Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin will be interviewed Friday by the House Benghazi Committee in a closed session in the Capitol, according to a GOP source familiar with the committee’s activities.
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“This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was created to go after people – an individual: Hillary Clinton”, Hanna said in a live interview with Utica radio station WIBX (950 AM).
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” But Democrats have said its true intent is more nakedly political, citing House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s recent suggestion that Clinton’s poll numbers “are dropping” thanks to the committee’s investigation.
A former staffer for the Benghazi committee came forward this past weekend and claimed that the panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., fired him for not keeping the investigation focused on Clinton. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee”. Hanna offered his opinion near the end of a wide-ranging 12-minute radio interview on the Keeler in the Morning show on WIBX. “But let’s just take a minute here and point out that this committee is basically an arm of the Republican National Committee”.
Pressed by debate moderator Anderson Cooper about the email issue being a legitimate one, Clinton replied, “I never said it wasn’t legitimate”. Republicans have pointed out that Clinton’s use of a private email server would not have been exposed without the committee’s work, but critics say they’ll need to demonstrate there’s still fresh ground to cover after multiple previous probes of the attack.
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Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night deflected questions about her controversial use of a private email system to shield her communications, by saying the Republican effort to investigate her communications isn’t an investigation, but an act of raw politics.
