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Members on the committee? >> chris, i think its a colossal waste of time. weve had four bipartisan investigations of this already. i dont think it makes sense, really, for democrats to participate. i think its just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources. >> in this internal debate that democrats have been having, congressman schiff has been on the side that said, boycott the republicans benghazi committee. call the committee what we think it is, which is a circus and a stunt ...

For the boycott strategy over the elijah cumming strategy. and while that debate played out inside the democratic party, the democrats have also been negotiating with house speaker john boehner about what the committees going to be like and how its going to function. today nancy pelosi announced that those talks with the speaker were over and that democrats had made a decision about what to do. and i have to say, i did not see this coming. not like this. >> over the past two weeks, we have engag...

Independent commission, a la the 9/11 commission. but when republicans said no, democrats boycotted what the m ares were doing. they refused to join in. and that republicans-only committee produced a report that contained all of two sentences on how president bush maybe, maybe could have responded a little better to hurricane katrina. and when republicans reached that laughably partisan conclusion, democrats had the advantage of not having been dragged into it. they never signed on to that. and ...

She said the committee is going to be totally unfair, and she said, that is all the more reason that democrats should participate in it. because being there, she said, is how they tend to prove that the committee is an unfair, biased disaster. but if the first big surprise is that nancy pelosi said that her party got nothing, its totally unfair, so lets join it, take a look at the democrat she picked to occupy the democrats five seats on the committee. elijah cumming gets one of the seats. so th...

I think its just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources. >> in this internal debate that democrats have been having, congressman schiff has been on the side that said, boycott the republicans benghazi committee. call the committee what we think it is, which is a circus and a stunt and a waste of time. congressman schiff speaking out for the boycott strategy over the elijah cumming strategy. and while that debate played out inside the democratic party, the democrats have also ...

For fair hearing and process, to try to bring some openness and transparency to whats going on. >> i thought she was going somewhere else at the beginning, but nancy pelosi said today that the democrats have finished negotiating with republicans about this committee, about how to make it more balanced, more fair. the democrats got nothing out of those negotiations. she said the committee is going to be totally unfair, and she said, that is all the more reason that democrats should participate in...

Unfair, so lets join it, take a look at the democrat she picked to occupy the democrats five seats on the committee. elijah cumming gets one of the seats. so the author of the elijah cumming strategy will himself be on the panel, but so will the guy who articulated the boycott strategy on fox news, adam schiff, the same california congressman who not only argued that democrats should not go along with this, but made that argument on fox news. congressman adam schiff is going to be one of the fiv...