Scarborough: Benghazi Hearing Was “A Very Bad Day For Gowdy And Republicans”

He said he plans to finish interviews in the Benghazi investigation by the end of the year. Is this thing forever? “I think she will, but it’s going to be really hard”. You can’t knock her down. With Clinton’s testimony concluded, that decision is likely to be revisited.

“Most of the rest of the committee just wants to grandstand for the folks back home as either prosecutors of or defenders of Hillary Clinton”, he wrote. And there are plenty of legitimate questions that have been previously asked and answered.

Combined with her performance in last week’s Democratic debates and Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not seek the nomination, the hearing has effectively lent strength to her campaign.

She continued her offensive during the hearing, referring to the House committee and saying, “I would imagine I have thought more about what happened than all of you put together”. “But, hey, man, if you ever need to talk, I know someone who can empathize”, then he flashed a photo of Hillary Clinton.

The House of Representatives committee chairman Trey Gowdy portrayed the panel as focused on the facts after comments by fellow Republicans describing it as an effort created to hurt Mrs Clinton’s presidential bid.

“There’s this dichotomy between what we tell the American people versus what we tell folks in private”, Gowdy said.

Yet the major, top-line policy fumble in Libya stemmed not from callousness or incompetence on Clinton’s part but from the Obama administration’s broader failure to live up to the vision of assertive US engagement she articulated on Thursday. It’s true that Stevens had requested additional security, which he did not get. Why was the military not ready to respond quickly on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? If fact finding had been the committee’s true aim, the Benghazi Committee would have closed its doors a while ago since it has not accomplished anything nor produced any evidence!

She told the panel the attacks were thoroughly investigated.

The long hearing uncovered no new revelations in a deadly incident that has been the subject of a half-dozen other congressional investigations and an independent inquiry.

The reevaluation follows a Thursday hearing which was widely seen as a success for Clinton, while Republicans failed to strike any decisive blows. But said he did not know whether the embattled panel gained credibility. “That is what I tried to do”, Clinton said.

On being accused of “shouting” about gun control: “First of all, I’m not shouting”.

To date, a total of five House committees, two Senate committees and a State Department independent review board have examined the internal problems leading to the attack on the US mission at Benghazi that took the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Too much time has been spent on rhetorical grandstanding and blatant attempts to undermine the credibility of the Democratic front- runner for president. Mrs Clinton’s long-awaited testimony was the most high- profile appearance yet before the panel.

” ‘Yes. Yes. Yoga always helps, ‘ she said before departing”.

Do you think the investigation is politically motivated?

“It’s just 56 days before an election”, Jordan said. “I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative”, she added.

In the email, she made reference to something completely different: religiously intolerant information on the web.