and he ruled primarily, and if you talk with the ranking member, elijah cummings, often times, they neverhared information, witnesses that were not allowed, that the ranking member and democrats wanted to have come forth. he ran this thing with an iron hand -- >> and was very disrespectful. >> oh, yes. >> before going after the obama administration, congressman issa also attacked democrats serving on his committee. we all remember this. look at this. >> mr. chairman, i have a procedural question. 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're better than that as a committee. i have asked for a few minutes to -- now you're turning me off. the fact is that i am asking a question, i am a ranking member of this committee, and i want to ask a question. what are we hiding? what's the big deal? may i ask my question? may i make my statement? >> you're all free to leave, we've adjourned, but the gentleman may ask his question. >> he cut the mike on congressman elijah cummings. that's why i said he was also disres

. >> elijah cummings was beating him up in the beginning. most interesting and potentially significant part of the testimony today was what gruber actually didn't say. he didn't offer a serious explanation of what marah raised that he, you know, i had comments before the states don't get the subsidies if they don't set up the exchanges. people were looking to him plausible walk it back in a way that could be persuasive to the court. i mean, we like to think that the court isn't paying attention to these things, that they don't take political considerations into account when they're making their decisions but i think plainly we have seen that that's not the case and what gruber failed to do today was to repudiate those comments or put them in context that would have taken away political space for the court to do the right thing. >> the other person did there was the cms administrator marilyn tavenner who requested that she not sit next to gruber for this hearing. which was denied. she had previously testified 7.3 million people had signed up

i think elijah cummings is one of the smarter people in congress. has a wonderful manner.a, one of the dumbest. he should embrace the guy and say, thank you, you undermined obamacare, you're the best witness we've got. then he slams the guy who has just given him what cummings said was a pr gift all wrapped up. why is he so stupid? >> you got four different things going on here, four different players. gruber doing a goober, pretty much, rolling back on his statements. >> where's the derivation of that? >> gomer pile? >> and darrell issa wants to go out strong. and then you got democrats doing this midterm mea culpa. just go ahead and own it. >> the fact is, everybody knows a gaffe is when you say what you think and you think it's the truth. and obviously gruber was very eloquent in saying what was wrong with obamacare. >> many times. >> i think he should be a big hit at the republican convention. scoop him up there. >> it was the perfect christmas gift for the republicans, because we know it will be very difficult for republicans to appeal obamacare. here we have dr. grub

joining me now, elijah cummings, democrat from the house, who has some strong feelings about this. congressman, are there national solutions on capitol hill to the discontent being expressed that we're seeing right now? >> first of all, i think there is a tremendous amount of frustration. not only were the people who we're watching in new york protesting but all over this country. and yes, there are some things that we can do. and i think the president has begun to shine a light on these problems. keep in mind, chris, a lot of people when they heard about police misconduct said, oh, no, that can't be. can imagine. and so on a national -- from a national level, again, this whole push by the president for body cameras, i think that's a good idea. i think it's a good idea to do the task force. we need to look at things like these military weapons in neighborhoods and policing -- used by police in various communities. we need to look at diversity with regard to how does the d.o.j., can they have an impact on making sure that police departments are diverse. and borough president adams j

. >> democrat elijah cummings is critical of the way this report was handled, saying it is revealing that the republicans yet again are leaking cherry picked excerpts of documents to support their preconceived political narrative. meanwhile the budget was cut $345 million. agency leadership is warning there may be a delay in processing tax refunds and other services. >> there's going is to be a price to pay as there already are for the revenue that we're going to gain, irs enforcement is going to go down, the ability of taxpayers to get the assistance they need is going to be more difficult and things like that. >> reporter: critics say the agency should work on its efficiency. >> all that happens is it's going to the 2008 budget for the irs, perhaps they should try something like become more productive like the rest of the world does. >> the irs had a positive rating of 20% with the public. now after the fact, it's likely to remain an easy target of someone to cut come budget time. >> mike emanuel tonight. >>> stocks hit -- the fichblg numbers for the third quarter gdp indicate indi

elijah cummings who let this investigation and the secret service agent.s going to put up the money? they are talking about 80 more agents, 200 more officers. a lot more appropriations and we are already hearing complaints on the republican side. >> if congress believes that the secret service needs the money to do the job it has to do, we will find a way to do that. fortunately in our committee, we have a bipartisan effort and we are committed to making sure that the organization is all it is supposed to be. i expect we will be able to do that. >> dan, where do you come down as someone in the service with whether or not an outsider or someone like clancy can shake it up. >> i think the executive summary from the report that claims that an outsider from the service would be better is accurate, but if huh to pick someone from the inside for the transition, as an interim director, there is no finer person in my experience and joe clancy. i think carol has great sources. i dispute the fact that he is not confrontational and i don't mean that as a pejorative.

. >> if that, quote, smoke gun that has senator bernie sanders and elijah cummings investigating. >> today according to the most recent reports, more than one in four americans do not fill their prescriptions because they cannot afford the cost. think about that for a second. >> reporter: in a recent hearing senator sanders put this issue toronto and center. >> wtoronto -- front and center. >> weed to know if there was a rational reason why these customers found these price increases or whether it was greed of companies that were able to raise prices to whatever level they wanted and that is in fact what they did. that is question we wanted to ask to a number of drug companies. unfortunately, not one of the companies that we asked to testify today chose to come to respond to those questions. >> reporter: in october, senator sanders and representative cummings started investigation into ten individual drugs and several companies are under scrutiny by the department of justice. , one of the drugs cited as an example of the sudden increase in prices, using for any communication or corre

trey gowdy and elijah cummings have done this country a good service.ow can you close the books on benghazi when you never talked to susan rice who came up with an implausible explanation and where it off as a fog of war. it wasn't a fog of war, it was a political smoke screen by the white house with the complicity of the intelligence committee. i hope the senate will create a committee and let the house lead. if you talk to susan rice and people like her. how can you explain to these people what happened to their loved ones. martha: hillary clinton not exactly drawing a big crowd at georgetown. we'll tell you about all the empty seats and whether the front runner for the nomination is suaving from inevitablability. a remote that lives on your phone. more wi-fi in more places. a movie library you can take wherever you go. internet speeds that have gotten faster 13 times in 12 years. the innovators and inventors at comcast labs are creating more possibilities for more people every day. comcast nbcuniversal. bringing media and technology together for you.

yield to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, the great aline of scrimmagea cummings -- elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you very much. i want to thank mr. jeffries for calling this special order tonight. and let me say to america, whenever law enforcement officers -- a law enforcement officer shoots and kills an unarmed citizen in this great country, america has a problem. and i want us to be very careful that we don't become distracted and not address the issues. and i know that we in the congressional black caucus make sure that we don't get involved in motion, commotion, emotion and no results. and that's what this is all about. because the things that we're talking about is trying to bring about change, not just for our young people today, but for generations yet unborn. and so let me just briefly state that i'm very pleased with what the president did today. i think it's a step this the right direction -- a step in the right direction. the effort to get body cameras, 50,000 of them, to establish a task force. ight i along with 100 other leaders wrote to the president and we ju

you had ranking democrat on this committee, elijah cummings ripping into gruber who he knows and we allnow damaged the case for obamacare. gave ammunition to those critics of this health care law. yet two out of three network newscasts couldn't be bothered. melissa: interesting. howard, thanks so much for coming on. we always appreciate it. we love to catch you on "mediabuzz" on sunday on fox news channel at 11:00 a.m., i miss it. thank you. >> thanks, melissa, the 100 million-dollar hack, that is how much cyber experts are warning massive data breach will cost sony. release shows that sony debated release of "the interview" with the ceo getting final approval, ceo of the company. we have senior editor at "in touch weekly." thanks to both of you for joining us. bruce, let me start with you. $100 million in losses, does that seem like a big number to you for this? >> no, it doesn't for sony because i got to believe they lost more on scheffers 2 and moms night out than they did on this. we keep talking about this. the folks watching your show are watching history happen because you have t

. >> reporter: the panel top democrat elijah cummings is critical of the way it was handled.te, it is revealing that the republicans, yet again are leaking cherry-picked excerpts of do you means to support their preconceived political narrative without allowing committee members to see their conclusions or vote on them first. it was cut in the $1.1 trillion funding package. the agency is warning there may be a delay in processing tax refunds and other services. >> there will be a price to pay as there already are for the revenue that we're going to gain from irs enforcement is going to go down. the ability of taxpayers to get the assistance they need is going to be more difficult. things like that. >> reporter: critics say the agency should work on its efficiency. >> all that happened is the budget is going to the 2008 budget for the irs. programs they should try something like been more productive, like the rest of the world does. . >> before the scandal the irs had a rating of 20% with the public. after the fact it is likely to remain an easy target, something to cut at bud

lawmakers from both sides of the aisle took him to task for his comments but as congressman elijah cummingss may make for good political theater but it doesn't help a single person get health care. all this does is overshadow the real successes of obamacare. instead of focusing on gruber, we should be focusing on the 10.3 million people who gained health insurance in the affordable care act's first year. call-up estimates that 5% of americans were newly insured in 2013. yet these oversight hearings have turned into public relations bonanzas. the focus should be on educating the american public about what coverage they need and how to sign up. the aca's second open enrollment period opened november 15th and ends february 15th. three months shorter than last year. we have less time to get the word out. that should be the focus. joining me now, professor at the lsu health sciences central. what do you want lawmakers to focus on right now? >> what i want them to focus on is in the seconds enrollment period, 100,000 people logged on to the website the first day. no matter what anyone says, repub

homeland security committee, bennie thompson, and ranking member of the oversight committee, elijah cummingsu. we've got two big issues here. we've got police tactics and we've got race. what do you think is the most important part of that focus as hearings move forward on capitol hill? >> well, i think both are very important, joe. now you have a segment of our society that believes that we're being mistreated and that there is not equal justice under the law. and failing to -- we just can't understand why you can have a situation like the staten island matter with mr. eric garner and a grand jury failed to indict. and i think the world -- >> so, elijah, what can be done? i think while there was some debate over what happened exactly on the street in ferguson, there's no debate about what happened in staten island. you've got a lot of people angry on both sides of the aisle, republicans finally speaking out on this. what positive steps can we put in place to stop situations like this from happening again? >> well, the question is why we've called for the hearings, but training is clearly so

was not just republicans hammering gliewber here is the oversight committee ranking democrat elijah cummings. >> worse of all, dr. gruber's statements gave republicans a public relations gift. in their relentless political campaign to tear down the aca and eliminate healthcare for millions of americans. many republicans now allege some kind of democratic conspiracy citing the praise for dr. gruber's work from president obama and other democrats. but that, too, is completely wrong. >> and joining us our political panel, national journal shane gold milwaukeeer and the national review tom rogan. tom, first to you. do you think that the media mothers the media thinks this is a serious issue? >> if you look to the news reporting today, it was heavily pushed towards the cia report. so i think a loft media has not been as interested as covering covering this as perhaps fox news has. i think there is a problem there because obviously based on the forensic level of financial gain that mr. gruber has acquired, with his dealings with obamacare, there is a connection point to the formulation of the law

by the way, congressman elijah cummings is asking sony for information on all of those data breaches, breaches over the past year. and details of investigations regarding those hacks. in the meantime, there's some interesting polling numbers when it comes to what americans think about all this. more than six in ten americans say they believe that sony's original decision to cancel the release of "the interview" was an overreaction. a new cnn opinion research poll, in it 36% of americans said they think sony made the right decision by canceling the movie while 62% said they thought it was an overreaction. but that does not mean that they don't think what north korea did, if it was north korea, was serious. 61% said the computer hacking and the ensuing threats are acts of terrorism. and i just want to remind you, if you're just tuning in, with all of this talk about sony and pulling "the interview" and then pulling it and saying it wouldn't open up on christmas day, well in two theaters in austin and in atlanta, this movie is going to open on christmas day. two independent theaters have

elijah cummings said this.s plagued by police forces disconnected from the communities they serve. the result is entire portions of the population that feel threaten by the very law enforced by officials and charged with their safety. republican congressman justin amish said clearly excessive force against #ericgarner. i pray that peace and justice will prevail. here in new york, eric adams tweeted out, we need a special prosecutor to deal with these police cases. and as an african-american and a former nypd police officer mr. adams has a unique perspective and is joining me here. let's start out with this call for a special prosecutor. prior to this decision from this grand jury, were you concerned? >> yes, i was. it was clear to me that they were not going to come back with the true bill, which is an indictment and i knew that based on the fact patterns of what i saw and historical reluckitancy of coming back with coming back with an indictment for police officers in cases like this, i knew this is what to ex

. >> reporter: elijah cummings is critical of the way this report was handled "it is revealing that theublicans are yet again leaking cherry-picked excerpts of documents to support their preconceived political narrative without allowing committee members to even see their conclusions." >> agency leadership is warning there may be a delay in processing tax refunds and other services with coming cuts. >> there's going to be a price to pay as there already are for the revenue that we're going to gain from irs enforcement is going to go down. the ability taxpayers to get the assistance they need is going to be more difficult and things like that. >> reporter: critics say the agency should work on its efficiency. >> all that happened is the budget's going to the 2008 budget for the irs. perhaps they should try something like become more productive like the rest of the world does. >> reporter: before the scandal the irs had a positive rating of 20% with the public. now after the fact it is likely to remain an easy target. somewhere to cut at budget time. in washington, mike emanuel, fox news.

. >> woodruff: the committee's top democrat, maryland representative elijah cummings, defended the health care law, but called gruber's earlier comments "absolutely stupid." >> i'm extremely frustrated with dr. gruber's statements. they were irresponsible, incredibly disrespectful and did not reflect reality. and they were indeed insulting. >> woodruff: also on the hot seat today: medicare and medicaid administrator marilyn tavenner. >> this was an inadvertent mistake for which i apologize. >> woodruff: tavenner's agency initially reported 400,000 more people signed up for health coverage last year, than actually did. she blamed a double-counting of people who enrolled for both dental and medical coverage. president obama has said the health care law was fully debated, and there was no attempt to mislead the public. >> ifill: the federal reserve voted today to have the country's eight largest banks set aside more reserves, in the event of unexpected losses. the goal is to prevent the need for future taxpayer bailouts. requirements will vary, depending on how regulators assess a bank's ris

elijah cummings is in there. fold is this story, a post employee who died while on duty. michelle captured images of sorrow and dignity. winner ofthree-time the pulitzer prize for dramatic images of human struggle and triumph. he died thursday while on assignment in liberia. he was 58 years old. he collapsed while returning on liberia'sa village in county where he had been working on a project. he was transported over dirt roads to a hospital two hours away but was declared dead on arrival from apparent heart attack. inwon two pulitzer prizes the 1980's and a joint the post in 1988. -- joined the post in 1988. he shared his third for an investigative series on the treatment of veterans at walter reed medical center. is in chattanooga. what do you think about what the house passed last night? caller: thank you for taking my call. closely asing very elizabeth warren has been a great watchdog in the past over taking on wall street and making sure they don't get anything re.pped in their all americans should be grateful that she did that. them their rightful credit for that.

. >> elijah cummings is critical of the way that the report is handled.g that the republicans are yet again leaking cherry picked excerpts of documentations to support their preconceived political narrative. meanwhile, the budget was cut in the government funding package congress passed. agency leadership is warning there may be a delay in processing tax refunds and other services. >> there's going to be a price to pay as there already are for the revenue that we're going to gain from irs enforcement is going to go down. the ability of taxpayers to get the assistance they need is going to be more difficult things like that. >> critics say that the agency should work on its efficient. >> i all that happened is the budget is budget for the irs. perhaps they should try something like become more productive like the rest of the world does. >> reporter: before the scandal the irs had a positive rating of 20% with the public. now after the fact it's likely to remain an easy target. somewhere to cut at budget time. in washington, mike emanuel, fox news. >>> well

yield to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, the great aline of scrimmagea cummings -- elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you very much. i want to thank mr. jeffries for calling this special order tonight. and let me say to america, whenever law enforcement officers -- a law enforcement officer shoots and kills an unarmed citizen in this great country, america has a problem. and i want us to be very careful that we don't become distracted and not address the issues. and i know that we in the congressional black caucus make sure that we don't get involved in motion, commotion, emotion and no results. and that's what this is all about. because the things that we're talking about is trying to bring about change, not just for our young people today, but for generations yet unborn. and so let me just briefly state that i'm very pleased with what the president did today. i think it's a step this the right direction -- a step in the right direction. the effort to get body cameras, 50,000 of them, to establish a task force. ight i along with 100 other leaders wrote to the president and we ju

. >> reporter: top oversight democrat elijah cummings that the republicans are leaking cherry-picked documents to support preconceived political narrative without allowing committee members to see conclusions to vote on them first. isis's response that -- issa's response that democrats decided there wasn't anything early on. bill: molly. molly: fema is there to help survivors to put their shattered lives together. why is the agency demanding money back from hundreds of disaster victims? bill: new york city mayor bill de blasio losing rather the support of many within his own police department. some calling for him to step down, resign. should he? former new york governor george pataki tells us what he thinks standing by next on this. >> this rhetoric used against them, those demonstrators calling for them to be killed have create ad climate where a crazy mad person, like the one who pulled the trigger could do that. óqoqúúÑ@ bill: the mayor in new york facing a major backlash after the assassination of two police officers. the mayor yesterday attempting damage control calling on bo

elijah cummings rather complimentary of his colleague darrell issa. is is the last committee meeting before they break for christmas. we have not yet heard jonathan gruber's opening statement. but we'll hear what elijah kusm cans position on this obamacare issue is today. >> in 2010 the democrats in congress passed the affordable care act to give millions of people health insurance. we banned insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. we established significant new measures to hold down healthcare costs and provided extra assistance to those who needed it. today based on the evidence before us, the aca is work for millions of people who are now covered. according to the "new england journal of medicine," the rate of uninsured has dropped by over 4 percentage points since last year. that's a 26% reduction in the ranks of the uninsured in one year. the evidence shows the aca is bend can the cost curve. the growth of national healthcare spending decreased to 3.6% last year. that is the lowest rate on record since t

elijah cummings. >> i want to welcome everyone. i want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else who's been waiting. just blame me for the delay. that would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. i'll do my best to start on time henceforth. this is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u.s. department diplomatic facilities and personnel. the committee will come to order. chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate house resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. in september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. shawn smith, tyrone woods, glenn doherty and ambassador chris stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. fire, violence, the weaponry of war. i want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through or die through the experi

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i think elijah cummings said he's going to use the time to talk about how great obamacare is. >> i thinkhimself in trouble with enough words. >> i see let him go. >> it's 7:10 in new york city. headlines now. >> good morning. i've got a scary story out of new york city break overnight. it is a fox news alert. a vicious attack at a new york city synagogue. we want to warn you, this video is graphic. police say that a man armed with a knife stormed inside a synagogue, screaming, i want to kill a jew. he stabbed a student who was praying in the neck. shortly after the attacker charged a police officer who shot him dead. the injured student is now in the hospital, thankfully in stable condition. we'll keep watching that story. >>> protesters in berkeley, california, shutting down the streets, blocking traffic for a third night in a row. take a look at this. they are still angry about the eric garner grand jury decision in new york city. police in this california town struggling to keep the crowds at bay as they flooded major highways. look at that. they even shut down interstate 80 at one po

yield to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, the great aline of scrimmagea cummings -- elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you very much. i want to thank mr. jeffries for calling this special order tonight. and let me say to america, whenever law enforcement officers -- a law enforcement officer shoots and kills an unarmed citizen in this great country, america has a problem. and i want us to be very careful that we don't become distracted and not address the issues. and i know that we in the congressional black caucus make sure that we don't get involved in motion, commotion, emotion and no results. and that's what this is all about. because the things that we're talking about is trying to bring about change, not just for our young people today, but for generations yet unborn. and so let me just briefly state that i'm very pleased with what the president did today. i think it's a step this the right direction -- a step in the right direction. the effort to get body cameras, 50,000 of them, to establish a task force. ight i along with 100 other leaders wrote to the president and we ju