joining me now is republican congressman tom rooney who was at this morning's house hearing.ood to have you here. let's start off with what can you tell us? what was elaborated upon about the general's testimony this morning that brings any clarification to you about what happened on september 11 at the benghazi consulate? >> today we, you know, also met yesterday with general clapper and a lot of the other intelligence and fbi and nctc as well as ambassador kennedy. that was more of a timeline with the closed circuit tv and drone video, really for hours and hours we dissected what happened yesterday. today it really was more about what general petraeus came to the intelligence committee on september 14th and said at that time versus what ended up happening. there was a little bit of a disagreement among the members of whether or not he was sort of putting out there that it was more of a response to what was happening in cairo and the video as opposed to, no, this was a terrorist attack. my take away was that, you know, their initial reaction was it was a response to what was

with me congresswoman ross layton from miami and congressman tom rooney.ank you so much for being with us this evening. i'm going to start with you chairwoman. you chair the house foreign affairs committee. i understand that you have written, i believe, three letters to secretary of state hillary clinton. did you ever get a response from her? >> well, we're waiting for that response. response we got from the hearing we have scheduled for her to testify on thursday is sorry, i'm in australia because they've got a very important meeting concerning defense needs. she says she is negotiating with us and perhaps appear before the end of november. this -- we want an open hearing because the american people deserve answers. every time we have a classified briefing we'll have another one this week. those are all fine and good. what happens that the administration is free to leak any information that it wants to the press and we are not able to discuss any of the testimony they have given to us in a classified hearing. why do we want this n an open hearing? four am