damage did mccarthy do in talking about the creation of this panel and how it has brought hillary clinton s polling numbers down? look, politics surrounds this hearing because hillary clinton is the front-runner for the democratic nomination for the presidency of the united states. you go back to the iraq war hearings, nancy pelosi boasted about the fact that the democrats had held 77 hearings on the iraq war. it had been a tool of the majority forever. the exception to hearings over the last generation has been this one under the leadership of chairman gowdy, who has been impeccably fair. you have that shocking moment where the ranking moment, elijah cummings sharon mills and hillary clinton s chief of staff and she s talking about the respect and fairness shown to her by the committee, there have been no leaks. the chief counsel is a retired