trey gowdy: i have an inquiry. jason chaffetz: yes. trey gowdy: is mr. hannah here? jason chaffetz: yes. trey gowdy: well then why didn't mr. cummings ask him the questions? he'll have a chance to ask mr. hannah whatever questions he wants to ask him. we don't have a chance to ask mr. rhodes the questions we want ask because he didn't bother to show up. elijah cummings: would the chairman yield? trey gowdy: mr. hannah did. elijah cummings: will the chairman yield? jason chaffetz: yes, go ahead. elijah cummings: i can say whatever i want to say in my opening statement. trey gowdy: yes, you can, it just needs to be fair. elijah cummings: and i -- trey gowdy: that's my point. elijah cummings: well trey gowdy: just be fair about it. jason chaffetz: gent -- trey gowdy: you can say what you want. jason chaffetz: gentleman, gentleman, will state his inquiry. trey gowdy: i just want to know if he was here. elijah cummings: he's here. trey gowdy: well, tell me he is. jason chaffetz: thank the gentleman. trey gowdy: ok. jason chaffetz: and mr. rhodes is not here. i would also

marco rubio and gowdy have had choice words for each other. many hoped gowdy's investigation would stand in the way of hillary clinton's white house bid. l but lately, there's a lot more quiet than noise on that front. katy tur on the scene in louisville. donald trump say convert to the nra. how do nra members feel about that? do they think -- do they believe him? >> reporter: you know, it's a mixed reception for donald trump here in the room where he spoke. he got wild applause at times. he got applause when the nra officially endorsed him. he got applause when he talked about ending gun-free zones period, not just in schools. and he got a lot of applause when he was talking about hillary clinton. a lot of gun owners still bring up his support for an assault weapons ban in 2000. they don't entirely trust him. the thing is, they believe he's their only option right now. he's the best option they have right now against hillary clinton. what i gathered here today from the nra especially, it was less about trump and more about never hillary. neve

toner acknowledged gowdy and his staff supported the funding request and said 95,000 pages have been turned over. mark paoletta spent a decade to chief council to the subcommittee on investigations is. >> the obama administration is notorious in stiff-arming congress and not cooperating. they've engaged in bad-faith effort to slow-roll the benghazi committee and blamed the benghazi committee for dragging it out. >> in a statement, gowdy tells fox news confirming that the benghazi committee went the extra mile to complete its investigation as soon as possible. by helping the state department get extra funding. brett? >> james, thank you. >>> still ahead, north carolina versus the obama administration. state lawmakers fire back at a federal demand that the state not implement a new law that bars transgenders from using the bathroom of their choice. >>> republican lawmakers say north carolina won't give in to pressure from the obama administration even when threatened. the threat is a loss of billions in federal funding. if the state implements a controversial law that doesn't allow tra

toner acknowledged gowdy and his staff supported the funding request and said 95,000 pages have beenurned over. mark paoletta spent a decade to chief council to the subcommittee on investigations is. >> the obama administration is notorious in stiff-arming congress and not cooperating. they've engaged in bad-faith effort to slow-roll the benghazi committee and blamed the benghazi committee for dragging it out. >> in a statement, gowdy tells fox news confirming that the benghazi committee went the extra mile to complete its investigation as soon as possible. by helping the state department get extra funding. brett? >> james, thank you. >>> still ahead, north carolina versus the obama administration. state lawmakers fire back at a federal demand that the state not implement a new law that tre bathroom of their choice. >>> republican lawmakers say north carolina won't give in to pressure from the obama administration even when threatened. the threat is a loss of billions in federal funding. if the state implements a controversial law that doesn't allow transgender people to use the bath

gowdy. i was going to try to get some courage up to tell one of my stories about my partner who was killed in 1982. mr. reichert: i think i'm going to wait. gain my composure. and yield to mr. jolly from florida, who has led one of these special orders in the past in honor of police officers and is another staunch supporter of law enforcement across this great nation. i yield to mr. jolly. mr. jolly: i want to thank the sheriff. i want to associate myself, i know we all do, with our colleague, mr. gowdy's, remarks. this is personal for so many. mr. speaker, i rise today on behalf of the people of the state of florida who if they were here in this chamber tonight would also want to associate themselves with the gratitude that fills this well. gratitude to law enforcement officers who each day do risk their lives. they risk their own security. they risk the stability of their family, at and -- and at times they risk the security of their children. knowing the risk that is on the line every day

trump. >> trey gowdy from south carolina. our panelist. jason riley. ann guerin, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> the nra sometimes doesn't put its endorsement down. sometimes they don't do it early. there have been presidential elections that didn't do it. they chose to do it this time. >> i'm not surprised. i think trump is the type of candidate that projects strength. he's been doing that from day one. this doesn't come as a surprise at all. i think trump will take it to school. there's a big difference between him and hillary clinton. when it comes to guns in this country. you heard that in the clips. so i expect him to take full advantage of this. and do it all the time. >> she will go to a gun control event tomorrow. the clinton campaign will tell you she's not out to abolish the second amendment. although history may show she'll try to change it or degrade it a bit in the eyes of the nra. >> sure, her official position is that responsible what she calls common-sense gun control can co-existent with the second amendment just fine.

it's been frustrating for two years. >> gowdy says his final report will be out before summer and it won't solely focus on the former secretary of state hillary clinton. the two men we spoke to have never spoken with any investigators. >>> media and activists in syria say isis militants are progressing toward a recapture of the ancient city of palmyra. government forces took control of that area in march. but isis has seized a rocket-launching site. a capture that effectively severs supply lines for government troops. >>> isis forces are claiming responsibility for a series of deadly car bombings today in baghdad. the massive coordinated attacks come as the president's top intelligence official is suggesting the administration is basically going to run out the clock on its battle with the terror group in iraq. correspondent kevin corke tells us why from the white house. >> the death toll from the attacks has risen steadily throughout the day as three separate car bombs tore through the capital city of baghdad killing more than 90, and wounding over 160 people. many of them women and

it's been frustrating for two years. >> gowdy says his final report will be out before summer and it won't solely focus on the former secretary of state hillary clinton. the two men we spoke to have never spoken with any investigators. >>> media and activists in syria say isis militants are progressing toward a recapture of the ancient city of palmyra. government forces took control of that area in march. but isis has seized a rocket-launching site. a capture that effectively severs supply lines for government troops. >>> isis forces are claiming responsibility for a series of deadly car bombings today in baghdad. the massive coordinated attacks come as the president's top intelligence official is suggesting the administration is basically going to run out the clock on its battle with the terror group in iraq. correspondent kevin corke tells us why from the white house. >> the death toll from the attacks has risen steadily throughout the day as three separate car bombs tore through the capital city of baghdad killing more than 90, and wounding over 160 people. many of them women and

trump. >> trey gowdy from south carolina. our panelist. jason riley. ann guerin, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> the nra sometimes doesn't put its endorsement down. sometimes they don't do it early. there have been presidential elections that didn't do it. they chose to do it this time. >> i'm not surprised. i think trump is the type of candidate that projects strength. he's been doing that from day one. this doesn't come as a surprise at all. i think trump will take it to school. there's a big difference between him and hillary clinton. when it comes to guns in this country. you heard that in the clips. so i expect him to take full advantage of this. and do it all the time. >> she will go to a gun control event tomorrow. the clinton campaign will tell you she's not out to abolish the second amendment. although history may show she'll try to change it or degrade it a bit in the eyes of the nra. >> sure, her official position is that responsible what she calls common-sense gun control can co-existent with the second amendment just fine.

trey gowdy put out a statement yesterday.rey gowdy, the republican of south carolina, saying that if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the benghazi investigation, the problems in this report are exhibit a and city has faced delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. among those who talked about the report were donald trump. he had a rally in anaheim, caliph anya. -- anaheim, california. [video clip] said, the geniuses back there, that hillary, as i hillary.ed she is as crooked as they come, she had that news today from some reports came down, weren't so good. not so good. inspector general's report, not good. i want to run against hillary. i just want to run against her. i don't know if he will be able to. it could be we will run against crazy bernie. it could be crazy bernie. he is a crazy man, but that's ok. we like crazy people. host: donald trump at his rally in california. michael in atlanta, georgia, a democrat. go ahead. caller: good

gowdy. mr. gowdy: thank you, sheriff. i want to thank you for your service to the country and to the great state of washinon. i want to thank judge poe, mr. speaker. i want to thank sheriff nugent and my friend and colleague from south carolina, joe wilson, who is the father of a prosecutor. mr. speaker, allen jacobs was going to be a father ain, but this time it was going to be a little bit different. he was already the father of two precious little boys, but he was going to be the father of a little girl. s wife, megan, and he were expecting a child this july and life had prepareofficer jacobs very well to be a father. he was an outstanding student, an athlete in greenville, south carolina, and he put that athleticism ad intelligence to work for our country in the united states army. he was deployed to iraq, mr. speaker, for 15 months. and he even volunteered to live in the nehborhoods of baghdad because he understood that all people want to live in a eaceful, secure environment. and after iraq, hwas deployed to haiti b

i think trey gowdy and his organization is totally inept.they can't seem to get any information, and i think they are only interested in embarrassing mrs. clinton, and not bringing her to justice. i talked right all the time, because you on television. i said i would to meet tom and shake his hand. because they got he is there. -- thank god he is there. guest: small world. -- i can tell you how my folks for media organizations, including well-known media outlets admire judicial watch. envious in a positive way of boy, i wish we could get the documents you are able to get. i wish we could commit our investigative resources to force the administration to be more forthcoming and follow the law and release documents as they are supposed to. from congress's perspective, members on both sides of the ande admire judicial watch their ability to get things congress can't. speaker boehner is no longer speaker because members were tired of being shown up by judicial watch. obama'se going to stop lawless radical agenda, the least they could do was inves

gowdy has something in his past and can't follow through with this. guest: i think committee chairmen are there at the be-nevada lance of the there's got to be accountability for the failure to make this a more salient public issue and feeling out what went on. instead, we've mentioned earlier that the benghazi is saying it's time to attack judicial watch instead of get the attack out. host: do you have faith in the fbi director? guest: i think the interest is the national security establishment bureaucratically that wants mrs. clinton indicted so the fbi is probably going to be interested in doing that. the fbi is too often immune from criticism here in washington d.c. i do not believe that it is immune from criticism. in the irs case it was implicated in that scandal because they were involved with lois lerner. the fbi was not a disinterested party so they're doing the irs investigation and surprise, surprise, no criminal charges arise out of it. in this case, i don't think they've got that conflict, so maybe they'll do a better job. the fbi should

the gentleman from south carolina, mister gowdy. >> thank you, mister chairman. michael botticelli, am i pronouncing that correctly? i want to talk about drug court, before we get to that would you agree that there are some who traffic in narcotics who themselves are on users? >> i would agree. >> drug core won't be much help for us or them because they are not addicts, they don't use. let's go with those who are using drugs, you would also agree with me that folks who use drugs commit robbery and domestic violence and a host of crimes we considered to have an element of violence. >> that contributes to violence. >> drug dealers don't use and drug addicts are not engaged in title 21. >> correct. >> different models for drug core, some you divert out of the criminal justice system altogether. some you plead guilty and your sentence is drug court. we had a dickens of a time in south carolina getting criminal defense attorneys to waive their clients to drug court, even though it was in the eyes of everyone better for their client who have to be an addict, tougher th

i think trey gowdy and his organization is totally inept.they can't seem to get any information, and i think they are only interested in embarrassing mrs. clinton, and not bringing her to justice. i talked right all the time, because you on television. i said i would to meet tom and shake his hand. because they got he is there. -- thank god he is there. guest: small world. -- i can tell you how my folks for media organizations, including well-known media outlets admire judicial watch. envious in a positive way of boy, i wish we could get the documents you are able to get. i wish we could commit our investigative resources to force the administration to be more forthcoming and follow the law and release documents as they are supposed to. from congress's perspective, members on both sides of the ande admire judicial watch their ability to get things congress can't. speaker boehner is no longer speaker because members were tired of being shown up by judicial watch. obama'se going to stop lawless radical agenda, the least they could do was inves

bill: fray gowdy, the republican from south carolina. martha: a big meeting will happen tomorrow between leading conservatives and facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. a group of influential republicans heading to california, and they will meet with facebook executives after a former staffer turned whistle blower and accused the social network of editing their trending news section to block out popular conservative news stories. those attending tomorrow include glenn beck, barry bennett, and arthur brooks of the american enterprise institute. give us what this controversy is all about, william. reporter: we are talking about how did this story end up in the paper and above the fold on a-1. in the case of facebook we are not talking about a paper. but what do users see as news each time they sign on. this former employee said conservative stories never make it under the trending time. chairman mark zuckerberg says that is not true. an algorithm koaments the internet and pops out what is most popular or trending regardless of politics. zuckerberg

that never materialized as rhodes was a no-show that had congressman trey gowdy pour than miffed. >> white house to send a bunch much mean tweets about a guy who served two tours, in tommy cotton and he is willing to come but creative writing expert isn't willing to come? some point this body will have to stick up for ourself. >> democrats took direct aim at one of three witnesses, john hannah, who was top aide to dick cheney. multiple democrats at this hearing they found it ironic that republicans would offer up someone who helped with the iraq war narrative. >> this hearing is exactly what it purports to condemn, a partisan narrative designed to mislead the american people. reporter: because rhodes wasn't there really wasn't much came out of this hearing. the question really becomes going forward whether the republican-led committee tries to somehow take extra steps to get rhodes on the record. neil? neil: how likely is that? administration will keep arguing executive privilege. reporter: right you. neil: they will keep arguing to get the guy. i have a feeling this is not solved an

. >> what is initial to me, 11 hours in front of trey gowdy's committee.lay a finger on her. give it up, guys. this dog won't hunt. they have to find something to talk about. the republican party is in disarray. this will lead them down a rat hole and not going anywhere. martha: still doesn't answer the question. you doesn't think it is all unusual that the i.t. manager for hillary clinton's staff, doesn't have one email, excuse me there is one email. let's put one email found up on the screen. can we see that please? happy birthday, mad today. secretary, to many more. from bryan pagliano. here is the response that hillary clinton sent to that. she forwarded it to another staffer. she didn't respond to bryan pagliano. forwarded to another staffer and said please respond. >> wow. i guess i should be running for the hills because two emails that say please respond and happy birthday. clearly there is a conspiracy. get my tinfoil hat on everybody. this is conspiracy at state department. martha: it is typical thing that we've seen over and over. i want to get

. >> congressman tray gowdy had this to say. if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfesance in this report are exhibit a and proves that the committee faced serial delays from day one. coline no great surprise that the democrats and republicans on capitol hill are seeing the report very differently? >> that is not a shock. that's the argument that the clinton campaign are saying. republicans will seize on this and twist the ig report. but there are important points to note that undercut things that hillary clinton is saying. she said she complied with the rules and did nothing wrong. but the report makes clear that she did not comply with state department policies and practices. and clinton campaign said past secretary of states used personal e-mail. but hillary clinton is the only person that set up a private server and used it exclusively. and important to note by the time he was secretary of state it was clear how you handle e-mail at state department. her predecessors used it infrequently and not

in benghazi, but gowdy obviously ignored that during proceedings. >>> a terrible story.year-old samantha broberg reported missing from a cruise to mexico on the carnival "liberty" suggesting he tumbled backwards off a deck into the gulf of mexico. >>> terrible and happens much more than you might imagine. >> i mean, i can't believe that -- you can get off the decks, can tumble off the decks. i thought more security railing to avoid that. >> nope. >>> we are learning high-profile conservatives meeting with facebook ceo mark zuckerberg this week, remember, concerns about bias. radio host glenn beck, former white house press secretary dana parrino and cnn commentator s.e. cupp are among the heavy-duty attend attendees. facebook answering to allegations that the site suppresses conservative news in its trending section. the meeting is set for wednesday. >> interesting to see what comes out of that. >>> well, bernie sanders needs a mathematical miracle to pull off the democratic nomination. will kentucky and oregon help keep him alive? next we'll ask the only senator backing

. >> select committee chairman trey gowdy said the panel will treat them fairly and it is deeply troubling that witnesses are afraid of retribution for talking publicly. >>> playing the trump card, the donald meets the speaker to try to smooth things over. >>> the process of unifying the republican party, which just finished a primary about a week ago, perhaps one of the most divisive primaries in memory, takes some time. i heard a lot of good things from our presumptive nominee. and we exchanged differences of opinion on a number of things that you know, everybody knows we have. but on core principles. those are the kinds of things that we discussed and again i'm encouraged. >> well, the highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and paul ryan on the house side, donald trump and mitch mcconnell on the senate side has happened. despite widespread speculation that it might further expose the cavernous divide that marks the gop, it had quite the opposite effect many are saying. let's bring in the panel, charles lane, opinion writer for the "washington post." mercedes sha lap of "u.s. ne

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gowdy for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your service in previous light and i must confess to you i was surprised and used the phrase political banter in your opening. it is not only surprised, i was disappointed. you seem to direct that tories are republicans. solicitor general not two weeks ago before the supreme court talk about the damage wreaked by the separation of families and he wasn't talking about joshua wilkinson family. he was talking about the families of people who were not here legally. it's not as on our side with sanctuary cities which is quintessentially a political analysis that we are going to allow state and local officials to decline to follow federal process, but at the same time we don't trust state and local cops enough to actually enforce immigration laws. that is a political calculus. that is not done by folks on our side of the aisle. my friend from maryland, mr. cummings went to great lengths to quote from episodically from a single republican secretary castro has come before committ

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so there's no effort here -- you can't say this came from trey gowdy and the house benghazi committee or chuck grassley and the judiciary committee. this came from the democratic administration, the department she ran, and an obama appointee in the id and the obama appointee in the secretary of state. >> she did offer one reason why she didn't agree an interview was because, well there was a republican on the staff of the ig as well. one republican. chris, thanks very much. we look forward to "fox news sunday" and let me promote what chris has. going to be talking perspective donald trump's campaign manager, corey lewandoski and the latest on hillary clinton's e-mails with james langford on the senate intelligence committee, and california democratic congressman, adam shift, check it out. check your tv listings. >> president obama making history today with a trip to hiroshima, the site of the deadly atomic bombing in 1945, and he met face-to-face with some survivors who were just kids when all of it happened. details next. think fixing your windshield is a big hassle? not with safelit

. >> so joe, congressman trey gowdy told him that the benghazi report will come out before the conventionse does benghazi give donald trump against hillary clinton in the general election? >> you know, becomes a talking point for him but at the end of the day i don't know that it does more damage than it's done. i think that i don't see any of hillary's base supporters saying you no because the report has come out i'm not going to vote for her. you know, i think it's something to discuss depending on the outcome, if there is anything new that we find out in the report, anything that we don't currently know that might be something to talk about and to certainly use against secretary clinton. but i don't see it having a huge effect. >> do you think, rick, that the democrats have effectively turned benghazi against donald trump? >> well, no. look, three things in the benghazi report that are troubling. everybody knows them like joe said. but it -- donald trump has a way of sucking up the oxygen when he has something to talk about. he is going to want to talk about why embass door stevens repe

. >> i think you're probably right, but i also think trey gowdy would disagree with you.ave the benghazi house republicans. >> but that's a change of perception. >> i don't think it changes anything. my nephew was in my kitchen yesterday wandering around. he's 24 years old and going on about he's not going to vote. a typical post-college millennial type who kept going on and on. finally, he concluded he's not going to vote this year. i just like locked him out of the house. you have with young people this disaffection. so i wonder how that's going to play out. >> both these candidates i think have leprous unfavorable ratings. they're slightly less unfavorable than putin. but what does that mean? on the republican side, who are the motivated voters? trump voters. on the democratic side, the motivated voters are bernie sanders voters. i that might be a advantage for donald trump. >> i disagree with the premise there's nothing new. the danger for trump is greater because any new information about hillary clinton isn't going to change perception. there's a risk with trump bec

gowdy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will be brief and then i will yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from florida. mr. chairman, i think we're probably all prisoners to a certain extent to our own personal experience, so while i'm open and interested of the experiences and expectations of others, i've never had a problem. and any of the airports i've ever traveled to. i use granville spartanburg. i use charlotte. i use dca. the folks are professional. my friend from florida mentioned that there may be some members of congress and perhaps other people who consider themselves to be dignitaries who either expect or accept preferential treatment. the members of congress that i travel with don't expect it and they wouldn't accept it if it were offered to them. a member of congress has a little bit of obligation herself or himself to say no, i'm going to stand in the line like just everybody else. i'm quite certain that your department can do better. i'm quite certain you have a plan to do better. i'm also quit

trey gowdy goes "on the record."ee you, sir. >> yemen, you too. >> irs commissioner does continue then didn't show up for the hearing today. >> that's probably a good idea on his behalf not to come. we have heard from him a lot. today's hearing was kind of the factual president. we will educate the judiciary members and they will decide whether or not this is the right case. >> the grounds are he was less than candid, nice way to say it, with congress. >> failure to comply with subpoena. failure to preserve evidence. as you and i know because we have discussed it before. congress is going to have to at some point stand up for itself. we cannot conduct investigations if you don't have witnesses and documents. if you have comments not being preserved and lack of candor with congress. at some point have you stick up for yourself. >> is there any response from the irs at all? >> well, we have got eight different iterations of their defense. usually if a defendant has eight defenses you are going to call them an inmate at

we're remembering this because representative trey gowdy of south carolina said why did it take so longng was outside the president's window. they don't want to be accused of not reacting there. appears to have been a real shooting here, and somebody is in critical condition at an area hospital. >> you know, listen, we should point out that the white house is in the middle of -- it's not in a secluded area. stuff happens. liz: this is from james rosen. the report, a man with a weapon approached the white house compound, refused to drop the weapon by law enforcement. they shot him. and transported him to a nearby highway. somebody with a weapon walking up. >> and it's in the middle of the city, not in a secluded area, and you know, stuff like this happens, and they did the right thing. first and foremost, you protect the president, protect our leaders, protect our government officials, and you ask questions later. particularly when you come with a weapon. liz: by the way, there are a whole bunch of witnesses who saw. this let's listen to one of them. this is just coming into fox business

you also have congressman trey gowdy who said there is a benghazi committee, to release this long-awaitedbefore the conventions. is this something that the campaign, that they are in a position to respond to this? and really when it comes to hillary clinton's supporters at this point, is it going to matter? >> no. this doesn't matter at all. the only people who care about benghazi are the few people who wasted money on that movie that came out a couple months ago. like if you are a republican you think hillary clinton is guilty if you're a democrat you don't care about it one way or another. this has been debunked 100 different ways, there is no story with benghazi. i hit the it's example of republicans desperately trying to knock her off kilter. >> you'll be back with us later on so stay put. thank you to both of you. >>> programming note now. watch part 2 of joy reed's interview with harry reid where he talks about donald trump. a.m. joy 10:00 tomorrow eastern time here on msnbc. >> the republican race, the picture that may suggest the republican establishment is rallying around donald

gary: gowdy: they were about a half dozen offenses offered by the irs during the course of this investigation. it began with the two people in ohio. which was that the irs was to accompany it to construct such a scheme. police we were equal in our discrimination they said. notpresident himself did personally approve this targeting scheme therefore you don't need to look at it. about the next hearing is the process that has been mentioned. what the standard of proof? is it clear and convincing evidence? is it beyond a reasonable doubt? do the rules of evidence apply? can you use hearsay? impeachment is a penalty. that's exactly right. what congress really wants his access to the documents. you can't conduct an investigation if you don't have access to the witnesses in the since i have two experts here. did i hear correctly that incompetence is not an impeachable offense? i was believed that malfeasance in office or the failure to perform the duties of your office could be an impeachable offense. is that your understanding? >> it could be a factor. how can it confidence be a defense when the al

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gowdy for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was thinking to myself as chairman jordan was talking about the history, chronology of this investigation as these two witnesses well know, there were, what, about a half dozen offenses offered by irs throughout the course of the investigation, each of which collapsed under its own i will logic. it began with ohio who were blamed and personally my favorite defense was that the irs was too incompetent able to construct a scheme as sophisticated as this scheme was. then they moved from that defense to, yeah, but we also targeted progressives, so at lesion we were equal in our discrimination. my favorite, the one they settled on towards the end. yeah, but the president himself did not personally approve this targeting scheme. therefore, you don't need to look at it anymore. i know the next hearing is about the process -- koskinen mentioned due process in his opening statement that he didn't give to us. the next hearing is about what process is due, procedural part of due process, where

gowdy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will be brief and then i will yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from florida. mr. chairman, i think we're probably all prisoners to a certain extent, to our own personal experience, so while i'm open and interested of the experiences and expectations of others, i never had a problem. and any of the airports i've ever traveled to. i use charlotte, dca, the folks are professional. my friend from florida mentioned that maybe some members of congress and perhaps other people who consider themselves to be dignitaries who either expect or accept preferential treatment, the members of congress that i travel with don't expect it and they wouldn't accept it if it were offered to them. a member of congress has a little bit of obligation herself or himself to say no, i will stand in the line like everybody else. i'm quite certain that your department can do better. i'm quite certain you have a plan to do better. i'm also quite certain congress can do better. so i'm going to focus

and even the chairman of the house select committee on benghazi south carolina republican trey gowdyays finding witnesses has been very difficult. >> we may know a description but we don't know the name so you have to go to the department of defense in this case and say we need the following folks. they have the names and, no, it's been very frustrating. it's been frustrating for two years. >> so could more have been done to save the lives of the americans killed in benghazi? was it a botched handing of the deadly attack. were things missed and what is next in the investigation. joining me is dr. jonathan schanzer at the foundation for the defense of democracy. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> i want to focus on the investigation and put all politics aside. specifically the recent headlines that the doj will not be seeking the death penalty of ahmed abu khattala, we learned that. that is the fallout and did that surprise you. >> to a certain extent it did because this is the only individual we have in our custody that was involved in that 2012 attack. there were d

gowdy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for not only the panel that's before us, but the panel you tried to have before us. not only did ben rhodes not appear and cost us an opportunity to question mr. rhodes, it cost us the opportunity and the privilege to ask questions of our friend and colleague tommy cotton. speaking of constitutional crisis, hauling a united states senator before a committee of congress would really have created a constitutional crisis. so, good thing for us, tommy was willing to come on his own. and it would have -- the background contrast would have been been interesting to me. you know, the white house is very critical of senator cotton and has been for several months now. senator cotton, of course, when he was serving tours of duty in the united states army in afghanistan and iraq, ben rhodes was navigating the mean streets of a creative writing curriculum in his post -- i mean that literally. that is not figurative. he has a masters in creative writing. and if you're interested

gowdy, from south carolina talk about he doesn't encounter much trouble. i traveled through st. louis, lambert field weekly. and it seems to have a shortage of employees, especially for the precheck line. probably 90% of the time that line is closed and each time staff gives me the excuse that they don't have enough personnel, enough security officers, to check people. so it is very stressful -- frustrating to my constituents who have paid the extra fee for precheck. is there a shortage of staff for airports like lambert? >> i think we have a shortage of staff across the system right now. we're moving people into the areas of greatest volume and greatest need. we are hiring back the people that have been slated to be traded out this year. and we have -- we're pushing out about 200 new officers every week. so what i'm hoping to do is build back a sufficient staff to meet the peak staffing that we need. we currently cannot staff effectively across the system to the peak volume periods. >> so, in your opinion, was tsa screener workforce sized appropriately to handle increasing pass

gowdy pointed out he was a prosecutor for many years, there's really only two issues when you're setting bail -- danger to the community and probability of a flight risks. here's a guy that had exhibited not the probability but the certainty that he would be a flight risk and add to that he was an undocumented illegal immigrant. that's like walking into a court with a stamp on your forehead that says "i am a flight risk, incarcerate me at a very high bail." so i see -- i can see being mad at the judge, but it sounds like the prosecution didn't lay that out, according to the news reports. were you there for that? >> i was not. i don't know what was communicated. when he got his bond, we were burying my daughter, you know, so we didn't go to the pretile. i had spoke with officers swanson, both of them -- a lot of them officers i dealt with, day and night shift, and they took it real personal. they all did their job. to me and my family, whatever you do for a job, whether you're a judge, i.c.e., you should be accountable for what you do. i'm a pipefitter, if it falls downs and kills somebod

trey gowdy told fox news yesterday, whether or not they ,ould have gotten there in time the pentagonnd its resources on september 11, 2012, they could not -- why were you not positioned to do so? g ocrats seized on mr. owdy's admissions. that in the papers this morning as well. ken in florida. what is it like where you live with police? caller: good morning. i am a firm believer that the police across our country are quite good. is the wholeoblem law enforcement system. when a police officer has done wrong or is suspected of doing wrong, he gets many days to come up with a story and all his friends in the police department have time to come up with a story. i get into trouble with the police, they interrogate us immediately and get a statement from us when everything is fresh. , we get district attorneys who work with police all the time, they get to decide that is theot -- biggest problem we have. we have to change that system. ca, your thoughts. kansas. luca.orning, caller: this is a very special case. in kansas, it is an exception that cannot be accepted anywhere on this planet. ,

gowdy. >> not only did ben rhodes not appear and cost us an opportunity to question mr. rhodes, it cost us the opportunity and the privilege to ask questions of our friend and colleague tommy cotton, speaking of constitutional crisis. hauling a united states state senator before a committee of congress would have create adconstitutional crisis. good thing for us tommy was willing to come on his own. the background contrast would have been interesting to me. the white house is very critical of senator cotton and has been for several months now. senator cotton, of course, when he was serving tours of duty in the united states army in afghanistan and iraq, ben rhodes was navigating the mean streets of a creative writing curriculum and -- i mean that literally. that is not figurative. he has a masters in creative writing. if you're interested in writing haikus and sonnets and noviella he's probably the right guy. if you're advising the leader of the free world on foreign policy matters i don't know how a haiku helps. but i would have enjoyed the opportunity to ask mr. rhodes