statute? if they say that it is constitutional i think you will have the american people saying no it is not constitutional. you can t have my government tell me i am forced to buy a product or service just because i breathe? just because i breathe? that is a tax that the government is putting upon me and i think you are going to see absolute outrage on the part of the american people. that is why the american people are saying to us as members of congress when are you going to stand up for yourselves and show some backbone in congress? that is why we have to stand up for them and speak out. greta: and you mentioned congressman issa today. your prediction what happens next week with the vote on contempt? on contempt, no question it will pass through the house of representatives. it will pass. greta: and what is the impact? the impact is the president is outside of the sense of congress on this and i think the president i don t think he likes congress to begin with. isn
is thumbing his nose at the constitution and acting in contra vention and defiance of the constitution and we are s y saying enough is enough. we are putting a marker in the ground and saying this is a resolution of disapproval of this president s thumbing his nose at the constitution. we have got to react. we can t just let the president get away with this week after week after week. greta: healthcare decision is going to come down maybe tomorrow, maybe monday, maybe some other day next week. big decision. big decision. greta: we are all waiting for are it. it is. of course, i firmly believe it is unconstitutional. you introduced. i was the first member of congress who introduced the full kale repeal of obama care and called for literally continues of thousands of americans to come here to this capital which is right behind me to make their voice herd because people said this is an unconstitutional act o on the part of the president. greta: what if the supreme court says
drug cartels. we have hundreds of dead people in mexico. we have a dead united states border patrol agent. and we have a government that is withholding information so that we cannot only get to the bottom but that we can fix it and make sure that it never ever happens again. i am frightened to think what would be going on today had agent brian terry not been murdered. would we even know about fast and furious or wide receiver? this is a sad day. but it is a necessary day. the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. greta: house oversight chair daryl issa joins us. nice to see you chairman. thanks for having me on and for covering this important t p topic today. greta: the big news the president asserting the executive privilege.
reluctant to do which is why is has come so late in the game. greta: or what if there is nothing there and he is putting congress through all these ho p hoops and making congress cast all these suspicions so in the end when congress gets it there is nothing there when says i told you there is nothing there and i was just merely invoking executive privilege because it is the right thing to do? i think that is conceivable but a little implausible. i doubt that is the reason. if eric holder is held in contempt of congress as it se m seems likely now, i thought it would never come to this. i thought there would be ooh compromise and seems like there still could be. the executive privilege claim seems not like the actions of someone ready to cut a deal and release a significant portion of the documents or whatever. i don t think it would have come to this if he if there was nothing be found. there would have been no point in it. why not just turn the documents over. this is all a trap
nice to see you. hi greta. it isn t just congress. it is people. we have phone calls that are running 30 to 1 against the president of the united states. and what they are doing is they are calling members office and saying what are you going to do about this. are you going to let the president go rogue and not do anything at all. they deer commanding that we respond. and so what darrell issa is d doing it right. if we take a vote next week in the house that is right. this isn t just one issue with executive privilege. this is a pattern. this is what we saw the president doing with immigration. saying well, i won t enforce the law last week. this is dealing with the leaks on national security. very, very important. a president can t just leak information like that. but you can go all the way ba k back, greta. greta: that is assuming he is the leaker. he may not be the leaker. we don t know. what i m saying is there is a pattern of defiance and the american people are outraged and