Benghazi. He did and congressman ambassadors in the countries they are representing the United States and do not as a practice ask permission from the state department to travel in the country where they are stationed. And as well. Okay, lets sort of recap and reassess and regroup and figure out where we are. We are here in studio but i want to get to libby casey and he is on capitol hill, yes, and have not seen you in a long time and good to have you on the program and you have been watching the haerl hearing unfold and have not heard your thoughts on it so far and take it away and give me your thoughts. As we know and this is a moment where everyone is thinking about the politics and optics of this even as they discuss getting to heart of what exactly happened on september 11th in benghazi libya. And as we regroup after this break once again everyone is sort of gone to their corners, there is a lot of quoum and we saw republican and democrat with secretary clinton looking on and not
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
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
His next book will be on the ends of the war, fighting the civil war after the end of appomattox. I am happy to have professor downs join us. I am going to talk about something that is overlooked in all kinds of narratives which is the importance of doing nothing. When congress came back in december of 1865 for many people it looked like they dont find a solution to address reconstruction until march of 1867. Despite things like the 14th amendment, this session can seem like and was critiqued at the time as a donothing session precisely because it didnt determine the end of the war. That it never established terms for war. But i want to flip that on its head and think about why it was so important for them not to establish terms for the end of the war and why doing nothing turned out to mean so much. I was led to this by contemplating the justly celebrated philosopher Jerome Allen Seinfeld known as jerry who said, doing nothing is not as easy as it looks. You have to be careful because
Arabia. In brazil, the police try to gain control before the worlds cup. Welcome to the program and we are getting reports of heavy gunfire in the democratic republic of congo and people with guns and machete have got control of the tv channel and have taken several journalists hostage and gunfire across the city and we will keep you updated as we get news from drc. Russian investigators say a male suicide bomber that carried out an attack that killed 14 people in the city of volgograd on monday. It follows another bomb attack at the citys train station on monday and we have more. The twisted, gutted remains of a bus in volgograd and debris strewn across the street and a male suicide bomber is responsible for the attack and this is within two days and on sunday 17 people were killed by a female in the railroad station. Investigators say security controls at the entrance to the station prevented even more deaths. Translator the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who when trying to