father. sharyl: a special forces his team and u.s. diplomats in libya were briefed that if they ever got into trouble, those special forces in europe were tasked with coming to the rescue. >> they're kept in a high state of readiness just for that purpose. so they're -- they're willing and able and ready to jump -- like the fire department. any town in any city in the united states. sharyl: to illustrate how close the u.s. special forces in croatia were, a commercial flight t

why were the americans at a fairly unprotected compound in benghazi? ese are all legitimate issues. for this to be an effective political argument it cannot be an emotional argument, it has to be a surgical argument. we are obscuring the surgical argument and the ability to criticize directly on the policy for the emotional side of this. it may work in the hall, but i suspect it does not work with the independent voters out there in the country because it's imprecise at the end of the day. >> it should be noted briefly in terms of the strategy how the trump campaign is handling this, in the middle of pra triatricia smith's remarks tonight, donald trump called in and fox cutaway and spoke to him. i don't know if that was strategic or intentional but that was a decision they made. >> we will cutaway at the top of the hour and be right back. >>> we are back and showing you what just happened a moment ago. mike pence has made his first visit to the venue. let's listen in. >> governor pence, what did you think about the chaos this morning? >> jacob sober oof

this week we got the report from the benghazi committee, out of the house. we did learn some new things we didn't know before. there is a story about an account of military assets that were waiting in plane, they were on a plane for three hours there, they were told four times to change in and out of their uniforms because the state department was worried about the optics of having americans in uniform on the streets of libya. in the meantime no military assets were ever sent directly to benghazi while the attack was unfolding. four americans died in the process. who's to blame? >> actually, shannon, that's not new information. that was disclosed back in 2013. it was -- >> about the uniform changes? >> yes. >> that's not something i've heard before this week. >> that was out there -- >> four times. >> 2013. we knew that information. the military testified to that. and talked about the fact that while there was some sense of disagreement about how to make sure you send out the assets, those assets were going to be sent to tripoli. not to benghazi. >> right. >

host: benghazi website is the select committee on benghazi. benghazi.house.gov where you can find the report, a summary of the report. on the democrats' website for the committee as well, their response to what came out last week. gina from mississippi, republican line. thanks for calling, go ahead. caller: good morning, pedro. to be frank i don't know if anything is worth a hearing anymore because democrats just accept lies even when they are proven, and it doesn't matter to democrat voters if their constituents lie or not. she's been caught in so many lies. it's just overlooked. that's because a lot of the democrats, especially young people that they are pulling in to vote, don't even know anything about history. they don't know anything about the news or current events. it's a sad state of affairs that we live in now. i agree with the last two callers that called about just the lies. one of the things i'd like to say to the democrats out there is that why doesn't hillary clinton good enough to vote in the last two elections? she doesn't good

that will help bring in more people. >> the benghazi element too. pat smith, the mother of the benghazi victims with an emotional speech. listen to a bit of that. >> in an e-mail to her daughter shortly after the attack, hillary clinton blamed it on terrorism, but when i saw hillary clinton -- she sure is. she lied to me and then called me a liar. when i saw hillary clinton at sean's coffin ceremony days later, she looked me squarely in the lie and told me a video was responsible. >> this is supposed to be the centerpiece of the night. interesting that donald trump was calling in to fox news at this very moment. >> right. we have donald trump preempting his own guest talking about the death of her son in benghazi. we also have a donald trump who made repeated misstatements about what happened in benghazi over and over again. the idea that if donald trump had been in charge, he would have been more on top of the security arrangements thousands of miles away and prevented the crisis. it is somewhat unbelievable. we can all feel for pat smith. she is g

>> first of all, let me say it seems as if, sadly, the republicans are addicted to benghazi. they don't want it to come to an end. and this is a man who, like you said, he put something on facebook. and they felt the need to interview him. they want this to go on and on and on. $7 million plus being spent, an unlimited budget. by the way, that $7 million is taxpayer dollars, to basically do exactly what? what mccarthy said, to derail hillary clinton's campaign. and so -- and i think basically, joy, everything -- you know, when you think about what mccarthy said, and then you look at the things that have happened in this investigation, it seems that republicans on the committee have bared out exactly what mccarthy said this was all about. >> to your view, was anything discovered in this select committee investigation that was different from the previous seven investigations that were done? >> i think what they did was they tried to find every single person who may have known anything about it, but the basic fact is that there was nothing new to change the fact that many of thes

the democratic member, elijah cummings from the benghazi context as the democrats' leader on some ofd one who has been more sympathetic to what hillary clinton has done. which, of course, breaks largely, i would say, fairly on partisan lines. but not completely. the other big difference with the benghazi hearing to this one, brian, is as you well know from covering both stories, in the benghazi hearing, so much was known, and there was a feeling of sort of sifting through what we already knew. hillary clinton's famous question, what does it matter whether this was caused by a video that was misunderstood or something else. the problem is people are dead. and when she said that, and when many people responded to that, it was all basically what i would call a lot of relatively known information that was being fought over. the difference today and what i think makes today more high stakes for the parties involved, there so much we do not know. this entire inquiry up until this week was not discussed formally by anyone in the government on the fbi side, law enforcement or doj, because it

the benghazi report came out. you know, the big winner remains the secretary of state who's five points ahead and if if rorls are confirmed may get out of the e-mail scandal unscathed. if that happens she has clear sailing. >> northeasterns need to >> ame safe. >> we will have to do that on the other side of the break. the final thoughts with the insiders up next. and ask them why they are all proud americans. tell us why you are by going to our fox news social >>> major league baseball showing its american pride this weekend hosting what's believed to be the first ever regular season game on an active military base. the league and the players association shelling out $5 million to build this baseball diamond at ft. bragg in north carolina. here's a look at how they did it. the temporary ballpark seats 12,000 people but only active duty troops and their families get tickets. it is braves versus the marlins in what should be a special holiday matchup. you have to love that. >>> i wanted to ask what makes you a proud

that the benghazi investigation, eight so far, one of the things we did discover through the benghaziocess was the private server that the secretary of state had. now i think it's great you laid out the numbers about the volume of e-mails. we're talking about the ones undisclosed. many of the people receiving the e-mails, recipients were using government e-mail. that's how they're able to discover them. there are two side of the e-mail chain. she was e-mailing on personal e-mails and recipes and things e-mailing to work. the recipients would have had their e-mail discoverable because they were governmental. i think it's a proes sufficient picking apart. if your g-mail had been discoverable and you had to find them it would take some time. >> i want to get back to the e-mails in a second. i want to talk about the development of the fbi meeting. we talked about it at the top of the hour. not planned. our reporters on the ground only got a heads up when something was happening. they didn't. >> what is happening now you're seeing the comey investigation coming to an end. usually when you

we saw that last night with all of the benghazi talk. head of the defense intelligence agency changing -- lock her up, lock her up. that's a weird moment in politics. sure it's to the people in the room. people on twitter, we're like, a lot of different types of twitter, people i'm talking to and people in the foreign policy committee, that's bad. that's not the tone they really want to put forward. you know, as for tonight, who do we have, kevin mccarthy, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, chris christie, these are not people who are really huge fans of donald trump right now. i would call it make america awkward again. >> nontraditional candidates are held to a different standard in professional politicians. i've seen this before in the state of california when arnold schwarzenegger ran for governor and he was attacked for the same sorts of things, they moved on, he won the election. >> we'll see. we have so much more to talk about in the next hour and a half or so. don't go anywhere. you'll hear the criticism of the obama economy, make ameri

ghazi, i will the walk out -- benghazi, i will walk out. [cheering] >> those the same plane that brought down from aaa. this was one of the planes glenn did not make it back on. secured, it became secured, they had just met that day. i don't think it is a coincidence. ushaven't overwater with that night. we got everybody loaded up, headed to tripoli and then we had to turn our task. we stayed behind because they cannot hold everybody. again, the gaddafi moralist -- loyal as moshe stepped up -- militia stepped up. there are termed the ambassador's body. ambassador with the 's body. he was wearing the same close -- clothes at the morning we saw him. clothesearing the same .the only difference on his feetck soot and minerals and ears, -- fingernails and ears, no sign of torture or mutilation. obviously that he died of smoke and elation. -- inhalation. at that point, we still do not know how we were going to get out of there. of minutes go by, i seek 1:30 running down the runway, comes a little closer and is a u-turn, pulls off to a hangar area

. >> scheduling, the benghazi moments were really emotional, the mother. >> of everything that mother, i got teary and i'm not overly emotional person, most powerful. feel her pain in the room. if you like hillary clinton, watch that speech and come back. >> i think scheduling was a bit of a problem, you had joni ernst, was a big speaker, wanted her out there in prime time time, everything kind of got pushed back. so she didn't speak until way late. a lot of people were off the air. a lot of people, delegates had actually left the floor. so i think her speech, maybe they should have rescheduled it for today. harris: that is an interesting point. they took them out on buses. >> that's right. she is very valuable surrogate. true conservative. female icon. donald trump doesn't poll so well with women all the time. has his issues. i agree that is disappointing, a way for her to be used again, she is up-and-coming star in the republican party. sandra: day two, fox news the place to be for all day and all evening coverage of the republican national convention and 4:00 p.m. eastern, "outnumb

and the republican- led benghazi committee released an unflattering report on the administration's handling of the 2012 terror attack. the administration cooked up the claim they said of the video and no hard evidence to support it. hillary clinton referenced the video in the night of the attack. four americans were killed in the attack including ambassador stephens. republicans are reacting to the fallout this week. the republican national committee has a lot to say. >> they do. republican national committee and donald trump weighing in on the fbi interview and it shows that hillary clinton is unfit to be president and emphasizes the criminal investigation in her private e-mail server. and rnc is launching a scathing attack after loretta lynch privately met with bill clinton. and the meeting sparking widespread criticism given that lynch is head of the justice department and leading the investigation against mrs. clinton. the fbi wanted her for questioning reenforces her central role and put her own political ambitions above the state department rules and the attorney general meets secretl

that is the case around benghazi. e big worry is that this chaos will spill over into europe, not just in terms of security but in terms of refugee flows. >> thank you very much indeed. we heard from the french president, the confirmation of the deaths of those three junior soldiers. not more about the people involved or the circumstances of their deaths. there was a visit to a training center. he spoke to the other big story, the investigation that continues into the attack last week in nice. 15 people are still between lie fe and death after a truck rammed into a crowd of people. although the anger of the french people was legitimate, that anger was not be allowed to degenerate into hatred. >> after this drama, the anger is legitimate. our compatriots have been kil led. it cannot degenerate into hatred and suspicion. the terrorists want this poison and hatred to spread. the victims are all origins, all religions, and all nationalities. >> that was francois hollande speaking a short while ago. november, ah of relative

once again, the benghazi committee could not come up with anything. those will certainly be the talking points. but it's not going to end there. there's going to be campaign ads made about this. mr. comey's rhetoric is going to continue and haunt them throughout the campaign. >> if you can both hang by, kasie hunt standing by. and she has new reaction from clinton supporters on at least how they are seeing this breaking news of the hour. kasie, what do you have for us? >> reporter: hi, tamron. so hillary clinton just left this speech at the nea. this is the educators' union, where she was received very enthusiastically. she took the stage just minutes after comey stepped to the podium at the fbi. not that far from here at the convention center in washington. she made no mention of what was going on at the fbi in these remarks. and we just tried to track her down on the rope line here. and is she did not stop to shake hands with supporters here. she often does that after rallies like this, except for one section of the crowd, where it wasn't possible to

the benghazi report came out. e secretary of state who's five points ahead and if if rorls are confirmed may get out of the e-mail scandal unscathed. if that happens she has clear sailing. >> northeasterns need to >> ame safe. >> we will have to do that on the other side of the break. the final thoughts with the insiders up next. and ask them why they are all proud americans. tell us why you are by going to our fox news social pagers. and use hashtag proud americans. and relieve foot, knee or lower back pain from being on your feet. dr. scholl's. now you can't spell nutriam i right?t nut, i mean whose to say it's pronounced nu-triton, anyway? my mixes contain delicious nuts, specially blended for your optimal nut-rition. that's right, i just changed a word in the english dictionary, forever. planters. nutrition starts with nut. your car insurance policy did you read every word? no, only lawyers do that. so when you got rear-ended and needed a tow, your insurance company told you to look at page five on your policy.

this is kind of like the benghazi report. e are the big hurdles she needs to overcome before her campaign can move on. the headline out of the benghazi report was no new information she did anything wrong. politically, that kind of ends the issue for her. there air lot of republicans that will never let that go, who will argue that her oversight of what happened in benghazi was flawed at the least. for the people actually persuadable, which is, after all, not that many in a general election with such a polarized country, i think just like the benghazi report, if she is not indicted, she moves forward. now, this question about her aids, of course, what are the ramifications if people around her are in serious legal peril? >> it will have influence on her. >> both benghazi and the e-mail story have collected their pound of flesh so far. if there 's not anything new, it's not as if she walks away without any damage from it. i think these honest and trustworthy numbers she has spoken about herself just recently obviously have been

and one what was going on on the ground in benghazi. while mortars were falling, secretary clinton and her team were dpebating whether to send soldiers in uniform or not in uniform. and what we learned is perhaps the most disturbing fact is that at no time during the entire evening of attacks was there ever a u.s. aircraft en route to benghazi, libya. there's been this debate about whether we could have saved any of the lives there, of the four brave americans who were killed. what we now know is that they didn't even try. >> wow. so we know that the folks in benghazi were asking for help. and we know that from the e-mails. and yet, there was no help on the way. why? >> yes, ma'am, it was because the administration was focused on their political legacy. you have to remember, this was 56 days before presidential elections. so whether it was their failure to provide security beforehand, because to have put in more security who have admitted that secretary clinton's libya policy was a failure, or that night, to have had to admit there was a

for all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the citizens of the tragedy in benghazi has broughtlame hillary clinton. [ cheers and applause ] i blame hillary clinton personally for the death of my son. that's personally. in an e-mail to her daughter shortly after the attack, hillary clinton blamed it on terrorism. but when i saw hillary clinton -- >> she's a liar. >> she sure is. she sure is. she lied to me and then called me a liar. [ audience booing ] >>> very emotional testimony by pat smith, who lost her son, sean, in the terror attack in benghazi. so summing up the hour, we basically have kicked off the republican campaign, and the theme today is "make america safe again." and then throughout the week, they'll have different themes culminating on thursday with "make america great again." the roster of speakers and we hope you stay with the fox news channel throughout the evening, we have some very interesting speakers coming up. ru rudy giuliani coming up, melania trump. it's basically the theme that america is broken, all right? we're a broken country. this is the republica

back to the benghazi report. there are a lot of conspiracy theories. f you look at the basics of it, there were warnings throughout themati the state department. is that the issue? you have warnings, you have warnings, you have warnings and everybody realizes the boss doesn't know this? what was the culture of the state department if she was the ceo that they never got to her. >> the challenge for trump is he loves conspiracy theories. this is the former birther, remember? this is one of the things that worries republicans about him is that he gets stuck in these conspiracy theories and fails to make the broader case against hillary clinton. this week i think will be sort of a challenge for him if he can do that, if he can make the bigger, broader case against her. >> she'll see. up next, trump was troubles of his own. the family feud with the rnc two weeks away. could a trump vice presidential pick help to bring the family together. >>> the canadian prime minister justin trudeau talks up his more than friendship with president obama. >>> and now, final

we hear about the security and benghazi. we're told the country's divided and there's more divided divisive talk inside the hall. is there a connection?ne >> sure. i mean by definition it reflected the country and i don't think there's any question the division in the country on the issue of benghazi doesn't rise to the level of urgency that obviously these republican delegates feel and by implication of inference the e argument is donald trump would be a stronger and better commander in chief. >> we're in the one hall in america where everyone's talkina about benghazi tonight. that said, it is an emotional touch tone if what you're trig to do is rev up your base. >> so far it's all been aimed at. what i'm waiting to see does melania trump put forth an effort to humanize donald trump and make him more appealing to white suburban women. he has to expand beyond the base. he has loyal supporters. people here are fired up about him and fired up about hillary l clinton but there may not be enough of them though he won more primary

hillary clinton put the entire country in danger. and benghazi, and plenty of other things, by the way. sheas confirmed today that routinely sent classified e-mails on an insecure private server that could be easily hacked by a hostile foreign agent. hacked.ils were probably, definitely, maybe were hacked. by hostile actors. these are big, very smart people. a hell of a lot smarter than what we have in washington, that i can tell you. our enemies may have a black mail problem with crooked hillary. host: donald trump will be in ohio today with newt gingrich to campaign there. go to www.c-span.org for programming. some other programming notes for you. the house rules committee will theeeting today to discuss establishment of the debate rules of the 2017 funding bills for defense programs and possibly for gun legislation. that gunboat expected later this week. expected later this week. after our program today, at 10:00, democrats are expected to be joined by victims of gun violence on the capitol steps for a press conference. members are calling for

and the republican- led benghazi committee released an unflattering report on the administration's handling of the 2012 terror attack. the administration cooked up the claim they said of the video and no hard evidence to support it. hillary clinton referenced the video in the night of the attack. four americans were killed in the attack including ambassador stephens. republicans are reacting to the fallout this week. the republican national committee has a lot to say. >> they do. republican national committee and donald trump weighing in on the fbi interview and it shows that hillary clinton is unfit to be president and emphasizes the criminal investigation in her private e-mail server. and rnc is launching a scathing attack after loretta lynch privately met with bill clinton. and the meeting sparking widespread criticism given that lynch is head of the justice department and leading the investigation against mrs. clinton. the fbi wanted her for questioning reenforces her central role and put her own political ambitions above the state department rules and the attorney general meets secretl

she's not the only one. other benghazi families have as well. it is, just as a political observer, reporter, analyst, i never understood why there wasn't more outreach to patricia smith by the state department and more when she started going public and talking about her concerns and talking about her anguish and grief. i don't really have the answer to that. >> she said i blame hillary clinton for the death of my son. >> because it was her -- when i asked her about that on my show, when she came on, i said why? why do you blame her? because it was the state department. it was her department. she was in charge. and there was inadequate security. it is hard to argue that there was adequate security. >> anderson, over to you. >> wolf, jake, thanks very much. here with our panelist, jeffrey lord, republican nontrump supporter s.e. cupp and van jones, democrat. what we've seen so far, is this -- i mean, again, an unconventional convention, certainly started out unconventionally with willie robertson, scott baio, governor perry, who had called donald t

i would take a little issue with that because when she was asked to testify at the benghazi hearings, one of them was an len-hour session and she was prepared to sit down and answer questions related to these very tough issues, but what i think what the voters will look at ultimately is that we spent $7 million on these investigations and the last report hit with a thus. no new information there, and i think what the american people will want to know is you can spend all of this time and all of this money trying to go after this woman, but you can't muster the fortitude to create good gun control. >> tara, i want to ask you, james comey will be in the so-called hot seat tomorrow. there's one guy who can handle the hot seat it may be james comey. do the republicans run some risk here by putting the heat on him? >> i think if they don't overreach. as long as they ask legitimate questions, congress has oversight capacity over the fbi and the department of justice and they have every right to ask the fbi director how the investigation was conducted and how he came to the conclusion that e

charles: we just saw the benghazi report out earlier in the week. the mean stream -- the mainstream media said nothing to see here folks. will this have an effect on november? >> if it doesn't we need to take an i.q. test. if you consider these prosecutors have given a total of 85,000 to the clinton administration compared to $300 to hillary clinton's compared to $300 to donald trump's campaign. there was no prosecution in the irs scandal. they want to keep the orlando audio out of the public domain. you have to start asking about should she have already recused herself because she was an obama appointee before this happened. then you have to ask what woman goes into a meeting alone with bill clinton. didn't she learn anything when he was president? charles: i don't think i'll touch that one. i have got to tell you. i don't see how democrats could attempt to defend this. you understand the optics of it. but you are a defense attorney. you understand the legal aspect of it as well. >> it's more optics. clinton appointed her, so they have a friendly r

there is nothing that seven millions that she squandered into the lives lost in benghazi. ffort offshore. so i think what we really had to think about here is what the consequences are and how we hold people accountable and i think americans to the representatives point are smart and i really believe that this incident alone is going to lead to low voter turnout on the democratic side. americans know she is on trustworthy and dishonest i think if you have a great impact on her election. charles: eric, i see the smirk. if there is anything that she has to be worried about in this election it's just hanging over her head. the trustworthy miss issue is going to go away. >> i was smirking about low voter turnout. when trump and his twitter account and he keeps been tweeting about it a somatic videos you have mentioned that. she does have an issue with trustworthiness. when we but the two candidates against each other she is a better candidate. charles: of the thing is i think it's shocking that of all the characterizations of both candidates the one that sticks out overwhelming

the e-mail. she lied about benghazi. he may not be a politician. residential but i believe him. okay. that's what this is. if john allen is talking to joel the functional equivalent of paul manafort within the clinton organization and he not just denies what was said in the speech but he then denies two other things that you know are absolutely true, how do you handle it as a little wink and a nod or do you think the campaign has a real problem that they need to clear up asap? >> look, nontraditional candidates have certain allowances from the elect rat that professional politicians don't have. we saw that in california with governor arnold schwarzenegger, he made a lot of mistakes and had many mistakes on the campaign trail. he comes from the private sector, comes from hollywood, not a professional politician, they don't hold them to the same standards. >> lying is not the same. >> what is the criticism of hillary clinton she is often too cute by half at the very least, if not outright being untruthful. in this case your looking how to get to a pla

>> the benghazi report. details about what happened, is this the final word? tonight clinton says it's time to move on. >> what's the headline? >> really? >> i can pin it down into this sentence, $7 million to learn government is big and bulky. how about that? it doesn't bother her people died and let's say she has no ill intent. no malicious behavior. you would say my gosh, we messed up and people lost their lives. >> the details get lost in the finger pointing. donald trump calls nbc dishonest reporting he hasn't forgiven the personal loss to his campaign and some proclaiming deep down trump doesn't want to be president. really? the investigation of fox news reporting more candidates on a presidential debate stage and the vote is totally partisan plus ted and i disagree whether your opinions on social media really matter compared to the high priest of journalism. i'm howard and this is "media buzz." ♪ ♪ >>> media speculation kicked into high gear as hillary clinton went into a voluntary 3 isn3.5-hour inter

but, there is an open question whether she told the truth to the benghazi committee under oath and a lot of the factual findings that comey made would suggest that she didn't. >> all right. well, you mentioned your questioning today. questioning of comey. >> question you found, sophisticated in those matters should that have been obvious to them that was very sensitive information? >> yes. >> the question is very sophisticated, this is information that clearly anybody who had knowledge of security information would know that it would be classified, but i'm having a little bit of trouble to see how would you not then know that that was something that was inappropriate to do? >> well, i just want to take one of your assumptions about sophistications. i don't think that our investigation established that she was actually particularly sophisticated with respect to classification and levels and treatment. >> isn't she an original classification authority though? >> yes, sir, yes, sir. >> you didn't like that answer? >> well, here's the deal. well, one, she is being pitched as the most qual

the mother of the benghazi, the one who lost her son in bengh i benghazi. marcus luttrell a navy seal. it brought people to tears at the convention? why? because it came from the heart. it wasn't necessarily incredibly scripted. i have to tell you the powerful speech of the night was rudy giuliani. he spoke about race relations and law enforcement and how they are there to help save people in the streets, and also talks about the message of one america. i think that's so important. that's the message donald trump is definitely pushing through this convention. we can't forget of course melania trump her story as an immigrant coming to america talking about hard work and kindness and compassion, talking about her husband as really being one who can do great things for america. it was such a diverse group of speakers for the first night. it set the stage for what i think is going to be a very powerful and uplifting convention. >> really emotional night. i agree with that, such a powerful moment when he talked about the police officer, doesn't matter what religi

let me move to the house committee on benghazi. chairman of the house committee tray do y tr trey dowdy sat down with bret baier. >> it says no new evidence of wrong doing by hillary clinton. it is not alone in that headline and you're getting a lot of people saying there is no new evidence. >> well, the "new york times" made up their behind about a year ago when they called for our committee to be disbandeded. >> so congressman gowdy also said he wouldn't characterize whether hillary clinton lied or not. what do you think of the mainstream consensus, nothing new, no smoking gun? >> i think that they're sort of reporting the facts. there was no smoking gun. there was nothing new. or nothing sort of startlingly strikingly new. but i will say they also wrote in the "times" and other places that while there was no smoking gun, it was a pretty broad indictment or broad rebuke of the defense department, cia, state department which hillary ran at the time. so i think that there was certainly coverage of the negative aspects of the 800 pag

this is an effort to ratchet up this opposition to hillary clinton with the benghazi theme, national nd the world and offer him as a kind of strong man, law-and-order kind of solution. >> there are big speeches thursday night when he accepts the nomination, but tonight he'll presumably be speaking as well. katrina, stand by. i'm going to come back to you in a moment. we've got to take a quick break. much more from the republican national convention, including my interview with a key republican congresswoman, marsha blackburn. she's here as well and she'll be speaking. much more right after this. donald trump : i love the old days; you know what they used to do with guys like that when they were in a place like this? they'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? it's like incredible. when mexico sends its people, they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood

attack, the 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. spent months looking into this, ramesh. it was thought the object of all this was. the report essentially doesn't bring a lot of new information about her. it does harshly criticize the administration for not providing better security there, though. >> that's right. if people go into the report looking for a smoking gun about hillary clinton, they're going to be disappointed, but it does provide new detail on two things. first, the security failures in benghazi and how repeated warnings about those failures and those risks were ignored. and second, how the administration early on after the attacks put out a public narrative about the relationship of those attacks to an anti-muslim video that it had reason to believe was not true. >> woodruff: what does it add up to, mark? >> it adds up to a personal tragedy. ann stevens, the ambassador's sister, gave an interview to the "new yorker" where she essentially said her brother took the risk knowing the security circumstances himself in beng

the air. we've been talking about pat smith who lost a son in benghazi. steve, you've been on the home team at a gop convention, part of the planners and part of the gop political structure watching the democratic convention. it sure is different depending upon where your bleachers are. >> for sure. we were talking about mrs. smith and the grief and loss of her son, in 2004 at the bush campaign so close to 9/11, the convention taking place in new york and certainly the democrats did something very very similar in 2004. there were a group of very grief-stricken women. 9/11 widows who had very strong feelings about the culpability of george bush and the bushed d administration and in their anger and grief turned to politics. you saw the democratic party use it politically, i thought it was uncomfortable then and i don't like it here. >> you've seen the political grief and democrats looked at the decision of itself almost a provocation of grief. there isn't a book of manners how to handle these things. i think we all feel it when it gets so close to the bone