i just, 41 points doesn t make sense. it is the first post-benghazi poll, though, in iowa, which is her natural constituency. well, you know, it s interesting and obviously we ll wait and see what the other polls that will start coming out show as well, but one sense is that there s been a settling at least for the time being because this is october, it s not february. but it s settling in the democratic field over the past three weeks given her debate performance and the fact that none of the other candidates challenged her whatsoever at that debate. so it was a really commanding performance. obviously her performance in the benghazi hearings, the fact that vice president biden chose not to get in this race, not to run. so you know, the question is, is there a settling of this, is the race starting to behave the way a lot of observers thought it would at the beginning. i m going to caution everyone, it s october. there are more debates to come and a lot more space to cover. it fee
administration in the earlier years. and we were underfunded. i can tell you it would have been very helpful to have more money for diplomatic security. and i want to thank the congress for upping the amount of money that went to diplomatic security, working with the defense department to get more marines deployed to more posts and the other actions that have been taken post-benghazi. we appreciate that. although, again, i really think there s a conflict between charleen lam s statement and some you ve made about that. but real quickly, mr. chairman, i want to run through one quick timeline and make an observation. on august 17th you received a memo on the deteriorating security in libya. the same day you were asked to give $20 million to the libyan government to beef up its own security. your department issued a warning telling american citizens to get out of libya and not to travel there. and then libya itself issued a,
major city. what s going on as the local police are trying to figure out the tactical operations? and what are they dealing with? they re doing a number of things. they re probably warning about copycats. they re probably putting out information to up security. buff the most important thaing they re going to do is try to figure out if this guy has links to isis or terrorist cells so they can roll that up. that appears that isn t the case, but they won t leave stones unturned. you know a lot of state department security, post-benghazi was there was fast action. our consulate is right there, a block from this coffee shop. they shut down and moved the consulate general and their critical staff to what they are calling a secure location. they are still, quote, operational, but they made a very fast move to get out of that media. they didn t know if there was a bomb or some other potential
individuals can use with their passports. jenna: have their passports as you just mentioned. part of the power of terrorism is fear. why make this announcement? well there is always an assessment as far as we know among those, should we release this information or not? there is also the fear of the post-benghazi, post-boston syndrome and if we don t something happened there is political problem. there is also this other possibility that we are sending a message to the public, to the public will be helpful looking around, not 300 million people but passengers and second, also, we are probably trying to deter the terrorists. we know what you re trying to do. we have declared a that would be deterrence. jenna: the olympics have gone by relatively calmly as far as any violence or terrorism despite all the conversation ahead of the games, walid. sources tell foxnews.com this has nothing to do with the olympicings but they re still on going and the closing ceremony is sunday. what do you
this attack was real. it was imminent. the sourcing of the information really was much more than they normally have. so what they have done is certainly very prudent in terms of the shutdown. i know there s been reports that some of the embassies are concerned they were not on the identified target list and they are being shut down unnecessarily. i m sorry these things you have to err on the side of caution and that s what s going on here. andrea, talking about caution, so much of this has to be shaped, obviously, by what happened in benghazi. this administration doesn t want something like that to happen again. so perhaps some would see this as an overreach but for an administration already still facing a crisis post-benghazi this seems like the prudent thing to do, doesn t it? it is a prudent thing to do according to all the analysts i ve spoken to. the police commissioner is correct. let s face it, when they hit benghazi, benghazi s consulate,