House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) lost his cool at Thursday’s hearing after a Democrat on the panel said the investigation was trying to prove prove former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s negligence in Benghazi.
Gowdy’s response to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA):
There is no theory of the prosecution, Mr. Schiff, because there is no prosecution. There’s a very big difference between a prosecution where you’ve already have reached a conclusion and you’re just trying to prove it to people.
This is an investigation, which is why it’s so sad that no where in that stack that you just put up there, were the emails of Secretary Clinton, the emails of the Ambassador, 50,000 pages worth of documents, eye witnesses, that’s the real tragedy. To the family and the friends, when you’re told there’s been seven pervious investigations and an ARB, you should immediately ask, ‘Why did you miss so many witnesses, why did you miss so many documents?’
This is not a prosecution, Mr. Schiff. You and I are both familiar with ’em. I reached no conclusions and I would advise you to not reach any conclusions either until we reach the end. There are 20 more witnesses so I’ll agree to not to reach any conclusions if you’ll do the same.
Watch Gowdy below:
