however, i spoke to another republican on the committee, susan brooks, who had some very interesting exchanges, good questions for hillary clinton during the many hours of that hearing, and i asked her what she learned new, and she actually thought that she did. take a listen. >> she led the agency where our americans died and so it was very important to ask her about who, what, why, when and where. we ask those types of questions. some she had obviously testified previously, but i think we went into much greater detail and much greater depth in getting an understanding of how -- who she took advice from, who was involved in decision-making and what happened actually on the night of the incident. i think we went into much greater detail so i think it was insightful. i think it was productive. i know that we have more important witnesses to go. this is not the end of the investigation. >>. >> reporter: now for people who watched some or all of this very, very long hearing, you cou could see that the democrats for the most part weren't trying very hard to probe exactly what happened wh

bill: susan brook was one of the many riveting moment from that hearing. the questions was how much attention she was giving chris stevens and his concerns on the ground once he was there. what do you think america learned? >> i hope america learned more of the facts as we tried to ask the secretary many, many questions throughout the day about her role, about her decision make. about who she talked to, and way learned was the secretary while she talked about being concerned about security, the security levels and the security concerns never rose to the level of her attention. and she seems fairly detached when it came to all the violence happening in libya in 2012. bill: this was her defense. she said quote i was responsible for sending chris stevens to libya and responsible for supporting a temporary facility in benghazi. i was not responsible for specific security requests and decisions. you remember that. what do you think of that comment? >> i was troubled by that because security should be the number one concern when the head of that department, the

and more now with congresswoman susan brooks this morning. let me ask you about the testimony, six-hour testimony of huma abedin this past week. what did you learn? >> we're very pleased that ms. abedin did come and she did answer all of the questions, and we thought it was very important to ask her questions. she was a deputy chief of staff of the secretary's. she also, was the other individual and we believe the only other individual who had a clinton e-mail dotcom account. and she did transmit a number of e-mails between the state department officials, and the secretary, about chris stevens, about the mission in benghazi, and so it truly was questions about her knowledge, her involvement. she also was involved in setting up the trips that the secretary took in october of 2011 to libya. and was planning another trip prior to the attack. or for october, i believe, of 2012. so she was involved in libya, and those were the types of questions that the committee and the staff asked her. >> you know, is it any surprise that, you know, we know tha

we showed representative susan brooks. before yesterday my big question was americans have pretty much tuned out. what is the tune in point? if we have a picture of two sacks of e-mail is one of those moments you looked up to see what was happening which i wonder if americans have paid that much attention. the big pile you see on the left are from 2001 regarding libya janelles hillary was sending back. she had a pile of 67 for 2012. what happened? did she lose interest? did they lose a bunch of e-mails? there are a lot of questions whether she had her eye on the ball. >> how are you sending one e-mail to the prime minister of egypt acknowledging this was an attack and sending someone out repeatedly to deceive the american people and talk about is idiot issue that got wound up in jail. that begin the story. the video became the story instead of what should have been the story which this administration was doing a terrible job when it came to terrorism, terrible job maintaining peace in libya. they wanted a narrative, that i

she couldn't tell indiana's susan brooks how often she communicated with her ambassador to libya before he was killed. >> did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in, in may? >> yes, i believe i did. >> and when was that? >> i-- i don't recall. >> reporter: but in the end, even committee chair trey gowdy struggled to explain what had been gained. >> what was the most important new things you learned today? >> ah... i-- i think some of well, when you say "new today," i mean we knew some of that already. we knew about the e-mails. in it terms of her testimony? i don't be that she testified that much differently today than previous times she testified. i'd have to go back and look at the transcripts. >> reporter: the benghazi committee's five democrats called on the house speaker today to shut the committee down, calling it abusive and noting that it had spent more than $4.8 million so far, scott, to examine an attack that has already been investigated by seven other committees. >> pelley: and this hearing has lasted longer than the watergate investigation. nancy cordes rep

joining us is susan brooks, a member of that select committee.i want a sense from you, in simple terms, what we should expect from this hearing. she doesn't hear us. we'll try to get back to the congresswoman after this short break. joe biden is back in washington with a huge decision looming. turning this policy forum into the event that everything needs to watch. more on that. >>> later, growing pressure from paul ryan to fill the leadership void in congress. will ryan run for house speaker? we're live on the hill with a whole lot more. glee back with us live is congresswoman susan brook. we apologize for the technical challenge. we appreciate you sticking around with us. what you think we should expect from this hearing, given that we have heard from that there's a partisan effort at play. >> i think what the public will see is this has been a very fact centric, fact-focused investigation. the secretary was the leader of the agency responsible for the death of these agencies -- actually, i want to correct that. it was the terrorists who were a

congresswoman susan brooks is a republican from indiana who is a member of the committee on benghazi.real information to share. congresswoman, thanks so much for being on "new day." >> good morning, alisyn. great to be here. >> let's talk about what's going to happen this week. hillary clinton is going to appear again in front of the committee. what do you hope to learn and what exactly do you plan to ask her? >> we hope to really take the facts that we've been gathering from the witnesses that we've already interviewed, from the e-mails that we have received and ask her questions that have not been asked before. and also go into greater detail than past committees were able to do. >> were there things on her e-mail -- sorry to interrupt -- but were there things in her e-mail about benghazi? >> certainly there were things in her e-mails about benghazi and libya and we want to ask her a lot more questions about the security posture in libya prior to the attacks in 2012. we want to know what she knew about those security concerns in libya. we want to ask her questions that we have found

. >> that was congresswoman susan brooks questioning hillary clinton.should alert our viewers it looks as if this will reconvene. let me try to get in couple questions to you.=(> we saw the congresswoman showing the disparity in the number of e-mails, the attention given to benghazi in 2011 versus 2012. what did you make of that? >> i thought it was interesting. the core of this conversation is different than the typical scandals we have seen the clintons deal with. i don't think the american people are surprised that the clintons hide certain details and things of that nature. this one is about competency. these raise questions about the level of engagement mrs. clinton had. who she was listening to regarding what was going on there. she seemed to have plenty of access with bloomingthal but when it came to chris stephens, he didn't have her personal e-mail. >> the congresswoman showed the disparity in te mail is how do we know that committee had seen all the e-mails? >> they probably haven't. i think the realwómÑñ test of a this will not be what happe

there were many moments and one in particular that got a lot of buzz this day after representative susan brooks, republican from indiana grilling hillary clinton on her communication with ambassador stevens. take a listen. >> did you ever talk to ambassador stevens when all of this was going on in the hotbed of libya? >> well -- >> that is a yes or no question, madam secretary, yes or no, please. >> yes, i believe i did. >> we have no record that you had any conversations with the ambassador after you swore him in and before he died and you were his boss. >> i was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries. >> now when you look at the quote, unquote reviews this day after, it really seemed that people did not move one way or the other. if your position was critical of the former secretary of state, that's where people remain and if you were a supporter, that's where you remain, but what was incredible as a viewer, as a journalist, i kept leaving my television and going back and i thought is this a replay? is this still going on? >> see that live bug on msnbc, and it was -- it was really riveting,

. >> reporter: indiana republican susan brooks suggested clinton and team took eye off libya in the months before the attack. >> in this pile if 2011, i see daily updates. sometime hourly updates. from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when you look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful of e-mails to you from your senior staff about benghazi. >> reporter: clinton acknowledged stevens didn't have her personal e-mail address but lawmakers have hundreds of her friend sidney blumenthal's electronic messages, that led to sparks flying between the chairman and the panel's top democrat. >> why is it you only want mr. blumenthal's transcript released. >> i'd like to have all of them released. >> the survivors? you want that released? >> reporter: e-mails and memos got her attention and security requests from her ambassador in libya, she says never made it to her desk, lou? lou: mike, thank you very much, mike emanuel. mrs. clinton is, despite it all, expected to be her party's presidential nominee, and as it stands she will be. her republican opponent in all likelihood will be the

that will be the chairman, trey gowdy, a republican of south carolina, susan brooks, republican from indiana, jim jordan from ohio, mike pompeo from kansas, martha roby from alabama, peter roskam in illinois and westmoreland from georgia. the democrats elijah cummings, the ranking member from maryland, adam smith of washington state, adam schiff of california, adam schiff served on the intelligence committee. linda sanchez and tammy duckworth will all be asking the questions of the former secretary of state. she is expected to be in that chair for eight hours. so we want to get your thoughts on that this morning and start dialing in. republicans 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independents 202-748-8002. congressional correspondent with bloomberg news, set the scene. what's it like in there for you to be inside? >> well, it's kind of a building crescendo of the excitement here. the chairman has looked out to see what is limited to reporters and some ticketed aides and that sort of thing in the room. what is already and as early as 7:30 a long line of public people wanting to get

you herds susan brooks say we have some of the emails but not all of the emails.fact, we don't have most of the emails. what's interesting, also, greta, is this person was actually part of the arb selection process. so this person helped pick the members of the arb who magically did not include him and the list of people to be disciplined because of the security failure. so. >> we should know that person, shouldn't we? i mean, that should be out in the open. if we are going to fully investigate them, we need to know who is the one who got the request and either ignored them or said no? >> and you will know. i promise. you will know when it ends. exactly who that is. >> okay. yesterday there were lots of requests for the transcript from the testimony of sidney blumenthal. there was a vote saying that we can't have it why can't that testimony be released in its full in items of transparency? >> you know, greta, i probably have been ruined by what i did in the previous life. i don't think you ought to look at 1/54th of anything. if you have done 54 interviews and the

pompeo both asked, maybe all of their series of questions on the ticktock memo and i remember susan brooks having a stack of e-mails in 2011 versus 2012 and 2011 there was a heightened interest in libya and benghazi and 2012 it appeared to dissipate, at least according to the e-mails. so chuck as you know, when grow into hearings each of the seven

time, and she a critical witness, but we have more critical witnesses to go >> representative susan brooksndiana, thank you for talking to us. >> thank you, wolf. >> we will have much more on the hearings on benghazi and they are scheduled to go about eight hours. we will have much more on that ahead on cnn. >> she is called the iron fist with velvet gloves, and i will talk to ambassador wendy sherman about benghazi and the iran nuclear deal that she helped to negotia negotiate. ...isn't it time to let the... ...real you shine... ...through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. otezla may increase... ...the risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression... ...or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doct

pompeo both asked, maybe all of their series of questions on the ticktock memo and i remember susan brooks having a stack of e-mails in 2011 versus 2012 and 2011 there was a heightened interest in libya and benghazi and 2012 it appeared to dissipate, at least according to the e-mails. so chuck as you know, when grow into hearings each of the seven that's what they'll ask on and i think it's relevant on two different levels. whether or not his e-mails were solicited or unsolicited you can argue is irrelevant. but she said they were unsolicited and i do think credibility is always relevant. if they were truly unsolicited then she wouldn't v changed her testimony on thursday. >> let me ask you this. you said this the other night on fox with greta van susteren. "part of what i saw wasn't that constructive and for the american people to see a nine hour food fight, i would rather do that privately." it sounds like you may regret how you went about questioning secretary clinton that maybe you should have done some of it off camera and only some on camera. what do-over do you want? >> chuck, it wa

republicans said that they did learn some new things, for example one of the female republicans susan brooks had some interesting exchanges with hillary clinton including the fact that she got out of hillary clinton that she did not recall having conversations with chris stevens the ambassador after he left for libya which is something that was a little bit surprising to people on both sides of the aisle. but brooke, as you can imagine, the democrats are coming out of ohere saying, you know what, this is just what we thought a political witch hunt and that is the whole point of this, and a they said that they didn't learn anything new either, and so maybe that this whole thing should be wrapped up. brooke? >> as it did 11 hours later. and gloria, to you here, first on the bigger picture issue, and you have been in washington for a long time and when do you ever see a bunch of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sitting in a room focused so intently on one issue for so long? >> hardly ever. maybe supreme court confirmation s, and maybe 9/11 hearings or the iran contra hearings, but hardly ev

let's quickly listen to representative susan brooks, republican from indiana, what she says she's after today. >> i'm particularly focused on the security incidents and the posture of the state department with respect to the security requests. we have learned through e-mails and through documents that there were hundreds of mentions about security incidents, particularly in 2012. so we have questions for the secretary about what she did with respect to those security requests. >> what do you think the risks are for secretary clinton today? this is obviously right in the middle of her presidential run. >> right. she believes she's prepared for this. she's testified about benghazi before. there have been several other investigations into this. so she feels like she has a good grasp on answering the questions. the risk is that this is going to be the most politically charged hearing of all of them. this is coming at, as you say, a key moment in her campaign. she's gotten through the hurdle of the first democratic debate. this is next big marker. she's probably going to have terse exchanges

i also hope to elicit from her the admission or to have trey gowdy or mike pompeo or susan brooks elicit from her the admission that the accountability review board and all the previous investigations of the benghazi massacre were flawed because she held back, she concealed, she secreted, she deceived those committees as to important information that was on her secret server. i don't expect dramatics tomorrow or fireworks, i expect patient prosecutorial questioning that establish for the american people that the secretary -- former secretary of state has been lying to them. that's why her trustworthy number is below 50%. >> you're right, absolutely, on that number, but let's talk about another number. the monmouth university poll, 52% of americans believe this committee is more interested in going after clinton, add to that i talked to a good hillary clinton friend today on my show, senator barbara boxer, you know, she's calling this, this committee hearing a witch-hunt, mccarthy and other republicans who say this is absolutely politically motivated. here is senator boxer. >> for goodnes

. >> reporter: soon, though, republican susan brooks of indiana launched what would become a theme: was clinton paying enough attention to benghazi? did she let it happen by negligence? brooks pointed to a small stack of clinton's benghazi e-mails the year of the attack, 2012, and a larger one the year before. >> there are 795 e-mails in this pile. we've counted them. there's 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012. and i'm troubled by what i see here. 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 your senior staff about benghazi. and let me just share for you in your records that we have reviewed, there is not one e-mail to you or from you in 2012 when an explosive device went off at our compound in april. >> well, congresswoman, i did not conduct most of the business that i did on behalf of our country on email. i conducted it in meetings. i read massive amounts of memos, a great deal of classified information. i made a lot of secure phone calls

congresswoman susan brooks trying to make the point hillary clinton was much more engaged in day-to-day safety in libya in 2011 then she was in 2012. congressman also making that point. when westmoreland was talking, he managed to get from her that chris stevens, this person, this late ambassador, who was killed tragically september 11th, 2012, she described as a good friend, he did not have her e-mail address. we've gone down this rabbit hole dealing with her friend blumenthal. i don't know if there are any schoolchildren watching this testimony out there, that it's going to give them a lot of confidence in our american legislative branch. >> significant for clinton is she does have these democrats on the select committee who are obviously coming to her defense at every opportunity and challenging the republicans, had she appeared only with republicans there, would have been a different game today, would have been a different round of testimony. she wouldn't have had that kind of protection. there's been some discussion among the democrats whether to boycott this hearing, the continuin

i wanted to play a little bit of the exchange between susan brooks, one of the republican congress members other day and ask for you to react on the other side. >> we have no record that you had any conversations with the ambassador after you swore him in, and before he died, and you were his boss. >> i was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries. i am very well aware of the dangers that are faced by our diplomats and our development professionals. there was never a recommendation from chris stevens or anyone else to close benghazi. >> her defense is that diplomats, people like your son, make terrible sacrifices, your son, the ultimate sacrifice, in defense of diplomacy and american values and that we can't retreat from these front lines. what is your reaction to that? >> i think they should have covered his back. all of those people that were there, every one of them that worked for our government, worked for our government because they wanted to. they wanted to do the right thing and they did what they were supposed to, knowing that our government would have their back. they did not and

. >> but indiana republican susan brooks suggested clinton and her team took their eye off libya, in the months before the attack. >> 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 benghazi. >> clinton acknowledged stevens didn't have her personal email address. but lawmakers have her friend sidney blumenthal's electronic messages. that led to sparks flying between the chairman and the panel's top democrat. >> why is it you only want mr. blumenthal's transcript released. >> i would like to have them all released. >> the survivors, their names? you want those released. >> it is noteworthy that blumenthal's emails got her attention, yet security requests from her ambassador in libya, she says did not reach her desk. brett? >> mike emmanuel live on the hill. let's get more details from hillary clinton's testimony before the house select committee on benghazi and some apparent contradictions, chief intelligence correspond

the chairman should be susan brooks. susan brooks, a former u.s. attorney herself, made a very calm presentation. she had exhibits that were kind of gimmicky and all that but she didn't have anger. trey gowdy, from word one -- >> he's angry at kevin mccarthy. >> i don't care. his job is to do this well. marshall mclewin told him to do this well, which is not to come on and be red-hot angry which he was from word one. >> i was just going to ask the same question of all three of you. as clinically as you can, as a pro in the world of politics, how is the secretary of state doing? >> she's doing fine. i mean, she has been fortified by her recent political successes. this is another test that i think we talked earlier this morning about how every time she sort of passes another one of these hurdles, she had sat out there wherever she was, martha's vineyard and said oh, man, i got a lousy fall coming up, smoking a cigarette, whatever she does. i got through biden, i got through the debate and if she gets through this, i think she's doing fine. >> i like

>> reporter: indiana republican susan brooks grilled clinton about her communication with chris stevens, the ambassador killed in the attack. >> did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in in may? >> i believe -- >> yes or no, please. >> yes, i believe i did and i -- >> when was that? >> i don't recall. >> we have no record that you had any conversations with the ambassador after you swore him in and before he died and you were his boss! >> i was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries. >> reporter: clinton worked throughout to keep a calm demeanor, even as she was pushed on her actions that night on. >> i did not sleep all night. i was very much focused on what we were doing. >> what time did you learn that sean smith had died? >> that was earlier in the evening. >> that was before you left? >> co. then what about tired and we got the gotcha moment that he is talking about? we are better than that! >> at the end, even committee chair trey gowdy struled toggled to explain what had been gained. learned today? >> ah. i think some of jimmy jordan's questioning -- well, whe

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susan brooks/ (r) indiana :52-:56) "this is a very fact-centric, a fact-focused investigation." democrats call it a witch hunt: (sot: rep. adam schiff/ (d) california :58-1:00) "...an attempt to score points against the secretary." our nbc-wall street journal poll finds more americans than not - 44 percent - are not satisfied with her answers. polled consider her honest and straightforw ard. half say she's not. i'm tracie potts in washington, now back to you. >> congressman paul ryan lays out the conditions he needs from republican leaders if he is to be the next speaker of the house. ryan said the republican party needs to unify now and not after the speaker is elected. he also said the republican house needs to show the american people a way of doing things that's better than the direction the country is going in now. ryan also stressed that he would not give up time with his family if he was elected as the next speaker of the house. "eye-opening." that's how u.s. senator joni ernst describes her recent trip to the middle east. the republican, along with other members of the u