In his opening statement, Cummings blasted Republicans for selectively leaking testimony to the press and “squandering millions of taxpayer dollars”, calling for “Republicans to end this taxpayer-funded fishing expedition”. You can’t knock her down. With Clinton’s testimony concluded, that decision is likely to be revisited.
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“The level of hatred between Republicans and Democrats was unbelievable”, Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union” of the 11-hour hearing on Thursday. The questioning was, by turns, harsh and sympathetic, depending on who was asking.
The hearing also dealt with Clinton’s email communications as secretary of state. Democrats, however, have charged that the committee’s GOP leaders are more interested in damaging Clinton politically.
However, the chairman of the committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) says the report and its timing were not affected by Clinton’s possible presidential run.
“The reality is that after 17 months, we have nothing new to tell the families”.
Moreover, experts said the events during the night of the attack and the days following are too complex to appeal to the average American voters, as there are multiple timelines and myriad details that make many people’s eyes glaze over.
“These are all about Libya and Benghazi”, Gowdy said of Blumenthal’s emails. Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, for example, pushed Clinton to explain why so many security requests regarding Benghazi had been made but not fulfilled. Why was the military not ready to respond quickly on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?
The conflicting stories by the administration early on about whether the attack was a planned terrorist attack or spontaneous partly stem from the difficulty any official would face in trying to nail down a fluid situation far from home. She repeatedly urged the lawmakers to honor the memories of the four Americans killed in the attacks.
He dismissed as ineffective the work of seven previous investigations, including several led by current and former Republican colleagues.
So, as Thursday’s proceedings starred perhaps the strongest contender in the 2016 presidential election, Clinton’s committee appearance took on an additional sense of importance. As Clinton rose to leave the hearing room, she chatted with members of congress who had been sitting behind her. And that’s when NPR’s microphone picked up this sound of Clinton describing the secret to her stamina.
While Turner said she has no plans to endorse Clinton in the coming weeks, she noted that “it’s been quite a week for the secretary”.
None of these accounts were shared during Clinton’s appearance on Capitol Hill.
Feinstein and other Senate Democrats said the House hearing revealed nothing new and it was time for Republicans to pull the plug.
Fiorina also touched on Clinton’s candidacy during her interview with Catsimatidis, saying that it centers around gender. But it also left her vulnerable to claims she helped politicize the Benghazi tragedy. She has not contacted me.
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On equal pay: “In one of my town halls in Nevada, I called on a little girl who was sitting with her father”. “I can just tell you what I was doing and I was doing a lot”.
