Democratic Congressman Goes On Fox News and Destroys Their Benghazi Hysteria

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) showed up on Fox News, and destroyed the conspiracy spreading by dropping a fact bomb on the Republican Party and right-wing network’s Benghazi hysteria.

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WALLACE: Congressman Becerra, you have been talking about the committee as a kangaroo court, your words. First of all, how do you know that before it even begins meeting? And do you really believe that all the questions about Benghazi have been answered?

HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS CHAIRMAN XAVIER BECERRA, D-CALIF.: Well, what leads us to believe it could be a kangaroo court or a smokescreen from having to deal with the real issues Americans want to deal with like job creation and so forth, is that we’ve done these investigations some seven times, five of the investigations coming out of five of the House Republican committees.

And so, we’ve done this over 18 months. We’ve spent millions of dollars. And we see what happens when you have a short trial.

WALLACE: Let me ask you a question, do you believe that all the questions about the Benghazi have been answered?

BECERRA: I have not heard any new questions raised that have not been answered.

WALLACE: Let me ask you a question and maybe you can answer it for me. Where was the president? And what did he do the night of the attack?

BECERRA: I believe the president was at the White House and he was in communication with some of the folks with his administration in and around time of the attacks.

WALLACE: Do you — do you know, Congressman Gowdy, where the president was and what he was doing during the seven hours of the attack?

GOWDY: No, sir, I do not. Nor do I know what communication if any he had with Secretary of State Clinton, nor can I tell you why we were still in Benghazi despite the fact that there was an escalation in violence in the months leading up, nor do I know whether or not the president called any of our allies in the region and said, can you get any assets to Benghazi? We’re under attack.

I have more questions than answers despite the fact that committees of Congress have looked at this attack for 19 months now.

WALLACE: Congressman Becerra, can you answer the specific questions that you just heard from Congressman Gowdy?

BECERRA: Sure. And by the way, I also want to say happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. But, Trey, you served on one of the committees that did this investigation. You’re a great prosecutor. You should have asked those questions or you could have asked those questions. I bet you did ask those questions.

And so, the issue, Chris, is, are we going over and over and over? And now are we setting up a process that’s not only going to be a fair, balanced or open approach to this, but also is appearing to be a smokescreen so they can raise campaign funds, because right now, we know the Republicans are raising campaign funds off of this Benghazi investigation that they’re calling for. And so, it’s very distressing —

Rep. Becerra was correct. The president was in the White House during the Benghazi attack. How do we know this? The White House posted this picture to their flikr account of the president meeting with staff after he was informed of the attack:

Rep. Gowdy was lying. He knows where the president was, and what he was doing during the Benghazi attacks. He knows this, because then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee that he was meeting with Obama when they first learned of the assault and that Obama told him to deploy forces as soon as possible.

There have been seven different congressional investigations into Benghazi, and they have all turned up zero evidence that the Republican claims of wrongdoing and a coverup are accurate.

Becerra also called this investigation a reckless, and irresponsible use of taxpayer money. Democrats are turning this Benghazi investigation around on Republicans by playing the fiscal responsibility card against the supposedly fiscally conservative party.

Republicans have to play dumb, and pretend like they don’t know the facts, but it is clear that the decision to politically exploit the deaths of four Americans is backfiring on the Republican Party.

The media isn’t buying it. The American people aren’t buying it, and now Democrats are going on Fox News and routing the Republicans on Benghazi.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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