Hillary Clinton was on the Hill today, testifying before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and she laid it on thick when she explained how much she really, truly, truly loved Chris Stevens. She then said she took responsibility for what had happened in Benghazi and then blamed him for wearing a short skirt. She said that Stevens understood the risks of the job and she wouldn t want the tragedy of his death to be compounded by a bunker mentality among diplomats, meaning that they don t go out and hang out with the people. She also said that her lack of email with regard to Libyan security in the run-up to the attacks wasn t due to negligence, or because she had put it off on some subordinate, but because she didn t use her private server at all. And the most important takeaway? This caring, generous, kind-hearted woman was happy, happy to cast aspersions against a dead man in Benghazi. A dead man she had rejected additional security requests for. She didn t explain why she blamed a YouTube video for the Benghazi attacks in the first place. Her emails even showed that she emailed her family the night of the attacks, blaming what she called an Al Qaeda-like group. It s clear that she wanted to invade her own reality, because we all know what a liar she is, and the only reason she did it is because we ve all been paying attention to what she's been saying for the past five years: she's a liar. Ben Shapiro: Hillary Clinton is a liar, and it's time and time and again, and time again, she wants to invade Libya because she can be a liar and it s because she s a bad liar. She s a good liar, so she s got it all wrong, and that s what she s going to do, right? And she s gonna get it right, right, no matter what s she s doing it, right right, or wrong, or not or she s not doing it right or not getting it right or not at all in this episode of The Weekly Standard of The Ben Shapiro on Ben Shapiro's new book, The Dark Side of the Truth? . The Devil sucking it up, Ben Shapiro the truth, the truth s coming out of it, the whole thing, the lie s coming to the surface, the lies we ve been waiting for it, and we re getting it all out.
00:00:06.000She blamed Ambassador Chris Stevens for his own death in the Benghazi terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2012.
00:00:13.000She was appearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and she laid it on incredibly thick when she explained how much she really, truly loved, cared for Chris Stevens.
00:00:22.000She said, I'm here to honor those we lost and to do what I can to aid those who serve us still, which all sounds very pretty.
00:00:57.000His very last diary entry before he was murdered in the terrorist attacks on Benghazi, September 11, 2012, said, quote,
00:01:06.000Hillary, however, she said that Chris Stevens felt comfortable in Benghazi.
00:01:11.000She then said she took responsibility for what had happened in Benghazi and then blamed him for wearing a short skirt, essentially.
00:01:17.000She said that Stevens understood the risks of the job and she wouldn't want the tragedy of his death to be compounded by a bunker mentality among diplomats, meaning that they don't go out and hang out with the people.
00:01:28.000She said that Stevens felt comfortable on the ground, even though there was no evidence to that at all, and repeated cables asking for additional security turned down by her own State Department.
00:01:40.000She actually said that she was both fully aware of the situation on the ground, so she wasn't negligent, but then she was totally out of the loop with regard to the decision making.
00:01:49.000She also said that her lack of email with regard to Libyan security in the run-up to the attacks wasn't due to negligence or because she had
00:02:10.000Instead, she said she didn't use email at all very much.
00:02:13.000She faxed her things, and people brought her hard copies of documents and briefcases.
00:02:18.000She even said she didn't have a computer in her office.
00:02:21.000Of course, all of this would be perfectly checkable if, for example, she had a State Department email address, if she didn't have, say, a private server.
00:02:28.000If she hadn't, say, deleted like 30,000 emails, then we could actually check if this is true.
00:02:32.000We can't, because she deleted all the emails and had her own private server.
00:02:37.000Now, even if Hillary's story were true, it's pretty telling that she regularly exchanged emails with Clinton hitman Sidney Blumenthal, but that Chris Stevens didn't have her private email address.
00:02:46.000So she would email with Sidney Blumenthal over and over about Libya, but Chris Stevens, who's in Libya as her ambassador and is in danger, he doesn't have her private email address.
00:02:55.000So much with that personal, close relationship with the dead man.
00:02:59.000Those weren't Hillary's only stumbles today.
00:03:01.000She said the Accountability Review Board, which was stacked with Hillary's allies, and didn't interview her at all.
00:03:06.000She said they did a hard-hitting report, even though the report is garbage.
00:03:10.000She didn't explain why she blamed a YouTube video for the Benghazi attacks in the first place.
00:03:15.000Her emails even showed that she emailed her family the night of the attacks, blaming what she called an Al-Qaeda-like group.
00:03:22.000She admitted or feigned ignorance that the State Department had been meeting with Al Qaeda members in Libya before the attacks.
00:03:52.000Okay, folks, so Hillary Clinton was on the Hill today talking with the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and she was just lying up a storm, but she appeared calm.
00:04:10.000And the media were all touting her appearance.
00:04:12.000They were saying that she just looked great.
00:04:13.000It was a great performance, which of course begs the question, why exactly is it that when somebody is called to testify in an open hearing, it's the level of the performance the media is concerned with?
00:04:23.000Wouldn't you be concerned more with, like, the level of the truth of what the person's saying?
00:04:27.000It just demonstrates what a liar she is, truthfully, what a liar she is, that all they're focused on is the level of her performance.
00:04:36.000I mean, she said that Chris Stevens was basically responsible for his own death.
00:04:40.000And the reality is that Chris Stevens died because Hillary Clinton decided she wanted to invade Libya, because she wanted her big macho moment.
00:04:47.000So we invaded Libya for no apparent reason.
00:04:49.000And then, after it turned into a terrorist tell-all, she was hesitant to admit it had turned into a terrorist tell-all, so she didn't give Chris Stevens additional security.
00:04:56.000Plus, apparently, according to the hearings today, there were emails that were showing
00:05:00.000That Chris Stevens was meeting with terrorists in what was essentially a gun buyback program from terrorists, which was utterly ineffective, and it ended up with him dead.
00:05:10.000Of course, Hillary said today she had her emotional outburst about halfway through the morning hearing.
00:05:15.000She said in the morning hearing that no one had lost more sleep over this whole situation than Hillary Clinton had.
00:05:21.000Well, she didn't lose a lot of sleep the night Chris Stevens died.
00:05:23.000She got all of her sleep the night Chris Stevens died.
00:05:26.000And I'm sure she has lost a lot of sleep since then, considering that it could hurt her presidential chances.
00:05:30.000But the good news for Hillary is she now has an unobstructed path to the nomination.
00:05:35.000Joe Biden, yesterday, the vice president announced that he was out.
00:05:37.000He was not going to run for president of the United States.
00:05:40.000He said it was all because of his son, Beau.
00:05:42.000He said Beau died and we were all grieving and then we sort of ran out of time, but otherwise I would have run.
00:05:50.000Obviously, all of our sympathies go to him and his family on that.
00:05:53.000But the idea that his son's grieving process, the grieving process for his son, was really responsible for him not running is sheer nonsense.
00:06:05.000What happened is that he looked at all of the donors and he looked at all of the numbers and he figured he wasn't going to win anyway, so why not just go out on top?
00:06:43.000He receded into the hairline of history, but before doing so, he gave this really telling speech because it just shows how incoherent the left's ideas are.
00:06:52.000And because Joe Biden is out of the race, by the way, Hillary Clinton, don't worry about the Benghazi hearings.
00:06:56.000They don't mean anything to the media.
00:06:57.000The media will pretend they don't exist and that Hillary Clinton is a wonder child and that the Republicans are all mean and nasty.
00:07:35.000Exactly what Democrats think all the time.
00:07:37.000I mean, Joe Biden was accused back in the 80s and had plagiarized speeches from a British politician named Neil Kinnock.
00:07:44.000Neil Kinnock was not available to plagiarize from, so Joe Biden instead decided to plagiarize from a drunk homeless man that he found on the street the day before.
00:07:52.000So he announced he wasn't gonna run for president, and then he proceeded to give his presidential nomination speech.
00:07:58.000He gave a stump speech for about 15 minutes, and it was,
00:08:02.000Telling and somewhat entertaining only because of the incoherence.
00:08:06.000Let's go through a little bit of what Vice President Joe Biden had to say.
00:08:11.000This party, our nation, will be making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attempt to undo the Obama legacy.
00:08:22.000The American people have worked too hard and we've come too far for that.
00:08:28.000Democrats should not only defend this record and protect this record, they should run on the record.
00:08:37.000We cannot sustain the current levels of inequality.
00:09:45.000Okay, so, then he goes after the Citizens United decision.
00:09:48.000Ah, there's all sorts of money flowing into our politics.
00:09:50.000This is the guy who's taken so much money from the unions, it would make your head spin.
00:09:54.000The Obama administration, Obama's the only candidate in American history who converted his actual campaign operation into a separate organization just to raise money for his causes.
00:10:04.000Obama for America, OFA, became organizing for action.
00:10:26.000And then he gets into free education, and Bernie Sanders has been preaching free education, free college education for everybody.
00:10:32.000It is worth noting a couple of things.
00:10:34.000One of the reasons that Americans are so indebted right now is because they've all taken out loans to go to college.
00:10:39.000One of the reasons they took out loans to go to college is because they were told that if they go to college, they'll have a job afterward.
00:10:45.000And they don't have a job afterward because majoring in lesbian dance theory, it turns out, is not great.
00:10:50.000Qualification for being Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank.
00:10:53.000It is great qualification for sitting out in an Occupy tent and crapping yourself.
00:10:57.000But aside from that, there are no other qualifications.
00:11:00.000But the Obama administration and the left have been telling everybody they need to go to college.
00:11:03.000There are no jobs available for people after high school.
00:11:06.000Right, so what they did by making high school free and college cheap is they drove everybody to finish high school and then go to college.
00:11:12.000But because everybody was doing that, they decided they had to also water down what high school was.
00:11:17.000So people graduate from high school and have no qualifications anymore, whereas it used to be if you graduated from high school, you were actually qualified to do a few things.
00:11:33.000Which will then be watered down, because it's free.
00:11:36.000And we don't want to be spending unlimited sums of money, so we'll have to push people out the other end of college.
00:11:41.000And then we'll have to make grad school free.
00:11:43.000And eventually it'll turn out that you'll go to school when you're five, and you'll leave when you're 80, and you'll work for two years, and then you'll be owed 17 years of back wages on Social Security.
00:13:02.000Those people who theoretically could be married taking care of their own children.
00:13:06.000See, I don't need free childcare for my kid because I work.
00:13:10.000I don't need free childcare for my kid because my wife works.
00:13:13.000And if we couldn't afford it, then my wife or I would stay home with the kid, and one of us would work, and we would take care of our child.
00:13:19.000But apparently now I'm supposed to take money away from my kid to give to somebody else so that they can neglect and pay no attention to their child, which is really exciting.
00:13:27.000Joe Biden continues along these lines, and here's where we get to the heart of the matter.
00:13:30.000What government can do and what government cannot do.
00:13:32.000Wait until you hear what Joe Biden has to say about foreign policy versus what he thinks government ought to do about cancer.
00:13:40.000...more by the power of our example, as the President has, than merely by the example of our power.
00:13:46.000We have to accept the fact that we can't solve all the world's problems.
00:13:56.000The argument that we just have to do something
00:13:59.000When bad people do bad things isn't good enough.
00:14:03.000I believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics.
00:14:07.000We'll get to his take on cancer in just one second.
00:14:09.000But Joe Biden, when he says, number one, we have to, I hate, I hate that all politicians feel the need for what they call rhetorical inversions.
00:15:10.000And second of all, the power of our example has not made ISIS surrender, and it's not going to anytime soon.
00:15:18.000And then when he starts talking about divisive partisanship and all this, this is the guy, remember, this guy, who said that Mitt Romney was gonna put y'all back in chains.
00:15:26.000And he's the king of non-partisanship now.
00:15:29.000It's very exciting that we're led by such illustrious leaders.
00:15:32.000Here, the part that really pissed me off about this speech, though, is what Joe Biden had to say about cancer, because this is so, it's just, yuck.
00:16:38.000But the same day, literally the same day that Joe Biden is out there saying that government can cure cancer, the Democrats on the Hill had a party.
00:16:47.000They had a party to celebrate the Iran deal.
00:16:50.000They invited a full string quartet to play a party in the halls of Congress to celebrate an Iran deal that gives a nuclear weapon to Iran in 10 years, and in the meantime, funds their terrorist enterprise throughout the Middle East.
00:17:03.000So government can't stop Iran, but government can cure cancer.
00:17:05.000Okay, note to Joe Biden, government cannot cure cancer.
00:17:12.000And if the suggestion is we need more government funding for cancer research, okay, well I'm open to the idea of more government funding for cancer research, but how about we start cutting
00:17:21.000All of the crap that government is fighting.
00:17:23.000Government's fighting a war on poverty.
00:17:42.000Obamacare just created a medical device tax.
00:17:45.000That means that medical devices, new innovations, are being taxed at a very, very high rate in order to fund Obamacare.
00:17:51.000The same administration, Joe Biden's administration, that administration, where he's saying that cancer has to be fought.
00:17:58.000Yesterday, the American Cancer Society came out and said that they were raising the standard for when women should have mammograms from 40 to 45.
00:18:06.000They didn't do that because women after age 40 don't need mammograms.
00:18:09.000They did that because Obamacare is not going to cover mammograms for women beyond a certain age.
00:18:14.000And the idea is, by the way, between 40 and 45, if you stop doing mammograms, 14,000 women in America a year fail to get diagnosed and die of breast cancer if you fail to do mammograms in those five years.
00:18:24.000But Obamacare tries to ration care, and of course it's not as cost-effective to screen younger people.
00:18:30.000So the administration that's cracking the whip on the medical industry
00:18:36.000The same—Hillary Clinton declared the pharmaceutical industry her enemy, the drug industry her enemy, in the last Democratic debate, and he's saying that he wants to cure cancer.
00:18:47.000Democrats truly believe that government can do anything except the things that government can actually do.
00:18:51.000And the beauty of that perspective is it means that when government doesn't accomplish anything, the answer is always more government.
00:18:57.000Because if you believe that government is always the cure no matter what, and you take some government that doesn't cure you, well, the answer is you need more government to cure you.