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american citizens who were serving in this capacity. there s no story here but people will make one because that s how politics works in america. these conservative talking heads were making the case that there was too much coverage of bridgegate, that, in fact, there was more coverage op that than benghazi. i don t believe there s been any senate hearings on bridgegate or did i miss that in the news? when you have a senate hearing on something, i don t know if you can get any more intense than that. ruth conniff, in december, christie and clinton were neck and neck in a hypothetical 2016 race with clinton leading by just three points. according to the latest nbc news/marist poll, clinton s lead as opened up to 13 points. what do you make of this shift in opinion? well, i think that this story is really bad for christie. i think bridgegate s really bad because people can easily grasp it, because it s not at odds with what we know abhis personality, you know, whether i goes all the
gosh, we haven t had enough coverage on benghazi and all they re talk about is bridgegate. they re ginning up an angle. but this senate report that came out, is it going to dog hillary clinton all through? ruth, your thoughts on it. absolutely not. you know, this report does not amount to a hill of beans or refried beans if you like. this is the same thing we already knew. so it says basically that hillary said everything there was to say about it, that she was not hiding anything, that when she took responsibility for the death of chris stephens, which she already did, that s what john mccain is saying she needs to do now, she did that, there s nothing really else to say. as far as the comparison to bridgegate, christie s staff clearly, what we know is they were trying to create chaos and there was a lot of damage as a result to people in new jersey. that was not the case in benghazi. hillary was not trying to kill her friend chris stephens and they were not trying to cree yay chaos
old benghazi story that people who watch fox news are excited about and pretty much nobody else. i think we can come to the conclusion what unfolded in benghazi was not orchestrated by americans. what happened in bridgegate was orchestrated by is this real scrambling by the conservatives? you re right that there is now a lot of pressure on conservatives to try to besmirch hillary clinton who they see as the front-runner on the democratic side for 2016 because of what s happened to chris christie. mind you thishgs not even that well settled on chris christie as their own front-runner but, you know, this is tit for tat politics and has become the american way. but at the end of the day you re both right here. there is no there, there. the report reconfirm what is we already know. and while there may have been some incompetence in terms of communication especially around interagassi communication, between the cia and the folk that handle security for these kind of outposts at the en
an issue. the question are whether the facts will turn this into an issue. he stood there for 11 minutes in an open dialogue with the press. now, only if barack obama and hillary clinton would give us 111 seconds of that would we find out some things we want to find out about obamacare, benghazi, the irs. he points out that the media in new jersey now is trying to count how many people may have died because of this scandal. he said that s interesting. they re doing a body count now. have they ever done a body count with hillary clinton, benghazi, and her other decisions as secretary of state? no, they haven t, and they won t. so karl rove thinks that the clintons should weigh in on bridgegate. what for? they don t live in new jersey. joining me now is our rapid response panel, james peterson, ruth conniff, editor in chief of the progressive magazine. great to have you with us tonight. we know where this is going.