overreach is something that republican leaders are slightly worried about. speaker boehner has essentially kept pretty tight control over the committees not overreaching. we ll see if that continues. you say not handled well. this is part of the disconnect. the clintons think this is the way we do things, we react when necessary, do the minimal amount to disclose. we ll move forward. the state department investigation will work for us. it s worked in the past and it will work. they do. what they don t realize is the world has changed. in the 15 years since there was a clinton in the office, there s a little thing called the internet. back in the 90s there was 12 gate keepers basically. if we decided not to print something people didn t find out about it. now there s 300 million reporters and researchers. they can see through the spin. they can see through the lies. they can see the conflicts of interest. so i think, you know, this is going to be less about will the republicans ove
i heard an interview earlier today. one of the girls that was able to escape that night. she said that they were a bunch of guys barged into their sleeping quarters and told them to get dressed because a terrorist group was coming. it happened to be the terrorist group that was there to abduct the girls. they had no idea. so they went with them. chilling. absolutely. on to this now. russian president putin is meeting with switzerland s president in moscow hoping to find a diplomatic end to the standoff in ukraine. it comes as the ukrainian military fights to gain control. from pro-russian militias. there s concern that more of ukraine will try to succeed in a referendum, which the u.s. state department calls an illegal effort to further divide in the country. another congressional committee set to investigate the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. eight previous committees looked into the incident. there s been a state department investigation as well, but
quote, thesis threats will well understood by even the most senior officials in washington. then secretary clinton was well aware of the reporting as well as extremists claiming to be affiliated with al qaeda were active in the area. they claimed the state department investigation, known as the accountability review board, lacked impartialality because they were selected by mrs. clinton. while the panel led by thomas pickering on the right, and admiral mike mullen never interviewed senior executives, they regretted the congressional findings. i think if anyone in the house would like to question the credibility of ambassador pickering or admiral mullan, they can do so. we stand by the review for findings. in a new biography documenting mrs. clinton s years as secretary of state, petraeus seems to offer an endorsement, she would be a tremendous
you already had a disagreement. this is your second. all right. you know, benghazi. the administration was cleared on this. by the new york times ? al qaeda well, this was an internal state department investigation. on the irs, the administration fired some of the culprits. on obamacare, i think the president had a similar press conference where he acknowledged at least with the with that machinery that didn t work that there was a problem. so, look. okay. do you agree that chris christie can go right back to the rga, business as usual and get the kind of support and infrastructure there s going to be a everybody s going to hold their breath and wait and see what happens in the next coming weeks. yeah. and i will say this. i think governor christie is a smart guy. he s not going to throw all the information he did out today if he knows that it s going to be, you know, disproven tomorrow.
the review. gregg: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live from washington with more. hi, catherine. reporter: well, thank you, gregg. we re in the second hour of the hearing and one of the headlines is that the state department investigation was operational in focus. it was not focused on who set the policy to be in benghazi with that substandard security. there is agreement this morning that responsibility for security did go as high as undersecretary patrick kennedy who was in charge of u.s. embassies worldwide. kennedy so far escaped blame. the republican chairman of the committee now taking legal action to access state department employees on the ground in benghazi that day. i am in the process of issuing subpoenas because the state department has not made those people available has played hide and go seek and is now hiding behind a thinly-veiled statement that there is a criminal investigation. jenna: as to reporter: as to why mrs. clinton was not inte