Everything you need to know about the Benghazi hearings, in two short videos

If you didn't sit through all 11 hours of the House Select Committee on Benghazi's session with Hillary Clinton on Thursday, you can still watch it at C-SPAN (in four parts: 1, 2, 3, 4) or read the entire transcript at The Washington Post. Assuming you don't have the time or inclination to binge-watch 11 hours of congressional testimony, you can also learn pretty much everything you need to know from two much shorter videos.

The first, from BBC News, provides a sort of outsider background to the hearing. Below, BBC State Department Correspondent Barbara Plett Usher gives a pretty evenhanded explanation of why Clinton is still answering questions about the Benghazi attacks three years later, helpfully geared toward an audience that hasn't been steeped in years of bitter Benghazi politics:

The second video features CNN's Dana Bash walking viewers through the highlights of Thursday's marathon hearing. She doesn't dwell too much on any of the more memorable moments, or focus on any one aspect of the hearing — here, for example, CNN focuses just on Clinton's facial expressions — but Bash provides a good overview of what happened and why it mattered. You won't learn as much as you might have during the 11 hours of questions and answers, but you'll have 10 hours and 50 minutes more of your life to spend doing something else. Peter Weber

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