He has to stick with the phony scandal narrative.
Via MRC
Susan Rice, former U.N. Ambassador and current National Security Advisor for President Obama, sat down with CNN’s Candy Crowley and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, June 1 to discuss a variety of foreign policy topics, yet Stephanopoulos refused to ask his guest about the latest surrounding the Benghazi investigation.
Rice appeared on both This Week and State of the Union to talk about the decision by the United States to release 5 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the Taliban releasing an American soldier held captive and only CNN’s Candy Crowley brought up Benghazi to Ambassador Rice.
While both Stephanopoulos and Crowley pushed back against Rice over whether the United States should have released five suspected terrorists, only Crowley brought up Rice’s most controversial aspect of her tenure working for President Obama; her appearance on the Sunday talk shows following the Benghazi terrorist attack.
Crowley asked Rice “Looking back to those talking points on the Sunday talk shows that have been so much discussed, were you ever angry that you were not given full information or that someone didn’t check back? Did you ever feel like you were put out there with bad information?”
While Stephanopoulos never asked Rice about Benghazi, immediately after he concluded the interview, the ABC host referenced Benghazi during a preview of his upcoming interview with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX): “And we will hear from Ted Cruz next. We’ll get his reaction to the Bergdhal deal, Hillary’s Benghazi defiance, his presidential plans and why his party had this Duck Dynasty star at their leadership conference.”
During the interview with Cruz, the ABC host brought up Benghazi and hyped how “We’ve seen the first chapter of Hillary Clinton’s memoir Hard Choices it’s about Benghazi, pretty defiant chapter.” The subject of Benghazi came up again during the panel discussion but only focused on how it will impact Clinton’s political future.