up or the candidacy of either of these gentlemen turnscrap? on negligenc on this, on negligence? they said you re not the president. this case was not. they w and the vice president did say they weren t shopliftersifte. rs they weren t crooks.ren they they weren t they weret sloppy.cr they were. what about the fact that hillary and joe, when these things happen, all their donations went up in to look at this is benghazi ori. in context is benghazi. this is benghazi again. and hillars be y clinton with g e-mails again. my go goes?e does it no, you re not answering t my question. hesewhy do these civilians haved to follow the law of the united states of america? why is i indt that theseivth individuals think that they are above the law? and i heard nancy pelosit th screaming about the fact that no one is abov thae the law. hillary clinton, no one is when above the law when it came to donald trump. why are they not above the law? and why in this case, i get g above the law act together.m
elections and perhaps keep casting this pall over the party by those who might not side with the republican party and might have a tendency to look at this with a more truthful gaze. so that is the calculation. now long term, you know, this will be investigated. this there will be reports issued. and frankly, we ll have to wait and see, but it doesn t seem like history will cast a kind eye on filibustering a commission to investigate the biggest you know, ride on the capitol in 200 years. it looks like this is going to be a house select committee. so it looks like it s going to be a partisan effort. and the most recent one, i think, or i can think of, or most folks can think of is benghazi. i m not equating the two, apples to apples, but what i am asking you is, then where do we land in terms of something that all
americans can really see as fully fact-based? that s the fundamental problem. you can t equate the two in terms of republicans determination to investigate. ten benghazi committees. and they can t muster support for a single bipartisan report? you know, if they want to filibuster this, they should be made to filibust ter out loud. they want to turn the page and stop talking about it. they should be forced to talk about it. forced to defend the indefensible on the record. but that house select committee which would have republicans on it. here s another idea. ask john katko, the republican who negotiated this to co-chair it because the you know, the reason a bipartisan commission on this along the lines of 9/11 is so important, which is nonpoliticians, civic leaders, is you need an authoritative report that transcends partisan politics. we all know the game is going to get played. the house select committee will move forward and the republicans will use that as a partisan report. i
within each party that we saw a display within the last weeks on the two stages about regime change versus keeping dictators in place because it is more realistic, realism. but the bottom line is, if you re a republican and the general election, all you re going to do is benghazi. you name your issue across the worlds russia reset. yes, she was secretary of state, she has command of the issues. rhetorically she understands them, but sheer going to see she didn t execute them properly across the board. the playbook is already written. on peter s point, it s not just a matter of her being secretary of state. i think you look at the style of the person. her style is so distinct from barack obama.
she had spoken to an egyptian official quickly after the attack and said, it s not linked to the video and it was an al qaeda-linked group. the american public didn t know that. those were new things to the american public. is benghazi really behind her? i think so. the moments that you noticed with the e-mail to her family and with the call to the egyptian prime minister, and i was working for president obama at the time of benghazi. those first few days afterwards, it was very confusing. there was literally the fog of war and we had intelligence coming in that said conflicting things. so what you saw in her public statements at the time, what you saw in her private correspondents with her family and in phone conversations is the best information we had then. and the situation kept changing until, eventually, a still relatively muddled picture emerged of a lot of factors that contributed to this. it was partly the video. you know, there was terrorist activity behind this. the man wh