Stephen Hayes: Benghazi Hearing Shows Hillary's Lies But Media Yawn At Revelation

Ken Shepherd
October 22nd, 2015 8:10 PM
Font Size

"[T]he lead from the day so far is Hillary Clinton repeatedly offers false or misleading testimony, and journalists yawn," Stephen Hayes of the conservative Weekly Standard argued on tonight's edition of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier.

Hayes then cited just one of many examples of evidence coming to light showing the then-Secretary of State was decidedly less-than-truthful at the very best in the aftermath of the fatal terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Here's the relevant transcript (h/t my colleague Curtis Houck):

FNC
Special Report w/ Bret Baier
Oct. 22, 2015; 6:08 p.m. Eastern

STEPHEN HAYES, Weekly Standard: I would say the lead from the day so far is Hillary Clinton repeatedly offers false or misleading testimony, and journalists yawn. Journalists just don't seem to be that interested in what she's been saying. And I'll give you one example in particular.

Secretary Clinton was presented with emails from Representative Jim Jordan. Um, an email that she sent to Hillary Clinton on the night of the attack, September 11, 2012. Saying that it was an Al Qaeda attack.

BRET BAIER, anchor: Sent to Chelsea.

STEPHEN HAYES: Sent to Chelsea Clinton, I'm sorry, Hillary Clinton to Chelsea Clinton. Saying it was an al Qaeda attack. And then this memo taken by a State Department note-taker. Recording a conversation between Hillary Clinton and the Egyptian Prime Minister September 12.

In both of those instances, Hillary Clinton is saying this was an attack. This was not a protest. She said in the phone conversation with the Egyptian foreign minister and said that it had nothing to do with the video. And yet, two days later on September 14, when she greets the caskets at Joint Base Andrews in suburban Washington, D.C., she tells some of the family members of those killed in Benghazi that she and the government were determined to get the filmmaker who was responsible for the death of their children. You can't have it both ways.