and his special committee better really find out what's going on. >> you know, jess, congressman gowdynnounced this special committee hearing, we'll be meeting in september, next month. and they've already hired staff, and they request eed have been given a $3.3 million budget. ithotropens were supposed to be the fiscally conservative group. how can they justify this complete waste of taxpayer money? >> if facts or the threat of national embarrassment were a deterrent for the republican party, they would have knocked this off a long time ago, but clearly it's not. what boggles the mind to me is that this is 2014, and this is supposed to be their year. they have the map. it's the midterms. they have the narrative. this is supposed to be republicans' year, but all they can do is talk about investigating benghazi and how they're not talking about impeachment, which doesn't actually after a ton to voters. and these are house republicans we're talking about. a lot are asking voters for a promotion. this is the team that republicans are going to try to take back the senate with. i can't see

gowdy, stated that ms. lerner had waived her right to invoke the fifth amendment because she had given voluntary statement professing her innocence. i temporarily excused ms. lerner from the hearing and subsequently recessed the hearing to consider whether ms. lerner had in fact waived her fifth amendment rights. meanwhile, the committee's investigation proceeded without ms. lerner's testimony. to date we have conducted 33 bipartisan transcribed interviews of witnesses from the i.r.s. we have heard witnesses' testimony during five committee and subcommittee hearings. because the i.r.s. is not full -- has not fully cooperated with the committee's investigation, i have issued three subpoenas for documents. the i.r.s. continues to withhold some of ms. lerner's emails from the committee. documents and testimony show that ms. lerner is uniquely positioned to provide testimony that will help the committee better understand how and why the i.r.s. targeted conservative groups. at a business meeting on june 28, 2013

leading to an exchange between trey gowdy and a law professor who tried to convince congress that a specialessor, would you seat a juror who referred to your client as an obscene body part? >> i'm sorry -- >> would you seat a juror in a trial who referred to your client as an obscene body part? >> i really have trouble giving you an answer except that sounds -- >> well, then you would starve to death as a lawyer if you can't answer that question, professor. how about if you were a prosecutor? and one of the potential jurors referred to the police as terrorists who were going to bring the country down, would you seat that juror in a criminal prosecution if you were the prosecutor? >> i wish i saw the connection here. >> i'll give you the connection. lois lerner just referred to conservatives as an obscene body part and said we were crazies and likened us to terrorists. would you agree to let our fellow citizens decide whether or not there should be a special prosecutor? >> you mean by poll? >> however. we elect presidents that way. so you see no potential conflict of interest, you don't thin

trey gowdy said he would spend less than that and set a review to review the security recommendations. other than that there are few signs of progress. republican attention is likely to shift to ms. clinton after the mid-term elections. trey gowdy's approach offered little for people to seize on as far as when the investigation is closed. he said it should be closed by 2015 assuming cooperation from the committees and the administration. we cannot predict what witnesses say and what documents will be produced. also adds that trey gowdy hired dana chipman has the army's top lawyer to be the chief spokesperson. walter from texas. hello. david from charleston, illinois. independent line. >> caller: i was wanting to make a couple comments. i was upset with the president's speech when he said don't put the cart before the horse. we don't want to put the cart before the horse for the simple fact this is twice now he has had that attitude. once in syria when hilary clinton wanted to arm the rebels to keep isis out. and the second time was not taking on isis before they came into iraq and we

the committee's chair, south carolina congressman trey gowdy announced friday that retired lieutenant general dana chipman would be leaving the committee's legal team. the three-star general served as u.s. army judge advocate general for four years before retiring this past fall. retirement,e chipman spoke at furman university about some of the legal issues that the military were dealing with at the time. this is about an hour. >> one of the hallmarks of the american democratic experiment and one of the hallmarks of our constitutional tradition is that, for centuries, as a republic, we have debated in our public policy and in our law fundamental questions that go to the core of our values and our american identity. we debate the meaning of freedom of religion and the establishment of religion. we debate the meaning of freedom of speech. we debate what equality means and how it translates to equality on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. we debate the role of different branches of government, the role of the president as the commander in chief, and as the head of the executive bran

this is really helping >> zack gowdy. >> her 15 minutes of fame. what do you think?want to see yours, that is fantastic. i can't wait to see yours. i have stories too far when i had my wisdom teeth out. >> i came back on the air years ago before i should have. my co-anchors sent me home. >> it's amazing what you can do and say under anesthesia. >> the look on her face. there's a lot of the those out there. we'll move on here. we all know what flames look like in a fireplace. how does fire burn in the vac kux of space? it seems like a jellyfish of flame, at least that's how concentrate reid wiseman described it tweeting short videos from the international space station. wiseman is conducting experiments using small droplets of fuel to understand the way it burns in microgravity. he called this one slow motion flame pulse. of course, the ice challenge wouldn't work up in space. that's it here on cnn for now. more news coming next with essa suarez. stay with us. a lot of women and children waving. here they come. >> i've been doing this job for more than ten years. i ha

trey gowdy is the head of the newly formed house select committee on benghazi.ys the first public hearing will with sometime in september and it's going to feature more witnesses than ever before. that select committee was announced this past spring, there was a lot of criticism, especially from democrats. one reason was there had already been a lot of hearings and investigations on this same issue. already, in fact, been seven separate congressional probes into the attack on the diplomatic mission at benghazi. that killed four americans. there have been seven. actually there have been eight. in terms of benghazi being a major political scandal, all these investigations have found that there's just no there, there. they found fault with the state department's inadequate security, but in terms of the obama administration trying to cover it all up or bungling it in some glaring, obvious way, there's just no evidence for any of that. so that's why when house speaker john boehner announced the formation of yet another investigation into benghazi, a lot of people ask

gowdy, stated that ms. lerner had waived her right to invoke the fifth amendment because she had given voluntary statement professing her innocence. i temporarily excused ms. lerner from the hearing and subsequently recessed the substantive response to those hearing to consider whether ms. lerner had in fact waived her fifth amendment rights. meanwhile, the committee's investigation proceeded without ms. lerner's testimony. to date, we have conducted 33 bipartisan transcribed interviews of witnesses from the irs. we have heard witnesses' testimony during five committee and subcommittee hearings. because the irs has not fully cooperated with the committee's investigation, i have issued three subpoenas for documents. the irs continues to withhold some of ms. lerner's emails from the committee. documents and testimony show that ms. lerner is uniquely positioned to provide testimony that will help the committee better understand how and why the irs targeted conservative groups. at a business meeting on june ler

i think one of the things that trey gowdy and the select committee forgot to find out they had to get the paper trail. you don't issue a statement like that without some preparation of the draft and people involved in the drafting of it. we know for example the talking points suzanne rice used in a three-day process with over 100 e-mails from different people giving their opinions. it would be very instructive to see who actually told hillary clinton this was because of a youtube video in where video in where they got them bad information because there is nothing in the reporting from the ground from the state department or the cia that mentions a youtube video. it is invented whole cloth. i call this the original spin of benghazi. you have to ask the question and that's what i ask in "dark forces" why did hillary clinton invent the story out of whole cloth? i believe the reason she invented it had to do with the number of things. number one obviously the administration did not want to admit that this was a terrorist attack. it was weeks away from the presidential election and it woul