congressman jim sensenbrenner, a republican from washington. thank you for your time today. good afternoon, shannon. shannon: and i wanted to first ask you, first of all, let me outline what the attorney general said in case folks don t know exactly what he said on may 15 before the committee. with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material that is not something that i have ever been involved in. went on to say i have never even heard of that. where is the conflict for you in what we now know about the attorney general involvement in some of these cases? well, i guess the answer to that is about nine days after the attorney general said that the justice department said that the subpoenas against fox news correspondent james rosen were approved by the highest levels of the justice department including participation by the attorney general. now, the subpoena or the
now, oversight is tough. and when you receive an oversight letter there are consequences for not complying. i was the chairman of the judiciary committee during the bush administration and i had a lot of fussles with attorneys general ashcroft and gonzalez about them complying with things that were under our jurisdiction and the implimentation of laws that we helped write and manage on the floor that got passed. mr. ashcroft wasn t happy about the fact that i canceled a hearing on him at the last minute because he didn t submit the information so that the members of the committee and our staff could get to the bottom of it. but, again, congress has some responsibilities and what mr. goodlatte and i are doing are discharging the responsibilities in the spirit of the framers of the constitution. shannon: congressman sensenbrenner, republican from wisconsin we will see you when
at. he is not being open with congress and forthcoming. that is the type of attitude that really breeds a disrespect and for me it will be hard for congress to trust anything that eric holder says. we had jim sensenbrenner from wisconsin and he said if the attorney general doesn t answer responsively to the requests by wednesday the deadline that they set they may subpoena him. would you support that? i would you have you sport whatever bob goodlatte and jim sensenbrenner do. bob goodlatte is not going to be taking a cheap shot. if he feels a subpoena is necessary i would support it, absolutely. shannon: the top democrat on the judiciary committee has spoken out saying that he does not think the attorney general misled the committee when testified on may 15 and says that people are now trying to basically put, you know, the
response. reporter: democrats say the republicans are changing the subject to further undermine the president s work on jobs and the come. as for the attorney general, the democrats say there is no evidence of perjury. i haven t seen a single accusation that prevents him from doing his job what about whether he committed perjury in front of the house committee? i don t think there is perjury. i don t think there has been any prosecution or attempted prosecution of any gormists. so there can t be perjury. reporter: the republicans sent holder a letter on wednesday, asking for a dispul accurate ofr acted ofee acrats account of his actions. shannon: holder was sent the letter, demang answers by wednesday. we will talk to congressman sensenbrenner next: there is an
to russia held a press conference at boston s logan airport reviewing that they believe a closer tracking of tamerlan tsarnaev may have led to a different outcome preventing the attack in boston. russian officials offered cooperation. answering questions freely and thus far shared more specific information than the u.s. counter parts. shannon? shannon: thank you very much. thank you. shannon: did attorney general holder perjure himself and should he resign. wisconsin representative jim sensenbrenner joins us, next. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain.