Hillary Clinton’s testimony will be airing on C-SPAN 3 @ 10AM ET.
Also on C-SPAN Radio 455.
LIVESTREAM http://www.c-span.org/video/?328699-1/hillary-clinton-testimony-house-select-committee-benghazi&live
10:06 - I'm having trouble getting the live stream to start.
10:27 - Clinton making opening statement. Ugh. So sappy.
10:42 - Clintons voice cracking as she mentions "the country that I love".
10:44 - Rep Peter Roskam
10:56 - Ugh. Cummings up again. Just wants to argue against even having a hearing.
11:03 - Cummings citing Washington Post's Pinnochio system as meaningful evidence.
11:07 - Rep Susan Brooks - presents stacks of files to represent and compare disparate quantities of emails regarding Libya late 2012 (fewer) and 2011 (much more). Clinton says she wasn't using email for most of Libya business she conducted in '12.
10:21 - Rep Tammy Duckworth "for me, bottom line is... learn from mistakes and fix them"
11:33 - Rep Martha Robey
11:47 - Rep Adam Smith - "obsession w/emails", spent 4.7 million dollars for nothing, haven't found anything different. Committe obsessively focused on Clinton
11:58 - Rep Lynn Westmoreland - asks if she read specific emails saying things were getting worse.
Clinton says "I was briefed and aware... There was never any recommendation ....to leave Benghazi...We had so many attacks since 2001... There was no credible threat to our facilities"
Westmoreland asks,"Did Ambassador Stevens have your personal email?
Clinton: "I do not believe he had my personal email... He was in constant contact with members of my staff...others in the state department..."
12:12 - Rep Mike Pompeo - Out of 270 pages, there was nothing on diplomatic security... Why didn't you fire someone? HC: Absence of finding breech of duty" Over 600 Security requests never made it to Clintons desk, but all Blumenthals emails did. Are you aware YOUR folks (state dept employee) met with 2 men - one who in August had been said to fight for Al Qaeda - two days before attacks
12:22 - Rep Lind Sanchez wants to debunk... includes Rand Pauls's 3am phone call remark. Asks Clinton what she was doing that night. She gives long answer.
12:32 - Jim Rep Jordan - No where in your response to Rep Sanchez did you mention any protest over a video... Protest was in Cairo... 10:08 on night of attack, Clinton implied it was due to video.
"I said some ascribe the attack to the video."
You told America it was video, but you told your family it was al Queda. You knew..
"I called it an attack." "There was a lot of conflicting information"
There was no conflicting information the day of the attack - You muddied it up... The night of the attack... while they were still fighting... you were talking politics with your people... You tell your familly...the president... Egypt... there was a terrorist attack, but you lied to the American people...
HC: "I wrote a whole chapter on this in my book.. the guy that's been arrested said the video motivated him... a series of interpretations and analysis..."
12:47 - Rep Adam Schiff - We've had 8 investigations...4.7 million dollars...17 months... We have nothing new.. Americans should know the truth about this commitee... what are they trying to do... Schiff brings up pac's commercial showing Steven's gravestone & calling for Clinton to be brought before committee...
HC: "...personnal and painful accusation… deeply distressing.. I’ve lost more sleep than all of you put together... In Beruit there were more Americans killed... There was no partisian blah blah, blah..
1:0? - Trey Gowdy - There is no theory of prosecution because this is not a prosecution, Mr Schiff. This is an investigation... Blumenthal didn't work for the state department... knew nothing about Libya.. Blumenthal after being turned down by adminstration .. worked for Clinton Foundation, Media Matters, Correct the Record. You call Blumenthal's emails unsolicitated.. Gowdy quotes some emails where Clinton asks Blumenthal to get back to her (so she was soliciting information)... HC: 'Well they started out unsolicited". Gowdy quotes Hllary emailing someone asking for info "without identifiers" (to hide source).... Bulk of emails on Libya are from Blumenthal, turned down by the government, had no security clearance...
HC: I do not see how this helps us get to the bottom of 4 dead Americans.
Gowdey responds I'll be happy to tell you...Why did Blumenthal have unfettered access to you, while there is nothing between you and Stevens?..
1:14 - Rep Cummings - says Trowdy gave incorrect facts on television.
1:15 - Gowdy lets Cummings go over time
Cummings wants Blumenthals transcripts released.. "The troof, the whole troof and nothing but the troof''...
Gowdy asks why only Blumenthal's transcripts? How about the victims transcripts?
Shiff gets in on it, wants to release Blumenthal transcripts.
Gowdy says - these aren't Blumenthals transcripts - they are Hillary Clintons emails... Adjourned
1:20 Completes first round of questions. Hearing has been adjourned.
CSPAN says there will be four rounds of questions. Taking calls...
Hearing will resume around 2:15?
Also on C-SPAN Radio 455.
In the past, I've found that you don't have to "sign in" to watch CSPAN live if you use the main link from the front page @ http://www.c-span.org)
LIVESTREAM http://www.c-span.org/video/?328699-1/hillary-clinton-testimony-house-select-committee-benghazi&live
10:06 - I'm having trouble getting the live stream to start.
10:27 - Clinton making opening statement. Ugh. So sappy.
10:42 - Clintons voice cracking as she mentions "the country that I love".
10:44 - Rep Peter Roskam
10:56 - Ugh. Cummings up again. Just wants to argue against even having a hearing.
11:03 - Cummings citing Washington Post's Pinnochio system as meaningful evidence.
11:07 - Rep Susan Brooks - presents stacks of files to represent and compare disparate quantities of emails regarding Libya late 2012 (fewer) and 2011 (much more). Clinton says she wasn't using email for most of Libya business she conducted in '12.
10:21 - Rep Tammy Duckworth "for me, bottom line is... learn from mistakes and fix them"
11:33 - Rep Martha Robey
11:47 - Rep Adam Smith - "obsession w/emails", spent 4.7 million dollars for nothing, haven't found anything different. Committe obsessively focused on Clinton
11:58 - Rep Lynn Westmoreland - asks if she read specific emails saying things were getting worse.
Clinton says "I was briefed and aware... There was never any recommendation ....to leave Benghazi...We had so many attacks since 2001... There was no credible threat to our facilities"
Westmoreland asks,"Did Ambassador Stevens have your personal email?
Clinton: "I do not believe he had my personal email... He was in constant contact with members of my staff...others in the state department..."
12:12 - Rep Mike Pompeo - Out of 270 pages, there was nothing on diplomatic security... Why didn't you fire someone? HC: Absence of finding breech of duty" Over 600 Security requests never made it to Clintons desk, but all Blumenthals emails did. Are you aware YOUR folks (state dept employee) met with 2 men - one who in August had been said to fight for Al Qaeda - two days before attacks
12:22 - Rep Lind Sanchez wants to debunk... includes Rand Pauls's 3am phone call remark. Asks Clinton what she was doing that night. She gives long answer.
12:32 - Jim Rep Jordan - No where in your response to Rep Sanchez did you mention any protest over a video... Protest was in Cairo... 10:08 on night of attack, Clinton implied it was due to video.
"I said some ascribe the attack to the video."
You told America it was video, but you told your family it was al Queda. You knew..
"I called it an attack." "There was a lot of conflicting information"
There was no conflicting information the day of the attack - You muddied it up... The night of the attack... while they were still fighting... you were talking politics with your people... You tell your familly...the president... Egypt... there was a terrorist attack, but you lied to the American people...
HC: "I wrote a whole chapter on this in my book.. the guy that's been arrested said the video motivated him... a series of interpretations and analysis..."
12:47 - Rep Adam Schiff - We've had 8 investigations...4.7 million dollars...17 months... We have nothing new.. Americans should know the truth about this commitee... what are they trying to do... Schiff brings up pac's commercial showing Steven's gravestone & calling for Clinton to be brought before committee...
HC: "...personnal and painful accusation… deeply distressing.. I’ve lost more sleep than all of you put together... In Beruit there were more Americans killed... There was no partisian blah blah, blah..
1:0? - Trey Gowdy - There is no theory of prosecution because this is not a prosecution, Mr Schiff. This is an investigation... Blumenthal didn't work for the state department... knew nothing about Libya.. Blumenthal after being turned down by adminstration .. worked for Clinton Foundation, Media Matters, Correct the Record. You call Blumenthal's emails unsolicitated.. Gowdy quotes some emails where Clinton asks Blumenthal to get back to her (so she was soliciting information)... HC: 'Well they started out unsolicited". Gowdy quotes Hllary emailing someone asking for info "without identifiers" (to hide source).... Bulk of emails on Libya are from Blumenthal, turned down by the government, had no security clearance...
HC: I do not see how this helps us get to the bottom of 4 dead Americans.
Gowdey responds I'll be happy to tell you...Why did Blumenthal have unfettered access to you, while there is nothing between you and Stevens?..
1:14 - Rep Cummings - says Trowdy gave incorrect facts on television.
1:15 - Gowdy lets Cummings go over time
Cummings wants Blumenthals transcripts released.. "The troof, the whole troof and nothing but the troof''...
Gowdy asks why only Blumenthal's transcripts? How about the victims transcripts?
Shiff gets in on it, wants to release Blumenthal transcripts.
Gowdy says - these aren't Blumenthals transcripts - they are Hillary Clintons emails... Adjourned
1:20 Completes first round of questions. Hearing has been adjourned.
CSPAN says there will be four rounds of questions. Taking calls...
Hearing will resume around 2:15?
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