by jack smith. and then the question was, are you aware of anyone at the department of justice placing pressure on the irs to influence the outcome of the 2010 elections and the answer was, no. and i'm going to put that same question in front of you, mr. cole. are you aware of anybody at the department of justice screaming at anybody at the irs to fix citizens united or put any kind of pressure on the irs? >> no, mr. cartright. not at all. this is not something we would be doing. we're looking for criminal cases to be made or not. and that's it. >> not aware of any screaming? >> no screaming. >> and you didn't do any screaming yourself i take it? >> i did not. >> thank you, mr. cole. i yield back. >> mr. cole, when the president of the united states makes a statement, a speech, does that have meaning, bearing, influence? >> on a criminal investigation -- >> when the president talks, he does an interview, givers speeches all the time. sometimes talks in a way designed to send a message even to foreig

"no," by jack smith. and then, "are you aware of anyone at the department of justice placing pressure on the irs to influence the 2010 elections?" "no."e answer was, i will put that question in front of you, mr. cole. are you aware of anybody at the department of justice screaming at anybody at the irs to fix citizens united or put any kind of pressure on the irs? >> no, mr. cartwright, not at all. this is not something we would be doing. we are looking if there are criminal cases to be made or not, that's it. >> not aware of any screaming? >> no screaming. >> and you didn't do any screaming yourself? >> i did not. >> when the president of the united states makes a speech, does that have bearing or influence? >> on a criminal investigation by the department? >> the president gives speeches all the time. he will sometimes talk in a way even with foreign heads of state. when the president talks, does that have meeting or influence? >> as a basic matter, it it certainly can. a president gives an interview in

the answer was "no," by jack smith. and then, "are you aware of anyone at the department of justice placing pressure on the irs to influence the 2010 elections?" and the answer was, "no." i will put that question in front of you, mr. cole. are you aware of anybody at the department of justice screaming at anybody at the irs to fix citizens united or put any kind of pressure on the irs? >> no, mr. cartwright, not at all. this is not something we would be doing. we are looking if there are criminal cases to be made or not, that's it. >> not aware of any screaming? >> no screaming. >> and you didn't do any screaming yourself? >> i did not. >> when the president of the united states makes a speech, does that have bearing or influence? >> on a criminal investigation by the department? >> the president gives speeches all the time. he will sometimes talk in a way even with foreign heads of state. when the president talks, does that have meeting or influence? >> as a basic matter, it certainly can. >> so when a president gives

the chief of the integrity section of the justice department, jack smith, i contacted the internal revenue service. when i contacted them they directed me to lois lerner. who met once at the public integrity section with some of her staff, my chief, jack smith, other personnel from my section and the f.b.i. so now we learn in 2010 the justice department with the f.b.i. is meeting with lois lerner and so we said, you know what, we ought to subpoena documents from the justice department and we said from the justice department, we want any communications from lois lerner that you've had. and we get this slide. we get this email. let's put this up, if we can. we get this communication. om lois lerner and richard pilger. now, mr. koskinen, did you give s this email, do you know? >> i don't know. >> i can tell you didn't. we got it from the justice department. after we got this from the justice department we contacted you all on june 9 and we said, hey, how come we didn't get in email from you? there's no 6103 issue with this email. we were concerned. this email from 2010. we contact you, mr. ko

>> i'm just looking at the account that i have heard from jack smith and from richard pilger who have testified, given transcribed testimony to the committee what they were doing at the time. i take their purpose of what it was. i think mr. smith had seen an article in the newspaper about what appeared to be perhaps a misuse of the tax exempt organization laws and wanted the find out if -- >> so that's your opinion? >> it is not my opinion. that's my understanding of the facts. >> but as part of this investigation, wouldn't it be understand to important the nexus of them reaching out to the irs? e-mails? motivati motivations? wouldn't that be important to understand? >> i think we are in the process of providie ining that and you d to them. >> important for doj to look at that? wouldn't that be part of the investigation? >> that's not necessarily part of the irs investigation. >> why wouldn't it be? because, i mean, motives back and forth -- >> nothing happened. there was a brief meeting. there was a discussion about how it would be very difficult if not impossible to bring cases. the

met once at the public integrity section offices for an hour with some of her staff, my chief, jack smith, or personnel from my section and the fbi. so now we learn in 2010 the justice department with the fbi is meeting with lois lerner. so we said, we bert subpoena documents from the justice department. we said to the justice department, we want any communications with lois lerner that you have had. we get this slide. we get this e-mail. put this up if we can. we get this communication. from lois lerner and richard pilger. now, mr. koskinen, did you give us this e-mail? do you know? >> i don't know. >> i can tell you, you didn't. we got it from the justice department. after we got this from the justice department, we contacted you all on june 9th. we said, hey, how come we didn't get this e-mail from you? there's no 6103 issue with this e-mail. we were concerned. this is from 2010. so we contacted you. we said we're wondering why the irs hasn't sent us this e-mail from four years ago. and then suddenly four days later, you tell the finance committee, the congress, more importantly the am

who met once at the public integrity section office with some of her staff, my chief, jack smith, other personnel from my section and the fbi. so now we learn in 2010 the justice department, with the fbi is meeting with lois lerner. and so we said, you know what? we better subpoena documents from the justice department. and we said we want any communications with lois lerner that you've had. and we get this slide, we get this e-mail. put this up if 2003 can. we get this communication. from lois lerner and richard pilger. now, mr. koskinen, did you give us this, did you give us this e-mail? do you know? >> i don't know. >> i can tell you. you didn't. we got it from the justice department. and after we got this from the justice department, we contacted you all on june 9th, and we said hey, how's come we didn't get this e-mail from you. there's no 6103 issue with this e-mail, so we were concerned. this is an e-mail from clear back in 2010. so we contacted you, mr. koskinen in the letter and said we're wondering why the irs hasn't sent us this e-mail from four years ago. and then suddenly,

>> the chief of the public integrity section jack smith and the director of the crimes branch. >> what are you asking? >> i'm asking to enter their statements from their -- >> it's the full transcript, i would object -- >> it's not, however, i want to say for the record, mr. chairman, buck mckeon just released 100% of the transcripts from benghazi, i'm not clear on the standard being used by this chair. >> we're going to try to move on. i think i'm going to object. i'll take a look at it afterward. >> can i ask the point of order as to the reason -- >> unanimous consent. >> what would be the rule that -- >> i'm going to recognize. i want to try to move and get many of our colleagues as we can. >> the next vote. >> i have not finished my time that was allotted to me -- >> i think you're 42 seconds over. >> the chair was over 5 minutes, i had additional time, we recessed, i am not -- >> i gave you more time -- >> under rule nine. >> i've given mr. cummings more time than five minutes. talk to anyone, i've been pretty generous with the time, but i do want to get to everyone who's here. >>

unanimous consent that the transcribed interview opening statements of doj officials richard pilger and jack smith be allowed to be entered into the record particularly since you just handpicked certain statements. i am asking the full transcript the entered. will that courtesy be provided for this to be entered into the record of unanimous consent? >> i read from the opening statement that -- >> that is what this is. >> just the opening statement we would be happy to do that. >> i also want to follow up to some of the claims of the been made by my republican colleagues and give you an opportunity to respond. it has been stated twice today that mr. kahan testified during his july 17 interview that amid february the irs realized her e-mails would not be recoverable. i don't want mr. kayne's statement to be taken out of context. it is true that they had discovered the hard drive had crashed and that the contents of the hard drive was unrecoverable. that does not mean that he said that the irs would never be able to produce those e-mails to congress. he was asked as of march 2014 you are not aware th

smith: for decades, geologist simon wilde has been climbing the jack hills in western australia, date stamping the rly earth. wilde: this is the famous discovery outcrop. this is the site where the world's oldest zircon crystals have been recorded. smith: though ancient, it's not the rocks themselves that are so old here, but the microscopic crystals of zircon within them. known in the gem trade as poor man's diamonds, zircon crystals form when molten rock cools in the earth's crust. and just like diamonds, zircons are forever. if you ever wanted to find a spot to ponder your oneness with the great age of the earth, you couldn't do better than this rock, because within it are the oldest remnants from the early earth ever found. older than you and i by a mere 4.4 billion years. at just a whisker younger than the age of the planet itself, this tiny treasure, zircon w74, is the ultimate aussie survivor. recycled from rock to rock, zircons like w74 have resisted everything the planet has thrown at them. and yet they've somehow managed to keep a diary of the earliest days locked deep withi

smith is a sitting duck. but luckily, another squad car has pulled over to the right. it's sergeant rusty jacks, armed with a rifle he shoots arroyo from 60 feet away and kills him. >> suspect down. suspect down. >> in my rear view mirror i see him just drop. so i don't know what had happened. i didn't know if i had hit him and it was just a delayed response, i just didn't know. but his truck was still rolling so i just did a u-turn and put my bumper on his front bumper. to keep the truck from rolling. >> deputy sherman dollison, gravely injured at the courthouse, fights for his life in the days that follow. >> did i not know if dollison was going to live or die. it was touch and go for many days afterwards. >> but dollison pulls through and the other officers escape with minor injuries. a few weeks later, a memorial is held to remember the victims and to honor the officers. >> it was a very solemn time here in this county. it lasted longer than a lot of the tragedies that i've seen happen. there is still a solemn attitude around the courthouse. >> the courthouse still shows its scars from that

jack? >> wendy, investigators are not going to identify the man linked to the murder of erica smith, except to say that he committed suicide during the course of the cold case investigation. now, the shocking murder of the bright and bubbly 14-year-old is believed to be linked it her acquaintance with that man which she instructed her apparently to keep secrets even from her parents. he is believed to have lured her from her home the day she disappear would the promise of shopping of brotherirthday gif they came they told us that it was my daughter that was murdered, i made it a point in my heart that i had to be strong for her. i had to be her voice. this monster silenced her voice and i was going to be the voice that people hear for her. i was going to talk for her, speak for her and i was going to fight for justice for her. >> loudoun county chapman said the dedication of erica's parents inspired him to create the cold case unit two years ago. live in loudoun county, jackie bensen news 4. >>> the burgundy and gold lining up to see their team in action. big prediction on the former quarte

cramer, correspondent for buzzfeed, will dana, jack grey, senior producer at cnn, anderson cooper's 360, and jeremy. here to act as the emcee is ben smith who was hastings last employer and editor-in-chief at buzzfeed. since joining the company in january 2012, ben has built a newsroom of over 150 appropriators and editors, led expansion of over 20 content articles and built a team across the world. he has run for "the wall street journal" -- written for "the wall street journal", the los angeles times, slate, "the new york post" and the new republic. ben will join us on stage in just a moment, but first, a short audio clip from the book. >> introduction. why i write. finish my name is michael m. hastings, and and i'm in my 20s. i'm sitting in a studio apartment on the lower east side in manhattan, second floor overlooking or chard and bloomington. there's snow dropping by the streetlights. it's three a.m., and i just got off work. my magazine has a policy; a little item in the 57-page human resources manual called the outside activities clause. it prevents employees from publishing journalism without the magazine's permission. that cou

let's get to hank smith from haverford investments, abigail doolittle from peak theories. two of the strongest bulls we know, jack bouroudjian from index financial partners and anthony chan from chase. and of course, our own rick santelli joining us with the market response to all this. anthony chan, go ahead. you said it'd be like this. you can gloat. you can tell us you told us so. were you as pleased by the fine print as you were by that number that we got this morning on gdp. >> i really was, because you basically saw that nice upward revision to the prior quarter making the first quarter not as bad, and certainly, the second quarter a lot stronger. but keep in mind that from 2011 to 2013, the government did revise down the numbers about 0.2%. so, we still have an output gap of about 4%, if you used the congressional budget office numbers. and i love the congressional budget office because they've got democrats and republicans, so there's no political ax to grind. that tells me that there's still more room for the economy to expand before we really have to worry about serious inflation in this environment. >>

smith is still out there, potential inversion too. >> i think we're -- we see the inversions. i'm going to speak to jack lew at delivering alpha, and it's still the question that pops up all the time. how do you keep allowing this? republicans want comprehensive tax reform. it's almost funny. is this 1980? are you reagan? he did tax reform. >> yes, he was. >> "squawk box" called the code an abomination in his words. >> it was a different era. bill bradley, you had cooperation. >> what i was asked, what do you think about the kemp ross bill? pay it. that was before i got involved. >> on now to jpmorgan and the ceo jamie dimo who told shareholders he's been diagnosed with throat cancer saying the condition is curable and proknow sis is excellent. he plans to run the company as normal as possible during treatment. that being said, no small things, of course, to fight throat cancer, to go through chemotherapy and radiation. i want to offer my best to him and hope it passes as easily as possible as we have hoped for anybody suffering from that. all that said, it points to, well, what is the plan for successi