representatives xavier becerra and aaron schock are in the "crossfire." >> let me, if i could, start with congressman becerra. something which has emerged only in the last two day i think extends and deepens the concern about benghazi and about the whole question of secretary clinton as secretary of state. as you know, the group boko haram in nigeria is an islamist extremist group. they're fanatics, very dangerous. have killed several thousand people. now they have kidnapped some 300 girls. have released some of the 300. but it turns out, this is surprising to everybody, that while secretary clinton was at the secretary of state, they turned down designating this group as a terrorist group. it was only when john kerry came in it was designated. don't you think in terms of legitimate questions by the congress that finding out why was this group not designated, asking questions about how the decision was made is actually a legitimate function of legislative oversight? >> well, first i want to thank our government and the president for doing everything possible to work with the nigerian

and here in washington, f yxavir is -- xavier becerra. >> i can't launch a investigation because they't cooperate. >> do you see this as a trial and do you see the white house as the defense? >> no. first of all, happy mother's day you to and mr. becerra. trials are criminal and civil for 16 years i spoke in trial metaphors and perhaps i need to get out of that habit. what i simply ment is when you ask me how long something's going to last, i need to know how cooperative the other side is going to be so to the extent that i said any indication to anyone that i view someone as the defense, what i ment by that is if you can tell me how cooperative the other side is going to be, i can give you a better idea of how long something's going to last. >> congressman becerra, you've been talking about the committee as a kangaroo court, your words. how do you know that before it even begins meeting and do you really believe that all the questions about benghazi have been answered? >> well, we believe it could be a kangaroo court or a smoke screen from having to deal with the real issues american

chairman, republican trey gowdy, tried to assure the chairman of the house democratic caucus, xavier becerra, that the investigation would be non-political and bipartisan. >> i don't run my committees the way that the democrats are fearful of. i want a process, chris, that at the end of it you are welcome to draw different conclusions from the facts. but i want everyone to say it was fair, it was exhaustive, and we know more than we did when it started. >> make it a process where we can't be excluded from the interview of witnesses, where we can't be excluded when a decision is made to subpoena a witness. make it so that we're all in the room when we're reviewing the documents that are supposed to be evidence. what we don't want to be is excluded. we don't want the american public to be shut out. >> how does it benefit me, javier, when i have say from day one i want this to transsent politics and i want it to inspire trust in you and our fellow citizens? >> how does it benefit him? one answer to gowdy's question is if the democrats don't participate in the investigations the republicans will

betweennversation democrat xavier becerra and trey gowdy. thoughts is morning on the investigation. maxine, what do you think? it is all about hillary, and it is old, greta, it is old. democrats are way better than republicans because george bush and cheney should have been investigated for lying and all his lies and money spent over there. disabled people right now. the republicans have lost the latino/hispanic vote just like they have lost double act vote. the highest court we have is not going to save them. keep bringing up benghazi because you have nothing. maxine, before you go, you said this is all about hillary linton. what you mean? guest: if she is nominated, she has my vote. it is all about hillary. who ise will go to john a democrat in memphis, tennessee. john, what are your thoughts? caller: i watch c-span every morning, and i hear all this vitriol, especially coming from the south. i am from memphis. we are a blue county. in a red state. i hear nothing but racist vitriol. it is nothing basin any kind of clarity. no one reads in