that would be very good for libya. some of the money we are requesting from congress today would go to that some of the money you have provided us in the pass will go to public financial administration. >> thank you. >> thank you. senator, are you squared away? >> is that synonymous with having just sat down? >> it's synonymous with knowing your staff. >> i was not sure you had taken it all in. >> i think i am ready to go. >> thank you sir. thank you for your service. senator,-- senator gardiner, we were just in saudi arabia about 10 weeks ago and one of the highest-ranking ministers said to us that libya was going to make syria look like a piece of cake. which was a very startling comment. what would it take for that set of circumstances to unfold and what can we do to avoid it from ultimately transpiring? >> senator, regional competition is supported different forces, so that libyans cannot come together to fight terrorists and that could potentially lead to a bad scenario and that is one of the things we been workin

foreign policy on libya. i've just returned from consultationed with regional and european partners to discuss our mutual support for the transitional government of national accord, or gna, in libya whose challenges include ending civil conflict, promoting stability and addressing the ongoing terrorist threat. our strategic interest in libya is to support a unified accountable government that meets the economic and security needs of the lib yap people. we also seek a government with whom we can partner on bilateral and regional objectives including countering the terrorism and illegal migration which threaten security across north africa and europe. at the center of our policy has been support for the creation of the gna as a unifying bridge to help libyans move beyond the damaging period of political competition referred to by the chairman and ranking member and fragmentation until the country adopts a new constitution and long-term government. to do that we engaged last year with a wide range of libyans, in

policy in libya. we'll have live coverage as he answers questions from senate foreign relations committee members at 2:15 eastern. tomorrow, we'll have live coverage as cia director john brennan testifies on the agency's intelligence activities and its ability to meet diverse mission requirements. our coverage of the senate intelligence committee hearing starts at 9:00 eastern. >>> after the surrender at appomattox, the united states faced more than a decade of challenges during reconstruction. in policies instituted at that time had a lasting impact on american history. this saturday, starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern, american history tv on c-span3 is live from gettysburg college in gettysburg, pennsylvania, for the annual civil war institute summer conference, as authors, historians, and professors examine topics that confronted our newly unified country with abigail cooper, assistant professor of history at brandeis university. redirection in the north with andrew slap, associate professor of history

libya meant gadhafi. libya meant terrorism. >> pan am flight 103 went down in a blazing fireball. >> libya meant a bad place where a comical, megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in libya, however, was laughing. >> reports of explosions. >> clashes between rioters and security forces. >> in 2011, what was previously unthinkable happened. the libyan people rose up and fought for their freedom. >> heavy battles raging around the libyan capital. >> they fought like hell. >> the rebels are about to force gadhafi's complete departure. >> and they recorded the whole thing on their cell phones. >> libya! ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la ♪ >>> it's amazing arriving here after all you see on tv these days that libya is, in fact, functioning at all. but it is

isil inside libya. the government of national core has been on station in tripoli since march. it has long way to go, but it has shown some very basic progress. moreover, -- >> does that include general -- >> it does not. they have pledged their allegiance to the g&a. >> does the government include them or does it just place their allegiance. >> they pledge their allegiance with regards to their inclusion. i don't have a lot of knowledge on that particular topic. they are they are carried out the mission of trying to take on isil. >> please go ahead, i interrupted you. >> thank you senator. , again, very complex situation. so the government, the g&a is making very small progress, it is going to take a lot of going to take a lot of time. with regard to the isil situation, the petroleum golf course and others have surrounded the certainty of circuitry they have gained cute territory last week but they have not gone into the city. so, you could say there has been progress but the bottom line is, with regar

very hard in libya. it is beginning to happen and we're seeing positive results as a consequence. >> i apologize if i'm asking you a question already covered here. >> the request for libya was down from $35 million in fy-2016 to $20 million in 2017. why is that the case? our focus is on delivering to communities, helping the government through the transition, public financial administration, which i mentioned earlier is the kind of thing we're doing, working with the constitutional drafting assembly to get the constitution process completed. we're trying to act as other activities working with the u.n., the e.u. and a number of other countries rather than do it all ourselves. these modest amounts are there to help fill the territory where there are gaps and to provide some impulses to help them go forward. but the core of the work right now has been political first. it's political, security and then it's development and all three of those things will have to go together. if libya gets its act together su

military asset had even turned toward libya. our report starts with the attack and there is a section on the post-attack communication between government and the american citizenry and there is a section on pre-attack decisions made and not made that led to the environment which made our facility vulnerable. it's always better to be the first committee to investigate and it is always better to investigate as contemporaneously to an incident or to an event. our committee did not have the luxury of either one of those. we began a year and a half after the instance. individually, all seven of us believed that there were more questions to ask, that there were more answers to acquire, more witnesses to interview, more documents to access and this report validates that belief. there is new information on what happened in benghazi and that should change the way you view what happened in benghazi and there are recommendations made to ensure it does not happen again. so i want to thank the house of representatives for giving us the honor

>> i would. >> thank you. >> libya, do we fly in libya? >> the answer is yes, if there is a target that that is of imminent threat to the united states. >> is isil an imminent threat to the united states? >> yes. >> is isis in libya? >> how many have we flown in libya? >> none that i know at this time. >> that makes no sense. >> what i can say at this time that there are targets that are being developed but there have not been flight. >> comedy people do we have on the ground in libya? >> i don't have that answer. it's not a large number. >> do we need people on the ground in libya. >> yes we do. >> do you see any change in policy anytime in the near future? does the buildup of isil and other related al qaeda type groups present a threat to our allies? >> they could when it comes to africa, what are the rules of engagement in targeting isil? >> i believe the rules of engagement have to do with policy guidance. when these targets pop up, they fall under that criteria. >> and we don't have the authority to, without presidential direction to

we also know from libya, it's very difficult for them to get libya. the 5,000 fighters in libya, africans or from subsaharan africa so the numbers substantially. that said, as it's harder for them to get to syria, what hey're trying to do is recruit locally, to inspire home-grown attacks. so someone who's inspired over rather than being recruited to come into syria they're trying to recruit them conduct attacks at home. they've always done that but increasingly 're trying to do. but it's a very difficult challenge, something we have to focus on. us for years.h that's why all of us in washington, the whole government, but across this kind of global international community have are to focus on it. but it's a very different problem than what we saw in we saw in what paris, which are attacks raqqabye very organizedted leaders, in raqqa, and send the leaders execute the attack. as long as they're in raqqa, we can't plan and attack. has this sort of demographic of who these people much? changed brett mcgurk: isil is made up of a bulk. forces. fighting nearl

military asset had even turned toward libya. our report starts with the attack and there is a section on the post-attack communication between the government and the american citizenry and there is a section on pre-attack decisions made and not made which led to the environment which made our facility vulnerable. it is always better to be the first committee to investigate. it is always better to investigate as contemporaneously to an event as can be done. our committee did not have the luxury of either one of those. we began a year and a half after the incident. but collectively and individually, all seven of us believe there are more questions asked, there are more answers to acquire, more witnesses to acquire, more documents to access, and this report validates that belief. there is new information on what happened in benghazi ended that information should fundamentally change the way you view what happened in benghazi and there are recommendations made to make sure it does not happen again. in conclusion, with respect to my

i was in favor of libya. we would be so much better off if qadhafi was in charge right now. >> i was never for a strong intervention. ic s icould see surgical. >> leon panetta. endorsed hillary clinton for president. thank you very much, mr. secretary, for joining us. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> when you hear donald trump make those various statements on libya, for example, you're a former cia director as well. what goes through your mind when he seems to be changing his views on some very, very sensitive issues? >> my biggest concern is that he's running for president of the united states, and we're dealing with a very dangerous world. and i frankly don't know what his positions are when it comes to all of these threats that our country is facing. he takes one position one day and then another position the next day. and i think secretary clinton tried to point out that in her speech last week that this is a dangerous approach for someone who wants to be commander in chief of the united states. i wo

. >> dickerson: let me ask you about libya you've been highly critical of libya. you were also for military action to oust gadhafi and take action in libya, you supported this. >> you say supportive, i supported libya? >> you supported -- did i? where do you see that. >> dickerson: in video blog from 2011 you said -- >> we should go in, we stop this guy which would be very easy and very quick, we could do it surgically. stop him from doing it and save these lives. >> big difference from what we're talking about. i'm only one, i made lot of money with gadhafi. he came to the country and he had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay, they paid me a fortune, never got to stay there it became a big joke. but the fact is, that libya was a disaster from the standpoint of way it was handled. >> dickerson: for intervention? just to clear that up? >> for something, but for what you have right now. right now isis has their oil, john. ice is selling -- among finest oil in the world. isis has taken over the libyan oil and we don't do blockades or anything, m

military asset had even turned toward libya. our report starts with the attack and there is a section on the post-attack communication between government and the american sit currency and there is a section on pre-attack decisions made and not made that led to the environment which made our facility vulnerable. it is always better to be the first committee to investigate. and it is always better to investigate as contemporaneously to an incident or to an event as can be done. our committee did not have the luxury of either one of those. we began a year-and-a-half after the incidents but collectively and individually, all seven of us believed there were more questions to ask, mr. were more answers to acquire, more witnesses to interview, more documents to access and this report validates that belief. there is new information on what happened in benghazi and that information should fundamentally change the way you view what happened in benghazi and there are recommendations made to make sure it does not happen again. so in conclus

i never discussed that sum. >> gadhafi in libya is killing thousands of people. >> i supported libya? >> yes, you supported intervention in libya. >> where did you see that? >> we should stop this. which would be very easy and very quick. we can do it surgically. >> i wasn't for what you have now. >> we would have been better off if the politicians took a day off. instead of going to war. >> we should do humanitarian basis immediately go into libya knock this guy out very quickly. >> you said you weren't for intervention. you were for intervention. >> i didn't mind surgical. do you a surgical shot and you take him out. i wasn't for what happened. i could have seen surgical where you take out gadhafi and his group. >> i was in favor of libya. we would be so much better off if gadhafi were in charge now. mark: that 2011 footage of trump supporting intervention in libya was reported back in february. but no one asked him about it until now. what does the fact that this libya thing is getting attention currently amount overshadowed by the judge controversy. john: not surprisely, he's gett

ambassador at the time to libya were killed. and there were lots of reasons for that laid out in this report. starting with the obvious, which is they diplomdn't have the pro security. one of the questions that has been posed for several years now is, why was chris stevens, the ambassador, even in benghazi that was kind of an out post still and didn't have proper security. one of the things that's come to light in this report are some of the potential reasons he went. first and foremost, he was very committed to benghazi and making a u.s. consulate permanent there. and he found out there was a pot of money that could be available to make that happen, money as you learn reading this was very hard to come by for them in creating the balance that they needed there. so he went potentially to try to make the fiscal year deadline of september 30th when that money would disappear. the other interesting note is hillary clinton herself was planning to potentially go to libya the next month, october of 2012. and e-mails and other document

the way towards europe was from egypt and libya towards italy. when the smugglers found a cheaper route, through turkey and greece, they could accommodate more people, because it was not as expensive, and slightly less risky. now the door is closed and they are going back to the ideal country for smugglers, which is libya. jane: of course that is a whole other story. thank you very much for joining. >> pleasure. jane: in paris the floodwaters are still rising with the the river seine at its highest level in 35 years. more than 200,000 artworks have had to be moved to safety with the move -- with the louvre forced to close. james reynolds reports from paris. james: this statue measures the height of the seine. parisians crowd around to see how high their river got. normally the water barely reaches its toes. now it goes all the way up to his thighs. >> it is incredible hit like, i think everyone is shocked and parisians are like, oh my god, what is happening? >> i think it is completely crazy and it is starting to be may be maybe dangerous in some

case, but i do not necessarily want to make the connection that because of benghazi or libya -- libya floundered. >> you have this new government as hope that the pro-government forces will help with terrorism and get their act together, but what would you say about the state of libya today? what i was going to say in response to your previous question, i would hope, and is secretary believes we are turning corner. we have this national court established now. it is in tripoli, which took some doing in getting it established. we have the prime minister who is taking steps to stabilize the country, trying to form a presidential guard, trying to form security forces that are unified, and that has been a huge challenge, and, really, just trying to stabilize the political space there so that they can provide basic services and basic infrastructure to the libyan people, which is an enormous challenge for them right now. i am not saying we are over the hump here, but we do believe progress is being made. there isrstand progress being made, hope, potential, but when you look at libya right no

focus on libya in the days ahead. not only did her decisions in libya produce a humanitarian disaster but also she failed repeatedly to provide the security that was requested for our diplomatic personnel in libya and that failure resulted ultimately in the assault on the compound in which we lost our ambassador and it was a -- >> so, again, how does he counter that? you're not answering my question. you're talking about the failure which is you believe of hillary clinton, but how specifically does donald trump counter that? >> by drawing a contrast. hillary clinton's foreign policy which has emphasizes nation building whether it be in iraq or syria or libya is a sharp difference from donald trump's policy which he outlined in his speech which is to focus on common challenges with our allies like defeating islamic terrorism and not on trying to spread democracy at the point of a gun. that's a major difference between our two campaigns. >> pen.j., your response? >> i think hillary clinton will welcome the opportunity t

and now you have -- and then she got into libya. and by the way, who has the libyan oil? i'll tell you who has it. isis has it. of the' great oil, by the way, the highest quality oil you can get. isis now has the oil that hillary clinton gave them by going in and doing that stupid -- you know that stupid attack on libya. just -- the world was crushing and she goes in and wants to do more. she doesn't have a clue. she doesn't know what she's doing. she doesn't have the strength the energy she cannot be president.

>> -- as a result of her wanting to go into libya. >> libya is a huge mistake. the problem is -- >> why didn't she talk about it? >> the problem is trump says for example isis is controlling the libyan oil. unfortunately, that's not true. >> who is? >> no one. just tribes. >> you don't think ice sis in there taking oil for themselves? >> i promise you they aren't taking oil but isis is in libya. they're bad guys and they should be destroyed. and libya was a failed policy. >> so you still think she's a better candidate? >> i'm still unconvinced that your friend has got the details enough yet. >> well, i'll tell you, his speech. check it out, everybody. he has a lot more in it than hers. but my good friend colonel david hunt. >> good to see you. >> always good to see you. last night you saw my one on one with donald trump. and if you missed it, where were you? but fortunately we're going to show you a few highlights. and does donald regret his criticism of the judge presiding over that lawsuit on trump university? hear what he has to say next. that's me. did you w

isis has the oil from libya. we did all of the things with gadhafi. >> this is one of the things that confuses people that you weren't and you were for intervention in libya. >> i was not for what what happened. it was handled horribly. >>. >> i could have said surgical where you take out gadhafi and his group. >> he called out a supporter at his rally on friday. >> we had an african-american guy who is a fan of mine. a great fan, a great guy. i want to find out what is going on with him. look at my african-american over here, look at him. >> nbc spoke to the man in the audience and said he didn't take offense at all. support came up again when he retweeted a picture of an african-american family that said american families for trump. but the people in the photo are not trump supporters. as some pointed out, the image is among the first when you google "black family." >>> a national review writer decided not to take on the nomination for president. he said i'm not the right person to challenge trump and hillary,

because of that, libya has remained in kind of a very unstable state. and we have taken steps, certainly john kerry is at the forefront of these efforts to work with the new government, to work with moderate forces on the ground, to ensure that they have got the resources they need to bring broader security, stability to the country, deal with what we acknowledge is an isil threat in a country and establish a foothold because of the and stability there. we are trying to address those issues. >> your comments on the changing of uniforms, can you clarify what you're referring. are you refuting the time factor for the changes were made? >> i am reluctant to wade too deeply but i did it but there was an allegation made today, a vignette if you will, of these forces somehow being kept on hold and not being able to deploy because of uniforms, whether they could wear them or not. i am not saying the issue of whether broadly speaking our security forces in libya should wear uniforms or not. that is always a security posture question we ask not just in libya but

her invasion of libya handed the country over to isis the barbarians. thanks to hillary clinton, they're on the road to nuclear weapons. hillary clinton's support for a violence regime change in syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen, while giving isis a launching pad for terrorism against the west. she helped force out a friendly regime in egypt and replace it with the radical muslim brotherhood. the egyptian military has retaken control, but clinton has opened the pandora's box of radical islam. then there was the disastrous strategy of announcing our departure from iraq, handing large parts of the country over to isis and the isis killers. isis threatens us today because of the decisions hillary clinton has made, along with president obama. isis also threatens peaceful muslims across the middle east, and peaceful muslims across the world who have been terribly victimized by horrible brutality, and who only want to raise their kids in peace and safe safety. in short, hillary clinton's tryout for the pres

it's in libya. they're in libya and they're bad guys. libya was a failed policy, no question. >> you still think she's a better candidate. >> i know she -- i'm still unconvinced that your friend has got the details enough yet. >> i'll tell you his speech check it out everybody has a lot more in it than hers by good friend, david. >> last night you saw my one-on-one with donald trump and if you missed it, where were you? >> fortunately we're going to show you a few of the highlights. does donald regret his criticism of the judge residing over the lawsuit at trump university. hear what he has to say, next. defiance is in our bones. our citracal bones. easily absorbed calcium plus vitamin d. defy bone aging with citracal maximum. our highest level of calcium plus d. incredible bladder prthat lets from always diyou move like you mean it now comes with an incredible promise. the always discreet double your money back guarantee. always discreet is for bladder leaks and it's drier than poise. try it. we're so confident you'll love it, we'll giv

presence in libya? about the facility there in benghazi? how much he wanted the american president to not appear militarized? >> let's be very clear about something. chris stevens loved the people of libya and in particular, he loved the people of benghazi. and the heroism that he showed going in as the envoy and what he had to deal with as the envoy before he was ambassador is a level of valor and heroism and commitment to this country where if you don't read the report for any other reason, read it for what he endured in 2011. usb if we had an insight in his mindset -- you ask me if we had an insight into his mindset? he got there on september 10 and started meeting with intelligence officials about the state of security in libya. and he began to postpone subsequent meetings because of what he was hearing. he knew it wasn't great. he had no idea how bad it was. so he began to postpone the next meeting is ready, and here is our ambassador saying, i am not through getting my debriefing. and then he moves the off-campus meetings and engageme

i felt like our involvement in libya was very poorly thought out. the legal basis that was thrown out by mr. coe from yale was pretty unbelievable to me that we weren't involved in hostilities while we were bombing the country. so that part, to me, was very difficult to digest. and then for us to decapitate a government and just leave it there and here we are in the year 2016 after this occurring in 2011, i think, speaks to what senator cardin said, and that is when we go into these engagements, we need to at least be thinking 30 days out after. and in this case, certainly that was not what occurred. there's been a lot of people tortured, a lot of lives ruined, a lot of problems that have been created throughout the region that have been very destabilizing and have bled into europe now. i think we can learn from this. it still appears to me that we have a really light touch, very, very light touch in a country that, as senator gardner and senator markey mentioned, could, in fact, breed problems far greater than syria by some onlookers that are in th

we heard about the incident in libya this week. there was also one off the coast of crete, where nine bodies have been pulled from the sea. what more can you tell us about what happened in both cases? >> it seems we are seeing more and more of this, unfortunately. we have seen two years ago with 2015 when the bodies were coming from turkey to the greek islands. now we go back to the old system, from north africa to italy. we have big boats with several hundred people in the boat. whenever we have a shipwreck, we have a lot of victims. that's important to know. on the other hand, this is something that we will see more and more in the future. this week only we had three shipwrecks with survivors. sarah: also this week there was a shocking image released to the public of a rescue worker holding up a drowned baby pulled from the sea. it is so sad to look at this image, but are you perhaps hopeful that images like these will provoke action, or has the public already been desensitized to the plight of migrants? >> unfortunately, it is t

her invasion of libya handed the country over to isis, the barbarians. thanks to hillary clinton, iran is now the dominant islamic power in the middle east and on the road to nuclear weapons. hillary clinton's support for violent regime change in syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen, while giving isis a launching pad for terrorism against the west. she helped force out a friendly regime in egypt and replace it with a radical muslim brotherhood. the egyptian military has retaken control, but clinton has opened the pandora's box of radical islam. then there was the disastrous strategy of announcing our departure from iraq, handing large parts of the country over to isis and the isis killers. isis threatens us today because of the decisions hillary clinton has made along with president obama. isis also threatens peaceful muslims across the middle east and peaceful muslims across the world, who have been terribly victimized by horrible brutality and who only want to raise their kids in peace and safety. in sh

i was in favor of libya. we would be so much better off if gadhafi were in charge right now. >> i was never for a strong intervention. i could have seen surgical where you take out gadhafi and his group. >> so, sarah, now add libya to the list. nukes with south korea and japan, gun control, the list is growing. i'm thinking from the perspective as an american voter, if you see someone who wants to be the leader of the free world who goes back and forth and back and forth on major issues, how is that going to give somebody confidence in that kind of leader? >> look, i think the big thing here with donald trump is that his number one priority is to keep americans safe. he's not a career politician. he hasn't been entrenched in a lot of these things like hillary clinton has her entire life and so -- >> what about as commander in chief? >> -- these big issues. i'm sorry? >> what about steadfast as a commander in chief? sticking to something? >> i think he has stuck to the biggest and most important thing. keeping

iraq, libya and the prospects of doing more in syria. so there is a certain paradox there and she needs to also keep in mind that there are liberal internationalist democrats that she would like to get on board. so she can't appear to be too risk ready when it comes to being muscular and -- >> is she doing to run on the notion that if you like president obama's foreign policy over the past eight years, elect me because i'll continue basically that national security foreign policy? >> she will be the keeper of that foreign policy plus is what she says. so i'm going to build on the progress that president obama had. and there are some successes. you have the killing of osama bin laden. some people would say many in fact that the iran deal was a success. but you also are looking at some of the weaknesses and libya is certainly -- she was one of the architects of that policy to invade and get rid of gadhafi. and that's something that continues to dog her with benghazi. and if you look around the world, you look at the civil war in syria, you

, he criticized her on libya right now. right before the intervention in 2011. we should go in, doesn't she have a point incon coherent on this. >> not at all. the thing she's talking about is not when privied to information. and i'll say we have several months to distinguish the differences between a trump and a clinton administration with regards to foreign policy and mr. trump is right. this was a political speech. this was just her opportunity to get out there and criticize mr. trump, but more importantly, i think this was more more for the state of california. she's in a very close race with bernie sanders, this was her opportunity to sort of push above him. >> how should he be judged? it's an interesting situation here, he's not, he's a public public figure who was not in public office. he was not on the record about libya in 2011 with, that said, he's making this a campaign issue right now. he's saying look, she made the wrong call on libya and he's out there saying he deserves credit in his words for being against t

about icele tion and libya. any chance they're going to get hraelibya's oil where a lot of revenues have come from? how do you assess the security libya?oil assets in >> i don't think anything in libya is overly secure. attempts made and assaults made on the oil facilities but get te they're not able to control of them. i'll have to get back and see whether or not there are pockets has been here isil able to encroach, but there are some challenges there and there number of security militias and firms that are in from ea that prevent isil taking over. ut we'll get you a more thorough response. >> my wife says i say finally too much and gets people's hopes up. she's a smart woman. [laughter] haven't hanistan we all.ed about it at what is your assessment of the security situation in afghanistan. there is a proposed draw down of our troops which has start in the early fall if it's going to chieve the 5,000 troop number in january. give us an assessment of the situation. is there -- i guess the short government es th

isis has the oil from libya. we went in, we knocked the hell out of libya, we did all of the things with gadhafi and all, we did great things. she ends up with benghazi. >> we all know the tools that donald trump brings to the table -- bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. i'm willing to bet he's writing a few right now. >> in fact, she was right. trump tweeted quote, crooked hillary no longer has credibility. too much failure in office, people will not allow another four years of incompetence. clinton chose san diego as a backdrop to her speech, given its large military community. it's home to the navy s.e.a.l.s, which she wants to remind people she agreed to send into pakistan to kill osama bin laden. >> now imagine donald trump sitting in the situation room making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the united states. do we want his finger anywhere near the button? >> no! >> making donald trump our commander-in-chief would an historic mistake. >> aides to hillary clinton tell me that this is the beginnin

military asset had turned toward libya. >> the question is why? chief intelligence officer catherine herridge as more. >> reporter: the republican majority report found that the video explanation was crafted in washington by political appointees and did not reflect the real time intelligence and the pressure was on then secretary of state who wanted the benghazi operation to be permanent within an announcement of the 2012 election. >> they got a terrorist attack and they have to mislead the american people. their legacy is on the long and she has the goddess of history looking over her shoulder. so they mislead the american people. >> the republican majority report reveals the meeting in the white house three hours in the terrorist attack, senior deputies to the cabinet and then secretary of state clinton. at that time, the terrorist attack in benghazi was ongoing. smith was dead and ambassador stephens was miss and this two navy seals were still alive. there were concern about offending the libyans and whether the rescuers wearing uniforms. in th

led house select committee on benghazi releasing key portions of this report on the 2012 attack in libya that killed four americans including the ambassador. during hillary clinton's time as secretary of state. cnn given exclusive advance access to part of the report. chief political correspondent dana bash has gone over that section. she has it in her hands. she joins us now. dana, the house created this select committee more than two years ago. finally this morning, this morning this report is coming out, you have seen some 200 pages of this document. what can you tell us about what is in there? >> we were given advanced exclusive access to a little more than 200 pages and we're told the full report is 802 pages. so the section we have seen describes the events leading up to the deadly attack on benghazi and the compound there. and the committee uses what they say are 75,000 new documents, 81 witnesses never questioned before congress. with the report we have seen paints a narrative of the benghazi outpost as a bureaucratic and diplomatic no-man's-land, which made it unnecessarily hard

in libya, the range can be from 5 to 8,000 or so. inside of egypt, there are several hundreds if not over a thousand hard core fighters inside of the sinai that are a combination of individuals who were formerly of ma tees what else others who have enjoyed. inside of yemen you have several hundred. in pakistan, afghanistan it's in the hundreds the numbers are significant in rock syria and libya, nigeria, you probably have maybe 7,000 or so, again, there are hard core fighters, there are specialist facilitators and others. the numbers are significant. >> you say they use twitter, telegram and tumbler, those are the most used. explain a little bit. see, i fight this huge personal privacy that any -- you have to keep everything private. and, yet, when you have the electronic world being used as the propaganda mechanism to fuel the long wolf. i use the word inspire the long wolf for the united states that's a big security problem. what do you recommend, i know it's on the spot, we're trying to discuss a bill on encryption using court ord

inside libya. the government of national court has been on station in tripoli since march. it has a long way to go. but it has shown some very basic progress. moreover, in the last -- >> does that government include general haftar? >> it does not. general haftar is in charge of -- they have pledge add leejance to the ga. >> does the government include them or they just pledge their allegiance? >> they pledge their allegiance with regards to the inclusion. i don't have a lot of knowledge on that particular topic. they are carrying out the mission of trying to take down isil. >> please go ahead. i interrupted you. >> thank you, senator. again, very complex situation. so the government, the gna is making very small progress. it's going to take a lot of time. with regards to the isil situation, the misrottens along with the petroleum guard force surrounded the city of sert. they gained territory in the last week but they have not gone into the city. you can can say there is progress. the bottom shrine

from libya, it is hard for them to get into libya. the 5000 fighters in libya are mostly north africans or from sub-saharan africa. the numbers have gone down substantially. that said, as it is harder for them to get to syria, they are trying to recruit locally to inspire homegrown attacks. somebody who was inspired over the internet rather than being recruited to go into syria. but have always done that, it is what they are increasingly trying to do. that is a very different challenge. it will be with us for years. that is why all of us in washington, the whole government, but across this global international community need to focus on it. it is a very different problem than what we saw in brussels for which arer paris taxed in ra -- attacks i organized in raqqa and they send the operatives out. that is why we want to keep the pressure on them constantly. reporter: are they mostly foreign fighters now? as the demographic change much? mr. mcgurk: isil is made up of bulk. they claim to have done about 119 suicide bombers in may alone.

this is the lawless part of libya. we need help. we are undermanned. there were folks who talked about it being a suicide mission. >> and the red cross left? >> that's right. multiple terror attacks. some of them at our own facility. yet insufficient security was provided. >> during the attack, we had people ready to go help, and they changed clothes four times because they didn't know if they wanted them to actually go in in uniform. and we were asking permission of libya to save americans while they were under fire. >> one of the things that our report shows very clearly is secretary clinton put politics and her political legacy way ahead of the people on the ground. they were dithering for two hours in a telephone conference call while mortars are falling in libya, and they're talking about things not related to -- >> do we have video of this going on? >> there was. for much of the evening in benghazi, we had real-time video that was being fed back. >> so she had to know that the fight was ongoing, and they're sitting there talking about a video? >>

let's start with libya. libya has been losing its center of gravity. that has been a positive, but where does the coalition believe the next front will open up in north africa? there are about 5000 fighters in libya. where are they located, and what is being done to target them? i think north africa, not only to the dangers in africa but also the presence to -- proximity to europe is a concern. mr. mcgurk: thank you, senator. i was there to discuss this. libya is a good example. it highlights how complicated this is. most foreign fighters that have joined isil have come out of tunisia, what is seen as some of the bright spot of the arab spring, and it shows what is indoctrinating the young people, some of it is sectarianism, but some of it is something else. 6000 tunisians, many of whom have gone to libya, and this is a real problem. tunisia is a coalition partner, and we are working closely with them. and with egypt and the situation in libya, but also, the bright spot in libya is that the libyans are rejecting the presence of daish. there is this hoc

is not bombing isis in libya and he there are an imminent threat to the u.s. meantime, there's word more than 60 people died in violence across libya yesterday alone. a state news agency reports 29 people died in an explosion at a storage depot outside the capital tripoli and east of there. 36 pro-government troops died while fighting the islamic state in its stronghold. jack keen is a retired four-star general who served as vice chief of staff of the army. he is also, as you well know, a fox news military analyst. general, it's great to see you. it seems to me like general waldhauser and the administration really not on the same page here. >> well, certainly. i don't think it's a revelation that we don't have a strategy to deal with an affiliate of isis in libya because we do not have a strategy to deal with isis itself in in its center of gravity where its main headquarters is, in syria. and the president has said to us that his strategy there is to set the conditions for the ultimate destruction of isis, which means the next administration's going to do it.

libya has been torn by civil strife for five years. chaos as tens of thousands, and the country is a hotspot for human traffickers. the un security council has tasked the european union with enforcing arms embargoes against libya. they want to bring the unrest to an end. the german parliament decided to employ its navy support that mission, but the decision is a controversial one, and it could be a loft in the upper house of parliament here. reporter: the german forces fighting pollack -- pirates off of somalia were recommitted, and now they are off of libya, with a similar mandate. the eu has expended the anti-smuggling mission known as sophia, and the german cabinet will help, even if it means using weapons. >> we all have a common interest in restoring order along the mediterranean coast. it is important to the mandate be brought to help us fight root causes of the refugee crisis. reporter: the thinking is, stopping the i illegal flolow of ararms will l stop the warars mf the refugees are fleeing. the german army has already deploye

for libya, only more sacrifice lies ahead. bbc news, sirte. inra: the bloody battle libya. still to come on tonight's program, the u.s. house of representatives is the scene of a sit in democrats demanding action on gun control. -- the labor member of parliament joe clocks .- jo cox is remembered our chief correspondent reports. cox's husband jo and their two children traveled down the thames for a celebration of her life. it would have been her 42nd birthday. it is one week since she was killed in yorkshire. several thousand people gathered in trafalgar. many of them are holding pictures of jo cox. some have signed pledges supporting her causes. her husband spoke about how the family had copes in the last few days. >> we tried to remember not how cruelly she has been taken from us, but how unbelievably lucky we were to have jo in our lives for so long. correspondent: he spoke about his wife's killing. >> what a beautiful irony that an act designed to spread hatred has designed such an outpouring of love. correspondent: among those who spoke was the nobel laureate malala. i