secretary of state tillerson should explain himself. there is now a law that requires secretary of state to meet with the head of diplomatic security, the state department security chief, when the security chief requests the meeting. in this case what happened was the security chief repeatedly said mr. secretary, i need to see you, there s important information you need to know. eventually he said this is urgent and finally he had to actually invoke the law in order to get a five-minute meeting with the secretary of state. that doesn t make any sense. for republicans who claim that hillary clinton was negligent about security requests that never made it to the seventh floor, that never got to her desk, they should be horrified that direct requests to the secretary from diplomatic security are going unheeded and unanswered. there are reports and you ve seen them that many career diplomats, career foreign service officers, are either leaving the state department or being pushed out of
mad dog plays no games. reporter: touting his credentials as a four-star general, nato commander and his leadership during desert storm. as long as the senate votes to consent. reporter: all this coming on the heels of a shakeup in the trump transition team. firing the son of retired lieutenant general michael flynn for pushing a baseilous conspiracy theory that led a man to fire a rifle inside a washington pizza shop. jake tapper grilling the vice president elect over security requests for flynn s son. you must be aware that the transition team put in for security clearance for general flynn s son? i m aware that his son was helping the scheduling, jake. but you put in for security clearance for him? helping his dad arrange for meetings and provide meetings. but that is no longer the case.
gun. but some conservative commentators seem to see a different hearing. are most of the media right that hillary emerged unscathed? well, i don t think the media s right. i think they used that word unscathed repeatedly. and the fact is, she, it brought up the new questions. there were 600 security requests. she basically said, well, no one came to me with those security requests. so what are we saying? is she a passive observer on this? are you saying the mainstream media are wrong? i think what they were covering was more about the calm demeanor, about the fact she didn t have that explosive, emotional moment like she did back in january. so i think they re giving her kudos for that. but i don t necessarily think they re right. some of the coverage on fox said the hearings proved hillary clinton s a liar. but the rest of mainstream media saw mostly old news or rehashed news. it wasn t just the mainstream
failed to capture that. benghazi fatigue or more benghazi obsession or does it depend where you lie? fatigue, for sure, i don t think it established she was passive leader but it established there are things that need to be revamped. but . she does not ignore the security requests. well, wait, it did not come to her. the hearing shows she created an atmosphere where she did not get direct information but let others make the decision. i have to run. that is not how a secretary of state usually operates. thin could have been changed. this is typical that congressional hearings these days democrats goes after the other party when they are in
one of the people wanted to know where she who she spent the night with the night before? somebody else, senator blumenthal confused. what s going to happen is secretary clinton is going to go in front of a group of stumblebums and who is going to win? that s exactly what happened. can you say, mercedes, do you agree most people are saying hillary clinton won? the mainstream media is clearly saying hillary clinton won. certain conservative media outlets that said the same thing. with that being said, there was the other side of it as well which is the fact that i believe i watched the hearing that hillary clinton came across being this passive observer that didn t take, for the mere fact that they had given 600 security requests and the fact that no one came to her? i m sorry, i talk to individuals who work in the department of state and it almost feels she