NBC: After Hearing, ‘Has Hillary Clinton Put the Controversy Behind Her?’

Kyle Drennen | October 23, 2015
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On Friday’s NBC Today, hosts and correspondents hoped Hillary Clinton had brushed aside her scandals after testimony before the House Benghazi Committee on Thursday. At the top of the show, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Marathon on the Hill....an 11-hour day on Benghazi....Has Hillary Clinton put the controversy behind her?”

In the report that followed, correspondent Andrea Mitchell dismissed the hearing as “plenty of political theater” and sympathetically declared: “It was Clinton who spent the most time talking about the victims of the attack.” She concluded that while the former Secretary of State “was praised for keeping her cool,” Democrats on the committee “were out of patience.”

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