Watch Rep. Jim Jordan discuss the GOP's 'smoking gun' from Hillary Clinton's Benghazi hearing


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After spending 11 hours participating in a high-profile hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi — with one witness, Hillary Clinton — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sat down for an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. During the hearing, Jordan revealed that the committee had uncovered a transcript of a phone call Clinton had with the Egyptian prime minister on Sept. 13, 2012, in which she told him, according to Jordan: "We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest." Fox News had been discussing that exchange for the past hour, Kelly said. "Is that a smoking gun, in your view?" Jordan didn't say no:
As Kelly pointed out, Clinton had responded that when she'd spoken to the Egyptian prime minister, an al Qaeda-linked group, Ansar al-Sharia, had claimed responsibility for the attack on social media, but, Clinton said, "sometime after that, the next — next day, early the next morning after that, on the 12th or 13th, they retracted their claim of responsibility." You can read the entire transcript of the hearing at The Washington Post.
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