points about the idea that the administration did not do enough but her bottom line was that they tried to get military assets there to ben gauze to save these americans and they just got there too late, shep. shepard: republicans focusing on any involvement the president may have on the night of those attacks? i talked to the president he pledged that they would turn over any information that was relevant to this. after the secretary testified today, that there was that secure video conference, i asked jay carney, the white house press secretary, if the president was on that secure video conference, what role he did have on that night of september 11th. carney basically said he didn t have all of those details republican senator john mccain today at this senate hearing was blistering in terms of these questions. take a listen. what was the president s activities during that seven hour period? on the anniversary of the worst attack in american history september 11th, we didn t have
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i was not asked to speak with the accountability review board during their investigation. the specific issues they were looking at regarding the attack on benghazi were handled by security professionals in the department and that s where they are focused. obviously, if they had thought that i was relevant or would have had information that would have helped the investigation, i would have gladly discussed that with them at their request. this was likely hillary clinton s final visit to capitol hill as secretary of state with senator john kerry awaiting confirmation to replace her. shep? shepard: mike emanuel on capitol hill this evening. well, secretary clinton says terrorists used weapons from libya in last week s attack at a gas plant in algeria. militants there killed three dozen hostage, three americans among them, according to algeria s prime minister. so, this pandora s box, if you will, of weapons coming out of these countries in the
harry reid said he would bring it up and intends to pass it it watch. but to spare the middle class another knockdown, drag out fight we re going to proceed to work on this legislation and get it out of here as quickly as we can. i also want to give credit where credit is due. and i thank speaker boehner for his leadership in diffusing a fight over the debt ceiling debate. 86 house democrats went along with boehner in the bill. 33 republicans opposed it as insufficiently conservative, shep? shepard: this doesn t stop the fight though, carl. it just puts it off for a while, right? yeah, in the short-term it did i investigators default by exceeding the nation s borrowing limits. there has been no reduction in spending or the deficits. if that happens in the upcoming budget phase, everybody wins but it hasn t happened in washington for years. spending has been going up and there hasn t been a balanced budget since the 1990s. shepard: a balanced budget indeed. carl cameron, tha
house and the senate. no budget, no pay. carl cameron in the d.c. newsroom tonight. how is this supposed to break the gridlock? hey, shep. it s basically a two-part deal. the first says by april 15th, both the house and the senate each have to pass a budget that balances in 10 years. should either chamber fail then its members paychecks can t be delayed. they can t stop it constitutionally they have to get paid. the other part suspends enforcement of the federal debt limit until may 19th, at which point it will increase retroactively without any offset in spending cuts. here is how speaker john boehner summed it up today. you know, the premise here is pretty simple. it says that there should be no long-term increase in the debt limit until there is a long-term plan to deal with the fiscal crisis that faces our country. and now the democrat-controlled senate hasn t really passed a budget resolution during the obama administration ever. but even before the house approved the new