darrell issa at this point is expanding his investigation.d today, at least he did so in a her to the head of the fec. cnn otained the her. what he is asking the fec is to do is turn over records with the irs. it raises, quote, the prospect of inappropriate coordination about tax-exempt entities. among the thing he's demanding is all communications between the irs and the if. ec dating back to 2008. i should underscore the republican fec commissioner i talked to, heunder scored that he is not sure that anyone nefarious or sinister was going on, but it should be investigated. and now it is. >> there's a lot of acronyms. >> alphabet soup. >> the original controversy is whether or not the irs was unfairly -- not allowing tax-exempt status. that was the allegations. this is about whether or not the irs, the same people were also reaching out to the federal election commission? >> or vice versa, whether people at the federal election commission were reaching out to the irs. the bottom line is if there's information in the public domain, there's no

>> the former press secretary to darrell issa.bout to be the chairman of the house government oversight committee -- government reform committee. kurt was this incredibly transparent operator, someone whose ambitions he wore on his sleeve. he joined the workforce at 17, didn't go to college. i thought he was refreshing, kind of a naked operator. let mee reason, he follow him around. i was interested in him as a subject of the book. in the course of our dealings together, he forwarded me a bunch of e-mails that he was receiving on a day-to-day basis to try to give me a fuller picture of how he was spending his days. a little unusual. "political" got wind of it, and they wrote a story. it became a scandal, that he was sharing e-mails from people who didn't know their e-mails were being shared. he was eventually fired and then eventually rehired. why was he rehired by darrell issa? was he fired because he became the issue? >> i think he was fired because he messed up. at the time, it was decided [indiscernible] it has a very close re

when it comes to darrell issa, i was not talking about darrell issa and the budget but darrell issa beinge chairman of the oversight committee. just look at the tape and look at the questions that were asked and the answers that were made. we have an irs department which is very large. we have just over a couple hundred applications. waseems like everybody handled with similar scrutiny. unfortunately, to the length they should not have been subjected to. happen. to liberal and conservative applications host: republican line from new york, you're on with tony cardenas. caller: i would like to tell you what i feel about the problems this country has. it is our elected officials. you talk about immigration. i remember seeing kennedy on the floor of the house over 20 years ago promising the american people if they would only give us amnesty this one time to 3 million american -- illegal aliens that they would be part of the bill where employers would have a way of knowing if somebody was here illegally. it took over four years before verify.e- aliens cap come here taking jobs from americans.

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. >>> topping the list of money on the hill, darrell issa's fortune rose to $355 million in 2012. -- that is wealthy by any "forbes" standard. his riches certainly are not tied to the $174,000 a year he makes on the hill, but the greenback he raked as director -- the founder, i'm sorry, of direct it electronics which is the company that makes the viper car alarm. remember this tv commercial? >> viper car. protected by viper. stand back. >> that is darrell issa's voice protected by viper, stand back. >>> it is been 755 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? most u.s. stocks are up ending a four-day down streak. all eyes on the fed tomorrow. minutes of its most recent meeting will come out. investors are desperate to find out when the fed will scale back its unprecedented stimulus for the u.s. economy. >>> the sixth story "outfront" you are being watched. the obama administration, of course, has been on the defensive to say the least over its spy agencies collecting information on us. but it is not only the government that is keeping tabs o

darrell maserati issa., they chronicle his repeated attempts to inject politics into is the discussion of how the irs chose to police non-profits that appeared to have a particular political agenda. they write, house oversight committee chairman darrell issa led the charge, alleging this was the targeting of the president's political enmyself. other republicans followed suit, citing the enemies list out of the white house and arguing that president obama doesn't have clean hands. joining us now is one of the co-authors of that piece, democratic congressman elijah cummings of maryland. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> there have been so many instances of mr. issa's outright lies and deceit, not just over the course of this scandal, but also the feigned is controversies over benghazi, over fast and furious involving the attorney general. what will motivated yourself and congressman sander levin to pen this piece now? >> well, we realize that the republicans were going into their town hall meetings a

those subpoenas, republican congressman darrell issa, chairman of course of the house committee on oversightnd government reform. congressman issa, good to talk to you sir. what are you asking for this round? >> rick, we're asking for two things. first of all the documents that have been going in and out of house every day for months, we need to be able to have them, make copies of them and produce reports the american people are entitled to. the vast majority of these are completely unclassified. the second area, i think is of greater concern. we've determined through our transcribed interviews and depositions that the arb report is really insufficient. that they didn't do the kinds of questioning they should have and we had fact witnesses tell us they weren't even asked questions about the allegations that led to their being put on paid administrative leave. so to do that review we really do need to see their working papers to figure out where something went so wrong in some of the conclusions, not holding enough people accountable and not even is having the people held accountable underst

darrell issa wants to do the job he is doing, thinks he is doing it well.t's interesting about the cnn -- >> you mean among leadership. there are definitely members pushing it. >> exactly, among the decision makers. there is a group of rank and file that's been very focused on benghazi all along. what's interesting about cnn sitting down with the suspect last week is that that really grew the interest in the subject beyond the people that have been so focused on it, and if that movement begins to build, and rank and file puts more pressure on leadership, perhaps in the fall, depending the response the administration gives to the question of -- >> as you said last week, we welcome cnn to covering the story. the other story you've been covering is the ciawho were on yet to speak out. and a letter sent out apparently by john brennan, now cia director, and in this letter it says that the house select committee on intelligence and senate select committee on intelligence asked cia leadership to reach out to officers who were in benghazi during the attacks to let

darrell issa wants to rename them the ronald wilson reagan exclusive economic zone. >> stephen: folks, let's this makes perfect sense. i've always known the ocean was conservative like the republican party, it's full of great whites. and-- (laughter) i think it is also only fair dns -- >> (cheers and applause) we've got a republican crowd here tonight, all right. back in 1983 it was the gipper himself who signed a proclamation declaring those waters the united states exclusive economic zone for exploring, exploiingt and conserving offshore resources and it's been going great, especially the exploring and exploiting part. and i'm sure we'll get around to the conserving part later. naturally the berlin wall huggers out there see the ronald wilson reagan economic zone as half empty. like california democrat alan lowenthal. >> we're talking about 3.4 million square miles of ocean. an area larger than the combined landmass of all 50 states. >> president reagan's name already graces roads, schools, buildings and fields in 22 states and the district of columbia. not to mention a major airpor

to the point i said many times..., no, but on this very network it's an independent prosecutor, darrell issa can take a break. the other issue that i think people are missing and issue i think people need to focus on. both democrats and republicans completely abuse the irs tax code, nonprofit or other things. >> here is the scary thing. i read a lot of books about water gated. woodward and bernstein thought about the president being involved with that from the beginning. they put a couple things together. this reeks of overreach. it smells too good. that is the scary thing. i can talk about it all day but not on the front page of "new york times." >> you and i both know this station which is covering it extensively have incredible reporters that have been digging in and.... >> you know, here is the thing. >> neil: wait a minute. >> it took over a year for them to get anything on nixon himself. it took over a year. there was some suspicious of it but -- suspicion. the executive branch was not part of it right away. there was a lot more going on. >> you remember the coverage going on, it was v

according to congressman darrell issa, "we have learned that you sent documents related to your official duties from your official irs e-mail account to an msn.com e-mail account labeled lois home. the label goes on to read "we write to request documents related to your official duties that are house in non-official e-mail accounts." in other words, ms. lerner needs to take a break from her taxpayer funded vacation, hand over all of the e-mails that she's been hiding from congressional investigators and she needs to do so no later than 5:00 p.m. on august 27th. joining me now with reaction is the man who has been leading this important investigation from the get-go, chairman of the house oversight committee, congressman darrell issa. good to see you. >> thanks for covering this update in one of the scandals that even the president can't in good faith call phony. >> yeah, good point. explain in detail why this is important, and there are other issues that might shed some light on why she pled the fifth. >> well, sean, one of the important things is that the more we see lois lerner as at t

now it turns out that the house government reform and oversight committee chaired by darrell issa saysd at least one email from lerner that was official business in her private email accounts. and that, they say, smells bad and raises big questions. so, mr. issa has said he is going to give ms. lerner until the end of the month to cough up all of the documents in her private email accounts. >> bill: she is not going to do that the lawyers aren't going to do that. >> there is a couple things in the way there you have got things like the federal documents act that require officials to make sure and make available any official business even if they do use their private email accounts. this could get ugly for her. that's not the only thing that's going on here. there is a separate problem that has been revealed of late. and that is this absence of any new changed policy in the irs. the idea that a guy in cincinnati where this scandal actually originated where it was originally discovered that these applications for tax exempt statutes are being delayed he says they haven't changed it congr

. >>> california congressman darrell issa has the biggest bank account in congress. it's according to the list of the 50 wealthiest lawmakers. he's said to be worth about $355.4 million. texas republican congressman michael mccaul slid to second place worth about 102 million bucks. the next three spots go to democrats, virginia's senator mark warner, west virginia senator jay rockefeller and connecticut senator richard blumeen that blumeen thal. >>> facebook wants to get more of the world's 7 billion people online. the company has formed a partnership with internet.org and large mobile technology companies. its goal is to make internet access available to two-thirds of the world who are not connected. the group's plan includes maybe developing cheaper smartphones and also using mobile data more officially. >>> if you're smart and rich there's a good chance you use google. those are the findings of gnaw study released. the study found that people who google tend to live in states with high college graduation rates and income. the findings should be taken with a grain

and california republican representative darrell issa tops the list by the hill newspaper.issa made his money with the viper car security system -- earning around 355 million dollars,last year. representative michael mccaul of texas is noted to have a net worth of at $101 million.on the senate side-- democrat mark warner of virginia-- has a portfolio worth 88-million dollars. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is reportedly worth 3.9 million. signing up for your company's 401k plan is a quick way to build up your own portfolio.but a new survey shows americans are feeling confused and overwhelmed by the process.we have dave gray-- head of the 401k client experience at charles schwab on the line with us this morning.good morning.why are americans feeling so much angst about their 401k accounts? > >i can understand that because if you are uncertain as to how to invest and yet you know that this is your largest or primary source of retirement income it certainly makes sense that it would cause some stress. one of the key things we found in a survey is that americans are really accepting

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darrell issa is doing a remarkable job on this in congress. we need to support them. we need to support politicians like ted cruz. we need to acknowledge the need to republicans, john mccain, lindsey graham, an unfortunate the marco rubio's, if that's the republican party, conservatives do not need the republican party. [applause] >> i'm from highway 61 and again in los angeles. i've got to question. the first is given the history of failure of socialism and communism, what is the true psychological motivation of today's socialists is don't recommend the economic system? and secondly, would you be willing to be interviewed for my new movie? >> i would be delighted to be in your movies. let me address your question. the appeal of socialism is very strong subjective. i recommend everyone younger than you read the economist manifesto. is one of the most brilliant of documents ever written. it promises a workers paradise. but don't hesitate also to study stalin's collectives, the millions of people killed. don't hesitate to study the millions killed in china, or in what w

>> 2 would have to come from darrell issa's committee. she has claimed the fifth amendment.was valid or not is a legal question but she has asserted fifth amendment privilege not to incriminate herself. by the way completely understandable in light of everything that has come out. it would come from darrell issa's committee if they were so inclined and that would allow her to speak more freely without the risk of prosecution. bill: if you can prove she was using this personal e-mail account, this may go with some of the evidence you're trying to get out, was she hiding something? >> right. well, it sure looks that way. i mean, just if you follow the trail of information, if in fact emails and taxpayer documents are being forwarded from her government account to her personal account, that's a violation of the rules and the law. if she then takes that information and shares it from her personal account to other people that's criminal. this is very, very, serious. i mean this whole idea that a government bureaucrat or here a government department head would take information off

that may sound like a lot, but congreman darrell issa says that it is actually under 200 of a pcent of the 64 million pages of documents and the irs says this is relevant to the targeting scandal. house majority leader eric cantor in what they call a bipartisan group event highlighting the immigration experience. including a naturalization ceremony and a trip to ellis island. turning now to talk about immigration refo in the house. the chairman of the house judiciary committee who is leading the republican efforts. congressman bob goodlatte of virgia. it is good to have you with us. cement thank you for having me. good to be with yo and you viewers. lou: you must talk about breitbart.com. saying point-blank that you are receptive to the idea of the gang of eight senate immigration plan, which a lot of people thought was dead on arrival. what is going on? >> well, t is dead on arrival. something that i do not support. i have been workingll year long, as you know, to do it is a step-by-step approach to do enforcement frst and then find an appropriate legal status for people who are not l

house oversite committee darrell issa is at it again.onal investigation shows learner used the account for irs business which could violate the federal law. and would have been the most uncomfortable fight ever. angelina jolie, jennifer aniston booked on the same flight from los angeles o to london. a british airways employee realized and called jennifer's rep, who changed her flight. >> gretchen: all right. thanks, brian. america could be on the verge of setting its first serial killer free. janine jones, texas nurse known as the angel of death, has been locked up since 1985 when she was convicted of killing 15 month old baby. she died from a lethal drug injection and jones co-workers say she may have used the same tactic to kill up to 50 other newborns. a loophole could send her home early despite her 99 year sentence. that is unless my next guest can prove she's guilty of other crimes. i'm joined by the mother of that 15-months-old girl and andy cannes, the victim's advocate for the houston police department. good morning to both of y

>>ous oversight committee chairman darrel issa vowing after secretary kerry reinstated the state departmentloyees punished over the benghazi terror attacks. they were put on leave after the review board investigation. many are outraged. they think it was just a publicity stunt. >> i want to know what happened why my son is dead who ordered this and nobody cares. people in the united states, hillary doesn't give a damn about you. >> the state department says the employees did not deserve to be disciplined. >> we have to let the facts go where they may. we can't take action against them just to make us feel better. >>> four beam dead including ambassador stevens. >> more trouble in paradise for celebrity cruise lines. their ship is back in do yue to another problem. it made an unscheduled return sunday. >> he was in the middle of a 7 night cruise that started in september. this was the third straight failing of the ship that has been affected by mechanical problems. >>> we now know the kidnaper james dimaggio used a timer to set fire to his house where hannah anderson's mother and brother wer

your pal that you love so much darrell issa -- >> my pal. >> -- after three months of investigation, he has not come up with one single solitairy evidence. >> why don't you come up with something juicy? this is not very hospitable. >> you kiss him more than anybody else. >> they've got the trail leading all the way to a high-level washington attorney -- lobbyist/attorney. >> i'm getti inting yelled at f saying you kissed his butt. >> now you told everybody. the president also addressed republicans and the whole idea of paul ryan wanting throw granny over the cliff, apparently republicans don't want you to have health care. take a listen. >> my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care, they're ho-- their holy grail, their number one priority, number one principle in the republican party is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> unbelievable. >> that is so bad. >> he's exactly right. >> his math is so bad. >> can you tell me -- >> iflt's the new math. >> even the congressional budget office says that 30 mil

and the irs, congressman darrell issa issuing a subpoena for irs documents regarding its scrutiny orf tea party and other conservative groups. what is the white house's role if any in this political wrangling. let's bring in jamie weinstein. good to see you. is this a significant escalation? >> i think it certainly is significant escalation. chairman issa does not think he has been appropriately dealt with in getting documents. he wanted 81 search terms. i think they only looked up 12 of those terms of the documents he's gotten, a lot of them has been redacted. this is not just a republican saying this. the senate finance committee max baucus issued a statement on friday as well saying he doesn't think the irs has been as constitute i have he would like. there is both sides, members saying they are not particularly happy. >> gregg: they want emails and other documents that are relevant from three people in particular. lois lerner, holly paz and william will dense. here they are. lerner infamously clammed up taking the fifth. paz i believe was placed on administrative lead. will dense

a day later, darrell issa and david vitter wrote administrator jackson demanding all personal e-mailsn the last four years that relate to her official duties. they're concerned the e-mails were an attempt to circumvent federal transparency laws and congressional oversight. there's in tolerance for any dissent in the global warming debate, as evidenced from these comments by sally jewel. >> hope there are no climate change deniers in department of interior. >> if you are a global warming skeptic and work for obama administration, by appointee or career civil service, better keep your mouth shut and not express views. >> reporter: but temperature averages stalled for 15 years, and some russian scientists predict a mini ice age lasting up to 250 years. >> that's not exactly comforting either. doug mcelway for us, thanks. >>> still ahead, we'll get you ready to participate in tonight's all-star panel with the srb. has america lost the war on poverty? i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage go

house over site committee darrel issa says osama bin laden had been charged but was not apprehended. delays in apprehending the benghazi killers will only put american lives at further risk. meanwhile president obama is saying his decision to shut 22 embassies and conflicts around the world this week is not an over reaction because of what happened in benghazi. that is instead rooted in the real life threat to americans abroad. >> one thing i have tried to do as president is not over react but make sure that as much possible the american people understand there are general risks ever p out there. one thing we have seen over the last few years is how resilient we are. >> why did it take yesterday to file the charges against the suspects. >> peter doocy live. >> a massive manhunt underway this morning for suspected killer who may have abducted two children. it happened in san diego. anna kooiman is here with us live with the latest. >> good morning heather, good morning to everyone at home. his name is james dimaggio. police say he is suspected of murdering a woman and kidnapping one o

>> i think he has great points and i think the congress, darrell issa was on ka vut oh earlier, they were saying what are you doing with investigative powers with irs and benghazi. part of the problem, they're being stonewalled by the administration, so you can't get the information. when the democrats took over in 2006, when they won that election, they were relentless, i felt responsive to questions from the media about it. i would be careful saying to anybody that something is a phony scandal when four people have been killed and there's no answer for it. >> issa had 20 hearings. >> bob, did you not listen to what senator graham was saying? >> i listened to that, the part i could understand. >> so there are times other news organizations can find people to interview, people can sign contracts to write books, people can sign up to get money for their experiences while in benghazi but congress isn't allowed to talk to them? explain that. >> what bob is saying, there were all these hearings. nobody is talking about the hearings because there's the collusion between the president and

house oversight committee chairman darrell issa threatens to subpoena the irs over its handling of taxnder the president's health care law. >>> and new problems for embattled san diego mayor bob filner as a 67-year-old great grandfather claims he forcibly kissed her leading to calls for his resignation. filner so far refuses to step aside. ♪ ♪ alisyn: energy and america locked in a battle against oil trains. environmentalists are fighting to stop new projects that would allow the u.s. to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create thousands of much-needed jobs, but there is a risk. dan springer is live in seattle. tell us about the stakes here. >> reporter: well, of course, whenever you talk about oil, there's a lot at stake. you've got tax revenue, jobs, gas prices, and green groups say global warming, and that's why they're fighting hard to stop the transportation of oil by train. pipeline is still by far the most common way to move oil, but rail is seeing a major expansion thanks to a big increase in oil production in north dakota. in fact, in the first quarter of this year, the