mostly across the south of the united states. they have started up in atlanta and 1967. the family-owned restaurant dates back before that under another name. but they are pretty sizable fast-food chicken company. greta: i assault revenues are giant with a company that big? yes. somewhere around $4 billion last year. so they do pretty well. greta: is it i forgot, is it publicly or privately owned. it s a family business, has been all along. greta: and who is the owner right now? a man named dan kathy? yes. dan kathy. a lot more people know about him than they probably used to in the last few weeks. he is the son of the founder, truitt kathy. it s a strong southern baptist family. as many people know, they wear their values on their sleeve and have been speaking out lately in
come january. we may not. if he wants to hang on to his job, me needs to do a good job of proving to us that he is independent. greta: i might add that lenny breuer has nothing to do with this. it is how it appears and whether people can have confidence in it. when is this report by mr. horowitz coming out? he said weeks and not months and that was two weeks ago. my guess is it will be in late august. but that is just a guess. he laid out the timeline for us. i think it will be transmit to the department of justice. but they will have an opportunity to say you are wrong here or there greta: before it is released? yes. greta: wait a minute. the justice department wait a second. that is suspect. we have someone who is the independent within the department doing an evaluation of the department, looking for wrongdoing before he surrenders that to the american people, the justice department gets to look at it he does not have to accept greta: accept. it s like giving
over-corrects it. greta: and it is to his credit that he there is no conflict if everybody knows about it so you can have the choice for him not to be the one. but we don t get that choice. that s the problem. i would prefer to have someone with no connection to eric holder or lenny breuer, i have been very critical of lenny breuer. he was very forthcoming about it. would i prefer to have someone who didn t know either one of them? yes. the chances of finding someone who didn t have any relationship with the current department of justice official who is is going to be an inspector general is not very high. greta: you know, this has changed my view as an aside, who should investigate the leaks of national security information. there are two u.s. attorneys, one appointed by president bush, a republican, and one appoint bide president obama, a democrat. we have had problems with special prosecutors and i thought this might be better, even though there is squawking.
that does put the squeeze on the contractors. it s tough. they say they need more certainty. you are not getting the advice from the obama administration about how these cuts will go into effect. on the hill, they have a lot of allies, yelling for months that something has to be done about sequestration. greta: has the obama administration, besides the fact they say they don t want to scare people, have they given any other justification for sending out the memo? no, i mean, it s the law. they say they areacking in a legal guidance. greta: but they are not saying that these people are acting illegally. you re correct. greta: and the law doesn t require the department of labor to do this? it is not. greta: the department of labor has decided they want to do this themselves? that s the allegation that republicans are making is that it s a political move that it is the white house that is pushing this. democrats say, it is the labor department trying to give more guida
smart to have someone twho doesn t have the appearance of being fair because of a relationship? i wouldn t see him as a juror. that s the standard i would use. if he stood up in a jury panel and said, i know a witness, i would use a strike against him. i don t have a strike. he was confirmed by the september. this is who we are stuck with greta: he didn t become the inspector general until april, right? i think he was nominated prior to thefn. but there was a little delay confirming him with this senate. this issue i sound like an apologist and i don t mean to be what strikes me is his report may be you know. everyone is capable of telling truth and everyone is capable of not telling the truth. he has a distinguished career as a prosecutor in an outstanding judicial district. high worked public corruption cases. he may be able to be fair but the burden s going to be high, there are two problems. if you like someone, if you think someone is above reproach,