Beckel Bashes GOP on Benghazi: Turned ‘Four Dead Bodies Into a Political Act’

The Five co-host Bob Beckel clarified his angry Benghazi rant last week on Monday’s show, explaining that he wasn’t glossing over the deaths of four dead Americans. He said that in the past he had admitted the White House engaged in politics in the wake of Benghazi, but maintained that the ones doing the real political exploitation are the Republicans, saying “What the Republicans have done is turn four dead bodies into a political act that they can play off of.”

Beckel also said that “any Democrat who shows up on this committee oughta have their Democratic registration taken away from them.”

Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld told Beckel people were so outraged at his remarks because he said the American people don’t care, when many of them clearly do. Beckel insisted “there’s nothing in that that’s an indictable offense to anybody.”

Gutfeld shot back that if a Republican was in the Oval Office, Beckel would say to “hang him high.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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