Clinton ad aims to capitalize on McCarthy Benghazi comments

Hillary Clinton is hammering home her argument that the House GOP's Benghazi investigation is about politics with a new ad that highlights recent comments by the party's likely choice to be the next speaker.

"The Republicans finally admit it," a narrator says in the ad that launched Tuesday on cable networks. That's followed by footage of a news report on House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's recent comments that suggested a political motivation behind the formation of a House select committee to investigate the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, including the McCarthy comments themselves.

"Republicans have spent millions attacking Hillary because she's fighting for everything they oppose," the narrator adds.

Last week, McCarthy said in an interview on Fox News regarding Clinton and the House probe: "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 happened.”

Days later, McCarthy clarified the remark during another Fox News appearance, saying the "sole purpose" of the House committee's investigation  "is to find the truth."

In response to Clinton's ad, Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short said in a statement: “If multiple investigations by the Obama Administration – including the FBI – are part of a partisan plot to take down Hillary Clinton, then Hell really must have frozen over."

Clinton is scheduled to testify before the House Benghazi committee on Oct. 22.