next up sidney blumenthal.this is book tv on c-span2. >> if you believe that god created heaven and earth and god is the source of thall shall not further, the deepest people i have ever met have overwhelming had a god center understanding of the world. that is now taken as a given that if you believe something like that, you are intellectually suspect. so that's what's happened. >> when you hear somebody say i'm spiritual but not religious. [laughter] >> how do you know how to ask these questions? with all respect to people who say it, it is meaningless. it means i contemplate by navel in a sophisticated manner. that is the code word. it doesn't mean anything i'm spiritual but not religious. what does it mean? if you have no no religion what do you have in spirit wallty? that you believe that flowers are beautiful and animals are loving? what does it mean? it doesn't mean anything. i know to the individual making it it means something. without a code, religion gives you a code, religion gives you a set of beli

maybe the better one is the e-mail from sidney blumenthal. a few days after qaddafi had been removed t sent an e-mail to the secretary and said, this is a big moment. you should do a press event even if it is in the driveway of your own home. he finished with this, this is a big moment. you are vindicated. do not wait. help clear out now. cleo, of course, is the goddess of history. to this.ere committed invested in this. this was it. this is how it was supposed to work. they were so committed it did not matter there were 200 security incidents from the time blumenthal sent the e-mail and the timely terrorist attack happened. it did not matter that they went to benghazi, did service, came back and said, it is a suicide mission. walt, everybody there is going to die. it did not matter that on august 17 of 2012, 3 and half weeks before the attack, mmo was sent to sec. clinton and she talked about the uptick in violence and urgency, lawlessness, widespread violence. it did not matter because they were committed to this policy. and then it happene

something hillary clinton pushed for and got done but maybe the better one is the e-mail from sidney blumenthal. a few days after qaddafi has been removed he sends an e-mail to the secretary and he says "this is a big moment, you should do a press event, even if it's in the driveway of your vacation home." and he finishes the e-mail with this statement. "this is a big moment, you are vindicated, don't wait, help cleo now." cleo, of course, is the goddess of history. so they were committed to this. they were invested in this. this was it. this was how it's supposed to work in their administration in their state department. and they were so committed it didn't matter that there were 200 security incidents between the time blumenthal sent the e-mail and when the terrorist attack happened. it didn't matter that one diplomatic security agent went to benghazi, did his service and came back and when he came back he said this "it's a suicide mission. everybody there is going to die." it didn't matter on august 17 of 2012, three and a half weeks before the attack. beth jones sends a memo to secretary cl

bill: what are we learning about the confidante, sidney blumenthal, in all of this, catherine? al figure in emails. you recall he testified on he benghazi select committee for seven hours because he was prolific writer of emails and policy advice even though he was banned by the obama white house from officially joining clinton's team at state department. with more than 2100 classified emails and 22 at top secret level, blumenthal told fox news he didn't need security clearance nor did he have one. >> well i was not, i was here friend and i had no security clearance, nor did i seek it, nor did anyone anyone send me anything that was classified. so i had no access to, nor did i send or receive any classified material. reporter: of course the classification issue and what was classified at the time is at the heart of the fbi probe. blumenthal also told fox news he is confident that the fbi director james comey will issue a statement that the bureau found no evidence intent to move classified information outside secure government networks. that this was in effect a no-harm, no foul

. >> didn't know about any emails from sidney blumenthal to whoever he was emailing, didn't know that a single us military assets did not meet a single designated timeline. think about that but the world's most powerful military did not have a self-imposed timeline so all of that is new. >> there are things that could have been done but one of the chief conclusions we heard today was there were no military assets rolling in any way to rescue those people. they didn't move, didn't try, didn't mobilize, despite the order to go something happened and what that something is, a lot of people wanted that answer, the specific quote, one person. it is a very detailed report as we talked about many times with this attack, there are three parts, before, the security, lacking security before that was everyone who looked at it said it was atrocious was one person called a suicide mission at that annex. than the attack itself and what happened in reaction to it. and in their words over, and the compound where ambassador stevens was, they were under attack all the way to the cia annex, the other wa

maybe the better one is the email from sidney blumenthal.ew dies africa introduce if i has been -- gadhafi has been removed. he sends an email to the secretary. this is big moment. should do a press event even in the driveway of your vacation home. this is a big moment. you are vindicated. don't wait. help cleo now. cleo of course is the goddess of history. so they were committed to this. they were investedded in this. this was it. this was how it is supposed to work in their administration, their state department and they were so committed it didn't matter that there were 200 security incidents between the time blumenthal sent the email and when the terrorist attack happened. it didn't matter that one diplomatic security agent, went to the benghazi did his service around when he came back he said this, this is a suicide mission. quote, everybody there is going to die. it didn't matter that on august 17th of, 2012, 3 1/2 weeks before the attack, beth jones send as memo to secretary clinton and she uses terms, talks about the up tick in viole

. >> clinton confidante sidney blumenthal told fox news that the romanian hacker may have worked for the post-cold war nemesis. >> marcel lazare is romanian. he worked from a russian server, he may be part of a russian information operation. >> while blumenthal said there's no way that lazare, who goes by guccifer hacked clinton's emails. >> you accessed a lot of accounts, marcel. >> yes. >> is the clinton server he's easy or hard? >> both, for me it was easy. for me, for everybody. >> this 2012 email released by the state department may challenge clinton's claims about her email practices. a u.s. government source told fox news that the email sent to h, personal account is marked classified. the c appears to be a classified code known as a portion marking. the rest of the email was redacted before being released by the state department, a sign that the information was classified. this government manual shows how paragraphs are reviewed in given codes, u is unclassified, s is secret, c is confidential. >> if in fact it is truly marked confidential and she read it and it made it to he

clinton along with her primary lynch minh sidney blumenthal struck out at these women, legitimate claims her husband of sexual harassment, a abuse and so on. >> and made the statement earlier in the year, women who are abused have a right to be believed, except in the case of those that make allegations against her husband, and there are so many, you can understand maybe one instance, two instances of people maybe going after a public figure, but when there's that much smoke and i've interviewed them, they all have credibility to me. doesn't there have to be fire? >> yes. mrs. clinton has a lot of challenges and problems but one of her biggest issues is her hypocrisy. and yet with the women closest to her husband, arguably, in many ways consensual and some not, she sought to destroy those women and ruin their lives. this is a track record that she should be held to account. by the way, trump is the first really big conservative, or big republican to tell the truth about mrs. clinton and her husband. >> monica, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. joining us now is columnist, autho

clinton along with her primary lynch minh sidney blumenthal struck out at these women, legitimate claims against her husband of sexual harassment, a abuse and so on. >> and made the statement earlier in the year, women who are abused have a right to be believed, except in the case of those that make allegations against her husband, and there are so many, you can understand maybe one instance, two instances of people maybe going after a public figure, but when there's that much smoke and i've interviewed them, they all have credibility to me. doesn't there have to be fire? >> yes. mrs. clinton has a lot of challenges and problems but one of her biggest issues is her hypocrisy. you see it in the treatment of women by her us a and of course by herself. look, she pioneered this idea that as the first woman president, or as a female secretary of state, a female senator, that she was going to be the voice for women and girls around the world, and as first lady, actually, sean, remember she gave that famous speech in beijing, china, talking about women's rights being human rights and yet with t

. >> clinton confidante sidney blumenthal told fox news that the romanian hacker may have worked for the post-cold war nemesis. >> marcel lazare is romanian. he worked from a russian server, he may be part of a russian information operation. >> while blumenthal said there's no way that lazare, who goes by guccifer hacked clinton's emails. >> you accessed a lot of accounts, marcel. >> yes. >> is the clinton server he's easy or hard? >> both, for me it was easy. for me, for everybody. >> this 2012 email released by the state department may challenge clinton's claims about her email practices. a u.s. government source told fox news that the email sent to h, personal account is marked classified. the c appears to be a classified code known as a portion marking. the rest of the email was redacted before being released by the state department, a sign that the information was classified. this government manual shows how paragraphs are reviewed in given codes, u is unclassified, s is secret, c is confidential. >> if in fact it is truly marked confidential and she read it and it made it to he

another incident with sidney blumenthal's e-mail being hacked, and he had e-mails with hillary clintonr server which was another breach that came up as well. there is merit to that. >> the scotland trip, at this pivotal point in the campaign, all points of pivotal, but at a critical point he goes to scotland, does that concern you? >> no, this trip was announced couple days ago. this is one of his son's major projects, family business, son eric's major project. you go and support the kids. one of the best moments was on a cnn set where he had his whole family around them, portrayed themselves as a very united family. >> family town hall. >> the other thing, i find it ironic, call out selective outrage of the left, find it ironic that people on the democratic side are concerned someone spends time on a golf course. barack obama spent 270 days on the golf course, 10% of the days he was president on the golf course. >> he is a businessman. that's what brought him to the table in the first place. >> i think what it demonstrates, he is a businessman, with donald trump, his businesses will a

she was was urged in e-mails to come out subsequently by both sidney blumenthal, her private advisor and by her staff at the state department that she wanted to really lash herself to this. to have ownership, stewardship, of this policy and that wing could not be was finally killed blumenthal said to her you should go to the driveway of your home or even if you are on vacation and take credit for this, this is your moment in history. jake sullivan said to her, they're putting together an op-ed where she could all articulate a clinton doctrine. so i think of all the form policy issues that she is vulnerable on, this is a major one, perhaps the biggest because she latched herself so visibly to it and because it was clear that her role was the pivotal one. she was not not one of several voices, she was the critical voice. >> another that is very closely tied to her relationship with the israeli-palestinian conflict, as well as the larger middle east is her approach to the iran negotiation the way she now is embracing it. talk about the secret negotiations, the overture, and her nature i

on sunday elizabeth hinton from the war on poverty to the war on crime, sidney blumenthal discusses his book, a self made man, a political life of abraham lincoln, and bradley bier zer with russell kirk, american conserve tf. saturday night oklahoma congressman tome cole talks about his personal library and his reading habits. sunday night at 9:00 on afterwards, california senator barbara boxer talks about her book "the art of tough, fearlessly facing politics and life" plus her life and career in politics. snare boxer is interviewed by amy cloeb shar. >> so i said, you know, that's all well and good. but if we have to turn back and walk down the stairs now, there's a bank of cameras down there and we're going to tell them that we weren't able to see anybody. she said, just a minute. and she goes back. she says, okay, go in the side room and george mitchell will meet with you and we told him you have to open up the meetings and they did. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> next, a house panel discusses the challenges facius

of then't know about any e-mails from ambassador stevens or the e-mails from sidney blumenthal. you didn't know that a single u.s. military asset did not leave a single designated timeline. inc. about that. the world's most powerful leave a singlet solitary self-imposed timeline. so all of that is new. and as for the democrats, color me shocked that they are critical of our report. all five of them voted not to form the committee. they threatened not to produce spate and for the most part, they did not. they have been beakers of information and they missed a good opportunity -- i don't know if you have had a chance to read the report but if you do, their report mentions her name far does.imes than arours you can direct those questions to elijah and the rest of them. i am proud of what we found. >> are you saying the military could have saved those people and done more? >> clearly you couldn't have saved two of them because they were dead within 15 minutes of the fire starting. there were three assets that made it there. the group from tripoli that deployed itself, an unarmed dro

all, you didn't know about any of the e-mails from ambassador stevens or the e-mails from sidney blumenthal. to whomever he was e-mailing. you didn't know that a single u.s. military asset did not meet a a single designated timeline. think about that. the world's most powerful singley did not meet a solitary self-imposed timeline. so, all of that is new. and as for the democrats, color me shocked that they are critical of our report. all five of them voted not to form the committee. they threatened not to participate and for the most part, they did not. they been serial leakers of information and they missed a good opportunity -- i don't know if you have had a chance to read the report but if you do, their report mentions her name far more times than our report does. our report does not mention the hornettive republican for president because he was not involved in benghazi. you can direct those questions to elijah and the rest of them. i am proud of what we found. >> are you saying the military could have saved those people and done more? >> clearly you couldn't have saved two of them becau

sidney blumenthal. and bradley purser. then, saturday night, oklahoma congressman tom cole talks about his personal library and reading habits. barbara boxer talks about her book the art of of, fearlessly facing politics and life. interviewed bys amy klobuchar. -- so iloyed the art of said, you know, that as well and good but if we have two walked down the stairs now, there is a bank of cameras down there and we are going to tell them that we were not able to see anybody -- centcom adjustment, any cause that, he says, ok, go in the side room in george mitchell will meet with you and we told him, you have to open up -- and it it -- >> good about to be better for the complete schedule. announcer: two members of congress where our guests on wednesday's washington journal. we talked to republican scott derek they denigrate marcy kaptur at the economy, wall street regulations and international trade. this part of the program is one hour and a half. we are back with congressman scott garrett, republican of new jersey, the chairm

on sunday ee he elizabeth, sidney blumenthal discusses "a self-made man: the political life of abraham clinic con 1809-1849" and bradley birzer with "russell kirk" and saturday at 9 kr:15 p.m., republic thoma cole talks about his reading library. on "after words" senator boxer talks about her book "fierce lousily facing politics." senator boxer is interviewed by minnesota senator amy cloeb shaw. >> i said, that's all well and good, but if we have to turn back and walk down the stairs, there's a bank of cameras down there and we're going to tell them that we weren't able to see anybody. she said, just a minute. and she sgs back. she says, okay, go in the side room and george mitchell will meet with you. we told him, you have to open up the hearings. and he did. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> centers for disease control and director dr. tom frieden warned the window for effectively preparing for the zika is closing in the united states. president obama has requested $1.9 billion in emergency funds, but both the house and senate are proposing significantly less fu

author sidney blumenthal discusses his book, "a self-made man, the political life of abraham lincoln.irk: american conservative." talks about his personal library and his reading habits. sunday night at 9:00, california senator barbara boxer talks about her book "the art of cu ff." plus, her life and career in politics. she is interviewed by the minnesota senator amy klobuchar. >> reached in the back of my mind. how we can get a meeting, so i said, you know, that is all well and good, but if we turn back and walked down the stairs now, there is a bank of cameras down there and we are going to tell them we were not able to see anybody. just a minute. and he goes back. ok, go in the side room. george mitchell will meet with you. we told you you have to open the meetings and they did. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> the faith and freedom coalition hosted an all-day conference yesterday in washington that included lawmakers and a keynote address from republican presidential candidate donald trump. that is next on c-span. later, democratic presidential candidate h

sidney blumenthal discusses his book "abraham lincoln" and bradley burser on his book "american conservative." and then oklahoma congressman tom cole talks about his personal library and his reading habits. sunday night at 9:00 on "war wo afterwords" barbara boxer talks about her book and about her life and career in politics. senator boxer is interviewed by minnesota senator amy klobuchar. >> i reached in the back of my mind and i employed the art of tough, i said, you know, that's all well and good but if we have to turn back and walk down the stairs now, there's a bank of cameras down there. and we're going to tell them that we weren't able to see anybody. she said just a minute and she goes back, she says, okay, go in the side room and george mitchell will meet with you. and we told him, you have to open up the hearings and they did. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> now a house financial services committee task force examines how terror groups such as hezbollah are financing their operations in south america through the drug trade and other illicit activities. w

author sidney blumenthal discusses his book. mr. earnest: you will have an opportunity to hear more from the president on tuesday at the conclusion of the counterisil meeting that he will convene. we aren't going to take a lot of questions. you want to start. reporter: the president's decision to allow efforts against the taliban in afghanistan, we are focusing on the taliban there and al qaeda and other extremist groups, the president will be more likely to approve more than 5,500 troops to invade? mr. earnest: it does not and for a variety of reasons i will explain. i would encourage you to not try to interpret anything about a future potential decision on troop numbers with the new authorities that have been given to our forces who are in afghanistan. let me explain to you why. the mission that our men and women in afghanistan have been iven and then conducting since 2015 is not any different today than it was yesterday. this mission is focused on two things. one is carrying out counterterrorism operations to protect the american

sunday, sebastian gender -- junger, elizabeth hinton, sidney blumenthal discusses his man.""self-made with russellursar kirk, american conservative. from tom colers talks about his personal library and his reading habits. , california at 9:00 senator barbara boxer talks about her book "the art of tough." plus her life and career in politics. senator boxer is interviewed by the minnesota senator. >> i employed the art of tough. know, that's all well and good, but if we had to turn back and walked down the stairs now, there's a bank of cameras down there, and we're going to tell them that we weren't able to see anybody. she said just a minute. she goes back and says ok, go in the side room and george mitchell will meet with you. and we told him, you have to open up, and they did. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> "washington journal," continues. host: joining us now from ,hiladelphia is nick bourke smaller loans project director at few charitable trusts. w terrible trusts. he is joining us to talk about sew regulations for payday loan in an effort to en

sidney blumenthal discusses his book, a a self-made man. the political life of abraham lincoln 1809 - 1849 and bradley with russell kirk, american conservative. then saturday night at 915, tom gold talks about his personal library and reading habits. then barbara boxer talks about the art of tough, fearlessly facing politics in life, plus her life and career in politics. senator boxer is interviewed by minnesota senator amy koba sharp >> i said, you know, that's were were well and good but if we have to turn back and walked down the stairs now there's a bank of cameras down there were going to tell them that we were unable to see anybody. >> he says just a minute and comes back and says go inside room and george mitchell will meet with you. you said you had to open this up and they did. >> go to book tv.org the complete we can schedule. >> next a senate panel leaks at the effect of the h2 b temporary worker program on the labor market. trade union leaders and economist testified before the senate judiciary subcommittee on immigration per th