announced his first key national security post. congressman mike pompeo as cia director, senator jeff sessions as attorney general and retired general michael flynn as national security adviser. all three require senate confirmation. here to discuss these picks, someone who knows a lot about these roles. nancy soderberg was deputy national security adviser for president bill clinton. thanks for coming in. my pleasure. let s talk about national security adviser. obviously that s a position you are very familiar with. put us in the room. how big of a role is the president s national security adviser? how big of a role does he or she play? first, let me just comment on the group. these are people who fed the views that we saw during the campaign to donald trump. you had pompeo, who is on the benghazi committee in the house, you had sessions who fed anti-islamic, racist comments to him but couldn t even get through the judicial committee
turning to capitol hill this afternoon, the house is expected to pass a stop gap measure to avert a government shutdown at midnight tonight. that s after the senate passed it today. the bill expected to include funding for planned parenthood over the objections of many conservative members. but the news making the biggest waves on capitol hill today is house majority leader kevin mccarthy comment about the benghazi committee in the house and the impact on hillary clinton s poll numbers. take a listen to what he had to say. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatible. right? we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee, what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. why? because she s untrustable. no one would have known that had happened had we not i give credit you for that. moments ago, hillary clinton
speaker right now, wants to be the new speaker of the house s. there so much concern of house republicans that may not happen? reporter: he ll be speaker. i don t think this could hurt that prospect but i think that what you re starting to hear now in this echo chamber is, is this guy ready? he will have the votes and nobody else really want this is job and the conservative forces that say they want it have not been able to assemble behind somebody else but keep in mind he will have the least amount of experience for speaker since anyone of 1891. never served as a committee chairman. first got here in 2006 so the questions are out there and an answer like last night on fox only amplify that, as well as give democrats quite a gift. this is something they have been trying to push for a while and have somebody as high up as a next speaker saying it, that s something to take to the bank and go all in on, kate. luke russert, talking to a me believe of the benghazi
. the controversy over hillary clinton s private e-mail isn t going away soon. on thursday a federal judge said that clinton did not comply with government policies in the use of her e-mail account. we couldn t be here today if the employee had followed government policy. judge sullivan also urged the state department and fbi to expand their investigation into clinton s e-mail serve. a new cnn poll shows 56% of americans think clinton did something wrong by using her personal e-mail address. 39% say she didn t do anything wrong. the clinton campaign is working harder than ever to calm the storm over the controversy. they released this campaign video earlier today. the head of the benghazi committee in the house even admits hillary clinton s e-mails has nothing do with the benghazi inquiry that is supposed to be the charge of his committee.
they asked me, do you think this will a general election problem for secretary clinton? we like her, we want democrats to win the white house but we re not sure about where this is going to go. and that s one of the challenges here. and democrats hope republicans do overplay their hand and hope when that benghazi committee in the house when she testifies before that in october, they hope republicans do overplay their hand. but they can t be sure of that. so the challenge here for the clinton campaign going forward is they have little control over this inquiry that the justice department is doing and that the house congressional select committee on benghazi is doing. so a campaign never likes to have things out of their control. so that is what is unsettling to them no matter whether hillary clinton likes to make a joke about it or not. there was a great washington post story on that this morning, about the lack of control her camp feels over it. they don t know where it s going t