That was AFTER he was denied his right to ask questions.
He wasn't denied. Issa asked him several times "what question?". Cummings didn't answer. After several times asking Cummings what question and getting no answer Issa closed the hearing.
Cummings then began speech making claiming he had to sit through 15 minutes of Issa talking. I didn't see the hearing from the beginning, I thought was asking questions, specifically about some new emails that the committee has recently obtained.
I watched Cumming's interview after the meeting and he said he wanted to ask Lerner for a "proffer". IDK the full legal ramifications to that, but do think it needs to be agreed upon by both sides before hand since remarks made in a proffer cannot be used in prosecution.
Otherwise, I've heard some legal eagle types, former prosecutors etc, discuss this and there appears to be valid and purely legal reasons for what Issa was doing. I didn't understand it well enough to explain here/now.
There also appears to be political reasons. Not like most of you are thinking. It's not for our or the media's consumption. It had to do with internal political pressure. Apparently Boehner is preventing Issa from taking some steps he wants. The ex-prosecutors etc said with the purely legal points Issa made etc Borhner may have to yield and we'll see Lerner brought up on contempt charges. Again, this all seems to be driven by some newly acquired emails Lerner authored.
Fern