i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. and the justice department now confirms the attorney general eric holder himself approved the search warrant that let the feds access fox news correspondent james rosen s phone records and personal email. documents show investigators got that access by claiming james rosen might have broken the law. president obama says he is worried that leak investigations will keep journalists from holding government accountable, so he is giving the attorney general less than two months to review justice department guidelines with input from the media. ed henry is on the fox top story live from washington tonight. ed, republicans say letting the a.g. review himself is kind of a way of cutting him some slack? sure, shep, because the president and attorney general are very close. the president has defended him before during previous political fire storms like the fast and furious gun
good evening. i m tom foreman filling in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, fiddling in washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math is $46 million in debt. they ve made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city has only $150,000 in the bank. that s it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn t this calamity headed off at the pass? what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the econo
i m on board. i love you amtrak. reporter: i ve got time, i ll drive. shannon: president obama extended executive privilege to key documents in the fast and furious gun running investigation perhaps putting the truth beyond the reach of congressional investigators forever. who should be the one to explain this to the family of murdered border agent brian terry? we ll debate it next. international talks on iran s controversial nuclear program extended until next month. it s being called an agreement but critics say it was a major failure. the right thing to do here from the u.s. perspective is to say, we are tired of talking. these people are not serious, and we are not going to prolong this any further. i think there is close to zero chang that presidenzero chance that president obama would say that and the iranians know that. ven 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert
that republicans wanted holder to turn over and they are fuming over this. bringing about one of the worst disperchments on the history of the department of justice is indeed an injustice to the congress, the american people and this important investigative arm of the house of representatives. this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he s joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the very first time during his presidency, we should remind our viewers of that to block your committee from seeing the fast and furious documents. we just heard you say it s a very, very sad day. what i this about the executive privilege that irks you so much? here you have one of the highest judicial offices of the united states, the chief officer, the attorney general, his office and possibly the
good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you don t often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. a botched gun-running designation known as fast and furious to a republican call for an independent investigation into leaks classified leaks, i should say, eric holder knew this wasn t just going to be a regular oversight hearing. he knows he s in congress cross hairs. but what happened was a political food fight. most republicans were tough on the attorney general, but nothing compared to this. there has be