USA: Hillary Clinton Under Fire at Benghazi Hearing — Transcript

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1. 0:00investigation continues in Washington DC
2. 0:01the capital of the u.s. regarding the
3. 0:03Benghazi attacks of 2012 where US
4. 0:06diplomat Christopher Stevens and three
5. 0:08other americans lost their lives more in
6. 0:12an update on that investigation and the
7. 0:15latest hearing involving a democratic
8. 0:17presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
9. 0:18here's our correspondent Bianca Pettis
10. 0:23during a hearing before the House Select
11. 0:25Committee Hillary Clinton responded to
12. 0:27questions regarding the attack of the US
13. 0:29compound in benghazi libya on September
14. 0:3111 2012 which led to the deaths of four
15. 0:34American citizens members of the
16. 0:36committee grilled Clinton for more than
17. 0:38six hours seeking the truth we owe them
18. 0:42and each other the truth truth about why
19. 0:46we were in love you the truth about what
20. 0:48we were doing in Libya the truth about
21. 0:51the escalating violence in Libya before
22. 0:53we were attacked and these four men were
23. 0:55killed the truth about requests for
24. 0:58additional security the truth about
25. 1:00requests for additional personnel
26. 1:02Chris's mother Clinton focused her
27. 1:05defense during the hearing on the fact
28. 1:06that being a diplomat has various risks
29. 1:09and that people in these positions are
30. 1:10aware of them on the State Department
31. 1:13sends people to more than 270 posts in
32. 1:17170 countries around the world Chris
33. 1:22Stevens understood that diplomats must
34. 1:25operate in many places where our
35. 1:28soldiers do not where there are no other
36. 1:32boots on the ground and safety is far
37. 1:36from guaranteed in fact he volunteered
38. 1:40or just those assignments just one of
39. 1:44the most criticized instances not only
40. 1:46throughout the hearing but for the past
41. 1:47three years is the fact that US diplomat
42. 1:50Christopher Stevens have requested
43. 1:51increased security prior to the attacks
44. 1:55it's very easy to say with the
45. 1:58information we have today they're a
46. 1:59different decision could be made
47. 2:01obviously we must learn her lesson and
48. 2:03that's why there were bills presented to
49. 2:05Congress to better the conditions but
50. 2:07Congress did not approve them
51. 2:09they could let them to conclude that
52. 2:10most security was needed the
53. 2:13investigation leading up to this hearing
54. 2:15has cost taxpayers 4.8 million dollars
55. 2:18that's far and has received full support
56. 2:20from the largest media outlets in the US
57. 2:22Bianca Perez della suit washington DC