comply. and so the white house is not able to control this the way that they were able to control in other investigations where they were really able to kind of clamp down on anyone that would talk about the white house goings on and talk about the white house in a way that might not be approved by the president. and garrett, there are a lot of names that our viewers with whom may not be familiar coming up in the next few days. testimonies that were resched e rescheduled because of memorials for congressman cummings. but we have some names on here, laura cooper, alexander vindman, who are these people. of those on the screen, i think the most interesting one is laura cooper. she is an official at the pentagon. she would be if she does show up tomorrow the first defense department official to testify in this probe. why is that important? thus far we somewhere seen only former officials and current state department or foreign service officers showing up to
penned a touching tribute to cummings in the washington post. she says in part, in the house elijah was our north star. he was a leader of towering character and integrity who pushed the congress and country always to rise to a higher purpose. reminding us why we are here. as he said whenever he saw that we were not living up to our founders vision for america and meeting the needs of our children for the future, we are better than this. in lieu of flowers, cummings family is asking for donations to the elijah cummings youth program. i had always heard stories about my great grandfather, but family can only tell you so much. about your history. i found some incredible records about samuel silberman. passenger manifests, census information, even wwi draft registration cards. the records exist. they re there, they re facts. that made it so real for me,
the u.s. attorney s office for massachusetts says michelle is the third parent to agree to a plea change this week. prosecutors say she agreed to pay college scam mastermind william rick singer over a half million dollars on behalf of her three children. her plea hearing is scheduled for monday. and right now, the country continues to mourn the loss of a true american patriot. maryland congressman elijah cummings passed away this week at the age of 68. the body of the chairman of the house oversight committee will lee in state in the national hall of the u.s. capitol next week. a formal memorial service is scheduled thursday morning followed by a public viewing. all that knew or interacted with congressman cummings described him as compassionate, generous, selfless and an endless fighter of justice. house speaker nancy pelosi
her background. elijah cummings was on the forefront of the impeachment inquiry, she got a bad back on some of this. this with the committee i served as staff director and counsel on or five years and worked closely with elijah cummings. a quick nod to him during those days, when we were the republican majority and they were in the minority he was focused on counter narcotics. that was where he put his real effort but turned it over to oversight of the president and impeachment. carolyn maloney i feel with the rest of the membership on that committee are going to make a hard left turn if you can believe it. you will see them trying to make new tracks in the direction of subpoenas. i would not be surprised if they follow the star chamber idea being used by the intelligence committee where they do everything in private and the american public doesn t know what is going on. i expect your politics all the
road again? it strikes a lot of people is pure politics and that of the what it is and it is very disappointing. the oversight committee is not meant to be a spear by which you attack the white house or the president. it is intended to go after waste, fraud and abuse and the functioning of federal programs and that is what we did early on, that is what i did for five years. it is disappointing to see this turned average americans can shake their heads and say here we go again, oversight trying to catch up with the intelligence and judiciary committee trying to get the president first. heather: let s look at her background which includes 14 terms in congress, a champion for women s rights, vocal donald trump critic and previously supported impeachment. i am curious what you think this will do for this impeachment inquiry. where do we go from her at the helm? elijah cummings was certainly doing what pelosi wanted him to do but i think this will put gas on the fire. i think you will see