country. reporter: the reverend was echoing many from around the country over the law enforcement. we expect him to touch on the theme in his remarks today. we also understand that maryland congress member eli cummings will be at the funeral. we are told the family of eric garner will be in attendance. of course we are waiting for answers about just what happened to freddie gray in the police van. the baltimore police department says they will finish their investigation into the incident this week. hand over the information on friday to the state s attorney office and they will decide how to proceed. we will watch for that. of course today is about honoring freddie gray. athena jones. thank you.
on darryl issa s committee. what is the smart answer? i don t know. because i could argue it both ways. crystal, what do you think? i was hoping this is what they would do or put somebody on the committee. as much as you would want to say this is not legitimate, i think republicans are doing enough to sort of delegitimatize themselves and we wanted to have those voices like elijah cummings to say what is going on and the republicans not the only megaphone there. i think the right call but i understand the instinct not to put anyone on. jonathan, the question that comes to mind the idea behind boycotting it, look. if you don t show up you deny the appearance of bipartisan. ship. i guess you would deny but could that have worked?
committee, what do you expect democrats on that committee to be? how do you think eli cummings or other members will handle the particular session? a bit of show manship on the democratic side? i think what you pointed out in the introduction definitely indicates their strategy which is they are going to point out stuff that is old. the stuff has already been surfaced in the countless number of hearings have already been held on this. the senate had a select bipartisan committee that produced these and produced a reports that concluded missteps that were made but ultimately nothing could have been done to necessarily have brought other military forces, you know, anyone in the area to protect the consulate when the attack happened. you ll see a lot of that and basically that is going to try to drive the democrats messages. listen, are we rehashing stuff we know or is there new stuff.
contractor force. they died after rushing to the aid of their colleagues. they were among four killed that day, including the u.s. ambassador to libya, christopher steven. seems appropriate to mention them at the start of this memorial day weekend. on wednesday this week, we learned that democrats in congress decided to cooperate with a special panel formed by house republicans to investigate the attack. nancy pelosi the house democratic leader appointed a full slate of five members to sit on the special committee and decided it would be better to have her members inside the proverbial tent to gain access to documents and other evidence. she picked five members. trey gowdy had any evidence before a previous committee and democrats can point that out. if the democrats claim to have new evidence the democrats ask ask why none of the investigations already taken place managed to turn it up. also just yesterday, secretary of state john kerry agreed to testify before a congression
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