advance his political positions. had i been president at the time and i found that you did not read the cables from benghazi, you did not read the cables from ambassador stevens, i would have relieve you d of your post. i think it s inexcusable. tough talk from president paul. his question to secretary clinton should help get to the bottom of things, don t you think? now, my question is the u.s. involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, anyhow transferring weapons to turkey out of libya? to turkey? it just gets weirder from there. i will have to take that question for the record. nobody s ever raised that with me. it s been in news reports that ships have been leaving from libya, and that they may have weapons. ah, i bet you can figure out where those news reports came from. fox news and other conservative outlets are pushing a conspiracy theory about gun running from libya to turkey in order to arm
outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton testified before senate and house committees today about the attack on the u.n. consulate in benghazi, libya. the committee members already have access to the full accountability review board report on the attack, as well as classified intelligence reports. secretary clinton has repeatedly taken responsibility for state department failures during the attack, but republican senators were still obsessed with one detail united nations ambassador susan rice and her description of the attack on september 16th. tea party senator ron johnson of wisconsin grilled secretary clinton over something she had nothing to do with. do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened would have ascertained immediately that there was no protest? i mean, that was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained. well, but senator within hours, if not days. senator, i, you know, when you re
if she doesn t run for president, i can t think why. after today i can t think of a reason out there. if she performs in the campaign anything like she did today, she ll win and win big. if she performs as well as she did today, look out. that s hardball. thanks for being with us. the ed show with ed schultz starts right thought. good evening, americans, and welcome to the ed show from new york. any time republicans try to beat up on a clinton, it s always great tv, especially when they get whupped like they did today. this is the ed show. let s get to work. for me, this is not just a matter of policy, it s personal. secretary of state hillary clinton rips open the right wing attack on benghazi. the fact is we had four dead americans. and knocks down hack because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill some americans. after hack what difference at this point does it make? it is our job to figure out what h
card to get out of the questions. it was a good way of getting out of really having to respond to me. no egos on capitol hill there, are there, folks? senator john mccain is another guy who thinks the american people were misled about benghazi. he accused secretary clinton about not being honest again today. there are many questions that are unanswered. and the answers, frankly, that you have given this morning are not satisfactory to me. strong words from senator mccain. he must have a very detailed question for secretary clinton if he wants to get some answers. the american people deserve to know answers, and they certainly don t deserve false answers. and the answers that were given to the american people on september 15th by the ambassador of the united nations were false. no, same old question about ambassador rice. here is a reminder to senator mccain. every senator, including john mccain, knows the answer to the question about susan rice.
after this hearing. that s what i see today. your thoughts on it. well, listen, the republicans have had chance after chance to do the right thing here. the irony is just as thick as the walls of the united states congress, when you think that they stripped $300 million out of the secretary s security requests before benghazi. but it gets even worse, ed. after benghazi, the president and the secretary of state said listen, we ve got to do better. so they put before congress a request to just move $1.3 billion of unallocated funds for iraq into security accounts to try to protect our embassies. the senate put it in the supplemental bill for sandy. and guess what? the house republicans stripped it out and didn t put it in their version of the sandy bill. so even today, after we know what happened, the republicans are still not willing to give her the resources to protect our diplomats abroad. senator, what was this hearing about today? was it about getting and finding solutions or so