Noticeably thinner and riding a scooter, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was back in Washington this week after three months recovering from an infection in his left knee.
“I am excited to be back at work, and I am fueled by the outpouring of support I have received from my constituents and colleagues,” he said through a spokeswoman Thursday. “Now more than ever, we must defend our values and our democracy, and I am eager to continue this critical fight.”
Cummings (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had been missing from the day-to-day action on Capitol Hill even as his staff continued to pressure the GOP-controlled House for oversight on President Trump.
The 67-year-old was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Dec. 29 for the infection, caused by a ruptured cyst and gout, he said. He underwent two surgeries and intensive physical therapy. After time in an inpatient rehabilitation facility associated with Hopkins, he worked from his home in Baltimore, in a neighborhood he refers to as the “inner inner city .”
In an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night, Comey relived the drama. Did Giuliani, and by association the Trump campaign, asked Maddow, have forewarning from within the FBI — perhaps the New York office — of Comey’s consequential act of Oct. 28?
Comey replied:
Not that I know of, but I saw that same publicity and so I commissioned an investigation to see if we could understand whether people were disclosing information out of the New York office or any other place that resulted in Rudy’s report on Fox News and other leaks that we were seeing in the media.I don’t know what the result of that was. I got fired before it was finished, but I know that I asked that it be investigated.
He wasn’t alone in such a request. Also on Nov. 4, Democratic lawmakers asked Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to probe the matter. “It is absolutely unacceptable for the FBI to leak unsubstantiated — and in some cases false — information about one presidential candidate to benefit the other candidate,” wrote Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.) and John Conyers Jr. (Mich.).
Asked about his involvement by Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, Giuliani said, “This is the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ garbage all over again. … I spoke to no current FBI agents, ever, in the last 10 months. I’ve had no communication with them. I haven’t destroyed any of my emails. … The information I got from former FBI agents … was the FBI, from the time of the Comey investigation until the day Jim came forward with what he said were in revolt about an investigation they believe was being sabotaged.”
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