More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Appearing on Friday’s NBC Today, Bloomberg Politics managing editor John Heilemann saw a rapidly closing window for Joe Biden to enter the presidential race: “...if he's making a calculation on the political landscape, it's more forbidding now than it was a month ago. You've got Hillary Clinton performing well at this debate, the Benghazi Committee now kind of delegitimized. She's teed up to have a great day next week, where it could have been a bad – a moment of peril.”
After Heilemann mentioned Benghazi, co-host Matt Lauer reported that: “one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, Huma Abedin, could face an intense line of questioning later today when she goes before that House committee.” He turned to correspondent Kristen Welker, who noted that Abedin “will be in the hot seat,” but also touted Clinton campaign hopes of being able to “turn the page” on the Democratic front-runner’s scandals: