now, the word "balance" is not a word that darrell issa is very familiar with. ght remember this scene. remember this scene? oh, yeah. calling all male staff. last year, issa invited an all-male panel to speak on women's hear issues. health care issues. all these experts. it caused quite a rift between the republicans and the democrats at the time, and if i can rekindle your memory a little bit, the result was sandra fook who was blocked as a witness and became a big national story, and, of course, the downfall of many talkers in this country, because the advertising community reacted to what rush limbaugh said on talk radio for three days. now we have the latest chapter from darrell issa's dysfunctional house oversight committee. you've got to give the guy credit. he won't stop. issa's subcommittee on health care and entitlements held a hearing on the implementation of obamacare today. the committee is chaired by republican congressman jamie langford. now, once again, i can't believe it, once again, witnesses were less than balanced. four republican officials we

which does not outrage darrell issa at all! because they're republicans who are absent. he's only outraged by the missing democrats. and you know, maybe it's just an honest mistake. maybe he has a stiff neck or something. how do you bother to turn the other way. he might have been outraged by all of the missing people over there. but he only turned. he was only outraged by the democrats missing, not the republicans. the benghazi attack happened in 2011. excuse me, happened about a year ago. but it was about four months ago, it was may of this year that republicans decided that they had a new partisan angle on it, that they were going to use darrell issa's committee and use the house to make the benghazi conspiracy the most important issue in the country. and that month, back in may, the new republican outrage over benghazi was one of three scandals that the obama administration was sort of having to deal with all at once. remember back in may it was scandal overdrive, right? you had headlines like this one from the "ap" -- "obama's second-term agenda waylaid by controver

the government is organizing its own data has been less explored until now that is congressman darrell issa has been trying to standardize the way different agencies keep track of their spending so that taxpayers can search and examine where their money is going artie's perry and boring caught up with the congress man and she brings us this report. the federal government has been collecting all sorts of data on citizens but is a terrible job organizing its own data expression only when it comes to spending the issue they are using twentieth century technology to track the twenty first century the federal government is so large and expansive that it doesn't even have a full list of all the different agencies it departments and programs and addition all of these different organizations do not report in the same place or in a standard format making all of the information and searchable and complete and not transparent to taxpayers the data transparency coalition as a trade association advocating for data reform hudson hollister is their executive director we would like to see federal spending

and it is important to note that the chairman is darrell issa who is one of the most vocal critics of how the obama administration handled the killing of americans last year. this is a key look at the night that happened that night, and three more congressional hearings on benghazi are scheduled, including another one with congressman issa's committee. steven smith was killed and intelligence sean smith, and glen doherty and tyrone woods. we have been digging through the draft report since first obtaining it, and catherine is live in washington with the points that pop out that we need to know. >> well, according to the draft, harris, obtained by fox news and prepared for the investigators of the house chairman oversight committee chairman darrell issa, the state investigation into benghazi and said by the obama administration thorough and uncompromisi uncompromising, was flawed. the investigators say that the findings were impartiality, and whether there were conflicts of interest and whether the interviews were thorough. at one example, the draft says that the ambassador coach thoma

so, darrell issa, sitting in his

well, late last week, the chairman of that particular committee, the oversight committee, darrell issactures from a hearing he had called for his committee on the issue of benghazi. darrell issa's one of the republicans who believes that the attack that killed four americans in benghazi two years ago was not a tragedy, not just a terrorist attack, but rather, it was some sort of democratic-controlled conspiracy that you get the sense they hope involves hillary clinton in a way that will make it hard for her to run for president. so, darrell issa, sitting in his chairman position at that hearing, he turned toward the democratic side of the room, the side of the room where the democrats sit, and he took this

congressman darrell issa joins us live from dc ahead of today's capitol hill hearings.vens for being wreckless. but today mostly what we're going to hear is the state department's own investigation, so-called accountability review board, has had no accountability. every single person identified by that board is back on their job, never having lost a day's pay. >> brian: where is the hole in pickering's testimony in where is the hole you need filled today, along with admiral mullen? >> the most important question is why was the arb so limited? why was it an accountability review board was appropriate when, in fact, it went far beyond the low level people identified. why didn't they speak to hillary as an interview, as an actual question? what were her failures? why didn't she know or ask? why wasn't the president engaged in an active way? >> steve: from what you know, congressman, ambassador kennedy has testified that nobody had asked him for increased security for tripoli or benghazi, suggesting the embassy had not gotten around to that. is that accurate? , no. yesterda

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darrell issa made it clear. woman is owed her pension. >> i agree to take the fifty you have the right. absolutely. but boy, i think we should be leaning on her to explain what, how high in this government did that direct i target go? >> even without learner, the problem remains. that is the i.r.s. i.r.s. which is basically unrestrained with the totally subjective, arbitrary rules. that are haphazardly enforced. rather than come down on the lois learner who hasn't been convicted of a crime, take this opportunity to change the system. to move toward moral tax system that is a flat system what treats everyone the same and leighs, eliminates the possibility of this subjective enforcement. which is what learner and so many others have been behind. >> you and i love that -- wayne, do you like flat tax as well? i love it. tary tax. >> i do. i like the flat tax. she has every right to invoke fifth amendment. >> people can testify to what she did or didn't do. >> i like the fair tax better than the flat tax. >> i think

the net worth of the smiling darrell issa, $355 million.made his fortune originally by starting a car alarm from skraf. michael mccall, worth $114 million. his wife is married to the founder of clear channel, it is his daughter. rounding out the top three. mark warner of virginia. he was the founder of nextel. we put investments at all of it. once you get to a certain am of wealth go that's where it all come from. the man who ran the number is the senior editor for roll call. thank you so much. this was pretty fascinating. and i lake how you designed the list. you can sort by all kinds of thing. gender, party, that's the way it should be, republicans are rich. when you look at the top 50, it was pretty evenly split. in the top ten, it was not evenly split. not at all. >> no. it goes back and forwards depending on the election cycle. after the health care overhaul was enacted, they got wealthy doctors to run. this year it is more democrats than republicans so there is not a consistent trend. both parties really like to recruit wealthy people

a spokesperson for republican congressman darrell issa disagrees, calling that original review, quotents. and as you know, he has been leading the probe on capitol hill to get to the truth. the benghazi attack killed u.s. ambassador christopher stephens, state department officer sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen dorty. and also from libya, a jarring report, fox news has learned thieves in libya have stolen hundreds of american weapons and they are now in the hands of militia groups. adam housley is live for us in our west coast news hub, where with d. these weapons come from and how were they lost. >> update tox exclusive report three weeks ago when we originally were told dozens of weapons were stolen. weapons were used by the u.s. given by the libyans to train them to help fight terrorism. this training team went in after the benghazi attack last fall, helped track some of those who were responsible for the attack or who we believe were responsible for the attack and that team has since been pulled within the last month or so. these raids happened in the las

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well, late last week, the chairman of that particular committee, the oversight committee, darrell issaome pictures from a hearing he had called for his committee on the issue of benghazi. darrell issa's one of the republicans who believes that the attack that killed four americans in benghazi two years ago was not a tragedy, not just a terrorist attack, but rather, it was some sort of democratic-controlled conspiracy that you g

lawmakers like darrell issa who has been in security briefings with top level officials including the director of intelligence james clapper. >> whether asking questions about specific evidence available, director clapper did not have those -- the answers to that, if you will, the evidence, but told me that they are still in the process of developing it. >> reporter: clapper's credibility has been questioned before. he's admitted he once gave false sworn testimony to congress about whether the national security agency was eavesdropping on americans. congressional briefings on the number of people killed in the august gas attacks may also be incorrect. when asked about the accuracy of the numbers, congressional sources report that administration officials told them they couldn't be sure. republican senator john mccain, who has been pushing for u.s. intervention in syria for years, has also be been part of the briefings. he told al jazeera there's much more evidence against assad that has not been made public, but what has been released, a map, activists' internet video and a four-page

the authority to implement these reforms there does not fully flexing that power so congressman darrell issa introduced the data ags which mandates that the government standardize m. publish all financial documents any time that you want to update is to say you have to give up your legacy you have to comply with a common standard you're going to get some resistance unless there's an order to do so and we believe that with the that's what the data can force dare i say the chairman of the government over. site committee also sent a strong letter to the f.c.c. chair which expresses my disappointment that we haven't gone all digital that we continue to have transcribing errors and that it's unnecessary on september tenth i saw a launch an investigation into the us security and exchange commission on their implementation and enforcement of the interactive data rule representative jared polis doesn't think this is a partisan issue really i just think it takes a little extra work i mean the easiest thing is to do nothing to continue for a system to be arcane in excess of all these problems that we

darrell issa sent out a picture by way of twitter. this shows about a half-filled room which gives you impression people were there. you're saying this was the republican side of the room? >> yeah, i think there were two democrats remaining in the picture darrell issa tweeted out. they sit on either side of the dais. republican side was mostly full. the democratic side was mostly empty. it is a metaphor way people approached benghazi hearing. if you go back to the substantive part of the hearing dealing with the arb report, you had democrats basically defending the arb report, defending the administration. republicans raising questions and appearing quite skeptical. bill: why don't people cover this? you know, i mean why don't democrats care? why, is this part of the whole phony scandal line? >> i think that's right. i think for democratic partisans that's why. your first question really asked me sort of befuddled. i don't know why people don't cover this i have a theory, if you go back to the time right after the benghazi attacks hap

republican congressman darrell issa heatedly opposing it saying the democrats should honor the decisionvery clear the senate is acting on behest of the president. harry reid is acting on that basis. so i don't think the president gets a pass like he would eagerly sign it if harry reid would just move it. i assume the press knows better too. >> when this fails, will you -- >> how dare you presume a failure. how dare you. how dare you presume a failure. the fact is this country is based on people saying they won't do things and at the end of the day coming together for compromise. we continue to anticipate that there's an opportunity for sensible compromise. >> well, a bit of a temper there by darrell issa. chief political correspondent carl has been on capitol hill. >> house republicans are hard at work. the rules committee of the house will soon come forward with it's sort of game plan for a vote later on this afternoon or evening in which the house republicans for the second time -- actually it's like the 40th or 45th time to take some action to try to stop obamacare in some way or ano

darrell issa is doing a remarkable job in congress and we need to support him and the policies like ted cruce. we need to acknowledge that the me too republicans, john mccain, lindsey graham, and unfortunately marco rubio -- if that's the republican party to the conservatives do not need the republican party. [applause] you want to get joel? all right. >> my name is joe gilbert from highway 61 and i have two questions. the first one is given the history of failure and socialism and communism what is the psychological recommended on the system and second, would you be willing to be interviewed for my new movie? >> i've been in your movies before and i would be like it again. let me answer in terms of the appeal of socialism is very strongly seductive. i remember every one gender than you read the communist manifesto. it promises a worker's paradise. do not hesitate also to study the collective the millions of people killed. don't hesitate to study the millions killed in china or what we used to call indochina were some of the people in china or russia who are desperate for freedom. whene

congressman darrel issa said the state department investigation was deeply flawed.lican staff report says that senior state department officials were let off the hook. >> we can certainly have mrs. clinton back. >> the under secretary who approved the benghazi post with substandard security will take the stand today. >> a deadly brain ameba shown up in the water could be a result of hurricane katrina. they are tapping the water system with chlorine hoping it will kill off the pair sites making it safe again after a 4-year-old died from the ameba. this is happening in saint bernard perish of new orleans which was badly hit by hurricane katrina. the fire that tore through part of a jersey shore boardwalk being blamed on super storm sandy. the fire started in old wires beneath the boardwalk damaged salt water and sand last october. the wires were never inspected after the storm. that fire destroyed more than 50 businesses in two towns. listen to this story. two men wanted for kidnapping a 14-year-old georgia girl. here is her picture. reportedly demanding a 10,000 doll

. >>> it could be an explosive day on capitol hill because congressman darrell issa's panel will notitate to recall the most senior witness who testified about the terror attack in benghazi. this includes patrick kennedy. he's the under secretary who approved substandard security at the post in libya. but what about hillary clinton? >> we can certainly have mrs. clinton, you know, back. our view is that we need to get to the facts. >> issa says the state department's investigation was deeply flawed and a new republican staff report says senior officials were let off the hook. >>> the next time your kid claims there is a monster under the bed, you may want to actually check it. a man in zimbabwe slept the entire night, eight full hours without noticing there there was a crocodile under his bed. that crock, eight feet long. that guy didn't notice until the maid walked in and started screaming. animal control workers roped and dragged that 330-pound beast back into the wild. this happening in stkeupl pwab wait a minute i don't know what -- zimbabwe. i don't know what's worse, a crocodil

and darrell issa, dave camp, all of these chairman have to decide that this will be carried out.investigation, to a conclusion. this has to be accountability. >> bill: right now we don't know where it is sand syria is knocking off the consciousness. >> all sorts of dispractions, reflections and reality of this administration isn't being held accountable for what is outright political corruption. >> bill: we still don't know who in the white house was the liaison on all of. this correct. >> we know that the white house visited the white house way too many times it. unemployment rate in this country has dropped to 7.3%. but then they tell us that people aren't looking for jobs in a record number. that if everybody who is eligible to work, i guess that's under age 65 was looking for jobs. the unemployment rate would be 11%. not 7.3%. but, there is always a but. that's why these business pinheads, your head will blow off. but, one of the reasons why they are not looking for jobs. many baby boomers like me are retiring. >> right. >> right? >> at a rate of about 10,000 a day. they ther

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the former press secretary for congressman darrell issa and the former dccc spokesperson. welcome to you both. >> good to be here. >> thanks. >> how heated is it behind the doors? the house this morning over to the senate harry reid saying it is dead on arrival. it will ping back to the house we think. >> it will ping back to the senate and then go back. right now i don't think there is a lot of activity on capitol hill which a little scary. i think what will happen so the senate will make it a clean cr and people should understand that this is the cr level that republicans voted on. it is at the sequester level. it will go back to the house. i am not sure that there is time though for us to avoid at least a short government shutdown. i don't see how we avoid it. >> there is -- there has been no public sniping. what is going on figuring out the next step in the process? there is a pr element to every bit of this too. >> i think what you have seen is republicans come together and unite behind a common message and a common strategy. they believe by the end of the day listeni

. >>> darrel issa faced a serious security threat before a secret fact finding trip to libya.e u.s. embassy in tripoli his concern that congressman ice saw should not come to libya for his own safety. saying the same people who would hurt issa are the same that carried out the attack in benghazi. he called the democrats release of information reckless. >> here's a story we told you about yesterday 8 prisoners left alone in a running van were able to escape. how police actually found one of them. one of the prisoners called 911. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> you are probably not going to believe this, but i am a prisoner in a van and i am here because a couple of the guys that were in the van >> he even stayed with the dispatcher until they rivarrive. they were captured after two hours of freedom. >> you are not welcome here. that's a shocking message they have for one wounded veteran to bravely fought for our country in afghanistan. they protested habitat for humanity house building built forearm me sergeant brianwood and his family. the reason? the home is not made of bri

darrell issa is reading a letter from ambassador chris stevens's family.e read a letter from glen doherty's family before that. obviously very emotional to hear about how the families felt about their loved ones. and still unanswered questions what left those people so julier inable at the facility in benghazi. we'll keep an eye on this we'll get back as soon as they get into the questioning part of that as. we'll keep an eye on it. >> the fight over here has been won. the house voted 40 times to defund, change, obamacare, to repeal it. it's time for the senate to have this fight. bill: what about that now? house speaker john boehner drawing a line in the sapped saying he and fellow house republicans are ready to offer a spending bill that guts obamacare. that sets up a potential government shutdown 12 days from now. but they say republican colleagues in the senate already thrown in the towel. what about that? senator rand paul is with me live from the hill. senator, good morning to you, fresh off your magazine spread in "vogue". very well-done. not easy t

california republican congressman darrell issa is outspoken about the law.test house bill is doomed to failure. >> when it fails will you go -- >> how dare you presume a failure. how dare you? how dare you? how dare you presume a failure. the fact is -- the fact is this country is based on people saying they won't do things. at the end of the day, coming together for compromise. >> okay. everyone, sit down for a moment and watch this interview because congressman issa is standing by at the capitol with dana bash. take it away. >> reporter: thank you. thank you for joining us. are you going to yell at me? >> only if you presume that somehow a senate that says they won't compromise means anything we offer -- we haven't offered anything yet, is dead on arrival. it's not the american way. >> reporter: since you made that statement earlier today, the president of the united states who does have a say in this issued a veto. >> the president will talk to and compromise a dictator with iran, but won't talk to john boehner and reach a compromise on a bill, he himself

. >> there'll be a hearing next week that darrel issa chairs. i had three things then i had one of those moments where you forgot the third thing. you remembered it. it was the stand down order. >> good job. >> those three things. 1, 2, 3. >> you can count too. >> i can count as well. >>> coming up a big win for second amendment advocates in colorado. two politicians recalled from office after pushing gun control. the political ramifications extend well beyond colorado and we're going to talk about it next on "the five." >>> bad news for anti-gun activists. two democrat lawmakers in colorado including the president of the state senate were recalled tuesday in elections brought about by the support for tougher gun control laws. john morris and angela guirron were both defeated in special elections. these democrats held seats in very blue districts. one district president obama held by almost 20% in last year's presidential election. colorado voters on both sides of the aisle have spoken and they seem to be saying, long live the second amendment.

the reports from the house over site committee for the chairman ch california republican darrel issadling of that. it played down policy decisions that came from top officials and never fully investigated secretary of state's hillary clinton's role in the decisions. the final report is due out in stages. i am harris falkner. now back to "hannity." >> the president handling the situation in syria has been described as confused and embarrassing. leaving many to wonder whether or not it is acting rationally. frank luntz and bipartisan lead group. >> the question is where do we go from here? the best way to look at it i want to ask you an important question. is america going to be more safe or less safe over the next ten years than it is today. who thinks america will be more safe. raise your hand. six of you. why are you so optimistic? >> well, i am so optimistic because of the fact that i know we are a super power. i think we don't manage power in a manner that will allow us to remain a super power. >> why are you optimistic? >> i think people in my demographic and age range are becomi

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faced tough question from matt lee on request from house oversight and reform committee chairman darrell issa. that's to make the survivor of the benghazi attacks available for question withening by congress. >> do you see the contradiction here? when he complains that you are not making people available to him, and you say that's not true, you are. but then you say that in fact people are not being made available, that's a problem. >> well, what i would say to him is we don't understand why anyone would want to do anything that would jeopardize the process. >> okay. but it is factually correct, though, then, that the state department or the administration is preventing people, specifically the survivors from testifying, right? for whatever reason -- i'm not asking for a reason. it's just true. >> we were talking about dancing. i thought jen was mimicking ginger rogers there trying to get away from explaining a simple thing. why won't we get to hear from the survivors of benghazi. will we ever? >> i think charles woods is one of the next guest. 34r woods and every other family member who lost

we're listening to some comments from california congressman darrell issa who was reflecting some of are very frustrated over the concerns about a possible government shutdown. they are right now considering a bill that was passed in the senate that completely -- that will fund the government and also the same time restore funding to obama care. that is something that the republicans have been fighting against. and now we're hearing, fox now news has been hearing that republicans have been meeting behind closed doors there on capitol hill since about noon today. to take a look at their options. we are just now coming up on that deadline. which is monday at midnight. we're hearing there might be a compromise where they would delay obama care for at least a year but continue to fund the government. obviously, we're following the story very closely and continuing to bring you the latest in terms of the back and forth that's going on between republicans and the democrats over this contentious issue. stay with us. i'm kind of seeing a... some kind of... this is... an alien species. realit

they'll be on capitol hill before a house oversight committee whose chairman, darrell issa told me in that very committee room, he thinks the investigation was a whitewash. it helped brush away some of the sins of benghazi and the committee still wants a lot. we'll get a better sense of the mood and whether chats support those republicans. they say they want transcripts of interviews them want the documents that have yet to be shared with congress. they want the notes those people took during that investigation and they also want, and this is a key sticking point. they want to interview the state department employees here were there a year ago. survivors of benghazi. and they say they should get access. the state department today said no. it believes having those witnesses interviewed would undermine the criminal investigation. but house republicans say this. why is the cia cooperating with the intelligence commit yeah saying its covert operative there can be questioned. and they say they had a lot more sympathy for this investigation argument if they saw some progress. >> when it is