morning talking about the two suspects. we are starting to learn just a little bit more about the victims. he is the first victim to be officially identified. again, damian mein, one of the 14 who lost his life not far behind me here yesterday. at our news conference, tamron, our hope is that we learn more about some of the other victims here as well. yes, that certainly should be the focus today as well, craig. and let me now bring in with us california congresswoman loretta lynch. she represents the 46th district in nearby orange county, also senior member of the house homeland security committee since its inception after the 9/11 attacks. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time today. thank you so much. loretta sanchez, by the way. you said loretta lynch, thinking of our attorney general. who was with the president at the top of the hour when he made his comments. congresswoman sanchez, let me get your initial reaction to what we re hearing as this investigation continu
killings? he had actually led a bill that said they wouldn t be able to steady it. so yesterday i was pleased to see that he said, i was wrong. we really need to get to the bottom of this. so when we see people who have been so far on this issue against any type of look at it, against any type of regulation, maybe it is time. maybe our country has seen enough. maybe the congresspeople can come together and say you know what? everything has to be on the table, and we have to methodically take a look at this and see how we prevent this in the future. i am not advocating that we eliminate all guns. i believe that there are rights that gun holders have. i just know that even in the first amendment like freedom of speech, it is regulated. you can t scream fire in a theater. you can be sued for libel against people. and so we need to ensure that we regulate correctly. congresswoman sanchez, thank
grade on donald trump? i thought larry david was an excellent host. trmp trrp i m less won over by. people expecting something on the order of stephen colbert roasting george w. bush at the white house correspondents dinner, the show was never going to lay a glove on trump, never a roast or a sapphiis satire of h. safe was a win. you re right. the show benefited from all the attention and notoriety that he brings and makes them look like they re important in the cultural conversation, which they are, and trump gets 90 minutes of air time, whether he s the focus of the jokes or just a passing player in some of these sketches. congresswoman sanchez it was not all fun and games as we saw the march from trump tower, amanda, you were with them and what did you see? they were upset he was
is dropping out of the democratic race. let s get to our political panel. senior politics editor for the daily beast, jackie kucinich, and matt lewis, senior contributor for the daily caller. matt, i ll start with you, because it seems this morning it s the republican party who s taking a lot of heat for this hearing. as i asked congresswoman sanchez, how would you headline what we witnessed yesterday? well, i think that hillary won politically. now, it s possible there are legal ramifications. she s under oath. the fbi s looking into her already. it s possible that she said something that might legally come back to haunt her. but in terms of the political aspect, the optics, she was unflappable. republicans didn t score any real points, just a couple of glancing blows. i think republicans have some very valid concerns about what happened in benghazi, but none of it really came out yesterday. let s be clear, here you have congresswoman sanchez. she s on the committee. she s a d
having dereliction of duty or done something nefarious. and in fact, all of the testimony yesterday that she provided showed how much she cared, how hard she worked, how saving american lives was utmost in her mind, how frantic she was when she received information about the attack, and what she did post benghazi attack to try to improve security around the globe so that our state department folks wouldn t be in that kind of danger. but congresswoman, as you know, there are republicans who say yesterday, yes, the gop may have failed in many ways, but without this investigation, without the committee, we would not have known about the private e-mail server. you still have the fbi investigation. where do you see this going now? the private e-mail server is a wild goose chase. and again, kevin mccarthy, house leadership for the republican, admitted the purpose of the benghazi committee was to drive down hillary clinton s poll numbers. they ve spent $5 million talking about her e-mail,