Rep. Massie (R-Ky.): Rep. McCarthy Must Apologize for Politicizing Benghazi Investigation

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BOLDUAN: “Let's talk about this and bring in Congressman Thomas Massey joining us from Washington. Thank you so much for joining us. You have said majority leader's comments around helpful, among other things, but Democrats say that what McCarthy said, he's just saying publicly what you all know privately, that it's purely political Cal and that was the whole point. What do you say?”

MASSIE: “That sounds like -- what Kevin said, sounds like something you would hear in a smoke-filled back room on "House of cards." It's not appropriate in Congress. The Democrats are right to criticize him. I would criticize him. I think he owes an apology to the families and probably to chairman Gowdy because he's diminished the work that chairman Gowdy has done. I serve on the oversight committee. We had Benghazi hearings in our committee. Political considerations were not in our minds when we were standing there -- sitting there, looking at the families behind the witnesses, the families of the lost ones, the ones that were lost there.”

BOLDUAN: “So this is not political. This committee is not political in its origins at all?”

MASSIE: “Chairman Gowdy has no political intentions with this committee. In fact, a lot of partisans have complained he hasn't had more public hearings. He's doing the work behind the scenes. He's not trying to make a circus out of it. He's a real prosecutor and he knows how to do the job and that’s collecting the facts and that’s what he has been doing.”