Tearful Clinton Vows to Tighten Gun Regulations

House Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from disbanding the Benghazi committee in a measure prompted by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s remarks suggesting that the GOP-led investigation into the attacks may be politically motivated.

Hillary Clinton via YouTube Hillary Clinton has gone on the offense in her new ad campaign.

Clinton has made strengthening the nation’s gun laws a centerpiece of her presidential campaign following a series of mass shootings in the past few months.

NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said in a statement that they “proudly support the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States”. “I have no knowledge of what they are doing”, Clinton said.

The Clinton campaign put out an advertisement late Monday that features a prominent gap in its McCarthy clip from a recent episode of Hannity.

The trust factor: After McCarthy’s initial comments aired, Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon accused McCarthy of having “confessed that the committee set up to look into the deaths of four courageous Americans at Benghazi is a taxpayer-funded sham”. “It can not be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun”, he declared.

Hours earlier, a spokeswoman for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner dismissed the ad as an “attempt to distract from her record of putting classified information at risk and jeopardizing our national security, all of which the FBI is investigating”. She’s number one in every national Democratic poll and tops every one of her potential Republican opponents.

After BuzzFeed’s report was widely circulated, a Clinton spokesman told BuzzFeed that Clinton’s concern at the time had been that any federal law not prevent communities from enacting stiffer gun bans.

She appeared on Monday’s edition of NBC’s “Today” (video below) and went all hammer-and-tongs against the Benghazi committee for exploiting the tragedy to attack her, invoking McCarthy’s gaffe as frequently as she could.

It was a stunning acknowledgment of the political nature of the committee’s work, and Clinton allies believe it will take the sting out of the investigation.

Clinton’s comments came as Democrats on the Benghazi panel released a partial transcript of a closed-door interview with Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, in response to what they called selective and inaccurate Republican leaks. “I guess my question to you is, which is it?”

Republicans generally oppose legislation that restricts the ability of Americans to purchase and own guns, basing their position on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that legitimizes “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.