the hearing is getting under way. major fireworks. committee chair darrel issa led the attack. he ended the hearing and cut off the mike. the ranking democrat, elijah cummings. i listed to you for the last 15, 20 minutes. you can t cut off a congressman like elijah cummings. you can not have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that. and that was it? nope. mr. cummings said he had questions to ask. the chairman defended his decision to cut off proceedings. the former irs director he knew precisely that lawrence learner was go i think to feed the fifth. issa on fox news sunday said she s willing to testify. her attorney indicates now she will testify. we understand that she is again pleading the fifth. i m so tired of lois lerner and the fifth amendment and cummings and all of this. we know what she did. what we don t know is why she did it. do you know what happened? do you know what the irs did? okay. w
congressman like elijah cummings. you can not have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that. and that was it? nope. mr. cummings said he had questions to ask. the chairman defended his decision to cut off proceedings. the former irs director he knew precisely that lawrence learner was go i think to feed the fifth. issa on fox news sunday said she s willing to testify. her attorney indicates now she will testify. we understand that she is again pleading the fifth. i m so tired of lois lerner and the fifth amendment and cummings and all of this. we know what she did. what we don t know is why she did it. do you know what happened? do you know what the irs did? okay. when is the last time that this happened in a congressional hearing? ladies and gentlemen, seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee. i can see no point in going further. i have no expectation that ms. lerner will cooperate with us. mr. chai
punish dissent and imprison opponents. they rig your elections. all true. that s true? they perpetuate your power, terrorize and assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. i saw that all firsthand and there are many who would agree with that passage. and the only ones who wouldn t would be in the putin government. here s another quote. this is from steven cohn, we ve had on the show. very renowned scholar of russia for his career. and he says that we are essentially characterizing putin in way that s harmful to our u.s. interests and harmful of our understanding in what s going on in russia. it s not directed at our show, but he talks about how everyone wants to put him topless, which we do all the time, it s basically an editorial rule, all photos of putin need to be topless. he says, instead of embracing russian president vladimir putin s proposal to save washington from another
that s true? they perpetuate your power, terrorize and assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. i saw that all firsthand and there are many who would agree with that passage. and the only ones who wouldn t would be in the putin government. here s another quote. this is from steven cohn, we ve had on the show. very renowned scholar of russia for his career. and he says that we are essentially characterizing putin in way that s harmful to our u.s. interests and harmful of our understanding in what s going on in russia. it s not directed at our show, but he talks about how everyone wants to put him topless, which we do all the time, it s basically an editorial rule, all photos of putin need to be topless. he says, instead of embracing russian president vladimir putin s proposal to save washington from another disastrous war, influential segments of the american political media establishment are bent on discrediting him and thus in effect the alternative to war h
punish dissent and imprison opponents. they rig your elections. all true. that s true? they perpetuate your power, terrorize and assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. i saw that all firsthand and there are many who would agree with that passage. and the only ones who wouldn t would be in the putin government. here s another quote. this is from steven cohn, we ve had on the show. very renowned scholar of russia for his career. and he says that we are essentially characterizing putin in way that s harmful to our u.s. interests and harmful of our understanding in what s going on in russia. it s not directed at our show, but he talks about how everyone wants to put him topless, which we do all the time, it s basically an editorial rule, all photos of putin need to be topless. he says, instead of embracing russian president vladimir putin s proposal to save washington from another disastrous war, influential segments of the american