you heard that echoed by congressman elijah cummings.t from john conyers, these demands that the fbi should say more. what happens politically if they do? if they did say more, i imagine they'd still be leaving us with something that republicans would make a lot of hay out of. >> who knows what it's even possible for them to say at this point. but podesta's comment that the fbi hshould do more is importan. comey was originally appointed by george w. bush. he's a partisan republican, he showed that when he made his comments about not indicting hillary clinton the first time around. this time he did something that was teparticularly sloppy and reckless. and it's fully within the rights of the clinton campaign to call him out on it, because theis is beyond the norms of what the fbi would do in a normal situation. >> bill, it's nice to see you, thanks for your time tonight. >> you too, rachel. >>> all right, i want to show you something different, something totally unrelated to this maddening, ridiculous fbi letter today. i want to show you

joining us now is democratic congressman elijah cummings of maryland. he's the ranking member on the committee of oversight and government reform, so he was one of the democrats to whom this letter from the fbi director was copied. congressman cummings, i know it was hard for you to get to us tonight. i really appreciate you making the time, sir. >> my pleasure. >> you have put out a statement tonight along with congressman conyers calling for the fbi to release more information. why are you calling for that? >> well, rachel, because director comey when he put out this statement, i'm sure he knew that the republicans would do what they always do. they took this statement and you've adequately described it. it does not say what the e-mails are, doesn't tell me -- doesn't cover the length of time that they're talking about. we don't know whether these were e-mails from hillary clinton or miss abedin, we don't know. he should have known they would do what they always do. they would spin it to make it look as if it was more than what it was. there is no reo

i'll talk to elijah cummings after this two-minute break. >> did you have a skiff in your home? >> yes, i did. >> who was at your home? were you alone? >> i was alone. >> the whole night? >> yes, the whole night. >> i don't know why that's funny. did you have any in-person briefings? i don't find it funny at all. >> i'm sorry. a little note of levity at 7:15. >> that was more than seven hours into hillary clinton's 11-hour testimony at the benghazi hearings. it was supposed to be the shining moment for a congressional investigation that already stretched on longer than the watergate committee. surely getting her on the record would justify the millions of taxpayer dollars spent trying to prove there was some scandal with regards to secretary clinton and benghazi. >> what new things did you learn today? >> oh, i think some of jimmy jordan's questioning -- well, when you say new today, i mean, we knew some of that already. we knew about the e-mails. in terms of her testimony? >> mm-hmm. >> i don't know that she testified that much differently today than she has the previous times

joining me elijah cummings, and congressman, given your role both on the select benghazi committee andarrell is committee of reform, what do you hear having been in the trenches when you hear jason chaffetz and others talk like this? >> i hear that they want to obstruct hillary clinton when she becomes president, and will do anything in their power to destroy her efforts. they have been obstructionists all along with regard to president obama for the last six years putting every kind of road block tau can imagine in his way. and they like the idea of being able to say that the president of the united states is under investigation. and so they will spend millions upon millions of dollars as we already spent in benghazi and other investigations of taxpayer dollars on this mission of destruction and distraction. >> in fact, i believe congressman jim jordan on that select committee that chairman gowdy referenced i think even said today that the benghazi committee, which is one of the longest in american history released an 800-page report that that should keep going. >> yes, about two mont

hillary clinton said donald trump is lying about the e-mail probes and joined now by elijah cummings,porting hillary clinton. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> congressman, were you shocked when you got this letter from director comey on friday? >> i was surprised that the director who has told our committee on several occasions that his number one concern is his reputation that he would issue a letter that, number one, was so vague. and that basically gave donald trump a softball to hit over the fence. and he knew, i'm sure, that this is exactly what donald trump would do. he would exaggerate. and, again, it's vague. we don't know how many of these e-mails are duplicates. and we don't have very much information at all. but the fact still remains that, you know, he -- it doesn't surprise me, though, in a way that he did this. because i don't think the american people have a clue as to how hard the republicans, particularly on my committee, have been on the fbi. this is a man that is director comey who they love. they said, oh, he was the greatest thing in the world at one

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other democrats, including elijah cummings of maryland, have marched to her defense.here we have a situation he has come out with this vague letter. we don't know how many letters are and plug it if, we don't know much at all. i think he has now placed her in a situation where she has just think he made a mistake, and i think he needs to correct that. one of the things he can do is let us know -- he put out this information with regard to secretary clinton. he also has questions about mr. trump, his associates, the russians, and any coordination and cooperation with regard to our election. pushback effort has also included the release of a bipartisan letter, signed by more that 100 former federal prosecutors and justice department officials, expressing concern about comey's actions. and harry reid policed is a letter, saying that he might have violated the hatch act, a federal law that bars officials from using their authority to influence elections. twodonald trump steve has distinct talking points, that regardless of the decision this is a scandal of clinton's probl

i want to you take a listen to prominent democrats nancy pelosi, elijah cummings, hillary clinton and tim kaine and praising and then criticizing it's fascinating. >> let me say this about director come first, this say great man. we are very privileged in our country to have him. >> i want to begin by commending you and the public servants independent investigation. >> i greatly appreciate the work that the fbi on department of justice did and they handled it very professionally. >> fbi under direction of wonderful and tough career public servant jim come someone with the height standards of integrity. >> now it's interesting okay we listened to that and it does make the democrats seem like they really changed twhun not in their favor. same thing they were critical of him and when the announcement came in and out july they would not be investigating or pure suing charges against hillary clinton and donald trump said maybe this is also rigged. we're seeing it on both sides. >> is it fair criticism to be accusing fbi of being partisan in this case when we're looking at organization non

again, like congressman elijah cummings said, the investigator has been investigated. now the fbi is supposed to be doing this secretively and going about their business instead of coming within an 11-day period to possibly change the election. that is wrong. that is going against procedure. and let's go back to something that james comey said in july, when he did say he was not going to charge hillary clinton. we have to remember that. that he said -- he said out of his own mouth he would not charge hillary clinton. he also said, when you talk about this national security issue, he said whatever she did, even though it was careless, he said she did not do anything malicious against this country. or to aid other countries. so we have to remember that, as well. when you try to bring in the issue of national security. so what is this really? the fact that they have a server, a private server, a former president and a former secretary of state. they can't use aol. they can't use google. they can't use the typical thing. it's not about the server. it's just about the fact

bernie sanders and elijah cummings sent a letter to explain the drug's lofty $200,000 price tag.o watch. you might be angry about it. there it is right there. $10.35. down 4%. a lost anger at this company today. we'll keep you posted with follow up here. >>> president obama, likening his signature health care law to a quote, starter home in his speech yesterday, saying his departure from office might be the remedy to fix obama care's problems. with health insurance premiums skyrocketing, doctor networks across the country, is that really the answer? fox business's jeff flock looks at what options states might have to make health care more affordable. how they can move on to a second home, a better home from the starter home. hi, jeff? reporter: renovation always costs a lot, cheryl. that is the only problem with idea of a starter home but there you go. there are successes for the president's health care law, to be fair and balanced bit, uninsured rate is lowest it has been in history. people are covered for preexisting conditions. people are covered on your policy until 26. but l

your reaction to what we just heard from elijah cummings.irector comey has an obligation to share any information he has about russia and what harry reid calls close ties to donald trump and the trump campaign? >> i think if there's something there, he should but my guess he doesn't but a real problem with hillary clinton and the scandal both with the clinton foundation and herself. that's why hillary clinton and the clinton foundation are both under fbi criminal investigation. look, let's not forget that comey is an obama appointee. he's not a trump supporter. he was appointed by president obama and they've been defending him for months and talking about what a great man he is and what a great job he's done until it comes down to them. this isn't comey's mess but hillary clinton's. she created this problem and her actions have big consequences in apparently a federal investigation, criminal investigation is one of them. >> sarah, let me just get you on donald trump's strategy. he has been comparing this to watergate, john dean, an essential

he wants her to go to jail if he becomes president and also, tamron, i talked to congressman elijah cummings before going on the air who sat on the benghazi committee. he said, what donald trump did last night was reckless, and he has no grounds. he said there's no evidence to come up to put anything against hillary clinton, particularly when the fbi director james comey who was, who used to be up until the time he became fbi director, a republican, this is what cummings said, he's well respected. there is nothing that would put hillary clinton in jail for this. >> but did hillary clinton do enough? she had a role to play yesterday, it seems, to stay calm, not take the bait. she said the line which we knew michelle obama when they go low, we go high but was that enough yesterday to seal this deal? it wasn't a knockout punch and we know that but was it enough to at least boost those undecideds still out there? >> no, it's not enough to seal the deal. she has to keep on trying. she has to get the millennials, the women, the minorities. she has to get a lot of people. going back to marcia fudge

the ranking democrat, by the way, on the house oversight committee, elijah cummings, says it's no exaggerationthe first day secretary clinton walks into the white house republicans will have already investigated her more than any other president in history, and as you know, thick is all based on republicans keeping the house, which for now looks like a pretty good bet, but certainly no guarantee. >> trace gallagher live. thank you. the election lawsuits are already beginning. the democratic national committee is suing the republican national committee. that's next. i work 'round the clock. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i want to trim my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® provides powerful a1c reduction. releases slow and steady. works like your body's insulin. when my schedule changes... i want something that delivers. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of day. so if i miss or delay a dose, i take it when i remember, as long as there's at leas

. >>> a developing story in the biotech phase, senator bernie sanders and representative elijah cummingsstioning the price increase for one of its drugs. could be next. >> senator bernie sanders sending out a tweet today to illustrate this letter they sent to ariad. tweets are never good for the biotechnology industry when they come from politicians, death by a thousand tweets for the biotech industry. the tweet says, ariad's outrageous sales tactics indicate it is more concerned with its profit than with its patients. looking at their cancer drug iclusig which raised the price to $199,000 per year, it was $115,000 when it entered the market. you look at the price increases, they really increased a lot over the last few years. here we're looking at what could be the next targets in the industry, because ariad isn't a company like a valeant, like a turing. what folks in the pharma industry are worried about is more traditional companies seeing pressure, areas like multiple sclerosis, insulin, where we've seenç large price increases on drugs made by biojen, eli lily. >> that had been the

other thing that's happened, victor, you have two members in the house, two ranking democrats, elijah cummingscalliers on the oversight committees that have called on fbi director comey to release this information, more information this weekend. and the other thing we have to really look at here is that the white house really had no advanced notice and it really kind of looks like this was something that maybe fbi director comey was pressured into doing by the republicans. but the one thing i think is so interesting -- >> i don't know if there's anything to support that, our evan perez said this is something he decided to do and didn't go to approval for loretta lynch, go ahead. >> the reason why, victor, he received so much criticism from donald trump himself, from donald trump's campaign and a lot of republicans. so i think that at a time where really we need to judge people's conducts off facts. he himself said that there's nothing in that letter that may or may not be significant to this investigation and lastly, hillary clinton has not been accused of anything wrong. so i think she's goin

thank mayor gensler, the members of congress that are here, elijah cummings, cedric richmond, akeem jeffriesfor being here. there are a number of mayors and former mayors here, and i want to thank them. you worked with me in the white house, steve benjamin has come from columbia, south carolina, where hillary's big victory there in the primary -- thanks in no small measure to him, got us started. alvin brown who also worked in , the administration. mayor dennis archer, former mayor of detroit, who has been my friend and hillary's friend for more years than i can count. the great former mayor of this city, michael coleman. i thank them all. [applause] mr. clinton: i want to thank state party chair david pepper, and thank you ted strickland, the first target of the koch brothers. born up under the torrent of dark money. we need a new supreme court that will not allow dark anonymous , money to buy elections, and i want to thank hillary's first boss out of law school, who is backstage. the incomparable marilyn wright edelman, the founder of the children's defense fund. [applause] mr. clinton: lo

other democrats, though, including congressman elijah cummings of maryland, have rushed to clinton's defense. >> now we have a situation when he's come out with this vague letter. we don't know how many of these e-mails are duplicative. we don't know very much at all. but this letter has been put out there and i think he has now placed her in a situation where she's basically being questioned and asked to defend something. she doesn't know what she's defending. and so, you know, i just think that he made a mistake. and i think he needs to try to correct that. and one of the things he can do is let us know -- i mean, he's put out this information with regard to, you know, secretary clinton. they also have some questions about mr. trump, his associates, the russians, and any coordination and cooperation with regard to our elections. >> clinton's pushback effort also includes the release of a bipartisan letter, signed by more than 100 former federal prosecutors and justice department officials, expressing concern about comey's actions, and the senate's top democrat, harry reid, released

we've heard this morning from several people including congressman elijah cummings who says that there should be also an fbi investigation into whether or not the trump campaign is tide to russia, and that that would have very serious implications obviously for democracy for the outcome of the election. are you calling for a more thorough investigation into those possible ties? >> if there are facts available to the fbi that would support an investigation that indicates a violation of the law, then the fbi should follow the truth wherever it leads them. that's exactly what the house judiciary has been doing throughout this entire process. but that is a red herring when there is no such public finding of that. >> hold on one second, congressman, because there has -- hold on just one second. there have been i think 17 investigative and intelligence agencies that do believe that russia has breached dnc computers, and that has tried to insert themselves into this election and has hacked e-mails. so it does -- there is information -- >> well we certainly -- we certainly should be investigat

nonetheless, democratic lawmakers, elijah cummings and john conyers are saying today in fairness to everyone involved, we're writing to the fbi request, that the fbi department of justice issue a more complete accounting of the details hind this letter. in terms of the timing, guys, a former fbi official told me last night, if she were going to be transparent, why didn't she release her e-mails a long time ago. >> why was congress notified and also although there's criticism, there has to be something, you're reporting there's tens of thousands of e-mails. >> i spoke to a former senior fbi official who told me, look, having done a lot of these types of investigations, he believes that there had to be among these tens of thousands of e-mails at least some of them going back and forth to hillary clinton, we don't know that for a fact, i want to be clear. but he said that, because he said, look, they go through the anthony weiner investigation, they find tens of thousands of e-mails, but if it was huma abedin doing yoga or something else, they said we have to talk to you again. but this former

than 5% from its intraday high after bernie sanders tweeted out a link to a letter that he and elijah cummings sent them over the price of its leukemia drug. they started looking into the increases of this drug. we can show you here, some of the increases over time. it was approved in 2012. about $115,000 per year, reaching up to $199,000 per year after a series of price increases. you can see them escalating from 2015 on ward. the senator and congressman in their letter asking for more information about the pricing and rnd that have gone into this drug. these outrageous sale s taxes indicate their more concerned with profits. pointed out not only the price crease, but the fact the company removed some doses from the market, making it potentially many more expensive to pay for lower doses more frequently. the company on friday responded by saying the pricing reflects the significant investment in rnd. and the associated risk with research and development, but this having an ongoing impact on the stock, which declined on this and is down more today, melissa. >> the background as you were tellin

but if you check out comments made by elijah cummings at the hearings recently, hear what they had toay. >> they say, oh, we have an assistance program, we're going to help some people. the next thing you know, they then use that to justify not bringing the prices down. do you understand that? >> hearing about this with the mylans of the world, but it's not just them if you look at humira and others, they all have drug assistance programs. this is something that elizabeth warren focused on back in april in a hearing focusing on valuable ya valiant. listen to this. >> these programs are legal because medicare and medicaid understand that the programs are scams to hide the true cost of the products from the consumers and drive up the cost for all of the taxpayers. right now patient assistant programs and copay programs are the only available lifeline for some patients. but they are not a real solution. >> i think this is a really important thing to focus on, because basically every drug company does this. you can see when elizabeth warren starts to focus on something like this, it may b

. >> and he started this initiate ty on the part of democratic members like elijah cummings in the judiciarygive us the information by the end of the weekend. but he's limited that, especially if there are top secret e-mails or classified e-mails, i mean, what do you do? >> we're not going to know what's going to happen for a very long time. >> it's certainly not going to happen before the end of this weekend. >> it's an impossibility. it's an impossibility i would think before the election, you have got to determine whether or not these documents are classified, where they came from, it's unclear according to senior law enforcement officials as to whether they emanated from hillary clinton's personal, mail server. we know that huma abedin had an account on that server, they exchanged e-mails. were they e-mails that were sent and received by clinton. it's a new whole quagmire that this administration has to wrangle with. we'll see what happens. but obviously this is not good news for hillary clinton. if it's true that comey was really looking for a second bite of the apple and to engage in a

we've got an important hearing next week that elijah cummings and i have been working hard on to deal with some of the costs americans are going for. epipen, in particular, something we will be addressing next week. we're here to talk about the aca and problems associated. we need candid talk and solutions. it's going to be a good hearing. now recognize ranking member mr. cummings from maryland. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for holding this hearing. this is a very important hearing. i thank you all of the eyewitnesss today for testifying on this very important subject. i'd like to start off by reading a few headlines. let me start with this one. blue cross dramatically raising rates for californians with individual health policies. here is another one. health insurance rates soar as oregon regulators nod. here is another one. this one says millions in u.s. can't afford health insurance. the thing is, these headlines are not from today. or this week or this year. they are from several years ago before congress passed the affordable care act. of course, that

thank mayor gensler, the members of congress that are here, elijah cummings, cedric richmond, akeem jeffriesyou for being here. there are a number of mayors and former mayors here, and i want to thank them. steve benjamin has come from columbia, south carolina, where hillary's big victory there in the primary -- thanks in no small measure to him -- got us started. alvin brown, former mayor of jacksonville, who also worked in my administration. mayor dennis archer, former mayor of detroit, who has been my friend and hillary's friend for more years than i can count. and the great former mayor of this city, michael coleman. i thank them all. [applause] mr. clinton: i want to thank state party chair david pepper, and thank you ted strickland, the first target of the koch brothers, who has borne up under the most amazing torrent of dark money. one of the reasons you need to elect hillary is we need a new supreme court that will not allow dark, anonymous money to -- try to buy american elections. and i want to thank hillary's first boss out of law school, who is backstage. maybe she will come out