MSNBC’s Barnicle: Questioning of Clinton Was ‘Hostile,’ ‘Disrespectful’

BARNICLE: “Joe, I happened to watch, or listen to almost all of the hearings yesterday.”

GEIST: “Oh, good Lord.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Good God, Mike.” (Laughter)

BARNICLE: “Don’t ask me why. I realize I have no life. It’s kind of pathetic. But eleven —“

SCARBOROUGH: “No, I think — I think it’s actually beyond that, Mike.”

BARNICLE: “But 11 hours. Eleven hours the former secretary of state sat there. It was an amazing performance. The questioning was largely hostile, angry, disrespectful toward her, toward her office, toward the casualties of Benghazi that day. That was a total collapse of the committee system and the Congress of the United States. I mean I harken back to committee hearings, you just eluded to them. I remember and I ended up thinking about halfway through the 11 hours, that had — this committee been employed to investigate the Watergate break in, instead of Sam Ervin, a Democrat, and Howard Baker, a Republican. Instead of Sam Dash, the Democratic counsel and Fred Thompson, the counsel who completed their hearing skillfully, legitimately, if this committee had been in charge of the Watergate hearing, Richard Nixon would have finished his term.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Boy, that would have been great, but —“