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On Monday, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News prominently touted the claims by a fired staffer on the House Select Committee on Benghazi that the panel’s sole aim is to takedown former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a move that gives her “a potential lifeline” and “another blow” to the committee.
After anchor Scott Pelley dubbed the story “a new controversy tonight surrounding the House Benghazi Committee,” congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes hyped that Bradley Podliska’s “claims are another blow to the House Benghazi investigation, but Republicans say he's lying.”