as france and others are urging us to come onboard to stop genocide? the constitution has pretty clear instructions. if you want to get involved with a war, you ask the people through congress and there s a vote. we either declare war, initiate war or not. i asked the president this question directly. he came to our conference and i said, when you ran for office, you said that no president could unilaterally go to war without the approval of congress. unless there was an imminent danger. he said yeah, there was. to benghazi. and i was horrified. i was, like, really? you think an imminent threat to a foreign country, to a foreign city is enough to allow you to act unilaterally? this is a big deal. our founding fathers never intended for a president to act unilaterally. not to mention in practical purposes. we are less safe because gadhafi is gone. libya is now a failed state. a third of libya pledges allegiance to isis. so i fault hillary clinton. i fault president obama. but i also f
to say it s frustrating for us here on this panel asking these questions to hear you in your opening statement talk about the responsibility you took for all 70 plus thousand employees, yet i ll read you an e-mail that is a conversation between two of those employees, and it seems as though you re just brushing it off as not having any knowledge. i m just saying i have no recollection of it, and it doesn t core respond with the facts of what we were doing on a regular basis. i ve got a few seconds left, we can talk about the security. in 2011 during the revolution, then-envoy stevens had ten agents with him on the ground in benghazi. and then we know in 2012 where the security situation had deteriorated even further there were only three agents assigned to benghazi. again, can t even move anybody off of the facility to do the necessary political reporting. and my question is, you know,
could or should be. i want to drill down on the security issue, but i also want to say it s frustrating for us here on this panel asking these questions to hear you in your opening statement talk about the responsibility you took for all 70-plus thousand employees, but yet i read you an e-mail that is a conversation between two of those employees, and it seems as though you re just kind of brushing it off as not having any knowledge. no i m just saying i have no recollection of it, and it doesn t correspond the facts on a regular basis. if we could talk about security, i ve got a few seconds left, in 2011, during the revolution, then-envoy stevens had ten agents with him on the ground in benghazi. and then we know in 2012 where the security situation had deteriorated even further. there were only three agents assigned to benghazi. again, can t even move anybody
security issue. i want to say it s frustrating for us on this panel asking these questions to hear you in your opening statement talk about the responsibility you took for all 70,000 plus employees, but yet i read you an e-mail in a conversation between two of those employees and it seems as though you re brushing it off as not having any knowledge. no. i m just saying i have no recollection of it and it does not kornt wicorrespond with whae doing on a regular basis. i ve got a few seconds left. in 2011 during the revolution, then-envoy stevens had ten agents with him on the ground in benghazi. and then we know in 2012 where the security situation had deteriorated even further, there were only three agents assigned to benghazi. again, can t even move anybody off the facility in order to do
in the ways both democrats and republicans no compromise. very uncivil. he eased the word petty. he struck a cord when he said four more years of this kind of pitch battle may be more than this country can take. he was warning. the republicans are not our enemies. chris, back to benghazi for a minute. hillary and her people feel like they ve answered everything. how is the committee viewing