Ranking Democrat [crscore]Elijah Cummings[/crscore] doesn’t think it’s a big deal Hillary Clinton told the American people Benghazi was a result of an “internet video” when she had already told her daughter that it was a terrorist attack committed by an “al Qaeda like group.”
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday with Chuck Todd, Cummings was asked, “Did that trouble you” that Clinton told two different stories regarding the cause of the Benghazi terrorist attack. Cummings responded, “No not at all.”
“As a matter of fact, I thought the Secretary explained it very well,” Cummings claimed.
“Remember what she said during the hearing, and she said this over and over again. That on the night of the incident, Ansar al-Sharia said that they had committed this offense. So when she was writing a note to her daughter, emailing her daughter and making those statements, that was one thing. The next day, and by the way they were getting intelligence from a lot of folks.”
Cummings argued that “some of it said that it was in regard to the video. Others said it was an attack. So therefore the information was fluid. And the information that she got, even from the intelligence community was a little bit mixed.”
“So she was basically,” Cummings said, “she was basically talking about what she knew at those moments.”
“And I got to tell you Chuck, one of those things, that email to her daughter, you could have easily considered that personal,” claimed Cummings. “But because she mentioned the attacks, she included that in the stacks of emails that she turned over to the Committee. And that just goes to show you that she was trying to do the right things.”