leading the congressional charge is senator james inhofe, if this is james inhofe and not a ground hogn a costume. senator ground-hofe here recently introduced a bill that would ban federal agencies from buying more ammunition if it currently possesses more than its monthly averages during the bush administration. yes, not including the ammo that ended up in the faces of the friends of dick cheney. folks, i know, i know, it's a sad story. isn't it? i know, i know. it's so sad. he was fine. folks, senator inhog's bill couldn't have come at a better time because there are some very disturbing theories as to why the government wants all that ammo. >> some predict a government arms race against americans. >> i suspect that just in case our fiscal situation, our monetary situation collapses, and following it the civil society collapses, that is the rule of law, that they want to be preparedded. there is no other explanation for this. >> stephen: yes. there's no other explanation. i mean, the government is buying up ammo so that following the economic collapse, they can outgun the american p

that won't happen in oklahoma. >> senator james inhofe, thank you so much for being with us. i know that you have much to do, as do other members of the congressional delegation. thank you so much. while we're waiting for the president in our last few seconds, you can just take a look over my shoulder and see the number of people who have just been allowed back in to what was their homes. and they are sifting through the rubble. each of them has a piece, a memento, something that they want. i was speaking just a short time ago to people across the street. and we were talking about how you always wonder what you would look for, and she was finding her photos. and now, the president of the united states. >> good morning, everybody. as we all know by now, a series of storms swept across the plains yesterday in one of the most destructive tornadoes in history. sliced through the towns of newcastle and moore, oklahoma. in an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed. dozens of people lost their lives. many more were injured. and among the victims were young children, trying to take sh

but this is not just something that has hatched from the mind of senator james "mountain" inhofe of oklahoma that he says to get people excited, even though if he does occasionally confuse the host. it's called the ammunition management for more obtainability act of 2013. among other things, it would prohibit the federal government to purchase or possess at any one time more rounds of ammunition than the monthly average of the number of ammunition during the period of january 1st, 2001, and ending on december 31st, 2009. in other words, the obama administration will henceforth be disallowed from buying anymore ammunition than the bush administration did. how terrifying would it be if the first black president bought more bullets than the previous white president? we have to stop that from happening, america. today, the other republican senator from oklahoma, senator tom coburn, withdrew at the last minute his proposed legislation that the administration is buying up all the ammo. senator coburn's legislation would have created a federal registry for federally owned guns and ammunition. it's

think congress tried it again after hurricane sandy in fact both oklahoma senators tom coburn and james inhofe worked hard to slash federal aid funds for hurricane sandy victims down to just twenty three billion dollars about thirty percent of what was requested by affected states but again those efforts failed when republicans in congress were butte by one of their own new jersey governor chris christie. for the victims to say have you jersey new york connecticut it's been sixty six days and the wait continues. there's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims the house majority and their speaker john boehner so here we are good another disaster another debate brewing over to disaster relief with republican lawmakers including lawmakers from oklahoma suggesting that the whole disaster relief hostage until they get some austerity elsewhere and all indications are with a plan that rapidly warming that massive deadly tornadoes were not only happen again but happened with greater frequency so if centers suddenly want to rewrite the rules about federal disaster

in the republican address, oklahoma senator james inhofe thanks the nation for its prayers and supportday's deadly tornado in his home state. he recalls past natural and man-made disasters in oklahoma and says that while the state was hard hit, "we're not knocked out." weekend >> we'll be right a surveillance video shows the exact moment when a washington state bridge collapsed after being struck by an 18-wheeler thursday night. investigators are now trying to figure out what caused vehicles tumbling into the ska-git river. investigation. >> a bridge carries 65,000 cars a day submerged in water. >> ice cold water was rushing into my vehicle and the velocity that was when the panic hit and i was asking myself am i going to make it appeared in >> the eye 5 bridge is functionally obsolete according to the state. >> compared to a lot of other bridge this bridge is a youngster. >> we would not have this bridge open if it was not safe. would not allow drivers to be on them if they were not safe. >> fixing the bridge is expected to cause $50 million and cause significant traffic delays. >> st

argument about fast and furious because that's going to take a completely different direction james inhofe and frank lucas the senator and state representative were both republicans who oklahoma have sponsored a bill that would forbid the administration from buying more ammunition over a six month period because alex jones came up with this theory that the government you know goes for about a billion bullets a year i mean we've got wars going on and yet every single police agency in the country you know every police officer is required to recertify you've got to basically go through a billion bullets a year no big deal and the government buys them and dog to get good prices alex jones turns this into a oh my god look at their stockpile no we're not stockpiled we've always been buying this many and somehow this this whack job conspiracy theory has turned into a piece of legislation from jim inhofe and frank lucas patrick why why would these people put their reputations on the line like this as the republican party totally lost it no i don't think that's the case i mean i tend to see where y

joining us now is republican senator james inhofe of oklahoma. senator, welcome.od to have you here today, sir. i know it's a rough day for you and all of your fellow oklahomans. tell me what you're thinking. >> well, it is just amazing when you stop and realize the things we can't explain. in 1999 i was there, the same town, moore, oklahoma, the same size, about the same devastation, perhaps a little bit worse this time, and, followed the same track coming through there. then on sunday night, keep in mind now, we've been talking about the tornado in moore, oklahoma, we had one in shawnee, oklahoma. that is, my family, my wife, and son-in-law were looking to the west to watch this coming so we could get ready to take cover. when my son looked up in the sky and saw a piece of paper coming down, it was a picture, this is the picture right here of a little boy, about a four by six-inch picture. it came all the way, 80 miles away from shawnee to, tulsa, oklahoma. things that happen that we can't really answer. i have to say that we're getting full cooperation of every

. >> hello, i am senator james inhofe from the state of oklahoma. let me begin by telling those who lost loved ones during the tragic tornados in our state how much we love you guys. my family and i continue to pray for you, we pray for you every day. i have been in constant contact and communication with the oklahoma emergency management, federal emergency management officials, and the leaders of the oklahoma national guard -- that the direct needs of those affected on the ground are being met. oklahoma has been hit hard, but we are not knocked out. 14 years ago on may 3, 1999, an eerily similar tornado struck the same area of moore, oklahoma, and again in 2003. the images and the stories from the storm earlier this week were nothing new. oklahoma will persevere and overcome this tragedy as we've demonstrated in the past. after the oklahoma city bombing you all remember that in 1995 -- people saw the many ways oklahomans took care of each other, from running towards the bombing instead of running away to donating their blood, their time, their mone

. >> for the republicans, oklahoma senator james inhofe thanked the nation for its prayers and support following monday's deadly tornado. he says while his homestate was hit hard, it was not knocked out. >>> it's a magical start to the memorial day weekend. disney parks kicked off the summer with a 24-hour party. it was an all-nighter inside the magic kingdom last night. hundreds of people who spent the night outside rushed into the park when it opened at 6:00 a.m. all three disney resorts plan to stay open for 24 hours. it's the first all-night opening for all three parks. disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. >>> five climbers are missing and feared dead in the world's third highest mountain. bad weather is hampering the search and preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp in nepal. it is believed the climbers were descending when they slipped. >>> military fighter jets intercepted a plane after two passengers moved towards the jet's cockpit in england. the two were arrested when the plane landed. 297 passengers were on board. so far police found no suspicious

senator james inhofe joins us from washington. appreciate you being with us.he entire population of your state. appreciate it, sir. our coverage of the devastating storm will continue, right after this break. >>> all right. welcome back, everyone. to cnn's live coverage of the aftermath of the oklahoma tornado. live pictures of the recovery effort, the rescue effort right now. looking at these workers picking through the rubble there. you can see some pickaxes i think. people lifting up pieces of the debris by hand. doing this all night. into the morning right now, and a lot going on here. also a news conference with the president. the president will speak at 10:00 eastern time today, a news conference at noon. stay with cnn, all day for all the twists and turns of this developing story, our live coverage of the aftermath of the oklahoma tornado continues with chris cuomo right now.

james inhofe has talked about use of the "i" word, impeachment word.ht to most extreme darrell issa yesterday still trying to make the case that the president has not called this terrorism, using that word. so here's darrell issa on fox news yesterday. >> so i think when you look at official correspondents from the -- correspondence from the about the to the president of libya which was testified to under oath the words being used carefully like you just said, act of terror and act of terror is different than a terrorist attack. the truth is if this was a terrorist attack, this had al-qaeda added. >> bill: this is where president obama is soft on national security because he used the phrase act of terror rather than the phrase terrorist attack. >> i gotta say "the washington post" fact check agrees with darrell issa on this one. that it is not the same. however, it is -- it is semantics. >> bill: it is nuts. you know what president george w. bush calls the attacks on september 11th, 2001? >> what? >> bill: act of terror. two days later maybe it was two

today it was republican senator james inhofe who got to do it.his is why he says we should impeach president obama today. >> of all the great cover-ups in history, we're talking the pentagon papers, the iran c contra, watergate and all the rest of them, this, i said back on november 28 on fox, is going to go down as the most serious, most egregious cover-up in american history. people need to know how serious this is. to me -- it may be starting to use the i word before too long. >> i word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> yeah. i don't know why they have to spell it. they have been saying the i word since march of 2009. why get all nervous about spelling it out now? the biggest cover-up in american history, the latest reason that we must impeach president obama, according to senator jim inhofe in oklahoma, is, of course, benghazi. last fall the u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed. there have been a lot of attacks on u.s. diplomatic series abroad. there were a dozen attacks on the embassy abroad during the bush administration, fo

have a very unique situation here we also have the politicians you know everybody talks about james inhofe will we know that in the hall is a sellout we we know. you can't count on him for anything to even tell us the truth about what he knows but we expect our president not to sit on the fence as we have this conversation we don't know whether or not this is a president that would stop keystone in this poll at this point so we have a very complex system that is not easy to digest it's not easy to analyze is clearly as maybe you can in a place like europe or asia where it comes to things like climate change is there also an issue of false balance and i see this not just in the school warming debate . debate in quotes but also in. whether it's this whole been god you know hyped you know right feigned outrage or the i.r.s. or whatever it may be. you know oh we're telling one side of the story we've got to tell the other side but you know as if the both sides were fifty fifty and sometimes it's like really it's ninety ten or ninety five five in terms of reality right well i mean it's almost l

today on a radio program senator james inhofe -- >> are you two guys enjoying your conversation? >> start discussing the "i" word, impeachment. listen to this. >> of all the great cover-ups in history, we're talking about the pentagon papers, the iran/contra, watergate, and all the rest of them. this, i said back on november 28th on fox, is going to go down as the most serious, most egregious cover-up in american history. people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> oh, okay. the "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> danielle, is that farfetched to you? >> yes. i think that what he said was silly, but i also think that by trotting out all of these straw men, you're failing to address the central problem here which is "a" the president of the united states went out when he knew there was a terrorist attack. and he said that it was all about a demonstration and a youtube video. the ambassador to the u.n. did the same thing. so did hillary clinton. i'm less excited about the talking points and much more excited about why they felt the need to lie for five days

your fellow oklahoman senator james inhofe has offered this view. great cover-ups in history, we're talking about the pentagon papers, the iran/contra, watergate, all rest of them, this i said back on november 28th on fox, is going to go down as the most serious, most egregious cover-up in american history. people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> oh, okay. the "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> now, he certainly sounds like he'd like to impeach the president. do you agree with him, sir? >> no. i have a lot of respect for senator inhofe, and we agree on most issues, but frankly, i don't think this -- it's serious. four americans are dead. >> nobody's disputing -- >> if you'll let me finish my point, i don't think this is the equivalent of watergate or iran/contra. there's a difference when somebody in the white house is ordering these things. this isn't something someone ordered or intended. if you read the pickering/mullens report, which is i think interesting, but not quite complete, you know, they say nobody deliberat

and this is what james inhofe said. >> using the "i" word before too long. >> "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. in all of the great cover-ups in history. the pentagon papers, iran-contra, watergate and all the rest of them, this is going to go down as the most serious, most egregious cover-up in american history. >> with all due respect, i think this is a serious issue. i will even give the president the benefit of the doubt on some of these things. we need a select committee. we need a select committee -- >> do you blame hillary clinton? >> i think the secretary of state has played a role in this. >> you think she had a role in those e-mails? >> she had to have been in the loop some way. but we don't know for sure. but i do know that her response before the foreign relations committee, who cares -- she says, who cares how this happened? in a rather emotional way. a lot of people care, i say with respect to the secretary of state. >> would you like to see her back on the hill testifying again? >> oh, sure. we need a select committee that interviews everybody. i don't know what level o

. >> bill: the only turd in the punch bowl if you will was james inhofe who -- senator from oklahomatom coburn, as we discussed yesterday voted against to increase funding for fema and voted against any help for people from hurricane sandy. inhofe defended that decision yesterday. he wants all of the money he can get for oklahoma but he says we're not going to cheat like those people in new jersey do. >> well, let's look at that. that is totally different. supposed to be in new jersey. they had things in the virgin islands. they were fixing roads there. putting roofs on houses in washington, d.c. everything was throwing in and exporting the tragedy that took place. that won't happen in oklahoma. >> bill: oh, i see. so hurricane sandy did damage in more than one state so therefore, that was different or territory. we can't help them. but we want all of the help we can get for oklahoma. total, total -- >> be careful. i would like to see how the politicians from new york and new jersey addressing getting aid to oklahoma. let's see if they stone wall and make all kinds of statements. >>

offering emergency help you are talking about an area no immediate reports of injuries you had james inhofe already saying that he would be surprised looking at the damage from just the images that have come out so far that this did not lead to fatalities or serious injuries. because it's massive in scale. as janice mentioned this series of storms is going all the way across the country and could provoke and spur more twisters throughout the night as emergency crews are now still in the search and rescue efforts to try to get people trapped in some of these buildings out. obviously the images of an elm tri school being hit by massive tornado are chilling. and we hope that the original reports of no serious injuries are accurate. to hear them being pulled out from underneath cars on top of the building, suggests that we could be in for a long, few hours. i want to bring back janice dean. janice, to describe to someone one of these tornadoes in its massive ability to cause damage, unless you have been through one of these things or know someone that has, it's almost tough to put words to it.

>> stephanie: senator james inhofe, you remember when hillary had to testify about benghazi. type of forceful attitude, something that's not normally custom that you don't hear from women as much as you do men and she came out so forcefully and you could tell it was orchestrated at the time she said it, he says in a radio interview. [price is right game sound] >> stephanie: roger in michigan you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: how you doing stephanie? loft show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i blame the democrats for a lot of the problems that the president is going through right now. i'm a democrat myself. i'm just sorely disappointed in him. they don't stand up for themselves. this very no backbone just like the governor of massachusetts said. you know, they -- the president has had the fewest amount of his appointees confirmed any president in modern history. >> stephanie: for instance the head of the i.r.s. might be helpful. >> caller: exactly. that is part of the problem. but you don't hear the democrats saying anything about it. they did the same thi

the proposal from republican senator james inhofe of oklahoma would have converted the supplemental nutritionale program into grants which each state would decide how to use that money. more than 47 million people using food stamps costing taxpayers $78 billion which is double the cost since 2008. >>> the senate judiciary committee has passed the immigration overhaul bill on a bipartisan vote of 13-5. that bill would create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants and they say strengthen border security. the bill will go before the full senate next month. those are your headlines. i'm harris faulkner. back to ashley and lori. i'm sad. last one of the day. lori: you're sad for wrapping up a workday? ashley: get out of here. enjoy. lori: enjoy your freedom. ashley: run, don't look back. thank you, harris. >>> new developments in that irs scandal. one top official invoking the fifth amendment on capitol hill and another trying to avoid the spotlight. rich edson is in washington with the details. rich? >> not as easy as it seems. at her first hearing on the matter the director o

it was james inhofe, the republican from oklahoma, who brought up what he referred to as the "i" wordhe board. so from peter to my panel, political reporter now for "the washington post"ened and sheaf thelma. welcome to both of you. >> so aaron, i'm going to begin with you. lots of accusations, lots of finger pointings going on. what does it immediate to do going forward? >> it's clear there were mistake made. the administration cleatly is dealing with a very difficult situation. we've now got a very skeptical press corporation, asking tough questions, and so it's a very tough situation for them right now. i think republicans need to be cautious here. the more that democrats can say it's a political witch-hunt i think distracts from very valid questions. >> do you think they may have done that thus far? it does gives off the sense about hillary clinton and trying to derail aspirations if she does have them. >> hillary clinton did not get mentioned a lot. it wasn't until the end she became a major focal point. on some level it's. >>> steve, you're a very seasoned reporter. i want your

senator james inhofe -- i knew this would be good!y news" ♪ ] the other senator from oklahoma. he said on tuesday that federal aid will be totally different than the hurricane sandy aid that he voted against. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] don't point out hypocrisy in that. just trust him. it's different. >> it is completely different. it is his red state. not the stupid blue state. >> coincidence. >> stephanie: everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. that won't happen in oklahoma. >> exploiting the tragedy? >> stephanie: here's why. because he's a dummy is why. he said the sandy relief bill was supposed knob new jersey but they were getting things in the virgin islands fixing roads there, putting roofs on houses in d.c. inhofe and coburn wanted to slash aid to victims of hurricane sandy. at the time, inhofe said he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a slush fund. >> when it is for his state -- >> stephanie: he's not so good with the science fun facts. while northeastern states like new york and new

. >> so, noelle, my colleague chris jansing asked james inhofe about his vote against a hurricane sandyre getting things, for instance, that were supposed to be in new jersey. they had things in the virgin islands. they were fixing roads there, putting roofs on houses in washington, d.c. everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. that won't happen in oklahoma. >> so, is that a legitimate response? he's basically echoing the exact sentiments of his fellow republican senator from oklahoma saying the same thing, that they're loading this stuff up with pork. >> that's one of the unfortunate things about politics, you know, in the midst of disaster, sometimes we have to hurry and get something through, you have a lot of people adding pork, adding little things to it so, no, we need to help the victims of oklahoma. this is horrible. this is what we need to do. we need to do it fast and hopefully we're not going to play darned politics with people that are actually in need, americans in need, of help and help now. >> right. jill, no shortage of government controversie

meanwhile, in new jersey, chris christie has said look, we don't like the fact that tom coburn and james inhofeng funding money to the victims of hurricane sandy but we don't want to hold it against the people of oklahoma. chris christie saying we should send them all of the help that we can. good for him! again, great to see you today. the team is here. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> yes sir. >> good morning. >> bill: with alichia cruz there on the phones and cyprian bowlding has us covered on the video cam. everything good. >> frankly, i'm glad to hear we're all going to heaven now. it's okay. >> bill: so all of my family members will be there now. not just the catholics but the atheists as well. >> it almost sounds like the pope was making it up. someone asked him and said what if i'm an atheist and the pope said everyone, everyone, all you have to do is do good. if you do good "we'll find a meeting point." that's how he put it. all right. >> bill: it does raise the question then about why go through all of the tra la la of going to church and doing the ceremonies and giving money to the c

. >> stephanie: james inhofe. >> yes. >> stephanie: i is criticizing the liberal media for using this it's like the magic pixie dust aspect? or is it just flat out carbon tax? >> stephanie: he said -- i love this. we're being hit by tornadoes long before anyone talked about climate change. tornadoes. >> i believe he's being hit by tornadoes. >> stephanie: even before it was called global cooling before it became global warming. same thing happened last week, 14 years ago 30 years ago. >> what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things i've ever heard. at no point were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. >> a tornado -- >> it hit before! >> hal: and they were lot deadlier -- >> because the houses were made out of spit. now we're building -- >> stephanie: whatever the first little wolf -- first little pig built their house out of. >> out of papier-mache. >> hal: the death toll in this situation was incredibly high. even beyond the fact that we had built better reinforced buil

we want to bring in from capitol hill, senator james inhofe, a republican from oklahoma.hat state and a republican. thanks for joining us, senator. first, just your general impressions on what's happened and the response since yesterday afternoon. >> well, first of all, you have to keep in mind, several of us were there in 1999. and it's just remarkable, it went right through the same area, the same level of devastation. and so, the area of devastation, whether it's joplin or pitcher or shawnee, oklahoma, it's all completely a wipeout. this happened to be worse, because it's a larger area, two miles across and several miles long. so what i have seen is the same thing everyone else who's watching this now have seen. it's just absolute devastation. until you've been there, you can't really appreciate it. right now, and i talked to some of the emergency people who are there in oklahoma just a minute ago, they're still at this tower plaza school, trying to see if there are other children, trying to match up missing parents with missing children is a real serious problem. so i