‘I am still standing’: Clinton dismisses Benghazi scandal

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Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night deflected questions about her controversial use of a private email system to shield her communications, by saying the Republican effort to investigate her communications isn’t an investigation, but an act of raw politics.

“Let’s just take a minute here and point out that this committee is basically an arm of the Republican National Committee,” Clinton said of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the bipartisan probe that discovered her private email account in March.

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