--- title: Hillary Clinton Benghazi Hearing Livestream Video description: Watch her high-stakes showdown with Republican critics canonical: https://time.com/4083085/hillary-clinton-benghazi-hearing-livestream-video/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T13:43:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:11.515Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Testifies Before Congressional Benghazi Panel og:description: A high-stakes showdown with Republican critics og:url: https://time.com/4083085/hillary-clinton-benghazi-hearing-livestream-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Testifies Before Congressional Benghazi Panel twitter:description: A high-stakes showdown with Republican critics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Testifies Before Congressional Benghazi Panel by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 22, 2015 1:43 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 22, 2015 1:43 PM UTC Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is [testifying Thursday on Capitol Hill](http://time.com/4082256/hillary-clinton-benghazi-hearing/), appearing before the Republican-led special committee investigating the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It’s the first time Clinton has testified before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and her testimony is expected to last for hours. Committee leaders have been buffeted in recent weeks by criticism that their investigation has shifted its focus from the attack to Clinton’s controversial use of a private email server while Secretary of State. [A poll this week](http://time.com/4082088/hillary-clinton-benghazi-attack-gop-committee-poll/?xid=homepage) found that a majority of Americans see the probe more as a vehicle to hurt Clinton than to find the facts. Republicans have defended the investigation as critical to determining how four Americans died. [Clinton is expected to defend the sort of “expeditionary diplomacy”](http://time.com/4082463/what-clinton-will-say-at-the-benghazi-hearing/) that brought U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens to Benghazi, arguing that diplomacy is best conducted from the front-lines, TIME’s Zeke Miller reports. 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