CBS finally mentioned Benghazi.
Via MRC
Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell questioned Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning over the increase in the number of children illegally entering the U.S., and whether immigration reform is going to be revived in Congress. Rose spotlighted that Rubio received “some political pushback” on the immigration issue, and wondered, “When will we see thorough immigration reform?”
The PBS veteran also noted that the Florida politician is a “leading critic of the V.A. health system,” but oddly didn’t ask a question about the ongoing scandal. Instead, he ran to Hillary Clinton’s defense on the extent of her responsibility for the security lapses leading up the September 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya:
CHARLIE ROSE: Well, she [Clinton] has apologized because she said it happened on her watch. I mean, do you hold her personally responsible for the security failure that you cite?
The two anchors brought on Senator Rubio immediately after correspondent Vicente Arenas’s report on the rise in the number of illegal immigrant children. Rose first asked, “What should we be doing about those undocumented kids, which are increasing in size? ” The Republican answered, in part, that “it’s an alarming story, and….this is something we should approach, first and foremost, as a humanitarian issue – not simply an immigration one.”
Rose followed up by asking his “thorough immigration reform” question. The Florida senator asserted that “as far as the politics of immigration reform are concerned, it’s the right thing to do for the country. I recognize that there is political resistance to that issue. But I also recognize…we were sent here to try to make a difference on an issue of extraordinary importance for our country.”
When O’Donnell then asked whether the illegal immigrant children should be deported, Rubio pointed out that “if you allow children to come here and remain legally, you’re going to create a precedent…We have to be very careful about that, because suddenly, you have, unwittingly, in an effort to do the right thing or a good thing, unleashed a massive humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border.”
The two CBS anchors spent the rest of the segment on Hillary Clinton’s recent interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer and her remarks on the Benghazi attack: