put a microscope on decisions we'd find many people negligible >>> when we come back, we look at ken mccarthy crowing about benghazi, he backpeddled, but it was out of the bag. have the actions of the committee made impacts on hillary clinton, the obama administration and congress. . >> the chairman might, say, ignore nor the words of our republican leadership and members and investigator. judge us by our actions, it is the actions of the committee that are the most damning of all. you. >> this is not a prosecution, mr sheer, you and i are familiar with them. i've reached no conclusions and i advise you to not reach any conclusions either to reach the end. there's 20 more witnesses >>> welcome back to "inside story". i'm ray suarez. have hillary clinton's hours of testimony on capitol hill had the effect desired by republicans to damage her in the public's eyes, to call into question her trustworthiness or fitness to higher office. or has she seen off her critics, keeping them from laying a damaging glove on her. omar in the institute of peace, and my other guests are still with me. what do y

ken mccarthy dropped out of contention. said i'm not going to do this because he didn't think he had support. so one of the names that's coming up is former vice- presidential candidate paul ryan of wisconsin. he says he doesn't want to do it. i don't know if everybody buys it. what do you make of this? >> well, it's funny. donald trump in our interview today said basically he took some credit for kevin mccarthy stepping down because trump said we need somebody who is strong and he didn't think kevin mccarthy was strong enough. he is putting that scalp on his wall. ryan doesn't want that job. he likes the job he has now which is to be chairman of the ways and means committee. he is a policy guy and that's a fun job. the speaker's job would be a nightmare because he is more like john boehner and ken mccarthy than the ultraconservatives who have been causing the excitement in the republican house right now. and so he would face a lot of the same troubles that john boehner faced so why would he want to sign up for that? also h

ken mccarthy, the man by all accounts, about to be the speaker of the house goes on fox news and essentiallythe dots saying, well, the reason -- he said it after this is not true. this is not what i meant. if you listen he seems to be saying we knew hillary clinton would be tough so we used our power to form a special committee. >> everybody thought that hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. i talked to several what i'll call establishment who were app to pleptic. they don't have a choice, do they have? >> they'll have a choice this week. the conservative republican from utah is announcing today he's going to run for speaker against kevin mccarthy. but mccarthy is, by the way, the favorite heading into a key leadership race this thursday. the big question for mccarthy is he can win 218 votes on the house floor this month? he can only lose 29 reasons. and already 25 republicans are in the camp that voted against john boehner in january. it makes a lot of people nervous. i heard the same th

the current house majority leader ken mccarthy took his name out of the running for house speaker. that news broke last hour and came as a big surprise for house republicans as they gather to vote on the next speaker. the current house speaker, john boehner, postponed the election. earlier al jazeera's political correspondent michael shure spoke with morgan griffith about mccarthy's announcement. >> kevin felt he couldn't at this point unite the conference and he felt best to withdraw at this time. so he did. then speaker boehner said, okay, in light of this surprise, i think we should move the elections for the nomination, and he did. then he made a motion to adjourn. everybody got up and left. >> reporter: do you think among the 247 of you that there is a consensus pick? >>le with well, hiem sure there is. who that person is will take time to figure out, and kevin may very well get back into it if it feels like the circumstances have changed a little bit and he can unify the conference. i wouldn't rule out kevin coming back into the race at some point, but as for today there need

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ken mccarthy admitted as much. this committee has taken a long time to do virtually nothing. other committees lasted longer, but they were doing something. >> "the new york times" had nine scheduled hearings and they haven't done anything. >> that's not true. >> hold on for a second. finish mr. smith then matt. >> another thing they have done interviews with witnesses in a partisan way. they have not told democrats about those interviews. when those interviews didn't reveal the facts the way republicans wanted them to, they buried them until we accidentally found out about them. >> the cheryl mills testimony. >> not just cheryl mills. other witnesses, as well. >> last word. this is always the case when congress does investigations. if president obama wants to have a tower commission, have a bipartisan commission -- >> we did -- >> put a time limit on it -- >> they did. >> they had a bipartisan commission. >> hillary clinton will testify in ten days and we'll see footage of what the members of the committee have and don't have and what hillary clinton says in her defense. i ho

ken mccarthy was one of them.is one of the few people that can speak to the motive behind the formation of the committee. what he said has been borne out by the facts. our chairman says judge us not by what our leadership says or member says or the gop whistle blower says, judge by what we do. what we have been doing in this committee is the worst indictment of the committee. they set up interviews with a dozen witnesses this year. canceled all of them. canceled on joints chief of staff, defense secretary because they are not running for president. they went after one person, secretary hillary clinton. >> let's watch the hearing thursday and i think you will be proven right. thank you, sir. >>> layered david performs a bernie sanders impression so spot-on, it rivals the senator himself. of hardball round table will see what it means. it is funny. look how good he is. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> i'm the only candidate up here who is not a billionaire. i don't have a super pac. i don't ev

politically-driven benghazi investigation because, of course, perhaps the next speaker of the house, ken mccarthysee? she's lost votes, and she's lost her poll numbers since the benghazi situation. they looked at that, and democrats said you're politicizing the death t of four americans. she talked about that today. >> yeah. well, she's said how disstress ared she was by kevin mccarthy's comment. she's really completely delighted because it's a great political gift for her to try to discredit the work of this committee. what mccarthy was trying to say was that through its work, the committee uncovered this very important part of the way clinton was operating as secretary of state, and she hasn't had a good explanation of it, she hasn't been honest about it, and it's that fact -- not the benghazi committee -- that's been dragging her down. liz: chris, the word is that this weekend joe biden will make a decision as to whether he will run. what's your best guess? >> my best guess is he doesn't run. i think if he was going to to run, he would have hired some people already. he hasn't hired anyone. of

how is that going to pan out now that ken mccarthy says he's not the one?> it's waiting for paul ryan. i can't believe we geel ten days without hearing from ryan. i've got to think everybody knows he's got to make a decision quickly. the problem is the longer ryan waits, you already have a campaign voting against you. you have people say, well, he voted for this, voted if their, helped obama do this. so that's going to disqualify him? >> isn't the word he doesn't want the job? >> no, he doesn't want it at all but he's open to it as the people come to him and say, hey, it's the best thing for the party even if you do it temporarily. >> my sense is he'll relent, do it, but only through the end of next year. >>> we geeshet the debate coming up next week. all eyes, of course, on hillary clinton and bernie sanders. all eyes are still on joe biden. what are you going to do, what are you going to do. it looks like we're not going to know until the debate. the question is what do the 1 percenters on that stage do? clinton doesn't want to get into a spat with sander

posting on wick field ya has any matter -- wick field ya has any matter, house majority leader ken mccarthy out of the blue on thursday dropped his bid. he appeared to be a shoo-in among the gop colleagues, but there was definitely question as to whether he'd be able to lock down the 218 votes needed to win a majority overall. this move by mccarthy shocked the room of republicans. one person reportedly started to cry. they were literally minutes away from voting him in as speaker-elect. it was a big barbecue, everybody was eating. he's his explanation. >> i think i shocked some of you, huh? i think there's something to be said for us to unite. we probably need a fresh face. i'll stay on as majority leader, but the one thing i found in talking to everybody if we are going to unite and be strong, we need a new face to help do that. >> well, there was no explanation that he gave as to why it took til the 11th hour to have this new face epiphany or why he wanted to wait to withdraw til just now. shocking a room of politicians, of course b -- obviously, is kind of a tough thing to do. the intern

. >> reporter: getting a boost in washington where the likely next house speaker ken kevin mccarthy admitted the gop investigating clinton's e-mail in benghazi used to kill her campaign. not true, said the chair today. >> kevin screwed up. >> reporter: mccarthy backtracked. >> let's be clear. benghazi is not political. >> reporter: in iowa, a whole different tone from donald trump. >> who would be better at this? me or them? huh? >> reporter: on the iran deal and on everything else, trump is planning his campaign's next phase including the tv ads because he believes republican nomination is within his grasp. steve handlesman, nbc news washington. >>> pressure's on. a group trying to persuade joe bide tonight run for president is launching its first tv ad. listen. >> the incredible bond i had with my children is a gift i'm not sure i would have had. had i not been through what i went through. >> the ad uses audio from a commencement speech biden gave in may. he recalls the car crash that killed his wife and daughter after first elected senator in 1972. a political action committee called draf

. >> all right the day after majority leader ken mccarthy stunned colleagues by dropping out of the speakers is on moving forward although he is expressing support for ryan. >> trying to work together. i know a lot of speculation about who should run and others. paul is look at it but it's his decision. if he decided to do it he would be an amazing speaker. >> when will he decide? that is the big question. retiring speaker john boehner told colleagues he wants the house to elect that new speaker. as we continue to wait boehner is also saying he will stay on until he is replaced. >>> one of them requires water companies to report annual water loss. that alone could help save billions of gallons a year. the law requires water companies to audit their systems for leaks from aging or cracked pipes. that information will be monitored by the state department of water resources. >>> another new law will prevent cities from banning fake grass. some communities don't allow it but fake grass has become popular. even necessary during the drought. that new law takes effect immediately. >>> the blue ange

look what ken mccarthy said. it's political. the committee has produced new information with a direct bearing on things she has said in the past that apparently are not true and they're going to be able to call her on the carpet. things get started at 10:00 this morning. she has said she will stay until they don't have anymore questions. i would not be surprised if they were going way past dark interviewing mrs. clinton. >> we've seen a very different side of hillary clinton lately. she is going to be ready for this. she's asked for it to be done in public so that everybody can hear it. you better believe she doesn't want another one of these at what difference does it make at this point? she'll be prepped and ready. >> well, she is ready to raise money off the benghazi committee testimony despite the fact that four people were killed and that is a rationale that trey gowdy said they have been digging down. john podesta who is one of her assistants, long time paid said this in a fundraising e-mail, quote, we don't know exactly w

kevin mccarthy has pulled out of the race to replace john baird as john boehner, saying the gop needs a fresh face. ken prichard is here with how a group of 40 conservatives sparked the turmoil. >> reporter: representative mccarthy was the odds on favorite, but he did not think he could win without a damaging fight. the majority leader and he knew it, kevin mccarthy dropped out moments before he was expected to be announced speaker. he said his decision was about the numbers, with 40 members of the freedom caucus supporting daniel webster, who says he wants a more inclusive house. >> it does not change what i am running, which is a principle based member driven process. >> reporter: skeletons in his background caused him to withdraw, but he said hillary's poll numbers armed his candidacy. >> this benghazi committee was only made for one truth, - - one purpose, to find the truth for those dead americans. i should not be a distraction for this. >> this was a loss as kevin mccarthy could have delivered the bacon back to the district and back to the state. >> reporter: the infighting that led to his withdr

mccarthy, fox 25 news. >>> well, if you walk through the rose kenned green way this week you might notice that something is missing. earlier today crews started taking down the colorful sculpture that was hanging above it since may. it was called as if it were already here. it's created bay local artist. and sculpture was part of a mission to bring contemporary art to boston on a rotating timeline. >> it caught a lot of people's attention. people were talking about it. >> i noticed you on green everything looked in that shot. >> speaking of rotating timeline you want to know what the best part is about the seven day forecast. longer you get an extra hour of sleep on halloween night. the downside we'll be a little bit cool but it will be dry on halloween you don't have to worry about before then we're expecting thursday. >> so i will wear my eskimo costume probably. >> thanks a lot for joining us tonight make sure that you stay up to date on our fox 25 news app. of course our website myfoxboston.com as well. >>> our next newscast starting at 4:00 a.m. first here's tom lied within "sportswrap". >> thank you

what you viewers had to say on facebook first off about kevin mccarthy dropping out of the house speaker race. try this. ken says love it. he was just a boehner clone. it's time to elect a new leader. my time's up, neil cavuto, yours. neil: it doesn't sound like you're a big fan of comic-con. >> no. i don't know what it is. neil: i was just back from anchorman con, and "we" we have a great time. we want you to come. [laughter] we've got a lot going on right now. talk about drama on capitol hill. just in case that you think that the have beens will part should he decide to run for speaker of the house, think again. congressman daniel webster says this isn't about the individual, it's about the process. he is one of the key candidates here that wants to become the next speaker of the house and congressman joining us exclusively right now, very good to have you. one of the things i noticed after this conference meeting you were asked about paul ryan, sir, you said you're not running against the person or personality but rather the process and a set of principles. what did you mean by that? >> well, i meant tha

some of what you viewers had to say on facebook first off about kevin mccarthy dropping out of the house speaker race. try this. kent a new leader. my time's up, neil cavuto, yours. neil: it doesn't sound like you're a big fan of comic-con. >> no. i don't know what it is. neil: i was just back from anchorman con, and "we" we have a great time. we want you to come. [laughter] we've got a lot going on right now. talk about drama on capitol hill. just in case that you think that the have beens will part should he decide to run for speaker of the house, think again. congressman daniel webster says this isn't about the individual, it's about the process. he is one of the key candidates here that wants to become the next speaker of the house and congressman joining us exclusively right now, very good to have you. one of the things i noticed after this conference meeting