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Efficient business as usual. issa gave his rationale to reporters outside the hearing room shortly after that. >> after she had established she was pleading the fifth, you still asked several questions yet you didn't give your democratic colleague the same opportunity. >> he was not intending to ask her questions. >> he didn't have a chance to ask. >> he said he had questions to ask. instead, he began making an opening statement even after the committee was adjourned. therefore, the committee stood adjourned. >> virginia congressman gerry connolly was present in the theatrics today. thank you ...

Limited to the irs and just terrible incompetence. >> by the way, if you were the real investigator, could you find out, anybody, could you catch the connection if there ever was one between the white house and the irs in cincinnati? could you find that out by inquiring? >> sure. >> by investigating? >> not by being the ig who just asked people, hey, did you commit a crime? they report back no. that's not an investigation. an investigator with subpoena power, whether congress -- >> why isn't issa doing this the regular way, sitting down in a room and trying to get evidence and coming forth wit...

Lay out the case against the administration. i think a lot of the ham handed loud noises right now distract from that and give the white house the out that they need to say, see, this is nothing more than a political circus. >> let's take a look at a few of those echoes that were talked ability, you wrote about, rod. this is congressman issa on sunday, the same day he went public with limited excerpts of transcripts. why just release tiny snippets of those interviews? issa was asked that question. here's his response. understand, these are in realtime. the administration is still, their paid l...

Interviews to do. >> we're getting to proving it. in all likelihood. it's just another issa -- here's another one. it's not just him. other republicans like hal rogers of kentucky, he's also on the committee, he chairs the house appropriations committee. they're making outrageous and unsupported claims when it comes to the white house's involvement, if any, in the irs controversy. here's representative rogers yesterday on fox. he was asked, what do you want to know from irs commissioner werfel, the new guy, due to testify later that day. let's take a listen. >> i want to know his explanations....

Who knows? why are we making the assumption they were directed by the white house? we don't know. >> that's why he's hurting his case. what's going to happen if he's not careful, keep demagoguing, the party is going to tune it out, assume it's pure politics. if they come up with something more, the public is not going to believe it. what the president has already conceded, this is a deplorable action by a bunch of bureaucrats, why cover that up with demagoguing? >> i know why. every time you trash government, you help the republicans. >> not in this case. >> well, i mean, i think chris is righ...