
Entry 044Sep 29, 2015
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee... What are her numbers today?”44
44Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader (U.S. Rep., CA-23), Hannity, Fox News, September 29, 2015. Source
Why it’s on the record. Republicans had insisted the committee was a fact-finding inquiry. McCarthy's remark gave Democrats their best evidence that it was political, and he withdrew from the Speaker race nine days later. The committee's final 2016 report found no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton.
On the record
Pitching himself as the next Speaker, McCarthy cited the taxpayer-funded House Select Committee on Benghazi as an accomplishment because it had driven down the Democratic frontrunner's poll numbers.
- Said by
- Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader (U.S. Rep., CA-23)
- Where
- Hannity, Fox News
- When
- Sep 29, 2015
- Source
- Hannity, Fox News, September 29, 2015