look, this is invest gatded by seven congressional committees. this was set up by john boehner to try to hurt hillary clinton and nothing more. meanwhile, how are they trying to say that this former staffer, luke, is nothing more than a person with an ax to grind and trying to maybe take advantage of what kevin mccarthy said and seize this as an opportunity? well that s what i think you saw from the interview saying, look, this guy is pointing to dubious reasons as to why, in fact, he is going the direction of which he is going. i do think, though, the harm for gaudy in this case is that hillary clinton strategy ahead of that october 22nd hearing before the benghazi committee from democrats i have spoken to is force a stalemate while this hearing is publicly broadcast. hillary clinton will answer questions but now, thomas, she can say, look, kevin mccarthy said this. the ex staffer said this. we can go back and forth. this is much more about methane
that term. i believe that the private sector can t run everything and needs to be a balance. within the private sector and the government working together. that s the best answer for the american public and i think bernie believes that. i don t think he expressed it very well. all right. pregaming the big debate for us, appreciate your time. still ahead, more on the explosive allegations we mentioned from a former house benghazi committee staffer. he said the probe against hillary clinton is partisan. republican leaders pushing back hard. plus, will paul ryan be the next speaker? we have new comments on tape from the congressman. and caught on tape, a texas councilman stunned, tasered, arrested. he says it was unwarranted. we are live in texas. rcent or mn car insurance. yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? you got to know when to hold em. know when to fold em. know when to walk away.
what happened in benghazi and it s hard to get her off of that podium moving forward in that direction. nbc s luke russert, thank you. thank you. we ve been asking you to weigh in on the bing pulse question today involving the controversy surrounding the benghazi committee and whether or not it s time to disband the committee. that was our question. is it time to do so? 96% of you say, yes. 4% of you say, no. the pulse is live. opinions matter. we have another update later in the hour. tomorrow night it is the first democratic debate, five candidates at the wynn casino and resort in las vegas. vice president joe biden in delaware is still mulling over an entry. he s not going to be in attendance. senator sanders spoke over the weekend with chuck todd. he said the difference between him and clinton is consistency on issues important to the democratic base.
in advance of the forward coming forward. the wind is taken out of the sails a little bit given the hillary clinton controversy. the communications team blasted back after the allegations about the partisan nature of his experience with that committee. the campaign said that it was explosive. this allegation saying it s more evidence of what they described as a partisan sham and still possible that clinton does face some questions about this, one of the questions could be, you know, can democrats have faith that there isn t anymore information that will come out in those final days before america iowans vote for the first time. the last e-mail release date is days before the first vote and that is something that some democrats will be worried about a ten focus on a lot of topics and e-mail take a back burner. we ll see certainly performance and how everybody does under pressure tomorrow night from where you are but one thing about the clinton campaign is they have new poll numbers fr
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