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Members on the committee? >> chris, i think it's a colossal waste of time. we've had four bipartisan investigations of this already. i don't think it makes sense, really, for democrats to participate. i think it's 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 c...

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 committee's going to be like and how it's 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 engaged in good faith discussions with speaker boehner on the shape and standards of the select committ...

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 so, basically, they won a round. and everybody laughed off that report and it disappeared as the rep...

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, it's totally unfair, so let's 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 art...

I think it's 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 been negotiating with house speaker john boehner about what the committee's going to be like and h...