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Clinton references McCarthy’s Benghazi comments in TV ad

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at the Human Rights Campaign Breakfast in Washington, October 3, 2015.

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Since August, Clinton has aired several television ads across the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Blumenthal was not merely acting as a steward of information to Secretary Clinton but was acting as her de facto political advisor”, Gowdy said in a blistering letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the Benghazi panel’s top Democrat.

“Republicans have spent millions to attack Hillary because she’s fighting for everything they oppose”.

When Hillary Clinton rolled out a series of new gun control proposals this week, one of the most newsworthy and controversial ideas she put forth was a vow to use executive action as president to fix the background check system if Congress refused to act.

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.

O’Malley’s campaign called Clinton’s comments “disappointing” and said she was “embracing arguments pushed by the architects of deregulation that big banks did not play a major role in the financial crisis”. The stakes will be high for all of them, but especially for frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her main challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

“Look at the situation that they chose to exploit to go after me for political reasons – the death of four Americans in Benghazi”, she exclaimed.

Answering a question after his statement Mr Obama said he would keep “politicising the issue” to maintain pressure on Congress.

She’s showing off that gift, wants everybody to see it because for so long the Clintons have been trying to argue that this Benghazi investigation and the e-mail investigation that grew out of it was politically motivated.

A spokesman for Gowdy said the committee has not released transcripts from witness interviews in order to “gather all facts” and avoid tainting the recollections of future witnesses.

Blumenthal promotes the services of a company to provide training for Libyan rebels and urges Clinton to ensure the transitional government shows the same preferential treatment to USA businesses as they had pledged to French businesses, according to the committee.

“There are very concrete steps we can take to lessen the number of tragedies and to make those that happen less lethal, including ideas supported by a majority of gun owners, said Sanders, who plans to offer a more concrete plan”.

Charles Krauthammer called the McCarthy comments “the gaffe of the year”, and it’s hard to argue – but it’s the gaffe of 2015, not of 2016.

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In addition, Clinton expressed support for the suggestion to form a National Rifle Association alternative.

Gun plan could help Clinton appeal to Sanders' progressive base