cummings: the gentleman reserves. the chair: the gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> i yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. hice. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. hice: thank you, mr. speaker. i commend my colleague from alabama for introducing this legislation containing a number of bills from the oversight and government reform committee. h.r. 4361 contains several excellent provisions to increase transparency, to enhance oversight and restore good governance. one of the areas in particular of importance to me is language requiring the office of personnel management to submit to congress reports on the use of official time by federal employees. for those who are unfamiliar with official time, it's the practice by which federal employees are paid by taxpayers to conduct union business while on the clock instead of performing the normal activities and duties of the agency for which they work. official time allows federal employees who are with the unions

cummings and members of the community. i am proud to be here representing the people of the fbi who did this investigation as they do all their work in a competent and independent way. i believe the investigation was conducted consistent with the highest tradition of the fbi. politicaldid it in a political way. in my statement i said there would be significant public debate in this decision. whole lot of folks have questions about how we reach the conclusion we did and what is our thinking. i hope to get an opportunity to explain that. or disagree,sagree but they will at least understand the recommendation was made the way you wanted it to be, not about politics but about what is the law. say a few words that would help frame how we think about this. there are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject. what did the person do, and when they did that, what were they thinking. thehundred years plus of at theent's search mishandling of classified information. what did they do and did they know they were d

cummings. repetitive cummings: i will yield to mr. lynch. tative lynch: we're talking about hacking. we review of the major hacks going on. just recently, last 18 months, februarymajor hack in 2016 of the department of homeland security and the fbi. we had a hacking group, the site intelligence group order that a group called crackers with attitude had hacked 9000 employees' data from the department of homeland security, including name, e-mail addresses, locations, telephone numbers. also 20,000 fbi workers. we had another hack, direct evidence obviously, of those. we had another hack of opm at 4.2 million current and federal employees. information had been stolen, increase of 3, including social security numbers, which were not redacted. attempted,000 100,000 successful. we had state department announcing a breach of its computer systems after infiltration forced temporary shutdown of the classification system. we have the u.s. postal service, 800,000 services, the white house, this is back in 2014, a washington post reporter's computer was

cummings: madam chair, honored delegates, and my fellow democrats, i stand before you here today not as a congressman from the inner city of baltimore, but as a son of former sharecroppers who started on a farm in south carolina wit h no running water, no toilet, but who believed in education and taught their children the value of helping others. my father, the late robert cummings, a man who left school to plowe fourth grade the fields and pick the cotton, he is one of the smartest people i have ever known. ofsaid, son, the ettest a man is not how much he helped himself. the true test is whether he helps those less fortunate. [applause] son, you go to sed so youget bles can bless. that is the standard by which he measured me growing up and is the standard i which i still measure myself. it is the standard we democrats use today. i stand before you because my parents saw promise in their seven children. my parents did not do it alone. no one does it alone. it was our democratic party that pushed open the opportunities for me and millions of children across this great country. it was

cummings. representative cummings: thank you very much. i would like to thank you for being here, especially on such short notice. you and your staff should be commended for the thorough and independent review you conducted. unfortunately, some of my colleagues are attacking you personally, because your final recommendation conflicted with their perceived political outcome in the case. some inspired to argue that this case is far worse than the case of general david petraeus, who was convicted in 2015 of knowingly and intentionally compromising highly classified information. in fact, one very vocal politician we all know said this "if he isn't indicted, the only reason is because the democrats are protecting her. she is being protected 100%. you look at that -- general david petraeus, all the other people that did a fraction, but she has much worse judgment and she had, and she's getting away with it, and it is unfair to him." were thecomey, you director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. director comey: yes. representative cumm

cummings. to the role he played in making sure people understood what did and did not happen at benghazi and for his strong statements on that matter as well. and finally, i want to thank mayor shirley franklin. she and i have worked together as mayors and have the opportunity to work again together on -- over the next couple of days. i truly appreciate that. let me say that this platform is an historic achievement for the democratic party. the draft platform we are here to consider today reflects the input of thousands of democrats from across the country and as shirley said, it reflects the testimony and contributions of over 114 experts, advocates, and concerned citizens who came out to be heard. it also reflects the priorities and values of secretary clinton and senator sanders. and make no mistake, this is a historically progressive document. for the first time, the draft platform calls for an end to mass incarceration. we're shutting down the school to prison pipeline. we are ending syste

cummings: thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you, governor. mayor franklin, to the distinguished members of the democratic platform committee, as i was standing back there i was thinking to myself about all that has happened over the last few days in minnesota, baton rouge, and dallas. and i couldn't help but think about a sign that when i got here, we were running a little late. when i got here, governor, the first thing i saw on the table ,ack there was a sign that said love trumps hate. we need to, we need to put that in the d.n.a. of every cell of our brains, particularly at this moment. and it reminded me of something else. and that is that ladies and gentlemen, and i saw this, and i want to keep focused on this. we can spend a lot of time concentrating on who we're fighting against. but ladies and gentlemen, the people in america want taos concentrate on what we're fighting for. what we're fighting for. [applause] today i'm proud as a public servant, i've not always felt this way, i've seen things in the congress, i know benny thompson,

cummings. >> let me, let me, let me -- on may 16th, 2016, you provided a response that was written in such a way that it was overclassified at a secret level. was it really necessary to classify your response that way? and why did you write a response that could be publicly -- why didn't you just do one that could be publicly available? >> it wasn't overclassified, ranking member cummings. there was a lot of concern by members who did not have access to certain of the e-mails, and i wanted to make sure that anyone receiving and reading that letter would understand that if i was coming to brief, i wouldn't be able to brief on the one set of e-mails that are orcon with one of the agencies. >> mr. linick, you responded on may 26th, 2015. you had a short letter, too. >> i did. >> wow. like mr. mccullough's letter, it failed to answer any of the specific questions from the ranking members. you both received follow-up letters again posing the same 13 questions. neither of you responded to those lette

cummings. >> i yield three minutes to mr. lynch. >> thank you, mr. director. we're talking about hacking and so on this committee, we're very much interested in cybersecurity and we review a lot of the major hacks that are going on. so just recently, and i would say in the last 18 months, we've had a major hack, february of 2016 at the department of homeland security and the fbi. we had a hacking group, the site intelligence group reported that a group called crackers with attitude had hacked 9,000 employees' data from the department of homeland security, including names, e-mail addresses, locations, telephone numbers. also, 20,000 fbi workers. we had another hack, direct evidence, obviously, of those. another hack at opm of 4.2 million current and former federal government employees. their information had been stolen, including social security numbers, which are not redacted. we had irs in may 2015, millions -- no, i'm sorry, 200,000 attempted and 100,000 were successful. we had the state department announce a breach of their systems after it was forced to sh

cummings. repetitive cummings: i will yield to mr. lynch. representative lynch: we're talking about hacking. we review a lot of the major hacks going on. just recently, last 18 months, we had a major hack in february 2016 of the department of homeland security and the fbi. we had a hacking group, the site intelligence group order that a group called crackers with attitude had hacked 9000 employees' data from the department of homeland security, including name, e-mail addresses, locations, telephone numbers. also 20,000 fbi workers. we had another hack, direct evidence obviously, of those. we had another hack of opm at 4.2 million current and federal employees. information had been stolen, including social security numbers, which were not redacted. we had 200,000 attempted, 100,000 successful. we had state department announcing a breach of its computer systems after infiltration forced temporary shutdown of the classification system. we have the u.s. postal service, 800,000. the white house, this is back in 2014, a "washington post" reporter'

we are going to hear from punishment cummings. i do want to thank him for his great leadership of the draft committee. i also to thank him on a broader basis for his great leadership of standing up to bullies and the congress of the united states. in the congress of the united states. the role he played in making sure people understand what did and did not happen at benghazi and for his strong statements on the matter as well. and finally, i want to thank mayor shirley. we have worked together as mayors and we have the opportunity to work again together over the next couple days and i truly appreciate that. let me say this. historicform is a achievement for the democratic party. platform we're-- here to consider reflect the input of thousands of democrats across the country and as shirley said, and contributions of 114 experts, advocates and concerned citizens who came out to be heard. it also reflects the priorities and values of secretary clinton and senator sanders. and make no mistake, this is a historically progressive docume

cummings and i have agreed, i do have couple of dozen quick followup questions. you've been most generous with your time. we'll do so with equal time. how did the department of justice or how did the fbi view the incident in which hillary clinton instructed jake sullivan to take the markings off of a document that was to be sent to her? >> we looked at that pretty closely. there was some problem with their secure fax machine. there is an e-mail in which she says in substance, take the headers off it and send it as a non-paper. there is one view that is reasonable that a non-paper in state department parlance means a document that contains things we could pass to another government. so essentially take out what's classified and send it to me. it turned out we found the classified fax was then sent. but that's our best understanding of what that was about. >> so this was a classified fax? >> correct. >> so hillary clinton sends to jake sullivan -- let me go back. jake sullivan says they say they had issues sending secure fax, they're working on it. hillary clinton

cummings, thanks for talking to us. some pretty sharp criticism from the fbi director about the way hillary clinton handled classified intelligence. do you have any concerns about the way she did handle classified intelligence? >> sure, i have concerns. and i'm sure that she has her own concerns. she's already admitted that she made a mistake. so -- but i think the more significant thing here is that this was an effort to -- i think -- to attack the fbi director, and again his reputation is impeccable and he was not shaken. he made it clear that he treated her like he would treat any jane doe. and he said that if he had treated her differently -- that is, if he had prosecuted -- recommended -- made a recommendation for prosecution, that that would have been a double standard against her. in other words, that he would have treated her wrongfully as opposed to a regular person. and he said that he doesn't go around trying to do celebrity indictments. and i think i was very pleased about his testimony. the other thing that

that's between cummings skyway and the carquinez bridge toll plaza. expect some slight delays because of that. a little bit of spectator slowing slowing there but once you pass the construction again there's no trouble spots westbound towards the bay bridge. richmond/san rafael bridge, you have roadwork here as well between the toll plaza and the west end of the bridge. only one lane open in each direction. it's not causing any trouble spots, not much going on on the richmond/san rafael bridge. there are a few cars making the trek westbound 205/580 to the altamont pass. back to you. >> all right, gianna. >>> a man is in custody after posting a racist threat against acting police chief toney chaplin. this was posted on twitter over the weekend showing a picture of chaplin, a guillotine and white trade only and calling for his beheading. he posted a photo and message against another person, the message suggests blacks should not be in position of authority. the man is not formally booked. hoganson hasn't been booked. >>> in oakland people had a message

we were ready to pass the major reform act and my cosponsor on the bill was elijah cummings. we have fought for two congresses to get it passed. that's a pretty darned happy event with the speaker signing of the bill. eli usha cummings was a good partner on that because the left and right have a vested interest in transparency. >> host: sometimes you find it and sometimes you don't. you have a chapter in your committee did investigations on that. there's a lot of talking points that go across this and my recollection of this is when some documents turn of out to he been subpoenaed that haven't been produced turned up in the freedom of information that was under tremendous pressure to say this i isn't the end of it, they are hiding something. this issue doesn't go away during the campaign. >> guest: you're exactly righ right. it went very deep and this was the situation in which we had an obligation to investigate. they become so close they want to avoid embarrassment in the pentagon. your foreign affairs committee becomes so close and the state department they want to cover t

. >>> confrenceman cummings is speaking right now.et's listen in. >> the true test is whether he helps those less fortunate. you two to school, and so you can bless. and that is standard by which he measured me growing up and standard by which i still measure myself. and it is the standard we democrats used to. so i promise in their seven children, but my parents did not do it alone. no one does it alone. it was our democratic party that pushed open the doors of opportunity for me and for millions of children all across this great country. it was our party that fought for head start and good schools. and made college affordable and champion affirmative action and school desegregation. that passed social security and medicare, that defended our nation abroad, fought for our veterans back home, that protected the rights and pensions of our workers. and that made the dream of homeownership possible for millions on american families, and yes, still is our democratic party and chaired in civil rights and voting rights and voting rights. an

congressman elijah cummings is here as well. now we will listen in to senate candidate tammy duckworth. >> you, you are not fit to be the commander in chief. my fellow americans, we can choose a different path. ten years after my helicopter was shot down almost to the day i got my most important job. i became a mom. and we named our little girl after abigail adams, who urged her husband to remember the ladies. my abigail already knows that women can fly helicopters in combat and in 102 days when we elect hillary, my daughter's first memory of a president will be of a woman. >> tammy duckworth has a strong shot at being senator from illinois, combat veteran, worked at the department of veterans affairs as well. we'll be right back. hear it all... and feel it all... all summer long. ♪ jeep renegade -- it's how we live 4 by 4 summer. ♪ you can help prevent blindness in undernourished children across the globe by getting your vitamins at walgreens. walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. right now with card, select centrum vi

cummings. >> i think gentleman will yield back. i spoke with mr. cummings. now recognize the gentleman from kentucky, mr. matthew, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, director comey, for showing up and your willingness to be transparent and answer a lot of unanswered questions. a few hours before this hearing started i went on to social media and asked people to submit questions. i have got over 500 questions. i don't think i will get to ask them all in five minutes but i'm sure you would be willing to answer them. one of the common things i came in here to ask which i think is not the right question, what is the difference between extremely careless and gross negligence. in the process of this hearing what i'm hearing you say it is that's not what your reluctance is based on. it is not based on the reluctance to profits cute by the way. reluctance to recommend prosecution or indictment is not based on parsing those words, it is based on your concern for this statute. with this, this statute, is that correct, from your opening statem

cummings. >> director comey, thank you for being here today. i want to begin by commending you and the public servants. at the fbi for the independent investigation you conducted. you had a thankless task. no matter what recommendation you made, you were sure to be criticized. there's no question that you were extremely thorough. in fact, some may even say you went too far in your investigation. but, of course, that was your job. that is your job. secretary clinton has acknowledged that she made a mistake. in using a personal e-mail account. and you explained on tuesday that she and is her colleagues at the state department were extremely careless with that you are e-mails. but after conducting this exhaustive review, you determined that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case based on this evidence. and you and the career staff recommended against prosecution. based on the previous cases you examined, if prosecutors had gone forward, they would have been holding the secretary to a different standard from everyone else. amazingly, amazingly

the platform chair, elijah cummings, is firing this crowd up. take a listen.o, the beauty of -- the beauty of commercial breaks. we were showing you some hillary clinton's past speeches here, but that was elijah cummings, a clinton supporter, firing up bernie supporters. i've got another panel here, beth is here, chris, alex seitz-wald, we'll be hearing from them in a minute. but later on thursday, i want to get back to hillary clinton here. she'll be speaking from the podium. and it's a big moment. first-ever woman nominee for a major party. there's been no organization that's been pushing this harder than emily's list. and they want to take a big victory lap this week. but it's getting tough to take a victory lap today. i want to talk to her about that. so now live from independence mall in downtown philly is stephanie schriock, president of emily's list, a big clinton supporter. a lot of people believe she will be the next full-time chair of the dnc. stephanie, weekend to the show. >> thank you, chuck. great to be here. >> i want to first start with what ha

going on around the fbi investigation, but i think this is an attempt to do just that. >> and jean cummings you could chime in and also abby phillips is here with us, jean first to you, this is a rocky week, she's trying to rebalance, she had the president at her side. she's going to have the vice president with her on friday, but in between, she's got jim coe my on the hill. >> it has been up and down for her, but in the comey remarks do undercut her core argument and that is she's competent. she has to deal with this, but the e-mail investigation is coming to an end, today marks the beginning of this assault on donald trump that's going to last through the campaign, biden in scranton tomorrow, perfect place for similar messages. this is the playbook they used against mitt romney, four years ago, at this time, defined him, laid the foundation for the fall. it's a powerful argument that goes right at his key credential. i'm a successful businessman, that's why you should elect me. and she's talking to exactly the right voters. she's weak with working class voters. moum times did she say mid

that is how we save the future for our children as elijah cummings told us, we have already borrowed the world for them for a moment. now let us go forward. let us put an office a president who can actually deliver on this , and let's make sure she does. god bless. [applause] . . . >> so, for this moment i speak as a grandmother, as a teacher, patriot,er, as a proud and as a proud delegate in support of hillary clinton. [applause] and i have the honor of being the final speaker here, and i am not going to repeat what my brothers and sisters have just said, that this is a moment that shows who the democratic party is, a party of people, a party like fdrn, but a party that both dreams and does. believes,at not only but has the moxie, as my grandmother would have said, the common sense know how about how to get things done, about how to make sure that we can reach common ground so that we protect the environment for our children and grandchildren and ensure we have the best engine of economic growth for a middle-class that any nation in this world has, and that is what this substitute d

my cosponsor on the bill was elijah cummings. we had fought through two congresses to get it passed. we got it passed. that's a pretty darn happy event. i was with the speaker on the signing of the bill. elijah cummings was a good partner on this because the left and the right have a vested interest in transparency. >> host: there's a rhythm to government where you fight some days and works could sometimes you find and it sometimes you don't, as you know. i want to get to something that is still hot in the news that and benghazi. you have a chapter on that. your committee did an investigation. other committees did investigations. there are a lot of talking points cross-purposes on this. my recollection is that when some documents turn up that had been subpoenaed by your committees and others that had not been produced, turned up in a freedom of information acty, the speaker was under tremendous pressure to say this isn't the end of it, they're hiding something. why don't you talk about that. whackerout committee did with it, your

we'll ask congressman elijah cummings how to bring both sides together.eye opener at 8:00. >> it all started with a call that protesters were trying to get on to the interstate. then we heard protesters hurling bottles at officers. >> investigators are trying to determine whether anyone may have had prior knowledge of the attack. heme eme is family. wives and daughters remembering loved ones, police officers rallying around one of their own. >> the outpouring of support in the community and throughout the united states has been absolutely outstanding. >> the president was in europe to try to alleviate tensions. now he'll try to alleviate tensions here in the u.s. >> secretary of homeland security with commissioner bratton sending a message we're not anti-police. so the president wants to send that, but on the other hand he wants to speak to the legitimacy he sees in the african-american community. >> some police departments have used them to deliver tear gas, but for a police department to use a robot to kill, that was unprecedented. >> take a look at the

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cummings. we've got a political debate where a lot of these issues that are going to be -- that have been raised are going to be fought on the campaign. we've got secretary clinton who's going to have to defend what she did. she's acknowledged it was a mistake. we've got that great constitution scholar, of mr. trump, who's going to be making his case about why this was wrong. but that's politics. that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion. thank you, director comey. i yield whatever additional time i have to mr. cummings. >> i think the gentleman is going to yield back. i have spoken with mr. cummings. now recognize the gentleman from kentucky, mr. massey, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director comey, for showing up and your willingness to be transparency and answer a lot of unanswered questions. a few hours before this hearing started i went on to social media and asked people to submit questions. i've got over 500 quest

cummings, members.today representing the people of the fbi who did this investigation as they do all their work in a competent honest and independent way. i believe this investigation was conducted consistent with the highest traditions of the fbi. our folks did it in an apolitical and professional way, including our recommendation as to the appropriate resolution of this case. as i said in my statement on tuesday, i expect there will be significant public debate about this recommendation and i'm a big fan of transparency so i welcome the conversation we'll have today. i do think a whole lot of folks have questions about so why did we reach the conclusion we did and what was our thinking and i hope very much to get an opportunity to address that and explain it and i hope at the end of the day people can disagree, can agree, but they will at least understand that the decision was made and the recommendation was made, the way you would want it to be, by people who didn't give a hoot about politics but car

cummings. we've got a political debate where a lot of these issues that have been raised will be fought in the campaign and we have secretary clinton who will have to defend what she did, she acknowledged it's a mistake. we have the great constitutional scholar mr. trump who will be making his case about why this is wrong. but that's politics. that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion. thank you, director comey. i yield whatever additional time i have to mr. cummings. >> i think the gentleman is going to yield back. i spoke with mr. cummings. ful we'll now recognize the gentleman from kentucky, mr. massie, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, director comey, for showing up and your willingness to be transparent and a lot of unanswered questions. few a few hours before this trial i went on social media and i asked people to ask questions and i'm sure you'll will being to answer them. one of the common themes that i came in h

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cummings that we would come back after votes. votes have been pushed back a bit. so what i would like to to is go into recess and then start with our second panel. committee stands in recess until five minutes from now. thank you again, director comey. >>> after the hearing wrapped up yesterday, the state department announced it would reopen the review of hillary clinton's private email address and how she handled classified material. the candidate will make a campaign stop with vice president joe biden in scranton, pennsylvania. we'll bring it to you live, noon eastern on c-span 2. >>> our road to the white house coverage continues live with the democratic party's platform committee in orlando today starting at 3:00 p.m. eastern and continuing tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern. members will debate the platform for this year's elections. live coverage on c-span, the c-span radio app and c-span.org. >> next up, "washington journal" is live, followed by the u.s. house that returns live at 9:00 a.m. eastern to debate a bill to combat opioid abuse. the platform committee

stephen cummings was part of a breakaway group that included the overall leader. he managed to go it alone. a counterattack proved futile. there was controversy with an affordable arch collapsing which caused a delay for some writers. he finished in fifth and maintained his yellow jersey. >> a quick reminder of our top story. five police officer shot dead and seven injured in dallas, texas. one sniper o opened f fire duria rally against shootings by police. the shooter was an army reservist who served in afghanistan. thank you for joining us. i will see you next week. ♪ 8úxú >> you are watching live from paris on "france 24." boardor criminal record, details emerging about the dallas gunman who was shot dead after killing five police officers. he has been named as micah johnson. alice in morning. ourning.s in m europe and north america stand together, the nato secretary general opened what has been dubbed a landmark summit in warsaw, attended by member states and heads of government.

one of them is the veteran maryland member of congress in the democratic party, elijah cummings standing with kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: congressman cummings, you could hear the crowd that was really feisty while you were making your remarks. what does this convention need to do tonight to come together. there seems to be a lot of unresolved energy here. >> i think there are a lot of bernie's people mainly concerned about the tpp. i was responsible for drafting the agenda, the platform. i can tell you that bernie got about 90% of what he wanted. his fingerprints are all over this. bernie also said this is one of the most progressive platforms that he's seen. >> reporter: as a result of how well he did during the primaries, right? >> not only that how well he did during the platform process. i think bernie has to come out here and unequivocally say he supports hillary clinton and i think the first lady has to come out here and talk about why it's so important to be a democrat. one of the things i've emphasized the republican party has done every single thing in its power to stop people

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cummings, members of the committee.m proud to be here today representing the people of the fbi who did this investigation as they do all their work, in a competent, honest and independent way. i believe this investigation was conducted consistent with the highest traditions of the fbi. our folks did it in an apolitical and professional way including our recommendation as to the appropriate resolution of this case. as i said in my statement on tuesday, i expected there would be significant public debate about this recommendation, and i'm a big fan of transparency, so i welcome the conversation we're going to have here today. and i do think a whole lot of folks have questions about so why did we reach the conclusion we did, and what was our thinking. and i hope very much to get an opportunity to address that and to explain it. and i hope at the end of the day people can disagree, can agree, but they will at least understand that the decision was made and the recommendation was made the way you would want it to be, by peop

congressman cummings in the streets of baltimore ensuring that peace remained after what happened with gray. so i think it's crazy to say that we didn't have some very real -- >> he said there were real people. >> no, he said last week. >> i didn't say there weren't here. >> but i said celebritiecelebri. >> hillary clinton's biggest problem is that she's not a change candidate. and a majority of americans do want change. it's quite possible she'll be able to convince people that the kind of change donald trump was is crazy and dangerous. when most americans think america is on the wrong path, that's the fundamental thing she has for her. >> when you go back to george w. bush, you had an eight-point bounce after his convention. >> sure, sure. >> an eight-point -- >> but this election was tied before that. before that it was neck and neck. >> what matters is the trend line. what you saw last week was an improvement over the week before. >> you'll see an improvement after this one too. >> we'll see an improvement after the break. everybody's going to get a little powder, water. >> some th

joining me now by phone is congressman elijah cummings, a democrat from maryland. i know we are going to talk with you about gun reform efforts but i have to ask you -- were you surprised when you heard former house speaker newt gingrich say those words? >> i was surprised that ed ihe it and i was surprised that he had taken the opportunity to actually try to put himself in the place of african-american men and people as we go out every day just trying to live our lives, obey the law and always have the threat of what happened in st. paul and what happened in baton rouge, happening to us or our children. >> yes. >> i have not met yet one african-american woman, by the way, who did not tell me that they cried when they saw the situation in st. paul and in baton rouge. but, at the same time, joy, there is a very -- another part of this. they need to -- i think newt, he gets this now. our humanity and my humanity also cause me to have pain, tremendous pain when i see a law enforcement officers shot down. i mean, it was despicable what happened to them and he mourn for

cummings. >> director comey, thank you for being here today. i want to begin by commending you and the public servants at the fbi for the independent investigation you conducted. you had a thankless task. no matter what recommendation you made, you were sure to be criticized. there is no question that you were extremely thorough. in fact, some may even say you went too far in your investigation. but of course that was your job, that is your job. secretary clinton has acknowledged that she made a mistake in using a personal e-mail account. and you explained on tuesday that she and her colleagues at the state department were extremely careless with their e-mails. but after conducting this exhaustive review, you determine that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case based on this evidence. and you and the career staff recommended against prosecution. based on the previous cases you examined, if prosecutors had gone forward, they would have been holding the secretary to a different standard fro

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last night elijah cummings from baltimore who is the chair of the platform committee he tried to strikebelieves is the right tone. >> our party does not just believe but understands that black lives matter. also recognize that our communities and our law enforcement work best when they work together. >> he's mad at trump. he thinks who is donald trump to talk about what happens in inner city baltimore. >> and i think that is a problem that trump is going to have. he has these lines that sound okay in front of a republican convention audience, but i think actually taking that message, if you were to follow through and go into an inner city, might be problematic because when you talk to voters, they think this is more of a system attic problem and not just a law and order problem. >> let me give you the flip side, we don't live in the traditional american. the republicans think they can turn out their voters. but is there a risk for the democrats that if you say no trump, you're wrong, this is about compassion, this is about criminal justice reform, this is about sitting police down with

cummings. >> thank you very much. director comey i want to thank you very much for being here today, especially on such short notice. you and your staff should be commended for the thorough review you conducted. unfortunately my colleagues are now attacking you personally because it conflicted with their preconceived political outcome in this case. some have tried to argue that this case is far worse than the case of general petraeus who was convicted in 2015 of knowingly and intentionally compromising highly classified information. one very vocal politician said, if she isn't indicted, the only reason is because the democrats are protecting her. she is being protected 100%. you look at general petraeus. you look at all the other people that did a fraction of what she did, but she has much worse judgment than he had and she's getting away with it and it's unfair to him, end of quote. director comey, you were the director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. is that right? >> yes. >> if i understand that case

--xxxx presentador: no le cummings regresamos mÁs rapido que inmediatamente.neral fue uno de los Ás concurridos... como nos cuenta laura cruces, el agente patrick zamarripa era muy querido en su comunidad.... este es el reporte. laura: no sÓlo policÍas de todo el paÍs estuvieron presentes. amigos, compaÑeros de escuela, vecinos. la comunidad toda para darle el Último adiÓs. >> ojalÁ pudiera conseguir las palabras correctas que permitan sanar el miedo, el dolor, y el sentimiento de pÉrdida que todos tenemos. laura: alejado de patrick y su hermana laura participaron en la ceremonia. su familia pidiÓ que se le recordarÁ como nombre amable y cariÑoso. un hombre que entendiÓ desde temprano su vocaciÓn y vivio con alegrÍa cumplir con su deber. el jefe de la policÍa de dallas agradeciÓ la familia por darle la oportunidad de dedicarle unas palabras. >> estos oficiales muestran sobre la comunidad. incluso dan su vida por ellos. no tienen nada mÁs que dar. la pregunta es cuÁnto mort en esta comunidad para sus oficiales. laura: cientos de policÍas estuvieron presentes mo

cummings. >> thank you very much.ector comey, i would like to thank you for being here today especially on such a short notice. you and your staff should be commended for the thorough and dedicated review you conducted. unfortunately, some of my colleagues are now attacking you personally because your final recommendation conflicted with their preconceived political outcome in this case. some have tried to argue this case is far worse than the case of general david petraeus. who was convicted in 2015 of knowingly and intentionally compre micing highly classified information, in fact, one vocal politician we all know said this and i, quote, if he isn't indicted the only reason is because the democrats are protecting her. she is being protected 100% because you look at general petraeus, look at all the other people that did a fraction of what she did, but she has much worse judgment than he had, and she's getting away with it and it's unfair to him end of quote. director comey, you were the director of the fbi when gene

cummings. we've got a political debate where a lot of these issues that are going to be -- that have been raised are going to be fought on the campaign. we've got secretary clinton who's going to have to defend what she did. she's acknowledged it was a mistake. we've got that great constitution scholar, of mr. trump, who's going to be making his case about why this was wrong. but that's politics. that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion. thank you, director comey. i yield whatever additional time i have to mr. cummings. >> i think the gentleman is going to yield back. i have spoken with mr. cummings. now recognize the gentleman from kentucky, mr. massey, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director comey, for showing up and your willingness to be transparency and answer a lot of unanswered questions. a few hours before this hearing started i went on to social media and asked people to submit questions. i've got over 500 quest

we asked congressman elijah cummings how to bring both sides together.-opener" app8:00. >>> started with a call protestors hurled bottles at police. >>> trying to figure out if anyone else had prior knowledge of this attack. >> what is emerging, family, wives and daughters remembers loved ones. police officers their own. >> outpouring throughout the community and the united states has been absolutely outstanding. >> the president was in europe to try to alleviate tensions. now he'll try to alleviate tensions here in the u.s. >> the secretary of homeland security with commissioner sending a message, we're not thti-police. e president wants to send that. on the other hand, he wants to also speak to the legitimate fears he sees in the african-american community. >> some police dtmeparents used them to deliver tear gas. for a police department to use a robot to kill, that was unprecedented. >> take a look at the count in the stands today. -- got it. [ laughter ] i got it, i got it! >> i told you we should have brought the glove! >> pictures worth 1,000 words

>>> from baltimore, maryland, elijah cummings.l. we've been talking about how americans right now are sick and tired of what's been happening in washington. and you were just telling me, when we worked together so closely, how much things have changed since we worked on the committee together. >> i think it's much more toxic now than it was in the past. when we worked together, we were able to accomplish a lot of things. and it was based on mutual respect. we've gotten away from that, and i think that's one of the reasons why the american people are so upset. >> so what's happened? >> i'm not sure. i think that, you know, the economic times, people are not able to see a future for their children, that their children are going to do better than what they did. >> i think that's it right there. >> they're very upset. they don't feel that government is solving their problems. >> right. >> and in many instances working against them. i think when you listen to elizabeth warren, when she talks about the reading of the system, people feel

cummings. we've got a political debate where a lot of these issues are going to be -- that have been raised are going to be fought on the campaign. we've got secretary clinton who is going to have to defend what she did. she acknowledged it's a mistake. we have the great constitutional scholar, mr. trump who is going to be making his case about why this was wrong. but that's politics. that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion. thank you director comey. i yield whatever additional time i have to mr. cummings. >> i think the gentleman is going to yield back. we'll now recognize the gentleman in kentucky, mr. massey for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you director comey for showing up and your willingness to answer a lot of unanswered questions. a few hours before this hearing started i went on social media to ask people to submit questions. i have over 500 questions. one of the common themes i came in here to ask that i realize is no

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maryland congressman elijah cummings call the request "devoid of any fax." -- devoid of any facts." tomorrow, clinton will hold a rally with senator bernie sanders, where he is expected to endorse her. trump willow, donald hold a rally with indiana governor mike pence, reportedly on the shortlist for the vice presidential nomination. iftrump picks him, it has to be this week is friday is the deadline for pence to file paperwork for his reelection. housebuilding. it was found in bathroom sinks in the reagan -- rayburn office building. i say that 99% of the water the building is safe. last week, elevated levels were found in the canon office housebuilding. dogl ahead -- this little is a survivor, but it's not his legs getting the attention. it is his voice? [howling] meet magic will mike, his name. making his way into everyone's hearts, next. and we continue right now to follow the protests in atlanta. these are live aerial pictures of what is happening right now. there is word that police in atlanta have made arrest tonight. right here, a crowd remains. they have not dispersed yet. t

my sponsor on that bill was elijah cummings. we had fought to get it passed and that's a pretty darn happy event. i was with the speaker at the signing of the bill. elijah cummings was a good partner on that because the left and the right have a vested interest in transparency. >> some days you fight and it works and sometimes you don't. i want to get to something that is still hot in the news and that's benghazi. you have a chapter on that. your committee did an investigation. other committees did investigations. there are a lot of talking points that go across on this. my recollection is that when some documents turned up that had been subpoenaed by your committees and elders turned up in a freedom of information act the speaker was under tremendous pressure to say this isn't the end of it, they're hiding something. about what your committee did and your feelings as it moves on. this issue doesn't go away during the campaign. it showed the tip of the iceberg on the whole e-mail issue that hillary clinton. >> your exactly corre