After spending millions on probe, Trey Gowdy still refuses to say ‘Clinton lied’ about Benghazi

Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) refused on Tuesday to accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of lying about the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya.

After spending a reported $7 million dollars investigating the Benghazi attacks, House Republicans released their report this week, but it found no new evidence of wrongdoing by the former secretary of state.

At a press conference on Tuesday, reporters pointed out that Gowdy's committee had fueled attacks on Clinton for months.

"There are bumper stickers and T-shirts all over this country that say, 'Hillary Clinton lied, people died,'" one reporter noted during Gowdy's press conference. "Is that true?"

"You don't see that T-shirt on me and you've never seen that bumper sticker on any of my vehicles and you've never heard me comment on that," Gowdy insisted. "I'm asking you to read [the report]. I'm not going to tell you what to be on the lookout for. I'm going to tell you there's new information."

"And it fundamentally changes the way that I view what happened before, during and after," he added. "I actually trust you to read the report for yourself and draw your own conclusions."

"But you are the expert," another reporter interrupted. "What do you think? Do you think she lied?"

"I'm not going to assign -- that, that's a word you couldn't use in a courtroom," Gowdy stuttered in response. "It's just in [Clinton's] public statements to us, there was less definitiveness. So, you're going to have to decide for yourself."