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your rebuttal, your counterattack, if you will, is itself a violation, inappropriate, please stop. more than they want to file in federal court regarding the employee termination issues. i spoke to the lawyers. they say they spoke to him in the last 24 hours and he disputes chair gowdy s claim they never met. he said they met twice and he briefed him in a small committee. that it s legal scuffling. we know every point in this dispute, chairman gowdy denied these charges. rereached out for a comment. it shows before they get to court, there is going to be a big public battle here. strong allegations, strong denials. thank you for joining us. you got it. up next, in the lid, a preview of tomorrow s democratic debate. life s all about learning.. asking questions..
new questions about the house benghazi committee with explosive allegations from a former insider. the a a recall former intelligence officer and investigator for the committee says he lost his job in part because he refused to focus his investigative efforts solely on former secretary of state hillary clinton. he alleges clinton became the target of the committee after revelations last march she used a private e-mail server as secretary of state. as i stated, hillary clinton has a lot of explaining to go. we, however, did not need to shift resources to hyper focus on hillary clinton. i honestly do not believe this investigation was set up to go after hillary. i believe it shifted that way. podliska is moving ahead with a lawsuit against the committee, alleging he was punish for taking leave to go on active military duty. in an interview with nbc news, trey gowdy forcefully denied the allegations and say podliska was
let go because of his poor performance. that s damn lie and not a word i often used but rarely is it so even proven. he never said a word about hillary clinton until it looked like he was gonna lose his mediation and then he bent on another television show and made this allegation, but he never said a word about it in june, july, august, september or october, despite having ample opportunity to do so. msnbc chief legal correspondent, ari melber, has been following this closely. joins me now. sounds like there s news on this in the last hour the situation escalating even furtherer? that s correct. the breaking news this afternoon is that podliska s lawyers putting of you the a letter, saying they violated confidentiality rules that gowdy talked about mediation, the counseling process, governed by federal law, dispute resolution, supposed to essentially remain private. the cease and desist is his lawyers saying the committee,