. >> john cummings. a writer. i know you just promoted liberty and individual responsibility. how do you feel about corporate responsibility? companies, who through negligence or error, dump chemicals into a river and declare bankruptcy, how can our economy deal with situations like that that does not just fall on the government to bail them out? >> you want to have reasonable loss so that people who pollute the neighbors property paid for damage they do, just as they were in a vehicle. real damage can be done. i think it is very important that we ask individuals and businesses to be responsible for real things they do. which is why tort reform, where the trial lawyers have been getting rich going after people force the that the guy who owned the house before them did the some of the stop where you the guy with the deep rockets, again texas has passed a great number of reforms in terms of that reform that have dropped the cost of notable care in the state, more doctors are moving into texas as a result. louisiana is about to pass the same collection of rules. i think getting t

. >> hi, john cummings, writer. i know you promoted liberty but how do you feel about corporate responsibility, a company through negligence or error dumps chemicals into a west virginia river and declares bankruptcy? how can our economy deal with situations like that, that doesn't just fall on the government to bail them out? >> ok. you want to have reasonable tort laws so people who pollute their neighbor's property or water along that line pay for damage they do just as if they ran a truck over you because real damage can be done. i think it's very important that we ask individuals and businesses to be responsible for real things they do, which is why tort reform, where the trial lawyers have been getting rich going after people for stuff that the guy who owned the house before them did. some of the stuff you go after the guy with the deep pockets, again, texas passed a great number of reforms in terms of tort reform that dropped the koss of medical care in the state. more doctors are moving in texas as a result.

. >> hi, i am john cummings. you mentioned wage subsidies of the earned income tax credit. i guess food stamps would fall into that same category. do they not just an trench low wages? do they not help keep wages low by corporate welfare? safety net just as a in general, do you think there should be time limits on how long a safety net is in place? wage -- i may have said well, anyway, what i wanted to say about the eitc is that it is a wage supplement come on like food stamps, which could be -- it is tied to your income. but the thing about the earned income tax credit, you earn those wages and then you get a little more. it is an incentive to work in a way that the other safety net programs -- and i am not knocking them, but i think we and weme food stamps need housing subsidies for people who can't afford housing -- but they are not the same thing. you are raising a very big question about is the safety net to generous. i don't think so. i think it might be better designed. but if people are hungry and people can't pay for the ordinary decencies of life, then i think we

. >> john cummings. a writer. i know you just promoted liberty and individual responsibility. how do you feel about corporate responsibility? companies, who through negligence or error, dump chemicals into a river and declare bankruptcy, how can our economy deal with situations like that that does not just fall on the government to bail them out? >> you want to have reasonable loss so that people who pollute the neighbors property paid for damage they do, just as they were in a vehicle. real damage can be done. i think it is very important that we ask individuals and businesses to be responsible for real things they do. which is why tort reform, where the trial lawyers have been getting rich going after people force the that the guy who owned the house before them did the some of the stop where you the guy with the deep rockets, again texas has passed a great number of reforms in terms of that reform that have dropped the cost of notable care in the state, more doctors are moving into texas as a result. louisiana is about to pass the same collection of rules. i think getting t

cummings who accepted his apology. today that whole i did things according to the rules defense seems even shakier. in a letter to house speaker johncongressman cummings backed by two constitutional law experts charged that amid all the confusion issa committed a fatal procedural error and failed to meet the prerequisites required by the supreme court to hold a witness in contempt. holding lois lerner in contempt of congress has literally been the whole point of darrell issa charade for the past few months. it is the thing that darrell issa has been angling to get out of this colossal waste of money and resources and time. so is darrell issa going to let something incidental, something trivial like a supreme court ruling stop him from trying to hold lois lerner in contempt of congress? absolutely not. after ten months of congressional inquiry, over 15 hearings, 400,000 documents which resulted in 255 irs employees spending 97,000 hours, 97,000 hours responding to congressional investigations all at a whopping cost of $14 million from the taxpayers, darrell issa will proceed. in a statement delivered near midnight last night, issa's

cummings was talking about in that news conference today. it's also important to say that the speaker of the house republican john boehner spoke before mr. ame out and was asked whether he supports what issa did. he said he does support him. he also said that in his view the chairman of the committee, daryl issa, acted appropriately. bottom line here is congressional black caucus supported by many democrats has offered a privilege resolution calling on sanctions against the chairman, congressman issa. not likely to go anywhere, as i can see it, simply because republicans control the house and issa's a republican, ashleigh. >> well, and the headlines if the republicans wanted the headlines to be about the irs, the headlines today are about the drama and not about the substance of the hearing. so, joe johns, thank you for that. do appreciate your reporting on it. we have another big special coming guns, gangs and the problem of what to do about them. all an ongoing battle in chicago. and cnn is taking you inside that battle with a brand new series. we've got a sneak peek and a talk with the chicago police superintendent just ahead. the day

representative and ranking member elijah cummings, ranking member democrat on the committee tried to ask a question. congressional black caucus called for house speaker johnhner to strip issa of his chairmanship over his behavior and house censure of issa over the incident. the resolution was tabled on a party line vote yesterday afternoon. then a few hours later cummings released a statement that chairman issa telephoned me and apologized for his conduct and i accented his apoll sw popologap. everyone was moving on except it turns out darrell issa. after this show went off the air last night, issa went on fox news to discuss the incident and sure did not sound like he was apologizing. >> after i adjourned, mr. cummings in what appears to have been a prestaged event, then went into this "i have a right to talk" and screaming and so on. the fact is that i did things according to the rules. i fell for the script and mr. cummings decided to have quite a hissy fit. >> it's fitting issa made those comments on fox news because fox news and darrell issa have been co-producers of sorts in an ongoing obama scandal series. issa issues the subpoenas and gets the tes

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cummings says he sees race even as a distraction. we're being told a similar situation involving issa shutting down the mike occurred in december and involved a white congressman, john. so issa at least once had to apologize to cummings because of a remark that could be con viewvietrued as insensitive. >> speaker boehner said issa was within his rights. >> do you approve of the way he acted and are you prepared to say he won't replace him as chair? >> darrell issa is the chairman. he's done an effective job as chairman and i support him. >> what is issa's explanation for what he did? >> it's pretty simple. he says this hearing was a continuation of the hearing that started in may and it involved that former irs official who had actually said she wasn't going to testify. fast forward to yesterday, and it was just a continuation of the hearing. so no need to allow cummings to have his extra five minutes to speak because he'd already done an opening statement. they say it was all about procedure, of course the fact of the matter is for one reason or another, mr. issa did not want mr. cummings to speak. >> and issa has voiced frustration before that he wants lo loisler

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john boehner to remove darrel isa from the oversight committee. this is to do with drama that started 24 hours ago at the oversight economy. issa had a confrontation with cummingsg. it continued overnight to today to what just happened on the house floor. let's bring in joe johns from washington now. bring us up to speed on recent developments. >> this was marcia fudge of ohio with the congressional black caucus. it may be bigger than that. she offered what's called a privileged resolution on the house floor alleging that the chairman of the house oversight and reform committee darrel issa acted inappropriately trying to turn off the microphones and trying to adjourn the meeting while congressman alijah cummings of maryland was raising objections to the way the committee was proceeding. marcia fudge essentially read this resolution. it doesn't have to be enacted immediately. bottom line, it's not likely to do far. the house of representatives as you know sort of operates as a place that is generated by force. republicans control the house of representatives. the bottom line on this is that it's escalation in the house of representatives over this fight, this sp

cummings demands to try to make it and issa cuts off his mike. today, the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus sent a letter to john boehner, to the speakerat was beyond the pale, that that conduct was beyond the pale, it was a violation of the rules and decorum of the house. she wanted him censured. she wanted there to be some actual sanction. she wanted a direction sanction from the house speaker to chairman issa. didn't happen. so then you had the democratic caucus attempt to do what you just show. to table a resolution condemning darrell issa. not only did that wind up getting tabled by a floor vote, they didn't let any of the democrats talk. so the irony is the democrats still didn't get to talk. >> earlier in the day, john boehner said it looked like it was a perfectly okay procedure to me. the democrats are saying no, no, you can't -- there's committee rules in the house that says you can't run a hearing that way. you can't adjourn without the consent of the committee, that's in their rules. so, you know, the ethics committee members abstained from this vote, as is proper in these kinds of things. but to see that happen the day aft

john boehner put the brakes on darrell issa and his committee a little bit after this blow-up with elijah cummingsw with elijah cummings and democrats have this legal information, which republicans right now are dismissing and calling it -- or a spokesman for issa is calling it flawed, it gives them some ammunition to go back. and if nothing else, lawrence, what this lapse will end up being is a legal question, if the house holds lois lerner in con emt to, it then goes to a federal judge and the house democrats will say is it really worth this amount of millions of taxpayer dollars to go through a parliamentary question like this in an investigation where the facts as they've come out have not directly linked the obama white house to the irs misgoings that occurred in cincinnati in 2010. >> the speaker of the house knows who stan brand is. i don't care what the republicans are saying, this legal analysis is being taken very seriously by the speaker tonight. i just want to read, stan a reaction from darrell issa's spokesman about this. a written statement where they say, chairman issa specifically

it's based off of was when john enforcement dot c because the new agent in st kitts was an everyday. because breaking news only. cummings. when situations. the snow. just me hp. use. as i r. welcome back before resuming alston had to get a sample of the stories will be falling for you at the top of the art beyond open to possibilities so far. it lists the disappearance of a malaysian airlines jet continues to confound investigate this. they're still flock to the border european osce ministers years have been invited to crimea don't wait for next sunday's moscow backed referendum to sever ties with staff. and soft and paralympic star asked if the story straight stone defendants box during testimony. teach him that the wounds inflicted on the crow. haha. call. welcome back for me to just joining us this is the false been good today. saudi arabia's firing on all cylinders in part one of our discussion we're talking about how elastic and recalled its ambassador to the top are there's more we talk about an hour with our guests outside so i'll yell fire chief calmness. for abu dhabi daily the national think being back with us

and you know, i want to play what john boehner said today in response to your letter to him about this issue. >> i am the house council reject the premise of mr. cummingsi do not agree with that analysis in any way, shape, or form. i've made clear on more than one occasion that miss lerner should testify or be held in contempt. >> will the house be made available to express his or her opinion? >> i'm sure we'll see an opinion at some point. >> congressman, i have your letter here, several pages long, very clear parliamentary specificity on every single item you're talking about. so when you hear the speaker just kind of brush it away with no specificity whatsoever, what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction is that, mr. speaker, if you have an opinion that goes counter to the opinion of experts in this area, folks that have written textbooks on this subject, folks who have the subject, if you have an opinion that is difference than theirs, let's have it. you've got ours. by the way, lawrence, once we obtained the opinions that we got from stan brand and mr. rosenberg, we then had five additional experts to agree with that, with the opinion. so if the

john boehner is standing behind issa. they're obviously not going to take away his chairmanship. >> yeah, they're not. as you said, issa called cummings after the whole incident at that hearing and apologized to him. and democrats last week, they ride to push a similar measure forward to force issa to come to the house floor and formally apologize. this is part of a long standing streak that democrats feel like issa has used his role as chairman of the house oversight committee to wage partisan fights. in 2012 withholding eric holder the attorney general in contempt over fast and furious. but various styles to holding chairmanship. and as josh mentioned, there are chair men who behave this way and run their committee this way. >> good to see both you of. thank you. >>> coming up, we'll talk to a freshman member of the house whose district sits on the border of mexico and who just isn't going for give up on immigration. and this comes as the president is renewing his focus on doing what he can with or without congress. >>> also any moment we could hear from john kerry after 11th hour negotiations. the referendum is this sunday and time

between congressman elijah cummings and committee chairman congressman darrell issa during this irs hearing. because members of the congress al black caucus are commanding johnhis leadership role after this happened yesterday. >> mr. chairman, you cannot run a committee like this. you just cannot do this. i want to ask a question. what are we hiding? what is the big deal? may i ask my question, may i state my statement? >> you're all free to leave. we've adjourned. but the gentleman may ask his question. >> for the past year, the central republican accusation in this investigation -- >> we're adjourned. close it down. >> joe johns has been following the developments since that heated exchange. and, joe, just curious, has there been any kind of response from house speaker john boehner over the calls to remove darrell issa? >> i think you could say disagreement at the highest level on this. minority leader pelosi had a news conference calling the behavior totally disrespectful toward cummings. house speaker boehner was asked about it and he said in his view chairman issa acted appropriately and he supports issa. in fact the house voted on a resolution brought

mike to ranking member elijah cummings yesterday during the hearing with a former head of the i.r.s. lois lerner. >> i'm not sure this move will change house speaker johnoehner, but you have to look at the politics. as you and i were discussing about this yesterday, if you are arguing this isn't political, this is a legitimate investigation, cutting off the the democrats on the committee isn't a good way to dispel a lot of those concerns and that kind of speculation. you know, also at c pac today i was hearing from paul ryan if we're in the majority we need robust debate, and again cutting off the mike of the ranking member, whether you're a democrat object republican doesn't further something like that. >> also on this letter, congresswoman fudge and the cbc is calling for boehner to take action. they're saying that issa also needs to publicly apologize for this as well. so thank you, mark, for reacting to a lot of developing and interesting news coming out of d.c. and around the area. thanks, mark. >> hey, thanks so much, tam rom. >>> from the first person to go inside oscar pistorius' home moments after reef-- we're going to take you live to south a

john boehner to remove congressman darrell issa as chairman of the oversight committee. yesterday, of course, issa staged an effort to berate former irs official lois lerner. and when elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on the committee tried to speak, issa cut off his microphone. >> i have a question. if you will sit down and allow me to ask a question, i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. >> well -- >> we have -- you represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation. it is absolutely something wrong with that, and there it's absolutely unamerican. >> hear hear. >> we had a hearing that is adjourned. i gave you an opportunity to ask you question. >> i do have a question. >> i gave you -- >> senator, what are you hiding? >> wow. what reminded me of this famous exchange over a microphone back in 1980 when then presidential candidate ronald reagan was involved. >> will the sound man please turn reagan's mic off? >> you turn my microphone -- >> i am have paid for this microphone. >> but the spectacle in congress yesterday did not sit well with members of the congressional black caucus. today they stood in unison o

john boehner remove republican congress darrell issa. the chairman of the house sight committee. very powerful position. the congressional black caucus said "issa abused his authority." in that hearing he clashed with elijah cummingsappened. >> i can see no point in going further. i have no lerner will cooperate. >> chairman, i have a statement. i have a procedural question, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, you cannot run a committee like this. you just cannot do this. this is, we're better than that as a country. we're better than that as a committee. i have asked for a few minutes to ask. >> i want to ask a question. what are we hiding? what is the big deal? may i ask my country? may i state my statement? >> the gentleman may ask his question. >> if you will sit down and allow me to ask a question, i am a member of the congress of the united states of america! i am tired of this! >> joining me now the man at the center of the exchange. congressman, good to have you with us. >> good to be with you, erin. >> should he lose leadership because of that? >> that is going to be up to the republican caucus. i would hope that they would look at the tape that you just showed and see that that is no way to run a committee. but

john boehner to strip him of his chairmanship. they sent a letter to that effect. then the democrats went on the house floor to reiterate the demand. the request was denied. chairman issa said congressman cummingsneeded to apologize. issa says he should have handled things differently. cummings accepted the apology. it's not the end of the story. in a pre-taped interview before or after reaching out to congressman cummings, this was the characterization while on fox news. >> the fact is that i did things according to the rules. i followed a script and mr. cummings decided to have quite a hissy fit. >> hissy fit? see, here is the problem with that chairman issa. apology or not, the issue was the treatment afforded to your colleague, who is the ranking member on your committee and a representative of the people like you are. it's a cliche and keeps reaching new lows. from you lie to the january brewer finger pointing in the face of the president to ted nugent calling the president a subhuman monogral to protesters that showed up at anti-obama rallies packing assault rifles. courseness, rudeness is hardly new to politics. president clinton's detractors called him a murderer. we had members of cong

cummings said he felt he had been shut out of the investigation. but like i said the crazy thing there, i think those guys get along in real life. >> politics, john.ine in real life -- >> look at us. everybody thinks we get along. >> we don't get along? >>> all right, this next story gives john shirreffs. >> i hate this. >> the s.a.t. going back to basics. big changes set for 2016. that means if your kid is a ninth grader they'll have new changes. the test will return to that 1600 scoring scale. it had been 2400 for several years. the essay will become optional now, not mandatory. students will no longer be penalized for wrong answers. the head of the college board, which administered this exam says standardized tests have become far too disconnected from the actual work of high school students. and a big knock on this test for so long had been that you know when you look at family income the more money a family has, the better you score on this test. they've really really tried to figure out, you know what that means and how do you give more accessibility to college and better scores for all kids? >> well it's the test prep franchise. >> right. >