mr. elijah, you can't get that now. you explain that to him and he is going to act out. >> i say okay then i'll see to that so i took my socks off and put it in the toilet and flooded it. >> elijah did more than just flood his cell. he removed a portion of the sink pipe and put it in a sock to be used as a weapon. he says his intended target was corporal key. why did you want to hurt this guy? why did you want to attack him? >> he lied too much. he lie on you. he don't deserve to be a corporal. and i just don't like his ass. >> we discovered he put a piece of metal pipe in a sock and it had my name on it so to speak. he had intended to bring harm to me. i was the eyre of his frustration and anger that day. many of times it had been somebody else. it all depends on who don't give him the attention when he feels he needs it. it will be somebody else next week perhaps. >> you consider yourself a dangerous person? >> no. >> a dangerous inmate? >> i'm not dangerous at all. i won't hurt a fly. >> you said you were going to hi

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mr. trump takes office, he'll be in breech financial ties to the hotel. >> they need to resolve it as soon as possible. >> reporter: congressman elijah cummings says a top official from the general services administration, which oversees the property, recently told democrats they tried to reach the trump team but haven't heard back. >> we want the american people to have trust in the decisions that the president makes, and by eliminating these conflicts, you then open a doo for that. >> reporter: while he's in the legally obligated, mr. trump has sa he'll separate himself from his businesses but t weehi postponed a conference to lay out how he'll do it. instead he tweeted prior to his inauguration he'll turn over his business to his two adult son, also problematic since they're actively involved in the transition, and the d.c. hotel is a prime example according to steven sciewner, an expert on government contracts at the george washington university law servant negotiating with the president's adult children knowing that their supervisor wa appointed by the president. >> reporter: the g.s.a. said they will wait to see what from trump does with his busin

and elijah cummings raised concern about the president-elect extensive business dealings in foreign couple of countries how mrtrump will avoid conflict of intchlt democrats note ivanka trump is his daughter and on the lease that the general services administration over sea and primary contact for the gsa. the democrats say the conflict of interest are obvious. >> when you deal with someone with massive real estate holdings. they are not simple transactions and selling major properties or buildings takes time. and the next white house chief of staff said they are working hard on the issue. >> the trump brand and product and hotel and golf course was not something that was real and was going to be cut off instantly right after the election. this is not easy stuff. what president-elect trump is doing with lawyer and people involved, making sure that all government ethics are followed. >> reporter: part of why mr. trump was elected because he is extremely successful. there is a new's conference to give his team more time to work this issue. jenna. >> mike, thank you. >>> the president-elect is facing dozens of op

democrats, maryland congressman elijah cummings joining us now from baltimore, ranking member of the house oversight committee. why is that not enough, congressman? >> first of all, mr. nunez is on donald trump's transition team, and one of the things we need to do in this situation is, we need to have an investigation that has integrity. i listened to one of your earlier guests talking about whether the motive for the russians interference was to sway the election in donald trump's favor. let's be clear. to me that's a distraction. the question is, that we've got 17 intelligence agencies that we pay to put their lives on the line that we pay $70 billion a year to get intelligence and they have said a fact that the russians did interfere with our e ear lection elections. whatever the motive, we need to look into that. i believe a commission. something like the 9/11 commission where e don't get all muddied in politics, because the american people deserve to know if a foreign government which is not a friend of the united states, is interfering with our elections. >> president obama, the other day, announced he wants a full-scale intelligence community investigation,

elijah cummings, ranking member from maryland. i'd like to recognize him for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you very much for holding this hearing. government transparency is a bipartisan issue. over multiple sessions of congress our committee as made significant progress in making the federal government more open and accountable. we do this best when we work together. during this congress, we work together to strengthen the freedom of information act and those amendments were signed into law by president obama in june. just this past monday we sent another bill to the white house to strengthen protections for employees working for contractors and grantees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse. we now have the opportunity to work together to address the flaws in our classification system. over the past several years our committee has conducted multiple informations including our rey view of secretary clinton's e-mails that exposed serious flaws in our classification system. we've seen agencies disagree with each other on whether an e-mail was classified. we've seen informati

elijah cummings, ranking member from maryland. i would like to recognize him for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman.hank you very much for holding this hearing. government transparency is a bipartisan issue. over multiple sessions of congress, our committee has made significant progress in making the federal government more open and accountable. we do this best when we work together. during this congress, we worked together to strengthen the freedom of information act. and those amendments were signed into law by president obama in june. just this past monday, we sent another bill to the white house to strengthen protections for employees working for contractors and grantees, who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse. we now have the opportunity to work together to address the flaws in our classification systems. over the past several years, our committee has conducted multiple investigations, including our review of secretary clinton's e-mails that exposed serious flaws in our classification system. we've even agencies disagree with each other on whether an e-mail was classified. we've seen i

equal passion for this is my colleague elijah cummings, ranking member from maryland and i would like to recognize him for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you very much for holding this hearing. government transparency is a bipartisan issue. over multiple sessions of congress our committee has made significant progress in making the federal government more open and accountable. during this congress we worked together to secure the freedom of information act and those amounts we amendments were signed into law by president obama in june we sent protections for employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse. we now have the opportunity to work together to address flaws in our classification system. over the past several years, our committee has conducted multiple investigations including our review of secretary clinton's e-mails that exposed serious flaws in our classification system. we've seen agencies disagree with each other on whether an e-mail was classified. we've seen information that began unclassified, later being retroactively classified. we've seen documents that were not properly marked as classifi

mr. trump hand these are basically people that want government to be fair and that's what we're look for. joy, i promise you. we're going to fight this with everything that we have. >> congressman elijah cummings, we'll definitely be following this. let me bring in my panel, adnan and karine jean-pierre and jennifer rubin. looking into the idea of the emollments clause and donald trump's conflicts and senate majority leader smiled and kept walking as he headed off the floor late wednesday night. do you foresee meaningful oversight coming out of the republican house or senate of donald trump? >> no. this has been a year of milktoast courage stick on the right and other places and large sections of the media and quite a bit of the left. people got very excited on the left about a infrastructure bill after a white nationalist demagogue took over the government of the united states so i think that this is going to be a very important moment to do a few things. one is to read our history books and remember that it is not simple police about investigating little emoluments and things like that and things that have been perfectly constitutional and upheld by our checks and balances, slavery

elijah cummings, ranking member from maryland. i would like to recognize him for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you very much for holding this hearing. government transparency is a bipartisan issue. over multiple sessions of congress, our committee has made significant progress in making the federal government more open and accountable. we do this best when we work together. during this congress, we worked together to strengthen the freedom of information act. and those amendments were signed into law by president obama in june. just this past monday, we sent another bill to the white house to strengthen protections for employees working for contractors and grantees, who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse. we now have the opportunity to work together to address the flaws in our classification systems. over the past several years, our committee has conducted multiple investigations, including our review of secretary clinton's e-mails that exposed serious flaws in our classification system. we've even agencies disagree with each other on whether an e-mail was classified. we've seen

want us to remember the faces of people like elijah dawkins, and i want us to come together and to acknowledge their many contributions to this great country. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that my intern emma peterson be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you. colleagues, we are now four weeks out from a presidential election in which millions of american voters indicated they wanted a change. donald trump, our president-elect, campaigned and was elected on a platform he called drank the swamp. getting rid of entrenched special interests, sounds good. fighting on behalf of middle-class americans -- sounds good. taking on wall street, powerful special interests -- sounds good. in fact, month after month, our president-elect attacked secretary clinton, saying she was too close to wall street banks. he said things like she will never reform wall street. and he said i know the guys at goldman sachs. they have total control, he indicated, over his opponent. pret