mr. gowdythank you. do you pronounce it shkreli? mr. sckreli: yes, sir. mr. gowdy: i want to make you understand, you are welcomed to answer questions and not all of your answers are going to subject you to incrimination. do you understand that, don't you? mr. sckreli: i intend to follow the advice of your counsel, not yours. mr. gowdy: i am just making sure you get the right advice. you do know that not every disclosure can be subject to the fifth amendment assertion, only those that you reasonably believe could be used in a criminal prosecution or lead to evidence -- mr. sckreli: i intend to use the advice of my counsel, not yours. mr. gowdy: do you also understand that you can waive your fifth amendment right? you gave an interview to a television station in new york where, if i understood you correctly, you couldn't wait to educate the members of congress on drug pricing and this would e a great opportunity to do it so do you understand you can waive your fifth amendment right? mr. sckreli:

mr. gowdy: mr. speaker, i am stunned that a conversation about an album he purchased could subject him to incrimination. mr. chaffetz: well, i the gentleman is correct. i understand that mr. shkreli is under indictment and is not the intention to ask him questions about that topic. mr. gowdy: so if i understand it correctly, we're not going to ask him questions that are going to be in the subject matter of his current pending criminal charges, and if we were to get close to one in the gray area, he's welcome to assert his fifth amendment privilege there and if we stay away from the subject matter of his indictment, he is -- some could argue has a legal obligation to answer under casgar vs. united states but certainly has the right to do so as he did in the television interview and he does quite frequently on social media. mr. chaffetz: correctly. >> mr. chairman, may i be recognized for a moment? mr. chaffetz: no. you're not allowed to. under the house rules you have not been sworn in. >> i understa

mr. gowdyum he purchased could subject him to --mination area incrimination. >> the gentleman is correct. it is not the intention to ask him questions about that topic. mr. gowdy: so if i understand him correctly, we are not going to answer --ask him questions that will be in the subject matter of his pending committal charges, and if we were to get close to one or in the gray area, he is welcome to assert his fifth amendment privilege , and some would argue he has a legal obligation to answer , but certainly he has the right to do so, as he did in the television interview, and as he does quite frequently on social media. >> may i be recognized for a moment? >> no. under the house rules, he is not been sworn in. >> you are not recognized, and you will be seated. it's: -- senator chafee it's: the genera just gentleman is correct. we now recognize mr. cummings for any questions. mr. cummings: two are very much. let me say for the record that i -- thank you very much. let me say for the record tha

. >> i'd like to yield time to congressman gowdy of south carolina. >> thank you, mr. chairman. is it pronounced shkreli? >> yes, sir. >> see, you can answer some questions. that didn't incriminate you. you want to make sure you understand you are welcome to answer questions and not all your answers are going to subject you to incrimination. you understand that, don't you? >> i intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours. >> i just want to make sure you are getting the right advice. you do know that not every disclosure could be subject to the fifth amendment assertion. only those that you reasonably believe could be used in a criminal prosecution or could lead to other evidence. >> i intend to use the advice of my counsel, not yours. >> do you also understand that you con waive your fifth amendment right? you gave an interview to a television station in new york where, if i understood you correctly, you couldn't wait to come educate the members of congress on drug pricing, and this would be a great opportunity to do it. do you understand you can waive your fifth amendm

gowdy. jeb bush will be campaigning with his mother here in the upstate. he's holding a meet and greet with former first lady mrs. barbara bush in spartanburg. that's at wade's restaurant at 9:30 a.m. they will then go to greenville. he'll be holding a meet and the kroc community center. central is the next stop on the list. the other candidates are holding events in the low country, midlands. allyson: marco rubio will be in clemson today. a rally will be at 7:30 at clemson's madren center. ahead of the south carolina republican primary, nbc's lester holt will anchor nightly news from south carolina tomorrow. as soon as the polls close at 7:00, we will bring you full coverage of the election results. live reports from across the upstate from candidate watch parties. we'll cover this through news 4 at 11:00. with everything you need to know about the south carolina gop primary right here on wyff 4 and on our mobile app. geoff: on the democratic side, congressman jim clyburn is expected to endorse hillary clinton today cnn is reporting the congressman :00 this morning at allen clyburn is the highest ranking electe

mr. rubio has, but instead, devoting all their energy to screaming liar and focusing on two fabrications -- number one, the fake facebook post that was allegedly put up retracting trey gowdy's endorsement. the facebook post was fake. we did not design it. yet the rubio campaign has over and over claimed we did. with zero evidence. falsely attributing misconduct to us with no basis whatsoever other than it did he narrative they would like to drive. and secondly, the rubio campaign is talking about the supposed push polls that have been going out. i have no idea if there have been push polls or not but our campaign has had nothing to do at that. what is a push poll? a push poll is a poll not conducted to measure public opinion, not conducted to determine where are the candidates in which messages are resonating. a push poll goes out very widely and designed to push negative messages to reach lots of voters. often, push polls are pushing information that is nasty and false. i don't know whether there have been push polls in this campaign, but i know our campaign had nothing to do with it. and yet, marco, his campaign sent out 500,000 robo calls with a major campaign surrogate

gowdy. allyson: here is a look at where the candidates will be campaigning today. jeb bush will be campaigning with his mother in the upstate. he and the former first lady mrs. barbara bush will be a wade's restaurant at 9:30 a.m. you're looking at video of bush campaigning in anderson last week. he'll be holding a meet and greet in greenville at noon at the kroc community center. that's on westfield street and noon. and his last event of the day will be a rally in central at 6:45. the other candidates holding events in the low country, midland and grandstand. geoff: marco rubio will be in clemson today for a rally. allyson: lester holt will anchor "nightly news" from south carolina today. geoff: tomorrow night as soon as the polls close at 7:00 we'll , bring you full coverage of the election results, live reports from across the upstate, from candidate watch parties. at 11:00 with everything you need to know about the south carolina gop primary right here on wyff 4 and on our mobile app. allyson: on the democratic side, congressman jim clyburn is expepeed to endorse hillary clinton today. cnn is reporting the congressman will make the announcement at 11:00

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mr. scalise: i'm not sure what the end result of the committee is. i think one of the things that's been so good about what chairman gowdy has done is that he's made it clear that they're just going to go and continue to get the facts. unfortunately they've had a hard time getting all the facts. all the parties involved at department of state should work harder to get all the information that's been requested. but they continue to uncover more things and they're going to keep doing their work until they get all of the facts out there for the public to see. about what happened in that tragic incident in benghazi where we lost four americans. billy: i'm sorry. questioner: good morning. amy with the american chemistry council. the toxic substances control act hasn't been reformed since it was first passed in 1976. and the senate passed a bill unanimously in december and the house passed a bill last june, 398-1, so it's hopefully going to be a success story. but i'm wondering if you can comment on any timing or efforts of house leadership right now to try to resolve those two bills and get something to the president's desk? mr. scalise: it is really impo

mr. scalise: i'm not sure what the end result of the committee is. i think one of the things that's been so good about what chairman gowdy has done is that he's made it clear that they're just going to go and continue to get the facts. unfortunately they've had a hard time getting all the facts. all the parties involved at department of state should work harder to get all the information that's been requested. but they continue to uncover more things and they're going to keep doing their work until they get all of the facts out there for the public to see. about what happened in that tragic incident in benghazi where we lost four americans. billy: i'm sorry. questioner: good morning. amy with the american chemistry council. the toxic substances control act hasn't been reformed since it was first passed in 1976. and the senate passed a bill unanimously in december and the house passed a bill last june, 398-1, so it's hopefully going to be a success story. but i'm wondering if you can comment on any timing or efforts of house leadership right now to try to resolve those two bills and get something to the president's desk? mr. scalise: it is really impo

mr. rubio has. but steady voting all of their energy to number one screaming liar. and number two, focusing on two fabrications. number one, this fake facebook post. that was allegedly put up, retracting trey gowdy'sorseme endorsement. the facebook post is a fake. we didn't design it. we had nothing to do with it. and yet the rubio campaign over and over and over again is claiming that we did. with zero evidence. fal falsely attributing misconduct to us with no basis whatsoever other than it fits the narrative they would like to drive. and is then secondly, the rubio campaign is talking about these supposed push polls. that have been going out. now i have no idea if there have been push polls or not. but what i know, our campaign has had nothing to do with it. we have said that multiple times. now what is a push poll? a push poll is a poll that is not conducted to measure public opinion. not conducted to determine, okay, where are the candidates, which messages are resonating, which ones are not. that's a typical poll that every campaign is doing. a push poll is something different. a push poll is something that goes out very, very widely and is designed just to push negative messages to reach lot

gowdy and governor haley. another big storyline this morning is governor jeb bush has suspended his campaign, and here is senator rubio addressing that and also saying the front-runner, mrcific on his policies. >> a lot of people that were on jeb's team are people we'll welcome on our team. people we've known for a long time because of longtime loyalties and relationships with the governor and we're obviously working with him. hopefully we can bring everybody together. we really need to step up and it can't be that he relies on -- the president has to know on day one about difficult issues that confront this country on the global stage and presidents have to be uniters. >> and south carolina has a real track record of picking presidents and gop nominees since 1980. every single person who won in south carolina went on to win the gop nomination except for newt gingrich in 2012. it's important is who can win a national election, and who would do best up against the front-runner hillary clinton. those numbers actually show that rubio would take her by 4%. trump would lose to her by 5%. >> it depends on your calculation. if you think the republican party needs to draw those

gowdy are establishment candidates? that's a challenge that just goes unheeded. >> a sign of the times in and we live compared to other candidates. >> well, no doubt. mr.tablishment candidates here. you have experience, you have youth, you have people looking forward fighting for the heart of the country and the future of this couldn't interest i. what the establishment means in south carolina usually doesn't go well with. we have proven that time and time again. >> talk about the area where we are, lexington county, so much made of south carolina picking presidents. very few counties in america have the track record that lexington does. they've picked every single eventual gop nominee in lexington county. marco rubio's not going to win lexington on saturday, is he? >> well, you know, history does have a way of repeating itself and a way of starting new. i hope it's going to start new with lexington with marco rubio. if it doesn't, that's fine. people are going to make their own decision and i respect that. i've chosen marco rubio for a lot of great reasons but there are other candidates, other people will identify with. i'm not going to challenge them