Further. You said that you found out in october that your attorneys met with the state department i believe it was in august. Now, from that time you said you turned over everything and that your lawyers went through this, and i believe it was in november after finding out in october that they had reviewed all these in two years . But your attorneys you must he some of the fastest reading attorneys in the world to go through that. I know youve got a group of them setting behind you but how many attorneys does it take to go through 65,000 emails in two months . Well, first of all, the process to provide information to the congress with respect to benghazi started before i left the state department. There was a concerted effort to gather up any information that might be responsetive are youtling me you had a approve server at that them . I know that jive i they were gathering emails you had to tell them you had a private server. The server is not the point. Its the account. I made its pr
If there are no further questions, then i thank all of the witnesses for their testimony and their indulgence today and the committee stands adjourned. The house has approved republican legislation that would erase key components of president Barack Obamas Health Care Law and block federal payments to planned parenthood. The bill passed on a vote of 240189. Should it make it through congress, it does face a certain president ial veto. And House Speaker john boehner announced the appointments today to a panel to investigate planned parenthood that will consist of eight republicans and six democrats. Here are the republican members appointed. Chair Marsha Blackburn of tennessee, joe pitts of pennsylvania, diane black of tennessee, Larry Bucshon of indiana, sean duffy of wisconsin, andy harris of maryland, vicki hartsher of missouri and mia love of utah. Republican president ial candidate donald trump is on the campaign trail and stops in miami this evening. You can watch his comments liv
The rest, tomorrow at noon on cspan. The first part of the hearing is about 4. 5 hours. Representative gowdy good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair notes the presence of a quorum. Good morning. Welcome, madam secretary. Welcome to each of you. This is a public hearing of the benghazi select committee. Just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. Madam secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but i want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any reason or for no reason. If you or anyone, just simply alert me, then we will take a break and it can be for any reason or for no reason. To our guests, we are happy to have you here. The witness deserves to hear the questions and the members deserve to hear the answers. So proper decorum must be observed at all times no reaction to questions or answers, no disruptions. Some committees take an incremental approach to decorum. I do not. This is your one and only notice. Madam secretary, the Rank
Gone. So the administration in response to all of this adopted a sort of watch and wait. Again i think it is sort of Wishful Thinking posture. Putin gave two speeches, one in Early September and another in mid september. Especially the second one he stated very specifically what it was he wanted to do. He wanted to form a new coalition that would fight against the Islamic State. He felt that it had to include the Syrian Armed Forces because they were the only ones capable of defeating on the ground to be the ground force to defeat the Islamic State. There was some rational in this even to usis. It is almost a mere image of the policy that the Obama Administration has had in iraq. Which is to bolster the local forces and to use a lot of airstrikes to hit the bad guys and go in and occupy a territory that you force the bad guys to vacate. Of course the administration didnt see the wisdom of doing that with Syrian Military and especially not with assad in charge. But they decided as a res
Defensive. I am curious whether why do you think that is . Clicks i think it is a problem. Testified, it was just so start. It is an arcane subject. It is somehow, i dont think it just reflects the polarization people refer to all the time. It could be there are lots of possibilities. Some people say the parties have somewhat different philosophies about government interventions in power so one party so generally, less interventionist. Another is more interventionist . There are more political reasons. Good. T think it is people mean well, trying to be constructive. Reason, it has gotten very partisan. Why . Issues we all want to have a stronger economy, a stable economy. There is nothing partisan about it. To theuld go way back Jennings Bryan type of partisanship. I dont think it is that you are that it isct polarized politically understands why it is a bad idea, in part because the fed has to carry that out. That would ultimately politicize the process, reduce the credibility, and ma