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Of going out and selling the ideas that conservatives believe in. i believe one of the great frustrations, rightly or wrongly with senator boehner, the grass roots folks out there didn't feel like people were taking the argument, articulating the arguments they believed in on the sunday morning talk shows and others, i think that you will see a paul ryan speakership do that, but i don't want to speak for paul ryan. >> i think what most americans want to see is a functioning congress. will we see that? >> yeah. again, look at what has already happened. you've got very disparity parts of the rep...

Hearing. there were fireworks. >> you said from the beginning, we want the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. >> but in the end, what did we learn? >> i don't know that she testified that much differently today than she has previous times she's testified. >> plus, he's in. congressman paul ryan is running for speaker. can he really shake up congress? a u.s. commando killed in a special forces raid in iraq. new details about the dramatic rescue attempt. let's talk live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning, i'm carol costello. minutes from now hillary clinton will address the demo...

Benghazi hanging over her and start engendering enthusiasm among democrats which has sort of been the missing component for her. >> brianna, can hillary clinton put benghazi in her rearview mirror? >> i don't know that it's ever going to fully be in her rearview mirror in that this motivates a lot of the republican base, so presuming she would be the front-runner, and right now she's definitely in a better position and more poised to do that with joe biden out of the race, i think she'll be dealing with this issue again. it's something that riles up the republican base. something that really s...

Unlicensed dealers, gun shows. closing that loophole seems to have a lot of support on congress. so does the ban on the high capacity magazines. that idea seems to have grabbed the imagination of a lot of people including, i am told, republicans. what they're worried about is the assault weapons ban. they are going to propose it. they are going to push for it. >> he is going to propose the weapons ban? >> he is going to propose it. by that's where they're getting more pushback. apparently, from some democrats. on the one hand, the good news is i think there's a really good shot we're going to ...

Know, in a situation of a rape, a legitimate rape, a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that pregnancy would not occur. he's partly right on that. i'm an ob-gyn doctor and i've delivered lots of these things. it is true. >> that easterble. give him an eye patch, too. folks, these tea party republicans are forcing people to walk the plank. joining me now is a swash buckle in his own right, bob schrum, nyu professor. he just wrote a daily beast column saying, what we have in washington is not a functioning congress, but a one-ring circus on the far right. and, also with me, cynthia