Watch highlights of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony

Senate Democrats have repeatedly called on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to shut it down. Is this thing forever? “Are they ever going to make a decision about whether to continue this?”

Pelosi has insisted, as she reiterated Thursday, “You have to be in the room to defend the truth”. Cummings is the panel’s senior Democrat.

But on the other hand, for the wider American public, which is concerned about practical governance of the country, these scandals are just distractions that end up preventing the Republican Party from demonstrating its plan for the country, should a Republican get elected, he said. “Asking questions about the security situation?” She firmly defended her record while seeking to avoid any mishap that might damage her presidential campaign.

Sen Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, which did its own investigation into the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, said Clinton’s performance “was entirely presidential, considered, showed tremendous personal reserve”. “Who told you that?”

It was a case of the kettle and the teapot: Many on the committee seemed intent upon landing the blow that would get them all the credit for wounding the witness.

But the MSM’s suggestion that no one laid a glove on Clinton (she “easily parried barbed questions”, as the cheerleaders at the Washington Post put it) is false.

“Those requests for security were rightly reviewed by the security professionals”, Clinton told the committee.

What the administration said behind closed doors, however, was a different story.

“These questions linger because previous investigations were not thorough”, Gowdy said. Seven other congressional committees have previously investigated the incident.

When pressed about criticism, even from fellow Republicans, about disproportionately focusing his line of questioning on emails from Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal, Gowdy responded, “How do you not ask: how does this person, who has no formal role in government and no expertise in Libya or Benghazi – how does he have unfettered access to you?”

“We do want to have a good conversation where people come to the table ready to actually learn about what we can do”, she said.

While Turner said she has no plans to endorse Clinton in the coming weeks, she noted that “it’s been quite a week for the secretary”.

Yoga and meditation. Clearly Hillary Clinton is everyone’s mom from the ’80s.

Clinton, he claimed, is simply “an opponent”, he said.

“On Defense of Marriage, I think what my husband believed – and there was certainly evidence to support it – is that there was enough political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, and that there had to be a few way to stop that”, Clinton said.

Speaking directly to Mr Jordan, she said: “The insinuations that you are making do a great disservice” to the diplomats and others involved.

“I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative”.

After delivering extensive testimony before the House Committee on Benghzi, has Hillary Clinton’s candidacy been impacted?

“In terms of her testimony?”