who said to his deputy, gregg, we re under attack. greg hicks who testified he knew this was a terrorist attack from the get-go, certainly the president of libya said so on national television. at the same time, susan rice was delivering false information. when you look at this train, you still have to ask the question, how did they go from the correct information to the incorrect information, and isn t 100 pages or more a pushback on the cia effectively telling the cia, you ve got to change your story? one final question, congressman, before i let you go. the exchange you had with eric holder today, the attorney general of the united states, on a totally unrelated matter, the secretary the labor secretary nominee. it was an angry exchange. and he was furious at you. i want to play the exchange for our viewers, because i want you to respond to what he accused you of. it was pretty biting. mr. cummings, my ranking
the situation room. the president will speak on the irs investigation. i ll also talk about the release of all of these benghazi e-mails. the irs scandal, much more. the veteran democratic congressman charlie rangel is here live in the situation room. also, there is another piece of bad blood developing between house republicans and the attorney general eric holder. he got a grilling today up on capitol hill. but he was also dishing it out. i m not going to stop talking now. you characterized something mr. chairman would you inform the witness as to the rules of the committee? it s too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of congress. it is unacceptable and it s shameful.
but when you throw all of this into the mix of what s going on on capitol hill, it s quite unusual. and they also renewed the long-running feud between eric holder and the judiciary committee. bad blood between attorney general eric holder and the republican controlled house judiciary committee, which was instrumental in the successful push to get holder cited for contempt of congress. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth reporter: holder went on offense early pointing out the chairman of the republican national committee asked for him to step down over sweeping subpoenas in a leak investigation involving the associated press. even though holder had actually taken himself off the case because he had been interviewed about the leak. why was such a broad scope approved? i mean, there s ban lot of criticism. the head of the rnc called for my resignation in spite of fact i was not the person involved in that decision. reporter: anger spilled over
reform. economic issues, job creation, he s got a debt ceiling that s about to explode at the end of july, if you will. he s got a lot of work to do. this is the last thing he needs, three separate investigations under way. i have to tell you, too, just sort of, again, taking the temperature on capitol hill, at the hearing today with eric holder, the easy part of his testimony was about the irs. because all they did is walk in and say, we re going to expand, make this investigation even bigger. we re going to get to the bottom of this. that was received very well by both democrats and republicans. so the irs, is apparently the easiest thing to fix, just by investigating and figuring out what went wrong. wolf, this has been a political sinkhole for the white house, all of these three things together. one of the most important commodities at the white house is time. and the people who run the white house right now are talking about this stuff. rather than the agenda that you re talki
investigators of one of those subcommittees, of the committee of the government and government reform special committee and eric holder when he started when they started going back and forth. that was pretty it was a rare moment. that was ugly. and i think joe would agree about how these two men feel about each other. he s going to join us by the way in the next hour, darrell issa. we ll get his reaction to after the president speaks about the irs we ll hear what he has to say. charlie rangel is also coming in to speak with us, one of the key democrats on the house ways and means committee. he s obviously been very, very concerned about what s going on. yeah. one of the things i m curious what joe things about the idea of recusal. the attorney general talked about how he recused himself from the leak investigation but there didn t seem to be any written record of recusal and i believe there is supposed to be. it depends on how you read the justice department regulations