Insisting “our country is better than this”, an emotional Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Monday Americans must get serious about gun control and be willing to take on the entrenched politics surrounding guns. “[This is] not a step I take lightly, but it’s important that OCE investigate such a blatant misuse of public funds in a blatantly partisan manner”.
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However, Emily Schillinger, a spokeswoman for Speaker John Boehner said in a statement following the release of the new ad that “this is a classic Clinton attempt to distract from her record of putting classified information at risk and jeopardizing our national security, all of which the FBI is investigating”.
“Republicans have spent millions attacking Hillary because she’s fighting for everything they oppose from affordable health care to equal pay,”a narrator then says”.
During her 90 minutes at the community barn, Clinton flipped pancakes and talked to individual members of the roughly 100 people in attendance for the town hall meeting that followed the interview.
“The mission of the Select Committee on Benghazi is to find the truth – Period”, he said in a statement. In a Politico story out Tuesday, at least “one small contingent of family allies” say they believe she is doomed in early-voting New Hampshire.
Clinton was especially concerned about Stevens, a friend and “someone she had lot of confidence and respect for”, Mill said, according to the partial transcript.
Her campaign did not comment on how much this national ad buy cost, nor did they provide any other details about it.
In a 13-page letter to ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings, Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy previewed new and troubling details about just what sort of information Secretary Clinton was sharing with Blumenthal via her home-brew server.
Clinton, struggling with ongoing controversy surrounding her use of personal email while secretary of state, dropped 19 percentage points in the poll from May, to 47 percent. “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?”
Her campaign rolled out a robust set of proposals today, including using executive action as president to expand background check requirements.
McCarthy defended the work of the committee. Her numbers are dropping. Why?
“This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries, knows no limits of any kind”, she told the crowd of several hundred.
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McCarthy’s comments launched renewed efforts to abolish the committee. “I would never have done that, and if I were president and there were Republicans or Democrats thinking about that, I would have done everything to shut it down”. CBS News political director and Face the Nation moderator, John Dickerson, is with us.
