i thought more about what happened than all of you put together. those were hillary clinton s words during thursday s 11-hour congressional hearing on the 2012 benghazi attack. republicans repeatedly accused the former u.s. secretary of state of not doing enough to protect american lives. dana bash has more. a. hillary clinton came prepared. i take responsibility for what happened in benghazi. combative at times. i don t know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of the deaths of four americans. other times, contrite. trying to reveal what she s so often accused of concealing her human side. i have lost more sleep than all of you put together. i ve been wracking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done. the only other person in the room with as much to prove as clen ton, the gop chairman who repeatedly insisted the benghazi
we want to take a closer look at the benghazi hearing. what was accomplished and what were some of of the key moments from eleven hours of testimony. one headline taking exchange takes place between consist congressman mike pompeo and hillary clinton. why has no one been held accountable, how come not a single person lost a single paycheck connected to the fact that we had the first ambassador killed since 1979. how come no one has been held accountable. the personnel rules and laws that govern those decisions were followed very quickly. i m asking whether you did. i followed the law congressman. that was my responsibility. congressman mike pompeo joins me live from capitol hill. good morning sir. good morning carol.
you picked the third option. libya was supposed to be pointed out this great success story for the obama white house and the clinton state department. that was jim jordan pressing secretary clinton during today s benghazi hearing. the congressman joins me now. congressman, thank you for being here tonight. and, so, i know you ve been busy, but we ve been discussing for the better part of the last half hour that e-mail that you spent most of your time with hillary clinton that she says we know the attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. it was a planned attack, not a protest. is that a smoking gun in your view? well, it certainly puts to bed this whole narrative that they ran with. and it all started with her. you kblts say one thing publicly to the american people, to the taxpayers. and then say something else deferent privately. that s what she did. the truth with what she did privately. all the evidence supported a terrorist attack. none of the evidence pointed to
country today, about eight hours into the hearing today, it ultimately went 11 hours, but i arbitrarily decided ahead of time if it goes eight hours, eight hours is going to be my snapshot. at about eight hours into today s hearing i snapshotted what was the fairly representative sample of the headlines that were being used to head up stories about the testimony. so this was the eight hours in snapshot. and if these initial impressions are anything to go by, the political impact of today s hearing is not going to be negative for secretary clinton. look. clinton maintains relentless calm as benghazi hearing passes eight-hour mark. this one. amid shouting at benghazi hearing, republicans land no clear punches. or this one. clinton testifies on benghazi amid shouting. or this one. first take, benghazi hearing chaos could help clinton. hillary clinton keeps her cool as benghazi hearings devolve into political sthaert. hillary clinton has won the benghazi hearing. that was at sa
majority approached us to have you come before this committee. fact. after the new york times issued its story in march, this committee canceled all other hearings except for the hearing with a witness named clinton. fact. we abandoned our plans to bring in the secretary of defense and the head of the cia. fact. we haven t had a single hearing from the department of defense or the department of defense in 17 months. fact. democrats, including that one, congressman adam schiff of california, they have publicly debated whether they should even be part of this benghazi committee. whatever you think of their decision to stay instead of boycotting it, i think it s inarguable that today it was a very different 11-hour-long day in that hearing room because the democrats were in there. joining us now is congressman adam schiff, democrat of california.