roby. i want to follow up on the questions on the night of the attack and the decisions made. you wrote in your book hard choices that you were directing the state department response the night of september 11th, 2012. but you also stated that you left your office on the night of the attacks and went to your home in northwest washington because you said you knew the next few days were going to be taxing, and the department was going to be looking to you. i want to talk about a few things. do you have a skiff in your home? yes, i did. who else was at your home? were you alone? i was alone, yes. the whole night? yes, the whole night. [ laughter ]. i don t know why that s funny. did you have any in-person briefings? i don t ha find it funny at all. a little levity at 7:15. the reason is it went well
clinton was much more engaged in day-to-day safety in libya in 2011 then she was in 2012. congressman also making that point. when westmoreland was talking, he managed to get from her that chris stevens, this person, this late ambassador, who was killed tragically september 11th, 2012, she described as a good friend, he did not have her e-mail address. we ve gone down this rabbit hole dealing with her friend blumenthal. i don t know if there are any schoolchildren watching this testimony out there, that it s going to give them a lot of confidence in our american legislative branch. significant for clinton is she does have these democrats on the select committee who are obviously coming to her defense at every opportunity and challenging the republicans, had she appeared only with republicans there, would have been a different game today, would have been a different round of testimony. she wouldn t have had that kind of protection. there s been some discussion among the democrats whet
served on two other committees in addition to this one that has looked at the benghazi attacks, both armed services and oversight and government reform. so i ve had a chance to really look at all of these documents. one of the things that i saw, and i d like you to discuss this with you, is that the department of state and the department of defense at the time seems to have not had the most ideal cooperation when it came to threat of security analysis. i do know, however, that over the past decade, they ve established a tradition of working together on the ground in dangerous regions that has increased over time. however, as a member of the armed services committee, which also looked at the benghazi attacks, i m concerned that the interagency cooperation between state and d.o.d. was not sufficient in the weeks and months leading up to the september 11th, 2012, attacks. for example, the joint contingency planning and training exercises, if we had
since 2001 we ve tried to learn and apply lessons and i hope we ll continue doing so. thank you, madam secretary. we ll recognize a gentleman from ohio. secretary clinton, you said some of you raised the video. raised the video. you raised the video. at 10:08 on september 11th, 2012 you raised the video. at 10:08 with americans still fighting for their lives an hour and a half before the attack ends you raised the video. i want to go back to the 10:08 statement. in the first round you said the statement was not meant to explain the type of attack or cause of the attack, so let s look at your statement. official press statement, statement on the attack in benghazi, hilary rodham clinton, secretary of state washington d.c. september 1 1th, 2012.
on september 11th, 2012, four innocent americans, ambassador chris stevens, sean smith, tyrone woods and glen doherty killed, murdered. terror in benghazi. the murder of a u.s. ambassador to libya and three others. four americans murdered. no acketsdz of acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this nation. what happened on september 11th, 2012? it begins at 9:40 p.m. libya time. a senior state department security official at the consulate calls for help. the first report, the u.s. con slot in benghazi was under attack. inside u.s. ambassador to libya chris stevens. 24 minutes later, o10:04 p.m. libya time a six person cia rescue squad assembles at the cia annex one mile from the consulate. before leaving and heading to the consulate. the cia rescue squad conducts local militias and libyan intelligence service. they see they needs vehicles with 50 caliber machine guns.