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[00:00.32]Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged stronger politically
[00:04.60]after nearly 11 hours of tough questioning Thursday, analysts said.
[00:10.66]Her ability to remain calm while answering hostile Republican questions
[00:17.68]made her look presidential, some analysts said.
[00:22.64]The hearing by the House Select Committee on Benghazi
[00:26.92]centered on the 2012 events
[00:29.96]at the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
[00:35.44]At the time, she was President Barack Obama's Secretary of State.
[00:41.68]The attacks left four Americans dead,
[00:45.40]including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
[00:50.61]Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia,
[00:57.28]said Ms. Clinton did better than at the 2013 Senate hearing.
[01:02.92]At that hearing, she responded angrily to a senator's question
[01:08.32]about mistakes made in Benghazi.
[01:12.24]"What difference, at this point, does it make?" she asked.
[01:16.36]That remark was played over and over again on American TV news shows.
[01:23.72]This time Ms. Clinton let House Democrats argue it out with Republicans.
[01:31.00]"Clinton kept her cool, unlike in January 2013," Mr. Sabato said.
[01:38.76]"That was critical. She looked and sounded statesmanlike.
[01:44.28]That also was critical. Democrats loved it.
[01:48.52]Republicans hated it. Few if any minds were changed.
[01:54.09]But Democrats are even more likely to back her bid for president now.
[01:59.60]Unless somehow a massive event intervenes,
[02:03.52]she's the party nominee."
[02:05.82]This is a big difference from a few weeks ago,
[02:09.32]when her standing as the front-running Democratic
[02:12.80]presidential candidate was in question.
[02:15.88]Since then, she won a televised debate with her challengers
[02:20.76]for the Democratic presidential nomination,
[02:24.00]according to most independent analysts.
[02:27.84]And Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday
[02:32.24]that he is not going to run for president.
[02:36.68]That is good news for Ms. Clinton.
[02:40.27]She would have lost more votes to Biden supporters
[02:44.68]than to her chief Democratic challenger,
[02:48.16]Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.
[02:52.64]Also, two of her Democratic opponents,
[02:55.73]Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee, dropped out of the race this week.
[03:00.95]Even some conservative analysts admitted
[03:04.52]Ms. Clinton got the better of her Republican questioners.
[03:09.53]"The hearings are a waste of time because
[03:12.76]everything about it is politicized and nothing is going to happen,"
[03:17.84]wrote conservative columnist Erick Erickson in his blog Friday.
[03:24.20]However, there was some drama during the nationally televised hearings.
[03:29.88]In her opening statement, Ms. Clinton put her questioners
[03:34.28]on the defensive by saying how much the attack affected her personally.
[03:41.20]"I would imagine I have thought more about what happened
[03:45.72]than all of you put together," she said.
[03:49.44]"I have lost more sleep than all of you put together.
[03:53.96]I have been wracking my brain
[03:56.50]about what more could have been done or should have been done."
[04:01.60]Republicans questioned her honesty.
[04:05.16]Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio,
[04:09.24]said Ms. Clinton and other administration officials
[04:13.72]first blamed the attack on angry Muslims.
[04:17.92]But, he noted, Ms. Clinton had emailed
[04:21.52]her daughter and blamed terrorists.
[04:26.28]"Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi
[04:29.84]by an Al Qaeda-like group," Ms. Clinton wrote.
[04:34.36]Jordan said Clinton didn't want the true story to come out
[04:39.24]because "Libya was supposed to be ...
[04:42.36]this great success story for the Obama White House
[04:46.08]and the Clinton State Department."
[04:48.88]He asked why she didn't "just speak plain to the America people."
[04:55.64]She responded: "I did state clearly, and I said it again
[05:01.52]in more detail the next morning, as did the president.
[05:06.33]I'm sorry that it doesn't fit your narrative, congressman.
[05:10.94]I can only tell you what the facts were."
END OF TRACK. "END OF TRACK." The two men bowed. "Whoever was that person you were talking to?" she enquired, as soon as they stood together. The took of triumph faded from her eyes, she had grown worn and weary. The roses were wilting on the walls, the lights were mostly down now. Hetty, looking in to see if anything was wanted, found herself driven away almost fiercely. I only saw Master Jervie once when he called at tea time, The year 1747 was opened by measures of restriction. The House of Lords, offended at the publication of the proceedings of the trial of Lord Lovat, summoned the parties to their bar, committed them to prison, and refused to liberate them till they had pledged themselves not to repeat the offence, and had paid very heavy fees. The consequence of this was that the transactions of the Peers were almost entirely suppressed for nearly thirty years from this time, and we draw our knowledge of them chiefly from notes taken by Horace Walpole and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. What is still more remarkable, the reports of the House of Commons, being taken by stealth, and on the merest sufferance, are of the most meagre kind, sometimes altogether wanting, and the speeches are given uniformly under fictitious names; for to have attributed to Pitt or Pelham their[112] speeches by name would have brought down on the printers the summary vengeance of the House. Many of the members complained bitterly of this breach of the privileges of Parliament, and of "being put into print by low fellows"; but Pelham had the sense to tolerate them, saying, "Let them alone; they make better speeches for us than we can make for ourselves." Altogether, the House of Commons exhibited the most deplorable aspect that can be conceived. The Ministry had pursued Walpole's system of buying up opponents by place, or pension, or secret service money, till there was no life left in the House. Ministers passed their measures without troubling themselves to say much in their behalf; and the opposition dwindled to Sir John Hinde Cotton, now dismissed from office, and a feeble remnant of Jacobites raised but miserable resistance. In vain the Prince of Wales and the secret instigations of Bolingbroke and Doddington stimulated the spirit of discontent; both Houses had degenerated into most silent and insignificant arenas of very commonplace business. "It certainly will be. Miss Widgeon," answered Maria, with strictly "company manners." "One who has never had a brother exposed to the constant dangers of army life can hardly understand how glad we all feel to have Si snatched from the very jaws of death and brung back to us." "Just plug at 'em as you would at a crow, and then go on your way whistlin'?" persisted Harry. "Hurroo!" echoed Hennessey; "that's the ticket." "Come forward, keeper," continued the baron, "and state how these arrows came into your hands!" "Yes." HoMEJULIA京香2018下载
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