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joining me is congressman elijah cummings.ks for joining me. >> it's good to be with you. >> i want to get your reaction to what we heard from the republicans this week. it strikes me they're always talking in piecemeal approaches, that they're trying to separate people out and pit people get each other and taking a piecemeal approach remember than a holistic appropriation to the war on poverty. >> first of all, they're trying to say that the war on poverty was not successful. nothing could be further from the truth. if we look at a program as significant as medicare. when you think about medicare, karen, 50 years ago 50% of our seniors had no health care coverage. none. and today just about every one of them have it. it's become part of the fabric of our country. when you look at food stamps and look at medicaid, all of these things have been a part of helping people avoid poverty and move into the middle class. i think basically there's a cruel joke being played here and that is that they are saying that these programs have

. >> inside, congressman elijah cummings consoled two shattered mall visitors. >> we have to not let the violence stop us from doing the things we normally do. >> just before the 1:00 p.m. reopening, hundreds of employees entered together after a meeting inside a theater, most were solemn and carrying flowers. inside, zumiez, the store where benlolo and johnson were senselessly gunned down is now boarded wop a simple white memorial wall acknowledging the tragedy. >> we wanted to be here to show our respects to the victims. but also to let the community know that the mall is open and we're going to go back about our lives. >> get back to normal. >> for it to happen in your own backyard, a place you go to on a regular basis, it's just very surreal. >> governor martin o'malley visiting the mall today saying visiting and shopping here in the next few days and weeks should be viewed as a sign of solidarity with all of those here in the columbia community who have been touched by this tragedy. reporting live at the reopened columbia mall, scott broom, wusa9. >> all right, scott. police say

. >> reporter: inside congress nan elijah cummings consoled two shattered mall visitors. cummings bought a sandwich and talked about moving forward. >> we've got to not let the violence stop us us from doing the things we normally do. >> reporter: hundreds of employees entered together. after a meeting inside a theater most were solemn carrying flowers. inside zumies, the store where johnson and benlolo were senselessly gunned down is simply boarded up with a white memorial wall acknowledging the tragedy and thanking first responders and community for support. at the fountain a quiet area for employees to drop flowers in the water and spine a condolence book. -- and sign a condolence book. the 1 p.m. opening was led by ken ulman. >> we wanted to show our respect to the victims and also let the community know the mall is open and we're going back about our lives. >> reporter: soon governor martin o'malley visited with a similar message as the mall came back to life. >> i want tone courage everybody to stop by, if you -- to encourage everybody to stop by, if you, can someti

for more on this let me e bring in maryland congressman elijah cummings. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you, ed. >> what is class warfare? from your perspective, what is it? >> it's certainly not what mr. perkins is talking about. when you have a situation, ed, where so many people in the middle class are working harder and harder and making less and unable -- and finding themselves into the lower-income brackets and the poor just suffering tremendously while the rich are getting richer, that's a major problem. and as far as i'm concerned, i agree with you, that's where the warfare is. and a lot of people forget that you need a thriving middle class. they're the engine of society, the ones who are going to buy those cars, the ones who are going to buy household products and things of that nature to keep the economy going. so we all ought to be concerned about our middle class and those in the lower economic rung of the ladder. now, there's one other thing, ed. keep in mind that over 20-year period a person in poverty at that lower run

. >> maryland congressman elijah cummings is a ranking member of the house oversight committee and joins congressman, thank you very much for being with us a day after the state of the union. is the minimum wage your biggest takeaway as to what will help your constituents the most, if he can do this? >> yeah, certainly the minimum wage would be very significant, because if we're able to accomplish that, automatically we will bring about five million people out of poverty, and that's a good thing. but at the same time, one of the other things that we have to do too right at the moment is try to address this issue of unemployment insurance, because i've got a lot of people in my district that i talk to every day who have worked for many, many years and haven't missed a day, and now they're unemployed and they really have no place to go financially. and so it's kind of tough. >> i mean, the president tried to make that point with one of the first lady's guests last night, a hard-working couple. >> yes. >> and made the point that this is not just one part of the country, or one ethnic group.

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. >> inside, congressman elijah cummings consoled two shattered mall visitors. >> we have to not letthe violence stop us from doing the things we normally do. >> just before the 1:00 p.m. reopening, hundreds of employees entered together after a meeting inside a theater, most were solemn and carrying flowers. inside, zumiez, the store where benlolo and johnson were senselessly gunned down is now boarded wop a simple white memorial wall acknowledging the tragedy. >> we wanted to be here to show our respects to the victims. but also to let the community know that the mall is open and we're going to go back about our lives. >> get back to normal. >> for it

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. >> and two were hugged by elijah cummings of baltimore when they said they were friends with the murder victim tyler johnson. and governor martin o'malley said, we are all in this together. >> i wanted to be here, i suppose as a symbol of the fact that everyone in maryland is with people of columbia today, and the county executive said that he'd like to see me come out or wanted to see all of us come out to the columbia mall to show our solidarity. >> reporter: life is not back to normal or business as usual here, but the people who come here regularly to shop, eat, walk around in the winter months wanted to return as soon as possible after the weekend tragedy. >> the mall is safe. columbia is safe, and howard county is safe, an unfortunately, we were the victim of and random act, and that hopefully will never happen again anywhere. >> reporter: well, today, i spoke with some store employees who were here on saturday when the shooting broke out. they were literally scared to death, and i asked them, did you have any hesitation? were you fearful coming back going inside, and i will have

joining me will be senator roger wicker and congressman elijah cummings among others. at what's next on "news nation." >> coming up, more on the state of the union address and the warning that he'll work with congress when he can, but will bypass lawmakers if necessary. congresswoman marcia fudge will join us. plus, a new york hospital is responding after a man was found dead in an e.r. waiting room eight hours after his arrival. we'll talk to a doctor who says the system is failing to support emergency rooms. >>> and how young is too young for colleges to recruit athletes? michael will weigh in on a growing concern despite rules from the ncaa to protect young athletes. it is our "news nation" topic of the day. >>> and our "gut check." beyonce's grammy performance with her hubby. some people are saying it went too far. we're going to tell you how you can weigh in. has the most coverage? this isn't real difficult... pretty obvious to me. i'm going to have to say verizon. verizon. that's right! the choice is obvious. verizon's superfast 4g lte is more reliable and in mor

a lot of public officials including the united states congress machine, elijah cummings dropped by theare trying to show support for the stores and the businesses. business as usual is returning to the columbia mall. none the less, the authorities really would like to get to the bottom of why. >> thank you very much. now to this one out of texas. they resurfaced after dropping out of sight. the representative from texas missed a lot of votes this year. now he is back and blasting the media for wondering where he has been. you are on this one for us today. this is a head scratcher. it's not often a member of the statehouse. do we know where he has been? >> he has been in russia, egypt and israel. we are trying to see if anyone can give us more answers on this. himself and his staff and relatives and members of the house foreign affairs committee, so far all we have gotten is a news release today from the campaign office, at what pointing the media. the congressman returned today from a 10-day official visit to egypt, israel and russia. he said with state department officials, the press

face the nation with florida republican senator marco rubio and maryland democratic congressman elijah cummingsrsey assemblyman also. young c-span radio and brought to you as a public service by the networks and c-span. three broadcast will begin at noon eastern with "meet the press." " fox news sunday." you can listen to them all on c-span radio. 90.1 fm in the washington area. across the country, you can find us on channel 120. download our free app on the smartphone. or go online at c-span.org. >> i think that there is a way in which we have set up this impossible series of expectations. especially for president. for elected officials us our whole, the state will come in and save the day. one it does not happen, we give congress a 90% approval rating and the president a 30% approval rating. the expectations have to be lowered. that is part of what is really quite amazing about the american founding. it is not that the founders themselves that do not expect much from government. it is that government it will not be the main driver of our liberty. it will be civil society. the federal governme