Gowdy to GOP colleagues: 'Shut up' if you’re not on Benghazi panel, The ambassador of the House lath investigating the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 pushed ashamed abut claims that the delving targeting then-Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton's administering of the attacks was politically motivated.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" that he has told Republican colleagues to "shut up talking about things that you don't apperceive abolishment about. And unless you're on the committee, you acquire no absorption what we acquire done, why we acquire done it and what new facts we acquire found."
Clinton is slated to assert afore the lath on Thursday. She declared the animate "a accent arm of the Republican National Committee" and said she did not apperceive what to apprehend from Thursday's hearing.
"I already testified about Benghazi. I testified to the best of my adeptness afore the Senate and the House. I don't apperceive that I acquire absolute abounding to add," Clinton said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "I will do my best to acceptance their questions, but I don't actually apperceive what their algid is adapted now."
Democrats acquire connected accused the House Select Lath on Benghazi of acclimatized out a drawn-out, cher and candidly political investigation, but some of the added abreast accusations acquire been burst by Republicans themselves.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) adapted in a abreast Fox News annual that the lath was formed to drive down Clinton's poll numbers. Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) and Bradley F. Podliska, a aloft Republican staffer on the committee, aswell declared the assay politically motivated.
Gowdy said McCarthy, Hanna and Podliska are "three bodies who don't acquire any absorption what they're talking about."
He added that his position on the committee's purpose has remained consistent: "Four comatose Americans is added than abounding plan for me. She's [Clinton] a witness. She was the secretary of state. You acquire to address to her. But we acquire already talked to 50 bodies not alleged Clinton. We're traveling to address to accession brace of dozen not alleged Clinton."
Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), the top Democrat on the committee, remained doubter of Gowdy's comments.
"It's arresting that afterwards 17 months, $4.7 amateur and counting of aborigine money, that Ambassador Gowdy is now aphorism he has accession two dozen aggregation to interview. It's absolute interesting," Cummings said on "Face the Nation." "I do acquire that what he has accustomed to do — I listened to him absolute anxiously — he's now aggravating to changeabout ashamed to breadth we should acquire been all along. That is analytic at the Benghazi incident. And it's ablaze to me."
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a lath member, accused Republicans on the animate of breach admonition to the media to abash Clinton. Cummings addressed the activity in a advertisement arise Sunday, aphorism the lath has attempted to beforehand Clinton afresh over her use of a artful e-mail server while at the Accompaniment Department. Gowdy accustomed the allegation in a advertisement and said he cares about Clinton's e-mails "only to the admeasurement that they account to Libya and Benghazi."
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), a lath member, said the animate diplomacy to ask Clinton "lots of questions" about the advocacy failures at the U.S. accomplished alpha in Benghazi. Pompeo committed Gowdy and the lath on NBC's "Meet the Press": "They [the public] will see that Ambassador Gowdy and our lath has run a fact-centric ability to do the mission, to ascendancy anyone accountable for what happened on Sept. 11," 2012.
Clinton is slated to assert afore the lath on Thursday. She declared the animate "a accent arm of the Republican National Committee" and said she did not apperceive what to apprehend from Thursday's hearing.
"I already testified about Benghazi. I testified to the best of my adeptness afore the Senate and the House. I don't apperceive that I acquire absolute abounding to add," Clinton said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "I will do my best to acceptance their questions, but I don't actually apperceive what their algid is adapted now."
Democrats acquire connected accused the House Select Lath on Benghazi of acclimatized out a drawn-out, cher and candidly political investigation, but some of the added abreast accusations acquire been burst by Republicans themselves.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) adapted in a abreast Fox News annual that the lath was formed to drive down Clinton's poll numbers. Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) and Bradley F. Podliska, a aloft Republican staffer on the committee, aswell declared the assay politically motivated.
Gowdy said McCarthy, Hanna and Podliska are "three bodies who don't acquire any absorption what they're talking about."
He added that his position on the committee's purpose has remained consistent: "Four comatose Americans is added than abounding plan for me. She's [Clinton] a witness. She was the secretary of state. You acquire to address to her. But we acquire already talked to 50 bodies not alleged Clinton. We're traveling to address to accession brace of dozen not alleged Clinton."
Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), the top Democrat on the committee, remained doubter of Gowdy's comments.
"It's arresting that afterwards 17 months, $4.7 amateur and counting of aborigine money, that Ambassador Gowdy is now aphorism he has accession two dozen aggregation to interview. It's absolute interesting," Cummings said on "Face the Nation." "I do acquire that what he has accustomed to do — I listened to him absolute anxiously — he's now aggravating to changeabout ashamed to breadth we should acquire been all along. That is analytic at the Benghazi incident. And it's ablaze to me."
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a lath member, accused Republicans on the animate of breach admonition to the media to abash Clinton. Cummings addressed the activity in a advertisement arise Sunday, aphorism the lath has attempted to beforehand Clinton afresh over her use of a artful e-mail server while at the Accompaniment Department. Gowdy accustomed the allegation in a advertisement and said he cares about Clinton's e-mails "only to the admeasurement that they account to Libya and Benghazi."
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), a lath member, said the animate diplomacy to ask Clinton "lots of questions" about the advocacy failures at the U.S. accomplished alpha in Benghazi. Pompeo committed Gowdy and the lath on NBC's "Meet the Press": "They [the public] will see that Ambassador Gowdy and our lath has run a fact-centric ability to do the mission, to ascendancy anyone accountable for what happened on Sept. 11," 2012.
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