Tomorrow, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Ahead of her testimony, Speaker Boehner appeared on FOX's Special Report with Bret Baier to discuss the importance of the committee’s work and the consequences of the Obama administration’s stonewalling.
On the committee's focus: “I made it pretty clear that this committee was set up to do one thing -- and that’s to get to the truth about what happened before, during and after the attack in Libya. Unfortunately, the administration has stonewalled us, stonewalled us and stonewalled us and stonewalled our committees to the point where we needed to have one committee and one focus and that’s why this committee was created. Today, the State Department turned over 1,300 pages of printed documents from Ambassador Stevens' e-mails. Today.”
On the administration’s stonewalling: “They’ve been stonewalling us now for three years on giving us the documents that we need in order to get the truth out there. The only interest the committee has in Secretary Clinton is in her emails with regard to Benghazi. … But if it weren’t for this committee, we would have never known about her private server and this whole other email controversy.”
On getting to the truth about what happened: “If it weren’t for the stonewalling from the administration in terms of turning over documents, this would’ve been done a long time ago. … We don't know what happened before, during and after this attack. … Why won’t they turn over these documents? Why won’t they let the American people see the truth about what really happened that night?”