it does something in a lot of detailed information. my number one issue from the beginning hasn t been who is responsible. it was how does this happen. we have embassies, consulates and missions all over the world. a lot of them are in the category called high risk, which we know people are out to get them. we know islamist terrorist groups like this as a target. we needed to learn inch we could from the situation so it didn t happen again. the thing i love most about the report is it gives us a lot of meat and potatoes about how we could have done a lot better. it also does something that i m going to argue at the end dove show. it justifies not that there is not politics in every public statement on every sunday show. we know that. but on the basic facts, susan rice came on television, basically said that this was a result, it looks like the best estimate now is that this event occurred, this attack on our facility in benghazi, followed the all-day coverage in islamic press and all
different bent to this investigation. we will wait and see. but i assure you, the assembly will be front and center in trying to get at the truth. well said. thank you very much assemblywoman bonnie watson who is on the investigating committee. thank you. and steve kornacki, thank you for opening up all the legs of this story. coming up, chris christie goes to war. he is facing as we said multiple investigations as steve said. he s got the subpoena coming at him and hostile right wing. and he can t get past all of this. by the way, he is hitting up his big donors this weekend. christie s presidential ambitions may be in jeopardy, but he is not stopping his movement toward that. senators are using the report on benghazi to place blame directly on hillary clinton, the person. the report never mentions her name, by the way. the jersey jam and benghazi. why bridgegate, or road hog i call it pose as much bigger threat to chris christie than what happened in benghazi to hillary c
welcome back to hardball. republicans are back on benghazi again using a new bipartisan report from the senate intelligence committee to attack hillary clinton before the 2016 presidential race even begins. let s be clear, the report did not find any evidence of a cover-up. however, it did find that the attack that killed four americans was, quote, preventible based on the known security short faulls at the u.s. mission and warnings from the intelligence community beforehand about the deteriorating and dangerous situation there. well, there you have it. an addendum from republican members of the intelligence committee, they set their sights on the former secretary herself, saying, quote, at the end of the day, she was responsible for ensuring the safety of all americans serving in our diplomatic facilities. her failure to do so clearly made a difference in the lives of the four murdered americans
my number one issue from the beginning hasn t been who is responsible. it was how does this happen. we have embassies, consulates and missions all over the world. a lot of them are in the category called high risk, which we know people are out to get them. we know islamist terrorist groups like this as a target. we needed to learn inch we could from the situation so it didn t happen again. the thing i love most about the report is it gives us a lot of meat and potatoes about how we could have done a lot better. it also does something that i m going to argue at the end dove show. it justifies not that there is not politics in every public statement on every sunday show. we know that. but on the basic facts, susan rice came on television, basically said that this was a result, it looks like the best estimate now is that this event occurred, this attack on our facility in benghazi, followed the all-day coverage in islamic press and all around the middle east of what was happening in cai
hillary testified a year ago. i think what s been difference are their immediate responses. hillary and others blamed a tape instead of terrorists, said, what difference does it make? christie expressed, apology, humiliation and embarrassment. but i don t think it s on the same scale. if you gave me an s.a.t. test and said hillary is to bridgegate, very few people would say that. certainly the news report and the reading i ve done of the senate committee report by diane feinstein, who is a grown-up and it s a sound report it blames the state department whole hog because they run the show. it doesn t show a line to her in terms of a call to her, how about more troops, more security and she said no. no. nothing tied it to her that i could find. no, nothing did tie it to her.