Hillary Clinton's Fiery Moment at Benghazi Hearing — Transcript

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1. 0:00people have uh accused Ambassador rice
2. 0:02in the administration of you know
3. 0:04misleading Americans I can say trying to
4. 0:07be in the middle of this and
5. 0:09understanding what was going on nothing
6. 0:11could be further from the
7. 0:12truth was information developing was a
8. 0:16situation fluid would we reach
9. 0:18conclusions later that weren't reached
10. 0:20initially and and I appreciate Madam
11. 0:23Secretary do you disagree with me that a
12. 0:25simple phone call to those evacuees to
13. 0:27determine what happened would have would
14. 0:29have ascertained immediately that there
15. 0:31was no protest I mean that that was that
16. 0:33was a piece of information that could
17. 0:35have been easily easily obtained well
18. 0:37but but within hours if not days Senator
19. 0:39I you know when you're in these
20. 0:42positions the last thing you want to do
21. 0:44is interfere with any other process I
22. 0:47realize I realize that's I realize
23. 0:49that's good ex number two well no it's
24. 0:51the fact number two I would recommend
25. 0:54highly you read both what the ARB said
26. 0:56about it and the classified ARB because
27. 0:58even today there are questions being
28. 1:01raised now we have no doubt they were
29. 1:03terrorists they were militants they
30. 1:04attacked us they killed our people but
31. 1:07what was going on and why they were
32. 1:08doing what they were
33. 1:11doing again again we were misled that
34. 1:13there was supposedly protest and then
35. 1:15something sprang out of that and assault
36. 1:17sprang out of that and that was easily
37. 1:20ascertained that that was not the fact
38. 1:22and the American people could have known
39. 1:23that within days and they they didn't
40. 1:25know that with all due respect the fact
41. 1:27is we had four dead Americans was it
42. 1:29because of they protest or was it
43. 1:31because of guys out for a walk one night
44. 1:32who decided they'd go kill some
45. 1:34Americans what difference at this point
46. 1:36does it make it is our job to figure out
47. 1:40what happened and do everything we can
48. 1:42to prevent it from ever happening again
49. 1:43senator now honestly I will do my best
50. 1:47to answer your questions about this but
51. 1:49the the fact is that people were trying
52. 1:52in real time to get to the best
53. 1:55information the IC has a process I
54. 1:58understand going with the other
55. 1:59committees to explain how these talking
56. 2:01points came out but you know to be clear
57. 2:05it is from my perspective less important
58. 2:10today looking backwards as to why these
59. 2:13militants decided they did it than to
60. 2:16find them and bring them to justice and
61. 2:19then maybe we'll figure out what was
62. 2:21going on in the metime