At 10 a.m. in Washington, D.C., the House Select Committee on Benghazi is scheduled to gavel into session to interview Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state during the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in eastern Libya. Each of the panel's seven Republicans and five Democrats have been allotted 10 minutes to question Clinton, and Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has said the focus of most questions will be on decisions she and subordinates made before the attack, which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three security personnel. He says discussion of Clinton's use of a private email server while in office will be limited to emails regarding Benghazi.
The hearing, expected to last six to eight hours, is a high-stakes, high-profile event for both Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, and the committee Republicans, who are struggling to prove it isn't a politically motivated attack on Clinton. But according to a new Associated Press/GfK poll, most Americans either don't have any opinion about Clinton and Benghazi or don't see a problem with her handling of the attack.
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