Rachel Maddow helps viewers get to know Republican House Majority Leader and expected next-Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, and reports on the political damage he has done to his own party with his admission that the House Select Committee on Benghazi is a political device for attacking Hillary Clinton to hurt her chances for the presidency in 2016.Oct. 1, 2015
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