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After the benghazi investigation was taken, he sounds like the sour grapes chairman. >> yes. yes, and when you look through the series of letters back and forth, starting in march of this year between chairman issa and the white house to chief of staff dennisis mcdonough, then council katherine rummler and her successor, counsel eggleston. he's asking for things where there's no real -- no allegation whatsoever of any wrongdoing, and the white house keeps coming back and asking for -- here's what we do, here's how the office is reconstituted. here's how we've done it. is there something else t...

He didn't want the public to hear that. i think that's so sad because it goes against the credibility of our committee. and it goes against the things that we stand for. and i think it's just very unfortunate. >> jonathan, we have watched chairman issa seemingly just go after this president, go after attorney general holder. i mean, this looks blatantly political to many of us. >> yes, it does, because so far a lot of chairman issa's investigations have come up empty. and when i wrote about this yesterday, talking to the same democratic source, you know, i paused at the fact maybe because the ...

This segment, the white house team went up to the hill, was there for 75 minutes, answered every question that was posed to them until the committee, the folks who were there, exhausted all of their questions, 45 in all. >> and issa didn't show. >> and issa was not there. >> congressman, with so much of the public viewing the congress in a very negative light and really as dysfunctional, does this kind of behavior beyond the politics, beyond your party and chairman issa's party, does this continue to tarnish the image of the congress? and take away from the respect that your committee should h...

Stop serving as a center stage for political theater and for fulfilling responsibilities under the constitution to conduct responsible oversight. >> house republicans have spent too much time talking about scandals and lawsuits and impeachment. it's time someone told them to get serious. and telling darrell issa to knock it off is a good start. joining me now, congressman elijah cummings, the top democrat of the house oversight committee, and jonathan cape, part of the washington post. thank you both for being here. >> good to be on with you. >> congressman, it sounded today like you are reall...

>> we do not simply haul in one of the president's top advisers at will. there must be a valid reason. there must be a predicate. there must be a justification. some evidence that this official engaged in some type of inappropriate activity. that foundation simply does not exist. >> congress can't just spina someone for no reason. and congressman issa didn't give any proof of wrongdoing before he speubpoenaed david seamus, b issa said that was no problem. >> we do not and should not need a smoking gun in order to look into whether or not taxpayer dollars that are being spent are being spent pr...