vote for contempt tomorrow. it look like tomorrow will be an exciting day between the justice department and capitol hill. we ll see what happens. bret: thank you. you bet. not everyone in the democratic party is coming to the party. that is next in the grapevine. one cable news channel gives main stream media barbers some new ammunition. [ mechanical humming ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid.
said on what he heard attorney general has nothing to hide and wants to resolve the process. issa said it was time to turn over documents and attorney general wanted to give a brief something they still seem to be far apart. bret: we may hear from the attorney general in a few minute. you will see it live on fox. thank you. we still don t know who will be the next president of egypt. both candidates from last weekend s runoff are claiming victory but leland vittert tells us the man who ran the country for decades is said to be clinically dead. leland vittert live in cairo. hello. reporter: good morning, bret, from cairo. a little past midnight here. and the one source that is reporting president mubarak is clinically dead is the middle east news agency. you heard that from a few other diplomatic and intelligence sources. although they cannot confirm he is clinically dead. they slin think he. is whether he suffered a
clear indication of what can happen if a prosecutor is given single case to pursue it outside of normal channels. republicans seem ready to loose captain ahab to find a white whale. they say they can t trust the holder justice department to do the job. maybe not. but holder is at least answer to believe president and the congress. special counsels are answer to believe no one. bret: speaking of holder, the attorney general saying that essentially he is going to brief or offer to brief the house oversight committee but as far as the paperwork, actual documents from the operation fast and furious, we didn t have an answer to that. he has never said why he can t comply to the subpoena. the documents can be examined in closed rooms. he doesn t seem to have gotten near it. this thing says stonewall and smells of coverup.
too. where he will, appoint, officials, recess appointments when congress is not in recess. on and on. this is the biggest thing he has done. an i in the end of the day i don t think it will help you politically. bret: who was right? president obama in 2011 or president obama this week? i think what he said was right in 2011. but he didn t change the law. what he has suggested is not permanent. it s not even an executive order. it s a statutory change in terms of what homeland security is told to do as a go-about prosecuting illegal imgrants in the country. you no longer go after young people, between ages of 16 and 30. high school, college. bret: doesn t it mean you are not enforcing the law on the books? it is within prosecutorial discretion is the way it described. someone thought this should be done a long time ago i have to differ with fred. an say look, this is before the congress. he got 55 votes in the senate.
it played a clip of mitt romney out of context. host andrea mitchell referenced romney s anecdote of convenience store over a stop over the weekend in pennsylvania. i was at wa-was. i went in to order a sandwich. pressed a touch-tone key pad. and the sandwich, touch this, touch this, pay the cashier, there is your sandwich. it s amazing. it s amazing. bret: however romney was actually making a comparison between the private and public sectors. here is what he said next. it s amazing. people in the private sector learn how to compete. it s time to bring the competition to the government to get it smaller and respond to the customers which are you. bret: mitchell likened the incident to george h.w. bush s super market scanner moment. that painted him as out of touch. however, new york magazine notes president bush was not looking at a standard scanner