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>> he wants more spending and more tax hikes that will hurt our economy. >> giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. >> today, the same gop house that wants to slash the safety net is getting are rigright to spending millions on a fake scandal. joing me now is richard wolf. thanks for coming on. >> you bet, reverend. >> $3.3 million on a phony benghazi scandal? isnt gop the party of fiscal responsibility? >> they are. they are also trying to do...

Watergate. >> this will go down as the greatest cover up. im talking about watergate and the rest. >> get to the bottom like we did in watergate and iran contra. >> add watergate and iran are-contra together and multiply it by ten or so you will get to benghazi. >> its extremist and republicans may have started to believe their own rhetoric. but benghazi select committee budget is $3.3 million. adjusted for inflation. the senate watergate committee, the select committee was just $2.4 million. ag...

When maybe there was no sort of fund-raising letters going out on the back of this kind of thing as we know there has been about the benghazi issue. its interesting hearing republicans talk about people didnt lose their lives in watergate. but this is so much bigger. i dont recall them spending this kind of money or attention on -- i dont know -- the intelligence failures of the run-up to the water in iraq they were enthusiastic about. it is disproportionate on a historical basis whether its wat...

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If they are going to spend this money on one issue where intelligence failed badly to the cost sadly of three peoples lives. what are they going to spend on the entire intelligence budget in overseeing that. its disproportionate. we knew that. the committee has a problem with trumped-up charges or excessive over investigation of something thats been thoroughly investigated. they have to do everything they can to -- the finances look skewed. >> when you talk about money, one of the things they ke...

Of touch with political priorities of the country its a problem. they are playing to the base, to people who hear the word benghazi and it conjures conspiracy theories. thats not how they will get back to being a national party. anything that looks like they are overdoing it, overplaying their hand like spending too much money on this kind of investigation when the economy is still struggling, thats a problem for republicans nationally. >> richard, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, rev...

The phony benghazi scandal. remember in may we were supposed to be concerned about that and the presidency was falling apart. and he was either evil or incompetent. well, the incompetent meme is back. if he didnt know how badly things were going, he must be incompetent. and they have just learned how to tie this government in knots by using the power, they run the house, they can have hearing after hearing after hearing, and they -- and this is what theyre doing. and so she is stuck there, rathe...

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