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Suddenly worried about government spending, the Thursday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight featured anchor David Muir complaining on three separate occasions about the cost of the House Select Committee on Benghazi while chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl observed that Republicans “really didn’t succeed” in “draw[ing] blood” from Hillary Clinton.
Muir wasted no time harping on the price tag for investigating the deadly 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya as he hyped in the show’s first tease: “Tonight, Hillary Clinton and the fireworks. Tough questions on her e-mails, on Benghazi and the moment members of Congress start fighting right in front of her. As we ask tonight, how much has the American taxpayer spent on the 17-month investigation?”