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this as secretary of state john kerry and former secretary of state hillary clinton are accused of stonewalling congress after they both refused to say whether they will testify before a new select committee looking into the attacks. so where does this leave the investigation? let s turn now to phillip stuts, president of phillip stuts and company. and richard goodstein, former adviser to hillary clinton for president. thank you, gentlemen, for talking to us. phillip, what do you make of house oversight and government reform committee, darrell issa s decision to release john kerry from a subpoena to testify on june 12th about the benghazi terrorist attacks? this is a procedural move. i think congress issa wants the gowdy investigation to move forward and be the real focus. i tend to think, more than anything, the stonewalling by john kerry, by the state department, is sort of, you know, catching on to how the
obama administration moved. they have done with this benghazi, they did this with the irs, they did this with obamacare. it s weighing down on the american public. benghazi is where we lost an ambassador and is much more serious. the american public wants the facts. and i don t know why there is a continuous stonewalling from john kerry and the state department. richard, this now opens the door for the house s new select committee on benghazi. apparently to call on secretary kerry for questioning. so where does this leave the investigation? certainly, the house committees need to get their act together, right? so congressman issa put his subpoena out after the gowdy special committee was assembled. then he withdrew it. and here secretary kerry is dealing with matters of war and peace, attending to affairs of state, and he can t exactly kind of criticize him for saying do you want me, do you not want me? come on, give it to me. what do you want? and really, the notion that
to message this properly. she just hired tommy vooeter, and when asked about what happened with benghazi, basically said, dude, that was two years ago. so she is playing politics, and she is accusing the republicans of playing politics. it just seems hypocritical to me. richard, would you agree? hillary clinton said there is a difference between unanswered questions and unlistened to answers. first of all, your premise, julie, that she has said she is not going to participate, that s a fiction. she has not said that. she said she doesn t want to engage in political theatre. and my question is, is that what the committee is saying they do want to engage in? she has testified already, she has answered these questions. there have been eight different committees over a dozen different hearings, 25,000 different documents have been released. this notion that somehow or other there is a stonewalling i understand the fox audience desperately, desperately wants something to come out.
somehow he is stonewalling when the committee can t quite get their act together is a bit much. and certainly no indication whatsoever that secretary clinton is stonewalling at all. she testified before the house, she testified before the senate, rand paul, one of her possible opponents, was there grilling her. so she has put herself out there. the suggestion that somehow they re stonewalling is honestly a fiction that somehow the public i think is going to get tired. phillip, hillary clinton says she is not going to take part in what she calls a political slugfest by answering anymore questions on the matter. do you feel that all the questions have been answered? well, obviously, they haven t. because we re sitting here almost two years later, and we don t have all of the answers. but, you know, it s interesting. she says this is all politics, and this is driven by politics. and we don t know what s going to be in the chapter she is releasing. but this weekend she is meeting with