Who Lost Benghazi?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Dorothy Wickenden and Jane Mayer talk about Hillary Clinton and partisan brinkmanship at the House Select Committee hearing.
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| 1:10.8 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about |
| 1:15.4 | politics. It's Friday, October 23rd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.9 | Yesterday, during Hillary Clinton's very long appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, |
| 1:28.9 | one of the most revealing moments, I thought, came when a Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff, |
| 1:34.1 | of California, asked a question. I wonder if you would like to comment on what it's like to be |
| 1:40.8 | the subject of an allegation that you deliberately interfered with security that cost the life of a friend? |
| 1:46.3 | It has been rejected and disproven by nonpartisan, dispassionate investigators, |
| 1:52.8 | but nevertheless, having it continued to be bandied around is deeply distressing to me. You know, I would imagine I've thought more about what happened |
| 2:06.0 | than all of you put together. Jane Mayer joins me to discuss the seventh full investigation into |
| 2:12.4 | the circumstances surrounding the attack and what unexpected effects the hearing might have in the election campaign. |
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