that is something that elijah cummings has said throughout this process.r immunity, allow her to testify and let's get to the bomb of this. if, in fact, these allegations are true, the irs did have more stringent procedures for all allowing political groups to get registered in this capacity, that's troubling for all americans. and they haven't been willing to do this whoo i? it's meat for the political base. >> they have all her irs e-mails on this subject, something the republicans never mentioned. they already obtained those. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up, an unusual partal sandy vied divide erupted today usually happens in a bipartisan reaction. the republican vice chair of the senate intelligence committee says he thinks the problems that senator feinstein has been having with the cia should never have been discussed in public. and in "the rewrite" rick perry got booed just for walk on the stage of the jimmy kimmel stage last night. and then he got applause, including from me for what might be the one thing rick

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now, elijah cummings and the democrats wanted to be heard on the subject yesterday.ad, the republicans were so afraid of a dissenting point of view that they took away our first amendment while stripping her of the fifth. if i were a tea party republican in this country, i would be really concerned about the actions of darrell issa and company. >> and what are you anticipating will happen next, because these hearings seem to be stalemated. can you get any more information at this point? >> well, i'm not sure we lack any information. it is quite clear that darrell issa and the republican majority and apparently speaker boehner are engaged in a star chamber exercise that all along intended to cite ms. lerner for contempt, even though she's invoked her fifth amendment privilege. and i think it's a shameful episode of the united states congress, and has echoes of mccarthyism. and every american ought to be concerned, because they are eroding rights that are enshrined in the constitution of the united states. >> all right, congressman connolly, thank you for your time. >>

and why elijah cummings exploded after darrell issa adjourned the hearing. you'll see this when "the five" returns. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. >>> she refused to answer lawmakers' questions last year on her targeting of conservative groups in the irs, and today, lois lerner was back and pled the fifth again. >> do you believe that there is not a smidgen of corruption in the irs targeting of conservatives? >> on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. >> i can see no point in going further. i have no expectation that ms. lurner will cooperate with this committee. >> chairman darrell issa adjourned the hearing when lerner wouldn't t

before we leave, a little bit more from elijah cummings.ten. >> -- instead, the lying of the results section of his report says that it began with employees in cincinnati who, i quote, developed and used inappropriate criteria to identify applications from organizations with the words tea party in their names, end of quote. our committee confirmed this fact when we interviewed a screening group manager from cincinnati. this manager explained that his employees were the ones who first came up with the inappropriate search terms in 2010. he denied any political motivation and he made his point by explaining that he is a, quote, conservative republican. i released the entire interview transcript eight months ago for anyone who wants to read it for themselves. the inspector general's report also found that ms. lerner did not discover use of these criteria until a year later in 2011. when she learned about them, and i quote again from the report, ms. lerner immediately directed that the criteria be changed, end of quote. mr. george's chief inves

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this is bigger than elijah cummings. he has brought dishonor on the house of representatives of which all of russ members. he is a person that believes in fiction. we believe in fax. if he thinks he has not violated the rules, then he needs to read them. he has done everything possible to try to make it seem as though elijah is the bad guy. but he is the bad guy. and at some point, the entire country will see it, because if he continues his witch-hunt, if he continues to make up facts, people are going to see him for who he is. and until he does that, until we do that, we will have lost any credibility at the house of representatives if we cannot reprimand and discipline our own. >> well, let me play some of the tape of what he did. let the country see some of it now. this is some more of the actual actions that was taken by chairman issa on yesterday. >> therefore we adjourn. >> chairman, chairman, i have a statement. i have a procedural question, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i have a procedural question. >> we've adjour

joining me now is the congressman involved here, elijah cummings of maryland.nd david corn joins me from mother jones. let's start with the far right's obsession of the irs which erupted into one of the most dramatic scenes you will see in a congressional hearing room. it started with oversight committee chairman representative darrell issa recalling lois lerner to the witness stand after she previously took the fifth. in a hearing last may. she took the fifth again today, but not before issa made a spectacle by berating her. she didn't answer any of the questions. when the ranking member of the committee, our guest elijah cummings, tried to interject, issa literally cut off his microphone and declared the hearing over. >> ladies and gentlemen, seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee. i can see no point in going further. i have no expectation that ms. lerner will cooperate with this committee and therefore we stand adjourned. >> mr. chairman, i have a statement. i have procedural question, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i have a procedural question.

secuela de "300" el film tan taquillero del 2007, y tambiÉn vuelve el "lion king", y por Último, elijahrtido en dios. llega "mr p-body and sherman",es un cientÍfico, que ademÁs es un perro, y se adentra a la mÁquina del tiempo para conocer a los eventos que han cambiado el mundo y conocer los giros de la historia, pero estos dos hÉroes se encuentra en una carrera para cambiar el futuro. "en el gran piano", elijah wood, es el pianista, talentos de su generaciÓn que ha dejado de dar conciertos por su miedo escÉnico, aÑos después regresa a chicago, encuentra un mensaje escrito que dice, si fallas una sola nota, morirÁs. y les tenemos el adelanto de la nueva pelÍcula de arnold. y en el estrenos de blue ray y dvd esta semana, "nebraska" y "saving mr banks", dos buenas razones para quedarse en casa. >> les recordamos que los llevamos a la hola que tal, le saluda ilia calderon la patrulla fronteriza emitio nuevas directrices que dicen que solo cuando peligren sus vidas, podran sus agentes disparar a vehiculos en movimiento o a personas que lancen piedras. y hoy se realizaron nuevas marchas en

we'll ask the man who got into that heated altercation last week, congressman elijah cummings is here live. >>> over a year after the mysterious death of a georgia teenager, his classmates are subpoenaed, and it's been a while, but nice try, mitt romney. we got you ahead. stay with us. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. >>> he should apologize publicly for cutting off a congressman's microphone. but wait until you hear what congressman issa is saying today, next. clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line, anytime, for $15 a month. low dues, great terms. let's close! new at&t mobile share value plans our best value plans ever for business. but we're not staying in the kitchen. just star

and angry outburst from elijah cummings. good morning, everyone. chairman isa adjourned the meeting. since when has china's military spending made headlines? since today. the defense budget going up just as the president scaled back here. look at this, it is not real. it is another buzz creator. back to reality. "varney & company" about to begin. ♪ >> what exactly wanted to fix the problem caused by citizen united. what exactly does that mean? would you please turn the mic on. >> my counsel has advised me that i have not waived my constitutional rights under the fifth amendment. under his advise, i decline to comment. >> you will not tell us who wants to fix the problem. >> on the advice of my counsel, i exercise my fifth amendment right. >> ladies and gentlemen, seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee. i see no point in going further. i have no expectation that lois lerner will cooperate with this committee. >> may i ask my question? >> you are all free to leave, but the gentleman may ask his question. stuart: that was intense. it wa

. >> reporter: a cross walk should be a safety zone, but for elijah, it's a danger zone. now, to make drivers pay attention and help save lives. whenever there is a free moment, karena men doze disa goes to visit her son. >> he would have been four years old. >> >> reporter: the super hero legend lives on in wilted balloons and rain soaked toys a growing memorial to elijah, hit and killed while walking in the crosswalk last november. >> i just want to start crying. because, it does hurt. it hurts a lot. >> reporter: scene >> take time on your driving, don't be in a hurry. >> she points out other people have cried crossing bay area streets since her son's death. >> we are not safe. >> reporter: preventable accidents -- she doesn't want another parent to experience >>> everyone is in a hurry. it seems like people don't care. but they should care. you never know if it will happen to them one of these days. >> reporter: while we have been here, other people have told us there are other pedestrian accidents at other cross walks in this area. the take three to see campaign has

in the middle of elijah cummings speaking, he didn't like the direction that the speech was going. i guess he thought he was giving a speech rather than a question. >> he was giving a speech. to be fair, he had a point to make. >> but it's not up to the chairman. >> why did he think it was better to put on that scene there of looking like a dictator rather than letting mr. cummings make his point. it will be in the paper the next day, but you can live with it. >> his brand at this point is standing up to democrats. >> i see. >> standing up to the president is the way that he has cast a national figure. he is a huge fundraiser. second biggest fundraiser in the house. he was just in new hampshire. so he has become a national figure this way. so this is an extension of standing up to democrats. >> you know, it strikes me, congresswoman, that darrell issa wanted to be a u.s. senator. spent a ton of money, over $20 million in a fruitless campaign out there. knew he would never get to be a senator. so decided he is going to be a hotshot house member. he is going to be an investigator, th

elijah cummings has been there long enough to understand the rules of the committee.e rules. i thought chairman aissa went ot of his way. he didn't want to answer, he wanted to pontificate and is now using this as a way to distract from the real issue, which is what is lois lerner covering up and what crime did she commit? >> let me correct one thing, first, for tyler. invoking the fifth amendment gives no presumption of any guilt on any level. that's what the right against self incrimination really is. i want to sort of correct you on that. and on the other side of this, saying that elijah cummings did not have the right to say exactly what he wanted to say, he didn't have to ask a question, didn't have to say something that maybe issa would approve of, he had the right to say what he wanted to say. >> rick, if i can, because there's been a lot going on at cpac, speakers have been having some fun at the democrats' expense and, of course, president obama is a favorite target. let's take a listen. >> we have a president who believed by the sheer force of his personalit

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. >> reporter: during the funeral, the family says officials from elijah bell funeral home stopped the>> i see them coming. they took the casket back out of the hole and went in and the other one pulled up and brought our baby out and put him out there. >> reporter: relatives caught workers on camera carrying a white casket that appears if you look closely to be covered with a pink blank kit for a baby girl's funeral. >> actually had the service, they buried the girl. they brought the little girl's back out, brought my nephew in. switched caskets. he took the casket out, put it in the hearse. >> reporter: as family members continue to snap pictures and take video of what's happening, they say elijah bell staffers made an intensive request. >> they weren't sure the baby was ours and they had open the casket and verify the babies. >> reporter: we confronted elijah bell, the owner of the business but he did not want to comment on camera. he did tell us every story has two side. he says the original casket was empty which is how the family says it feels mourning the loss of a child in a mi

whereas the committee's ranking member, representative elijah e. cummings, had his turn for can hes. whereas chairman issa then quickly adjourned the hearing and refused to allow him to make any statement or ask any questions. whereas ranking member cummings protested immediately, stating, mr. chairman, you cannot run a committee like this. you just cannot do this. this is -- we are better than that. as a country we are better than that, as a committee. whereas then chairman issa returned and allowed ranking member cummings to begin his statement but had it became clear mr. issa didn't want to hear what member cummings said, turned off ranking member cummings' microphone, repeatedly signaled to and he the hearing with his hand across his neck. whereas ranking member cummings objected again stating, you cannot have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that. whereas chairman issa made a statement of his own and posed questions during the hearing but refused to allow other members of the committee and in particular the r

i want to play elijah cummings talking about the extent of investigations that have already happened.a listen. >> we have now interviewed 38 irs employees, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the irs have been reviewed. $14 million plus and counting in man-hours have been expended in addressing the various investigations with regard to the irs. >> people are going to look at the tape that we played at the top of the show, what happened in that committee and they're going to say, this is partisan rancher, this is polarization, and this is basically both sides doing it. one guy cuts the mic, the other guy shouting into the mic. what do you say to people who see this, two sides yelling at each other, equally to blame for this situation? >> good question. the answer is, you have to understand house rules provide for both sides to have equal time. and so ranking member cummings was supposed to have five minutes to make a statement or ask questions or both. and it was just astonishing to see the chairman, mr. issa not only cut him off but physically reach over and push the butt

. >> here was reaction, fox news political analyst juan williams, i wish elijah cummings, juan, would have had the same passion for those who were victims of the government and targeted by president obama, and dick durbin were all sending messages to go after these 501(c)(4) groups. i wish he had that passion back then? >> wait a second, they have had 16 hearings on this topic before today, sean, 16. how many hearings, and they have not come up with one smidgen of evidence. >> let me help you out, maybe lois lerner can tell us all the truth since she has nothing to hide. if there was not a smidgen, why did she apologize to the american people about the scandal? she actually said she was apologizing for it. number two, they blame rogue agents in cincinnati, and we find out this is happening all over the country, and the agents say they were taking directions from washington. >> what did lois lerner say in the e-mail? not about political activity. and what do we know about the justice department independent investigations besides the congress, nothing has not been found yet. what we hav

congressman ee elijah cummings just reacting this morning to what happened with darrell issa.e said a short time. >> they were counter productive, house republicans abandoned responsible oversight by repeatedly declining to take basic investigative steps promoting unnecessary political conflict and making false claims about the white house. last year before the committee received any documents on any of the interviewed any witnesses, chairman issa claimed on national television, i quote this was a targeting of the president's political enemies effectively and lies about it during the election year, end of quote. >> we'll have much more from congressman elijah cummings. the congressional black caucus sent a letter to speaker boehner, calling him on to remain issa as chairman of the house oversight committee. he held his daily briefing and he believes issa acted within the roles of his role as chairman. this saturday is the 106th international women's day, give the world an opportunity to celebrate how far women have come in closing the gender gap and how far we still have to go

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elijah cummings, who you saw there so outraged actually called what happened to him, quote, un-american. look, the house of representatives, the way it's set up, the power structure, the majority party does rule and they do rule on these committees, but it's very unlikely you would see somebody that outraged after a microphone being cut off because their microphone wouldn't be cut off. usually the ranking member has an opportunity to voice the democratic side of something like this. folks say the reason issa cut off the mic because he was angry with lois lerner because she had given a private deposition describing her accusations of the irs, but her counsel said no, she didn't have to, she wanted immunity from prosecution, they were not able to offer her that, so now this goes into, tamron, a situation where house speaker john boehner said earlier today they could possibly hold lois lerner in contempt of congress. what that means, obviously, we'll have to see how this plays out, but it gets to what has become a political wedge issue ahead of the 2014 midterms. republicans view the irs s

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cut off a congressman like elijah cummings. >> you can not have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that. and that was it? nope. >> mr. cummings said he had questions to ask. >> the chairman defended his decision to cut off proceedings. >> the former irs director -- >> he knew precisely that lawrence learner was go i think to feed the fifth. >> issa on "fox news sunday" said she's willing to testify. >> her attorney indicates now she will testify. >> we understand that she is again pleading the fifth. >> i'm so tired of lois lerner and the fifth amendment and cummings and all of this. >> we know what she did. what we don't know is why she did it. >> do you know what happened? do you know what the irs did? >> okay. when is the last time that this happened in a congressional hearing? >> ladies and gentlemen, seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee. i can see no point in going further. i have no expectation that ms. lerner will cooperate with us. >> mr. chairman, i have a procedural question. mr. chairman, i have a procedural quest

we now have congressman elijah cummings on the phone., the let hear was written by chairman issa also says that mrs. lerner of the irs knew that the committee rejected her privileged objection and consequently risked contempt should we persist in refusing to answer the committee's questions. can i ask you, sir is that issue still in dispute as far as you are concerned? thank you for joining us. >> let me be clear. i received the response. as far as i'm concerned, it is not -- it is not my opinion. it is opinion of martin rosenberg who spent 45 years, and has written books on this subject and is an expert, he says you have to do two things. the case law is clear. number one, chairman issa demand an answer and when that -- when the -- when lois lerner asserted her right under the fifth amendment, he had to overrule her objection and then he had to do the second thing -- he had to demand she answer the question. chairman issa was so busy trying to adjourn the meeting that he did not follow the law. this is not even close. that's why, you kn

martha: just to remind -- elijah couple cans very upset. darrell issa says she is taking the fifth and we are done. elijah cummings is continuing. >> the very first line ... let's listen to darrell issa. >> we had a hearing today in the committee in which we asked miss learner whose lawyer indicated under certain conditions she would testify. she chos testify. after an exhaustive 7 questions i determined that she was not under any circumstances going to testify. and pursuant to an already completed hearing other than her testimony, i adjourned. at this point we'll continue our investigation into the irs targeting of conservative groups. without the testimony of miss lerner. are there any questions? there were no -- he was not directing questions for the witness. and th the committee had already adjourned. pursuant to the committee we recessed only to determine whether or not we could get her to give testimony. once it was determined she would not give testimony there was no question before us. mr. cummings did not raise a point of privilege

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. >>> remember last week's flare-up between darrell issa and e elijah cummings?ficial lois lerner pleaded the fifth, issa abruptly adjourned the hearing, cutting off the ranking member's microphone to prevent him from asking a question. because this is darrell issa that we are talking about he then took to the airwaves to defend himself. >> the fact is that i did things according to the rules. i followed a script. then mr. cummings decided to have quite a hissy fit. >> when it became clear to mr. issa that he may not have done things according to the rules he apologized to mr. cummings who accepted his apology. today that whole i did things according to the rules defense seems even shakier. in a letter to house speaker john boehner last night congressman cummings backed by two constitutional law experts charged that amid all the confusion issa committed a fatal procedural error and failed to meet the prerequisites required by the supreme court to hold a witness in contempt. holding lois lerner in contempt of congress has literally been the whole point of darrell

i want to play one more time congressman elijah cummings.he question of whether or not the hearing was political, i think congressman cummings got to the heart of the discussion. let's listen and come back. >> i am a member of the congress of the united states of america! i am -- >> well -- >> we have members over here who represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation! there is absolutely something wrong with. that that is absolutely un-american. hear, hear! >> and dana millbank, you were in the hearing room. is this what the committee has descended to, or are we seeing the breakdown starting now over the irs issue? or is this something that's been building for a long time? >> darrell issa is right that it's bipartisan in the sense that one party was protesting on the other party was unplugging the sound familiar, if that's his definition of bipartisanship. this is a further deterioration of how things have gone over not just with the irs but with benghazi, with all the things darrell issa has done. and in each cas

you are almost as nice and polite as elijah cummings himself. i appreciate that. i am here merely to point out on the committee that i have been on longer than anybody else, on the judiciary committee. it is beginning to show a little bit of partisanship. and one of the things that is disturbing to me is that we get bills that are clearly going nowhere, that the senate probably has a stack of bills from the house judiciary, the senate judiciary committee, in which they point out that they have no intention of taking them up. we keep sending them frequently tired old bills, limiting abortion rights, sometimes bashing immigrants, taking it easy on corporate polluters and other wrongdoers. and we are considering even today another anti-regulatory bill that will force agencies to prioritize speed over safety. we are hoping that we can discontinue this democracy suspended business and urge our chairman to discontinue obstructing the legislative process and sometimes ignoring the priorities of the american people. thank you. >> it is great to be here with my colleagues

and, you know, the great irony, chris, is that our ranking member for the democrats is elijah cummingsut of maryland and mr. cummings started off when lois learner first came to testify in congress and when -- actually when it was russell george who showed up last year with his detailed report about unfair targeting of certain political groups, mr. cummings was outraged and he expressed his outrage vociferously and he was ready to rain down hellfire on whoever was doing this at the irs. >> that's an excellent point. a lot of people -- we on this network i remember doing the show that night. the initial indications were something truly, truly screwed up happened there and the question was how far up it went. i think it's been -- i want to play elijah cummings, congressman cummings, talking about the extent of investigations that have already happened. take a listen. >> we have now interviewed 38 irs employees, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from irs have been reviewed, $14 million plus and counting in man hours have been extended in addressing the various investigations wit

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he reached out to elijah cummings. elijah cummings said i forgive you, let's move forward.y have a bit of legislation they are going to be working on together so they had to get it together for something to happen. apologies are there. forgiveness seems to be in play. what everyone is wondering is will we ever main info here. we have lois lerner taking the fifth for the second time and where was the mainstream media? we looked at it. not one story covering the i.r.s. scandal here. they might not want to know about it, but guess what. americans do. >> if you look tenet work evening -- if he look at the network evening newscast none of them mentioned the i.r.s. scandal. they didn't mention lois lerner going to capitol hill and pleading the fifth nor did they mention anything to do with i.r.s. >> my former employees at nbc did spend some time talking about that spat between darrell issa and elijah cummings but they didn't talk about the bigger picture issue which is has the i.r.s. been abusing its power in going overboard to investigate and harass conservative and tea party gr

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darryl isa tried to adjourn the meeting but maryland democrat elijah cummings, was not ready. >> we may all adjourn. the gentleman may ask his question. >> i have one procedural question and it may be letting you get your information. >> what is your question? >> let me say what i have to say, i've listened to you for the last 15 to 20 minutes. let me say what i have to say. >> ms. lerner you are released. >> i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. >> well -- >> we have members over here each of represent 700,000 people. can you not just have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that and it is absolutely unamerican. >> the committee chairman eventually left the room but elijah cummings stayed and kept talking. >>> one of the coldest snowiest winters in memory has put a cloud over the fishing industry in the graicts. ash-har quraishi has the story. >> for more than 50 years, the family has been processing fish caught on the midwest and the great lakes. >> we are handling upwards of a million pounds of fish a week.

elijah from chicago said i'm elijah. it's really snowy down here. i spent the last few days inside making you a loom creation. i included extra white bands in case the loom suit doesn't fit you. pss i hope you enjoy it the most. pppss, covering all bases there, don't worry in sochi. ppssss i've never been to hollywood, we could do a segment where i teach you how to make it. and this one, my mom said i had to make you a loom for your loom suit. i made you a bow tie. my mom said you don't wear bo ties but i don't know how to make regular ones. plus that would take too many of my rubber bands. and my mom said she won't spend that much on jimmy kimmel. kayla. your generosity knows many bounds. i want to thank all the kids who participated. and their parents, too. i also want to thank our wardrobe department. they were working really all day and all night putting this thing together. it was a terrible job. i'm pretty sure they all want to kill me right now. but please know right now, each and every one of my body hairs is caught in a rubber band simultan

but the room erupted when democrat elijah cummings objected.got worse when chairman issa cut off the microphones, watch this. >> seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee, i have no expectation that ms. lerner will cooperate with this committee, and therefore we stand adjourned. >> chairman, i have a statement, i have a procedural question, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i have a procedural question. mr. chairman, you cannot run a committee like this. you just cannot do this. this is -- we're better than that as a country. we're better than that as a committee. >> may i ask my question? state my statement? >> you're all free to leave, but the gentleman may ask his question. >> no, let me say what i have to say. i have listened to you for the last 20 minutes. >> ms. lerner, you're free to leave. >> but first, i would like to make some brief points. for the past year -- >> we're adjourned. >> close it down. >> against the white house. >> before our o-- single document. >> when i -- if you will sit down and allow me to ask a question, i a

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. >> good feelings do not runneth over between congressman elijah cummings and congressman darrell issaiously. that fact has been illustrated over many months and many hearings of the house oversight committee of which darrell issa is the chairman and elijah cummings is the top democrat. now, chairman darrell issa did end up apologizing to congressman cummings for cutting him off, but only after a motion to censure darrell issa for his conduct in that moment had been floated in the house. well, it became clear today that house democrats are not accepting the apology. and so 5:45 p.m. today, c-span was filled with this rather remarkable spectacle of house democrats wielding their ipads, wielding their phones showing that cut him off moment and calling for an official condemnation of congressman darrell issa's behavior. >>> debunktion junction what's my junction? president obama did something in terms of degrading the dignity hey, buddy? oh, hey, flo. you want to see something cool? snapshot, from progressive. my insurance company told me not to talk to people like you. you always do what