CBS Anchor to Rubio: What Do You Mean Hillary 'Lied' About Benghazi?

Townhall.com ^ | October 29, 2015 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

Marco Rubio embarked on something of a post-debate victory tour today, visiting six national morning shows to reflect on last night's proceedings. One of his stops was CBS This Morning, where puzzled host Charlie Rose pressed Rubio about what he meant when he said that last week's Benghazi hearings proved that Hillary Clinton had lied.  The Florida Senator basically reiterated his explanation from last night (via the Weekly Standard):

Charlie Rose Sticks Up for Hillary in Interview With Rubio

Rose counters with Clinton talking points, muddying the waters by blaming confusing and conflicting intelligence offered by the CIA -- but as they say, that dog don't hunt:

Ex-DepCIA dir: WH blamed: "Benghazi attack on the video which is not something CIA did in its talking points or in its classified analysis"— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 29, 2015

Hillary's email to Chelsea on the night of Benghazi unequivocally blamed an Al Qaeda offshoot (Ansar Al-Sharia) for the attack; her discussion with an Egyptian official the next day made her position even more explicit:

Stood in front of 4 flag draped coffins and blamed YouTube pic.twitter.com/NoUZhytQTN— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 22, 2015

The deadly "planned attack" had "nothing to do with the film," and was "not a protest." Her words. Yet days later, the administration was telling the public precisely the opposite, with Hillary Clinton repeating the protest/video lie to grieving family members' faces. It's almost as if the Obama-Clinton team was worried about how voters might perceive a preventable, pre-planned terrorist attack on the anniversary on 9/11, especially after Democrats had been pushing the "Bin Laden is dead" theme so hard on the campaign trail. These political concerns were evident in Hillary Clinton's emails with henchman Sidney Blumenthal, as well as in a belatedly-released memo from a senior White House advisor that finally became public last year.  Let's be perfectly clear: The former acting CIA chief said the video protest fable did not originate from the intelligence community.  David Petraeus testified that the US government knew Benghazi was a premeditated attack "almost immediately."   State Department documents confirm this. And Amb. Chris Stevens' second-in-command testified that the obscure online film was a "non event" on the ground in Libya.  Clinton's duplicity was also on display at the Benghazi hearings regarding the "unsolicited" nature of the off-the-books intelligence from Blumenthal, as well as her shifting definition of "work-related" emails that she withheld while swearing she withheld nothing.  While we're on the subject of Hillary's dishonesty and the agency she used to lead, Politico has reported on "new inconsistencies" arising from her testimony:

One of Clinton's assertions fell into doubt Friday as the State Department said it was unaware of any basis for her claim that the agency "had between 90 and 95 percent of all [her] work-related emails" even before she turned over 54,000 pages of records last December. "I'm not aware that we have given that figure," State spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Friday. "We've not been able to confirm that. I not sure where that information comes from"...Asked about Clinton's assertion at the hearing, a Clinton campaign aide returned to the March statement and referenced new disclosures about weaknesses in State's recordkeeping system, but notably declined to repeat her new claim.

One more Benghazi-related note, breaking today:

#BREAKING: The Committee has received new documents from the White House related to the military response to the #Benghazi terrorist attacks— Benghazi Committee (@HouseBenghazi) October 28, 2015

Strange, isn't it?  We've endlessly been told that this select committee is a duplicative waste of money and time, and yet here they are unearthing additional relevant documents -- all of which were supposedly turned over years ago, according to the administration.

[100American]

Like cats covering $hit on a tile floor...

[rktman]

His response should have been-—”Her lips moved.”

[originalbuckeye]

The meme is ‘the fog of war’ ‘CIA was using the video as the reason’ ‘she didn’t lie and neither did, Barack or Rice’. Total denial of the truth, but they’re Dems and DemPravda. What do you expect?

[Enterprise]

It’s tough trying to have a conversation with media people who don’t read the papers or watch the news.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ha! Soc Charlie goes on to provide more evidence of Rubio’s assertion that the MSM is an agency engaged in assisting democrats.

[Bullish]

Anyone expecting to get any truth out of this white or this state dept or Hillary Clinton probably still believes in the tooth fairy too.

[TexasCajun]

Perfect analogy.

Charlie Rose and all the others better get used to hearing that Hillary and her ex-boss are proven liars!

They lied to the Benghazi victims families, the American people and all the people of the world via Obama U.N. speech.

[scottinoc]

“Chuckie, which word didn’t you understand?” Hillary? Lied? Benghazi?

[Enterprise]

Rubio should have asked Rose:

Mr. Rose which are you - a Bolshevik or a Menshavik?

[Kaslin]

Yeah, but I doubt that that Charlie Rose would have gotten it. You know liberals aren’t very smart.

[timestax]

ping

[Verginius Rufus]

Sean Smith’s mother was on Megyn Kelly’s program the other night and said that she has not been given any further information from the government since the ceremony when the coffins were brought back to the US. When she has tried, she has been rebuffed as “not immediate family” (since Sean had a wife and children).

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah Charile, she did. Try watching the hearings. She told the families of the victims and the press one thing while telling her family and the President of Libya and Egypt something totally different in her emails at the same time

[timestax]

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[Sarah Barracuda]

Liberal media isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. I remember a time where they at least pretended to be unbiased, but now, they just let it all hang out don’t they

[VRW Conspirator]

His response should have been--"Her lips moved."

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[SkyDancer]

What bubble have they been living in?

[1Old Pro]

yep, there is another thread on this topic, I watched the show. Charlie got slammed dunked by Rubio. First, Charlie acted like he doesn’t follow the news, Hillary admitted to sending an immediate email to CHelsea and others saying it was a terror attack. She went on to the public for weeks saying it was becuase of a video. Is Charlie that stupid or does he refuse to admit the obvious when it comes to another liberal? Sheesh, then his body language, crossing his arms and looking down said he was bummed that he allowed Rubio to tell the truth about Hillary Lying.