on the phone with eleanor smeal. caller: fine, thank you. i'm calling in regards -- i want to make two statements, and one liedgain, to those parents of the people who were murdered. how can she look people right in the eye and say that you cannot be there and not see what happened? int: eleanor smeal, is the -- the benghazi investigations on the you took into account as you vet hillary clinton. we feel was a real step four for a country and for women. sure, we look at it. the nation has looked at it. there -- it has probably been more invested than anyone incident. she is testified 11 hours and the testimony was very strong. that,t want to go into but as far as i can see. basically, it is being used politically. but i don't think it will define hillary clinton. host: a few tweets as we are having this conversation. one's gender should not matter in politics. women are majority of the population anytime a comfort women president, but not hillary clinton. are you seeing that sentiment for people who want a female president, just not this fina

coming up in 45 minutes, eleanor smeal, president of the feminist majority foundation on campaign 2016crystal wright, editor and publisher of conservative blackchick.com on race, politics and campaign 2016. host: good morning it's tuesday, march 8, 2016. the senate is set to convene at 10:00 a.m. this morning. the house remains on a district work period and is set to meet thursday for a brief pro forma session. we begin this morning on the "washington journal," four states are holding primaries or caucuses today with michigan being the biggest prize of the day, and a key topic of debate in the campaigns of that state has been trade policy in the united states, and how trade deals have

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