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	I think that's a good way of putting it.
	I think it's an excellent way of putting it.
	Those four Americans returned to this country for the memorial service where Hillary and Obama and Biden.
	By the way, you remember what Biden said to Charles Wood?
	Father of Tyrone Wood, among many other things.
	You know what Biden said, you remember this?
	And folks, pardon Pardon my French here, but I mean I'm just going to quote the vice president what he said.
	Did your son always have balls this big as cue balls or something like that?
	I mean, the man's son is lying draped in a coffin and in a lie.
	These four people's bodies were draped in coffins, covered by a flag and a lie, and the lie was that some video was responsible for this.
	The Benghazi hearings, the congressional hearings looking into Benghazi are taking place now.
	And greetings, welcome.
	Great to have you back, Rushlin bought the EIB network.
	Fox News is carrying them wall-to-wall.
	CNN now and then jumps in.
	But no conventional over-the-air networks are joining in.
	Something that that uh just happened uh right near the top of the hour.
	We were in commercial break.
	Representative Trey Gowdy from South Carolina was talking to Gregory Hicks.
	He said, You were the highest ranking official in Libya.
	Ambassador Rice did not talk to you before her appearance on the Sunday shows.
	Hicks said no.
	So here's Susan Rice.
	She's about to appear on five Sunday morning shows to explain what happened.
	She did not talk to the highest ranking American official in Libya.
	She was giving talking points by the regime, obviously.
	Hicks was asked what he thought when he saw Susan Rice blaming a YouTube video for the Benghazi attack.
	Quote, I was stunned, my jaw dropped, and I was embarrassed.
	Well he's not alone.
	We were all embarrassed and angry.
	And it continued for weeks.
	That excuse of the video.
	And I'm just telling you, folks, if you spend any time, if you're not able to watch these now, you will later tonight, I'm sure if you turn on cable news, you'll see excerpts.
	And I'm I I wouldn't be surprised if on Fox you see some full-length replays.
	You you you watch this, and you'll ask yourself, how could anybody have ever said that a YouTube video was responsible for this?
	We have three sound bites that just happened recently, within the last 20 minutes.
	House Oversight Government Reform Committee hearing on the Benghazi attacks.
	This is a portion of Gregory Hicks.
	He's the um Foreign Service Officer, former deputy chief of mission.
	He's the highest ranking American official on site.
	We began to hear also that the ambassador's been taken to a hospital.
	We don't know initially which hospital it is, but we through David's reports, we learn that it is in a hospital which is controlled by Ansara Sharia, the group that Twitter feeds had identified as leading the attack on the consulate.
	Now the importance of this is that after the attack, if you'll recall, President Obama made a big deal praising the Libyans for trying to help Ambassador Stevens and getting him out of there and taking him to the hospital.
	See the American media, the American people were told that the Libyans did us a great service.
	Gregory Hicks, the highest ranking American on the ground, said the group that took the ambassador to the hospital was the group that led the attack.
	And Sir Al Sharia, at least according to their own braggadocious Twitter feeds.
	These are the people claiming they did the attack, and they are the ones who took our ambassador out.
	Folks, do you realize that very little of anything we were told was the truth?
	And even since very little of what we have officially been told turns out to be the truth.
	Gregory Hicks next says that he spoke to Hillary Clinton at two o'clock in the morning.
	And it sounds like she didn't do any leading.
	Sounds like all she did was listen.
	The Secretary, Secretary of State Clinton called me.
	And along with her senior staff were all on the phone.
	And she asked me what was going on, and I briefed her on the developments.
	Most of the conversation was about the search for Ambassador Stevens.
	It was also about what we were going to do with our personnel in Benghazi.
	And I told her that we would need to evacuate.
	This is 2 a.m.
	This is long over.
	And finally Mrs. Clinton talked to them.
	Remember, the last time these people talked to anybody was 5 p.m.
	Panetta, Hillary were both told by Obama separately.
	Look, you guys do whatever's necessary.
	And he vanished, and nobody to this day knows where he went, what he was doing.
	So next, Hicks says I spoke to her at 2 o'clock, and um I told her what was going on, uh search for Ambassador Stevens, and uh we talked about what we were going to do with our personnel, and I said that uh look like we need to evacuate.
	She said, Yeah, yeah, better better evacuate.
	What difference it make now?
	At 3 a.m., Gregory Hicks, Foreign Service officer, former deputy chief of mission in Libya at 3 a.m.
	He said he learned that Ambassador Stevens was dead.
	At about 3 a.m., I received a call from the Prime Minister of Libya.
	I think it's the saddest phone call I've ever had in my life.
	He told me that Ambassador Stevens had passed away.
	I immediately telephoned Washington that news afterwards and began accelerating our effort to withdraw from the LIS compound and move to the annex.
	Yeah, it's a video that made all this happen.
	You know that guy a YouTube video, remember that back in July.
	This this happened in September, but this guy made a YouTube video back in July.
	Yeah, it has had everybody fit to be tied over there, and it ended up with our ambassador and three Americans dead.
	Now here's Gregory Hicks.
	You're hearing the voice of the leading American on the ground.
	Do you hear the pain and the sadness?
	This was a real, real event.
	And it's been portrayed as something that happened to other people in a far-off land late at night and early in the morning.
	Video on YouTube made it happen.
	We worked really hard to find that guy and put him in jail.
	You know, things happen.
	What difference does it make now?
	You listen to these people.
	They were there.
	They were in the middle of it.
	It was a real thing, a real event.
	But there weren't any pictures of it at the time.
	There have been lots of pictures of the place going up in flames.
	After the fact, there were a lot of pictures and video, but not at the time.
	It'll carry nearly the uh the punch.
	Okay, Grab Sound by 23.
	This is uh January through April of 2013.
	We have a montage, then Secretary of State Clinton, John Kerry, President Obama, Jay Carney Talking about the Benghazi investigation really wasn't that important.
	Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill Americans?
	What difference does it make?
	We got a lot more important things to move on to and get done.
	I'm not familiar with this notion that uh anybody's been blocked from testifying.
	Benghazi happened a long time ago.
	So it was Hillary back in January, and she was really irritated.
	Well, okay.
	So we had an attack over there, so we died.
	Americans died what difference does it make who it was?
	What's it make?
	Why?
	Come on, what difference does it make now?
	Bunch of guys out for a walk, decided to go kill Americans.
	What difference does it make now?
	She was really irritated that people were trying to get answers as to what really happened and why.
	Look when a kid walks into a school and starts gunning down kids, or when a couple of guys blow up the Boston Marathon, the American left can't wait until they answer why.
	Whenever there is anything that happens that they think they can further their agenda with, such as the Boston Marathon bombing, the only thing that matters is why.
	And the reason they care about the why in those circumstances is because they hope and pray that the answer to the question why will advance their political agenda.
	Why did these two guys blow up the Boston bombing?
	Because they listened to the wrong people on the radio.
	Because they listened to the watch the wrong things on TV.
	That's what they hope for.
	So you can't get them to stop being concerned about the why.
	But here in Benghazi.
	When people wanted to know why and who Hillary got all irritated.
	What is it, a protest or a bunch of guys out for a walk?
	What difference does it make?
	You imagine if somebody was said in the middle of the investigation of Boston Marathon Bond, who cares why?
	What difference does it make?
	You imagine the fallout had somebody done a Hillary on that.
	And then there was John Kerry as Secretary of State.
	That was April 7th.
	We got a lot more important things to move on to and get done.
	We got gun control.
	We got we got a bunch of stuff that we've got to fix.
	Obama, April 29th.
	I'm not familiar with uh this notion, anybody been blocked from testifying.
	Jake Harney, April 30th.
	Benghazi happened long time ago.
	Here is our montage of regime officials blaming that YouTube video.
	This is between September 20th and 28th of last year.
	I don't care how offensive this video was, and it was terribly offensive.
	And we should shun it.
	This video is disgusting and reprehensible.
	It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.
	Let's be clear, these protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region.
	You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who is an extremely offensive video.
	The unrest we've seen has been in reaction to a video.
	It was a crude and disgusting video.
	Sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.
	It was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response, a direct result of a heinous and offensive video.
	I know there are some who ask, why don't we just ban such a video?
	And the answer is enshrined in our laws.
	Our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech.
	Right.
	That's Obama telling the Star Wars bar scene that is the United Nations General Assembly why he can't just take everybody's gun away.
	Well, I got this obstacle in my way, you guys.
	It's called a constitution.
	I'm not yet a dictator like the rest of you guys are.
	But uh we'll get there.
	Don't sweat it.
	And then of course, let's go back one more time.
	January 23rd of this year, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi, Secretary of State still, Mrs. Clinton testifying, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican Wisconsin, says we were uh misled that there were supposedly protests and an assault sprang out of that.
	That was easily ascertained that that was not the fact.
	The American people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that it wasn't a protest.
	They didn't know that it had nothing to do with the video.
	They didn't know that it was something random.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Words that will live in infamy.
	What difference does it make?
	Try that when a kid walks into a school and starts shooting.
	Try that at the next whatever Boston Marathon bombing event is.
	Try that.
	Next time some kid walks into a movie theater with a gun.
	What difference does it make why he did it?
	Try that.
	See how far that gets you.
	Grab a quick telephone call here before the uh readers digest discussion fades from memory.
	Tom in Chicago, great to have you, sir.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Honor to talk to you.
	I'm calling from the safe south side of Chicago because of the gun laws.
	And um the fact that Hillary Clinton's even on that, she's been an accomplished fire since she's twenty.
	From the uh Nixon skinking around the White House.
	Right.
	She was involved in Watergate.
	And um, that's where she first showed promise, even though they kick her off the committee, but uh off the paper, but that's where she first showed promise.
	But but when you saw Noam Chomsky, didn't it throw you for a loop?
	Most people don't know who Noam is.
	The fact that he was a uh most trusted, it's like a liber it's I think that's the red herring.
	I don't know if it's a real list.
	The reader's digest list, you don't know if it's real.
	Yeah, yeah, you know, the fact that Noam Chomsky is one of the most trusted people, most people don't even know who he is, except for extreme left wing wet jobs.
	Of which I used to be Democratic precinct.
	Yeah, there's a lot of questions about it.
	I think the whole list is uh is suspect.
	But, you know, if it's if it's if it's true, I mean it actually if if Tom Hanks is the most respected man in America, and and Sandra Bullock is next in Denzel Washington and uh I forget who for Merrill Streep and then and then Maya Angelo, I mean Maya Angelou, what have she done?
	De River Zirac and Z poem at the Clinton inauguration, Noam Chomsky, you're right.
	I mean, who who knows who these people are?
	But it is a um curiosity.
	I think it's designed to dispirit people, it's designed to create discussion, curiosity about the uh readers' digest and so forth.
	But, you know, it it's doubtful.
	It doesn't seem like it has any basis in reality whatsoever.
	Elijah Cummings, thanks, uh thanks, Tom for the call.
	Elijah Cummings is the ranking Democrat on the House Committee that is investigating Benghazi.
	And he decried the full scale media campaign unleashed over the last few weeks, that is not designed to investigate what happened in a responsible and bipartisan way, and rather to launch unfounded accusations to smear public officials.
	This is this is how he tried to characterize what's happening today.
	He's the first Democrat member of Congress to speak during the hearing today.
	He didn't waste any time before going after the chairman, Darrell Issa for what he believes was the Congressman using the Benghazi attack for his own political gain.
	Cumming by thanking the witnesses said if I'd been in your place, hearing Ambassador Stevens' voice on the phone of wanting to do everything possible to help him, I would have had the same questions you had.
	Where's the military?
	Where the special forces, where the fighter jets, those are legitimate questions.
	But from there, Elijah Cummings proceeded to challenge a series of theories about how the U.S. could have saved the four men who died in the attack, claiming that official sources have confirmed to him, Elijah Cummings, that under the circumstances it wouldn't have been possible for military help to arrive in time.
	And we heard yesterday that that was going to be one of the excuses.
	Well, it couldn't have gotten there on time.
	This thing only took place over nine hours.
	This event did not just happen in five or ten minutes.
	We had assets there who were told to stand down.
	We had assets nearby who were told to stand down.
	To not offer assistance.
	There was not any secure well, there wasn't proper security for the ambassador in the first place.
	And then when the attack began, there wasn't any suitable defense nearby, but there were people willing to go in and help, and they did.
	They defied orders and went in anyway, and they died.
	Because they assumed they had help in the sky when they didn't.
	But Elijah Cummings said, I've seen nothing to make me question the truthfulness of our nation's military commanders.
	Nothing.
	While he said the oversight committee has a duty to hear testimony from Hicks and the other whistleblowers, we also have a duty to thoroughly investigate these claims before we make public accusations, which means we're going to examine the seriousness of the charge.
	And if we don't think the charge is serious, then nothing else that follows is relevant.
	And that's the way they play the game.
	And so what he's really talking about is that this has all been trumped up.
	This is nothing but an attempt to embarrass our dear president.
	Therefore, nothing happening here is real.
	Hi, welcome back.
	Great to have you, Rush Limbo.
	I have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	Elijah Cummings.
	Get this.
	Death is a part of life.
	Get over it.
	He didn't say get over it, that's what he means.
	Get over it.
	Death is a part of life.
	People died doing stuff.
	Get over it.
	Elijah Cummings, Democrat Maryland, former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians, ranking member, House Oversight Committee, this means ranking Democrat, told the Benghazi witnesses.
	And as I listened to your testimony, I could not help but think of something that I said very recently, two years ago now, in a eulogy for a relative.
	I said that death is a part of life.
	So often we have to find a way to make life a part of death.
	And I guess the reason why I'm saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted, I guess all of you said this, he wanted to make sure we learn from this.
	Well, what we learn is that death is a part of life.
	I get, yeah, like in Chicago.
	Like Boston.
	Like the Sandy Hook elementary school.
	In Kermit Gosnell's back alley abortion clinic.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Death, part of life.
	So for all of you who are concerned about the Boston Marathon, well, the lesson here is that death is a part of life.
	And life is a part of death, by the way.
	We have to learn.
	We have to find a way to make life a part of death, since death is a part of life.
	I said that in a eulogy, Elijah Cummings said.
	Elijah Cummings also said, Look it.
	I don't think there was any way anybody was going to get there in time.
	Well, uh, I think two dead people did get there in time.
	There were two Americans that tried to help out.
	They thought they had support.
	They didn't.
	But they got there in time.
	The idea they couldn't get there in time.
	Is death a part of life?
	Maybe a motto for Obamacare.
	Maybe that ought to be on the posters at the exchanges when you go in to sign up for Obamacare.
	Death is a part of life.
	Quote, Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat, House Government Committee, blah blah and put the date there.
	Just remember this when you sign up for our wonderful new health care plan, death is a part of life.
	Isn't that deep?
	And remember, death is a part of life at an elementary school when a young mentally disturbed kid goes nuts with a gun.
	Or how about the nanny state of New York that might kill us?
	Cigarettes, butter, meat, soda, salt, tanning, salons, light bulbs, cars, coal.
	Hey, death is a part of life.
	Make that a required warning label on automobile stickers.
	Every time you buy a car, remember, death is a part of life.
	Drive carefully.
	Folks, we have a new profundity here that has been put forth by Elijah Cummings of Congressional Black Caucasians to excuse what happened to him and got hey, people die, get over it.
	And sometimes they die because the guy did a video.
	Get over it!
	Get over it!
	Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican South Carolina, read from a State Department email sent the day after the Benghazi terror attack to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's counsel, i.e.
	lawyer, and the State Department spokesperson that states that a State Department official had informed the Libyan prime minister that terrorists carried out the Benghazi assault.
	Acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, Beth Jones, wrote the email on September 12th, 2012.
	Quote, I spoke to the Libyan ambassador and I emphasized the importance of Libyan leaders continuing to make strong statements.
	I told him that the group that conducted the attack, Ansar Al-Sharia, is affiliated with a lot Islamic terrorists.
	For what, Mr. What the point of the I'll tell you what, Mr. New Castrati, the day after the State Department was telling everybody but the American people that it was an act of terror.
	The American people were hearing that it was a random protest brought about by a video.
	But now some undersecretary for communications in the State Department's telling the Libyan ambassador, Libyan president rather, that it was Ansar al-Sharia.
	It was terrorism.
	The day after, the day after, State Department told Libyan Prime Minister terrorists attacked Benghazi.
	It wasn't random.
	It wasn't a protest.
	It wasn't a video.
	It was Ansar al-Sharia.
	And yet, three weeks later, two weeks later, there's Susan Rice on television, five different Sunday morning shows blaming a video.
	There's Hillary and Obama making a television commercial there in Pakistan about the video.
	And today, Elijah Cummings, death is a part of life.
	So we have to find a way to make life a part of death.
	How do you do that, by way?
	Would somebody, you know, I'm the mayor of Realville, and I need somebody to explain to me how do you make life a part of death.
	Why isn't Elijah Cummings in that reader's digest list of most admired Americans?
	How did he get missed?
	Man with thinking like this.
	What difference does it make?
	Sound bites 32 and 33, Gregory Hicks and Trey Gowdy, Trey Gowdy from South Carolina.
	Gregory Hicks, foreign service officer, former deputy chief of mission.
	Trey Gotti says, so Mr. Hicks, let's find out the truth.
	The President of Libya responded to the attack and labeled it an attack by Islamic extremists, possibly with terror links, correct?
	Yes, sir.
	So hours after our ambassador and three others are killed in Benghazi, the president of Libya says it was an attack with possible terror links, correct?
	Yes, sir, that's what I recall.
	Did the President of Libya ever mention a spontaneous protest related to a video?
	No, sir.
	When Ambassador Stevens talked to you perhaps minutes before he died, as a dying declaration, what precisely did he say to you?
	He said, Greg, we're under attack.
	Then Gowdy said, would a highly decorated career diplomat have told you or Washington, had there been a demonstration outside this facility that day?
	Yes, sir, he would have.
	Did he mention one word about a protest or a demonstration?
	No, sir, he did not.
	So fast forward, Mr. Hicks, to the Sunday talk shows and Ambassador Susan Rice.
	She blamed this attack on a video.
	In fact, she did it five different times.
	What was your reaction to that?
	I was stunned.
	My jaw dropped, and I was embarrassed.
	Did she talk to you before she went on the five Sunday talk shows?
	No, sir.
	You were the highest ranking official in Libya at the time, correct?
	Yes, sir.
	Brief time out, and we'll be back.
	Don't go away.
	So, folks, if if death is a part of life, which which means get over it.
	People die.
	Then why worry about trans fats?
	And why worry about coconut oil and popcorn and movie theaters?
	And why worry about how big your soft drink is?
	Why worry about health care?
	Why were if if if we're all gonna die, what differences all this make?
	Well, why all this concern about it?
	People are gonna die.
	That's what quality, he's not talking about quality of life.
	He's he's you guys are sitting here worried about four people died in Benghazi.
	Hey.
	Death is a part of life.
	Nobody could have gotten there in time anyway.
	Two people did.
	They're dead.
	They got there in time.
	Here's uh here's Hugh in Jacksonville, Florida, as we head back to the phones.
	Hello, Hugh, thank you for calling.
	Hi.
	Yes, good afternoon, Rush.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	Uh Rush, my my question to you is is that uh what was Ambassador Stevens doing there in the first place?
	With all the prior runs with the previous attacks with the other countries pulling their diplomats out of Benghazi, what was he doing there in the first place without proper security?
	And if we knew the answer to that, would that not give us a clearer picture as to why the administration did not accurately recount what happened?
	Well, I think we know why they didn't recount what happened.
	I don't want anybody to know.
	How basically incompetent.
	I mean, the answer to your question is incompetence.
	Incompetence, lack of foresight.
	Without proper security in the first place.
	Well, they don't think they needed security.
	We're looking we're loved now.
	Bush is gone.
	Uh Al Qaeda's on the run, and and Obama's president were loved now.
	And well, I think the facts of what happened prior show different.
	Well, those people were wrong.
	Remember now, we had also taken care of Gaddafi as far as the regime is concerned, and the people of Libya loved us.
	We got rid of their tyrant.
	Right.
	I'm telling you, it's incompetence.
	You I mean you if you want to look for a conspiracy.
	I I heard that, you know, you ask why Stevens there.
	I mean, that's a good question.
	What else he doing there?
	Without the Proper security.
	Proper security?
	Without proper security.
	Without proper security.
	I have, I can't answer it for you.
	I have no have no idea why it was there without security.
	I can only guess like uh like you can.
	All right.
	Incompetence.
	Didn't think it was needed.
	Well, if it is only think anything was going to happen.
	That's scary.
	Well, if it if what could it be besides incompetence?
	What are you, what are you thinking of?
	I I have I have no idea.
	That's why I asked.
	Yeah, well, remember now, we liberated Libya.
	As far as this bunch thinks, they think everybody hated Libya that lived in Libya thinking they hated Qaddafi.
	So we got rid of Qaddafi.
	We're loved.
	Obama's a hero.
	He's a hero.
	There is no terrorism.
	It's on the run.
	Ansar Al-Sharia, what the hell is that?
	We got rid of uh Al-Qaeda, they're on the run.
	Uh I know it's I know it's folks, it's it's hard to believe.
	I said yesterday.
	But these people believe this stuff that they say.
	That they're not just saying stuff for public consumption.
	You know, when when they tell you that the election of Obama means the planet's gonna heal, sea levels are gonna fall, and uh world's gonna love us again.
	They believe that.
	They have that's the talk about a narcissist here, a thoroughly self-absorbed individual.
	They believe they hated Bush.
	The world must have hated Bush.
	Since they hated Bush, everybody hated Bush.
	And indeed Obama won the elections.
	It must be that everybody hates Bush and the Republicans, and that everybody loves Obama.
	Uh If if it's if it's not incompetence, you know, why there wasn't proper security.
	I think when you get down to Brass Tax talking about Hillary Clinton, incompetence is the number one word to describe her.
	Her public image is quite the opposite.
	Smartest woman in the world, incredibly efficient, very smart, strategically brilliant, knows everything in the world.
	She screws up everything she touches.
	Well, I know I'm the only one who's ever said it.
	And I we've proved it, I know.
	And this this you know this video stuff that the regime blamed.
	Do you realize nobody but us cares about this?
	I mean, it just like before the election, nobody cared about this before the election, and nobody but us cares about it now.
	I mean, by us, I mean whatever the number of us in America watching this, paying attention to this concern, but nobody else does.
	And nobody cared about this before the election.
	Nothing's happened since to make people care about it.
	CNN's totally bumped out of coverage.
	Now they're still in Cleveland, showing balloons around the uh hero's house, never working on that story.
	MSNBC, who cares nobody's watching, but the networks aren't covering this.
	I'm telling folks, nobody is going to care about this.
	Nobody is gonna hear that Elijah Cummings said, hey, people die, get over it.
	Nobody's gonna hear it except us.
	Nobody cares about any of this stuff but us.
	And in fact, we are being called purists and problematic because we care about this, because we are being so rigid, we're making it impossible for people to see that the Republicans are flexible and adaptable and all that.
	are making it impossible for the Republicans to ever win.
	Because we care about this.
	And we got to...
	This is insignificant.
	This doesn't matter.
	Nobody cares about this.
	Other than the families, other than the witnesses, other than the Republicans on the committee, and five or six other people, nobody cares about it.
	We live in an upside-down world.
	The challenge that you know the challenge we all have here, folks.
	The challenge we all have here is Staying emotionally and physically well in the middle of all this, because we live in a world where nothing makes any sense.
	And where it appears that everything that was the glue that held this country together is vanishing.
	And nothing makes rational sense anymore.
	You ought to hear the Democrats questioning these witnesses.
	They're contentious.
	These are people that survived that attack.
	These are people that witnessed their friends die.
	These are people that were in the middle of it.
	They're being accused of nothing but advancing a political agenda opposed to Obama.
	They're being treated contentiously by the Democrats.
	The Republicans, on the other hand, in the committee are being deferential and polite.
	But it's clear this is this is as bipartisan as any other issue that's being discussed.
	I must take a break because there are constraints of time.
	Don't go away.
	We'll be right back.
	The hearings just moments ago, death is a part of life.
	And as I listened to your testimony, I could not help but um think about something that I said very recently, about two years ago now, in a eulogy for a relative.
	I said that death is a part of life.
	But so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death.
	And I guess the reason why I'm saying that I want to go back to something Mr. Nordstrom said.
	He said that he wanted to make sure that and you all of you have said it pretty much.
	You want to make sure we learn from this.
	And that's it.
	Life death, part of life.
	Gonna die anyway.

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