BENGHAZI HEARING - TREY GOWDY QUESTIONS HILLARY CLINTON PART 1

BENGHAZI HEARING - TREY GOWDY QUESTIONS HILLARY CLINTON PART 1   Machine Transcript - Expect errors. that he did some work for my husband when he worked for the Clinton 0:49 Foundation that's that's threat he worked for Media Matters that I'm sure 0:58 did he work for correct the wrecker I'm sure you did when you were asked about 1:05 Sony Blumenthal you say he was an old friend who sent you unsolicited emails 1:12 which you passed on and some instances because you wanted to hear from people 1:16 outside what you called the bubble we will ignore for a second whether or not 1:20 Sidney Blumenthal is outside the bubble but I do when I asked you about a couple 1:24 of those other comments because what you left out was that he was an old friend 1:29 who knew absolutely nothing about Libya was critical of President Obama and 1:34 others do you work with love to send you political and image advice had business 1:40 interests in Libya which she not only alerted YouTube solicited your help for 1:45 and you often forwarded his emails but usually only after you had acted out any 1:53 identifiers so nobody knew where the information was coming from what does 1:59 the word unsolicited mean to you it means that I did not ask him to send me 2:05 the information that 2:07 the end as I have previously stated some of it I found interesting some of it I 2:13 did not some of it i forward it some of it I did not I did not know anything 2:18 about any business interests I thought that just as I said previously newspaper 2:26 articles journalists of which she is one a former journalist had some interesting 2:31 insights and so we you know we took them on board and evaluated them and some 2:38 were helpful and others were not we're gonna get all the point you just made 2:42 but i wanna start with your your public comment that these emails were 2:46 unsolicited you wrote to him another keeper thanks and pls keep on coming to 2:54 readings from Kabul and thanks for keeping this stuff coming any other info 3:00 about it 3:02 question mark what are you hearing now question mark got it will follow up 3:09 tomorrow 3:10 anything else to convey question mark now what is interesting because that was 3:15 the very email worms Blumenthal's asking you to intervene on behalf of a business 3:20 deal that he was pursuing in Libya what did you mean by what are you hearing now 3:26 I have no idea 3:28 congressman they started out unsolicited and and as I said some were of interest 3:36 I passed them on and some were not so he continued to provide me information that 3:41 was made available to him I don't want to parse words and don't want to be 3:47 hyper technical cuz it's not a huge point but it is an important point you 3:51 didn't say they started off unsolicited 3:54 you said they were on sale they were unsolicited but obviously I did respond 4:00 to some of them well and I showed him anything else to convey what are you 4:05 hearing now 4:08 tomorrow night will meet with TMC leader so this an additional info useful so how 4:14 electricity or Blackberry coverage posed arranged all had to resort to my new 4:19 iPad let me know if you receive this will talk about the new iPad and a 4:24 little bit years knowing this report is in part a response to your questions as 4:32 an email from him to you this is this report is in part a response to your 4:37 questions will be further information and the next day if you're the one 4:41 asking him for information how does that square with the definition of 4:45 unsolicited I said it began that way 4:48 mr chairman and I will add that both Chris Stevens and Gene Cretz found some 4:54 of the information interesting far more than I could because they knew some of 4:58 the characters who are being mentioned and they were the ones that kind of 5:02 persons with the expertise that I asked to evaluate to see whether there was any 5:06 useful information we're going to get to that in a second now before you give 5:10 mister blumenthal too much credit you agree he didn't write a single one of 5:14 those cables are minimized I'm sorry we didn't write a single one of those 5:18 cables or memos 5:19 I don't know who wrote that he's the one who sent them to me what would you be 5:22 surprised to know that not a single one of those was from health I don't know 5:26 where he got the information that he did you did you ask your sending me very 5:33 specific detailed intelligence what is your source that sounds like a pretty 5:37 good question I did learn later that he was talking to or sharing information 5:42 from former American intelligence officials who run those cables I don't 5:48 recall I don't know mister chairman you had this information pass on to others 5:53 but at least one occasion you asked on this happening can you print without any 5:58 identifiers why would you want his name removed because I thought that it would 6:03 be more important just look at the substance and to make a determination as 6:07 to whether or not there 6:08 linked to it why don't people have a right to know the source of the 6:11 information so they can determine credibility as you just said the source 6:15 of the information that was you didn't know that madam secretary that's what 6:18 you just said no no mister chairman 6:20 I knew that I knew that he didn't have the resources to provide that 6:27 information I knew he was getting it from somewhere else whether they lists 6:31 he knew others in washington it could have been a variety of if you're if 6:36 you're going to determine credibility don't wanna know the source 6:39 well it wasn't credibility so much as trying to follow the thread that were 6:44 mentioned about individuals and as I already stated some of it was useful and 6:50 some of it was not well did the president know that mr. Blumenthal was 6:55 advising you he wasn't advising me and you know he was your most prolific email 7:01 or that we have found on the subjects of Libyan Benghazi that's because I didn't 7:05 do most of my work on I'm not challenging that about him secretary I 7:10 am not challenging that all I'm telling you is the documents show he was your 7:15 most prolific email or on Libya Benghazi and my question to you is to the 7:20 president the same white house that said you can't handle that can re did he know 7:25 that he was advising he was not advising me and I have no reason to have ever 7:31 mentioned her know that the president knew that I don't want to draw your 7:34 tensions who an email about Libya from mr. Blumenthal you dated April 2011 and 7:40 will be exhibit 67 this is this is informative should we pass on and at em 7:48 parenthetical unidentified to the white house if you wanna pass something onto 7:53 the white house why would you take off the identifier because it was important 7:59 to evaluate the information and from a lot of intelligence that I have 8:06 certainly reviewed over the years you often don't have the 8:09 the intelligence you look at the intelligence and you try to determine 8:13 whether or not it is credible whether it can be followed up on well I'm going to 8:19 accept the fact that you and I come from different backgrounds cause I can tell 8:22 you that an unsourced comment could never be under dandy courtroom you have 8:26 not talking about courtrooms were talking about intelligence and we're 8:30 talking about credibility and the ability to assess a source is and 8:36 whether or not that source has ever been to Libya knows anything about Libya 8:41 where has this is all of which would be important if you were going to determine 8:47 the credibility which i think is why you probably took his information what you 8:53 sent to the white house but here's another possible explanation that may 8:57 give us a sense of wide maybe the White House did when you first place in one 9:02 email he wrote this about the president's secretary defence I in for a 9:07 gauge problem is losing an internal debate Tyler and by the way Tiger solder 9:11 Drumheller back to actually authored the cables that you got from mister 9:16 blumenthal Tyler knows him well but and says he's a mean vicious little I can 9:23 say the word but he did this is a an email for Blumenthal to you about the 9:29 president's secretary of defense and here's another one with the email to you 9:32 about president national security adviser Tom Donilon is battling rhetoric 9:38 about narratives on the phone briefing reporters on march the 10th as inspired 9:42 derision among far and serious foreign policy analyst both here and abroad 9:48 here's another one from what you say is your old friends and even with all this 9:54 is a quote from him I would say Obama and by the way he left the president 9:59 sought out