completely inaccurate after further investigations. let s face it. republicans will be reluctant to give up, primarily because of the prospect of tarnishing hillary clinton, the democrats leading potential candidate for 2016 is too great. joining me now is nia-malika henderson and sahil kapur. sahil, thank you for joining us. i m fascinated by this. what is the target? i know generally it s hillary clinton, generally the administration. but what are they actually trying to get the voter out there to believe secretary clinton did or did not the night of this tragedy in realtime? what are they saying she did or didn t do? chris, first, thanks for having me on. what i would say, as you said, it s a two-prong target. first off they re going after hillary clinton because they correctly recognize that republicans, this is the only thing they have that touched her. and they want to go after the administration because when you re the party out of power it helps to have a scandal to charge t
i want to go where the facts lead us. but now we re on some witch-hunt in the forest somewhere. and the hearing after hearing after hearing, and it s gotten to be ridiculous almost. welcome back to hardball. democrats on the house oversight committee led by ranking member elijah cummings there are saying kill it to darrell issa s obsession with benghazi. in a letter signed by all 17 democratic members of the committee, they call for an end to a year and a half long investigation which has so far turned up no wrongdoing in fact on the part of hillary clinton or the obama administration. they write to date the committee s investigation has been characterized by wild and unsubstantiated political accusations that turn out to be completely inaccurate after further investigations. let s face it. republicans will be reluctant to give up, primarily because of the prospect of tarnishing hillary clinton, the democrats leading potential candidate for 2016 is too great.
like school girls cheering for justin bieber. it s wasn ted as the years have gone by. but the media some say the media has been soft on this president. no, actually, i didn t vote for obamobama. i just said i didn t vote for bush. you didn t vote? i have to add somebody did a lot of investigative reporting. it is not uncommon for reporters to clash with their bosses about what is important. what atkins katkisson told me w been three years. i think it can be a way of tarnishing or neutralizing
could get far worse tarnishing this signature achievement that has helped propel him to the white house. we have reached out to christie s office but have not yet gotten a response. the inspector general said she are not going to comment on investigation. it will result in an official report that will be released to the public. chris frates, thanks so much. we are now joined by peter h hamby. i know his state of the state address is tomorrow. you think he will address any of this? it is clooear this is completely paralyzing his agenda. i can t imagine there will be any headline coming out of the state of the state address tomorrow evening that does not address the story chris just talked about, the hud investigation or the bridge
unfair advantage. at the time christi said the winning bid provide more value. after an initial review the office of the inspector general at the department of housing and urban development has concluded that there is enough evidence to launch a full scale investigation according to congressman pallone. taxpayer dollars that could have been used for sandy relief were used for ads promoting the governor because he was in them with his family during an election campaign. reporter: as bad as the george washington bridge scandal has been for christi if the investigation finds he improperly spent sandy funds it could get far worse tarnishing the signature achievement that helped propel him towards the white house. we ve reached out to christi s office and yet to get a response but the inspector general talked to us today and told us they don t have a comment at this time. now congressman pallone tells us the investigation by the hud inspector general is likely to take months but result