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Defender of the truth, and somebody has to challenge the untruths in a very effective way, and so although it may we may not like the idea that it s going on, we have to be in the room. i m still trying to figure out what the purpose of it is, this special committee, because we have had now an arb report, we ve had two bipartisan senate reports, we ve had the four reports coming out of the house, and even the armed services ranking member said, basically, enough is enough. the democrats decision to engage here, certainly, is about patrolling the truth in the committee, but it s also about a potential debate that can spill into 2016, and lately it s become clear that republicans have their sights set on the person they believed is their biggest threat here, hillary clinton. ....
The untruths in a very effective way. and so although it may we may not like the idea that it s going on, we have to be in the room. i think the american people want us to have a transparent, fair, evaluation of the situation. and that s what we intend to do, to hold the republicans to a standard. i still trying to figure out what the purpose of it is, this special committee, because we have had now an arb report. we ve had two bipartisan senate reports, we ve had the four reports coming out of the house. and even the armed services ranking member said basically enough is enough. so i m going to be meeting with mr. gowdy and this is news for you, hot off the press, ....
Yesterday there was revelation after revelation, after revelation about this arb report, what was covered, what wasn t covered. the way they operated. how independent they were or non-independent as the case may be. bill: they gave leading members of the state department a chance to look at the report. they gave leading members of the state department to appoint people leading investigation. this is charles woods, father of tyrone woods, what he had to say after his son was killed. there are people out there that have first-hand knowledge and public testimony is necessary. the voters need to have the truth about benghazi so that the voters can protect the freedom of america. there is some conflict as to whether or not there was a an order to stand down. there are very credible sources that say that ty and five of his ....
Special forces workers were denied three times. bill: those questions ring true for the past year because, we have been asking those around here. what do you think ultimately this hearing showed? what did it prove? well, for nine months of the obama administration has been claiming this arb report was both independent and exhaustive and what was very clear from the hearings yesterday and from depositions of the two leaders of that investigation earlier is that it was neither. it wasn t either independent nor exhaustive. as you mentioned, bill, you had the leaders briefing the state department leaders before this report came out. they were giving copies of the report earlier. mike mullen, the vice chairman of the panel, actually called cheryl mills, the chief of staff to hillary clinton because he was concerned that another state department official who was going to appear before congress might not represent the state department well. he was in effect giving pr advice or a head s up, ....
Defending the arb report, defending the administration. republicans raising questions and appearing quite skeptical. bill: why don t people cover this? you know, i mean why don t democrats care? why, is this part of the whole phony scandal line? i think that s right. i think for democratic partisans that s why. your first question really asked me sort of befuddled. i don t know why people don t cover this i have a theory, if you go back to the time right after the benghazi attacks happened and media decided in effect we ll not cover this because we re in the middle after political environment. this is a presidential election. we don t want this to be political. we don t think it is newsworthy. many of them i think didn t want to ask tough questions of the obama administration. once you make that judgment, that the story is not important at that time, covering later, covering it now suggests that you were wrong in that earlier judgment. i think they were wrong in that earlier judgment ....