and as i ve said repeatedly throughout the day, no one ever recommended closing the post in benghazi. no one recommended closing, but you had two ambassadors that made several requests, and here s basically what happened to their requests. they were torn up. well, that s just not true, congressman. but in the end, did they just relitigate the whole thing? or did we hear anything new? josh roe gan is a cnn analyst and co-lumist. he joins us now from washington to get to the heart of it. that first clip we showed, the argument between elijah cummings and chairman gowdy was all over this guy called sidney bloomenthal, a friend of the clen tons, his access and the e-mails he had to mrs. clinton when she was secretary of state. why was that so important to republicans? well, the frame of whole the committee hearing is that democrats are accusing the republicans of setting up a process to rehash what seven