This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give yo [no audio] friends, and the loved ones of those killed, we can never adequately express our condolences and our gratitude. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] we are experiencing technical problems with the audio. We are working to fix that. The house panel looked at the 2012 attack in benghazi. Gregory starr testified about changes made to security at diplomatic post. The chairman is tray gowdy. Audio] again we apologize we are experiencing audio problems with this recording of todays benghazi hearing. We are going to start it over from another tape we have from the top. Again the house panel today looking at the 2012 u. S. Con consulate attack in benghazi. Welcome. The chair will recognize himself and the Ranking Member for Opening Statements. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will