>> cummings: zero. >> kroft: nothing? >> cummings: zero. that's the point. now, i don't know if any president has ever done this. none. none that has ever said, "i'm not giving you anything." for anything. nothing. >> kroft: but you're sitting here telling me you think somehow, miraculously, he's going to change. >> cummings: it's not about miraculous. it's about adherence to the constitution. and the american people and the congress is insisting that he allows us to do our job. basically what the president has done and the republicans have done, they've joined hands. and the republicans have been basically not only blocking, but become the defense counsel for the president. okay. but no documents? i mean, come on. >> kroft: now, as chairman of the oversight committee, cummings no longer has to consult with the republicans to issue subpoenas, initiate investigations or cari and he has a much bigger budget and staff. so will adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee, and jerrold nadler, chairman of the judiciary committee, but their inquiries

cummings: no. the speaker pro tempore: then, without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. cummings: i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to h.r. 202. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 202, a bill to amend the inspector general act of 1978 relative to the powers of the department of justice inspector general. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and include remarks extraneous material on the measure before us today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cummings: madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the s

cummings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, as we enter day 21 of the trump shutdown, it is incumbent upon the house to do everything we can to address the pain and suffering being felt by dedicated federal workers who are missing their paychecks. most of them are living from paycheck to paycheck. and now they approach this day on friday having moved from paycheck to no check. today, 800,000 federal employees will not receive their first paycheck of this new year. regardless of what members think about the causes of the shutdown, every single one of us should agree that hardworking federal employees who give their blood, their sweat, and their tears to lifting us up as a nation should not be held hostage to olitics as a result. 380,000 federal employees have been furloughed and locked out of their offices. another 420,000 federal employees, hardworking employees working without pay. we will see th

cummings: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the distinguished speaker of the house, congresswoman nancy pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. for one minute. the speaker: thank you very much, mr. speaker. and mr. assistant speaker. i thank mr. cummings for bringing this important legislation to the floor in very expeditious time. the senate passed it by unanimous consent yesterday, and here we are today on the first day that some of our federal employees will miss heir paycheck that congress is saying and guaranteeing that workers will be paid, not only for this shutdown, but god forbid if we have any future ones, that their pay will be guaranteed. . i support the bill and glad it has strong bipartisan support as it did in the senate, and that the president has given the impression that he will sign the bill. it ensures that 800,000 federal employees are going without pay because of the senseless shut down will ultimately get the back pay they deserve. but it's scarce cons

cummings: one minute. ms. norton: who are hardly different from the soldiers who do the same thing around the country. the 2.6% pay raise proposed here does not begin to make up for difference ge between federal and private sector employees who do the same work, according to the council that measures this work every year. but for now, after 35 days of no y, now is the time to try to insinuate some fairness into pay for federal workers, with this modest 2% pay raise. i yield back the balance of my time. . the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: we her a a lot of discussion today on what is reasonable -- we hear a lot of discussion today on what is reasonable and small amounts. the pay raise they are talking about is about $5.5 billion a year, or $55 billion over 10. actually c.b.o. would probably score higher than that, robably $60 billion over 10. this could have been solved with a compromise between 035e7b $5.7 billion for a wall. it is an extreme amount of money when we're ta

congressman cummings has also written directly to the nra, which is interesting. it's funny, when you write to the nra now, you have to write to president oliver north. elijah cummings has now written to the nra asking that organization to also produce documents related to bolton's appearance by video at a roundtable sponsored by a russian gun rights organization. bolton at the time was on the nra's subcommittee on international affairs. congressman cummings is now asking the nra about bolton's foreign contacts and foreign trips that he may have made in that context. i think the idea here is that cummings is presumably trying to get at any kind of security clearance problems bolton might have had, maybe should have had in getting the national security adviser job, even if he didn't disclose these things directly to the white house. now i don't know if the nra and president oliver north will respond to this request for information. i don't know if this will ultimately become a subpoena and then a fight over a subpoena, but if the white house or the nra, if they do

king on the radio is elijah cummings.en representing maryland in congress and now the democrats have a majority in the house representatives, it's chairman comings.'sn charge of house oversight committee. >> reporter: elijah cummings has been a familiar face on capitol hill for a long time. a 13-year term congman who's served under four different presidents. and he was hand picked by the democratic leaders. >> this job. >> we are in a fighting for the soul of our democracy. and you got to understand that. this is serious business. >> reporter: you could dismiss the congressman's statement as partisan hyperbole but part of the government is shuttered, foftrump's former associates are convicted felons, four left under a cloud of scandal and there are 17 other investigations underway. >> will you all please raise your right hand. >> reporter: not counting the ones about to begin in the new deat ofenta comed to nd cpel have ithe pastcans a you know why? because that's our job. and it comes to subpoena, i know the power of sub

cummings: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas, mr. hurd, will control the time for the minority. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. hurd: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank my friend, the distinguished gentleman from the great state of maryland for expeditiously bringing this piece of legislation to the floor because this is an important piece of legislation that ensures all federal employees receive back pay once this government shutdown is over. last week while flying back to washington i spoke with t.s.a. agents concerned about their paychecks and uncertainty created by this shut down. guaranteeing back pay is the least we can do to give more certainty to almost a million federal employees, including many in my district, who are missing their first paycheck today. i understand their concerns because my pay is being withheld during sh this shut down in solidarity with federal workers. we all need to come together and find a bipartisan and rea

alan cumming is back on the show.re always so happy to have him. [ cheers and applause ] she's a former anchor at espn and currently a staff writer for "the atlantic," jemele hill is here, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] and they are the stars of "good trouble" on freeform. maia mitchell and cierra ramirez join us tonight. so we have -- [ cheers and applause ] a wonderful night. but before we get to our guests, in the span of just a few hours, president trump caved on the signature promise of his campaign and one of his closest advisers was indicted in the russia investigation. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: it's not often that a single event sums up an entire presidency, but on friday we got one that came pretty close. remember trump brags that he only hires the best people, calls the russia investigation a hoax, calls cnn fake news, and his government shutdown left fbi agents without pay. so it was especially ironic when one of trump's closest associates was arr

cummings: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that -- all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this measure. the speaker pro tempore: there is no objection. o ordered. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, as we enter day 21 of the trump shutdown, it is incumbent upon the house to do everything we can to address the pain and suffering being felt by dedicated federal workers who are missing their paychecks. most of them are living from paycheck to paycheck. and now they approach this day on friday having moved from paycheck to no check. today, 800,000 federal employees will not receive their first paycheck of this new year. regardless of what members think about the causes of the shutdown, every single one of us should agree that hardworking federal employees who give their blood, their sweat, and their tear

cummings has just sent out a statement i'll read for you. people voted for congress to do two things, address the court issues that affect their daily lives and fulfill the constitutional responsibility to serve as an independent check and balance on the executive branch by restoring accountability and transparency. he goes on, the initial set of hearings will serve both goals, by launching a broad review of the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs, hearing directly from president trump long-time personal attorney, and foes canning on sweeping legislative reform to strengthen democracy in house resolution one. chairman cummings made the following statement on the hearing on michael cohen, quote, michael cohen agrees to testify voluntarily. i want to make sure, that we have no intent, no interest in inappropriately interfering with any ongoing criminal investigations. to that end we're in the process of consulting with the special counsel mueller's office. the committee will announce additional details in the coming weeks. cohen says he'

cummings: one minute. ms. norton: who are hardly different from the soldiers who do the same thing around the country. the 2.6% pay raise proposed here does not begin to make up for difference ge between federal and private sector employees who do the same work, according to the council that measures this work every year. but for now, after 35 days of no y, now is the time to try to insinuate some fairness into pay for federal workers, with this modest 2% pay raise. i yield back the balance of my time. . the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: we her a a lot of discussion today on what is reasonable -- we hear a lot of discussion today on what is reasonable and small amounts. the pay raise they are talking about is about $5.5 billion a year, or $55 billion over 10. actually c.b.o. would probably score higher than that, robably $60 billion over 10. this could have been solved with a compromise between 035e7b $5.7 billion for a wall. it is an extreme amount of money when we're ta

we have statements from elijah cummings and adam schiff welcoming that testimony. joining me now is the "new york times" washington correspondent charlie savage who is an msnbc contributor. charlie, i want to ask you about, i want to go back to the other topic we're covering. this is the president at the border, threatening that if somebody doesn't end this shutdown soon he's doing, to keeps on saying he'll threaten this national emergency. tell me what this means to you. how do you interpret this? >> well at first blush i think people have the sense that's crazy, he can't do something like that. in fact, legal experts who looked closely at statutes congress has passed over the years granting the president the ability to redirect military funds in any presidentially declared emergency say there are serious arguments that the justice department could offer in defense of trump if he tries to do something like this. doesn't mean he wins. one way of thinking about this is that it is a way out of this impasse that's threatening to become the longest government shutdown

now elijah cummings himself left the house floor. reporters tried to ask him for comment about these developments. he declined to comment. he said he would issue a statement later today. he did tell me last week when witnesses are intimidated, that is is a major problem. he made issue with a stern warning to the president about intimidating any of his witnesses. so some very strong feelings in the house chamber among democrat, but potentially we could be looking at a subpoena being issued by at least this committee to compel some testimony perhaps next month. >> i'm told we have some sound. go ahead, roll it. >> the president is repeatedly calling publicly on shows, for an investigation into michael cohen's father-in-law ahead of michael cohen's testimony before congress. by your own definition, isn't that obstruction? >> no, if you made that obstruction, i can't defend anybody. you're telling me -- wait, jake. >> it's okay to go after the father-in-law? >> of course, it is. if the father-in-law is a criminal, his father-in-law has m

elijah cummings says he plans to go after president trump.n new orleans today not back down on the border wall. the texas attorney general ken paxton. we'll get a flash take from a sheriff. stay right there. anna, do you yes! those plans? i just wanted to show you something i've been wor... ♪ james r. and associates. anna speaking... ♪ james r. and associates. anna. ♪ [phone ringing] baker architects. this is anna baker. at northwestern mutual, this is what our version of financial planning looks like. tomorrow is important, but you're ready to bet on yourself today. find an advisor at northwesternmutual.com. president trump: they come in through our border where we don't have barriers or walls. they drive right in and they have no problems. and we'll get that stopped. we'll have a wall. we'll have a barrier. liz: president trump reiterating he's not looking to call a national emergency over the border crisis. saying a wall needs to be built. but the border guys saying it helps them. he's trying to solve the problem, not delay it. joining me,

but elijah cummings is intent on getting this guy before congress. and i wouldn't be completely surprised to see a subpoena at some point. >> okay, jeremy, you're a veteran of capitol hill. what would be the problem if cummings said, you know what, we're going to do this in closed session. it would kill the television ratings. it would reduce the theater of it. it would reduce the chance of grandstanding, especially among people new to the congress, people who want to stake their claim on this hearing. what if it was under seal for a finite amount of time? aren't there ways around this other than go to hell coverage on all the networks and live tv coverage? >> i think they could do portions of it behind closed doors and closed session perhaps as an accommodation to the special counsel's office to explore areas like the trump tower moscow deal that we know are under investigation, active investigation by bob mueller. but there are other areas that for the purposes of oversight you want in public because the oversight function is to increase transparen

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cummings: thank you. thank you, john. i want to thank you for putting your blood, sweat, and tears in this effort. you have been simply spectacular. i want to thank speaker pelosi, majority leader hoyer for your leadership with regard to this historic package. the midterm elections were monumental and historic. the american people gave congress a mandate to finally start conducting credible oversight and enacting reforms. over the last two years, president trump set the tone from the top in his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional. ladies and gentlemen, i stopped by here to simply say we're better than that. we're better than that. [applause] it cannot be optional. we have seen gross abuses from agency heads such as former e.p.a. at mror scott pruitt -- administrator scott prosecute. and former interior secretary ryan zinke. this is why we're introducing the for the people act. this bill includes a number of reforms that will strength yield back the balance of my time-en our abilit

from elijah cummings' letter to the white house this week, we know that cummings and his committee, they want information on why the trump white house didn't yank mike flynn's clearance after they were warned repeatedly and explicitly by the justice department that flynn was compromised by the russian government and he was lying about his dealings with them. after they got that warning, they took no action in terms of restricting flynn's access to secret, top secret or even compartmentalized information, despite the fact that the justice department was telling them that the russian government had one over on him. so anything that he had access to presumably was liable to ending up at the kremlin. why didn't you yank his clearance? elijah cummings this week inquired with the trump white house about the security concerns over mike flynn, also mike flynn's son who worked on the transition. also flynn's deputy k.t. mcfarland who also reportedly lied to the fbi about communications with the russian government also another deputy of flynn's rejected while working as a senior figure under flynn

, chairman cummings said he won't step on mueller's toes. so i think you're right to point to these areas of interest. they're going to push on the crimes that have already been investigated, prosecuted and sentenced. >> exactly. but if he knows something about the trump tower moscow meeting, for example, there might be areas mueller doesn't want him to get into. >> or you go in closed session. >> exactly, you go in closed session and talk about that. but i think there's lots of stuff michael cohen can talk about that we haven't heard, that the american public hasn't heard, that donald trump knows about and his kids probably know about and the accountant, by the way, who it will be interesting to see if gets called as well. >> harry, let me ask you to pick up this thread of what could be presented in an open session of congress that might be really devastating in terms of shaping public opinion around the fact that donald trump made illegal hush money payments to swing the election in his favor? i think so much we talk about is how the muell

cummings is. and i want to clarify -- >> how does that work?u, you know, lawyer to lawyer, lanny, i got to do it, do you and the other folks on this team pro actively call the special counsel's office to find out the boundaries for this testimony? or how does this work? because this is a is somewhat unusual situation. >> for sure. i know mr. cummings has and i intend to be sure that areas under investigation by mr. mueller and others he will not be able to answer. and i do want to get the opportunity in here to clarify no agreement has been reached with either the senate or the house intelligence committees. i will wisay during some conversations to day, i have to consult with my client mr. cohen, there is no need for a subpoena. we are voluntarily testifying before mr. cummings and the truth will now empower michael cohen, the michael cohen truth website is going to be looked at by the american people to help michael cohen through this ordeal. and i also do want to remind you that on this program i mentioned the disproportionate prison time th

cummings we greatly respect and are grateful for his invitation for mr. cohen to appear voluntarily. but the language used by mr. schiff and mr. cummings about classic mob tactics is the answer directly to president trump. it's not about the truth, because you've hidden from the truth, you won't even discuss direct questions and answers with mr. mueller. it's about your attacking his father-in-law, mr. trump. mr. giuliani, you attack his father-in-law and allude to him being a criminal because he's from the ukraine. this is classic mob technique, to send a signal to the individual who mr. trump has called a rat for telling the truth. now, that word "rat" comes directly out of organized crime. it's also a signal to other inmates in a potential prison situation. but the family of michael cohen has been called out by donald trump. once again, he ducks or lies about what he knows he's done, which is to attack a father-in-law and a wife as a way of getting to mr. cohen. and that is called witness tampering, obstruction of justice. and the house of representati

we're going to see is how skillful is the examination by elijah cummings committee and by the lawyers for that committee. >> and there's a key question, two, one is that "buzzfeed" report that is disputed by the spokesperson for robert mueller. it's unclear what was being disputed. one of the details was that the president received face-to-face briefings 10 times on the moscow deal. if that is true, that is an enormously consequential fact and would be good to hear from michael cohen under oath whether he would attest to that. >> absolutely. there are so many questions. i hope that the congress will get good legal prosecution advice, good litigators to draft the questions and the follow up. because that's what's important. not just the initial questions but the follow up that's important and i think there's a lot of there there. >> this gets to the bigger question, it seems to me. how involved was donald trump with these deals? how involved has he generally been on deals the deals you've looked at? >> well, donald doesn't know the details of his own deals. he became disturbed and real

what i find so interesting about this sort of declaration, nancy plus and entertainment cummings are're not just going after john bolton, u.s. ambassador to the un who is a current member of the administration, there also going after former members. retirement is not a get out of jail card. instead, you can see gothic sebastian gorka , this will be a nonstop circus. >> really, it's like we can walk and chew gum. you keep doing this and it gets nowhere? they will vote you out of office. it was not a mandate. for then democrats will control the senate.have to be mindful of that. people are smarter. people made much more attention to politics than two years ago or four years ago. and they have to legislate accordingly. i've no problem with one branch keeping an eye on the other but don't waste our time! >> absently.the voters are taking a closer look at this. and we know alexandria ocasio-cortez is good instagram pure we know that -- we do not know whether or not the guys can get down to that good government coequal branch job of actually doing investigating. >> or if they understand th

thing a bit but it wasn't as crucial as it's being made out to be we have a lot in about dominic cummings in the book because he is fascinating and if you're trying to figure credited with swinging it oh but also part of a group of young conservatives who were dedicated to this kind of thing happening and that's been forgotten and then you look at his version of the history of england was he when he look at his great big thesis about the greatness of this place and so on and you can see that he thinks we've lost something he thinks we need to take back control to get back to. that we should be and he need to understand that to understand why this happened to us because we were a place where people like dominic cummings could win those countries like france and germany and spain and italy and not places where people like dominic cummings come. when consensus can wait but not people who try to take you back you know one hundred two and i did they have. no history books in that particular schools that they went about the greatness they think should come back and with us and all and thank you

democra democra democrats elijah cummings and schiff responded in a joinlt statement quote efforts to intimidate witnesses, scare their family members or prevent them from testifying before congress are textbook mob tactics that we condemn in the strongest terms. our nation's laws prohibit efforts. cohen is scheduled to begin his three-year prison sentence, leaving a pretty small window to reschedule his appearance. and we may not get answers to some of the most urging questions about the president's conduct. did the president direct con to lie to congress about the moscow project? and was he actively involved in talks about the project while he was running for president? according to rudy giuliani, no money was ever paid, there were no drafts, nothing in the file and then low and behold, wouldn't you believe it, "buzzfeed" published the contents of both contracts and drafts, including multiple detailed renderings of the proposed trump tower in moscow. interior and exterior views with trump name on the top over looking russian -- and a break down of the licensing fee and cut of condo

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. >> you have elijah cummings in 60 minutes. here is a little clip about what you can expect very soon. >> we can look at anything. the fact that we can look at anything is part of the problem. there is so much. the congress doesn't meet but so many days in a year. all i'm saying is that we have to hit the ground not running but flying. >> bill: that tells you a lot, doesn't? >> well, it does. what congressman cummings said, there is a big problem. the big question for democrats now is the oversight committees normally oversee anything in the united states government. if there is corruption in this program, money wasted in this program, they should investigate that. so should they actually investigate the actual problems in the united states government or should they focus entirely on president trump. i will say in this coming congress, the holy grail for democratic investigators will be to try to get the president's tax returns. the law does allow the house ways and means committee or the joint committee on taxation to get an i

and it's a very shrewd move by cummings.g the republicans were interested in as well, they launched an investigation when they were involved and really got nowhere. and john kelly, when he was chief of staff, acknowledged there were problems with the security clearance process. there were real questions about jared kushner. recall that it was reported that his security clearance was downgraded because he didn't fill out his financial disclosures. then it was reported he had a complete security clearance. later "the washington post" said yes, but it wasn't top secret material. kushner is a subject of the mueller inquiry and people are asking, how can he have a full security clearance when he's the subject of a special counsel investigation? >> so this is one aspect of going to the heart of it. there's another letter that has just come out from cummings, writing about the nra and potential issues between john bolton before he joined the administration, nra, nra fundraising, russia, maria butina. this gets into a whole other --

cummings for allowing him to appear before the committee. this is a time when mr. to put his family and their safety first. that is the statement. let's go now to michael smerconish. what's your reaction to that? >> it would have been high on that the ricks, brianna. i don't know if it had transpired as planned or if it would have been substantive and it would be must-watch television, that's for sure. i am more surprised by the stated rationale. i am more surprised by the threats against the family than i am that this was looked at with displeasure perhaps by the investigators and not just mueller and also the southern district who continue to look at the administration. so that's really the only surprise to me was the explanation given as to why it would be postponed. >> and you would want to know more about that, obviously, but when you look at the issue of the ongoing investigations, this is a real -- this say real issue, right? where there are a lot of things that michael cohen would not be able to talk about and it would be very difficult to navigate that, pr

our team is all over this, ee lion ee elijah cummings chairs this committee. be too much. he would definitively testify -- in fact, he told elijah cummings, he had just spoken with cohen the day before and cohen was 100% going to testify. obviously that has changed over the last, what, 7 to 10 days at this point, chris, with these continued tweets and these comments from president trump as it relates to michael cohen's family. tb d. when we might see him back on the hill if that happens now down the road. >> very timely put the exact transcript of his conversation with chairman cummings in. so this was last week. and he asked him again, and you just pointed this out, if he had talked to michael cohen. he said he had talked to him that day. he's good, he's good to go. and mike asked him, 100% committed? big time, sadie olajuwon a cummings. matter of fact, i think he's more defrmd than ever. so i guess the response from the white house, we have other people in the building behind you who are looking to see what they may have to say about this. >> we sure do have

cummings. but if i can talk to mr. cohen, i would talk to him just like i would talk to any gang witness that i worked with as a prosecutor. i would say, mr. cohen, you have already done the hard part. you've broken away from the mob. you've told the truth. you've come clean, don't allow this bully of a president to get his way. he is a paper tiger. and you will be protected by special counsel, congress, i know would do everything it could to make accommodations, but the best thing you can do is to just tell the truth and stand up once and for all from this bully. >> what do you think congressman, i know you were listening in what mr. davis' advisers just said, there is a view, what he described as genuine fear not only of meddling or investigative techniques by the president, richard nixon zo ggot in troublr that issue of power. someone might hear his words and act violently, does that concern you or sit on the pail tonight? >> it's a concern, it would be more legitimate if the democrats did not control the house of r

this is according to elijah cummings, the chairman of the house oversight committee, who told me just moments ago that, kin deed, the special counsel's team totally cleared michael cohen's testimony in a public setting, in february. now, what cummings and adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, both told me separately today is that he will not be testifying about the russia investigation in a public setting, because of the fact that this investigation, the mueller investigation, is still ongoing and in cummings' words, he does not want to interfere with the mueller investigation. so, that separate part, about russia, about potentially those conversations that occur about the trump tower moscow project in 2016, in which cohen previously lied about, that might have to happen before the house intelligence committee or even the senate intelligence committee, which chairman richard burr is trying to get him to come to that committee. but when i pressed him on trump being implicated in these two federal crimes, he says the american public deserves to know the truth. t

elijah cummings, who invited cohen, downplayed the upcoming testimony to fox news. >> personally, we will also have a major hearing with regard to lowering prescription drugs, so we are going to be pretty busy. though cohen hearing is just 1 of 3 things, three hearings that we have announced. >> jim jordan said in a statement, "chairman cummings promised to pursue a rigorous, responsible, fact-based oversight." however, the chairman's announcement today suggests he will be using the committee as a venue for political theater, rather than legitimate oversigh oversight. the president on the u.s. border in texas today was asked about cohen's upcoming appearance. >> i'm not worried about it at all. >> but members and the majority brush off the word "theater," and promised cold, hard facts. >> it certainly opens the window that we haven't had the opportunity to hear from him, and when you think about over the last two years, we have had very little oversight over this administration. this is probably just the crack in the window that starts the process of real oversight. >> the president'

chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings requested that cohen testify.nts cohen to answer a range of questions about his work for trump, both during and after the election. cohen is set to begin his three-year prison sentence in march. cohen said in a statement that he was looking forward to giving his side of the story regarding his dealings with trump. ( james )still ahead... tablets taken from an oakland school ... and that's not all theives took. ( james )plus... dangers in the flu season... the warning one mother has for parents after her daughter died from the virus. ( darya ) welcome back. let's get a check of the weather this morning... no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 more rainfall on it's way into the weekend and next week. expect showers to return into the afternoon after a foggy start to the morning for much of the ba

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tracee: this is a top priority, a ma major priority of elijah cummings of maryland.ptember letters to a dozen p different drug companies, asking for detailed information and documents about how the companies price their medications cummings says the goals of the investigation are to determine why drug companies are increasing prices so drastically, how drug companies are using the proceeds and what steps can be taken to reduce prescription drug prices. cheryl: they threatened that was going to be a major issue for them. two rival auto companies are teaming up. tracee: this news coming out of the detroit auto show and this morning ford and volkswagen will unveil the details of their new partnership. the ceos of both companies will hold a joint conference at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. speculation is that the two will team up for a commercial truck collaboration. shares of ford are down more than 30% over the past year. lauren: or maybe volkswagen building cars in ford plants. that is one of the things that's being remedical record. remored. skittles is doing something dif