jeremy peters is a political reporter for "the new york times." we have two good people here. let's try to figure out the facts yesterday. what did we learn yesterday that seems to be exposing the secretary of state, brings open further questioning? lisa? >> i think both points you raised about the call to greg hicks at 2:00 a.m. between the first and second attack. i think it's the cheryl mills involvement in all this. there is no one closer. let's say, there are few people closer to hillary clinton than cheryl mills. thirdly, we learned the reason ambassador stevens was in benghazi. that's because secretary clinton planned to only to libya later that year and wanted to be able to announce there would be a permanent diplomatic outpost in benghazi. >> what the republican people, it was the republicans, it was a partisan organized event yesterday apparently talking to elijah cummings, the ranking democrat. he was informed he wasn't consulted, if you will. they have established that hillary clinton was involved in operations. that she was calling during the time after the first

lisa myers and jeremy peters for "the new york times." so we've got two good people here.esterday that seems to be what you might call exposing the secretary of state, something that brings open to further questioning? lisa? >> the call to greg hicks at 2:00 a.m. before the attack, cheryl mills, there are few people closer to hillary clinton than cheryl mills and thirdly we learned the reason that ambassador stevens was in benghazi at that time and that's because secretary clinton planned to come to libya later that year and wanted to announce that there would be a permanent diplomatic outpost in benghazi. >> so the republican people, it was a partisan-organized event apparently talking to elijah cummings. he was not consulted, if you will. they've established that hillary clinton was involved in operations. that she was calling during the time after the first attack and before they knew what had happened to ambassador stevens. she was in a position of being the top officer involved in that matter as secretary of state. can they then go forward and say, wait a minute, she

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ron fournier, thank you so much and jeremy peters, thank you.aggie haberman, thank you as well. >> we are thanking everybody! where is everybody going? >> i thought maggie was going to be here for a while. >> maggie, hang out. >>> bob mcdonald will be with us coming up and tom brokaw and catherine rampell and joanna coles. first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> three weather stories today. more tornadoes to deal with, flooding in the midwest and the heat wave has arrived on the mid-atlantic. yesterday was 90 degrees. all of the hot air arrived for d.c., baltimore, philadelphia and didn't make it up to new york city today but it will today. 92 degrees as far north as hartford. the forecast is here to say through the upcoming weekend. 90s for d.c. all way through sunday. monday, we get cooled off with thunderstorms. now, yesterday, 23 more tornadoes and thankfully no significant injuries and no fatalities from those. most of the tornadoes stayed over rural areas. that's the way we like it and hopefully it will happen again today