chairman gowdy. >> kevin mccarthy saying the committee investigating benghazi and clinton's e-mails was created to destroy her candidacy. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable. we put together a benghazi special committee. >> reporter: a clinton aide writing, if the objective is to connect e-mails, benghazi and conflate the two, i'm not sure we know whether we can credibly do that. we'll get a read from focus groups. also spilling out, damaging