broken. it s a system that many people have just it s taken months and months and months to get many people that do not have a complex financial, you know, complicated they don t have it and it s taken months. it s a broken system. it shouldn t take this long. you know how many people are on that list. people with not a problem in the world. so that s up to general kelly. he respects jared a lot. general kelly will make that call. i won t make that call. i let the general who is right here make that call. but jared s doing some very important things for our country. he gets paid zero. ivanka gets paid zero. she gave up a very good and very strong solid big business in order to come to washington because she wanted to help. i ll make one of those famous dollar bets that i ve been known to make that jared kushner keeps his interim security clearance until he gets his full one
ignorance but you can t claim g ignorance any more. the important thing about what teixeira said he, i think, speaks for the majority of players today in the game. the players association would tend to go if the evidence is conclusive in this investigation, when the investigation is completed, i think teixeira speaks for the majority of baseball players. do you think this is a tough case, though, mike? there is no tests. one guy in miami has got names scribbled in a book. it s a hard thing to prove that alex rodriguez or ryan braun or anybody else took steroids from this guy. yeah. and bosch is not exactly the kind of guy you want on the stand. take a look at him. yeah. he ll be a belmont in a panic this weekend looking for two dollar bets. still ahead, nbc justice correspondent pete williams with his exclusive interview of attorney general eric holder, asking him if he would resign.
point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta
the banks that were too big to fail are bigger than ever and still making multimillion dollar bets. i m wore blitzer, you re in the situation room of . the latest skirmishes are being fought on college campuses with both president obama and mitt romney but neither candidate is saying much not saying much at all about same-sex marriage. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us from new york so. jessica, what exactly did the president say when he addressed the graduates today? reporter: the president had a real message of empowerment and a little bit of politics. from president obama a message to female graduates that equality can be theirs. it is simple math, today women are not just half this country, it s half its workforce. reporter: if they work for it. don t just get involved, fight for your seat at the table. better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. reporter: wonder if this is part of the campaign s apile to women voter
over same-sex marriage is heating up this weekend. about an hour ago republican presidential candidate mitt romney defended that position on the issue during a commencement speech at liberty university of evangelical christian college in virginia. culture, what you believe, how you value, how you live matters. now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debate from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage, marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. now, several prominent african-american pastors are also voicing their opposition to the president s decision to support gay marriage. and the issue is expected to be a focus of sermons in churches all across the country this mother s day. ahead of sunday s services a group of civil rights leaders, include al sharpton and joseph lowery have written an open letter to the african-american community embracing the president s decision. it says, we c