[Rep. Kevin Mccarthy , California:] Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable, but no one would have known any of that had had happened had we not
[Chris Cuomo, Cnn Anchor:] Congressman Kevin McCarthy and Sean Hannity there. McCarthy could become the next House speaker suggesting that the House Benghazi Committee lowered Hillary Clinton's poll numbers. Did he just give an inside look into why that committee was formed in the first place? You know who thinks the answer is yes to that? Hillary Clinton. Here's her response.
[Hillary Clinton , Presidential Candidate:] When I hear a statement like that which demonstrates unequivocally, that this was always meant to be a partisan political exercise, I feel like it does a great disservice and dishonors, not just the memory of the four that we lost, but in everybody who has served our country.
[Cuomo:] Hillary Clinton taking the high ground there. Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan and senior adviser to the pro- Hillary group, "Correct the Record," joins us now. The response I believe from the McCarthy team will be, no, no, not the formation of the committee. It was what the committee revealed that wound up lowering her numbers, do you accept that justification?
[Jennifer Granholm , Former Governor Of Michigan:] Absolutely not. I heard somebody yesterday describe this as Toto pulling back the fake curtain on the Wizard of Oz. We all knew this was, yes, the committee investigating this with nobody having found there was wrongdoing, so this committee is formed. And it has now been the longest special investigative committee in the history of the United States. I think taxpayers should be really ticked off that they've spent $4.5 million and spent more time than they did looking at Pearl Harbor than they did looking at Watergate. And we know the purpose of it. And Kevin McCarthy revealed what everybody knows. And I would encourage you to talk to the Democrats who are on that committee who have known it all along as well. This was a political sham. This was out to get Hillary Clinton because they don't want to run against her and now it's just been revealed.
[Cuomo:] What about the allegations that we still don't know what exactly went wrong in Benghazi from an accountability standpoint?
[Granholm:] But how many committees do we have to have that show this? The special committee that was a bipartisan group looking at this who said very clearly that there was nothing nefarious happening there, sometimes, just can't get there in time. She has made whatever, there were technical fixes that need to be made. She's taken responsibility. She took action. She appointed a group to fix that. John Kerry has taken that on. This has been reviewed, reviewed, reviewed. Talk about a waste of government resources and talk about an insult to the people who were actually killed in that terrible tragedy, because they have been used politically. And that's what Kevin McCarthy revealed.
[Cuomo:] What about the e-mails that just were released by the State Department, about 3,850 documents mostly from 2010, 2011. You got the chief-of-staff then, Cheryl Mills, openly addressing the concerns about having private e-mail and what could have. You have portions of 250 documents upgraded to classified status retroactively. It won't be made available publicly for that reason. Does this show any responsibility on part of the Clinton team?
[Granholm:] She has taken responsibility for that too. She said it was not a wise move to have a private server. However, I must say that these 200 e-mails that were retroactively classified just to be clear again, for your viewers, there was a separate system that was used to view classified information. You cannot physically send it on a private e-mail so totally separate. But I would encourage people to take a look at these e-mails because they really do give an interesting view of what goes on inside of government. And that e-mail that you referred to by Cheryl Mills, which she expressed some concern, and indeed coming from Samantha Powers, that the antiquated Department of State e-mails were really not the belt because we needed to upgrade the system. Now, we know that the federal government's system has been hacked and continues to be hacked, multiple, multiple times. There's been no evidence of a successful hack on equipment servers. So, you know, hopefully, that continues, obviously. But the bottom line is there was no transmission of classified information at the time.
[Cuomo:] So let's put up the money also, Hillary put up $28 million on the last reporting period. Bernie put up $25 million. Of course, the spin is Bernie doing better than Hillary because the rate of increase of his money is such more dramatic. How do you see it?
[Granholm:] Well, she's raised $75 million in the primary race. She's on track to raise 100. She has raised more than any candidate in the history of the United States in this particular quarter. And if you put actually Bernie Sanders money and Hillary Clinton's money together, they outraised the entire Republican field. So there's a lot of excitement on the Democratic side. So she raised more money. She's on track to meet her goal. I think she's really happy about how things have turned out in the third quarter.
[Cuomo:] Governor Granholm, appreciate you being on NEW DAY to correct the record. We'll be back with more questions for you soon I'm sure.
[Granholm:] All right, thanks, Chris.
[Cuomo:] So, mark your calendars. The first big Democratic debate is going to be hosted by us and Facebook and it's going to be on Tuesday, October 13th, 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Let the battles begin Mich.
[Michaela Pereira, Cnn Anchor:] We're very much looking forward to that. All right, Jeb Bush tweeted that he was flattered by similarities between Donald Trump's tax plan and his own. Where does Trump's plan fall short? We're going to pose that question to Jeb Bush.