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Is it better for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if Democrats boycott or participate in the new House investigation of the Benghazi attacks?

That question is central to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosis decision whether to appoint Democratic members to the House select committee.

Several Democrats have urged Pelosi not to participate in the committee, saying it is unwise to lend an air of legitimacy to an investigation they have derided as a political witch hunt. But others, particularly those close to Clinton, believe that having Democrats on the panel is the only way to ensure both sides of the story will be told.

On Wednesday Pelosi announced the appointments of five Democratic members to explore the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans:

The Benghazi hearings are likely to become televised spectacles, so the thinking in Clinton world is that its better to have Democrats join in the questioning in hopes of balancing the proceedings, ABC News has learned.

House Speaker John Boehner has appointed seven Republicans to participate in the investigation, which will be led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

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Washington (CNN) - Hillary Clinton's book tour is starting to take shape.

The former secretary of state has added two speaking engagements to her schedule centered around "Hard Choices," her upcoming memoir due out June 10.

Clinton will appear in Austin on June 20 and five days later, on June 25, the former first lady will speak in San Francisco.

Both events, which are being organized by Innovation Arts & Entertainment, are being billed as "a conversation" with Clinton.

It is widely expected that Clinton will speak at a number of other events between her book's release and the Austin event, but a representative for Clinton had no other events to add to her schedule as of Tuesday.

The Austin event will take place at the Long Center and tickets run from $125 to $500. In San Francisco, tickets to the SHN Orpheum Theatre appearance run between $95 and $520.

Everyone who attends the events will receive a copy of "Hard Choices."

On the day that Clinton's book comes out, the former senator is set to speak at the United Fresh Produce Association and Food Marketing Institute annual meeting in Chicago, her childhood hometown.

In addition to the events, Clinton's interviews about the book have also been announced.

Clinton will first sit down with ABC's Diane Sawyer for a one-hour primetime special that will air on Monday, June 9.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton poses for photographs before a dinner hosted in Singapore on Nov. 16, 2012. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Matt Rourke.

Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton is coming to Toronto.

The former first lady and U.S. senator, who is considering running for U.S. president in 2016, will speak at the Sheraton Centre at noon on June 16.

She is expected to discuss her new book Hard Choices, which will be released on June 10.

The book delves into her four years as secretary of state including discussions about the Arab Spring and imposing sanctions on Iran and North Korea.

Clinton served as the 67th secretary of state from 2009 until 2013. She held the senator post for New York from 2001 to 2009.

Tickets are available through the Canadian Club of Canada.

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ABC will help Hillary Clinton promote her new book, "Hard Choices," in a big way.

Clinton will talk to the network's Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts in separate interviews.

Sawyer previews her Clinton interview on the June 9 "World News," then the big chat will air during a one-hour ABC News prime-time special at 9 that night.

Roberts gets the first live interview with Clinton on June 10's "Good Morning America."

"Hard Choices" will be released June 10 by Simon & Schuster.

The publisher offered this preview: "In her highly anticipated book, Secretary Clinton offers a candid view of what it will take for the United States to lead the world in the 21st century and why it matters to the lives of every American. 'Hard Choices' is also the story of her unlikely partnership with President Obama, as a 'team of rivals' became an unrivaled team on the biggest stage of all."

Excerpts from Sawyer's interview will air across all ABC News programs and platforms, including "GMA," "Nightline," ABCNews.com, ABC News Radio, ABC NewsOne and Fusion. Clinton obviously likes ABC. She showed up for Barbara Walters' final appearance on "The View" on Friday.

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SIOUX CITY | Statements made to police by a murder suspect on the night of his arrest will be allowed at his upcoming trial.

District Judge Jeffrey Poulson denied a defense motion to suppress, saying that police did not violate Juan Nino-Estrada's Fifth Amendment rights.

Nino-Estrada, 27, of Sioux City, is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday in Woodbury County District Court on two counts of first-degree murder and single counts of attempted murder and willful injury for the Nov. 7 shooting deaths of Michael Delgado, 35, of Sioux City, and Yolanda Valdez, 35, of Orange City, Iowa, at a house in the 500 block of West 27th Street. Nino-Estrada is also charged with shooting Luis Sanchez, of Sioux City. Sanchez survived.

Police have said that an altercation between Nino-Estrada and another man at the house escalated into the shooting.

Defense attorneys had filed the motion to suppress statements Nino-Estrada made shortly after his arrest and subsequent questioning at the hospital, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound, and then at the police station.

At a hearing earlier this month, officers Greg Rose and Josiah Fenceroy testified that they thought they heard Nino-Estrada mumble what sounded like the words "Fifth Amendment," while asking him questions at the hospital. They said Nino-Estrada was not questioned further until he was taken to the police station. There, Det. Mike Simons said he read Nino-Estrada his rights. Nino-Estrada said he understood those rights, Simons testified.

Poulson found that Fenceroy properly stopped questioning Nino-Estrada at the hospital, even though the suspect's words were unclear, and the questioning at the police station was done by two different officers after properly advising Nino-Estrada of his rights.

"Under the totality of the circumstances, the court finds defendant's right to remain silent was scrupulously honored," Poulson said in his ruling.

Poulson also ruled that police were within their rights to ask Nino-Estrada about the location of the gun used in a fatal double shooting without reading him his Miranda rights because finding the gun was a matter of public safety.

If found guilty as charged, Nino-Estrada would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

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