and i can say the same thing about admiral mullen. and i just want you to tell us about why you picked the folk you that picked. and by the way, it's done by law. i mean, that's what you're supposed to do. the law says you're supposed to pick these people. >> that's right. >> and so why don't you tell us how you picked them. were you looking for -- what were you looking for? >> well, congressman, i greatly appreciate your strong words of commendation on behalf of both ambassador pickering and admiral mullen. you're right. the statute is very clear. the secretary of state picks four of the five members of the accountability review board. as i said earlier today, there have been 19 accountability review board reports. and i think myself and prior secretaries have been very fortunate that they could call on distinguished americans with long records of service to perform this very important task. when i was thinking about who was the integrity, the independence, the experience to give us an unvarnished look at what happened, the first per

and what tom and admiral mullen recommended, those are the steps we should take. the hearings aren't telling us anything we don't nope. >> when they try to put together a timeline of what the secretary knew, how she found ot facts of the developing situation, is there some use - you worked in an give level inside administrations, is there some use in ferreting that stuff out. >> sure, if you go back and read the report, it's in there. that's the problem. yes, mistakes were made. what we should focus on is how do we correct them. do we need more, you know, people, in security, do we need more foreign service officers. i went through a horrible experience when i was in government with the tragedy in lebanon. 240 mostly marines were killed. we had an admiral do a report, he assigned blame and the congress took steps to fix the situation. that's what we need to do. that's where we'll pick it up conversation. >> overtime, have the benghazi inquests changed anything about the life of diplomatic personnel overseas. if you head to a dangerous part of the world in the empl

and admiral mullen reached the conclusion that they acted appropriately.o, even though we had the five ds agents that had been requested, they were overrun and unable to do more than they did. >> i know. they were overrun because they didn't have any defensive positions to fight from because they refused to give them additional sandbags because they did not want it to look like a military compound. i've heard that testimony. i want to ask you about the fest. are you familiar with the fest? >> yes. >> what is the fest? >> it is an emergency support team to help stand up embassies that have -- or consulates or other facilities that have been impacted by either natural disasters or some kind of -- >> attacks? >> -- attacks, exactly. >> kidnapping. and where are they located? >> they're located in the united states. >> at langley air force base? >> i'm not sure where they're located now. >> they're there. and it's an inner agency -- >> right. >> -- task force. >> right. >> includes the fbi, i guess the dod, and the state department. >> uh-huh. >> and if you lo

admiral mullen reached the conclusion that they acted appropriately. even though we had five ds agents that had been requested, they were overrun and unable to do more than they did. >> they were overrun because they didn't have any defensive positions to fight from because they refused to give them additional sandbags because they did not want it to look like a military compound. i've heard that testimony. i want to ask you about the fest. are you familiar with the fest? >> yes. >> what is the fest, madam secretary? >> it is an emergency support team to help stand up embassies that have or counsel it or other fast facilities impacted by natural disasters or some kind -- >> attack. >> -- attacks. >> kidnapping. where are they located? >> they are located in the united states. >> langley air force base? >> i'm not sure of where they're located now. >> they're there. interagency task force. >> right, right. >> includes fbi, i guess d.o.d., and state department. if you look at the state department website, fest comes up under that, i'm assuming you are th

admiral mullen former chairman of joint chiefs of staff had led the arb military review and concludedt the military had and i quote, done everything possible that we could, end of quote. then the republican led, the republican led house arm services committee issued its report in february of 2014, madam secretary, which detailed all of the steps taken by the military to mobilize upon hearing of the attacks including immediately redistricting a surveillance drone to benghazi, ordering two marine platoons to spain to deploy, one bound for benghazi, the other for tripoli, ordering the commanders and instruments force, training in croatia to move to a u.s. naval air safety in italy and dispatching a special operations unit to the region from the united states. about his review the chairman howard buck mckin a republican stated i think i have been pretty well satisfied that given where the troops were, how quickly the thing all happened and how quickly it dissipated we probably couldn't have done more than we did, end of quote. chairman, isa oversight committee which i'm the ranking member

and i could say the same thing about admiral mullen. and i just want you to tell us about why you picked the folk that you picked. and by the way, it's done by law. i mean, that's what you're supposed to do. the law says you're supposed to pick these people. >> that's right. >> so why don't you tell us how you picked them? were you looking for yes people? what were you looking for? >> well, congressman, i greatly appreciate your strong words of km commendation on behalf of ambassador pickering and admiral mullen. you're right, the statute is clear. the secretary of state picks four of the five members of the accountability review board. as i said earlier today, there have been 19 accountability review board reports, and i think myself and prior secretaries have been very fortunate that they could call on distinguished americans with long records of service to perform this very important task. when i was thinking about who has the integrity, the independence, the experience to give us an unvarnished look at what happened, the first perso

and admiral mullen reached the conclusion that they acted appropriately. so, even though we had the five ds agents that had been requested, they were overrun and unable to do more than they did. >> i know. they were overrun because they didn't have any defensive positions to fight from because they refused to give them additional sandbags because they did not want it to look like a military compound. i've heard that testimony. i want to ask you about the fest. are you familiar with the fest? >> yes. >> what is the fest? >> it is an emergency support team to help stand up embassies that have -- or consulates or other facilities that have been impacted by either natural disasters or some kind of -- >> attacks? >> -- attacks, exactly. >> kidnapping. and where are they located? >> they're located in the united states. >> at langley air force base? >> i'm not sure where they're located now. >> they're there. and it's an inner agency -- >> right. >> -- task force. >> right. >> includes the fbi, i guess the dod, and the state department. >> uh-huh. >> and if you

a moment ago you talked about admiral mullen.t you also a a appointed another very distinguished gentlemen, ambassador pickering. and of course admiral mullen served under republican administrations. and ambassador pickering, who i have a phenomenal amount of respect for, served 40 years, as you know, as part of our diplomatic core. he he serve issed under george h.w. bush and served as u.n. ambassador -- he also served under reagan. now, i'm just wondering -- let me go back to that question. while people in libya benghazi made so many requests. there seems to be an implication that the a.r.b., accountability review board, was not independent. and i think of course that's done by law. would you comment on those two things, please? >> yes. i'd be happy to. now, as i said in my opening statement, i take responsibility for what happened in benghazi. i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department in usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i te

and mike mullen said, absolutely, she should be criticized on that.everything else, mike mullen said there was no standdown order that the state department failed to appreciate. and most importantly no exploitation or politicization of those talking points. it had nothing to do with what happened with benghazi and how do we prevent it in the future. that's the big victory. >> lanny, i want to show you and joe and everybody what congressman jordan said on another score. and that was an e-mail sent to chelsea clinton. let's roll that. >> you're looking at an e-mail you sent to your family. here's what you said, at 11:00 that night, approximately one hour you told the american people. you said to your family, two officers were killed today in benghazi by an al qaeda-like group. can you tell the american people one thing and you tell your family an entire different story. >> so, lanny, she's telling her family, she's telling the egyptian prime minister one thing. and the one thing is it's terror-related but telling the public and ambassador rice something

i could say the same thing about admiral mullens, and i just want you to tell us about why you picked t folk you pick, by the way it's done by law. the law says you are supposed to pick these people. >> that's right. >> why don't you tell us how you picked them. were you looking for a yes rapport. what were you looking for? >> i greatly appreciate your strong words of condemnation on behalf of both admiral pickering and mullen the your right the statute is clear the the secretary of state picks four of the five members of the accountability review board. at of today there has been 19 accountability review reports, and i think myself and prior secretaries are fortunate that they could call on distinguished americans with long records of service to perform this important task. >> when i was thinking about who has the integrity, the independence, the experience to give us an unvarnished look at what happens, the first person i thought of was ambassador tom pickering. he is, as you rightly say, served our nation for more than for decades. he holds the rank of career ambassador, the highes

and, of course, admiral mullen served under republican administrations and ambassador pishging, who iount of respect for, served 40 years, as you know, as part of our diplomatic corps. he served under george h.w. bush, and he also served as u.n. ambassador under -- he also served under reagan. now, i'm just wondering, let me go back to that question, why are people in libya and benghazi made so many requests. and then i want you to comment. there seems to be an implication that the arb, the accountability vee vi review board was not independent. i think he said they were hand-picked by you. of course, that's done by law. but i'm just -- would you comment on those two things, please? >> yes. i'd be happy to. as i said in my opening statement, i take responsibility for what happened in benghazi. i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department and usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the securit

and i could say the same thing about admiral mullen. and i just want you to tell us about why you picked the folk that you picked. and by the way, it's done by law. i mean, that's what you're supposed to do. the law says you're supposed to pick these people. >> that's right. >> so why don't you tell us how you picked them? were you looking for yes people? what were you looking for? >> well, congressman, i greatly appreciate your strong words of km commendation on behalf of ambassador pickering and admiral mullen. you're right, the statute is clear. the secretary of state picks four of the five members of the accountability review board. as i said earlier today, there have been 19 accountability review board reports, and i think myself and prior secretaries have been very fortunate that they could call on distinguished americans with long records of service to perform this very important task. when i was thinking about who has the integrity, the independence, the experience to give us an unvarnished look at what happened, the first perso

from -- i have to say that the arb conducted by at miller mullen, man of long service to this nation, service, as well as ambassador pickerring, i thought was well conducted and well-thought out and in fact don't just take my word for im. but the republican chairman, long-time republican chairman of the house armed services committee also -- and never once good our committee hearing did i hear him malign the work that was done. so i want to look at some of the findings from the arb and specific he he failures me blue mountain libya security guards and the militia on that september 11, 2012. my understanding is in pentagon benning, -- in benghazi neither the militia forces nor the state department private local guards were capable of defending our personnel. these poorly trained forces either did not show up, retreated in the face of danger or lacked the necessary fools to fight back. i want to learn the lesson from benghazi and hold everyone accountable, not just the state department but every agency involved, as well as congress ourselves, and this committee itself. implementing sign

and admiral mullen reached the conclusion that they acted appropriately. so even though we had the five ds agents that had been requested, they were overrun and unable to do more than they did. >> they were overrun because they didn't have any defensive positions to fight from because they refused to give them additional sandbags because they did not want it to look like a military compound. i've heard that testimony. i want to ask you about the fest. are you familiar with the fest? >> yes. >> what is the fest, madame secretary? >> it is an emergency support team to help stand up embassies that have or consulates or other facilities that have been impacted by either natural disasters or some kind of attack. >> attacks. >> exactly. >> kidnapping. and where are they located? >> they're located in the united states. >> langley air force base? >> i'm not sure where they're located now. >> they're there. it's an interagency task force, includes the fbi, i guess the d.o.d. and state department. if you look at the state department website s comes up under that so

will not be good enough to say as the independent investigation concluded, led by tom pickering and mullen who did interview her, it will not be good enough to say she wasn't in command because the cry of patricia smith, the mother of one of those who died, she was in charge of the state department, how could she not have known? she has to have a better answer than i wasn't in charge of security, that was the marines, the cia. i was talking to intelligence officials about this, one of the real issues here will be the talking points. remember the talking point and susan rice? remember the history here. susan rice is not the secretary of state instead of john kerry arguably because of the way she answered the questions on sunday morning television five days after benghazi. a lot of careers were affected by this. and also mitt romney running for president incorrectly talked about the video in egypt and all that. so we're going to have a lot of political history here and the question is how are both side going to handle it. >> andrea will be with us throughout the day. chuck todd with us here

the government and the libyan government and saw firsthand what ambassador pickering and chairman mullen called timely and exceptional coordination. no delays in decision-making, denials, denials of support command i want to echo the review board praise for the valor and courage of our people on the ground, especially for security professionals and benghazi and tripoli. the response saved american lives in real time. the next morning i told the american people heavily armed militants assaulted our compound, and i vowed to bring them to justice. i stood with pres. obama and president obama and the rose garden as he spoke of an act of terror. in that same period we were seeing violent attacks on our embassies in cairo, tunis, khartoum, as well as large protests outside many other posts were thousands of diplomats served, so, so i immediately ordered a review of our security posture around the world. i asked thei asked the department of defense to join interagency security assessment teams and to dispatch hundreds of additional marine security guards. i named the 1st deputy assistant secret

and in every since of the word did the best we could and i was honored to work with admiral mike mullen, and three other distinguished servants at the time to produce the report we felt it was in every sense of the word something we had to do in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the future, something that if you go back and read some of the other accountability review reports, flows through them, that we have a wonderful capacity to react rapidly, and indeed emotionally as soon as the report comes out and it kind of dribbles out into partial fulfillment. in some cases, congress is no longer impressed by the problem at hand and in some cases because of bureaucracy loses hope or spirit or conviction as time passes between the tragedy and the present. >> ambassador, trey gowdy criticized your investigation and report on several fronts, the way you conducted the interviews and who you did not interview and the fact there are not transcripts of the interviews, and what is your response to the criticisms that he leveled? >> we interviewed over 100 people. we made a question of the in

having said that admirable -- admiral mullen goes on it is not reasonable to tether u.s. forces at the ready to respond to protect every high-risk post in the world. we have to look at this from the state department and the dod perspective and we don't have assets of any significance right now on the african continent. we are only building that up and so what do we need in africa? what country will welcome us there, give us our military and civilian teams a good safe base out of which to operate so if we are focusing just on africa and particularly north africa right now there's got to be a great deal of planning and coordination between dod and africom in the state department and the rest of the administration. >> senator flake. >> thank you madam secretary. thank you for your testimony and thank you for your service. traveling over 1 million miles in more than 100 countries those of us who haven't done it can now appreciate how difficult that is and the commitment that you have had to it over the years and i thank you. with regards to the appearance of dr. rise on the m

having said that admirable -- admiral mullen goes on it is not reasonable to tether u.s. forces at the ready to respond to protect every high-risk post in the world. we have to look at this from the state department and the dod perspective and we don't have assets of any significance right now on the african continent. we are only building that up and so what do we need in africa? what country will welcome us there, give us our military and civilian teams a good safe base out of which to operate so if we are focusing just on africa and particularly north africa right now there's got to be a great deal of planning and coordination between dod and africom in the state department and the rest of the administration. >> senator flake. >> thank you madam secretary. thank you for your testimony and thank you for your service. traveling over 1 million miles in more than 100 countries those of us who haven't done it can now appreciate how difficult that is and the commitment that you have had to it over the years and i thank you. with regards to the appearance of dr. rise on the m

assembly members chew and mullen strongly advocateed for transportation to be incrude cloouded and i pressed for transportation and safer streets alt a hearing held in oakland. unfortunately the ledge #14r5i67er waechbt able to secure the 2/3 votes need today move forward a transportation focused revenue package. subsquentsly the special session was extended and we remain hopeful that some sort of proposeal can which out of the legislature with our serious transportation funding challengesment mean while, we have many positive mile stones to celebrate in san francisco. i was pleased to tour the central subway projects which is making progress on station construction and aquipping the tunnel construction. commissioners ist crian kim and i celebrated the launch of historic trolley service with mayor lee, director chang and many community members including the market street rail way. the transportation authority provided 19 million dollars between the pop b and k programs mptd other great events in augincluded the initiation of sfmt safer market [inaudible] and the opening of barts civi

army all-americans on their roster: defensive back trayvon (tray-von) mullen... wide receiver benjamin victor... and safety malek (muh-leek) young... malek 57:37 - it was awesome. saw 3 in one game, that was cool, never saw that before. bin 40:27 - it's pretty good. three teammate going to same game. going to be a fun experience before we go off to college. tray 49:02 - it was a big deal, very excited, made the decision to play with each other, not knowing if we're going to same college. this season presents a rare opportunity for coconut creek, as the program hasn't always been this strong... when head coach kareem reid took over two years ago, it was a team searching for talent and an identity. coach 2:34 - when i first got here, it was a program that needed complete rebuilding, rebranded. uniforms, logos, football 101. haven't been coached, how to compete, basically an expansion program. i wanted to be a program that i guess is hip and is attractive to kids. coach reid has certainly accomplished that... he now has practices full of athletes who want to win, in

these congressional committees and the accountability review board that the ambassador and admiral mullen undertook and hillary clinton said she accepted their finding of systemic failure in the state department. that is pretty harsh. she would agree that this was very serious and there are very serious systemic failures. the distinction between that all yoyocan call it, and we can get into that is a big distinction we should be making. that committee versus everything else.. sharyl: the goudi committee has turned up 50,000 pages of documents and turned up new witnesses. they have brought to light the existence of hillary clinton's ivate server and a l l of infofoation and they have e t even r reased a report yet. how is that just a republican farce? >> the committee is supposed to be about investigatinghe tragic death of four americans involved id the benghazi episode and horrible tragedy. so, yes, what you said about congressman goudi is what they claim. you notice, benghazi, after 10 hours of questioning sidney blumenthal, was mentioned twice. sharyl: doesn't it make sesee that the c c

assembly members chew and mullen strongly advocateed for transportation to be incrude cloouded and i pressed for transportation and safer streets alt a hearing held in oakland. unfortunately the ledge #14r5i67er waechbt able to secure the 2/3 votes need today move forward a transportation focused revenue package. subsquentsly the special session was extended and we remain hopeful that some sort of proposeal can which out of the legislature with our serious transportation funding challengesment mean while, we have many positive mile stones to celebrate in san francisco. i was pleased to tour the central subway projects which is making progress on station construction and aquipping the tunnel construction. commissioners ist crian kim and i celebrated the launch of historic trolley service with mayor lee, director chang and many community members including the market street rail way. the transportation authority provided 19 million dollars between the pop b and k programs mptd other great events in augincluded the initiation of sfmt safer market [inaudible] and the opening of barts civi

steven mullen is president of the company hired to help colwyn get back on track. >> we wanted to make sure the operations side of the government, our recommendations is the operations side be sort of outside of the political infighting here so that the borough can be run properly. >> reporter: the plan calls for council to appoint an experienced borough manager. the state wants to have a say in who is hired and who is going to pay for at least part of the positions, compensation for three years. >> my application is ready, waiting, and ready to go. >> reporter: former borough manager paula brown believes she is the right person for the job because of her experience in colw colwyn. and her time as manager she engaged in screaming matches with council members. >> i have dropped it to your door! >> reporter: she alleged misappropriation of taxpayer funds and gave borough documents to the district attorney. when she was fired in april, she locked herself in the borough hall, getting food delivered to her through a window. >> get me a straw? >> reporter: in recent months she's been vocal a

i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it clear that they thought that the high threat post should move to a higher level of skut any, and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank you. >> thank the gentleman. the chair would now recognize the gentlelady, ms. brooks. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being here today. in drawing on what you just said, that very few but no requests for benghazi came to your attention i would like to show you something. this pile represents the emails that you sent or received about libya in 2011, from february through december of 2011. this pile represents the emails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there are 795 emails in this pile. we've counted them. there are 67 emails in this pile in 2012. i'm troubled by what i see here. >> i see daily updates, sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile in 2012 i only see a handful of emails to you from your senior staff about benghazi, and i have several questions for you about thi

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and of course admiral mullens served under republican administrations. and ambassador pickering who i have phenomenal amount of respect for, served 40 years as you know, as a part of our diplomatic core. he served under george h.w. bush and served as u.n. ambassador, he also served under reagan. let me go back to that question, why are people in libya and benghazi made so many requests. i want you to comment, seems to be an implication that the arb, the accountability reviewed board, was not independent. and i think the chairman said they were hand-picked by you. of course that is done by law. but i'm just, would you comment on those go things, please? >> yes, i'd be happy to. you know, as i said in my opening statement, i take responsibility for what happened in benghazi. i felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the state department in usaid. i take that very seriously. as i said with respect to security requests in benghazi, back when i testified in january of 2013, those requests, and issues related to security, were rightly handled by

and she came to the defense of mike mullen, who of course is the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and with a very vigorous defense. and that was the only point of real sparks in terms of anger that you saw from her. >> i think that's right. and i had said that she didn't raise her voice today. i think you're right, that she did raise her voice in defending the integrity of the former chairman of the joint chiefs. also very early on there was a little bit of sparks from her on a similar note when she had an exchange with one of the republican members of the committee about whether or not the state department's security officers were good at their jobs, not to be considered basically honorable in carrying out their work, their very dangerous work. we also saw a raised voice. i think that's right. andrea, let me also just ask you, in all the things that you've covered on capitol hill, in all the investigations you've seen whether or not they're national security matters, is it normal to have one witness in the chair for 11 straight hours? >> reporter: that is not normal. it

and i was honored to work very closely with admiral mike mullen, with three other distinguished publicat the same time to produce that report, because we felt that it was in every sense of the word something that we had to do in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the future, something that if you go back and read some of the other accountability review reports, flows through them. we have a capacity to react motionally and then forcefully as the report comes out and dribbles out into partial fulfillment. in some cases because congress isn't able to come up with the money or doesn't want to or is no longer impressed by the problem at hand. and in some cases because bureaucracy loses hope or spirit or commitment or conviction as time passes between the tragedy and the present. >> ambassador, trey gowdy criticized your investigation and your report on several fronts, including the way you conducted interviews, the people you didn't interview, resources that you didn't obtain, the fact that there aren't tran scripts of the interviews. what is your response to the criticisms that he

assembly members chew and mullen strongly advocateed for transportation to be incrude cloouded and i pressed for transportation and safer streets alt a hearing held in oakland. unfortunately the ledge #14r5i67er waechbt able to secure the 2/3 votes need today move forward a transportation focused revenue package. subsquentsly the special session was extended and we remain hopeful that some sort of proposeal can which out of the legislature with our serious transportation funding challengesment mean while, we have many positive mile stones to celebrate in san francisco. i was pleased to tour the central subway projects which is making progress on station construction and aquipping the tunnel construction. commissioners ist crian kim and i celebrated the launch of historic trolley service with mayor lee, director chang and many community members including the market street rail way. the transportation authority provided 19 million dollars between the pop b and k programs mptd other great events in augincluded the initiation of sfmt safer market [inaudible] and the opening of barts civi

i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought that the high-threat posts should move to a higher level of scrutiny and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank you. >> thank the gentleman. the chair will now recognize the gentle lady, ms. brooks. >> good morning, secretary clinton. >> good morning. >> thank you for being here today. drawing on what you just said, very few but no requests from benghazi came to your attention, i'd like to to show you something. this pile represents the e-mails you sent or received about libya in 2011, from february through december of 2011 this pile represents the e-mails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there are 795 e-mails in this pile. we've counted them. there are 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012. and i'm troubled by what i see here. so, my questions relate to these piles. in this pile in 2011, i see daily updates. sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile, in 2012, i only see a handful of e-mails to you from

and she came to the defense of mike mullen, who of course is the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and with a very vigorous defense. and that was the only point of real sparks in terms of anger that you saw from her. >> i think that's right. and i had said that she didn't raise her voice today. i think you're right, that she did raise her voice in defending the integrity of the former chairman of the joint chiefs. also very early on there was a little bit of sparks from her on a similar note when she had an exchange with one of the republican members of the committee about whether or not the state department's security officers were good at their jobs, not to be considered basically honorable in carrying out their work, their very dangerous work. we also saw a raised voice. i think that's right. andrea, let me also just ask you, in all the things that you've covered on capitol hill, in all the investigations you've seen whether or not they're national security matters, is it normal to have one witness in the chair for 11 straight hours? >> reporter: that is not normal. it

it does bother me what you say about admiral mullen and i will not sit here and hear that. >> hillary clinton keeping cool dur 1g during 11 hours of grilling, everything from e-mails to benghazi. tracie potts breaking down everything that happened. long hearing for sure. >> it went halfway into the night. now it becomes what do voters think about all of this. remember we told you before, 44% in the poll weren't buying her answers on benghazi. was she convincing not just to republicans who were grelging her but to the voters following her campaign. it was campaigner clinton who went in but secretary of state clinton in the hot seat answering questions about benghazi, why she didn't provide more security. she said she never got hundreds of requests that landed on her desk. she was aware of the danger and so was ambassador stevens and others who worked in the region. democrats described this as a show saying fellow republicans were badgering her over and over with the same questions, by the way, among them, two former federal prosecutors. clinton talked not only about the victims but cha

but in looking at all of the information, the accountability review board and particularly admiral mullen who was focused on what happened, what the security personnel did that night, came out agreeing that they were heroic and they did all they could do to try to save their colleagues' lives. >> the gentleman yields back. madam secretary, i apprec yate you go iing through their heroi. it infuriates me to hear folks to my left who don't raise a single whistle per about spending $50 million to train 5 isis fighters but god forbid we spend one-tenth of that to give some answers to the family members sitting on the first row. so, i appreciate you discussing their heroism while some of my colleagues discuss money. with that, mr. pompeo. >> i think mr. smith gave a soliloquy. i think it was eloquent, but it was representative of the democrats on this panel since may of 2014. not one question for a witness. they say they want to get to the matter of the truth but the truth of the matter is they spend most of the time today attacking members of this committee and this process and i regret that i

i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought the high threat posts should move to a higher level of scrutiny, and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank you. >> thank the gentleman. the chair would now recognize the gentlelady from indiana, ms. brooks. >> morning, secretary clinton. >> morning. >> thank you for being here today. in drawing on what you just said that very few but no requests for benghazi came to your attention, i'd like to show you something. this pile represents the e-mails that you sent or received about libya in 2011, from february through december of 2011. this pile represents the e-mails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there's 795 e-mails in this pile. we've counted them. there are 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012. and i'm troubled by what i see here. and so my questions relate to these piles. this pile in 2011 i see daily updates, sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful of e-mails to you

i think both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought the high threatould move to a higher level of scrutiny, and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank the gentleman. the chair would recognize the lady from indiana. >> good morning. ms. clinton: good morning. >> drawing on what you just said, that very few but no request for benghazi came to your attention, i would like to show you something. this style represents -- this pile represents the e-mails you received in 2011 about libya. pile represents the e-mails you sent from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there are 795 e-mails in this pile. there are 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012, and i am troubled by what i see here. so my questions relate to these. in this hield in 2011, i see daily updates, sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. inn i look at this pile 2012, i only see a handful of e-mails to you from your see million -- senior staff about benghazi. we know from talking to your senior advisers that they knew, and many of them are here today, they

i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought that the high threat post should move to a higher level of scrutiny and we had immediately moved to do that. mr. cummings: thank you. mr. gowdy: the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from indiana, mrs. brooks. mrs. brooks: good morning, skip. thank you for being here today. in drawing what you just said very few, no requests for benghazi came to your attention, i'd like to show you something. this pile represents the emails that you sent or received about libya in 2011. from february through december of 2011. this pile represents the emails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there are 795 emails in this pile. we have counted them. there are 67 emails in this pile in 2012. d i'm troubled by what i see here. so my questions relate to these piles. did this pile in 2011 i see daily updates. sometimes hourly updates. from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful of emails to you from your senior staff about

i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought that the high-threat post should move to a higher level of scrutiny, and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank you. >> i thank the gentleman. the chair will now recognize the gentle lady from indiana, ms. brooks. >> good morning, secretary clinton. >> good morning. >> thank you for being here today. and drawing on what you just said that very few but no requests for benghazi came to your attention, i'd like to show you something. this pile represents the e-mails that you sent or received about libya in 2011, from february through december of 2011. this pile represents the e-mails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there's 795 e-mails in this pile. we've counted them. there are 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012. and i'm troubled by what i see here. and so my questions relate to these piles. in this pile in 2011, i see daily updates, sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handf

interviewing chris mullen yesterday. you scored somebody points. how many more would you have gotten? he said i do not know. i do not think i would have i am just so floored by that. without question. i remember watching those games. juliet: like a little boy. [laughter] ben: thank you, duke. it is cold out there. juliet: chile. fall weather. space. mike: 52 degrees out at central park. forty-five in bridgeport. temperature changes. cooler for everyone. 13 degrees cooler in bridgeport. a pretty decent time change. lots of sunshine coming at you today. a couple of cold fronts. here is one. it will try to bring us a few quick little showers. the main thing that we will see will be the cooler temperatures. way back to our northwest. i do not think anything makes it to us precipitation wise over the weekend. tomorrow we make it up to 67. it gets cooler and drier as we go through this upcoming weekend. highs in the 60s, lows in the 30s. it starts to warm up just a touch. itunes and google play store. there's no place like it in the world. come fall, i l

but in looking at all of the information, the accountability review board and particularly admiral mullenho was focused on what happened, what the security personnel did that night came out agreeing that they were heroic and did all they could do to try to save their colleagues' lives. >> thank you. >> we yield back and i appreciate you going through their reooism and it's moving to hear and frankly it inferoirates of people to the left on spending $50 million to strain i.s.i.l. fighters but we spend one tenth of that to give answers to the family members sitting on the first row so i appreciate you talking about the heroism while my colleagues discuss money and with that mr. pompayo. >> i should add to that i think mr. smith gave us silloquay and the behavior and not one finger or a question for a witness and said they want to get at the truth but the truth of the matter is they spend most of their time today and we can rewind the tape they spent most of the day attacking the committee and the process and i regret that, i think that is a violation of their duty to the country and most im

i will not sit here and hear what you say about admiral mullen. i'm sorry that the important work done boy that board is held in such low regard by members of the committee and i regret it. >> did you hear an answer to the question? i didn't. >> now we know they lied to us. the narrative was on the run and they had to keep up the narrative. the head of the fbi said "i'm following this very closely and getting briefed on it regularly." hillary, the washington two step may have worked at that hearing, but it will not work with fbi director. that's my open. me what you think on my facebook page or twitter #judge janine. with me now is liberal radio talk show host. cocoa, nice to have you in studios. thank you for being here. >> i disagree with every word. >> you don't think she did a good job. >> that's what i said. she also told the truth and she was clear and candid and mature. >> she should be an adult. she is how old? the people, we are not so adult. >>> you saying they shouldn't have questioned her and we should try to find out what happened? >>