How damaging to Republicans are Speaker-presumptive Kevin McCarthy's comments on the Benghazi hearings? Very damaging, according to the With All Due Respect duo. John Heilemann called them a "disaster" for congressional Republicans and GOP presidential candidates alike. Mark Halperin called them a "huge problem" for Republicans.
Interestingly, Halperin praised committee chairman Trey Gowdy, saying that he had "been carefully preparing the hearings, trying to do what no Republican has done for a long time, run a politically substantive hearing." But, said Halperin, there's "almost nothing he can do now."