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Is the guy in charge of that program, do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the white house was involved in the decision to screen tea party cases? answer, i have no reason to believe that. well, u.s. congressman elijah cummings joins us now. sir, this is so amazing because this wild goose chase is what it looks like now that supposedly led all the way to the white house although issa never gets you all the way there. he says im working on that one. i just claimed. and now hes calling...

In those arguments. that are -- embedded in the questioning of the choice of hong kong. the first is that china is an enemy of the united states. it is not. i mean, there are conflicts between the united states government and the chinese prc government. but the peoples inherently -- we dont care. we trade with each other freely. we are not at war. we are not in armed conflict. we are not trying to be. we are the largest trading partners out there for each other. additionally, hong kong, has a st...

A search is underway for a nay recruit ermising in florida almost two weeks ago. chef petty officer williams was missing after they got into a fight at a mall parking lot. he used his atm that night but no signs of him ever since. it is unusual because of his rank in the navy. police do not expect foul play. there are still more questions than answers about the irs tore getting of conservative groups. no one has been held accountable. elijah cummings says its cased closed. >> if it were me i wou...

Irs scandal, house republicans say not so fast. >> we need to make certain who was involved, who was orchestrating this, and hold those people accountable. certainly dont know that yet. this investigation is on-going. >> reporter: sunday, the oversite committee top democrat suggested the investigation was essentially over. >> based upon everything i have seen, the case is solved. and if it were me, i would wrap this case up and move on to be frank with you. danny wer fell is doing a great job. >...

The question continues about how far up the irs scandal rose through the government chain. on sunday ranking member of the house oversight committee elijah cummings said case closed. he released part of a transcript of an interview with an unnamed irs manager from cincinnati who is a self-described conservative republican. the manager said an employee brought him concerns about a tea party group filing and it was the manager who began the reviews. not washington. >> he is a conservative republic...

Than ours, is this case over? haveou solved the case of the irs and how this came to be? >> based upon everything ive seen the case is solved. and if it were me, i would wrap this case up and move on to be frank with you. in other words, i think we -- the irs by the way, the i.g. made some recommendations. those recommendations are being adopted by the irs. weve got a new commissioner -- acting commissioner. >> right. >> dannys doing a great job. i think were in great shape. >> changes but you t...

Created under bush and obama? hillary clinton support? we know rand paul doesnt already a debate going forward. not one now. >> good points there. also, perry, stay with me, some members of congress have been disputing president obamas assertions that congress was fully read in on the data of the operations. political friday reporting, on instance, its conversations with senate majority whip, dick durbin, saying committees had access to information about the program bus the average member of con...

Questions raised by this we need some kind of inquiry into what actually happened there. its hard to disentangle it at this stage. >> the thing that is hard to s disentangle is the nsas assertions to what appear to be training document, these slides. they have to count on their corporate partners for access to this information but they have been able to count on those corporate partners and therefore get this information in mass amounts providing this exponentially increasing proportion of the i...

We called the university of louisville for reaction to mary bankers assertions. the kentucky court of appeals ruling in her case validates what we stated all along that the employment decision made in this case was based on performance and nothing else. mary banker is appealing her case to the state supreme court. we also reached out to rutgers and they responded saying at no time was either rutgers or julie herman a named party in the action and the case was overturned on appeal by the court of...

So all of that stuff was going on in louisville, the same kind of stuff that is happening at rutgers. it may look different but the principle is the same. she dpnt handle. that i dont know why a university would think shes going to come in and clean up a mess. >> thank you, mary. we called the university of louisville for reaction to mary bankers assertions. the kentucky court of appeals ruling in her case validates what we stated all along that the employment decision made in this case was base...