many months and that this is going to be the first time. this is a word one of the members just used with me who is going to be questioning today. this is the first time that you are going to see a holistic view of what happened that night in benghazi, why it happened, how it happened and the whole security question of following the hours the hours following the attack that night. so that is the aim at least on the republican side. they insist insist, it is going to be a lot less political than the democrats say they expect it to be. standby. i want to go to cnn senior political reporter manu raju also on capitol hill. give us a the rundown whether to expect as the hearing gets under way. in a few minutes hillary clinton will be walking right behind me and into the committee room dana isstanding next to. each member are going to speak about ten minutes a piece.
among them the u.s. ambassador to libya christopher stephens. he was a veteran of the u.s. foreign service. served in libya. as the top u.s. official there, he had gone to benghazi from tripoli the capital just one day before the attack. glen dougherty was a former navy seal working as the security contractor in benghazi protecting the american mission. he and tyrone woods also a former navy seal were killed when they rushed to help during the attack. the committee itself is looking into the events surrounding the attack. the security before the violence, and the response totalto thes deaths by officials. this is not the first time hillary clinton has testified on the benghazi attack. back in january 2013 we heard
right now. you can see just how intense it is here. how incredibly crowded it is. this is you can see beyond those cameras. that is the line for the public that has been stretching around the corner. as you can imagine this is kind of a hot ticket, if you will, when it comes to capitol hill. but as far as the panel is concerned, if you remember back when it was put together, the speaker decided to do it. democrats, they considered boycotting this panel. but now they are here and they feel like they really have to defend hillary clinton and the process itself. but on the republican side i have been speaking to a couple of the republican members on the committee. and what they insist is that by the end of the day what we are going to see is a lot less political than what you just played from a couple of republicans who are not on this committee. that they have been working intensely and intensively on gathering research, on investigations for the past so
that is what some republicans say is still unknown. with specific security requests, they didn t come to me. i had no knowledge of them. the house select committee on benghazi is responsible for uncovering that clinton used a personal e-mail address solely. that this was the only e-mail address she used while secretary of state and also leading to the fact that she had a personal server that was housing those e-mails. a personal server that was stationed at her house in new york, carol. so we know the plan when you hear it from the chairman that republicans are trying to stick to, you know, the issue of benghazi and not the e-mails. but you never know. there is certainly very unpredictable things that happen in these hearings. and we ll be waiting to see how much focus there is on her e-mails and how much the focus is on the facts of what happened that day. keeping an eye on hillary clinton s car there because they started it up. a question for you brianna. how has hillary clinto
super pac supporting hillary clinton. long time friend and associate of hillary clinton. it is fair to say the stakes for her today are enormous. right paul? very high. are the legal stakes. which is most important. she s going to be under oath. she s been under oath in the past. this politically, you know, frankly, the political polling is on her side. our super pac has done a poll on this. overwhelming americans think it s a waste of money, politically motivated. we didn t ask it as well as cnn s poll. is this for political gain? 72% of americans say yes. 75% of independents think this committee is out for partisan gain. it s because they are. i d like to meet, by the way, the 20% that think they re not. i ll sell them some ocean-front