Rep. Cummings Attacks Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Huckabee for Making Benghazi Political Issue

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Rep. ELIJAH CUMMINGS: "This is what the Republicans did, not the Democrats. When Speaker Boehner established this select committee, he justified it by arguing that it would, quote, cross jurisdictional lines. I assume he meant we would focus on more than just secretary of state. But, madam secretary, you are sitting there by yourself. The secretary of defense is not on your left. The director of the CIA is not on your right. That's because Republicans abandoned their own plans to question those top officials. Instead of being cross jurisdictional, Republicans just crossed them off the list. Last weekend, the chairman told the Republican colleagues to shut up and stop talking about the select committee. What I want to know is this. And this is a key question. Why tell the Republicans to shut up when they are telling the truth but not when they are attacking secretary Clinton with reckless accusations that are demon stably false? Why not tell them to shut up then? Carly Fiorina has said that secretary Clinton has blood on her hands. Mike Huckabee accused her of ignoring the warning calls from dieing Americans in Benghazi. Senator Ryan Paul said Benghazi was a 3 A.M. Phone call that she never picked up. And senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, where the hell were you on the night of the Benghazi attack? Everyone on this panel knows these accusations are baseless, from our own investigation and all those before it. Yet Republican members of this--"