was careless with his words during congressional questioning. more morell says it was also a mistake after requested by denis mcdonough to escort him to capitol hill. and when he retired, he told the wall street journal he was interested in advising future presidential campaigns but anonymous officials close to the secretary of state are you advising the hillary clinton campaign? no. will you? i see myself bret as an intelligence professional. nonpartisan. i am not going to be working for anybody s campaign. reporter: but morell is now a paid consultant whose leadership includes mrs. clinton s principle gatekeeper. he s willing to testify in front of the benghazi select committee but he hasn t been officially
we not only adhere to all governing ethics rules and laws we strive to go above and beyond those requirements. review of the website shows predominantly democrats including long time clint an aid described by the new york times as mrs. clinton s principle gatekeeper, jon. jon: what are the chances, getting a select committee? do you have any way to assess that? reporter: the key question whether the house intelligence committee held out as being sort of the beachhead for these investigations made significant progress. the feeling after morell s testimony last week that not sufficient progress has really been made on this front. jon: catherine herridge in washington, thank you. reporter: you re welcome. happening now, an important milestone for one of you areour show s favorite guests. nearly two years ago during his third deployment in afghanistan staff sergeant travis mills was gravely wounded. he lost portions of both armies and both legs bomb becoming the nation s fourth a
and two months and the height of the talking points controversy and susan rice went on the sunday talking show, morell went to capitol hill and met with senators. in that meeting, when susan rice was with director morell and wlamed the fbi for changing the talking points and we called the fbi and they go crazy and said we didn t change the talking points. you have to wonder particularly now that he may have received the e-mail the day before what was going on. reporter: recently it was described by the new york times magazine as clinton s principle gatekeeper. he gave an interview and advising future presidential campaign he is close to mrs. clinton. they declined to speak on camera