'I actually believe that Chairman Issa is out of control,' Cummings says. Cummings: Issa's 'going rogue'

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) says Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) Benghazi investigation as “out of control.”

“I think he is going rogue,” Cummings said in an interview with “Politics Nation” on MSNBC on Tuesday night. “I actually believe that Chairman Issa is out of control. I really believe that.”


Cummings, the Democrats’ top guy on the new Benghazi select committee, commented on Issa’s decision, as the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to subpoena Secretary of State John Kerry to testify before the oversight committee.

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According to a statement from the State Department, Kerry’s testimony to the oversight committee would “remove any need for the secretary to appear before the select committee to answer additional questions.”

Cummings, who is also a member of the oversight committee, said that Issa’s move to subpoena Kerry in June is “very, very political.” In the interview, he said he believes that all information related to Benghazi should be directed to the select committee instead of involving the oversight committee.

“I think what he wants to do is question them about why he isn’t getting documents as fast as he’d like,” Cummings told host Al Sharpton. “If Issa really wanted to hear about some records that he hadn’t gotten, it would have been far more effective to bring in the custodian of records or somebody who was actually in charge of records.”