cummings: mr. chairman, before yielding to mr. lynch, i want to say one thing. i listened to the gentleman and i have the utmost respect for him. but i remind him that this is american jurisprudence. that has had the concept of innocent until proven guilty for as long as he just talked about. mr. kelly: would the gentleman yield? mr. cummings: i listened he very carefully, you had an outstanding speech. i want to make sure we are clear on something. e senior executives, right now, suspected of criminal activity may already be removed or replaced for an indefinite suspension without pay. need to focus on improving agency implementation. talking about the neely case, rather than passing legislation that would deprive employees of their due process rights. might want it keep in mind there is a little thing called the constitution of the united states of america that every two years we come and we swear we are going to uphold. part of that constitution is about due process. and that's what we are tryin

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that this targeting was about going after the president's political enemies then evie gentleman cummingst the investigation was over, and that led to this reprimand. >> i think it's disgraceful that we're squandering this opportunity to get to the bottom of this because of partisan bickering. >> mr. lynch, i couldn't agree with you more, and hopefully you are setting a tone we will all observe going forward, and i'll do my best. >> 30 seconds. >> i said in the beginning of what i said. i think we -- i've said it 50 million times. we have to get to the bottom of this. >> the hearing is ongoing. the search for answers about the targeting at the irs continues. >> thanks very much. joining us now the managing edit temperature for the d.c. newspaper, "the hill." inmembers of congress want to know why they're approval ratings are so low, these committee hearings would be a good place to start. what's going on there? is this what we have come to, national-calling? >> yeah. this committee is very iraq -- raucous, and they were actually getting along better until the scandal broke but some senato

do i know this but you are dead wrong about elijah cummings, he is he disgraceful in these hearings.that's your opinion. my opinion is i am right about elijah cummings. >> bill: he is attacking those who want to tell the truth. >> why did issa withhold information. >> i'm not singling out one or two men. i'm saying elijah cummings doesn't want to know and is attacking and disgraceful. >> bill: can i make a big point here? >> that's a big point that needs to be made. this is the most dangerous scandal in u.s. history because in the past when we have seen abuse of the irs, it's been elites, two elites linden johnson against the. >> bill clinton against o'reilly. what makes this different is that the irs targeted broad swaths of the entire society. >> bill: the folks. >> regular americans. >> bill: get to the bottom of it elijah gentleman. get to the bottom of it. man. i'm watching you. next on the rundown, rolling stone magazine taking massive heat over pudding much the boston terrorist on its cover. donald trump on how he would provide more jobs in america. factor will be right back.

cummings and i receiving. rightfully or wrongfully has been interpreted 6103 isn't it true that each body, the senate and the house, produce their own rules as to who receives 6103? >>. >> that i will refer to my chief counsel on. >> mr. chairman, the house rule and the senate rule can determine the way the statute is written that the chairman of the committee on ways & means, the chairman of the committee on finance and the senate and the staff correct on the joint committee on taxation can make request for information from the treasury department. >> and share it. >> then they can designate who they'll share it with. however, in closed session. >> sure. i understand. of course they also can make the final determination whether they agree with the 6103 or not as a body. so when they get unredacted information, they then, in the ordinary course, usually work with your organizations and make decisions on what should be redacted before release; is that right? >> i believe we do have discussions but they're not l

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. >> elijah cummings. >> bill: cummings is the point man.ummings, for the white house, i guess, i don't know. try to discredit george. >> think about it he is he saying because he was a republican and was appointed by george w. bush when he was president, that his findings should somehow into not be given full credibility. the government has already acknowledged the wrongdoing and begun disciplining staffers. so, whether or not the inspector general uncovered it is a republican or a democrat or giraffe doesn't matter. the republican chairman of the committee has said they have new testimony, they have interviewed new witnesses who have evidence that issa claims tomorrow will reveal that this goes way higher up in the government, that the irs in d.c. was ultimately calling the shots, even if it did originate in cincinnati. it was taken over by lois lerner and the peru democrats and denying it. >> bill: he has not said to you or anyone else, i don't think, that he can tie it into the white house. not at this point. >> well, what he has said to

cummings who keeps saying we know everything we need to know and it's over. >> and joining us now is that very big problem, congressman elijah cummings, ranking member of the house oversight committee. thank you so much for joining us. >> good being with you. >> it seems mr. issa is summoning is his best bluster ahead of the committee hearing on this issue. i gather you've got new information that contradicts his tireless campaign against the white house and his charges against you, i might add, as well. >> yeah, first of all, chairman issa is absolutely wrong. i wanted to get to the bottom of all of this. and clearly, we are trying to get more information on the democratic side. we're not trying to obstruct anything. and what we have here, we've now, martin, conducted 15 interviews of irs employees in cincinnati and washington employees. >> congressman, i'd like if i may to go through some of the statements in these very transcripts. a group managering? cincinnati, i'll read them, sir, any reason to believe that the white house directed the screening and centralization of tea party

cummings, if i may. to the chairman's indulgence. the information has been provided to congress to the committees with the ability to receive 6103 information. we're not withholding anything. progressive we learned about that recently the name was being used by the internal revenue service. so, you know, and as they indicated in my opening statement, we just as recently as last week received new information that is disturbing and that we need to pursue. so, you know, this is not a clean cut matter, sir. >> i'm not saying it's clean cut. i'm saying we would like to know. you said a number of things and just in that one minute but apparently it's an ongoing process. we are in ab ongoing process, and you're trying to do your job. we're try dog -- do ours. all i'm asking you to do is when the information becomes available and things that do not violate your restrictions that you have, for example, 6103 problems we would like to have it. >> okay. >> thank you very much. >> i thank the gentleman. let me ask the few questions. mr. george, f

and the very very ugly usa today on tuesday the newspaper published an editorial by nicholas cummings in which the former psychologist defended the practice of x. gay or gay reparation restoration therapy in that authorial cummings wrote quote of the patients i oversaw who sought to change their orientation hundreds were successful accusing professionals across the country who provide treatment for fully informed persons seeking to change their sexual orientation perpetrating a fraud only serves to stigmatize the profession and shame the professional and shame of. cummings must be imagining things because part because according to the american psychological association this so-called gay therapy is totally ineffective and could actually be. an answer coming says point about stigmatization x. gay therapy encourages the worst sort of stereotypes about gay people and treat sexual orientation like both a mental illness and a sin the usa today would even consider this kind of hateful pseudo science on their pages was just purely. talking about the same story doesn't make it news. no puff p

. >> we have sky 7 over this didn't a few moments ago and it is a sig-alert westbound 80 at cummings skyway so we have plenty of traffic with lanes blocked and some lanes are re-opening at this time but they are living up with 30 minutes from vallejo into el cerrito so at the hoffman split we have heavy bumper-to-bumper traffic and at willow avenue the accident is cleared. it has left the damage. if you are coming across the cartinez expect plenty of traffic. the bridge is moving along fine but if you are trying to make the drive from vallejo into crockett and toward hercules it is a mess and not what we needed. we will see what is happening from sky 7 h.d., that is a picture of berkeley toward the maze. it looks like the drive between albany to the maze is 20 minutes and we are starting to see a huge backup along the bay bridge toll plaza and for now, we will see some good news for mike nicco. >> it will be excessively hot again and live doppler 7 hd showing a week ago we were dealing with rain and highs in the 50's and 60's where our temperatures are now in the south bay and 58 in

chairman, will you respond to congressman cummings?is to stop me at every point. he represents the administration and has done their bidding for a number of years now, but we have his witness, russell george, the ig tomorrow, who is going to answer many of the questions he has been making claims on, and we have these witnesses. we want witnesses and their testimony to speak for themselves. yes, both sides are free to put out excerpts from testimony and interpret it. we think we have interpreted fairly. we believe tomorrow's hearing is going to show that people who actually had these applications and who worked up and down the chain make it very clear this was not a cincinnati decision, it wasn't just a washington decision, it was handled at least in part at very high levels, including the chief counsel's office. >> congressman, yesterday we reported that democrats are trying to kind of point the finger at russell george. your reaction? >> he has been at treasury about 14 years. he has been commended repeatedly for good work he does. ma

cummings being like a boy with his hand caught in the cookie jar? >> not just a boy, a little boy.ssa should know that putting the words, boy, little boy, in referencing them to a black man, is problematic. but when that black man is the ranking member on your committee, it's beyond problematic. it's myopic. it shows that darrell issa is not only out of touch in terms of what his committee should be doing, but shows he's out of touch just generally, culturally. is darrell issa determined to become the most renewing nan politici politician? or has he already achieved that feat? >> that's a pretty high bar. >> you don't think he's as bad -- >> i'm not saying that, but he city has a way to go. i was wondering if he was going to record a message, in which he would say "step away from the smear." he of course, his whole committee has been really the ra r raison detra. a lot of committees have been pointing to his committee work, and we've seen in the last weeks, month or so, more and more we dig in, it wasn't just the tea party being scrutinized, but progressive groups, and a lot 6 reas

at first represent representative cummings was outraged orphaned outrange.hen when the bottom of this was getting closer and closer to potentially politically damaging places, like the administration, this became a witch hunt, in his eyes so he said, it's off. the whole issue is done. let's all pack up and go home. that was in june. that didn't fly. the american people didn't buy that. the evidence wasn't pointing in that direction. so the next stage was to say, look at these new reports that there was targeting on both sides. there's no scandal here. unfortunately that's not true either, because there's a difference between initial screening, which happened to both sides, and targeted abuse. inappropriate targeting, which only happened to the political right, and when the inspector general, mr. george, made that very explicit in rite -- writing, the new tactic is let's go after mr. george and impugn his integrity. >> there it is, mr. george -- all you heard was kind of misinterpreted. yes, both sides were brought light, they looked at both sides, but the on

issa fired back saying his team interpreted the information fairly and accusing cummings of doing theistration's bidding. there may be fireworks between them tomorrow as the next oversight committee hearing takes place. >> thanks. >>> the dow up 19 today, s&p 500 gained 5. nasdaq finished ahead 11 and a half. >>> ben bernanke wants to see substantial progress in the job market before scaling back the fed's bond purchases. fox business correspondent has details. >> reporter: it is a top concern among investors. when will the federal reserve stop pumping billions into the economy. this morning, fed chairman ben bernanke gave them what they were looking for. >> with unemployment still high and declining only gradually, with inflation running below the committee's longer run objective, a highly accommodative monetary policy will remain appropriate for the foreseeable future. >> reporter: in other words, the economic recovery is still too weak for the federal reserve to pull back. they buy $85 billion of bonds a month in quantitative easing. the goal to push down interest rates on mortgage

. >> this week at the hearing fireworks were erupting with democrats like eigentleman cummings seeing republicans are trying to infer that the white house was directly involved in the scandal and wants it stopped do you have any direct evidence at this time of white house involvement? >> well, let me say at the outset, uma, i like elijah cummings very much but the last time i checked jay carney works for the white house. you can't say the white house wasn't involved when the spokesperson for the leader of free free world is perpetuating a myth these were two rogue agents in ohio? how do you square that, when the spokesperson for the white house is advancing a demon -- is that in the new defense in this town, that the president himself was involved? nobody has alleged that president obama was involved, but if that's the new standard for propriety, that as long as the president himself was not orchestrating something, that there's no harm there? jay carney works for him. jay carney took it upon himself to advance this false narrative and the notion that you can now claim the white house

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but on on tuesday, congressman elijah cummings released the full transcript to the press. it proved conclusively that issa was right. to not want the transcript released. jim? >> a cincinatti-based i.r.s. manager who describes himself as a conservative republican told congressional investigators there was no evidence that the white house was involved in targeting conservative groups. >> stephen: god damn it. so this scandal is not connected to obama. i don't want to hear that. i want to hear tonight's word. [ cheers and applause ] truthinews. nation, listen. i don't know about you, but i do not watch the news to see what i don't want to hear. and i shouldn't have to. these days there's a news channel for everyone: conservatives have fox. liberals have msnbc, and the elderly who lost the remote in 1988 have headline news. now, cable networks have one cardinal rule. that rule is to tell their viewers what they want to hear. speaking of which, tune in tomorrow for my special report "have you lost weight?" and, folks, television news isn't only saying what you want to hear. th

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cummings was attempting to interrupt. let me say, i know neither of you have any direct personal knowledge of whether the president of the united states had lunch yesterday. mr. cummings can ask you whether or not the president of the united states had lunch and neither of you will have no personal knowledge. so asking questions that we know you're not here to prove or have information about about, really is a role of mentor discussion. i want to ask both of you about what we have heard so far in this testimony previously, i want to thank you both because you're coming forward and being honest. there are those that not only want to stick their heads in the sand, but they don't want us to find out. both of you are telling the truth and honestly telling us what happened. this was not just erected out of ohio read ms. hofacre, i am from dayton, ohio, so i was kind of personally offended when it was placed as a label as a bunch of rogue employees in cincinnati because what we know now from you and mr. hull, definitively, unde

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we're joined by elijah cummings. i keep thinking of the phrase, bang your way out of a paper bag.you get out of this endless morass? this chairman will not stop calling witnesses, will not ever say it's over. it seems like he's going to go on and on and on until people forgot there was a beginning or will ever be an end to this thing. >> well clearly, chris, he called two witnesses, irs witnesses today out of 16 that we've interviewed, and every witness, first panel and second panel, including i.g. george, said that there has been no white house involvement, there has been no political motivation involved in these decisions, and chairman issa, i had to admit, on the one hand that there was no political involvement, no white house involvement, and then but at the same time, he left the door open basically saying through the "usa today" article and some statements that he made during the hearing that he still blames the president. so, you know, it's sad. we have had 16 interviews so far, chris, and every single interview people have said, no white house involvement, to political mot

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. >> the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses in cumming, georgia. ♪ justine and gary laclair are amonghe congregants. and they are among the 1.2 million jehovah's witnesses in the united states. the organization of jehovah's witnesses was begun in the late 19th century by a small group of bible students in pennsylvania. >> we believe from the bible that god has a name and it is jehovah, and that his son, jesus christ is separate. his kingdom has been established in heaven and instead of everybody going to heaven when they die there will actually be a resurrection here on the earth and all of our loved ones will come back and we'll enjoy perfect life forever right here on earth. where a lot of religions may teach things such as hell fire, immortality of the soul, and trinity, jehovah's witnesses don't believe those teachings. we take the bible very literally and believe the bible for what it is. we look for the truth in the bible. >> one of the "truths" witnesses believe in has to do with blood. >> in genesis and again leviticus, there's very specific scriptures that state that the bloo

to elijah cummings your colleague what would you say?asking for a full set of facts so are we. this is not a full set of facts. ig investigation we asked him to broaden look at some of these groups we've been very clear on this. any group that has been attacked or we perceive is out there being targeted because of their political activities whether it is republican, democrat, liberal, progressive, doesn't matter if they're targeted we -- bill: i apologize for interruption. interests of time, on the second issue of tax-exempt groups that had standing for years and were audited by the irs at least once, maybe twice, possibly more, have you found that liberal groups were tar getted as well? >> we have not had those come back and report to us but we're asking the inspector general to look for both. we're not just asking for conservative groups. we're asking for all groups that were targeted. we do know the tea party groups, we have specific information if they were to get through the process there is asking of systematically going back and a

this is the cummings who line for most of the welcome block they cia could already be preparing for a campaign to arm syrian rebels as a so ready to start at the sneaking weapons into neighboring jordan that's according to an enormous u.s. diplomats the reports started to come in after the syrian national coalition met with u.s. secretary of state john kerry in new york where the weapons shipments that trend and informal session with the u.n. security council is also succumb to for us on that. a delegation representing the syrian opposition is in new york city for a three day visit that kicked off thursday afternoon during a bi lateral meeting between the group and the u.s. secretary of state john kerry prior to the closed door discussions kerry said that there could not be any military solution to the syrian crisis only a political solution not a political solution is expected to be ironed out at the upcoming geneva two conference co-sponsored by russia and the u.s. however it is no secret that the syrian opposition would like to receive the weapons and military aid that the obama ad

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lou: , spend congressman cummings much for speaking with us. we thank you, sir. >> thank you. lou: the senate giving relief to some students passing a bipartisan deal that ties interest rates on those federal student loans to markets. intere rates were undergraduates will go from the current rate of 6.8%. we'r're talking about federal loans rates of 20%to 3.9%. the new graduate student rate is 5.4% and parents can borrow this at 6.4%. why there would be such a discrepancy is not in alignment with the markets, if you will. the rates will fluctuate, but there is a cap of 8.25% for undergraduates. the white house supporting the bill. but lizabeth warren, senator warner has voted against an and e argues that students should be able borrow at the same rate like large commercial banks and that would be under 1%. lou: the governor's race in virginia is turng ugly. democratic candidate terry mcconnell talks about funding from hillary clinton's brother and the race is hating up already. is getting complicated out there. virginia's attorney general and gubernatorial candidate jim with t

narrow margin of two hundred five to seventeen it was voted down representatives gomer ellison and cummings are just a few of the people who voted in favor of. boehner bachmann and oyur are just a few of those who oppose the amendment i vote for the full vote count on breaking the set's facebook page so be sure to check it out to see if your representatives voted for or against protecting your privacy and look even though i'm sad this amendment didn't pass i'm amazed at how close it was to beseen there's only a twelve vote margin rejecting a bill to fund a major n.s.a. surveillance program that's huge and it means that more lawmakers are finally listening to their constituents because they know just like fifty six percent of americans do that the u.s. government's overstepping its bounds when it comes to spying so let's keep the pressure up the conversation going let's break the set. a little. never seen anything like that. it's been less than a month since egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsy the overthrow came on the heels of demonstratio

narrow margin of two hundred five to seventeen it was voted down representatives gomer ellison and cummings are just a few of the people who voted in favor boehner bachmann and oyur are just a few of those who oppose the amendment i vote for the full vote count on breaking the sets facebook page so be sure to check it out to see if your representatives voted for or against protecting your privacy and look even though i'm sad this amendment didn't pass i'm amazed at how close it was to beseen there's only a twelve vote margin rejecting a bill to fund a major n.s.a. surveillance program that's huge and it means that more lawmakers are finally listening to their constituents because they know just like fifty six percent of americans do that the u.s. government's overstepping its bounds when it comes to spying so let's keep the pressure up the conversation going let's break the set. a little. never seen anything like that. it's been less than a month since egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsy the overthrow came on the heels of demonstrations co