boehner didn t want dadarrell ir this. that s the reason why this occurred. yet cummings go out there and let him make his mark and protected the especially hillary clinton, who could be the presumptive 2016 nominee. we know the republicans had a lot of folks with legal experience on their side of the committee. democrats seem to have chosen people with foreign affairs and armed services experience which gives you a sense of the message they re trying to send. as luke said, elijah cummings has done an effective job of making the republicans look too pid but republicans have done an effective job of making republicans loog stupid and no better than darrell issa. what is the number one downfall for the republicans now that the committee is launched. what do they need to look out for? falling into the trap of the political. from the beginning of this horrible saga, republicans have
to the committee to make sure they re honest in their reputation. they have to take apart that one e-mail, the only new piece of evidence here and parse that. at the ends of the day there was a reason hillary clinton s name was mentioned 98 times on the sunday shows and she is the organizing principal here on benghazi. give even your conversation with representatives on the hill, is there going to be a time-out made on fundraising? that seems to be the issue for the republicans. that was something i asked job boehner object a week or two ago and his decision then was to sort of dodge the question and not not engage upon it. right now it seems the fundraising moves forward and that s the risk for the gop that it looks very political. i can tell you from covering tray gowdy, he s serious. if you sort of see this play out to gowdy versus cummings that
way. but you can either e be on the playingfield or you can be on the sidelines or in the stands. and i think at the ends 069 day, the leader made the determination that it s better for us for us to try to be fighting for the truth, trying to help the american public see what really is going on and so hopefully, what goes on is a meaningful investigation, not some witch hunt that really is a way to raise campaign cash as we continue to hear the republicans say. one last question. we know what the republicans want out of this. what s the number one goal for democrats? you know, the number one goal for democrats is not to do an eighth investigation on benghazi. it s to raise the minimum wage and give women equal pay for equal work and trying to make sure we finally deem with the 2.8 billion americans that have lost their job through no fault of their own and their emergency unemployment insurance and
on capitol hill, what was it. from the members i spoke to, they came to the conclusion that we don t want to acknowledge that this is, in fact, a kangaroo court. i heard that a lot. you need to have folkslike elijah cummings to provide cover for any high-profile people called to testify. this kwom has subpoena power for folks like houston aillary clin john kerry. if you have a pit bull like elijah cummings on the panel that not only offers the protection but has done a very good job of making republicans look stupid on the oversight committee and making him go down these rabbit holes on this occasion, he s been a machine in terms of providing sound bytes and so maich so that john
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