epa is doing this practice. we filed a request, asking for what everyone else we believe in nsparentsy and openness. we pay for the records. we would like to know what our elected officials, was it administratior previous? gre they talk transparency. we will see if they produce it. i hope they are watching tonight. thank thank you. greta: tonight, congressman accusing attorney general eric der ofrg something to hide. he is not happy with the ly letter from the justice department. surveillance.g. defense lawyer but the chairman wants the answers directly from attorney gene hder. good to be with you. greta: the big proble attorney general holder about the 15th of may said that he dependent know anything about any potential investigations or prosecutions of reporters and that turned outot to be so because you had james rosen here.
what do you want? we want to have the attorney general respond to the questions that we have posed to him, based upon the clear contradiction between his sworn testimony in the committee and his approval of the affidavit for a search warrant in the rosen case before the committee when asked by congressn hnk johnson of georgia about the prosecution of reporters said the potential prosecution of porters was something he had never heard of, thought it would be an unwise thing to do. after the testimony, the judge in that case, who had sealed the search warrant affidavits realized that there was 18 mos overdue at being released to the public. they were supposed to be held 18 months. they were held for 3 years. they were released just a few days after the attorney general s testim and they showed in that affidavit that. the fbi warrant that he approved stated that mr. rosen was at
least an aider abettor in violation of the spean espionage act. why can t i te him, come o back you? do the explaining. if you don t want to come back, we will subpoena you to come back? well, i think that once we know that the attorney general has not m our deadline of 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, those are the alternatives we will be looking at. we are going to pursue this matter beyond 5:00 p.m. tomorrow if he doesn trespond. that s certainly the option of the committee. greta: how soon? we will wait to see whether or not he responds. we will pursue it and purstew promptly joo. greta: do you expect him to respond? i expect him to respond.