debate, it wouldn t have been a slight to secretary clinton and maybe around this benghazi hearing, which we know is a witch hunt confirmed by a couple more republicans today, i think what happened is the shot clock has run out and everybody likes joe biden and the folks helping him are nice enough and they want to do the right thing but the time s up. hillary clinton looked poised and strong and she s the candidate to beat. you realize you said bidin his time? that s a headline there. ben carson brought in $20 million. that s a lot of dough. if you doesn t include trump, who raised $3.9 million in unslu unsolicited donations, are
i think it s an interesting concept. she had an incredible night. i don t think she s up against. she was up against some weak competition and at the end of the day, the hillary thing and the i m curious what everybody else thinks here, it s not going to come down to the benghazi hearing, the reporter, it s the fbi. new reports out and the fbi looking at the provision i was talking about it. no, there s a gross negligent standard in the statute that matters and that s in fact what the fbi is looking at right now. if the fbi has a clean bill of health, she s fine. if not, it doesn t matter what
course that might have happened otherwise. and that still potentially could happen. alex, this is the big issue overhanging her campaign, how she performs next week. aides have told me and said to others the benghazi hearing is a bigger test, performance test for her than the debate even. yeah. absolutely. just to pull back, since march when we first learned about these e-mails, we have been waiting, even before that, waiting for when hillary clinton would go before the benghazi committee. we knew it would come eventually. this has been the date they have marked on their calendar for months as when they hopefully can put this issue behind them. it has been a cancer on the campaign, it hurt her poll numbers, damaged her credibility with the american people and led to questions like will joe biden jump in, it s led bernie sanders to have a surprisingly strong challenge to her. with all of these things that have now happened leading up to thursday, with mccarthy, with richard hanna, w
today, the clinton campaign saying in part the committee s focus on huma is additional evidence that the attack of benghazi and lessons about how we might better protect diplomats serving in dangerous places are the last things on the committee s mind. and today benghazi hearing was aimed at finding out what happened on the night of september 11th, 2012 when four americans including our u.s. ambassador chris stevens were murdered. did lawmakers get the answer they were looking for? benghazi select committee member westmoreland goes on the record. thank you for being here, sir. thank you for having me. as far as you can tell is huma abedin honest and fort worth in answering all the questions you put to her. i think she is a very nice lady and she was forthcoming. there is things she couldn t recall and couldn t remember. these things happened four years ago. i think she tried to answer every question. when you say the things she couldn t remember, do you believe that she legit
lives and what s going on in them. so i think he helped us, i think, but he also helped himself. he really did voice what was going on. but you know there s concern for your democrats. you know what it is when it comes to this stuff, will she be so injured by this that she ll be hobbled in a general election? i think she s answered that. she s been out there, answering questions. she s done just a ton of interviews. as she said, she said it last night, she made a mistake. she s taken responsibility for it. she s ask that all the e-mails be disclosed. when they are disclosed they help her, as secretary of state projecting values around the globe. next week we ll get a chance to testify in public in the so-called benghazi hearing. i think that the chairman gowdy and the other republicans on that committee go into that hearing hobbled because of what the majority leader, mr. mccarthy said this was a