'Na, na, na, na, he’s talking Cummings said. The moment led to an eye roll heard ’round the world. 'Absolutely.' At this point, Cummings slammed down his gavel and shouted, Do not interfere with the witness Let him testify.' Jordan tried to speak and Cummings shouted him down again. I urge my GOP colleagues to join us and save our democracy. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who played Cummings’s foil as the senior Republican on the Oversight Committee, said he was in contact with Cummings about the panel’s business until his last days. POTUS, from the WH lawn, is openly calling on foreign powers to smear his political rival. House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan warned the White House on Friday that Chairman Elijah Cummings could initiate contempt proceedings against former personnel security.
But Jordan decided he was not done, insisting that he should get more time to file a “simple motion.” Cummings noted that Jordan had yielded his time and Jordan got increasingly heated, telling Cummings that he only got four minutes, while saying Cummings had seven.Īt this point, Plaskett appears to ― though inaudible ― implore Cummings to go on as he planned. This is a grave and solemn moment for our country. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) attempted to continue with the proceedings. Throughout the morning of Cohen’s testimony, Jordan questioned Cohen loudly and sharply, even lambasting the attorney at one point as the “patsy” for the Democrats.Īfter the minutes-long tangent where Jordan said that, the congressman yielded his time, and Rep. When Representative Paul Gosar called Cohen a pathological liar. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) amid the testimony of the former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, who appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday. Shame on you, he told Jim Jordan, after the committee’s ranking member suggested that Cohen’s remorse is nonexistent. Stacey Plaskett (D) made no effort to hide how annoyed she was with Rep.
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