pleas from our men in harm s way to get more protection in benghazi. secretary clinton hopefully will have those answer. you mentioned the report from the gao, government accountability office, often does reports in a nonpartisan manner to bring in more information. the timeline, congresswoman, when do you expect to hear from secretary clinton? we hope as soon as this review process is done which will be done sometime in december. she has agreed to apbefore us in our foreign affairs committee and as well as senator kerry s foreign affairs committee. it will probably be mid-december, as soon as the review is completed. what we want to ask is, the timeline is so important to follow this tragedy about this ongoing attack that took hours and the president, knew, did secretary clinton know? why was susan rice sent out to five national news shows to repeat this already maligned storyline, that is,
here is a taste what we heard today. president obama is sadly mistaken if he thinks the house of representatives won t get to the bottom of the benghazi tragedy and hold him responsible if the evidence points to the white house. if ambassador rice had nothing to do with the benghazi cover-up, then why did the administration use her as a mouthpiece to mislead the american people on five sunday talk shows? the american people will have answers to the questions about what led to the deaths of four brave americans as well as the actions from the administration in the days following. jenna: that was during today s house foreign affairs committee hearing. it is still ongoing at this time. we learned during that hearing that secretary of state hillary clinton will appear before the committee to testify about benghazi. that s big news. joining us now is the head of that committee who made that announcement, florida congresswoman elena ros-lehtinen. congresswoman, nice to have you today. than
i think what that s about is republicans complain that the president talks about general issues, but he never puts anything specific on the table, and he certainly never has put anything specific on the table in public. even his talk about entitlement reform during the 2011, during the august debt ceiling talks, he never said something specific that was public. and i think the republicans are saying, you know what? if you want to make changes in social security, you ve got to own em, and you have got to put them out there, and then we ll negotiate off that. but we re not going to negotiate against ourselves. jon: and for the first time in, what, eight months, the president holds a solo fuse conference. what did not get asked? what are the big questions that didn t come out at that news conference? well, there s a lot of stuff. there s the whole situation in the middle east. we ve got the possibility now that israel and gaza are going to go to war, changes in the arab spring in diffe
sent to washington. what did the administration know? and we ve got to do something to make sure our personnel in harm s way, including diplomats, they are on the front line, that these diplomatic posts are protected and they have the security that they need. much was made about the george w. bush administration, oh, we should have known that 9/11 was happening and all of those voices who are blaming george w. bush now, they re so silent and trying to cover up what has been happening with benghazi. so we want to prevent this from happening in the past. we hope that secretary clinton will provide that light and we hope that it will be an open hearing for the american people to judge for themselves whether we have the everything we need in place to prevent another benghazi attack from taking place. jenna: this is a story we ll continue to follow. the question about bipartisanship is big one, congresswoman. we look forward to have you back as we watch developments. thank you so much for y
listen. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i m happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmurch her reputation is outrageous. jenna: senator john cornyn of texas what s elected to be the senate s minority whip, a bit of a promotion if you will. thanks to have you back on the program. thank you, jenna, good to be with you. jenna: your reaction on what the president had to say yesterday in. i thought it was an overreaction to say the least. congress has a constitutional responsibility under our system of checks and balances to consider any nominations to an executive branch position, like secretary of state. the president knows that.