and elijah cummings has now rope a doped darrell issa into an exquisite trap.just a beautiful thing. just beautiful. june 13th, 2013. the honorable darrell issa, chairman, he has to say honorable. that is you know what they say to each other. it is just perfect. the first paragraph begins as it must with the usual formality that places it in the sequence of their corresponding. and the public's right to know everything about everything. congressman cummings writes this in the first paragraph. i am writing in response to your letter of june 11th, 2013 regarding your recent objection to releasing the full transcripts on the committee staff and employees, okay, has to do that to set up the letter. then the jewel, specifically, i am writing to seek clarification of your position and to request that you identify the specific text of the transcripts that you believe should be withheld from the american public. darrell issa is now the champion of withholding information from the american public about what happened at the irs, elijah cummings has cornered darrell issa

elijah cummings, the ranking, say the case is closed. is it? >> it is not. and i think mr. cumming would be the first to tell you he spoke unartfully. can't tell you what he meant. what he said in subsequent interviews he has backed off a bit. >> nothing to tone down the rhetoric. a volley of letters between congressman cummings and chairman issa. topic is somewhat different. congressman issa wants all the transcripts from the people who work in ohio released? >> your honor the rule of completeness, he would be right. you were the rule of completion. but we're not in court. police can legally used art i physician and deception. not suggesting anyone would do that. a big difference between vest fwags and court proceeding. mr. cumming is speaking in terms of transparency, openness, and adjudicatory process. and mr. cumming thinks we won't subject people to humiliation and resolution. police may released a profile or may not. refer in defense of what congressman cummings saying, he also added he would be willing to redact or take ta out or eliminate information that might be h

congressman elijah cummings, ranking democrat on the house oversight committee.

. >> that's elijah cummings the senior democratic on the committee chaired by darrell issa. elijah cummings is daring the chairman to release the transcripts of interviews the committee staff has done with irs workers in the cincinnati office where a 501c-4 applications were processed. darrell issa has previously quoted very selectively from those interviews but he has refused to publicly release those interviews. among the facts darrell issa has refused to release but congressman cummings has now revealed, the irs manager who supervised the team of screeners that evaluates applications for tax-exempt status in cincinnati has 21 years of experience at the irs, and he described himself to the republican committee staff as "a conservative republican." the irs manager also said, "i do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency in identifying cases that needed to have further development." when asked if he was aware of any political motivations behind the screenings, screening centralizing and development of tea party cases, he said h

last sunday in response to issa's selected disclosures, elijah cummings relations other parts of the transcripts that directly contradict issa's assertions. and cummings vows to release the full transcripts if issa won't. that same day issa changes his tune saying he won't release any transcripts. attacks cummings as reckless. yesterday cummings called issa's actions hypocritical giving him a monday deadline, this coming monday to review the transcripts before the release. on the heels of the cummings letter, issa is widening his probe in addition to the 1 interviews he's done, his committee identifies 20 more officials for future interviews. he keeps interviewing. it's a fishing expedition. has he got any hope or is he just playing for time here? >> at this point it looks like he's playing for time. the important thing is what cummings wants to release is the interview in cincinnati with an irs official who is a self-described conservative republican who says i'm the one who started this. so cummings -- - >> i'm the one who said target the tea party and the patriot groups. >> let's g

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last sunday in response to issa's selected disclosures, elijah cummings relations other parts of the contradict issa's assertions. and cummings vows to release the full transcripts if issa won't. that same dais sa says he won't release any transcripts and attacks cummings as reckless. yesterday cummings called issa's actions hypocritical giving him a monday deadline.top review the transcripts before they're released. on the heels of the cummings letter, issa is widening his probe in addition to the 1 interviews he's done, his committee identifies 20 more officials for future interviews. he keeps interviewing. it's a fishing expedition. has he got any hope or is he just playing for time here? >> at this point it looks like he's playing for time. the important thing is what cummings wants to release is the interview in cincinnati with an irs official who is a self-described conservative republican who says i'm the one who started this. socum mings. >> i'm the one who said target the tea party and the patriot groups. >> let's give these guys -- if that's true, then the scandal couldn't h

congressman elijah cummings joins us now. sir, this is so amazing because this wild goose chase is what it looks like now that supposedly led all the way to the white house although issa never gets you all the way there. he says i'm working on that one. i just claimed. and now he's calling you. what's your phrase for your latest one, you're extreme and reckless in your assertions, and all you're doing is quoting the witness he refused to acknowledge which is the guy in charge who said i did it because it was a way to do things for consistency's sake. and we got no leadership. i'm a conservative republican. >> that's right. and you know, chris, this is a witness that was called for ar inquiry by the republicans, republicans and democrats sat in on the inquiry and this gentleman said you know, i was the one who actually sent cases, a case up to washington. apparently what happened is he was -- he had screeners under him. in other words, that worked for him. one of the screeners came to him in february of 2010 and says look, bos

. >> elijah cummings says it is time to close the case. >> based upon everything i have seen the case is solved. if it were me i would wrap this case up and move on to be frank with you. >> that prompted house over site committee to rebut. i strongly disagree with ranking member cummings assertion we know everything we need to know about inappropriate targeting of tea party groups by the irs and the case is in his words, solved. his extreme reckless assertions is true motivation is stopping congressional oversight he has no motivation to expose the full truth. >>> after a wet weekend we could see more heavy rain and possible flooding again today. >> we saw a lot of heavy rainy specially on friday along the east coast from parts of florida all of the way up to sections of new england they are already on the move today. another round of heavy rain across the great lakes into the northeast eventually later on today and parts of the southeast. this storm system is headed eastbound. a lot of moisture with it and that's why we are expected to see a lot of heavy rain 2-3 inches locally of he

they set the bar so high, even elijah cummings say there's nothing to see here, it doesn't clear themanything, it actually just raises more questions. >> doesn't it play towards the nsa thing, government overreach, they're one class of people and everyone else, they can stretch the patriot act to the way they like it or stretch the irs to the way they like it. it feels like intrusive overreach of government. >> it is. >> how do you account for the fact that it is obama scandal? >> which one. >> the irs. >> two agents said we got it from d.c. >> wow, really? >> we have a contradiction, we have somebody that's a manager there who's conservative republican who said he sent it forward. >> now it is conservatives want to have it investigated? i don't know. >> it was a conservative conspiracy? to target conservatives. >> and you were smart enough not to see it. >> blame the victim. >>> did george zimmerman shoot trayvon martin in self defense or was it murder? one of the most highly anticipated trials of the year started today. kimberly has been watching it all, will tell us what happened w

elijah cummings, is congressman elijah cummings, a democrat of maryland.ternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> i wonder if you could give us your response to the president's appointment of a known liar, susan rice, as his national security adviser, because that's how she has been repeatedly described by your colleague on the house oversight committee, mr. darrell issa. >> first of all, i think it's unfortunate that chairman issa would use such words for a, an awesome lady. who has served as our u.n. ambassador, did an outstanding job. absolutely brilliant candidate for the national security adviser. and so, but you know, fact is, that she's done a great job. and i thought she got just, i thought she was treated very unfairly when it came to the secretary of state position. but clearly, the president knows that he can rely on her for very good advice. he knows her history, he knows her to be very competent. and i've known her for many years, and have relied on her advice, and she is absolutely an excellent choice. and i'll do everything in my power to

but on on tuesday, congressman elijah cummings released the full transcript to the press. it proved conclusively that issa was right. to not want the transcript released. jim? >> a cincinatti-based i.r.s. manager who describes himself as a conservative republican told congressional investigators there was no evidence that the white house was involved in targeting conservative groups. >> stephen: god damn it. so this scandal is not connected to obama. i don't want to hear that. i want to hear tonight's word. [ cheers and applause ] truthinews. nation, listen. i don't know about you, but i do not watch the news to see what i don't want to hear. and i shouldn't have to. these days there's a news channel for everyone: conservatives have fox. liberals have msnbc, and the elderly who lost the remote in 1988 have headline news. now, cable networks have one cardinal rule. that rule is to tell their viewers what they want to hear. speaking of which, tune in tomorrow for my special report "have you lost weight?" and, folks, television news isn't only saying what you want to hear. th

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congressman elijah cummings, ranking democrat on the house oversight committee.thank you about this whole thing. you have produced today a lot of information, a lot of transcripts. tell us what they show about whether there was a scandal at

joining me now is democratic congressman elijah cummings, ranking member on the oversight committee,ber of the congressional black caucus. congressman, you've been a big critic of darrell issa. now his own party is worried about him. how can the ranking member of oversight get away with this constant crusade against the administration? >> well, i think he's not getting away with it, reverend. any time you have karl rove, joe scarborough, and john mccain expressing concern about these wild allegations, allegations, by the way, that are put out there but then with chairman issa then going -- trying to search for facts that he never seems to find, that's a concern to the republicans because they realize that it goes against the credibility of our committee and it goes against the credibility of our work product. reverend, i've said it over and over again. we've got to have truth and trust. unfortunately, when those statements are made, where you cannot back them up, as you've been talking about them today, it goes against the trust that people have in darrell issa and our committee. and

well, elijah cummings, your show, have proven that there is no scandal.candal may be the fact that you've got a chairman of a committee that sat on information that the public should have known. but to bring this up and then to say oh, his validity. people are still concerned about it. the man has been elected twice. by an overwhelming majority. nobody's concerned about it except these limbaugh, hannity wannabes who call themselves talk show hosts. and quite honestly i hate to say they're in the same profession we're in. >> one we keep seeing over and over again, it always kind of amuses me and angers me is the photoshopped conspiracies. right wingers claim this picture of his skeet shooting of him was photoshopped audiotape at said this was of the president holding a football, that was suspicious. there was the claim the president has been to to shopped with his grandparents. and you can still see his leg. and one conspiracy theirist thought the picture of the president in the situation room was mysterious claiming part of his ear was missing and his nec

joining me now, democratic congressman elijah cummings of maryland. thank you so much for your time. >> good to be with you. >> i think it was chuck todd who first said earlier today, or questioned whether or not this congress is, quote, mature enough, to make the correction curve the supreme court believes is necessary. what, obviously, he meant by that is we're watching, for example, immigration. it may get through the senate, but the house says it will block. and a number of other initiatives that have been brought before this unpopular congress. and to have basically floated away in the wind. what is your reaction to now that this is in the hands of congress? >> well, first of all, i believe that voting is a fundamental right and not just a privilege for a few people. in that light, looking at congress and the climate that we're in today, i think it's going to be a steep climb. if congress would just take a moment and step back to just 2006 when the voting rights act was reauthorized, we had 98 votes in the senate and a unanimous vote in the house

last week the committee's top democrat elijah cummings was here.d excerpts from other interviews that said that washington did not direct the targeting, but instead the cincinnati agents had singled out conservatives, not for political reasons, but to ensure the groups were treated equally. again, we worried and asked for all the interview transcripts. >> i'm willing to come on your show next week with the chairman, with the transcripts, if he agrees to do that. if he doesn't, i'll release them by the end of the week. >> this week brought sharply worded letters between cummings and issa but no transcripts from either. democrat cummings says he cannot release them because issa is the chairman, and issa says he cannot release them because it would be premature and damage the investigation. both offered to let us read the documents up on the hill, but we want you to read them too and understand the context. so we are where we were. still no definitive picture of who ordered the targeting of those conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. stay tun

yet, i had elijah cummings on here. he's ranking member on that committee. he has given us all the evidence he's been able to collect. maybe not enough. of course, we've listened to everything darrell issa and i have yet to hear one piece of evidence that anybody from the president's campaign, anybody from his team or camp broadly defined, anyone, male, female, had anything to do with the screw up over at the irs. why does mcconnell now blame him for that an as if he was somehow a puppeteer sending the messages -- you know doug shulman, republican holdover and lois lerner, all these other people, they're all au totally nonpartisan people. a lot of them happen to be republican, at least the pain guy was. why would anybody accuse the president of intimidating president of intimidating them into screwing the right wing? what evidence have you got? how about the answer to the question first. let's start with the -- i know this is a heat-chasing show. i love heat. let's start with facts. do we have a fact of a connection? >> well, as mitch mcconnell himself said

any way, thank you, congressman elijah cummings. great work for you. i think we've got this, at least so far it looks like this whiff of scandal is not even a whiff. anyway, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. >>> coming up on "hardball," whatever happened to the gop's plans to stay out of women trouble, going after women on issues where they better not have gone? house republicans this evening are voting to challenge roe v. wade again, this time by banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. they're closing the window on abortions, once again challenging the supreme court. guys, if you're trying to reclaim the middle in this country politically, don't leave out the women again. >>> also, defending surveillance. the head of the national security agency says stop worrying what we're up to. they've helped to thwart 50 terrorist attacks. that's a pretty good argument if they've got it. could some of those attacks, however, have been stopped without all this surveillance? maybe. that's what we're going to learn more about. but also, there mig

congressman elijah cummings, ranking democrat on the house oversight committee.ole thing. you have produced today a l

the news every day here and read the papers starting at 7:00 in the morning and yet i looked at elijah cummings. he has given us all the evidence he's been able to collect and, of course, we've listened to everything darrell issa the chair of the committee said and i have yet to hear one piece of evidence that anybody from the president's campaign anybody from his team or camp broadly defined, anyone male female had anything to do with the screwup over at the irs. so why does mcconnell now blame him for that as he were somehow a puppeteer sends the message doug schulman and lois lerner. and why would anybody intimidate the president? what evidence do you got? how about answering the question first. i know this is a heat-chasing show. i love heat but let's start with facts. do we have a fact of a connection? >> well, as mitch mcconnell said there's no evidence the president called over to the irs. >> let me go to the further quote. he talked about it being a coordinated campaign that led to this happening from the president. now what you saying here the president was involved in the irs mess or

we know this thanks to transcripts released by representative elijah cummings from the interviews he had with those people at the irs. like i said, all the evidence to date shows the white house has no involvement in the white house controversy. that didn't hold back mcconnell. take a listen here. >> what maps isn't whether they were doing it in washington or cincinnati. that's not what matters. or duluth. what matters is the culture of intimidation. the culture of intimidation this president and his allies created around any person or group that spoke up for conservatism. so, no, i don't believe the president ever picked up the phone and told somebody over at irs to slow walk these applications or audit anybody, but the truth is he didn't have to. he didn't have to do that. the message was clear enough. >> let me go to you on this, john. i don't know where you stand, but i have been -- i cover the news every day here. i read the papers in the morning starting at 7:00 in the morning. i read everything. he comes on, he's great member on that committee. he's given us all the evidence h

they ought to close the investigation and tell people what happened. >> thank god for elijah cummingshe's going to rat them out. apparently. howard, next question. >> i think -- i do think it's worth an investigation. and i also think if the republicans were looking for the way to play it best politically, darrell issa is not the way to play it. you need to do it more in sorrow than anger. you need to do it step by step. you need to build a case. you need to take a legal approach to it because on its face it's outrageous. you don't need to pound the table about the misbehavior in cincinnati. >> i'm going to clean up the mess at the irs. >> you don't need to overplay your hand. in terms of political theater, darrell issa has certainly done that. >> i think it's going to hurt anybody who believes in government because the irs is paying for the government with our money. thank you. >>> coming up, there's a new front line in the battle over sexual assaults in the u.s. military. the senate armed services committee is looking on legislation to help protect members of our military from abuse