Blumenthal. You need to make sure the entire record is correct. And thats exactly what i want to do. Then go ahead. Im going to tell you laughter trevor so clear. So concise. It all makes sense now. And throughout the day, hillary was right in the thick of it. laughter ive been there, hillary. That feeling when baycalls a Benghazi Committee for the eighth time. But right now, im getting ahead ofinize mize. I should step back and explain. For those who dont know what this is about, today Hillary Clinton testified in congress for nearly 10 hours about benghazi. Thats like a whole season of television that the House Select Committee just dropped on us like they were netflix or something. laughter and i watched all of it, because i dont just benghazi. I bingeghazi. laughter but in case you havent gotten into benghazi yet, let me catch you up on the night of september 11, 2012. Libyan extremists attacked an american compound and annex in benghazi, libya. The attack killed the u. S. Ambassador and three other americans so to find out what happened that night congress very reasonably sets up a committee investigation. And then they set up another investigation. And another one. And then also four more. laughter im just saying, maybe you should wonder if youre overdoing it when you have more sequels than fast and furious. And as the investigations went on, it felt like republicans started to shift their question from was anyone to blame to, more specifically, was hillary to blame . And then finally, just how can we blame this on hillary . laughter when Hillary Clinton was asked for more security, she turned the ambassador down. I would call it a coverup. Madam secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap. Hillary clinton got away with murder, in my view. Trevor oh and her name anagrams to lynch a trillion. laughter would someone who isnt a murderer have a name like that . laughter now, the investigations did upcover several mistakes by clinton and other officials that could have prevented the attacks, but none of them found that she did anything criminal or even sinister. So with seven Benghazi Committees come and gone, there was it only one step the g. O. P. Could take. The house of representatives today moved to form a special committee to investigate. Congressman trey gowdy is officially chosen to lead this investigation. laughter . Trevor yeah trey gowdy the congressman who will get to the bottom of this, once and for all. And you know what . I like this guy. He looks like someone put anderson coopers face under a heavy book overnight. laughter applause so, with seven committees going nowhere, maybe the eighth time is a charm. Of course, there have been questions about what the true purpose of so many seemingly redundant investigations could be. And lately, weve heard some clues coming from the republicans themselves. I think that there is a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people, an individual, Hillary Clinton. We put together a Benghazi Special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today . Her numbers are dropping. Trevor aaah mccarthy. You just admitted to convening the committee to hurt Hillary Clinton. Classic supervillain mistake. laughter you have to to wait until your enemys dead before you reveal the plot. cheers and applause theyre like, yes, hillary. Now that i have you strapped to the benghazi laser of doom, im going to tell you wait shes escaping shes escaping. Now mccarthys err of error didnt just hurt the committees credibility. It also affected trey gowdy, the guy who looks like a baby possum on picture day at school. I have told my own republican colleagues and friends, shut up talking about things that you dont know anything about. A republican in charge of Benghazi Committee, representative trey gowdy, is casting himself as a victim whose reputation has been unfairly besmirched. These have been among the worst weeks of my life. Stating that quote. Attacks on your character, attacks on your motive are 1,000 times worse than anything you can do to anybody physically. Trevor oh, man. Gowdy. That must be horrible, having your character and motives constantly attacked. But, hey, man, if you need to talk, i know someone hocan empathize. laughter so now were all caught up. Benghazi, endless hearings, plot against hillary, football with human makeup on, and that brings us to todays hearing. Hillary clinton marched into the lions den ready to avenge herself. Look how friendly she is with the press. You know you have been to 2 a lot of benghazi hearings when you know all the photographers by name. Hey, tom, i loved your shots from last time. And great choice on the filter. It looked great. Heres the thing about the hearing it was almost more of a debate about why they were having a hearing than it was a hearing itself. Even after an accountability review board and a half dozen congressional investigations, these and other questions still linger. It is time, and it is time now for the republicans to end this taxpayerfunded fishing expedition. We have learned nothing. Trevor we have learned nothing. I said the same thing to my fourth grade math teacher. laughter she was a scarecrow. South africa is weird. laughter but while Hillary Clinton had to endure repetitive questions and endless bickering, it wasnt a total waste of her time. Madam secretary, youre welcome to answer the question if youd like to. Well, i wrote a whole chapter about this in my book hard choices. Id be glad to send it to you, congressman. Audience oooh cheers that it that is gangster. Hillarys promoting her book in the middle of a hearing. That could end her political career hard choices, now available in paperback. laughter so now its been eight congressional committees holding 13 public hearings, spending around 20 million taxpayer dollars. And if that wasnt enough and this is a real thing michael bay has even made a movie about benghazi. We are overrun. Its under attack. Go, man, its under attack. Lets go weve got to move. The u. S. Ambassador, youre not the first responders. Youre the last resort. Trevor bravo, congress. Youre the only institution that can spend more money on something with no plot than it michael bay. Actually, i take that back. Michael bay has hits. Well be right back. cheers and applause this is iphone 6s. Not much has changed with the camera. Except how you take a photo. Find a photo. Share a photo. Ooh, moms gonna love that one. Your photos themselves have changed too. They move now. And the camera shoots video in 4k. 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With their rising profile now comic books and other fantasy stories are being taken more seriously and becoming political issues. Earlier this week we addressed this with star wars, and comics recently this hir own political moment. This morning jeb bushs response to his favorite superhero has the internet abuzz. Who is your favorite superhero. Thats the second time i was asked that question. Whats up with this. I like watching the movies. I wish i owned marvel. Trevor so, wait, watching superhero movies makes you dream of owning a business . laughter not flying or shooting lightning. No, no, no. Most people have an inner child. Jeb bush, jeb has an inner accountant. Well, if i had one superpower it would be a robust investment portfolio. laughter come on, dude. Everyone upons if someone asks you what your favorite superhero is, theres only one safe answer. I saw that theres a supergirl is on tv. I saw that it when i was working out this morning. Theres an ad promoting supergirl. She looked kind of she looked pretty hot. laughter . Trevor jeb, jebs creeping on the kryptonian. Jeb, just to let you know, everyone, and everyone out there, supergirl premieres next week at 8 30 on cbs, and based on jebs excitement i suggest no one shake his hand after 9 00 p. M. Because his hands will be sweating from the joy. You guys are disgusting. Oh, wait, actually, jeb bush. I thought of another easy patriotic answer to the superhero question. You should have just said captain america. Yeah. Although now they think about it, even hes not entirely without controversy. Sam wilson, formerly the falcon, hes taking over as captain america now but hes got a new it odd enemy. Instead of going against hydra and the typical captain america villains hes going up against conservatives. Thats his new enemy. laughter . Trevor you cant blame captain america for looking for a challenge. Defeating the red skull is one thing. But fighting ben carson. Thats a challenge. Oh, captain, i believe you want to punch the guy behind the counter. applause laughter what fox means to say is in the latest issue of captain america the captain battles the supreme serpent, a racist cult leader terrorizing illegal immigrants. Who would defend that guy. The serpent is an american whos has misgivings about illegal immigration and the costs associated with it. Keep politics out of comic books. What about back in the day when captain america used to be punching hitler in the face . Trevor yeah why cant we why cant we go back to when captain america was fighting nazis, before we got politics involved . laughter you know captain america was punching hitler because of his fascist policies, right . He wasnt just rolling around europe planting his fist in every mustache heap didnt like. Take that, hipster. Comic books have always taken a political stand but comic books arent real. Its ultimately about escapism and fant itacy. 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Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight is the chief washington correspondent for cnbc. His show also for cnbc is called speak easy with john harwood. Please welcome john harwood. cheers and applause trevor, i first want to tell you that i was actually in your home town before you were. Trevor you were in my home town before i was . Yes. But i had permission. The the Administration Board said i could go. Thats my pass. Trevor oh, wow. This is insane. This is a permit from south africas good old days. laughter . And i and i had such a good time, that i brought back this. Trevor oh, look at that. Thats cool. I love soweto. Thats very nice. Both of these things have been on my Bulletin Board since i came back. I went several times during the 1980s during the unrest as a reminder of a place and a time where the politics are for really high stakes. Like our politics, theyre significant, theyre important, but there was lifeordeath stuff i was covering there. As a matter of fact, i i interviewed the treasury secretary from time to time. I interviewed the finance minister of south africa, except at that time Trevor Manuel was under cover because he was a banned person. Trevor he was not permitted to be in public. Trevor everyone was a banned person back then. Its pretty much how the country worked. Exactly. Trevor it was like a country of bad boys. You just kept this and one day i will meet a South African in america. laughter applause and i will hand them to him. I also have a rubber bullet in my desk. Trevor thats nice. I have a rubber bullet in my chest, actually. Thank you so much, john. Welcome, welcome to the show. Im truly excited. Ive always wanted to meet someone hois going to moderate a debate. This is something ive always wanted to do, and you know a lot of these candidates. Youve been youve been hosting the speak easy show, right . I have been doing interviews. Its actually a great way of debate prep because all year long, for nine months, ive been interviewing candidates. Ive got an unbelievably talented young team of producers. Theyre in the audience here. Mary, sophie, brandon, keene, erica. You have extended conversations. You can cover personal issues. You can cover policy. We make various clips thaty we put online purkt on tv. Its been fantastic experience. Trevor it really has been fantastic. Ive seen some of the shows, and honestly the ben carson one was probably my favorite. Was he as chill in person. He is very chill. Hes a very nice man. We interviewed him in detroit, and the most remarkable moment probably the single most remarkable moment for me in all of the interviews was when i asked him about his opposition to gay marriage and asked him how he justified that when he was trying to lead a country where so many people are in favor of it. And i think weve got the clip. Trevor weve actually got a clip that you have to watch. So you asked him about gay marriage and why he was opposed to it. And this is what ben carson said. What do you say to the next group . What is the next group. Do you say, well, we changed it to this group, but thats it. Were not changing it for anybody else. Everybody knows there are more groups. Honest to god, i dont know what youre talking about. cheers and applause trevor okay, okay, lets lets switch gears. Lets talk about the debate coming up. How do you decide whos going to moderate the debate . Is that like an exciting thing in the office or i is it like te Republican Debate is coming and you draw straws or is it a gift . No, its a gift. We have three moderators, becky quick, carl quintanilla, and me. And we have expert analysts helping us. We have big meetings for hours to talk about our questions. If you want ton what its like, i would say its a threesyllable word that begins with cluster, and we have multihour meetings. But its been good. That process gets us to what we want to ask them, which is what are the ways in which theyre going to help the American Economy to deliver higher Living Standards trevor it is specifically. It is specifically on the economy. The Biggest Issue in our politics right now eye have been covering politics for a long time for 40 years now the average American Family has not seen their wages rise. Why is that . Both parties under democrats and republicans. President obama says its the challenge of our time. The republican candidates say the same thing. And were going to get a chance in the debate to really draw these candidates out on what exactly theyre going to do. Trevor arent you a little bit intimidated, youre going to be asking these people about the economy. There is a man on the stage who literally wrote the book on the the art of the deal. Yeah. Hes told me about that, actually. Trevor are you ready for trump . You know . laughter . I think we are ready for trump. Its very interesting. I never expected that when this campaign started that donald trump was going to be ahead in the polls this long into the process. And in fact, not only donald trump, but ben carson, theyre leading all the candidates, not just by a little bit but by a lot. So theyre going to be at the center of the stage. And the guys who have been governors and senators from big states are on the side. Carly fiorina will also be there, the former Hewlett Packard c. E. O. Trevor you spend more time on them if theyre in the middle . Is that how it works . Do they have equal time . With the time what, do you do if they dont answer your questions . Well, you can follow up. There are some questions politicians just dont want to answer and you cant make them answer. Trevor for instance, ask me a question as if i was trump, and i want to see what youd reply. Ask any question youd ask trump. Lets practice. How are you going to make the Mexican Government pay for that wall youre going to build. Trevor im just gonna make them im just gonna make them pay. And how are you going to send 11 Million People out of the country . Trevor im gonna do it. laughter cheers and applause you see, ive given you something to think about, john harwood. You know, we had an incredible moment in our debate in 2011. You remember rick perry. Trevor in fact, we actually have a clip of that. Before we let you go, this is the moment that john harwood is hoping to recreate, i hope, this time. Its three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. Commerce, education and the uwhats the third one there . Lets see. You cant name the third one jalets see. I cant. The third one i cant. Sorry. Oops. cheers and applause . Oops. You know how in some pro golf tournaments if you win the tournament, you can keep playing the rest of your life no matter how bad youre playing. Trevor yes. I thought that rick perry should have a lifetime pass into our debates because but he dropped out of the race before it happened. Trevor thats selfish of you, my friend. Thats the same reason i hope donald trump carries on, for the sake of the show. Thank you so much for coming here. You can see john harwood on you can see john harwood on cnbc, door bell rings trick or treat mmm thank you mmm mmm vo you can check on them. You can worry about them. You can even choose a car for them. mom honey, are you ok . child im ok. announcer vo love. mom were ok. announcer vo its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Give extra. Get extra. Weve gotpeptocopter ummy town. When cold cuts give your belly thunder, pink relief is the first responder, so you can be a business boy wonder fix stomach trouble fast with pepto. [this mountain doesnt own a watch. 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